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(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Pews in one of the two chapels at the new 95 State meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Friday, April 8, 2022.

Support for religious and divorced Utahns ‘is just not there,’ in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | May 3, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Eric Lee | The New York Times) President Donald Trump and Elon Musk explain the administration’s cost-cutting efforts in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025.

Arts cuts will lead to ‘broken community ties’ one Utahn says in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | April 26, 2025, 2:08 p.m.

(Haiyun Jiang | The New York Times) President Donald Trump signs an executive order that would diminish the Department of Education in East Room of the White House in Washington, on Thursday, March 20, 2025. President Trump signed an executive order that he said would “begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all,” although the agency cannot be closed without the approval of Congress.

This former Utah teacher has a lot to say about changes at the education department, in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | April 19, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. prepares a smoothie with students on a tour of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Monday, April 7, 2025.

Utahns react to a ban on fluoride in public water, in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | April 12, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Hundreds of people show up at the Utah State Capitol on Mar. 29, 2025 to fly the largest transgender pride flag in Utah. The unveiling of the flag is part of celebrations for Transgender Day of Visibility, hosted by local nonprofits Utah Pride Center and The Glitter Foundation.

Pride flag ban ‘sends a harmful message,’ Utahns say in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | April 5, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Audience members hold signs at a joint town hall with U.S. Reps. Celeste Maloy and Mike Kennedy in Salt Lake City on Thursday, March 20, 2025.

Getting loud at town halls is ‘our only option,’ Utahns say in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | March 29, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Students get extra study time after school at a classroom at Timpanogos Middle School in Heber City, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024.

Inside Voices: Federal education cuts are ‘another slap to the face,’ Utahns say

By Sara Weber | March 22, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brenda Vijil, a Diné medical assistant at Utah Navajo Health System's Monument Valley Clinic, records an incoming patient's personal information waiting in their vehicle before admittance into the triage unit to take vitals and administer a coronavirus test, Aug., 24, 2020.

Inside Voices: COVID-19 changed ‘everything,’ Utahns say, from faith to finances

By Sara Weber | March 15, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Stacey Mollinet, President of Utah PTA, speaks as students and teachers gather for a public education rally at the Capitol, on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023.

Inside Voices: Utahns say raise for teachers is no more than ‘a corporate pizza party’

By Sara Weber | March 8, 2025, 1:00 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) People participate in a protest against Elon Musk and the Trump administration outside the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building in Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025.

Inside Voices: Fired Utahns call layoffs ‘careless’ and ‘cruel’

By Sara Weber | March 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m.

(Charles Krupa | The Associated Press) In this Thursday, March 5, 2020 photo, workers carry a clock, created for a New York City client, onto the testing wall at the Electric Time Company, in Medfield, Massachusetts.

Inside Voices: The ‘profound implications’ of permanent daylight saving time

By Sara Weber | February 22, 2025, 1:05 p.m.

Beyonce accepts the award for best country album for "COWBOY CARTER" during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Inside Voices: Utah Rep. Burgess Owens’ comments about Beyoncé prompt questions

By Sara Weber | February 15, 2025, 1:00 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Union workers and supporters gather on the steps of the Capitol after lawmakers postponed action on HB267 in Salt Lake City Friday, Jan. 31, 2025.

Inside Voices: Utah union bill ‘will result in significant harm’

By Sara Weber | February 8, 2025, 1:05 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The West Valley City building housing the field office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025.

Inside Voices: What Utahns say about immigration authorities targeting schools

By Sara Weber | February 1, 2025, 1:05 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) A car drives along Utah Highway 211 in the Indian Creek area of Bears Ears National Monument near Monticello on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024.

Inside Voices: What Utahns think about Celeste Maloy’s new public lands bill

By Sara Weber | January 25, 2025, 1:00 p.m.

(David J. Phillip | AP) Last Energy's demonstration unit, a "nuclear island" that contains a prototype reactor, is shown Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, in Brookshire, Texas.

Inside Voices: What Utahns are saying about nuclear power

By Sara Weber | January 18, 2025, 1:00 p.m.

2025 Predictions | Pat Bagley

Inside Voices: What you see changing in Utah in 2025

By Sara Weber | January 11, 2025, 1:05 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Park City ski patroller Mike Reilly, alongside a sabo cat flag, a symbol of labor organizing, joins other patrollers as they officially go on strike early Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. Citing unfair labor practices and marking the latest chapter in the union’s negotiations with Park City Mountain and its owner, Vail Resorts the patrollers took up the fight at several locations in Park City.

Inside Voices: How a strike in Park City is impacting workers, locals and tourists

By Sara Weber | January 4, 2025, 1:00 p.m.

(League of Women Voters of Utah) Katherine Biele is photographed at a press conference at the Utah Capitol on Jan. 26, 2023.

Katharine Biele wins The Salt Lake Tribune readers’ vote for 2024 Utahn of the Year

By Sara Weber | December 26, 2024, 4:54 p.m.

(The Salt Lake Tribune, The Associated Press) From left to right: Bottles of alcohol sit on a shelf at a liquor store in downtown Salt Lake City. The Jazz Bear messes around with a fan at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City. A school bus drives through snow in Sugarhouse. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive No. 223 is seen outside Union Station in Ogden. A gas-lit flame burns on a natural gas stove. LDS faithful walk to the Conference Center.

Inside Voices: The perspectives you read most in 2024

By Sara Weber | December 21, 2024, 1:05 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Stewart Bell Tower, at Weber State University, on Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024.

Inside Voices: What Utahns have to say about potential cuts to higher education

By Sara Weber | December 14, 2024, 1:05 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Posters bring attention to the plight of immigrants at the Comunidades Unidas offices on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.

Inside Voices: Utahns share their views on immigration

By Sara Weber | December 7, 2024, 1:05 p.m.

(The Salt Lake Tribune; Hulu) Clockwise from top left: A protestor in support of Palestine during a campus rally in April; Fraser Bullock; members of the cast of the show "Secret Lives of Mormon Wives;" Ryan Smith; Marisa Eng and others in the group Salt Lake City Next Generation Japanese Americans; and Sean Reyes.

Who should be The Salt Lake Tribune’s 2024 Utahn of the Year?

By Sara Weber | December 5, 2024, 1:05 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake City International Airport on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023.

A complete list of The Salt Lake Tribune’s Utahns of the Year

By Sara Weber | December 5, 2024, 1:04 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A shelf of books labeled "Banned in Utah" at Ken Sanders bookstore at the Leonardo in Salt Lake City. on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022.

Inside Voices: Utahns speak out about banned books

By Sara Weber | November 30, 2024, 1:00 p.m.

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