Utah State Legislature News Salt Lake Tribune Political Headlines Utah Legislature News via GoogleThis resolution offered by Senator John Valentine, states that there is “growing incivility in our civic and public settings”, and urges “the people of Utah to return to fundamental principles that will lead to greater civility and a new spirit of community and invite[s] all Utahns to join us in affirming established ground rules for [...]
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Some rambling thoughts on the Buttars controversy: Is this all about free speech? Is it about being politically correct? Is it about learning not to make intemperate statements? Could it ever just be about doing the right thing for the right reason? In a voluntary poll, 83 percent of KTVX viewers said they disagreed with [...]
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A House Committee voted overwhelmingly on Friday to join over 20 other states in refusing to participate in the Read ID Act. This act was signed by George W. Bush in 2005, with an implementation deadline of 2010, that would require all state DMV’s to transform state drivers’ licenses into national ID’s which would store [...]
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Utah Legislators have “missed out” on $1.2 million from the feds for not having a “Primary Seat Belt Law”. In Utah one can only get cited for not using a seat belt if another infraction is the reason for being pulled over by law enforcement. The feds want Utah to change that law so that [...]
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First he bumbled. Then he was ousted from two legisltative committees. Then he refused to apologize. More than 15,000 e-mails were sent to Utah Senate President Michael Waddoups (R) demanding that he condemn Buttars’s remarks. Waddoups said he kicked Buttars off the Senate Judiciary Committee primarily as a way to draw attention away from him. [...]
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Governor Huntsman is expected to veto the Foreign Waste Bill Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. says he will veto any attempt by the Legislature and EnergySolutions to bring foreign radioactive waste into the state. Huntsman said he told legislative leaders “in no uncertain terms” that he would reject a profit-sharing proposal the company has discussed with [...]
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Utah Senator Chris Buttars continues to blunder. On the heels of the defeat of the Common Ground Initiative bills, which would have afforded benefits to domestic partners, Buttars, in an interview with documentary filmmaker Reed Cowan, openly made the statement that the gay rights movement is “probably the greatest threat to America.” Quoted in the [...]
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A group that calls itself “America Forever” placed full page ads, costing about $15,000, in both major Utah newspapers on Sunday, in an effort to “stop the homosexual movement”, in a last minute effort to thwart the passage of bills that would afford rights to everyone, including domestic partnerships. Today’s Salt Lake Tribune: On Sunday, [...]
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The League of Women Voters is asking its members to put the pressure on to legislators to vote “no” on HB 27. In an email distributed to its member list, the LWV states its position on this bill. The LWV of Utah believes this bill removes language from the current law that more reasonably defined [...]
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