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The Daily Buzz: The LDS Church has $16B in landownings. Here’s where.

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On Wednesday’s podcast, Statewatch reporter Kim Bojórquez discusses The Salt Lake Tribune’s Courtney Tanner’s story on what investigators, hired by Davis School District, found about how 10-year-old Izzy Tichenor was treated in the months leading to her death last November.

In a report, investigators said instances of bullying at the school w were “underreported, uninvestigated and unaddressed.”

Managing Editor Grant Burningham interviews Tribune reporter Tony Semerad on how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints managed to accumulate 1.7 million acres of land, valuing a total of $16 billion, according to the Truth & Transparency Foundation — formerly known as MormonLeaks.

And Brian Maffly also wrote a story published on Wednesday on the Salt Lake County Council vote to ban mining and mineral extraction in the Wasatch Foothills.

Hear all of these stories in the Wednesday, April 6, episode of ‘The Daily Buzz’ podcast. You can listen to both today’s episode and past episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and SoundCloud.