Is Daybreak an urban paradise?

University of Utah Healthcare Workers Unionize

Utah Health Workers United Local 7765 has arrived. The University of Utah is not legally required to recognize or negotiate with the union (per state laws), but collective organizing can be hard to ignore! Employees of the U’s enormous healthcare system are demanding improved staffing as well as wages and benefits that better reflect the local cost of living. [Salt Lake Tribune]

• Related: What’s it take to unionize in Salt Lake? [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]

New Leadership at the Legislature

‘Tis the season! The Utah House of Representatives has elected new leadership to run things during the upcoming legislative session. Do you recognize any of them? Get to know Rep. Mike Schultz, Rep. Jefferson Moss and Rep. Karianne Lisonbee intimately, because they get to set the agenda. In effect, decisionmaking around every aspect of our silly little lives. [Deseret News, Salt Lake Tribune, City Weekly]

• Related: How will the new House speaker handle our critical vulnerabilities? [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]

Has Daybreak Outgrown Its Stereotypes?

The Millers have officially broken ground on a new Salt Lake Bees baseball stadium in Daybreak, a 4,000-acre, master-planned community in South Jordan. Salt Lakers can be very judgemental of the suburbs, but are we totally off course here? [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]

Poetry As Advocacy  🖊️ Thursday | 7-8:30 p.m.

Weber State University poet Krystiana Davis shares the history and current state of documentary poetry at Happy Magpie Book & Quill. [Free, Ogden]

Mother Wound  📷 Friday | 6-9 p.m.

Take a gallery stroll of photographer Russel Albert Daniels’ series of 14 aerial landscape photos chronicling mineral extraction in the Interior West. Daniels’ work was recently acquired by the UMFA’s permanent collection. [Free, 9th & 9th]

9LineUp  🛍️ Saturday & Sunday | All day

Support the local businesses that were obstructed by construction of SLC’s new bike path with a day of browsing and shopping along 900 S. [Free to attend, Central City]

Wait, Is Daybreak Cool?

The Salt Lake Bees are moving to Daybreak, a master-planned community in South Jordan. And while a lot of Salt Lakers scoffed at this decision, recent data shows that 56% of urban Utahns desire more planned living. Daybreak resident Samora Magadla recently won the lottery and decided it was the place to put down roots, which has host Ali Vallarta asking: Is Daybreak cool?