Plus, Riley Gaines on trans athletes in women's sports
Good morning! Here are today’s temperatures: ☀️ 32 – 58° in Logan ☀️ 41 – 62° in Salt Lake ☀️ 45 – 77° in St. George Utah’s job market is as diverse and enticing as its landscape. The Wall Street Journal and Moody’s Analytics recently ranked Utah’s capital city as the area with the hottest job market in the country, and the Utah Legislature announced that Utah ranked first for the 17th year in a row as the state with the best economic outlook. Read more about Utah’s growing job market and positive economic outlook. Also on our mind: What Utahns think about dating across political lines and the small D.C. law firm protecting the role of religion in American life. |
| Provo Airport ramps up with key addition — Dallas-Fort Worth |
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| | Starting in June, the Provo Municipal Airport will be offering a new route to its destinations: Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. “That is a route that we’ve been extremely excited about,” Brian Torgersen, director of the Provo Airport, told the Deseret News. Getting a location like Dallas or Denver will bring more opportunities to Provo “because they’re large hub airports, they connect to everywhere.” The announcement by Breeze Airways comes less than two years after the airline first began doing business with the Provo Airport. With Dallas now added, the Salt Lake City-based airline offers 10 flights in and out of Provo. Read more about the Provo Airport’s exponential growth. |
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