Utah State Legislature News Salt Lake Tribune Political Headlines Utah Legislature News via GoogleHigher education was not exempt from the figurative slash of the knife in its budget this year by the Utah legislature. Lawmakers cut 9% from higher education’s funding, resulting inemployee furloughs and layoffs and higher tuition for students pursuing their education at Utah colleges. It is anticipated that future years will see even more cuts [...]
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HB345, a bill that was passed in the 2009 Utah Legislative session, prevents former Utah Lawmakers from returning t othe Legislator as paid lobbyists for one year. Well, sort of. Turns out that the Utah Lt. Governor’s office has interpreted the language of the bill in such a way that allows former lawmakers to still [...]
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HEAL Utah has offered this “recap” of the Legislative session for 2009 nuclear issues: Passed: Economic Development Incentives for Alternative Energy Projects (HB430) passes but is amended to include nuclear power as renewable energy. On the last day of the session, Sen. Sheldon Killpack (R-Syracuse) tainted a bill intended to provide tax incentives for renewable [...]
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The 2009 Utah Legislature may have ended, but Utah Legislative Watch intends to continue posting about the activities of our Legislators and issues that would be impacted by state and federal legislation. Between Legislative sessions there are also committee meetings and special sessions. Please keep visiting Utah Legislature Watch for continued postings!
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The highest media attention is being given to historical legislation on liquor law reform. While reform is not to be diminished in this area, there is something wrong with this picture. While our legislators spend our tax dollars and time deciding how to reform Utah’s [albeit] draconian liquor laws, there are still people in our [...]
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There has been a recent theme around the blogosphere about the connection between Senators Waddoups and Buttars. Chris Buttars has made a mockery of the Utah Legislature with his constant barrage of moronic statements. Here is a link to an audio of Senate President Waddoups’ press conference announcing his removal of Buttars from the Judicial [...]
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How Chris Buttars keeps getting voted into office will always be a mystery to me. Today I discovered Seed, a blog with a post by Ed Brayton about Chris Buttars and the Utah Boys Ranch – and how he used his political position as a scare tactic to teens. The first person I met in [...]
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Today was the last day of the official Utah Legislature’s sesson for 2009. Activity today included: finalizing the budget to the tune of about $10.9 billion money to fund the growth in enrollment in public schools taking out the provision to keep the number of charter schools from expanding in the 2010-2011 school year The [...]
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Bill Tibbitts has posted a piece over at One Utah on the deal making of Senators Michael Waddoups and Chris Buttars. After the November, 2008, elections Senator Michael Waddoups made a deal with Senator Chris Buttars. The full details of that deal have never been made available to the public but Buttars voted for Waddoups [...]
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I attended a very creative protest at the Utah Capitol: The People’s Bribe. People came with dollar bills and pockets full of change to challenge Utah Legislators to show more interest in the people and less interest to business. The protest was organized by the group Nuclear ReACTION, which is seeking more creative ways to [...]
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