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Utah is one of only two states where the lieutenant governor oversees elections. One Utah lawmaker wants to change that.

As Brigham Tomco reports, Rep. Ryan Wilcox, R-Ogden, introduced a bill that would appoint a committee of five county clerks to select a state elections director.

“We wouldn’t be running the bill if there wasn’t an appetite for it,” Wilcox told the Deseret News on Friday. “We heard that across the board all year, that we needed to at the very least remove the perception of that problem with regulating your own race.”

Policymakers on both sides of the aisle questioned whether the proposal would eliminate the perception of a conflict of interest.

Read more about HB369 and how lawmakers have responded to it.

At Weber State, the cheerleaders spell

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Lee Benson writes:

They keep winning national titles like Meryl Streep collects acting awards — seven of them in a row with more expected on the way — and yet, in one of those life ironies you just can’t make up, the winningest athletic team right now in the state of Utah, and one of the most dominating in all of college sports, doesn’t have any cheerleaders cheering them on.

For one simple reason: they are the cheerleaders.

Year after year, the cheer teams at Weber State University keep lugging home championship trophies almost as tall as they are. The fact that the trophies are stashed in the coaches office collecting dust ought to give you some idea of the lack of fanfare and fuss. But the bigger fact is that Weber State has won national championships every year since 2017, including two straight Grand Titles — a new award the National Cheerleaders Association implemented in 2023 that recognizes the top school in all of its collegiate divisions. A kind of Best of Show.

Read more about how coach Summer Willis has led the Wildcats to seven straight national titles.

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