About The Utah Ledger
The Utah Ledger is a civic tracker for Utah. It shows you who is on your ballot and who already represents you, with their votes, records and sources, and it adds local news from every region and city.
Our mission
The Utah Ledger exists to let every Utahn see who they are voting for and follow the people who govern them, built on facts and free of politics.
- No political ties. We aren't connected to any party, campaign or candidate, and we don't take sides. We report what happened and what the records say, the same way for everyone. Our neutrality policy
- Facts, with the receipts. Every story links the records and reports it came from, so you can check our work yourself.
- Government records, followed continuously. We use AI to read state and local government records as they're posted, including agendas, minutes, budgets, audits and financial filings, and we report what they show. We started with the largest cities and keep adding more. These series report what official audits and records say; they are not formal audits. Government records series
- Officials you can track. Profiles of Utah's elected officials show their votes, their actions in office, and the campaign donors and business ties in the public record. Politician profiles
- Your community calendar. Public meetings, local events, festivals and games around the state, in one calendar you can search and subscribe to. Calendar
- A hub for all of Utah. Government and school news, weather and roads, and city pages, from every region and city.
Who publishes it
The Utah Ledger is an independent publication owned and published by Paul Ivinskas. He sets the site's standards and is responsible for everything it publishes.
You can reach him at news@utahledger.com, through the contact form or find Paul Ivinskas on LinkedIn.
Ownership
The Utah Ledger is owned by Paul Ivinskas and isn't affiliated with any political party, campaign, government agency, team or league.
How we report
We publish two kinds of stories, and each one says which it is.
Our own reporting. City hall coverage, audits, budgets and other records stories come straight from public records: agendas, minutes, packets, audits, budgets and filings. Every fact links to the record it came from. When the records leave a question open, we say so.
News summaries. Several times a day we check the public feeds of Utah newsrooms, agencies and teams. From the new reports about Utah, we publish short summaries in our own words, using only the facts in that report, and we name and link the outlet. The original outlet has the full story, and we send you there for it.
Read the full method, step by step.
How we use AI
Our stories are written with AI. An AI model drafts each story from its sources. Automated checks hold back a draft that breaks our style rules or repeats a story we have already published, and every paragraph links to its source so you can check the facts yourself. Paul Ivinskas sets the rules those checks follow, reviews the coverage and handles every correction. Bylines say “AI-assisted” so readers always know.
Standards
- Every story links its sources, and every paragraph is numbered back to the source it came from. When several outlets report the same thing, we add each of their reports to the story's sources.
- We report what records and people say, with attribution, and we don't speculate past them.
- We don't publish home addresses or details that would point to one, and we don't name private people unless the records do and it matters to the story.
- We don't take payment for coverage.
Corrections
If something is wrong, tell us through the contact form with the story's link and what needs fixing. We review every correction request. When a story is wrong, we fix it and add a note saying what changed and when. When a story is updated with new information, its “Updated” date changes. Every correction and update is listed here.
Politically neutral
The Utah Ledger doesn't take political sides. We don't endorse candidates, parties or ballot measures, and we don't run opinion pieces. Political stories report what each side says and does, attributed to them, in plain words rather than either side's labels.