(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…
(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.
(KCPW News) A bill that would eliminate Straight Party Voting in Utah failed to pass out of the House Government Operations Committee today, despite a strong showing from public supporters. KCPW’s Roger McDonough reports.
(KCPW News) Democrats held a press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday decrying the state of education in Utah. The executive committee of the party in Utah released what it said was a call for urgent action in a report titled “Utah’s Faltering Education System.” Roger McDonough reports.
(KCPW News) Legislation that would narrow the age gap for adults and teenagers in statutory rape cases made its way out of the Utah House Monday and had its first reading on the Senate floor on Tuesday. Currently, state law prohibits sexual contact between minors who are 16 or 17 years of age, and anyone…
(KCPW News) The Utah Senate Education Committee unanimously endorsed a bill that would allocate 10 million dollars of annual funding to the University of Utah School of Medicine, and make it possible for the school to accept 40 additional medical students every year. KCPW’s Roger McDonough reports.
A group of Utah Moms wants state lawmakers to go on record in support of doing something about northern Utah’s poor air quality. The group Utah Moms for Clean Air is drafting a clean-air pledge for state legislators, and Utah’s congressional delegation, to sign. KCPW’s Roger McDonough reports.
Freshmen lawmakers are getting their bearings as the 2013 legislative session kicks off. KCPW spoke with two new members of the legislature – from the more than 25 freshman members of the 60th session of the Utah legislature. Representative Angela Romero, of Salt Lake, is the only new Democrat in the House. She says that…
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