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# Podcast: Budgets and public records and punishing judges! Oh my!
- URL: https://utahpolitics.news/podcasts/podcast-budgets-and-public-records-and-punishing-judges-oh-my/
- Published: 2025-02-22T23:27:03.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-18T17:17:50.000Z
- Author: Bryan Schott
- Tags: Podcasts

In this week's episode of Special Session:

- Budget blues hit as lawmakers grapple with disappointing revenue news.
- Utah AFL/CIO president Jeff Worthington joins the show to discuss HB267, the union-busting bill that takes away collective bargaining rights for public employees.
- Utah lawmakers want to make it harder and more expensive for the public to access government records - because who doesn't love a little secrecy?
- We're supposed to have 3 co-equal branches of government, right? Not so fast...

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