I was on my way to pick up my kid from school in the middle of the storm when I saw a woman out in the snow with a walker and a service dog. She was only wearing a hoodie.

That didn't seem right at all so I stopped and asked if she needed help. She couldn't tell me where she was going, where she lived, or who I could call to help her. She also said her blood sugar was low and I noticed she was wearing a medical alert bracelet.

I got her safely in my car and called the local police dispatch. They had a fire engine and an ambulance there within ten minutes. A swarm of more than half a dozen officers, firemen, and medics showed up and helped her and her dog into the ambulance. They promised me they would take good care of her.

Do we really want all these public servants unable to negotiate a fair wage for themselves? My answer: hell, no.

Thanks to all you guys who worked tirelessly today to deal with all the drama a snow storm blows in.

The Great Salt Lake drying up, dust storms, wildfires getting worse every summer… is anyone else starting to think about leaving Utah for good?

I moved here five years ago because it felt like an outdoor paradise. Skiing, mountain biking, fly fishing, trail running which is all within reach. For a while it genuinely was all of that.

Now I can’t shake this feeling that the thing I moved here for is slowly going away. The air quality gets worse, the smoke shows up earlier, the lake just keeps shrinking and yesterdays dust storm was fucking terrifying. I still get outside but it hits different knowing what’s happening.

Maybe I’m being dramatic and this is just one brutal winter clouding my thinking. But it feels less like a bad year and more like a direction things are headed.

Anyone else feeling this way? Do you stay and hope it turns around or start making an exit plan

Over 10,000 people telling the GOP to keep their hands off our government, public lands, and people’s rights.

I am a small business owner in Southern Utah and in case anyone wants a reminder that elections have consequences (in case points to literally everything isnt enough). I just got an email today saying that we wont be paid for a large for us job that we did for the federal government because Trump signed an Executive Order freezing funding to the IRA. So, if congress realocates funds then they will pay it sometime. I know a lot of other people have bigger problems in the world but this is one that is a direct impact close to home for me.

It really sucks that a guy I voted against, and money that was already allocated for a job already completed won't be paid for because he thinks he is the king.

Sorry, I just needed somewhere to rant about it all.

Anyways, I'm glad Canada won the hockey game last night...

Yesterday at Target in Centerville, an Italian woman by herself approached me while I was shopping and asked if I would pay for diapers, baby formula, and baby bottles. (seemed older 45+ to have a baby) She had the cart there with the items ready for purchase. I agreed to help. Didn’t speak much English. At the time, I honestly didn’t realize the total was around $225.
I was already a little skeptical, so I figured if it was a scam, I would probably know once we checked out. After I paid, she immediately wanted the receipt. I told her I needed to keep it since I was the one who paid, but she was very quiet and seemed really uncomfortable about giving up on getting it.
She actually went over to the self-checkout employee and asked if they could print another receipt for her. At that point, I started thinking she might be planning to return everything for a gift card.
I told the employee not to print another receipt because I was concerned I had just been scammed. I told the woman that she didn’t need the receipt and that she could take the items and leave because I had already paid for everything.
What really threw me off was that she didn’t even say thank you. She seemed more flustered and upset that I wouldn’t give her the receipt than grateful that someone had just spent $225 on baby supplies for her.
I immediately went to customer service and told them what happened. I’m not sure if they really cared, but I asked them to pass it along to management.
I obviously don’t know for sure what her intentions were, and maybe there’s an explanation I’m not considering. But the whole interaction left me feeling really uneasy. I’m sad that situations like this make it harder to trust people who may genuinely need help. I’m also pretty frustrated and have been overthinking it since it happened.
I have a feeling she may be going from store to store trying the same thing up and down the Wasatch Front.

Has anyone experienced something like this at Target or another store? Is asking for the receipt and trying to get another copy a common scam.

Driving today and seeing Reagan billboards got me thinking. Who are the worst Utah companies? I mean dirty, slimy, shouldn’t do any business with or work for companies?

Last night around 8:45 PM, my daughter stopped at the Carl’s Jr. in West Jordan after work to grab some food. She has some stickers on her water bottle that reflect her interests; witchy, alternative stuff. Nothing offensive.

An employee saw the stickers and started preaching at her. Full-on testimony, saying things like “Jesus loves you,” “Jesus is real,” and telling her it’s just a phase she’s going through. It was completely unsolicited and made her super uncomfortable.

We’re an atheist family, but regardless of your beliefs, this kind of behavior just doesn’t belong at work. No one should be pushing religion (or anti-religion, for that matter) on customers. It’s just not professional.

When I called the store later to ask for the manager’s contact info, the same employee ended the call with “God bless you,” which felt like one more jab after an already inappropriate situation.

I’m not here to bash anyone’s religion. This is about basic professionalism and respect. Employees shouldn’t be making customers feel judged or uncomfortable based on their personal beliefs, especially not while representing a company.

I’ve already spoken with the district manager, but I wanted to share this here too. I know Utah has a unique religious culture, but it’s important we draw a line between personal belief and public service. People deserve to eat a burger without being preached at.

After seeing Trevor Lees comments and actions on the Mammoth Pride logo I reached out, having been born and raised in Layton, spending 30 years of my life there, and still having family, friends and business in Layton years later I felt it was still reasonable to email him and express my thoughts as well.

Can we really not do better with who represents us? This kind of response should never be acceptable in any setting where you are asked to represent people or stand for something.

I don't have any farmers to talk to, and honestly I'm in an echo chamber of cityfolk. Right now hatred toward farmers is skyrocketing as our water levels drop statewide and they're getting a ton of blame.

And there's truth to that. 85% of all of utah's water is ag. We could stop 100% of water usage in cities, and we still wouldn't have enough to fill our lakes.

So its very easy to go after farmers as being the problem. 68% of all of utahs diverted water goes to a single crop worth 0.2% of the state economy. And that crop, alfalfa, doesn't even feed humans. Its hay for cows. Some of which I have been told is shipped overseas for extra profit. The entire alfalfa industry (~$435M) is worth less than what we lose from our lakes going dry.

It makes me angry.
But before I get 'too' worked up over it, I would very seriously like to hear the other side of the argument. Are there any farmers on here that can tell me the farming side of the story?

Why can't you switch to more efficient crops/irrigation methods? Why can't you farm in another state that actually has water? How much do you pay for your water and has the cost been going up for you? Have you been forced to fallow fields? etc.

Would appreciate the other side.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the Uintas and I’m glad when people get outside and enjoy this beautiful state. In the last year or two though, I can’t help but feel that the Uintas (specifically along Mirror Lake Highway) are just not nearly as special to visit as in years past.

1. Lack of etiquette. People camping up at pristine, hidden mountain lakes, will still play loud music over their speakers, leave trash around, and generally just leave the place worse than they found it. I think this is just a trend in all outdoor areas recently but very noticeable in the Uintas due to easy accessibility.
2. Parking. On weekends, trailheads will fill up by 8 AM, so people will park on the road illegally, blocking two-way traffic from passing, and overall just creating unsafe situations. Up at a parking lot by a lake, where in the past I have never seen more that two vehicles, due to the rough road up there, it was PACKED. People had blocked each other in and set up tents and canopies in the parking lot, taking up space. Roadside parking along Mirror Lake Highway is also a nightmare.
3. Fishing. That’s the main reason I go to the Uintas - fun catch and release fishing for trout. But these days you get people who are likely fishing without a license, keeping more than the allowed trout limit, poorly handling fish which results in a lot of fish dying, and line, lures, bobbers, etc. being left everywhere. Over time it reduces the quality of fishing at these lakes and streams.
4. Mirror Lake Highway itself. I know I should be enjoying the view and whatnot, but when you get a line of 10-20 cars stuck behind one car going 10-15 under the speed limit and with everyone tailgating each other, thats not a good time. Then when one car turns off the road or slows down for any reason, everyone ends up slamming on their brakes and nearly rear ending each other. We got stuck behind a Volvo the other day going 15 under the entire way down, and no one was able to pass it because of the oncoming traffic.
5. Lack of care from dog owners. I love dogs, and I know they’re just going to do what dogs do, so this is on the owners. Off-leash dogs running through campsites, jumping in the lake right where I’m trying to fish, and not to mention the dog poop all over the trail that their owners don’t care to pick up.
6. The sheer number of visitors. I’m not sure if this is just due to more people finding out about the Uintas through Instagram/TikTok, AllTrails, through friends, family, etc. but when this area is within a one-hour drive of the Wasatch Front that has nonstop housing growth, it gets PACKED. Something I hear a lot is “I grew up going here with my family and I can’t believe how busy it’s got.” Well, so did everyone else. Now they and their siblings are bringing their own families, and their family’s family is going, that leads to an exponential increase in visitors every few years. There’s nothing wrong with this of course, but when you bring multiple people up there and then they end up bringing their own friends/families, it’s going to just keep getting busier and busier. Kamas is slowly turning into another Garden City.

I’m curious to hear your observations or hear other points I may have missed, or why I’m wrong. Maybe it’s only like this on summer weekends. Who knows.

EDIT: 7. As some people brought up, OHV noise. Unreal.

So I moved to Utah for college when I was 18 and I met my dorm roommate, really nice guy who came from an LDS family. He invited me to his house for dinner because his family wanted to meet me. I thought sure, can’t turn down free food. I went over and we ate then the family sat down for a movie night, they settled and were about to turn on the 5th Harry Potter movie. I guess they were watching a new one every week. Then the father turned to me and asked me to call my family to make sure it’s ok for me to watch this movie. I couldn’t believe my ears, as a 18 year old asked to get my parents permission to watch a PG-13 movie. A movie that I literally watched when I was like 8 years old. I explained that I had already seen it and that getting my parents permission seemed redundant. They still insisted I call them to make sure, and they said if they needed convincing they could turn on Vidangel to cover up any bad stuff. What are some crazy cultural experiences you’ve had in Utah?

What triggered this was the KSL story about the floods happening right now, and instead of seeing people express sympathy or concern, pretty much all of the comments were political, and attacking California and the people living there. Just like when wildfires happened where people were dying, there were comments attacking California, even implying they deserved it, or were being punished by God.

To these people, something is deeply wrong with you. My family moved here from California 20 years ago to be near family. Despite my parents being LDS, and conservative, both of which are extremely common with people moving here from California believe it or not, we were treated like shit. This was well over a decade before property values skyrocketing, so you can't come at me there. These were people who "Shared Utah values" and well before property values became insane, and the hatred was still there. So the people who think hatred towards people from California is "justified" you're full of shit, because none of the talking points you rally behind applied to my family, and our experience was the same.

Even if you're mad about the retired couple moving here in recent years and buying one home, you have 8 kids, many or most of whom are gonna want to buy a home of their own someday, as per the laws of supply and demand, you're contributing a lot more to rising home prices that most people from California are. So your argument fails there as well.

People in this state need to do better. Want to know how people in California react to bad things happening in Utah? They emphasize like human beings instead of using it as an opportunity to rant at how terrible Republican Mormons are. Because unlike you, they're good people.

My brothers and sisters are suffering, and all you can do is say "Buh liberal". These are humans beings, not a political party. Share this to your conservative family as a way to hopefully help them change their ways.

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Why do drivers HAVE to ride right on my ass??

Have y’all ever heard of a pile up?

If I brake, we’re both going to the body shop.

Leave 2 car lengths. It’s not that hard.

I swear some of these drivers need to back to driving class

District 15 is just 102 signatures over, having had 556 signatures removed since the 9th when new signatures stopped being added. Image shows how many are still within the 45 day removal window as well.

I live along the Wasatch Front, and traffic is not bad. While many complain about it, compared to other metropolitan areas nearby, such as Denver, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, our traffic is relatively easy

Sub Zero is a listed busines on Public Square, a website with a registry of businesses that bill themselves as anti-woke and pro-conservative values. Trump Jr is on Public Square's board of directors.

It only takes a week of slow sales for local business owners to start asking questions.
If the answer is, your business supports the half of politics that is currently stripping women's voting rights and deporting citizens, you should not get my money.

For obvious safety and health reasons. Wayne county where house is located did this over a month ago. Do better Utah officials!

On the one hand, you’ve got super low unemployment, a strong tech market, low crime, and a very attractive place for businesses to relocate to.

But on the other hand, you’ve got some of the most unaffordable real estate in the country relative to wages, very high rates of teen suicide, some of the worst air quality in the country (and sometimes even the world at certain times), and tons of plastic surgeons per capita.

Wtf???

Last night, just before 5pm I went to the Smith's on 7200 S and Redwood. As I approached the store a signature gatherer was asking a lady to sign his "petition about gerrymandering". She was ready to sign when I yelled out not to sign it, and informed her that this is our state legislatures attempt to change the state constitution that currently requires them to abide by citizen referendums. The signature gatherer got PISSED and got in my face about giving him a hard time while he's just trying to do his job. I told him that he's on the wrong side of thos fight, and he's working to circumvent democracy. I then asked if he had a copy of the bill that he's asking people to sign for/against and he told me he didn't need it. I told him that I could have all his signatures invalidated. His response was to get right in my face and tell me that he was gonna "fuck you up if you don't get out of here". I walked in the store, the floral dept was right up front and had a guy standing there. I asked him to call the store manager on duty. When she arrived I asked if they'd given permission to signature gatherers. She said no. I told her about the aggressive and hostile guy out front who just threatened me. She said that they've been having problems with these people, and she walked out to tell him to leave.

In hindsight I wish that I would have spent more time acting curious and asking questions. I would have love to hear this guy's talk track, and see if he even knows what he's asking people to sign (I doubt he did). I didn't need to engage in a shouting match with him, I could have just asked him questions and then reported him to the store manager to remove him.

I'm curious to hear about your interactions and strategy for dealing with these people.

last thing: fuck our state legislature for putting us in a position to have to defend ourselves for holding them accountable.

We've lived here for a few years and wth is everyone's problems when turning right on red?!

So many times we've been honked/flipped off/yelled at/harassed while we were being safe/following the law. Several times with a "No Turn on Red" sign, and even more times when there was CLEARLY oncoming traffic from the other direction leaving us unable to actually turn without getting hit. This morning it happened again and I literally gestured AT the long line of traffic blocking the turn, and once again, was flipped off by the lovely gentleman behind me. My kid was in the car, he usually is.

I'm so tired.

A couple notes:

• the names under the bolded spots are the notable names in that area.
  • For instance, I know Logan isn't considered The Wasatch front or The Basin is all of Eastern Utah.
• I added the areas in purple dashes that I feel people use as a placeholder for the area.
  • For instance I might be staying in Ivins, but we'd always say "we're going to St. George.

Specifics to call out:

• I think Eastern Utah usually specifies the Vernal area, but can also incorporate Moab with context
• Western Utah starts on the west side of the i15 corridor up to Nephi area. Then it cuts up to the west side of Grantsville & The Great Salt Lake.
• Northern Utah could also be split into two if you really wanted to - because past Willard, it is differentiated culturally from the SLC metro. I just don't think most people differentiate it with a geographic name
• Sorry Central Utah, I'm not as familiar with names you call yourself.
• I could also add the national parks, but that would muddy it up too much.

Just happened today—some people are unbelievably selfish on the road. Like, how hard is it to use common sense?

This popped up in my Instagram feed.