Sen. Mike Lee's social media is causing some heartburn for top leaders of the LDS Church, but don't expect that will make him tone things down.

Lack of housing in the West is a serious problem, but policymakers will have to come up with a solution that does more than lean on ideology.

Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz rallies support for a Utah doctor who federal prosecutors allege provided hundreds of fake vaccine cards during the COVID pandemic. It's just the latest example of top leaders allying themselves with extreme views.

The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah joined a lawsuit challenging a provision in the massive tax cuts and spending bill passed by Congress that would effectively defund the organization. Shireen Ghorbani, interim president of Planned Parenthood of Utah, joins the show to talk about the lawsuit.

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