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Sen. Ross Romero, D-Salt Lake City, sought Tuesday to pass a resolution creating a short one-time diversity- and sensitivity-training orientation for new legislators. The committee killed the resolution with little justification as to why, --- but at least one Senator on the committee, got some diversity training when Romero had to define “gender identity” to Sen. Casey Anderson, R-Cedar City, in explaining how transgender Utahns may self-identify their gender.
Occupy SLC will be holding a unique theater protest at the Legislature Wednesday—a debutante ball, where corporations will be represented doing their dance with legislators to influence laws to benefit their corporate agenda.--- If prom were an awkward, but fanciful, affair between major corporations and politicians looking to score, then this absurdist theaterput on by Occupy SLC at the Legislature Wednesday is what it looks like when politicians and corporations join hands and dance.
Mobile-home owners are taking their fight for greater control over their homes and their lives to the Utah legislature tomorrow with a rally to support HB 63.--- The bill is aimed at providing mobile-home owners more protection against predatory practices by park owners.
Sen. John Valentine, R-Orem, presented his liquor-reform bill at a Senate hearing Monday. While the bill focuses on reorganizing the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission to have new oversight and authority, the committee’s discussion focused on an amendment to provide tax relief to local breweries that was cut off by Sen. Michael Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, at the beginning of the hearing.---
Wednesday evening, city planners will be holding a workshop on improvement projects along Salt Lake City rivers and creeks. If you've got a passion for creeks like Emigration and Red Butte or have ideas on how to spruce up trails and recreation areas along the Jordan River, now is your chance to plan the future for local river-corridor improvement projects.---
Since last week, a billboard has been up alongside I-215 in West Valley City that reads “Bomb Iran” in large red letters. But if you think this is a message provided and paid for by pro-war hawks, you should look closer.---
Some of the best things in life are free -- including Salt Lake Acting Company's regular opportunities to hear new theatrical works for the first time. SLAC's New Play Sounding Series continues tonight with a free staged reading of How to Make a Rope Swing by local playwright Shawn Fisher.
