(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox wants a tuition freeze to help public degree-granting colleges and universities. The proposed tuition freeze is part of the governor’s budget recommendations he outlined Friday ahead of the next session of the state legislature. Cox explained that increases in tuition and fees […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Cox wants to give Utah teachers a boost in pay in the next state budget. The governor went to Centennial Junior High in Kaysville yesterday and announced his plan to give every teacher in Utah a six-thousand-dollar raise. He also wants to increase a […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s governor has ordered a review of security plans at all state agencies following a break-in at a state office building. The suspect entered a building in downtown Salt Lake City through an unlocked security door. That led to security badges being stolen and allowed […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah officials are offering their prayers and condolences following a mass shooting that left at least five people dead at an LGBTQ club in southern Colorado. Governor Cox said in a statement yesterday that he and his wife Abby were deeply saddened by the shooting […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Cox is thanking Utahns for helping reduce the number of wildfires in the state. The governor appears with state firefighters in a new advertising campaign released yesterday. He praises Utahns for taking steps to reduce human-caused fires, including making sure campfires are out and […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Cox is blocking any further diversion of water in three Utah basins in hopes of getting more water into the Great Salt Lake. A proclamation issued by the governor will keep unallocated water in the Bear, Jordan and Weber river basins from being diverted […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Cox is meeting with members of a state human rights commission just days after a video of young Utahns in blackface gained national attention. Cox met with the Martin Luther King Jr. commission yesterday at the governor’s mansion. Members of the panel said the […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Governor Spencer Cox is one of two Republican governors asking Congress to support permanent legal residency for Afghan refugees. Cox joined 12 other governors in a letter last week asking for legislation that would allow refugees to apply for residency. The governor said in […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is holding a first-of-its-kind town hall to make sure he’s listening to the concerns and needs of Utah’s Latino community. Cox held the town hall last night on the South City campus of Salt Lake Community College. The town hall touched on […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox says he wants all colleges and universities in the state to enact a tuition freeze for the next academic year. Cox has been critical of the Biden Administration’s student debt forgiveness plan and says a tuition freeze is a better way to […]
