(Rogelio V. Solis | AP file photo) In this 2013 file photo, grocery bags loaded with food from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, better known as WIC, sit in a cart before being loaded into a vehicle in Jackson, Miss. Despite a partial shutdown of the federal government that year, Mississippi got permission to keep operating WIC through October. While Utah has decided it can weather this year's federal shutdown through January, federal funds for the Utah Women, Infants and Children Program and for the National School Lunch Program could dry up if it lasts longer than that.
Bethany began covering state government at The Tribune right in time for the 2018 election. She's a proud Maryland Terrapin and worked at newspapers in the D.C. area and in Orlando, Florida, before coming to Utah. Her aspiration is to one day keep an orchid alive for more than a month.