We live in an Amazon world.
Gov. Gary Herbert announced earlier this month that Amazon will be coming to Salt Lake City to build a new regional fulfillment facility. The company is estimated to invest around $200 million in this new project.
"To have a company like Amazon, as big as they are, choose Utah for a fulfillment center is a great win for us," the governor said, according to the Deseret News. "It's a big shot in the arm for Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County and the state."
Utah beat out six other states to host the facility, which will now employ many people from Salt Lake City and surrounding areas.
But this wasn't the only big news in recent weeks. The new Republican health care bill also dominated headlines, with Sen. Orrin Hatch and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price penning op-eds for the Deseret News.
Both politicians defended the plan and the process it takes to come up with something that can benefit Utahns.
"Yesterday, the U.S. Senate made a powerful statement to Utah and the nation: increasing premiums, unaffordable care and regulatory red-tape should not be the standard of health care in this country," Hatch said in his op-ed. "Our discussion to draft legislation to repeal Obamacare and its mandates, as modified by the Senate, is not perfect. It is, rather, a work in the art of the doable."
Check out what some editorial cartoonists from around the country had to say about these news events and more in the images below.
