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SLC Group to Fight Ruling that Corporations are People

Posted // February 7,2012   Salt Lake City will hold a launch meeting Wednesday of a local branch of the national Move to Amend movement. A group that will be working to collect petitions from 50 cities arguing that despite the Supreme Court’s ruling on the controversial Citizens United cases, corporations aren’t people and money doesn’t equal free speech.

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Attack on an Industry or Attack of the Giant TVs?

Posted // February 7,2012   Tuesday, a Senate committee at the Legislature passed out a bill allowing for billboard companies to convert their traditional vinyl billboards to electronic billboards. It’s a bill that’s upset local cities who worry about the Legislature allowing the e-billboards in neighborhoods that don’t want them. “These are essentially TV screens,” said Jodi Hoffman of the Utah League of Cities and Towns. “These are 20-feet-by-60-foot billboards—they’re huge.”

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Roseanne: Local Girl Runs for Prez

Posted // February 7,2012   Among LDS faithful, a certain belief/fear worms its way into all the rest: that the U.S. Constitution, which they greatly revere, will one day hang by a thread.

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Bloomberg Calls Out Mormon-owned Website

Posted // February 7,2012   LDS Church-owned KSL.com is again taking heat for its Top Gun status in unregulated gun sales.

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Become a Green Lobbyist Tuesday

Posted // February 6,2012   The environmental advocates of HEAL Utah want you -- to become a green citizen-lobbyist by attending a free training session Tuesday night. Learn the intricacies of lobbying legislators on the Hill and start making a difference for public lands, clean air and a greener future.

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Salt Lake City Redistricting Hearing Tuesday

Posted // February 6,2012   Tuesday, Feb.7, Salt Lake City will hold a public hearing on proposed maps that will ,hopefully, define SLC’s communities of interest and set the maps to guide voters in electing future city-council and school-board representatives.

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Have a sit down with SLC Mayor Ralph Becker

Posted // February 6,2012   On Feb. 15, you could have a one-on-one meeting with Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker and have 10 whole minutes to pitch the Mayor on how to improve the city. Or bitch about what’s not working in the city.

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Bill Seeking Property Tax Relief for Military Personnel Advances

Posted // February 6,2012   Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem, found little resistance to his resolution seeking an amendment to the Utah Constitution that would allow Utah National Guard and military reservists and their spouses to not have to pay property tax while on some active-duty missions.

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Document shows delays and disagreements over Koerber case

Posted // February 6,2012   Documents in a recent court filing on the case of indicted businessman Rick “The Free Capitalist” Koerber show delays and arguments between regulators and the Attorney General’s Office in failed attempts to file charges against Koerber in 2007 on the state level.

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Ashdown on Anonymous 'Hacktivism'

Posted // February 3,2012   Utah joined the big league this week with its very own hacking of the Salt Lake City Police Department's Website.

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LGBT Non-Discrimination Bill Squashed

Posted // February 3,2012   Sen. Ben McAdams, D-Salt Lake City, faced a tough committee as he pitched his bill to extend workplace and housing non-discrimination protections to all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Utahns statewide.

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Dead Zephyr: Week 429

Posted // February 3,2012   The former Zephyr Club in downtown Salt Lake City, 301 S. West Temple; closed since October 2003.

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Who Won the Drug War?

Posted // February 3,2012  -   What do you think has been the biggest effect of the War on Drugs? ...

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Speak up at LGBT Non-Discrimination Hearing on the Hill!

Posted // February 2,2012   Friday a bill offering non-discrimination protections in the workplace and in housing for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Utahns will get its first -- and perhaps only -- committee hearing. Show up and speak out if you think discrimination is bad for business in Utah.

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Bill Targeting Investment Scammers Clears Senate Committee

Posted // February 2,2012   Sen. Ben McAdams, D-Salt Lake City, had a bill clear committee Thursday that would allow for courts to offer triple damages in civil court for those scammed by investment fraudsters who use a position of trust or common association to bilk their victims out of their money.

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Bill Encouraging Businesses to Hire the Homeless Advances

Posted // February 2,2012   Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City, cleared an early hurdle by having his bill to offer a $1,000 tax credit to business that hire homeless individuals pass favorably out of committee Thursday.

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Group releases numbers for costs of defending immigration bill

Posted // February 2,2012   At a press conference at the State Capitol today, immigration advocates of the group United for Social Justice released the results from an open-records request they filed in 2011 that shows the Attorney General’s Office has spent $85,278 defending House Bill 497, the 2011 immigration-enforcement bill that is currently being sued by civil-rights groups and the United States Department of Justice.

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Bill would give biological fathers more notice on Utah adoptions

Posted // February 2,2012   Current Utah law allows biological fathers to be given almost no notice that their child may be up for adoption in the state. But a bill this session would change the practice to give official notification to the fathers so they can file to challenge an adoption.

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Citizen Revolt

Clear the Air

Posted // February 2,2012  -   But for all the lobbyists taking up air, few who speak on behalf of it. ...

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Deportation Factory: Convention Against Torture Motion

Posted // February 2,2012  - A legal brief explaining one man's fear of returning to Mexico In the wake of the five years of President Felipe Calderon's "war on drugs," the daily hea ...

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