POSTED // Feb 26,2009 - Real liquor reform is moving in Utah's Legislature. The House Business and Labor Committee passed a private-club reform bill out for debate with most of the goofiness removed. Gone for the most part is the idea of a computerized database of drinkers. House Bill 347 would allow Utah bars to get rid of the private-club moniker.

POSTED // Feb 19,2009 - Utah lawmakers could learn a thing or two from EnergySolutionsabout bribery. The Utah nuclear services company is offering the state a cool $100 million per year. (Thats on top of campaign contributions most lawmakers have already banked.) All lawmakers have to do is let ES import used nuclear-reactor parts from Europe for burial in Utah.

POSTED // Feb 13,2009 - Want to know who has been pilfering money from the school fund? Why top brass at the Salt Lake County planning office were fired? Whether the policeman who gave you a ticket is on drugs? If your doctor has an unfortunate habit of cutting out the wrong organ? Too bad.

POSTED // Feb 5,2009 - As Utah lawmakers debate an ethics proposal to stop retired lawmakers from becoming lobbyists for a one-year cooling-off period, they’ll have familiar faces to advise them.

POSTED // Nov 24,2008 - Congress has put up money for cancer testing of residents in an area of southeastern Utah that provided uranium for the United States’ first atomic bombs. The money comes after a federal study found rates of some cancers in Monticello at twice the expected rate.

POSTED // Oct 1,2008 - Off Gassing Not satisfied to wait for federal action on global warming, seven states, including Utah, have joined with four Canadian provinces on a plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions in the West. The recently unveiled blueprint is a “cap-and-trade”...

POSTED // Sep 24,2008 - Drinking Logic A statement recently posted at the LDS Church’s official Webpage holds good news for those who think the time has come to chuck Utah’s ridiculous private club law: It doesn’t say “No.” The statement makes...

POSTED // Sep 17,2008 - Footloose Redux If it seems more like 1984 every day, you’re not imagining things. Not only is the government spying on citizens as in George Orwell’s novel 1984, but a mid-’80s Kevin Bacon dancing movie is about to play out in Bountiful....

POSTED // Sep 10,2008 - Power Tantrum Rocky Mountain Power didn’t get to jack up electricity rates as much as it wanted so it’s taking its marbles and going home. The power company announced that, beginning Sept. 15, it will stop authorizing overtime for employees...

POSTED // Sep 3,2008 - Romney 2016 After everything he did for John McCain, Utah’s adopted son Mitt Romney was left at the altar. Sad for Romney, but a win for everyone else. While Democrats salivated at the prospect of Romney as a target, McCain’s veep pick—a...