Jordan Teuscher

El gobernador Spencer Cox dejó pasar la fecha límite del 21 de junio para convocar una elección especial. El referéndum se realizará en las elecciones generales de noviembre de 2026.

Gov. Spencer Cox let a June 21 deadline to call a special election pass and instead sent the referendum to the November 2026 general election.

With just a week to go, the Legislature is looking at Utah’s election system through a microscope. There are more than 80 election-related bills this session.

Some believe lawmakers don’t see the need to codify it after the U.S. Supreme Court decided the federal ICWA was constitutional.

Organized labor is having a moment in Utah politics right now.

Two bills seek to change some of Utah’s election processes. Ballot signature gathering and runoff elections were up for debate in the House Government Operations Committee on Jan. 30.

Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore promised a substitute bill to allow for collective bargaining under certain circumstances. Senators took an initial vote without seeing the alternative.

Lawmakers said they’ve received hundreds of messages from people opposed to the bill, but it still passed the House on a 42-to-32 vote.

As the new License Plate Design Review Board contemplates design criteria, the Great Salt Lake plate is stalled.

Billed as “Utah’s Innovation Community,” The Point in Draper aims to be a mixed-use development that combines housing with amenities, transit and economic growth.

GOP leaders have derided recent decisions as the work of activist judges or “policymaking from the bench.” That has some in the supermajority toying with the idea of judicial reform.

Judge Robert Shelby wrote Utah’s law restricting youth social media use most likely violates the First Amendment.