Utah Liberty News

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Audits: Utah's courts answer to no one

THE COURTS

Speaker rips how courts policed their own justice

Predatory auto lender pays: Utah joins $694M settlement

'Judges' allegiance is to the law, not causes'

CITY HALL

SLC airport moves to unload 1,000 acres of wetlands

Want a public record? Salt Lake City is still on paper

Ranch to city: rezone us or the farm dies

Mt. Pleasant council sits on 62-acre housing plan

Airport bond splits Washington County commission race

Insiders: Weber County's animal shelter is failing

THE STATEHOUSE

Rep. Trevor Lee charged with fraud, quits Legislature

Who pays for data centers? Senator demands answers

Utah's map is built to swallow a blue wave

House GOP pours cash into saving vulnerable seats

Davis GOP's voter-data censure of Henderson flops

SCHOOLS

Utah bans 7 more books from every school in the state

DEQ catches school district dumping contaminated water

New state rules dictate AI use in Utah classrooms

Checked: Utah school spending vs. what students learn

TAXES & SPENDING

Revealed: Utah can't say what its data center tax break costs you

Startup wants nuclear data center on Utah public land

Trick or fee? The strange charges hiding in your city hall

Another Utah city bets big money on recycled sewage

NATIONAL NEWS

PODCAST

Hannah Henriksen: Why Human Respect Is Essential to LibertyGeorge Washington in 2026: Winning Liberty Is Only the Beginning Grover Norquist: Why the Fight for Lower Taxes Is Really a Fight for Liberty Naomi Brockwell: The Fight to Take Back Your Digital Privacy Topher Field: Why Good People Break Bad Laws

STORIES

Liberty at Home Requires Restraint Abroad Lawmakers Raised Their Own Pay. Then Raised Taxes on South Carolinians She Built Kentucky’s YAL Network From the Ground Up How Grassroots Activists Forced a Delay in a Surveillance Expansion Vote The Student Who Refused to Let His Chapter Die How Grassroots Organizing Changed Wyoming's Legislature Transparency Is the Foundation of Trust in Government

WAR POWERS

Rubio boots Iran's negotiators, Trump teases next strikes^NEW

Scott Horton: the Iran 'panicans' were right

Ron Paul asks: is Cuba next?^NEW

Ron Paul: America finally (sort of) out of Iraq^NEW

THE FED

Washington's debt bill explodes: yields hit 24-year high^NEW

...and your mortgage just hit 7.28%^NEW

Kashkari confesses: inflation 'still too high'^NEW

Fed watchdog clears Fed chief. Naturally.^NEW

Crop prices log biggest jump since Ukraine invasion^NEW

DUE PROCESS

Sue a fed in California? Meet qualified immunity.

Supreme Court puts deportation machine under the knife^NEW

Court slaps rogue sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots^NEW

He fought for his country. Now it wants his land.^NEW

CRONY CAPITALISM

Musk, Luckey and Gingrich walk into the Pentagon...^NEW

Trump's steel mill: steelmakers win, you pay^NEW

Trump and Big AI go all-in together^NEW

GUN RIGHTS

Gutowski: America never taxed common guns. Why start?

EXECUTIVE OVERREACH

Reminder: the Constitution has no 'emergency' clause

Trump on ads you paid for: 'I'm promoting the country'

Trump regrets his own Supreme Court picks^NEW

The libertarian case for impeachment...^NEW

THE SURVEILLANCE STATE

Cops' AI dragnet grabbed innocent driver. Judge just killed it.

DHS watchlisted Americans over 'potential inaccuracies'

Leak: cops can beat your iPhone's lock-down reboot^NEW

America rejects plate cameras, San Francisco shrugs^NEW

SPEECH POLICE

Cops knocked over her Facebook post. Lawsuit stands.

Ask Trump's chatbot who won 2020. Good luck.

Pepperdine bans professor who taught a black Jesus

Court: publishing sealed arrest records is protected speech

TAXES & REGULATION

Judge blocks Trump's $100,000 visa toll^NEW

Treasury readies $3,400 school-choice tax credit^NEW

Watch: how Washington made your BLT more expensive^NEW

Nicotine isn't the killer. Politicians ban it anyway.^NEW

First city to price-fix your groceries...^NEW

LIBERTY MOVEMENT

Rand Paul: Americans poorer under Trump than Biden^NEW

Jack Hunter: more Massie, fewer midterm woes

FEDERAL FAILURE

FAA hiring spree follows 'chronically understaffed' confession^NEW

Trump orders rats and mosquitoes out of DC^NEW

STATES PUSH BACK

Texas kills cop shop that gave 'no benefit'