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With no money to spend and no elections to win, Utah lawmakers went to work tightening their leash on the state.
CAPITOL HILL—Some years, the Utah Legislature is flush with cash, generously dispersing spoonfuls of sugar to help the medicine go down their constituents' throats.
Utah's annual 45-day legislative session ended on March 7. CAPITOL HILL—Some years, the Utah Legislature is flush with cash, generously dispersing spoonfuls of sugar to help the medicine go down their constituents' throats. And some years, the gravitational pull of a marquee election jolts the proceedings with media-luring bravado, distracting the showhorses while the workhorses keep their heads down and bring the cargo home.
But 2025 was neither of those years. Between January and March, a cash-poor and insufficiently stimulated Republican supermajority rolled up its sleeves and got into the…
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