Utah's Legislators Exercising Power
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By Frank Pignanelli & LaVarr Webb  Pignanelli: Political academics often recite Lord Acton's famous phrase "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." I prefer the sanguine observation from former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, "Power corrupts.
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Dropping his attempt to outlaw selling violent games to minors, a Utah Representative throws his support behind other states' efforts to ban such sales. In Game|Life.
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ATLANTA - A day after a surprise electoral takeover of the state House, Republican leaders were working Wednesday to solidify their power.
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By The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 19--The battleground has moved off Capitol Hill to Salt Lake  County's government center, but the war pitting rail against roads seems about  to escalate.
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After rushing to write a ban on gay marriage into the state constitution last year, Utah legislators are in no hurry to repair damage the law could deal other kinds of domestic partners.
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The first openly gay member of the Utah state Senate was sworn in Monday. Addressing colleagues in one of the most conservative legislative bodies in the nation, Democrat Scott McCoy, 34, said his sexual orientation will not define his work as a lawmaker.
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By JENNIFER DOBNER  SALT LAKE CITY - For nine years, the question has echoed across the high desert of southeastern Utah, hard against the corner where four states meet.
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It took Utah nine games to set a school record for points scored in a season. With two more victories, the Utes can make it an even more memorable year.
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With Yasser Arafat apparently near death, leading Palestinian politicians have moved rapidly to prevent a visible vacuum of power, reaching out to disaffected younger legislators, Palestinian militant ...
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  A Utah congressman wants to know why the U.S. Department of Energy is taking so long to clean up the Moab uranium mill tailings. "I just want to make sure that this project doesn't get delayed and really just sort of slip through the cracks," Rep.
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By Copyright 2006 Deseret Morning News By Nicole Warburton Deseret Morning News  A majority of Utah residents -- 65 percent -- could support a sales-tax hike to pay for new transportation projects in the state, according to a new Deseret Morning News/KSL-TV survey.
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By Dennison, Mike HELENA - A bill pitched as a catalyst for future energy development in Montana won endorsement Thursday from the Montana House, but not without criticism that it needlessly expands government.
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A bill that would give $1.5 million to the Utah Department of Transportation to study east-west transportation in Salt Lake County passed unanimously out of the Senate Transportation Committee on Thursday.  HB108 is sponsored by Rep. Ron Bigelow, R-West Valley City.
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A bill to add a voting representative for the District of Columbia and another House member from Utah appears unlikely to be brought up in the upcoming lame-duck session.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - The trial of the leader of the largest polygamist sect in the United States is forcing people in Utah, where polygamy has a long history, to confront a practice that many would prefer stay hidden.
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By John Florez  Why is it that public assistance seems to work well for business people but seldom for the poor or the average taxpayer? And some Utah legislators appear willing to change the rules suggested by business lobbyists.
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Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. was expected on Tuesday to approve a new congressional redistricting map and send it to Congress for potential action on a bill that would give his state a new House seat and full voting representation in that chamber to the District of Columbia.