Governor Spencer Cox announces two nominees for the Utah Supreme Court. One’s a federal prosecutor, the other a lawyer for the LDS Church: https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/gov-cox-appoints-2-to-expanded-utah-supreme-court #utpol #Utah

ICYMI, Nate Blouin uses the latest poll his campaign commissioned to prod his fellow progressives to drop out of the CD-1 primary. They say “no”: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/with-new-poll-results-blouin-repeats-call-for-other-progressives-to-drop-out #utpol #Utah

ICYMI, data centers dominate the debate for CD-2 between Blake Moore and Karianne Lisonbee: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/data-centers-dominate-gop-2nd-congressional-district-debate #utpol #Utah

BREAKING NEWS: The Senate President is now calling on Kevin O’Leary to shrink the data center project in Box Elder County by 75%: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/in-response-to-public-pressure-senate-president-wants-data-center-footprint-shrunk #utpol #utah

ICYMI, because of declining water levels at the Great Salt Lake, dozens of boats are being pulled from the marina: https://www.fox13now.com/news/great-salt-lake-collaborative/boats-pulled-from-great-salt-lake-marina-again #utpol #Utah

ICYMI, Gov. Cox issues executive order on data center development, directing state agencies to now prioritize protection of water resources, Great Salt Lake, utility ratepayers, air quality, wildlife impacts, and transparent public engagement: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/gov-cox-issues-executive-order-on-evaluation-and-development-of-data-centers #utpol #Utah

To keep Utah communities from going “dry,” the DABS has reworked liquor store contracts: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/to-keep-utah-communities-from-going-dry-dabs-reworks-liquor-store-contracts #utpol #Utah

The Democratic candidates in Utah’s First Congressional District race spar on topics from health care to data centers and the Great Salt Lake. Watch it in its ENTIRETY here: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/democratic-candidates-spaar-in-1st-congressional-district-primary-debate #utpol #Utah

BREAKING NEWS: A decades-old proposed nuclear power plant in Green River looks to return in a new form: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/proposed-green-river-nuclear-plant-returns-in-new-form #utpol #Utah

Mercifully, it wasn’t an out-of-control wildfire. But a phragmites burn near Antelope Island designed to help the Great Salt Lake dumped ash in neighborhoods as far away as Ogden: https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/davis-county/large-plume-of-smoke-dominates-sky-during-davis-county-prescribed-burns #utpol #Utah