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Alixel Cabrera
Report for America Corps Member
Alixel Cabrera is a Report for America corps member and writes about communities on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley for The Salt Lake Tribune. She has reported on the economy, energy, food and culture for newspapers and websites in Venezuela and the U.S.
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Birds take flight over the Great Salt Lake, with downtown Salt Lake City visible in the background, on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)
Birds take flight over the Great Salt Lake, with downtown Salt Lake City visible in the background, on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

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While a state agency says it aims to conserve the area, environmentalists and neighboring landowners have objections to the sale of 900 acres between the airport and wetlands Salt Lake City Council me...
Lee Creek flows through mudflats into the Great Salt Lake near Magna on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)
Lee Creek flows through mudflats into the Great Salt Lake near Magna on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

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The lawn at the Utah Governor’s Mansion will become undone on Friday at the hands of water conservation advocates and public employees to make space for water-wise and pollinator-friendly plants amid...
The sun rises over a part of Hansel Valley, in Box Elder County, near the proposed Stratos Project, a massive data center planned for 40,000 acres of land, on Thursday, May 28, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)
The sun rises over a part of Hansel Valley, in Box Elder County, near the proposed Stratos Project, a massive data center planned for 40,000 acres of land, on Thursday, May 28, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

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After stunning public outcry, celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary agreed to cut in half the footprint of the massive data center campus he is pursuing in northern Utah. Under the deal the 40,000-acre cam...
 

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