LINCOLN, Nebraska, March 5 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following letter on March 4, 2024: * * * To: Ms. Jennifer Newstead, Chief Legal Officer, Meta Platforms, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025 Re: Letter from the State of Arkansas and 26 other States demanding that Instagram cease monetizing child exploitation Dear Ms. Newstead: The States of Arkansas, Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Utah Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute issued the following news release: Utah's consumer sentiment decreased by 1.3% in February to 80.3, according to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute's Survey of Utah Consumer Sentiment. However, it's worth noting that this decrease was not deemed statistically significant. A similar survey by the University of Michigan found that sentiment declined 2.7% among Americans as a whole during the same tim  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 6 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes is joining a coalition of 23 other state attorneys general filing an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of Texas in support of the state's law prohibiting pediatric gender-transition procedures. States are responsible for protecting the health and safety of their children from dangerous and experimental medical procedures. Texas' law is presumptively constitutional  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 7 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Reyes has joined Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin and a coalition of 25 other state attorneys general on a letter to Meta demanding that Instagram stop monetizing child exploitation content. "New information has emerged about Instagram's blatant disregard for child safety, even after Meta has claimed to have implemented safeguards to stop child sex abuse material or CSAM on its  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 8 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Reyes joined a bipartisan coalition of 40 attorneys general in sending a letter to Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta) addressing the recent rise of Facebook and Instagram platform account takeovers by scammers and fraudsters. Account takeovers are when bad actors break into a user's account and change passwords, effectively hijacking the account and blocking out the rightful owner. Attorney  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 5 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a letter to BlackRock fund directors to express continued concerns over past and present actions involving their fiduciary duties to clients and commitments to radical environmental organizations. The letter, which was led by the State of Montana, requested answers to a series of questions in the wake of BlackRock's recent announcement that it would substantially  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 5 -- Gov. Spencer J. Cox, R-Utah, issued the following news release: After the Legislature approved HB 3, Gov. Spencer Cox praised the comprehensive solutions approved by the Senate and Utah House to address homeless services needs in Utah. The Legislature approved $66.2 million which includes funding for affordable housing, mental health services, shelters for families and the elderly, detox facilities and youth shelters in southern Utah. The Utah Impact Partnership  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 8 -- The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity issued the following news on March 7, 2024: This podcast series (https://business.utah.gov/news/category/podcasts/) features business and government leaders discussing what it's like to live and work in the great state of Utah. The Business Elevated podcast is available on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/business-elevated/id1453052684), opens in a new tab , Google Podcasts (https://podcast  more

ST. GEORGE, Utah, March 2 -- Utah Tech University issued the following news: Sharing lessons learned from building tech companies and investing in entrepreneurs, Voze Founder and CEO Dan Caffee is the next speaker featured in Utah Tech University's Elkington Founder Speaker Series. Caffee will speak at noon on March 21 in the Main Stage Theater of the Eccles Fine Arts Center on the Utah Tech campus. The event is free to the community and all are invited to attend. The founder of ventures like  more

OGDEN, Utah, March 6 -- Weber State University issued the following news: Weber State University is showing how literature opens doors of opportunity as it hosts students from across the nation March 28-30 to present their work at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference. "This conference allows students to present something that's a part of them," said Sarah Vause, WSU English instructor and NULC director. "Even though it can be a scary experience, it allows them to recognize that eve  more