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		<title>To fall back or not to fall back?</title>
		<link>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2012/01/25/to-fall-back-or-not-to-fall-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Utah&#8217;s lawmaker&#8217;s may be determining the fate of Daylight Savings time this legislative session.  What do you think?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utahlegislaturewatch.org&amp;blog=2083553&amp;post=1072&amp;subd=utlegislaturewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Legislative Survey</title>
		<link>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2012/01/25/2012-legislative-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Utah House Democrats have posted a survey for people to take on the 2012 Legislative Session.  Please consider taking the survey!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utahlegislaturewatch.org&amp;blog=2083553&amp;post=1070&amp;subd=utlegislaturewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking:  Gov calls special session to repeal H.B.477; Citizens organize rally</title>
		<link>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/03/21/breaking-gov-calls-special-session-to-repeal-h-b-477-citizens-organize-rally/</link>
		<comments>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/03/21/breaking-gov-calls-special-session-to-repeal-h-b-477-citizens-organize-rally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Citizen initiatives]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/?p=1037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Governor Herbert has issued a call for special session on Friday at noon to repeal House Bill 477 which makes electronic communications of elected officials closed to the public.  Utah Legislature Watch earlier reported on legislators having a change of heart over the bill and efforts were being made to move towards a special session [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utahlegislaturewatch.org&amp;blog=2083553&amp;post=1037&amp;subd=utlegislaturewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>H.B. 477:  A change of heart?</title>
		<link>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/03/20/h-b-477-a-change-of-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/03/20/h-b-477-a-change-of-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/?p=1035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Utah&#8217;s lawmakers are either pulling their collective heads out of the sand or are worried about their political careers&#8230;..or both. Perhaps one of the most controversial pieces of legislature in the 2011 Utah Session was the passage and signing of H.B. 477, which now makes electronic communications of elected officials private.  Hundreds of people from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utahlegislaturewatch.org&amp;blog=2083553&amp;post=1035&amp;subd=utlegislaturewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima and Utah</title>
		<link>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/03/13/fukushima-and-utah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/?p=1031</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some Utah Legislators want to approve the development of a nuclear plant in Green River. Everyone should be following the unfolding events of Fukushima with regards to the nuclear reactors there as a result of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. This should serve as a &#8220;wake up call&#8221; to advocates of nuclear energy development. Join [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utahlegislaturewatch.org&amp;blog=2083553&amp;post=1031&amp;subd=utlegislaturewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHOSE Land is This?</title>
		<link>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/03/06/whose-land-is-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Native Americans]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/?p=1023</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a double standard going on in Utah.  Legislators want control of the land to be &#8220;given back&#8221; to Utah: Utah to Washington: This land is my land!  Resolution suggests D.C. cede 35,000 square miles of state &#8220;Be it resolved, that the Legislature of the state of Utah calls on the United States, through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utahlegislaturewatch.org&amp;blog=2083553&amp;post=1023&amp;subd=utlegislaturewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education facing the budget axe</title>
		<link>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/02/10/education-facing-the-budget-axe/</link>
		<comments>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/02/10/education-facing-the-budget-axe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/?p=1018</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s bad enough that Utah Legislators are attempting to destroy the public educational system in the state.  Along with bills that want to transfer control from the State Board over to the Legilators or the Governor (depending on which bill), the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee has proposed a total of  $257 million dollars to education [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utahlegislaturewatch.org&amp;blog=2083553&amp;post=1018&amp;subd=utlegislaturewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mineral and Petroleum &#8220;Literacy&#8221; Act:  &#8220;Balanced&#8221; curriculum?</title>
		<link>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/01/31/mineral-and-petroleum-literacy-act-balanced-curriculum/</link>
		<comments>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/01/31/mineral-and-petroleum-literacy-act-balanced-curriculum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/?p=1013</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Legislators are on the move this year to take control of Utah&#8217;s education system (SJR1 and SJR9).  It seems that there are already steps being taken to write curriculum in the form of legislation. Rep. Jack Draxler, R-Logan, is pushing legislation that would require educators to &#8220;consider&#8221; adding lessons into the curriculum about energy development, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utahlegislaturewatch.org&amp;blog=2083553&amp;post=1013&amp;subd=utlegislaturewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Pursuit of Happiness&#8221;:  Not if some legislators have their way&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/01/29/pursuit-of-happiness-not-if-some-legislators-have-their-way/</link>
		<comments>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/01/29/pursuit-of-happiness-not-if-some-legislators-have-their-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay rights]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/?p=1009</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Are our state legislators really interested in the values of our Founding Fathers?  Or are they more interested in property rights&#8230;..including owning the &#8220;pursuit of happiness&#8221; as property? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utahlegislaturewatch.org&amp;blog=2083553&amp;post=1009&amp;subd=utlegislaturewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here we go again:  raising taxes on food</title>
		<link>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/01/28/here-we-go-again-raising-taxes-on-food/</link>
		<comments>http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2011/01/28/here-we-go-again-raising-taxes-on-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Food tax]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/?p=1007</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We  have long written here on the issue of taxes on food by the legislature to fund other areas. This year is no exception to the head rearing of this ugly issue. Bill Tibbitts of Crossroads Urban Center, an organization advocating for the rights of the poor, says: Utah Representative Mike &#8220;Nuclear&#8221; Noel is proposing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utahlegislaturewatch.org&amp;blog=2083553&amp;post=1007&amp;subd=utlegislaturewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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