Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah – Multiple schools in the Davis School District will be entering a soft closure due to confirmed COVID-19 cases. What does a ‘soft closure’ of Utah schools look like?  Bountiful, Farmington, Layton, and Viewmont high schools went into soft closure Friday after reaching a threshold of confirmed COVID-19 cases that moves students from in-person instruction to remote learning, according to a press release. School District officials say students will return to school for in-person instruction Monday, Jan. 25. Classes will not be held on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and district professional development day on Jan. 18 and 19 respectively, district…

UTAH – What would $28 million buy for the people of Uintah County? Fire trucks, flood control and road construction projects for starters. Ditto for Duchesne County residents, and throw in a community center, baseball fields and sewer lines. Utah’s Permanent Community Impact Board has dedicated public funds to support these much-needed projects, but in recent years the board has taken a wrong turn. It’s handed over nearly $28 million in public money to the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition in hopes of ramming an 88-mile railroad through these rural counties and significantly increasing fossil-fuel extraction in the Uinta Basin. Now that wrong…