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News | Under the Bus: A legislator’s effort to rein in UTA gets the standard heave-ho
POSTED // Mar 12,2008 - For all the talk about immigration, education and ugly baby issues, the 2008 Utah Legislature pretty much crushed any substantive dialogue around public transit, except to throw a few more people onto an already crowded Utah Transit Authority board. Maybe...
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News | Whose Bright Idea?: Two rival bills target renewable energy for Utah
POSTED // Jan 30,2008 - In an otherwise quiet legislative session so far, renewable energy is making big waves in back rooms at the Capitol. Sens. Scott McCoy, D-Salt Lake, and Curtis Bramble, R-Provo, are duking it out over establishing a renewable portfolio standard (RPS)...
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Politics | Party Crasher: Messy legal case and blogging blowback lead GOP activist to form a new political party
POSTED // Nov 21,2007 - That big tent of the Republicans was just a little too roomy for Mark Towner, whose case against political pertinacity has brought him to the supreme courts of cyberspace and Utah. In that order. Towner, once a Republican insider who made runs at political...
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Bounce-Back Attack
Politics: After a brief quest to be mayor, Nancy Saxton came back to District 4 to defend her City Council seat. Will voters return the love?
POSTED // Sep 5,2007 - Choices, choices. The political field in Salt Lake City’s District 4 would hardly be this densely populated if Nancy Saxton had never dreamed the mayoral dream. But then her fat chance in hell began looking a lot less desirable than another tough...
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Time for a Change
Politics: District 6’s open race pulls in new political stripes as Dave Buhler searches for greener pastures.
POSTED // Sep 5,2007 - Everybody likes Dave Buhler—and they really like the fact that he’s gone. Not that he died or left the country or anything. Buhler tossed his Salt Lake City Council seat to run for mayor instead, and that makes him very popular among the four...
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Document This
Before lawmakers mete out punishment to illegal immigrants they need to look at the whole Utah economy.
POSTED // Aug 22,2007 - Steve Urquhart wanted to make a statement, and he did, in that meaningless and mind-numbing way that is so our Legislature. The subject was illegal immigration. Well, not quite. The subject was educating illegal immigrants. Actually, the children of...
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Roll the Dice
“I don’t know” still holds a firm lead in the race for SLC mayor.
POSTED // Aug 20,2007 - Until last week, the Salt Lake City mayoral race might as well have been a crapshoot. And with eight people to divide the vote, maybe it still is. But it’s not really eight. Four of the wannabes don’t have enough of a base to make a whimper....
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Mystery Train
Draper residents say plans for a meandering TRAX line are way off track.
POSTED // Jul 11,2007 - They call it the Train to Nowhere.
Ah c’mon. Why would you call a high bench near Point of the Mountain “nowhere?” The plan is to take the train into Utah County, except for the fact that Utah County doesn’t want it'at least not...
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Cold Comfort
Questar plays big games with gas rates. Thankfully, the watchdogs keep on watching.
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Scott Brown was definitely in charge. Colored markers in hand, he commanded the whiteboard and, being a lawyer himself, he had the undivided attention of all the other lawyers and bureaucrats around the table. nnHaplessly, Charles Coffin sat along the...
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Registered Slacker
Some incumbents will thank you for not voting Nov. 7.
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Sherrie Swensen has this great big map that causes great big gasps of disbelief. In most of Salt Lake City, at least 40 percent of the eligible voters aren’t even registered. And you thought the state’s capital was a hotbed of activism. Not....
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