A bill to replace voter-approved Medicaid expansion moves forward despite a “no” vote from its House sponsor. After historic changes in San Juan County, freshman Utah Rep. Phil Lyman says it might be time for a portion of the county to split away. And lawmakers endorse deleting language from the Utah constitution allowing slavery as…
(KCPW News) Woods Cross Republican Sen. Todd Weiler’s SB119 meant to extend the ban on large trucks currently in place for the Legacy Parkway in Davis County. The original expiration date for that ban is January 1st of 2020. If the ban expires, it would end fifteen years of Legacy Parkway being a quieter alternative…
(KCPW News) A House committee advanced a proposal to change the way decisions are made about radioactive waste disposal in Utah. KCPW’s Roger McDonough reports.
[Audio follows story] (KCPW News) A senate committee on Friday debated a resolution urging the federal government to end the practice of separating children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. The resolution also called for federal policymakers to act to reunite children who have already been separated. Salt Lake Democratic Sen. Gene Davis said his…
A proposal to replace Utah’s voter-passed Medicaid expansion gets fast-tracked at the legislature. Republican lawmakers and governor Gary Herbert want to deliver the largest tax-cut in state history, but Democrats call for investments in other policy priorities (including education). And a judge rules that a San Juan County Commissioner is, indeed, a Utahn. At 9…
(KCPW News) Last year, with the clock ticking down on the legislative session, Rep. Carol Spackman-Moss (D-Salt Lake) saw her bill to let cyclists yield at stop signs and traffic signals hit its own red light. “I was in the Senate, thirty minutes before midnight, and it was four down [the list], and I’m watching carefully…
(KCPW News) Utah lawmakers have advanced a proposal to replace the full Medicaid expansion approved by voters in November. Ogden Republican Sen. Allen Christensen’s SB96 received a favorable recommendation from the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Tuesday. Christensen’s bill would retain the 0.15 percent sales tax increase from the voter-approved Proposition 3. But his proposal…
(KCPW News) On the first day of the legislative session, an exchange between a state lawmaker and an advocate for Medicaid expansion underscores a difference of priorities. KCPW’s Roger McDonough reports on the chance back-and-forth between between Ogden Republican Sen. Allen Christensen and the Utah Health Policy Project’s Courtney Bullard at the Utah State Capitol.…
A Utah lawmaker introduces a bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks, despite a federal judge striking down a similar measure in Mississippi. The closure of the Salt Lake City homeless shelter gets delayedwhile construction kinks are worked out for one of three new, smaller, shelters. And celebrities and filmmakers descend on Utah as the…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour — This week on the program, it’s a panel discussion that takes a look at 2019 legislative priorities from an environmental perspective. Speaking on the panel: Carly Ferro, Associate Organizing Representative for the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club; Noah Miterko, Grassroots Organizer for HEAL Utah; Zach Frankel, Executive Director of the…
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