Christie Porter

Christie Porter is the managing editor of Salt Lake Magazine. She has worked as a journalist for nearly a decade, writing about everything under the sun, but she really loves writing about nerdy things and the weird stuff. She recently published her first comic book short this year.
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The Three Women On The Utah Supreme Court Talk Diversity, Partisanship and Ethics

On a rainy afternoon in Salt Lake City, most people aren’t thinking about the state of Utah’s court system, the role judges play in that system or how diversity on a bench...

Utah Flooding: Why The Risk And What You Can Do

On Monday, Salt Lake City Mayor Mendenhall showed off two huge debris basins to make a point about the city’s flood preparedness. From the basins, long-arm tractors can haul out fallen trees,...

ESPN Documentary On Lauren McCluskey’s Murder Promises New Revelations

In 2018, the murder of a student-athlete at the University of Utah dominated the news, locally and nationally. As more of the circumstances surrounding her death came to light—her unheeded pleas for...

Making Comics with Cartoonist Jess Smart Smiley

A look inside one of Smiley’s sketchbooks is a peek inside his storytelling process.

SUU Students Petition To Stop LDS Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland Commencement Speech

On Thursday, Southern Utah University announced that apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Jeffrey R. Holland would be the keynote speaker of the university’s upcoming commencement ceremony. The...

Five Cases of Utah Crime That Shocked The Beehive State

Not every murder or kidnapping leads to a societal reckoning of some kind. Although, perhaps they should. In a world obsessed with the gritty details, sensationalism, anxiety and catharsis of true crime,...

R.I.P. Silicon Valley Bank: The Local Impact

A bank has failed. Scratch that. Two banks have failed (RIP Signature Bank, too, but no one seems to care as much about that). The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) represents...

Battle of the Books

The current state of Utah school libraries is such that teachers and librarians stand accused of peddling pornography and sexually grooming and indoctrinating children. Members of school boards have had to appear...

Christie Porter

Christie Porter is the managing editor of Salt Lake Magazine. She has worked as a journalist for nearly a decade, writing about everything under the sun, but she really loves writing about nerdy things and the weird stuff. She recently published her first comic book short this year.

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