Utah State Legislature News Salt Lake Tribune Political Headlines Utah Legislature News via GoogleI’ve never understood why humans want to destroy the biosphere that sustains them, but I guess if there’s a lot of money to be made, it’s easy to convince oneself that there’s no harm done. I just got an email alert about H.B. 27: Vote against HB 27 Protections for Agricultural Practices. This bill is [...]
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If you don’t laugh, you might cry: Thank goodness for color TV My favorite: Start a lottery, and make playing the stock market illegal. (Your constituents would lose less playing Powerball.)
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The Policy Pitch Blog has posted a two part series on the Utah Senate Media: The Utah Senate is using technology to make their inner-workings transparent and open to all. The Utah Senate now has written, audio, and video blogs by Senators, links to past senate floor debates, and the ability to sign up for [...]
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This legislative session, there is a series of 5 bills, as has been written about on this blog, called “Common Ground Initiative”, which advocate for the provisions of Expanding Health Care, Fair Housing & Employment, Wrongful Deaths, The Domestic Partner Rights and Responsibilities Act and Clarifying Amendment 3 (repealing the portion of Amendment 3 which [...]
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Today I received an inviation from my represenative, Wayne Harper (R-West Jordan) to attend a town meeting on February 7 from 4-6 pm at the West Jordan City Library, 1970 E 7800 South. He also included a questionnaire, covering a few of the issues and topics that may be consider this session. Here are the [...]
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This is a genuine inquiry – I don’t know what this bill is about. Senate Bill 13, sponsored by ultra-conservative Margaret Dayton, made it out of committee and will be voted on by the full Senate. The bill is very short, and seems on the surface fairly innocuous. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Margaret Dayton, [...]
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I vaguely remember a year in my tax-payer past when there was a surplus in the Utah Budget and the Utah tax payers received a small rebate back. I think the amount was $10 each. I remember thinking what a waste of a surplus to send us each such a small check and the cost [...]
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Kathy Dopp, founder of Utah Counts Votes and national leading authority on election integrity, has issued the announcement below along with her reaction to the Utah Voter ID Bill: Gov Ops Meeting Today am & Utah Voter ID Bill Members of the House Government Operations Standing Committee Rep. Craig A. Frank, Chair Rep. Keith Grover, [...]
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