After months of study and thousands of dollars, the Utah Legislature decided to move the Utah State Prison from Draper to Salt Lake City, near the airport.
Bob Bernick and Bryan Schott rank this as their #5 Utah political story of 2015.
Previous stories on our list:
- #6 – Jonathan Johnson announces his bid to challenge Gov. Gary Herbert for the GOP nomination in 2016
- #7 – Doug Owens mounts a second challenge to Mia Love
- #8 – We said goodbye to three large figures on the Utah political landscape
- #9 – The LDS Church changes their policy toward same-sex couples in the church while deciding to stay with the Boy Scouts
- #10 – Prop. 1, which would have provided funds for transportation projects, fails in two of Utah’s biggest counties
- Here are some of the stories from 2015 that didn’t make our list
