Utah State Legislature News Salt Lake Tribune Political Headlines Utah Legislature News via GoogleAlways a hot topic in the Utah Legislative Session, the budget discussion for education will once again address how to meet the demands of Utah’s changing demographics. That is, if Utah’s legislators decide to recognize that Utah is not the same as it was a decade, and more, ago. The Salt Lake Tribune has published [...]
Filed under: budget, Education, Utah Legislature | 1 Comment »
The November 19 Utah Legislature Fiscal Highlights Bulletin contained a report about the privatization of DSPD, Division of Services for People with Disabilities. The DSPD is responsible for providing residential, day services, family support services, and attendant care for people with severe mental retardation and other related conditions, including brain injury and physical disabilities. The [...]
Filed under: budget, health care, Human rights, Utah Legislature | 1 Comment »
Authors at Utah Legislature Watch have posted numerous articles in the past about Utah Legislators Ethics. This year will be no exception since even before the session begins, there is already continued talk about ethics reform. Last week the Deseret News published an article about a bill that has come out of committee on ethics [...]
Filed under: transparency, Utah Legislature | Leave a Comment »
Representative Craig Frank has a blog post with a big headline: Repeal of 1% Restaurant Tax Receives Unanimous Approval Repealing a tax should be popular right about now. Especially since Senator Howard Stephenson and others are proposing to raise the sales tax on food. Unfortunately, repealing this tax isn’t as pretty as it sounds. The [...]
Filed under: Utah Legislature | 1 Comment »
Filed under: budget, Utah Legislature | Leave a Comment »
The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Staff has published its support for keeping the education budget in tact without further repercussions of state budget cuts, an anticipated outcome of Utah’s 2010 Legislative Session in light of the projected $850 million revenue shortfall. The State Office of Education said in October that public schools can operate on [...]
Filed under: budget, Education, higher education | 1 Comment »
Who benefits from food sales tax breaks? Why, everyone of course. Food is a basic human right, whether you are rich or poor. Everyone must had food and must have it accessible. But there are legislators who feel that the food sales tax break was too much of a benefit to the wealthy and therefore [...]
Filed under: budget, Human rights, taxes | 2 Comments »
Last week Salt Lake City passed an ordinance that protects persons seeking employment and housing from discrimination because of sexual orientation. Done deal? Not a chance. According to a Deseret News Article last week state legislators are gearing up for what promises to be once again a hot topic for the 2010 legislative session. Government [...]
Filed under: Citizen Rights, Equality, Gay rights, Human rights | 1 Comment »
Utah Legislature News via Bing Utah State Capitol Visitor Services
