Nara, a seventh-grader at Granite Park Junior High, stands excitedly with her peers beside a rocket launcher, counting down the seconds. Her instructor describes the effect of air pressure on the distance the rocket will travel. As the rocket launches from the ground, the students look up with excitement and fascination, watching as it flies
PROVO — Embattled Utah County Commissioner Greg Graves is threatening to sue his fellow commissioners and the county, claiming he has been defamed, slandered and libeled by the county employee who filed a sexual harassment claim against him and by his elected peers who voted to release the accusations to the public. In a notice
ST. GEORGE — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill Tuesday that will expand Medicaid to up to thousands of Utahns under the poverty line. An estimated 700,000 people in Utah will be able to apply for Medicaid under legislation effected by a bill designated HB 472, which passed the Utah Legislature on the last day of
Utah cares about public safety — just not more than it cares about guns. On the final day of its 2018 session, the Utah Legislature designated April 2018 as “#MSDkindness month,” in honor of the 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. Introducing the resolution, sponsor Rep. Paul
Employees at Salt Lake City’s Sinclair-owned station KUTV are dismayed and embarrassed about a recent editorial their anchors were forced to read that criticized other media outlets for sharing “false news.” An employee who works for the CBS affiliate but requested anonymity to speak candidly said the unease goes all the way up to management.
SALT LAKE CITY — Viewers of the nearly 200 television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, including Channel 2 in the Salt Lake market, probably didn’t think much recently when they saw news anchors in promotional spots saying something like, “… we’re concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our
Law student Jake Lee was excited when his former boss, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, offered to take him and a guest to Tuesday’s Utah Jazz game against the Los Angeles Lakers. He was downright ecstatic to find the tickets were for team owner Gail Miller’s front-row floor seats. “I died and went to Jazz heaven,”
“Creepy, cult-ish, and way too propagandistic for my taste”, the Democrat said in tweet Sunday. Sinclair Broadcast Group’s revenue for the quarter was down 8.0% on a year-over-year basis. equities research analysts anticipate that Sinclair Broadcast Group will post 3.53 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. More recently, the company has mandated that
From March 23-30, local Sinclair Broadcast Station-owned KUTV Channel 2 ran a scripted promotion 19 times discussing “fake news” and the “troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country,” according to an Alliance for a Better Utah study. The promotion aired during news segments and reached a combined viewership of 795,227 people, according to ABU.
PROVO — A Utah advocacy group on Tuesday renewed its call for embattled Utah County Commissioner Greg Graves’ resignation — but he left the room before they could speak. Graves was present throughout the commission’s three-hour meeting, but he stepped out a back room right before the public comment period when Katie Matheson, spokeswoman for
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