Three Utah cities rank amongst the ten worst in the nation when it comes to wintertime air pollution, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.
In a special session next Friday, lawmakers will be back at the State Capitol to override Governor Gary Herbert’s veto of a bill allocating an estimated $60 million in sales tax revenue for road construction. Senate President Michael Waddoups says he has personally met with the Governor for many, many hours trying to come up with a compromise, but to no avail.
There’s no question that interest in public records is on the rise in Utah, with state lawmakers drawing swift and sharp criticism earlier this year for attempting to make them more difficult to access. Since 2007, one local website has made public data, and especially public salaries, much easier to access: UtahsRight.com.
A $5 billion commercial and residential development in downtown Salt Lake City is in its final phase of construction. Several key players in the project gathered yesterday at the new Promontory Condominiums to talk about the rise of City Creek. And as KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports, they had differing ideas on the future of downtown.
Some of Utah’s most relied-upon clinics for the low income aren’t sure what’s ahead when it comes to their funding, with Congress still working on a deal for next year’s budget. But as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, one of the world’s largest corporations joined two young donors this morning Monday in making a contribution to charitable healthcare.
The owners of a ranch in Nine Mile Canyon are trying to stop a second gas pipeline from running through a three-quarters-of-a-mile easement on their property. State law says Bill Barrett Corporation has the right to install the pipeline, but landowners say it will disrupt ranching operations, damage the irrigation system and impact archeological resources. Part-owner Jerry Vaculin says the state has wrongly allowed corporations to act in the role of government.
At least nine people who worked at the Utah National Guard’s Joint Language Training Center in Ogden have fallen ill or died – but there could be more. A new investigation in the Salt Lake Tribune looks at some of those employees, and what the Guard has and hasn’t done about the situation.
While Salt Lake County home sales were down from March 2010 to 2011, more people are buying million-dollar homes along the Wasatch Front, according to the Salt Lake Board of Realtors. And more of them are paying cash. The board says in 2010, there were 91 homes that sold at $1 million or more in Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Weber counties, up 12 percent from 2009.
After months of speculation, an official announcement was made Monday declaring University of Utah President Michael Young as the new President of the University of Washington. KCPW’s Jessica Gail sat down with Young, as well as some of his colleagues, to see what prompted his move and where the U of U goes from here.
The co-chairman of Utah’s redistricting committee, which started its work this morning at the State Capitol, says updating the legislative and congressional boundaries is 97 percent about the numbers. But as KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports, it’s the other three percent that has some lawmakers and their constituents wary of the process.
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