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Local News Highlights: February 4, 2010
By Bryan Schott There are 46 days until the party caucuses in Utah, 92 days until the Republican and Democratic State Party Conventions, 137 days until the 2010 Primary Election and 270 days until the 2010 General Election.
- Governor Gary Herbert takes a $10,000 donation from a coal company the same day he sat down with the company to hear their complaints that regulators were taking too long to issue a mining permit. At that meeting, regulators agreed to fast-track the permit (Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News).
- The truce over gay-rights legislation in Utah may be falling apart (Deseret News, Salt Lake Tribune).
- The preliminary public education budget has deep cuts, although lawmakers say they're hopeful they can reverse that (Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News).
- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stumps for Senator Bob Bennett in Salt Lake City (Deseret News, Salt Lake Tribune, 2 News).
- House Minority Leader David Litvack says legislators should not get a pay raise this year (Deseret News).
- EnergySolutions says a deal with the state to halt expansion on their Tooele waste repository is no longer valid (Salt Lake Tribune).
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By LaVarr Webb If Utah state government was a family, it would be a frugal, middle-class family with a modest home and a mortgage being paid off on schedule, no credit card debt, and money being invested in a retirement plan.
If the federal government was a family, it would be a family hurtling toward a financial train wreck, a family paying only interest on a gigantic mortgage on a monster home it can’t afford, borrowing not just for a home and cars, but racking up credit card debt for food, utilities and everyday expenditures. It would be a highly dysfunctional family where members can’t agree on a course to control spending, so debt piles up and bankruptcy looms. ...
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By Bryan Schott The Club for Growth has made headlines by announcing they will oppose the re-election of Utah Senator Bob Bennett. Three of Bennett’s Republican challengers have tried to curry favor with the group to help them in their quest to unseat the incumbent Senator. Why is this group poised to be a major player in Utah politics?
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By Bryan Schott When Democrats are in power, Republicans are sour on the economy and vice versa.
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By Bryan Schott One month into 2010, a new poll shows that Americans see the economy and jobs as the top priority for the Obama administration and Congress.
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Utah's Second Territorial Governor
Source: Utah History to Go
Born in Sand Hills, Georgia, in 1802, Alfred Cumming served in federal, military, and civic posts, including mayor of Augusta, Georgia, before his appointment as Utah territorial governor in July 1857 by Pres. James Buchanan. <
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By Bryan Schott What will the new “values statement” adopted by Deseret Management Corporation (KSL’s corprate parent) mean for that station’s programming?
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Senator Orrin Hatch tells MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell that he does not agree with most of the arguments against repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military.
Video after the jump.
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Politico reports that Rep. Jason Chaffetz plans to have lunch with White House legislative affairs director Phil Schirilo to discuss ways they can work together.
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Source: Politico In an op-ed, Sen. Orrin Hatch says of Pres. Obama's State of Union attack on the recent Supreme Court decision allowing corporations and labor unions to speak during election season: "To many, Obama seemed to be using [the Supreme Court justices in attendance] as props to push a political issue, a tactic that demeans the court and degrades the State of the Union address. But at the very least, if he is going to give such a lecture, he should be right about the facts, the law and the decision. This time, he was wrong on all counts."
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Source: Grand Junction Daily Sentinel "Two Utah environmental organizations are challenging water-rights applications for a proposed uranium mill in Colorado. Red Rock Forests and Living Rivers filed statements of opposition in Montrose County Water Court to applications by Energy Fuels Resources LLC for three permits. ... Red Rock Forests is concerned about the 'speculative nature of uranium mining and milling' in the region ...."
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Source: Quote Garden "Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like". ~Lemony Snicket
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Lighter Side: Wal-Mart Cutting Jobs
Source: Political Humor "Wal-Mart announced it's cutting over 11,000 jobs. Wal-Mart said it's cheaper to fire people in bulk...That's an amazing amount of people: 11,000 jobs. The problem is they made the announcement in English, so everybody kept showing up for work." –Jay Leno
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Today in Political History: Feb 4, 2010
Source: NY Times 1861: Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.
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By The Onion WASHINGTON—In a landmark decision that overturned decades of legal precedent, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday to remove all restrictions that had previously barred corporations from holding public office.
"This is an unfair, ill-advised, and tragic mistake," Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said before boarding a flight to Arizona in response to primary poll numbers that show him trailing the Phoenix-based company PetSmart by a double-digit margin. ...
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Hundreds of Utah public employees, policemen, teachers, school staff and others concerned about legislative proposals to cut state employee compensation by reducing retirement benefits will rally at the Utah State Capitol front steps this Saturday at noon.
Representatives from four sponsoring associations will speak. ...
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