(KCPW News) Legislation that for the first time would have acknowledged the science of human-caused climate change by the government of the State of Utah was debated during a committee meeting on Monday, before being rejected on an 11-4 vote. KCPW’s Roger McDonough reports.
(KCPW News) Cockfighting will join a list of cruelty to animal felony offenses in Utah, if Senate Minority Leader Gene Davis has his way. He’s sponsoring Senate Bill 52, which would make owning, keeping or training fowl for the purposes of cockfighting a third degree felony. “We are the only state in the entire West…
Several students and parents looking for more choices in education made their voices heard on Utah’s Capitol Hill Friday. This week marks ‘Utah School Choice Week’ and Kim Frank; Executive Director of the Utah Charter School Network says there is still more that can be done.
Gun control took center stage this week in Washington as the Senate Judiciary Committee began its hearings on gun violence. So how did Utah’s senators Hatch and Lee react to the hearing? KCPW’s Jessica Gail asked that question to Thomas Burr, Washington correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune and author of Political Cornflakes, a daily online roundup of Utah politics.
(KCPW News) Republican State Senator Curt Bramble, of Provo, is sponsoring a resolution that supports Israel’s “legal, historical, moral, and God-given right” of self-defense, and that calls the country “neither an attacking force nor an occupier of the lands of others.” Bramble says the resolution, the text of which is nearly identical to a similar…
(KCPW News) Legislation that would prohibit someone convicted of a sexual offense from serving on local or state school boards was held up in committee on Thursday, after lawmakers and public critics questioned the language of the bill. KCPW’s Roger McDonough reports.
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