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(UNEDITED) Charles Trentelman's opinion piece in Sunday's Standard-Examiner belittled the efforts of the Utah legislature to pass nullification laws. The legislature is asserting our state's power to nullify and thus counter those federal laws and ...

Though thousands of public employees are against it, an effort to substantially change the state retirement system has momentum in both legislative houses. Thousands of police, teachers and others demonstrated on the steps of the Capitol on Saturday ...

DENVER ? State Rep. Buffie McFadyen introduced a bill Monday that would allow grocery stores to buy nearby liquor stores and sell the stronger spirits that they stock. McFadyen, D-Pueblo West, said liquor stores presently hold a competitive ...

CASPER ? Platte County rancher Bob Whitton likens the power of eminent domain to brandishing a gun in an argument. The person with the gun doesn?t have to use it in order to persuade the person without a gun. ?The threat is there without having ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- On Feb. 6, thousands of state employees took a stand at the Utah State Capitol . They want to preserve future retirement benefits. But this week, Utah lawmakers will get serious about reforming the system. The way things are, they ...

The Utah Legislature is back in session, and though many consider this the season to remind us just how backward and out-of-touch our legislators are, Utah residents still have much for which to be grateful. Compared to their blue state counterparts ...

SALT LAKE CITY ? Whether teachers should earn their paychecks based on student test scores, popularity or their college degree and years of experience is drawing heated debate between lawmakers and educators. Rep. Marie Poulson, D-Cottonwood ...

Don't be too hard on Chris Herrod. His "Monkeys as Pets" bill is an exercise in constituent education. A 13-year-old friend of his daughter asked the Provo representative why she couldn't have a pet monkey, which are banned in the state. Herrod ...

Last year, the Utah State Board of Regents almost cut the scholarship?s financial coverage ... The Utah State Legislature created the scholarship in 1999 for high school students in Utah who also received their associate?s degree upon graduation ...

The U is ?at a crisis point.? That?s what U President Michael Young told legislators last week while discussing the rapidly declining state of the campus? infrastructure. ?There are benefits to being the oldest university in the system ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah state employees and retirees are speaking out against legislative proposals that would restructure the state's retirement system. A Saturday rally on Capitol Hill railed against proposed cuts in pension benefits for future ...

When Arizonans look at their elected leaders, they see people with priorities far different from their own. Residents say they care deeply about the state's natural beauty, but budget cuts by lawmakers will force two-thirds of state parks to close ...

Platte County rancher Bob Whitton likens the power of eminent domain to brandishing a gun in an argument. The person with the gun doesn't have to use it in order to persuade the person without a gun. "The threat is there without having to use it ...

Higher education officials cautioned lawmakers Monday that they will have to substantially shrink the state's two popular merit-based scholarships next year absent an increase in funding beyond what the Legislature currently envisions.

Child safety concerns and states' rights collided Monday in the Legislature over Rep.

Mike Noel, the Legislature's chief climate-change skeptic, declared Thursday that global warming is a conspiracy to control world population.

Utah lawmakers are prepared to take drastic steps to change retirement benefits for state employees.

More than one-fourth of the drivers who got tickets for not paying the toll on the new Tacoma Narrows bridge arena t paying their ticket fines, either.

Should Republicans and Democrats in the Utah Legislature give a formal opinion on who should be a U.S. senator from the Beehive State, or how the current two senators are doing their jobs? State Sen.

Top of Utahn Senate Majority Leader Scott Jenkins, R-Plain City, is pitching a change to the way the chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court is selected.

" A Golden Eagle is helping the Boy Scouts of America celebrate 100 years of serving the community.

Trumpeting what has become a familiar theme this year, Congressman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told state lawmakers the federal government is out of control.

A bill challenging federal gun laws and asserting states' rights continued to roll through the Utah Legislature on Monday.

Utah House Bill 267, which was approved by the House last week and sent to the Senate for consideration, would change the way the Legislature and lobbyists do business.

Child booster seats and states' rights collided Monday in the Legislature over Rep.

The one piece of state retirement system reform legislation that affects current employees is a "minor token" that is not critical, the sponsor said Monday.

A proposal that would challenge the federal government's jurisdiction over firearms manufactured and sold in Utah found broad support from a legislative committee Monday and will move to the House floor.

A House committee passed a proposal that will tighten a law that requires Utah colleges and universities to report large donations from foreign groups.