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(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) United States’ Ross Powers gets amplitude in the snowboard competition at Park City Mountain Resort during the 2002 Winter Olympics, Feb. 11, 2002.

Utah is still ‘paying a steep price’ for Olympic success, in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | Jun. 7, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Inversion conditions in the Salt Lake valley trap small particle pollutants as air quality continues to deteriorate on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024.

How air quality and politics may force one Utahn out, in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | May. 31, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Staff members of the Highland High Rambler at Highland High School in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

The American ‘nightmare’ and other thoughts from SLC teens, in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | May. 24, 2025, 12:15 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Children participate in an activity at a daycare in Provo on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022.

Why Utahns aren’t having more kids, in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | May. 17, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Eric Lee | The New York Times) Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. leaves Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 25, 2025. A steadfast figure in the anti-vaccine movement who has helped shape Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s thinking on a possible link to autism has joined his department to work on a study examining the long-debunked theory, according to people familiar with the matter.

Utah’s autistic community says they ‘aren’t broken,’ in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | May. 10, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Pews in one of the two chapels at the new 95 State meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Friday, April 8, 2022.

Support for religious and divorced Utahns ‘is just not there,’ in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | May. 3, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Eric Lee | The New York Times) President Donald Trump and Elon Musk explain the administration’s cost-cutting efforts in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025.

Arts cuts will lead to ‘broken community ties’ one Utahn says in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | Apr. 26, 2025, 2:08 p.m.

(Haiyun Jiang | The New York Times) President Donald Trump signs an executive order that would diminish the Department of Education in East Room of the White House in Washington, on Thursday, March 20, 2025. President Trump signed an executive order that he said would “begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all,” although the agency cannot be closed without the approval of Congress.

This former Utah teacher has a lot to say about changes at the education department, in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | Apr. 19, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. prepares a smoothie with students on a tour of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Monday, April 7, 2025.

Utahns react to a ban on fluoride in public water, in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | Apr. 12, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Hundreds of people show up at the Utah State Capitol on Mar. 29, 2025 to fly the largest transgender pride flag in Utah. The unveiling of the flag is part of celebrations for Transgender Day of Visibility, hosted by local nonprofits Utah Pride Center and The Glitter Foundation.

Pride flag ban ‘sends a harmful message,’ Utahns say in this week’s Inside Voices

By Sara Weber | Apr. 5, 2025, 12:05 p.m.