Effort to update Utah’s state flag returns ahead of upcoming legislative session

As he prepares to run a bill to update Utah’s state flag for the third year in a row, Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, said he’s often asked, “Why would the Legislature do this? Why would we waste the time?”During the state’s Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim committee on Tuesday, the lawmaker offered his defense for the importance of a new flag, arguing that “defining who we are as a people with the symbols that we choose to allow to represent us