Ted McDonough

Chaffetz's Constitution, Health Care Reform, Utah's Economy & Claire Geddes' Return

• By Ted McDonough
Congressman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, is cosponsoring legislation that would deny citizenship to children born in the United States to noncitizen parents, reversing long-standing law that everyone born in America is a citizen.
• Tags: Hits & Misses, Hits & Misses, business, utah, reform, economy, citizenship, since, health, economic, Un-citizens, Health Hopes, Into the Fire

Stimulated

If you don´t like the federal stimulus yet, wait a few months.

• By Ted McDonough
If you have been less than overwhelmed with federally funded projects to stimulate the economy--like the new electronic signs near Salt Lake City freeway onramps indicating how long it will take to get to Draper...
• Tags: News, News Articles, lake, been, stimulus, says, million, city, spending, money, ,

Parting Shot

Liquor-license quotas may be the next to go.

• By Ted McDonough
Online Exclusive: At Kathryn Balmforth’s final meeting as a Utah liquor commissioner, the commission approved new rules to formally start the open-club system passed by the Legislature ...
• Tags: News, News Articles, The New York Times, London Daily Mai,

Skinny Utahns, Camp Williams' Data Center & BCS Busters

• By Ted McDonough
Utahns are the eighth skinniest people in the country, according to new statistics from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
• Tags: Hits & Misses, Hits & Misses, college, utah, project, national, country%uFFFDs, rates, percent, keep, Spy Stimulus, BCS Buste,

Tippling Through Time

You kids got it easy. Back in the day, wetting your whistle took a little extra effort.

• By Ted McDonough
Utah's newest liquor "reform" still requires barkeeps to run patrons' IDs through a barcode scanner (if patrons appear younger than 35). That might seem odd, but it's par for the course in the Beehive State ...
• Tags: News, News Articles, bottle, utah, private, liquor, club, state, own, drink, The mini-bottle, Private Club,

Liquor Lore

Over the years, Utah’s quirky liquor laws have become larger than life.

• By Ted McDonough
Utah has funny liquor laws. So goes the old saw. One wonders what tourists will talk about now that any Tom or Dick off the street can walk into a bar without a membership. (Probably having their IDs scanned.)
• Tags: News, News Articles, bars, utah, percent, law, beer, reality, liquor, drink, Myth: You Can&rsq,

Odd Fellow's Hall, Hunstman Stock, SLC HIV & Flunking Campaign Finance

• By Ted McDonough
Maybe it could become a tourist attraction in the mold of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Salt Lake City's Odd Fellows Hall is stuck in limbo--and sitting on top of a huge, wheeled, metal contraption 8 feet off of the ground ...
• Tags: Hits & Misses, Hits & Misses, cheney, utah, states, huntsman, dick, top, huntsman%uFFFDs, gop, Leaning Tower, Mr. Clean, It’s Back, Payola Plac,

July One Fun & The Club List

Time to check out which of your favorite clubs are making the switch. Bring your ID.

• By Ted McDonough
Utah's new liquor laws, the state is no longer in the private-club business. At midnight July 1, as if the fairy godmother had waived her wand, Utah's "private clubs" automatically became public places.
• Tags: News Articles, News Articles, Clubs, Address, Phone, Staying Privat,

More to Do

SLC barkeeps are champing at the bit for local liquor reform.

• By Ted McDonough
When restaurateur Bob McCarthy decided to open an upscale private club inside an old beer bar on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, he began by asking City Hall for a zoning change. He was told not to bother...
• Tags: News, News Articles, city, wants, salt, liquor, everitt, says, mayor, lake, “Th,

Seems Like Old Times

• By Ted McDonough
• Tags: News, Culture, Rocky Anderson