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UTAH – Utah’s nonfarm payroll employment for December 2020 grew by an estimated 0.6% across the past 12 months, with 9,900 more jobs since December 2019, according to the latest report from Utah’s Department of Workforce Services. Utah’s November year-over job changes remains unrevised at -0.2% while the state’s current employment level stands at 1,606,000. December’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate is estimated at 3.6%, with about 60,100 Utahns unemployed, officials say. The December national unemployment rate of 6.7% is unchanged from November. “In December, Utah became the second state economy to flip from COVID-induced job losses back to economic expansion,” reports…

UTAH – I am a 50-year resident of Utah, and the 2021 redistricting process will mark the sixth time I’ve observed it. This is the process that establishes the political boundaries for our Congressional districts, Utah Senate and House districts and State School Board districts. In 2006, I was privileged to be an observer at a national nonpartisan conference in Salt Lake City hosted by the Hinckley Institute, where I listened to many viewpoints on the need for redistricting reform. I am a passionate believer in citizen involvement in governmental processes and gathered signatures for Proposition 4 for the 2018…