Two days after announcing his new job as political director for the Nevada Republican Party, former Utah lawmaker and congressional candidate Carl Wimmer said he won’t be working for the Party after all. Wimmer addressed the media at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah Thursday blaming the incident on miscommunication.
Voters in Millcreek Township will decide in November if they want to incorporate the communities into a city.
The presidential race has been buzzing this week over a well-known Utah politician who’s stayed in the political sphere since leaving office. Former Governor Michael Leavitt has been chosen to lead GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s transition team in the event he wins the election. Every Friday, we talk with Thomas Burr, Washington Correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune and author of Political Cornfalkes, a daily, online round-up of Utah politics.
Freshman Utah Senator Mike Lee joined other Republicans on the Senate floor this morning, accusing Democrats of trying to influence the U.S. Supreme Court’s pending decision on the 2010 health care reform law. Lee called it “false” and “reckless” to suggest that striking down the law’s health insurance mandate would amount to judicial activism.
With the Republican primary election for Salt Lake County Mayor less than three weeks away, the two candidates squared off in a debate last night. West Valley Mayor Mike Winder and Former Salt Lake County Councilman Mark Crockett discussed everything from economic development to shrinking the budget, but as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, the debate took an interesting turn when the issue Winder’s pen name was once again brought into the limelight.
Utah’s LGBT community will soon have a larger presence in downtown Salt Lake City. Valerie Larabee, Executive Director of the Utah Pride Center, says the center is planning to move from the Marmalade district into a 16,000-square foot building on 400 South and 300 East next spring.
Despite having the support of Mayor Ralph Becker and the chair of the Salt Lake City Council, a proposed ballot initiative calling for an end to corporate personhood in Salt Lake City has hit a snag, even though organizers gathered and submitted the required number of signatures.
On Monday, former State Representative Carl Wimmer said he’d accepted a job offer to be political director of the Nevada Republican Party. But now, the head of that party says the offer was never made.
Segment 1: Wearing their Sunday best, hundreds of members of the LDS Church marched alongside their brothers and sisters in drag in this year’s annual Utah Gay Pride Parade in Salt Lake City. The outpouring of support for the LGBT community stands in stark contrast to the Church’s staunch backing for California’s Proposition 8, which…
Neighborhood bars could be coming to Utah’s capital city. Tuesday, the Salt Lake City Council met to discuss changing zoning laws, which would allow businesses that serve alcohol the opportunity to move closer to residential areas. KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports on why city officials say the changes are important for the city’s vitality.
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