Utah State Legislature News Salt Lake Tribune Political Headlines Utah Legislature News via GoogleThere is a lot of talk these days around health care in our country. Utah is no exception. David Clark, House Speaker R-Santa Clara, UT, has drafted a bill for the upcoming Utah Legislative session. An article in Monday’s Salt Lake Tribune describes the failed “Health Exchange” for insurers and Clark’s bill: Insurers can sell [...]
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The Silicon Business Journal has reported that Ebay will add 450 more jobs to its global operations on Utah. Good for Utah? It’s certainly good for Ebay. Get this: Ebay will receive $30 million from Utah in tax incentives to add these 450 jobs. Make sense? Do the math: 450 jobs =If each new hire [...]
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While budgets are being slashed, Utah legislators have and will reap the benefits of new technology: brand new laptops and cell phones. The justification for this? According to an article in the Deseret News: ….legislative leaders point out that the new computers were authorized several years ago when the state was swimming in money. Well [...]
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While budgets are being threatened with severe impacts of legislative action which will result in the education of our children being compromised, poor people having to choose between food and rent(combined with cuts in services=more homelessness), to name a couple of examples, our legislature just signed a contract for 1.1 billion dollards for road improvements [...]
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Senator Scott McCoy (D-Salt Lake City District 2), Utah’s first openly gay senator, has announced his resignation from the Utah Legislature effective at the end of the week, according to a Salt Lake Tribune article. Although he has indicated he will still seek political office at some point in the future, for now this is [...]
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Utah’s ABC 4 has posted a breaking news piece about openly Anti-Gay Senator Chris Buttars teaming up with openly Lesbian Representative Chris Johnson to co-sponsor Johnson’s gay rights bill. The 2009 Legislative session brought much controversy to the floor over Buttars’ public remarks on gays. To hear of Buttars even considering such a move is [...]
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