Take Action- support water-use transparency for Utah’s data centers:

- Contact Your State Representative: buff.ly/UjNWGFb
- Contact Your State Senator: buff.ly/K2Wf3le

Transparent data is essential to stewarding a limited resource, protecting the Great Salt Lake, and planning for long-term community needs. Understanding how industrial users fit into the picture is a matter of sound public policy.

When the state incarcerates someone, it takes responsibility for their wellbeing. Improving mental health standards reflects a simple value Utahns share: every life has dignity, even behind bars.

Prop 4 was a promise for fair maps that voters fought hard to pass. Deception at the signature table is not just a technical issue. It undermines trust in the entire democratic process. Voters deserve honesty at the very minimum.

Utah’s courts exist to interpret constitutional rules, even when their decisions create political inconvenience. Strong institutions require mutual respect between branches of government and a shared commitment to transparency and public trust.

Utahns have relied on ballot initiatives when traditional channels fail to address issues like Medicaid expansion, medical cannabis, and redistricting. Efforts to narrow that pathway would shift even more control to the Legislature.

Utahns value stewardship; decisions about these lands should reflect long-term well-being.

Requiring that signature-gatherers be armed with devices capable of scanning identification, even while offline, would result in raising the costs of signature gathering, which is already expensive, and barring most grassroots organizers from engaging in the process.

Conservative lawmakers hope that Nielsen will bring a shift to the jurisprudence of the state’s highest court. But can Utahns expect that Nielsen will put partisan politics aside and rule in their best interests?