The Salt Lake Tribune
End-of-season beat reporter roundtable
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- End-of-season beat reporter roundtable
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- 39:17
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- On episode 13 of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Ryan Miller (beat reporter for KSL.com) and Brogan Houston (beat reporter for Deseret News) to reflect on Utah Hockey Club’s inaugural season. The trio discusses memorable games, room for growth, a look ahead at promising prospects and more!
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- RFK Jr. ‘very proud’ of Utah for banning fluoride, leading effort to ‘Make America Healthy Again’
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- After becoming the first state to ban fluoride from its water, Utah is one month away from the mineral being completely removed from Utahns’ taps — a move President Donald Trump’s Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has urged states to make.
On Monday, he joined Republican state lawmakers and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin in the Beehive State as the latter announced his agency is reviewing scientific data and is “prepared to act” to lower the threshold of fluoride allowed in drinking water nationwide.
Kennedy, meanwhile, told The Associated Press after the news conference that he plans to direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending communities add fluoride to their water.
In the months since he was appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed to oversee health in America, Kennedy has called on states to pass legislation advancing his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda...
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- Salt Lake City Police trains bartenders, restaurant workers on signs of sexual assault
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- 1:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- At the start of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Salt Lake City Police Department announced a new initiative aimed at preventing sexual assault at bars, restaurants and other entertainment venues.
The department said it would train employees at local businesses to identify risk factors and how to respond effectively.
"The initiative emphasizes a trauma-informed, survivor-centered approach, with a strong focus on empowering survivors and community members to report incidents and seek support," it said in a press release.
Resources from the department:
Individuals wishing to speak with a sexual assault victim advocate can call the SLCPD Victim Advocate 24-hour hotline at 801-580-7969. Callers may remain anonymous, call from a blocked number, or use an alias name to utilize victims’ rights to privacy.
To report a sexual assault or speak with an SVU detective, call 801-799-3000.
The Rape Recovery Center pr...
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- Utahns gather for ‘Hands Off’ protest against Trump and Elon Musk
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- From Salt Lake City to Bluff — and at least seven other spots across the state — thousands of Utahns gathered to take part in a national “Hands Off” protest against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Their message, according to organizers, was, “Hands off our services. Hands off our rights. Hands off our communities.”
Video by Rick Egan
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- ICE is detaining Utahns who meet with probation and parole agents, immigration attorneys warn
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- 1:11
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Within the past few months, several Utah immigration and criminal defense attorneys said they’ve had clients arrive to meet with their probation officers to fulfill their court-ordered requirements only to find U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers waiting to detain them.
The clients were serving their probation through Utah Adult Probation and Parole, their attorneys say — a program under the Utah Department of Corrections that, according to the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association’s website, typically supervises people convicted of class A misdemeanors or felonies.
Glen Mills, the Utah Department of Corrections’ director of communications, said the department has shared with ICE the names of everyone it’s supervised through its probation and parole program for at least 10 years.
Attorneys argue that the method is costing trust in the state’s probation program.
Reporting: Brock Marchant
Video: Chris Samu...
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- The evolution of Exponent II and LDS feminism with Pulitzer Prize winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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- 35:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In the mid-1970s, a tiny group of Latter-day Saint women in Boston launched a modest effort to discuss women’s issues — past and present — in a magazine they called Exponent II (named after the newspaper of their Mormon foremothers, Woman’s Exponent).
These modern feminists did not challenge the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on, say, polygamy, priesthood or other doctrines. They focused primarily on the challenges of motherhood, marriage and material culture.
Their first editor was Claudia Lauper Bushman, who exemplified Mormonism as wife of famed historian and Latter-day Saint Stake (regional) President Richard Bushman and as a mother of six. After she was asked to resign the editorship, she went on to other professional and personal projects.
Though the Exponent II group was hardly revolutionary, 50 years later it remains an important voice in the Latter-day Saint world, while Claudia Bushman went on to inf...
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- Owning a home in Utah is hard. Here's what the state is doing to help solve the housing shortage.
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Utah, for years, has faced a massive housing shortage compounded by high interest rates and a lag in construction. Recent projections show the Beehive State will be 153,000 housing units short of demand by 2030.
Simply, there are not enough homes, condos and apartments in Utah. There is demand, but not enough supply. The solution, most experts and public officials agree, is building up Utah’s supply of housing options.
Utah’s moderate-income housing program has existed since 1996, but the state strengthened the program and increased enforcement through legislation in 2019 and 2022 after sharp increases in housing costs.
Reporting: Megan Banta
Video: Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Taste testing one of Chick-fil-A’s new experimental desserts: The Icedream Spin and Icedream Float
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- 0:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Utahns who love Chick-fil-A are lucky: They’re in one of just four test markets for the popular chicken chain.
For a limited time, Chick-fil-A is offering two new drinkable desserts: the Icedream Spin and Icedream Float. Both are a combination of soda — any flavor you choose — and Icedream, the chain’s ice cream-like dessert. The float is a traditional float, while the Spin is the two blended together, similar to a root beer cream freeze from A&W.
We bought two flavors of the Icedream Spin to test in The Salt Lake Tribune’s newsroom: Fanta Orange and Coke. The Fanta version reminded some of a Creamsicle. But the verdict from some of our staff was that a Wendy’s Frosty is better.
Video by Kolbie Peterson and Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- From player to analyst: Talking Utah Hockey Club with Dominic Moore
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- 31:12
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In episode 12 of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Dominic Moore who is a Utah Hockey Club analyst on the SEG broadcast and also spent 13 years as a player in the NHL. The two discuss Utah’s progress this season, standout individuals, Moore’s role this year, lessons from his career and more!
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- This Latter-day Saint single man has two children — thanks to IVF
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- When it comes to the creation and growth of the traditional, nuclear family, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is all-in.
It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, that church leaders have no qualms when it comes to heterosexual, married couples pursuing parenthood through in vitro fertilization.
Introduce sperm and egg donation and surrogacy, however, and the enthusiasm drains away.
That's the main reason why Troy Smith's story is so unique. Growing up as a Latter-day Saint, he always assumed his life’s trek would resemble those he saw in all the adults he knew — school, marriage, family.
He went to school and earned a doctorate in economics. But as the years added up, he began to come to terms with the fact that he might never find a marriage partner. He weighed his options. Being a single parent wasn’t his ideal, but, he decided, it beat out never having his own kids.
So he hired a surrogate and, at 43, we...
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- Salt Lake City Fleet Block murals of George Floyd, other Black Lives Matters figures are torn down
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Inspired by the social justice movement in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Salt Lake City’s Fleet Block building, with its 20-plus murals, became a rallying spot for grieving families and demonstrations.
It was torn down earlier this month. The city said the murals could not be preserved.
Read more at https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/03/20/slc-murals-people-killed-by-police/
Video by Francisco Kjolseth and Rick Egan
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Sundance Film Festival is leaving Park City, Utah, for Boulder, Colorado
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- 1:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Sundance Film Festival is leaving Utah and moving to different mountains.
America’s most important launchpad for independent film will abandon its home for Boulder, Colorado, starting in 2027, the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced Thursday.
Boulder won in a vote Wednesday evening by the institute’s board of trustees, beating out two other finalists in a yearlong bid process: Cincinnati and a combined bid by Salt Lake City and Park City, the ski town that has hosted the festival since 1981.
The institute — founded by actor-filmmaker Robert Redford and named for the Utah ski resort he once owned — will see its current contract with Park City expire after next year’s festival.
Officials have promised the 2026 festival, happening Jan. 22-Feb. 1, will be a final celebration of Sundance’s long history in the Beehive State.
Reporting by Sean P. Means
Video by Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Trib...
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- New coach Kevin Young takes BYU to the Sweet 16 in NCAA March Madness for first time since 2011
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Brigham Young University Cougars have a new head coach this year, and they've still achieved something rarely done in the men's basketball program's history: advance to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament.
It's the first time the team is in the Sweet 16 since 2011, when Jimmer Fredette was still a Cougar.
BYU will play Alabama on Thursday in Newark, New Jersey.
The Salt Lake Tribune's Kevin Reynolds will be at the game, sharing updates at sltrib.com
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- Valerie and Nathan Hamaker, from “Latter Day Struggles,” discuss their resignation from the church
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- 44:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- As practicing Latter-day Saints with nuanced faith, Valerie and Nathan Hamaker wanted to help fellow believers grappling with a “faith crisis” or how they have been “wounded” by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
So, in 2022, Valerie, a mental health counselor in Kansas City, Missouri, and Nathan launched a podcast, called “Latter Day Struggles,” to address some of their issues and find peace.
Their podcast drew wide appeal, but it also came to the attention of their local Latter-day Saint leaders. After numerous conversations, they say, those leaders summoned the couple to a disciplinary council. Expecting to be formally tossed out of the church, the couple instead chose to resign their membership.
Since news of their resignation became public, the Hamakers have heard from thousands of friends and supporters.
On this week’s show, the couple share their experience, their interactions in their congregation, ...
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- Answering Utah Hockey Club fan questions
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- 36:03
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- On episode 11 of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser answers fan-submitted questions about the Utah Hockey Club. The topics range from unrestricted free agents to sign in the summer, adjustments to the power play, prospects the team could bring up and more!
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- Utah's Mia Love, first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, dies from brain cancer
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- 2:33
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Mia Love, the child of Haitian immigrants who went on to become a City Council member, mayor and the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died Sunday after a three-year-long battle with brain cancer.
She was 49. She died “in her home surrounded by family,” her family wrote Sunday on Love’s account on the social media platform X.
Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/03/23/mia-love-utahs-history-making/
Video by Trevor Christesen | The Salt Lake Tribune
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- GOP Reps. Maloy and Kennedy face crowd angry about Trump and DOGE at a Utah congressional town hall
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Town halls held by members of Congress from across the country in the weeks since President Donald Trump began slashing government and issuing a flurry of executive orders have been filled with angry constituents, booing and shouting down their representatives — and Utah proved no different Thursday night at an event organized by Reps. Celeste Maloy and Mike Kennedy.
The newest members of Utah’s all-Republican federal delegation held the town hall against the advice of GOP leadership, according to Politico, on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City — the bluest part of the crimson state near the nexus of all four of its congressional districts.
Of the more than 500 crowdsourced questions largely focused on Trump and his newly created Department of Government Efficiency, the first was: “If the current administration continues to defy court orders, will you commit to call for articles of impeachment to protect our republic’s checks and balance...
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- Utah members of Congress confronted during town hall on Trump and DOGE
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- 4:24
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Town halls held by members of Congress from across the country during the Trump presidency have been filled with angry constituents, booing and shouting down their representatives — and Utah proved no different Thursday night at an event organized by Reps. Celeste Maloy and Mike Kennedy on Thursday, March 20, 2025.
Of the more than 500 crowdsourced questions largely focused on Trump and his newly created Department of Government Efficiency, the first was: “If the current administration continues to defy court orders, will you commit to call for articles of impeachment to protect our republic’s checks and balances?”
Audience members didn’t like Maloy’s and Kennedy’s answers. And when the crowd began expressing its displeasure, Kennedy asked that police begin escorting disruptive attendees out of the auditorium — although none were removed.
Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/03/20/utah-gop-reps-maloy-kennedy-to...
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- How politics and polarization are shaping Latter-day Saints in the U.S.
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- 37:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A new Pew Research Center study reveals key insights about members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While Latter-day Saints excel in church attendance, prayer, and scripture study, the report also highlights a decline in U.S. retention rates and shifting gender dynamics.
On this week’s show, sociologists Marie Cornwall and Tim Heaton, former professors at church-owned Brigham Young University and editors of the 2001 book “Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science Perspectives,” contextualize those numbers and other findings — including Latter-day Saint views on politics, abortion and climate change.
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- Assessing the Mikhail Sergachev trade with Eduardo Encina
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- 39:23
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On episode 10 of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Eduardo Encina who is the Tampa Bay Lighting beat reporter for the Tampa Bay Times. The two discuss Utah Hockey Club’s trade for Mikhail Sergachev from Tampa last summer, how it has benefitted both teams, the defenseman’s upcoming first game against the Lightning this season and more.
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- A Salt Lake City mall experiences a revival
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Trolley Square began more than five decades ago as a one-of-a-kind reinvention.
Today, the historic shopping center fashioned out of red-brick streetcar barns in east Salt Lake City is seeing another rush of renewal, now with scads of residents added in the neighborhoods around it.
Video by Rick Egan of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Utah ban on pride flags could derail state's Sundance Film Festival bid
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Will the Legislature’s proposed ban on pride flags be the reason Sundance Film Festival leaves Utah?
That possibility was floated after a virtual meeting Tuesday between Utah leaders and the committee deciding on Sundance’s relocation, the Hollywood trade publication Deadline reported Wednesday.
The bill, HB77, would prohibit any nonsanctioned flag in public schools and government buildings across Utah. Approved flags include the U.S. and the Utah flag, flags of Native American tribes, Olympic flags, military flags, flags of other countries and flags of colleges and universities and those approved for a school's curriculum. It passed the Senate on a 21-8 vote and the House 49-20 and is now waiting for the governor's signature or veto.
Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2025/03/14/utah-ban-pride-flags-could-derail/
Video by Trevor Christensen
Reporting by Sean P. Means
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- An iconic Utah restaurant prepares to reopen
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The historic Bluebird Restaurant in Logan served as a community center for more than a century.
Generations of Utah State University students met there for milkshakes, families dressed up for its Saturday dinners and locals gathered for its morning coffee — or its custom alternative, Iron Port and Cherry. It was the backdrop for wedding dinners, birthday celebrations and club gatherings.
That is, until 2020, when the restaurant closed and began undergoing renovations. As years passed, yearning fans shared their memories and passersby eagerly shared their glimpses of progress.
Now its owner has plans to reopen in the fall — and hopes it can become what it once was. Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/business/2025/03/13/utahs-beloved-bluebird-cafe-will
Video by Trent Nelson of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Why treating porn as an addiction misses the mark and how the LDS Church has improved its messaging
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- 29:01
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Pornography — broadly defined as sexually explicit images — has become a sort-of wallpaper of modern lives. It is everywhere: in our books, movies, computers, video games, social media posts, music and phones.
For many years, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint warned members that porn was “dangerous,” “evil” and “damnable.” They taught that viewing porn was a sin. In the past decade, though, the church has suggested that repeated porn watching is an addiction, like alcohol and drugs, often requiring professional help to overcome.
Earlier this month, apostle Patrick Kearon addressed attendees at the Utah Coalition Against Pornography conference, saying he was no expert but acknowledging he did have “painful and heartbreaking personal experience with loved ones entrapped by addictions.”
Some Latter-day Saint — and other — therapists now question the addiction hypothesis.
Count Idaho psychol...
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- Breaking down Utah Hockey Club’s trade deadline moves
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- 39:12
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On episode nine of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Aaron Falk who is the sports editor of the Salt Lake Tribune. The two discuss general manger Bill Armstrong’s move at the NHL trade deadline, the team’s four contract extensions and what it means for the future of the team and its players.
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- Watch Utah's first "air taxi" take off
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- An electric aircraft named ALIA, made by BETA Technologies, takes off at Salt Lake City International Airport Monday on a multi-day demonstration of the aircraft across Utah. Video by Chris Samuels of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Meet Utah’s newly crowned king and queen of skiing: The winners of the 2025 Corbet’s Couloir contest
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- 1:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Utah once again reigned at the Kings & Queens of Corbet's ski and snowboard contest at Wyoming's Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Utahns Tim McChesney and Ana Eyssimont took home the crowns at the 2025 event.
Video courtesy of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
Reporting by Julie Jag
Video editing by Kyle Hansen
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- What the Utah Legislature did in 2025: blocking unions, pride flag bans, education changes and more
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- 20:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A lot can happen in 45 days. Especially when it is the 45 days the Utah Legislature is negotiating and enacting new laws.
Salt Lake Tribune reporters were at the Capitol for every day of the session this year, following all the important bills that did and didn’t pass. This video gives a quick explanation of the bills you should know about now that the session is over.
Video by Trevor Christensen | The Salt Lake Tribune
Emily Anderson Stern
00:00: HB300 Changes to vote by mail
00:53: Judicial branch bills, abortion, sex education and Planned Parenthood
02:05: Gender-affirming care for transgender people
Carmen Nesbitt
02:57: HB267 Ban on collective bargaining for public sector unions
03:54: HB455 Changes to the school voucher program
Jose Davila IV
04:55: SB195 UDOT takes over Salt Lake City street programs
Megan Banta
06:04: Utah housing crisis, increasing build...
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- Utah senator leaves Republican Party after a clash during debate
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- 3:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Sen. Daniel Thatcher and Senate President Stuart Adams clashed on the Senate floor Friday when Adams refused to recognize Thatcher so he could explain his vote on a bill after Thatcher referred to another senator by name.
“Senator Thatcher, I’m not going to recognize you. You can go ahead and vote,” Adams said.
Thatcher persisted, saying he wanted to speak and Adams cut him off. Later that day, Thatcher announced he was leaving the Utah Republican Party.
Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/03/07/state-sen-dan-thatcher-is-leaving
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- Joseph Fielding Smith stands as “the most important Latter-day Saint theologian of the 20th century
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- 46:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On this week's "Mormon Land" podcast, scholar Matthew Bowman discusses former church President Joseph Fielding Smith and his conservative and, at times, controversial views.
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- These Utah towns are trying to allure more tourists. Do locals want that?
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Like many Utah communities, Heber City hopes to revitalize its downtown core to drive more tourism dollars. In Vernal, a similar effort led to success, leaders there say. But Wasatch County pushed back, and Heber locals worry it could price them out.
Video by Francisco Kjolseth of The Salt Lake Tribune.
Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/03/03/heber-city-wants-reimagine-itself
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- Matt McConnell’s journey through the NHL and to Utah Hockey Club
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- 37:57
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On episode eight on Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Matt McConnell who is the play-by-play voice for Utah Hockey Club — as he was for the Arizona Coyotes for 13 seasons. The two discuss McConnell’s early passion for sports broadcasting, his path to Salt Lake City, turning points for the team this season and more!
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- What happens to Utahns detained by ICE?
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- President Donald Trump’s administration is cracking down on immigration enforcement across the U.S., and Utah is no exception.
The Salt Lake Tribune spoke to immigration attorneys in the state to better understand what happens when someone is detained here by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/02/27/utah-attorneys-explain-what-often
Video by Chris Samuels of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Are LDS men falling prey to extremist online messages — and messengers — about masculinity?
- Runtime
- 39:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Certainly not for the first time, the United States has become a hotbed of hot takes and even hotter debates over men’s roles in the home and society. Fueling this fiery crisis of masculinity is, of course, social media, podcasts and other online forums.
Enter the “manosphere,” a conservative- and Christian-leaning media ecosystem aimed at male empowerment.
On this week’s show, Amy Chapman, a faculty member at Arizona State University’s teachers college, and Levi Sands, a graduate student in sociology at the University of Iowa, discuss this growing subculture and its influence on Latter-day Saint men.
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- Evaluating 4 Nations and Utah Hockey Club with Craig Morgan
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- 33:05
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In episode seven of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Craig Morgan who covered the Arizona Coyotes for over 20 years and writes weekly content for Utah Hockey Club. The two discuss the impact of the 4 Nations Face-Off on the NHL, Utah’s upcoming playoff push, trade deadline scenarios and more.
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- Why are there vulgar anti-LDS chants at BYU games?
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- 35:13
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Salt Lake Tribune sports writer Kevin Reynolds and football star Britain Covey discuss the raunchy anti-Latter-day Saint chants that erupt from time to time at BYU road games.
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- Getting to know Utah Hockey Club prospects with Andrew Mahoney
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- 37:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On episode six of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Andrew Mahoney who is a producer and college hockey reporter for the Boston Globe. The two talk about Utah Hockey Club prospects Will Skahan and Michael Hrabal, their development and NHL trajectory at their respective Hockey East schools.
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- Move aside tradwives. Social media is shaping LDS men’s views of masculinity — for better or worse
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Sun-soaked family portraits. Practical tips on healing from childhood trauma. Advice for styling white jeans to achieve that perfect balance of casual and classic.
Oh, and absolutely ripped pecs.
Add these together and you get the social media account of any number of male influencers making their name by codifying a new kind of masculinity online among Generation Z and millennial men.
Some are homesteaders. Others are entrepreneurs. Nearly all are podcasters.
In many ways, the phenomenon parallels so-called tradwife influencers — beautiful (frequently Latter-day Saint) women who reenact a nostalgic version of 1950s motherhood for millions of followers. In this case, these male content creators, believing men have been increasingly marginalized in today’s society, seek to reclaim meaning and fulfillment for their sex through an appeal to an idealized past.
The messages are actively shaping how myriad men — including...
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- Nazi flags can fly in Utah schools, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- An ongoing fight in Utah to ban pride flags in schools entered new territory Thursday after Rep. Trevor Lee proposed new legislation to ban the flags not just in public schools, but in any government building or on any government property.
The bill, HB0077, originally applied only to schools. But an update to the bill released ahead of Thursday’s House Education Committee hearing expands the ban to all government buildings or property. The updated bill was favorably recommended by the committee, with the committee’s two Democrats — Reps. Sahara Hayes and Carol Moss — casting the only “nays.” It will now be heard on the full House floor.
Approved flags for display in government buildings and schools would include the Utah state and U.S. flags, military flags, flags for other countries, flags for Native American tribes and official flags for colleges and universities. The bill also allows for the flying of a “historic version of a flag ... that is ...
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- Scholar Jonathan Rauch trumpets LDS Church's trailblazing compromises for good of the country
- Runtime
- 32:21
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Since America’s founding, Christianity has been a “load-bearing wall” of democracy, but in recent decades it has given up that role — and that, argues writer and scholar Jonathan Rauch, has led to the country’s current crisis.
In his latest book, “Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain With Democracy,” the self-described gay, Jewish atheist critiques secular Americans who think Christianity should be abandoned and Christian Americans who blame secular culture for their grievances. He shows why the two must work together — and points to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as an example of how to do it.
On this week’s show, Rauch, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, discusses why he believes top Latter-day Saint leaders, including senior apostle Dallin H. Oaks, have landed on a prescription for compromising and healing a polarized nation’s ills.
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- Utah Hockey Club beat reporter roundtable
- Runtime
- 49:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In episode five on Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Ryan Miller, Cole Bagley and Brogan Houston to discuss all things Utah Hockey Club. The beat reporters answer fan questions ranging from the trade deadline, free agency, goaltender rotation, team name opinions and more.
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- Skijoring: skiing, horses and snow combine on the streets of Salt Lake City
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- 0:44
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- It’s like water skiing if you replace the boat with a horse and water with snow.
Four- and two-legged competitors took to downtown Salt Lake City on February 8, 2025, to compete in “skijoring.” The event was part of the Salt Lake City Winter Roundup.
Video by Trevor Christensen | The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Utah police didn’t buy ICE account of viral traffic stop, reports and body cam footage show
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The body cam footage shows the Jan. 26 detainment of Brandon Colin. The Salt Lake Tribune obtained the video and associated police reports through an open records request.
Colin’s account of his encounter with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents went viral on Facebook. The ordeal even prompted Millcreek Mayor Jeff Silvestrini to call on the federal agency to investigate its own officers.
Read more:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/02/06/utah-police-officers-raise
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- LDS immigrant and LDS law prof address Trump's deportation push
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- 40:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- As a candidate, he promised “mass deportations” of undocumented immigrants. And now, as president, he is setting the wheels in motion in an effort to do just that.
While President Donald Trump’s next move — and that of immigration enforcement agents — is uncertain, this much is sure: The country is on edge — so much so that the governing First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints expressed concern about the “complex challenges and hardships now faced by members who are undocumented immigrants living in the United States” and outlined guidelines for the faith’s local lay leaders to follow.
Questions abound: The church stresses obedience to the law, but how does that jibe with its desire to show compassion to all of God’s children and keep families together? How do human-made borders have any relevance in a divinely created world without such barriers? And, at a basic level, how far should a church, with a rich immigr...
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- ICE makes surprise arrest of immigrant in a Utah courthouse
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A 38-year-old man walked to a microphone in Ogden Justice Court on Jan. 29, expecting a brief hearing where he would be arraigned on misdemeanor charges after a fender bender.
He had no idea that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers planned to meet him there.
Police said the man had smelled of alcohol after he rear-ended another car, causing minor damage and no injuries, at a stoplight in December. Prosecutors were not seeking a jail sentence.
But Judge Clay Stucki broke the news: The man would not be allowed to leave the courthouse — for a reason that had nothing to do with his case. ICE agents were waiting for him.
The man took a step back, slowly shook his head and looked toward the ground.
”I personally feel bad that we’re going to have to take you into custody. That isn’t my choice or decision, but it’s something under federal law that I’m going to have to follow,” Stucki said.
The man’s w...
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- Soda vs. dry cleaner: A Swig shop in Utah is being sued by a neighbor over its drive-thru lanes
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A Salt Lake City business is suing “dirty soda” shop Swig, alleging its Sugar House location is blocking access to its property.
Dirk’s Dry Cleaners — at 1871 S. 700 East, in the same parking lot as Swig — is requesting more than $300,000 in relief.
Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/food/2025/01/17/dry-cleaner-sues-swig-location/
Reporting by Kolbie Peterson
Video by Bethany Baker
The Salt Lake Tribune
- Title
- Getting to know Barrett Hayton and Utah’s possible team names
- Runtime
- 30:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In episode four of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Utah Hockey Club forward Barrett Hayton to discuss his role on the team, journey to the NHL and the experiences that shaped the player he is. The podcast closes with news about the potential team name, injury updates and preview of the 4 Nations Face-Off.
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- Laurie Lee Hall: From stake president and temple designer to excommunicated trans woman
- Runtime
- 34:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In 2017, Laurie Lee Hall publicly shared her remarkable journey as a transgender Latter-day Saint.
It took her through joining The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving a two-year mission, marrying and having children, being called as a bishop and stake president, and becoming head architect for the faith’s sacred temples.
Transitioning to her “authentic self,” she said, caused her to lose her job, her marriage and her church membership. Yet, she is more at peace with herself than she has ever been.
On this week’s show, Hall details the twists and turns her life took as she moved inexorably toward acceptance of her true identity, discusses her new memoir, “Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to My New Life as a Woman,” and the stricter limitations her former faith has imposed on its transgender members.
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- Behind the Utah Hockey Club broadcast with Sarah Merrifield
- Runtime
- 49:03
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In episode three of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Sarah Merrifield who is the rink-side reporter for Utah Hockey Club. The two talk about Merrifield’s journey to Utah as well as the behind-the-scenes production that turns into the SEG+ broadcast. The podcast closes with fan Q&A discussing AHL call-ups, contract extensions and who is the best at sewer ball.
- Title
- Understanding the big courtroom showdown in the tithing lawsuit against the LDS Church
- Runtime
- 25:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Nine plaintiffs are suing the global church, accusing Latter-day Saint leaders of soliciting and amassing these donations by the billions to support the faith’s religious and charitable purposes and instead spending money on commercial ventures, including the construction and development of a mall in downtown Salt Lake City.
Last week, in a key hearing, a federal judge heard arguments in the lawsuit, which, if it is allowed to move forward as a class action, could end up involving thousands, even millions, of plaintiffs and exposing hidden financial dealings within the church.
Lawyers for the faith say the suit unconstitutionally violates religious freedom and should be tossed out. Attorneys for the other side counter that their case is about deception and fraud, not faith.
In this week’s show, Salt Lake Tribune reporter Tony Semerad — who has covered this lawsuit and similar ones for several years, along with other aspects of the LDS Church...
