Salt Lake City rare book dealer Ken Sanders says an ordinary appraisal event turned into the find of a lifetime over the weekend. One of the world’s oldest printed books, believed to have been made in 1493, turned out to be sitting at a home in Sandy.
Salt Lake City’s 2nd District council seat representing the west side is up for grabs this November as three-term incumbent Van Turner faces re-election. And as KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports, there are two hopefuls already mounting a challenge.
After last year’s flooding of Big and Little Cottonwood Creeks, local officials are taking caution this spring. Salt Lake County leaders say flooding is once again a concern, but as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, the County says it has already taken precautions to make sure residents are prepared.
While state officials pride themselves on making Utah a bustling place for private enterprise, it’s a different story when it comes to alcohol sales, with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control directly operating more than 40 liquor and wine stores. But one lawmaker is hoping to change that. Republican Representative Ryan Wilcox of Ogden is introducing a bill to privatize those stores.
The Salt Lake Valley Health Department has four confirmed cases and six suspected cases of measles in the county, keeping many Granite School District students who haven’t been vaccinated home from school.
Democratic Utah Congressman Jim Matheson is teaming up with a Republican lawmaker on a bill aimed at scrutinizing rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency. It had its first subcommittee hearing last week.
As Republicans and Democrats in Washington, DC scramble to pass a budget before midnight tonight, the prospect of a federal government shutdown looms large. And right in the middle of that debate is Utah Congressman Jim Matheson, a moderate Blue Dog Democrat. We had a conversation with Congressman Matheson about the prospect of a federal government shutdown on Thursday.
It happens every ten years in Utah and across the nation, and now the time has arrived once again for redistricting, the process of re-drawing the state’s boundaries for the Utah Legislature and for congress to reflect the changes in population. But it’s hardly an easy or fun process, and invites a lot of scrutiny from voters and local communities.
If the federal government shuts down, it will have a very real impact on federal employees, who will have to find another way to put food on the table without receiving a paycheck. But it will be more of a minor inconvenience to Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz, who’s become famous for sleeping on a cot in his congressional office and showering in the House gym. Every week on Politics Up Close, we talk with Thomas Burr, Washington Correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune and author of Political Cornflakes, a daily online round-up of Utah politics.
How is the race for clean energy playing out in Utah? What are our assets and challenges? A panel of local experts discussed the current state of clean energy in Utah during the finale of the Nature of Things Lectures on Wednesday, April 6 at the Salt Lake City Library.
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