Every elementary, middle and high school classroom in Utah would begin every day with the pledge of allegiance under a bill approved by the Senate Education Committee this morning.
A bill that would place hookah and e-cigarettes under the restrictions of the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act, with exemptions carved out for existing businesses, passed the Utah House of Representatives Tuesday, but not without several failed attempts to substitute a new bill.
With less than three weeks to go during the 2012 legislative session, lawmakers are now busy working on the final details of the budget. Tuesday, new revenue estimates showed the state has an extra $14 million dollars than originally anticipated to spend this year, but as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, that doesn’t mean everything is getting funded.
Women who want to be homemakers in Utah should aspire to graduate from college just the same as women who plan to join the workforce. As KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports, that was the message this morning at a meeting of Governor Gary Herbert’s Education Excellence Commission at the State Capitol.
A bill that would restrict the use of tanning beds by minors continued to make its way through the Utah Senate today, though its sponsor, Democratic Senator Pat Jones, submitted a new version that makes significant changes.
A strong advocate for downtown businesses in Salt Lake City was struck and killed by a Utah Transit Authority bus this morning. Police Sergeant Shawn Josephson says 82-year-old Richard Wirick, longtime owner of the Oxford Shop, was crossing 400 South at 200 East this morning at about 7:30 a.m. when the light changed as he was in the middle of the street.
Segment 1: Women and Getting That Degree Many women in Utah go to college, but most don’t graduate. According to 2009 data, nearly 32 percent of Utah men earn college degrees compared with just 25 percent of women, below the national average. What can be done to get more women on campus as well…
Following last year’s uproar over major changes to Utah’s Government Records Access and Management Act, or GRAMA, a bill that makes smaller tweaks to the open records law unanimously passed out of a Senate committee this morning. Republican Senator Curt Bramble’s SB 177 is the product of the GRAMA working group, which included lawmakers, business leaders and the media.
Segment 1: Lessons from the Cold War History, according to Frederick Kempe, has been kind to President John Kennedy. After pouring over documents, testimony and records, Kempe concludes Kennedy’s inexperience and weakness during his first year in office was an unmitigated foreign policy disaster, leading directly to the Bay of Pigs showdown in the…
State lawmakers and members of the public showed widespread support Friday for a proposed pilot program to fund behavioral therapy for young children with autism. The program, put forward by Republican Representative Ronda Menlove, would last two years and help families with children ages two through six years old. She says she tried to find a solution outside of an insurance mandate, which she says places unnecessary stress on small businesses.
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