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A new speaker of the Utah House of Representatives was elected Tuesday to replace Speaker Brad Wilson who announced his resignation prior to launching his bid to replace Sen. Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate. ....
Lawmakers tackled a wide range of issues, starting out by once again flexing control over local COVID-19 restrictions in the early days of the session even as Utah’s cases were peaking from the omicron surge. From there, lawmakers wrestled with a $24 billion budget, tax cuts, spending on water, education and more. Here’s what happened ....
Despite rumblings of a possible early adjournment, the Utah Legislature s sprint through its 45-day general session came to an end right at midnight Friday night after a dramatic surprise on the Senate floor that spurred furious and emotional debate. ....
The Buckeye Institute filed its appeal in Buckeye v. Kilgore with the Ohio Supreme Court asking the court to hear the case and recognize Ohio’s emergency-based local income tax system where the state forced people to work from home, but nonetheless deemed their work to have been performed in a higher-taxed office location as unconstitutional. ....
Deseret News Share this story Steve Griffin, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY Utah leaders and economic experts looked ahead Tuesday to recovery and growing pains in 2021 after a year when the state gained thousands of new residents but lost nearly as many jobs. Utah is poised for an economic rebound this year, said Natalie Gochnour, director of the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, speaking at the Salt Lake Chamber’s annual Utah Economic Outlook and Public Policy Summit in downtown Salt Lake City. “Unemployment will get lower, total wages will grow more and taxable sales will be higher. Those are our forecasts,” Gochnour said as she presented findings from the institute’s Utah Economic Report. ....