Posted // February 8,2012   This week’s news looks at recalculated numbers from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life to see how members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah agreed or disagreed with the faithful outside of Utah. Here is a breakdown on how the groups responded to questions of morality, politics and other questions not included in this week’s story.

Posted // February 8,2012   Long-time environmental advocate Claire Geddes was one of several to criticize Senate Bill 21 at a committee Wednesday. The bill would take certain key powers away from a number of boards that currently include citizen representatives and put those powers in the hands of the director of the Department of Environmental Quality. Geddes blasted the bill as streamlining DEQ for the sake of the energy industry. “Isn’t it about time that we stopped worrying just about the industry and worried about the public?” Geddes asked

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Posted // February 8,2012  -   While it is reasonable—even commendable—for an open-minded atheist to require ...

Posted // February 8,2012  -   The recent column by Bob Sawatzki, “Guns and Drugs Don’t Mix," brings to mind ...

Posted // February 8,2012   As part of an ongoing effort to hear the concerns and questions of Salt Lake County residents, Mayor Corroon is holding open-door meetings Thursday. Residents need not schedule an appointment, but rather can simply come in starting at 4 p.m. and line up, first come, first served, to meet the Mayor.

Posted // February 8,2012   The now-infamous Dr. Dewey Mackay, convicted in federal court in August on 40 counts of illegal distribution of prescription narcotics, is now added to City Weekly’s Doctor Disicpline Database after surrendering his license along with another doctor added to the list -- while yet another doctor has had all his licenses reinstated after being on probation since 2008.

Posted // February 8,2012  - A Proposal for the next step All across the country, Occupy organizers are developing and implementing creative ways to ...

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Posted // February 8,2012  - Study: Few differences from out-of-state Saints Most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are well aware of the perc ...

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Posted // February 7,2012   Salt Lake City will hold a launch meeting  of a local branch of the national Move to Amend movement on Wednesday Feb. 15, 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.