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.

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.”

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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