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UTAH – With the departure of Donald Trump from the White House, a Utah County conservative organization has been gathering funds to purchase a billboard thanking the former president for his four years in office. Earlier this week, the Utah County Conservatives created a GoFundMe page, stating that all funds raised will go to a billboard placed in Utah County for a month. The proposed billboard would end with the signoff, “Love, the patriots of Utah.” “We at Utah County Conservatives love, respect, and have supported President Trump throughout his presidency,” a representative of the organization told The Tribune, declining to give a name…

UTAH – Spencer Cox calls his plan for the first 500 days of his new administration the One Utah Roadmap. Most of it is admirably aspirational, devoted to improved education, health care access, equality and sustainability. But, where a roadmap is supposed to show the path forward, part of the new Utah governor’s document is fixated on the rear-view mirror. And looking backward instead of forward is a good way to wind up in the ditch. Climate change is the greatest threat to our civilization. Markets are well along in their realization that fossil fuels are a thing of the past and…