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Romney retires, housing tanks and more on Behind the Headlines

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney tours the headquarters of Teal Drones in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023.
Trent Nelson
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The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney tours the headquarters of Teal Drones in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023.

Mitt Romney announces he won’t run for the Senate again in 2024. Housing markets are the least affordable in Utah history. And new census data shows how the state is changing.

At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Tony Semerad and Megan Banta, along with news columnist Robert Gehrke, join Utah Public Radio’s Tom Williams to talk about the week’s top stories.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.