The Utah Legislature's Republican majority is full of high-minded ideals about individual freedom and cutting spending, even if it means the poor are deprived of basic medical care. Which makes it that much more jaw-dropping that seven years ago, lawmakers adopted legislation to extend state medical benefits for former legislators of retirement age. Read More
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For all the moralizing sideshows and freakish characters under Utah's big top, the bosses generally know how to run things. Even with unemployment and foreclosures high, the state has weathered the financial crisis much better than our neighbors. Read More
Sen. John Valentine, R-Orem, who fancies himself the expert on Utah's mind-boggling liquor laws, sponsored two infamous bills a year ago. Read More
Most lawmakers already refuse to treat their emails as public records. But this year, Rep. John Dougall, R-Highland, launched himself at GRAMA–the Government Records Access and Management Act–aiming at lawmaker's voice mails, instant messages and text messages preserved on their taxpayer-financed landlines, cell phones and computers. Read More
Gov. Gary Herbert In his role as Utah governor, Gary Herbert should be impresario and animal tamer in this three-ring circus. Read More
If Karl Rove was George W. Bush's brain, lobbyist Gayle Ruzicka is the thinking muscle for Chris Buttars and LaVar Christensen and Chris Herrod and…the list goes on. Read More
