Ruh-roh.  With the legislative session just around the corner, and a gigantic budget problem to contend with after making all the cuts they could in the previous session, it looks like Utah may be in for a battle of taxation.

In one corner, we have the ideologues:

State Sen. Steve Urquhart [...] ]]> http://www.blognetnews.com/utah/go.php?http://oneutah.org/2009/12/05/max-baucus-nominates-girlfriend-for-us-attorney/ Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:45:45 -0500 http://oneutah.org/2009/12/05/max-baucus-nominates-girlfriend-for-us-attorney/ The situation may look worse than it is.

Senator Max Baucus was having a relationship with his former state office director Melodee Hanes. Hanes was a long time staffer of Baucus. The relationship was not technically an affair – Baucus and his wife were legally separated at the time. Hanes [...] ]]> http://www.blognetnews.com/utah/go.php?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WeberCountyForum/~3/JctT6j9aw3s/reviving-streetcar-discussion-with.html Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:15:00 -0500 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WeberCountyForum/~3/JctT6j9aw3s/reviving-streetcar-discussion-with.html Number of comments: 1
Neck-snapping WCF segue: One gentle reader report that Jon Greiner was a rattled guest this morning on Faux News

Just to keep the conversation going during the ongoing annual December (pre-Christmas) re-meat news lull, we thought we'd take the opportunity to direct our readers to a couple of back-burner' [...] ]]> http://www.blognetnews.com/utah/go.php?http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/12/utah-ethics-initiative-is-redundant-and.html Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:20:00 -0500 http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/12/utah-ethics-initiative-is-redundant-and.html
At one time, Utah was in dire need of legislative ethics reform. I've written about it on Simple Utah Mormon  Politics more than once.  Out of such a dearth, the Utah Ethics Initiative was born.  Whether or not the impetus came from the recently' [...] ]]> http://www.blognetnews.com/utah/go.php?http://oneutah.org/2009/12/05/dixiecrats-and-conserva-dems/ Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:51:25 -0500 http://oneutah.org/2009/12/05/dixiecrats-and-conserva-dems/ I’ve been pondering this for a while and I don’t know that I have any answers. The Conserva-Dems, people like Utah’s Jim Matheson and other Blue Dogs and people like Sens. Max Baucus of Montana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, have been crucial in creating a Democratic majority in Congress. [...] ]]> http://www.blognetnews.com/utah/go.php?http://oneutah.org/2009/12/05/afpak-the-counter-intutive-strategy/ Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:11:31 -0500 http://oneutah.org/2009/12/05/afpak-the-counter-intutive-strategy/ Like a lot of people, I’m still scratching my head wondering what President Obama wants to do in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It has been proven that counterinsurgency won’t work, at least not without approximately double the resources the USA can possibly commit. What the president gave us on Tuesday [...] ]]> http://www.blognetnews.com/utah/go.php?http://jmbell.org/blog/2009/12/06/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-12-06/ Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:10:00 -0500 http://jmbell.org/blog/2009/12/06/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-12-06/ # Someone put my future plans on a T-Shirt … Curses, foiled again! [bit.ly] # UFO talk on MSNBC – an ET commission in Denver [...] ]]> http://www.blognetnews.com/utah/go.php?http://thesidetrack.blogspot.com/2009/12/fightin-words.html Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:44:00 -0500 http://thesidetrack.blogspot.com/2009/12/fightin-words.html McCain on Palin: 'She's irrelevant'<blockquote>[...]"She's irrelevant, but they can't continue to attack her. I'm so proud of her and the work that she's doing," McCain told NBC's David Gregory Sunday. </blockquote>

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