WATCH: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on his first 500 days as governor — and what’s next

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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Wednesday marked his first 500 days as governor, and he is celebrating the milestone with a stay dialogue about his achievements to this point and his plans for the second half of his time period.

Jason Perry, director of the College of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics and host of “The Hinckley Report with Jason Perry,” will interview Cox, after which the governor will take questions from an viewers on the College of Utah’s S.J. Quinney Faculty of Regulation.

The dialogue started at 6:30 p.m. It is open to the general public, and is being stay streamed on the governor’s Fb, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram pages in addition to his workplace’s web site.

Cox examined optimistic for COVID-19 on Could 12. In line with his workplace, he deliberate to isolate for 5 days after his optimistic take a look at and put on a masks for 10 days, per steering from the Facilities for Illness Management. His spokeswoman Jennifer Napier-Pearce stated Tuesday he nonetheless deliberate to take part in Wednesday’s dialogue — in addition to his month-to-month PBS Utah press convention — as he is “feeling a lot better and continues to enhance.”

Through the dialogue with Perry, Cox is predicted to debate milestones outlined in his One Utah Roadmap in addition to his “excessive optimism for Utah’s future,” in accordance with a information launch circulated by his workplace.

Cox’s One Utah Roadmap, which he launched within the first month of his time period, set his priorities for his first 500 days. It centered on six priorities: financial development, schooling innovation and funding, rural issues, well being safety, equality and alternative, and state authorities effectivity.

In October, the governor up to date his roadmap with extra particulars for his high targets for the subsequent 250 days, together with expertise growth, fiscal accountability, funding and fairness, early studying, financial development and diversification, public lands, combating COVID-19 and extra.

Cox, throughout his inauguration speech in January of 2021, urged Utahns to rise above a nationwide “disaster of empathy” and hateful rhetoric because the U.S.’s political panorama was changing into more and more extra polarized as COVID-19 ravaged the nation.

“At instances our palms might grasp down and our hearts might fail us, however even once we really feel drained, we must not ever hand over,” Cox stated in his inauguration speech. “In Utah, we by no means hand over. It is our flip to jot down the subsequent chapter of Utah’s historical past and show that sure certainly our biggest days nonetheless lie forward.”