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Salt Lake City, Utah. Photo: David Crowther/Adobe Stock Salt Lake City, Utah. Photo: David Crowther/Adobe Stock

Let’s take a trip to the Mountain West, where earlier this month, Utah announced that its regulatory sandbox for alternate legal business models would be extended to seven years from its original two.