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| Updated: Jan. 17, 2021, 10:20 p.m. The Utah Capitol has long been a gun-friendly place. There are no metal detectors at the entrances and both the open and concealed carry of firearms is allowed, the latter with a permit. Those rules were put in place long before right-wing activists stormed the U.S. Capitol last week in an effort to keep President Donald Trump in office after he lost the 2020 election. Now, with the political temperature ratcheted up, some Utah lawmakers are worried about what could happen when they get back to work next week. “I’m f---ing terrified!” says Sen. Dere...

Spenser Heaps, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — A pair of state legislators joined community advocates who hope lawmakers can find ways to mitigate the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that have put many families at risk of losing their homes. Their overriding concern was the impact homelessness can have on children. “With the economic downturn, we just knew that renters were going to be even more impacted in terms of housing cost burden. And with the need for affordable housing being greater than ever,” said Sarah Brundage, senior director of public policy at Enterprise Community...

Do you feel like the rest of the country understands adequately what's going on in terms of how utah feels about this? >> i would say that utah is -- well, salt lake is just like the rest of the country, and there are certain counties within our state that are a bit more conservative, but you know, salt lake is a great place to live, and we're just like new york in a lot of ways and completely different in a lot of different ways as well, but, so, no, i don't believe that people have the adequate understanding of what's going on on the ground here because there is a huge gay community, gay and...

But you see the people lined up in those blocks-long lines in salt lake and some other places, you see the mayor of park city out performing weddings. do you feel like the rest of the country understands adequately what's going on in terms of how utah feels about this? >> i would say that utah is -- well, salt lake is just like the rest of the country, and there are certain counties within our state that are a bit more conservative, but you know, salt lake is a great place to live, and we're just like new york in a lot of ways and completely different in a lot of different ways as well, but, s...

In those blocks-long lines in salt lake and some other places, you see the mayor of park city out performing weddings. do you feel like the rest of the country understands adequately what's going on in terms of how utah feels about this? >> i would say that utah is -- well, salt lake is just like the rest of the country, and there are certain counties within our state that are a bit more conservative, but you know, salt lake is a great place to live, and we're just like new york in a lot of ways and completely different in a lot of different ways as well, but, so, no, i don't believe that peop...