Utah Liberty News

Friday, August 14, 2026

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Revealed: out-of-state cops mine Utah's plate cameras

TAXES & SPENDING

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UDOT ignored toxins to buy gondola land from connected sellers

The list: see which Utah cities want a property tax hike

Hundreds of Kirk witnesses tap Utah victim fund

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Utah's fire season on track to be its costliest ever

What your city government really costs you

Fight back: how to appeal your property tax bill

Preserve a building, pocket the tax credits

POLICE & SURVEILLANCE

6,400 cases: SLC police lean hard on plate cameras

Flock promises 'guardrails' after surveillance backlash

THE STATEHOUSE

One death, total ban: lawmaker targets all kratom

Lee raises money 'for' four hopefuls. Most goes to him

Study: Utah's liquor laws second-most restrictive in America

Artist pulls plug on $55M Capitol 'Liberty Arch'

THE COURTS

Judge: Utah can outlaw your Kalshi bets

21 losses later, DOJ still wants Utah's voter data

Utah sues Hims for sharing your health data

Robinson lawyers move to take death penalty off the table

Case dismissed: St. George man tells what it cost him

CITY HALL

Airbnb to Salt Lake City: cease and desist

Neighbors gripe, Park City orders the work stopped

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Planners snag 16-story Sugar House housing tower

SCHOOLS

Parents get a voice in $134 million for Utah schools

New tool spells out eight parental rights in Utah schools

UVU's Kirk tribute canceled? Sources say not so fast

NATIONAL NEWS

PODCAST

Mark Monoscalco on The Forbidden Idea, Individual Liberty, and Taking Back Our InstitutionsRon Muhlenkamp on Investing, Capitalism, and the Freedom to Build Wealth Joel Trammell on Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Becoming the CEO Your Company Needs Rob Arnott on Adam Smith, Free Markets, and Why Capitalism Creates Prosperity Kelley Paul on Raising the Next Generation to Love Liberty

STORIES

Liberty at Home Requires Restraint Abroad Lawmakers Raised Their Own Pay. Then Raised Taxes on South Carolinians Transparency Is the Foundation of Trust in Government How Grassroots Activists Forced a Delay in a Surveillance Expansion Vote Jerry Rawls Built a Billion-Dollar Company by Solving Problems, Not Chasing Money How Grassroots Organizing Changed Wyoming's Legislature Douglas La Rose on Why Consumer Choice Matters More Than Government Control

WAR POWERS

Bessent readies Iran siege 'like the world has never seen'^NEW

Ron Paul: Did Israel feed false intel on Trump's plane?

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Tehran official: war may run through Trump's whole term...

Hegseth's new motto: 'We do bad things to bad people'^NEW

SPEECH POLICE

Arrested in Texas... for cussing at a county meeting^NEW

Student punished for 'blasted' comment beats his school in court

Court tosses DOJ's Title VI case against Harvard

Free speech dying a slow death in Europe^NEW

GUN RIGHTS

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'Monumental': judge reverses decades-old gun restrictions

First unregistered silencer sold as NFA injunction bites

TAXES & REGULATION

Court blesses Trump's end of duty-free small imports; shoppers pay^NEW

America paused the Jones Act. Americans won

Surf instructor beats Newport Beach's ban on teaching waves

STATES PUSH BACK

The 17th Amendment broke the founders' kill switch

THE FED

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Rand Paul checks Fort Knox: 'Yes, the gold is there'^NEW

Prices climb again: inflation stuck at 3.4 percent, your paycheck isn't^NEW

'The ingredients are coming together for a US financial crisis'

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Mises: the fairy tale of Fed 'independence'

SPENDING & DEBT

DSA wish list rings up at $200 trillion... and you're the tab^NEW

Merkley rides to big government's rescue^NEW

THE SURVEILLANCE STATE

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Flock camera flags the wrong car; seven months of legal hell follow

Docs: feds ran surveillance op on Minnesota unions, activists^NEW

Flock admits its cameras need reform. Too little, too late

Meta patents glasses that name every face at your dinner party^NEW

Watch: the coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon^NEW

DUE PROCESS

Texas prosecutors stretch teen shooting spree into 'terrorism'

ICE goes shopping for stun gloves^NEW

Fifth Circuit shrugs off Alien Enemies Act case as 'moot'

AIER: the FCC denies the right to a fair trial^NEW

CRONY CAPITALISM

JPMorgan debanks Polymarket over 'regulatory concerns'^NEW

Trump Media sells early peek at president's posts: $100,000 a month

Paramount dangles toothless CNN 'oversight board' to buy merger blessing^NEW

EXECUTIVE OVERREACH

Trump hauls his ballroom fight to the Supreme Court^NEW

FEDERAL FAILURE

Larison: the Pentagon's sickening cover-up

Watch: inside the USS Lincoln crisis, 'the military's shame'^NEW

FBI downplayed 14 informants flagging Biden corruption

Webb: military academies get an 'F' every time. Why are we paying?^NEW

Fauci's diary sheds new light on EcoHealth and the Wuhan lab