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As demand surges under a new Utah law, advocates say domestic violence services remain underfunded

Utah’s domestic violence shelters are seeing an unprecedented spike in referrals in the last year, prompting the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition to ask the governor for $8 million in this year’s budget to help with staffing shortages. But by the end of the legislative session, that request was whittled down to $1 million in annual funding. “For us, it’s frustrating to see all of the rhetoric around a tight budget year and then to see an income tax cut,” said Erin Jemison, director of public policy for the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition. “The amount of money that will ...

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Letter: Advocating for increased law and order in America

I am so tired of reading and watching people steal, rob, kill and burn things in America. We have an opened border and Congress will do nothing. People rob stores with no consequences. We have 100,000 fentanyl deaths, and Congress does nothing. We have near bankruptcy with a national debt of 35 ...

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