After two years of waiting, special license plates raising money for Great Salt Lake preservation efforts have started arriving.
Over the weekend, people started messaging FOX 13 News with the good news that their license plates had finally arrived in their mailboxes. It was never supposed to be this long of a wait, said Sen. Jen Plumb, D-Salt Lake City, who sponsored the bill to create the specialty license plate. She pointed out that people from all over Utah ordered them to show support for saving the Great Salt Lake. The Utah State Tax Commission said more than 600 people requested one.
But the plate got caught up in some Capitol Hill drama around license plates leading to a two year wait and frustrated people who spent money on them…