Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher has been found guilty of disrupting a federal oil and gas lease auction in December, 2008. DeChristopher bid on $1.8 million in parcels but didn’t intend to pay for them as a way of protesting the auction.
State leaders celebrated last year when Forbes ranked Utah number one in the country for business. But they won’t be celebrating a new ranking from that magazine.
Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund, delivered the keynote lecture of the 2011 Nature of Things series on March 2 at Kingsbury Hall. The lecture was titled “The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming.”
A bill that gives Utah students more options for taking online courses cleared the Senate yesterday. But as KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports, some people are opposed to the price tag, and others say it’s a voucher program in disguise.
Homeless shelters, senior centers and Head Start preschools in Utah are at risk of losing critical funding as the debate over federal government spending rages on. Wednesday, Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker and other local officials gathered to let Washington know where Utah stands on the issue. KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports.
A bill that imposes a one-year moratorium on new historic districts is only one vote away from being sent to the governor’s desk. SB 243 has jammed a wedge between residents of Salt Lake City’s Yalecrest neighborhood. Democratic Representative Larry Wiley told a House Committee this morning that there’s no leadership from the city on this issue, and a moratorium would be a step in the right direction.
The Utah House of Representatives rejected a bill that would make it a misdemeanor to leave a child in a car under dangerous conditions today.
An on-call bus driver for Salt Lake City School District has lost his job after driving fifth-grade students to the federal courthouse, where Tim DeChristopher is on trial. Ryan Pleune says he wanted the students to see democracy in action yesterday by observing the protesters outside.
A proposal to increase the tax incentives and rebates given to film and TV producers that shoot in Utah won broad support in the House of Representatives. But a new study by a local conservative think tank says when the state gives out such incentives, it’s pretty much throwing taxpayer money down the drain.
After heated testimony from the community, the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee voted 7-1 to move what’s being called a “comprehensive immigration reform bill” to the Senate floor last night. 78-year-old Alexandra Eframo, the child of immigrants herself, was one of many who told the committee the bill does not go far enough.
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