Utah’s Courts to Impose Furloughs

Posted on January 26, 2009 by dlt

A statewide furlough is to be imposed on about 1,000 court system employees, according to a Deseret News article today. In her annual State of the Judiciary speech on Monday, Chief Justice Christine M. Durham announced that all of the court’s approximately 1,000 employees may be forced to take unpaid leave for 26 days beginning [...]

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Bills to Watch Series: Blue in Red Zion

Posted on January 26, 2009 by greenjenni

I’ve been enjoying reading Curtis Haring’s “Bills to Watch Series” on his blog, Blue in Red Zion. He explains the issues in the bill pretty well and with humor, too. In case you’ve missed these, here are links to the past few for your reading convenience: Bills to Watch: H.B. 222 Unborn Child Pain Prevention [...]

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Utah Legislature Invites Citizen Input

Posted on January 26, 2009 by greenjenni

New House Speaker Dave Clark is looking for ideas to help our state through this challenging time. He’s already distributed blank books to the members of the legislature looking for innovative ideas. But he also wants to hear from us — a refreshing change from the days when the legislature pitted itself against the citizens [...]

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Committee Meetings begin tomorrow up at the Legislature

Posted on January 26, 2009 by greenjenni

The public is allowed to attend committee meetings, and can even give testimony. Here is a schedule of the committee meetings and room assignments for Tuesday, January 27.  One of the items on the agenda for the Health and Human Services Committee (meeting in Rm. 25 at 2 p.m.) is the new abortion criminalization bill [...]

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Group asks Utah lawmakers to help fix pollution problem

Posted on January 26, 2009 by dlt

Posted on KSL Channel 5 website By Whit Johnson Dee’s Note:  This is the bio-diesel bus from the school where I teach. A group of moms and students are doing their part to clean Utah’s air, and they’re pressuring state lawmakers to do the same. The group says much more can be done at the [...]

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Utah Representative Outlines Guiding Principles for Creating Legislation

Posted on January 26, 2009 by dlt

Utah Rep. Neil Hansen, Democrat from District 9 for the past 10 years, has written a commentary over on Standard.Net, called Using guiding principles to weigh the pros and cons of each issue. Rep. Hansen discusses the principles he has developed over the years in addressing consituents’ concerns The first principle pertains to valuing people [...]

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