The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Salt Lake City Weekly. The Utah Legislature is made up of part-timers whose day jobs shape their approach to lawmaking. In many cases, their expertise as doctors, educators, business owners and more offers insight into a myriad of issues affecting Utahns....
Learn how to track campaign spending and donations and follow the 2024 legislative session by attending our free webinar on Jan. 10, 2024, 12-1 pm The 2024 legislature is just around the corner. It’s 45 furious days of sausage-grinding from full days of committee hearings to backroom deals and last minute bills. This year why not get...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and The Salt Lake Tribune. An innocent legislative proclamation saluting the government of a former Soviet republic — combined with an official visit from a foreign delegation to Utah’s Capitol Hill and LDS Church...
The following story was written by Eric S. Peterson of The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Last June, Utah’s Permanent Community Impact Board (CIB) doled out $21 million from the state’s share of federal mining royalties toward a rail line proposed to connect the oil of the Uinta Basin to...
The following story was written by Eric S. Peterson of The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. The website for the law offices of Kirk A. Cullimore proudly touts decades worth of experience in evictions and debt collections, not just arguing the law — but even making it. “Our firm’s work...
The following was written and researched by Eric Peterson of The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Seven months after it was called out in a critical legislative audit for questionable spending of public dollars, the Utah Restaurant Association is back asking state lawmakers for more than $400,000 in appropriations....
The following story first appeared in The Salt Lake Tribune on May 8, 2017. It was researched and reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. The West Davis Corridor, a roughly 20-mile stretch of planned new freeway in northern Utah, has been around for more than a...
This story originally appeared in The Salt Lake Tribune, February 13, 2017. It was written and reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with the Salt Lake Tribune. Some Utah legislators write laws at the Capitol that they turn around and fight over in state courts. Like all of the state’s part-time lawmakers,...