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Yesterday’s Utah Legislative Report Summary

Posted on January 17, 2006 | Leave a comment

Here are articles in published in today’s Utah newspapers about the Opening Day of the Utah Legislature:

Salt Lake Tribune
Mullen: Legislators quickly pick their cliques
Reader Advocate: It’s your money: How would you spend state surplus?
Utah’s Legislature is wasting no time getting into controversy
Big challenge: Surplus–State Senate, House don’t see eye to eye on how best to spend the money
Lawmakers ponder bill on waste–Doable? Some wonder if it’s right for the governor to have final say on approving new facilities
Packed prisons: Finding a fix

Deseret News
Realism rules on Day 1 of Legislature
Huntsman to list agenda
Food tax boiling on front burner as legislative session starts–Fight may pit Senate GOP, House GOP, Huntsman

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Today in history

Posted on January 17, 2006 | Leave a comment

January 17

1863
Mangas Colorado, Apache chief, agrees to peace talks, is then arrested & imprisoned at Fort McLane (Arizona), then shot by two soldiers in his cell.

1893
In Hawaii, Queen Lilluokalani‘s regime is overthrown by U.S. pineapple tycoon Sanford Dole & pro-annexation sugar interests.
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Opening Day of Utah Legislature

Posted on January 16, 2006 | 3 comments

Today was the first day of the 2006 Utah Legislative session. Members of the Green Party of Utah(distributing billion dollar bill budget prioritiy flyers), Shundahai Network (distributing windmill energy pinwheels), and Pom Poms Not Bomb Bombs (delivering cheers for entertainment) “welcomed” back Utah legislators with the messages below(delivered by the Radical Cheerleaders).

I met the author of SLC Spin, who has also posted an article on his meeting with me and Green Jenni today. Jenni and I are radical cheerleaders.

Pass Some Legislation
For Health and Education
Utah needs to look and see
How the laws hurt you and me
Serve the people, Serve the people, Serve the people
Now!


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Quandry

Posted on January 16, 2006 | 2 comments

We held auditions last week at my school for the musical Little Shop of Horrors. Oh, how I wish I would have had my camera when the students found out what parts they got! The looks on their faces were priceless.

But there’s bad news. The company that holds the rights to LSH informed us (just an hour after we posted the cast list) that we would not be granted the rights.

GGGRRR!

The kids don’t know yet.

So now we are faced with making a decision on what show to do. We don’t have a large cast from our small school. We are toying with these:

Once Upon a Mattress
Wizard of Oz
Oklahoma

We’ll make a decision by tomorrow.

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Utah Legislative Session Begins Today

Posted on January 16, 2006 | Leave a comment

On the 20th Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, The 57th Utah Legislative Session begins.

Members of the Green Party of Utah and other activists will be on hand during the lunch hour to “welcome back legislators”. We will be giving out sunflower seed packets. In light of the ensuing debate on what to do with the $1 billion in new money, we will also be distributing this billion dollar bill flyer (shown–front and back of flyer):

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Pentagon’s Advice to Military Families: Learn How to Laugh

Posted on January 16, 2006 | Leave a comment

I saw this post in Dee’s Connections (top bar on my blog page) and just had to post it myself. It’s almost laughable! Just when I thought things couldn’t get any more ridiculous.

Would you believe that the Pentagon has a “laughter specialist”? It’s true. He trains the families of soldiers to
relieve stress through laughter.

Even though war is no laughing matter, the stress associated with the whole ordeal can be relieved through it, according to this pentagon employee.

And I thought my tax dollars were being spent friviously. Silly me. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

There………..I laughed.
Hmmm…..why don’t I feel better?

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Rocky: On Dissidence

Posted on January 16, 2006 | Leave a comment

The Salt Lake Tribune has a special features today on Salt Lake City MayorRocky Anderson and his dissident voice on many issues.

I’ve always felt a very deep responsibility to stand up against what I believe is wrongdoing and do what I can to improve our community and our world. . . . If you just go along to get along, you’re simply supporting the status quo, and there are too many things about the status quo that we all need to be not only upset about but working to change.

Rocky talks about the GOP, Utah Legislature, and Larry Miller’s decision to pull Brokeback Mountain from his theaters.
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Carnival of the Green #10

Posted on January 16, 2006 | Leave a comment

Step right up to this week’s Carnival of the Green, being hosted by Unplugged Living.

This week’s post topics include a fortune 500 company purchasing wind power, a New York City sustainability event, an unfavorable review from a Vegas tech show on how green companies are, info on buidling an open-source community, recycling grey water techiniques, war profiteering, how houseplants can help “grow fresh air”, and vegetarian and vegan information.

Enjoy!

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MLKJr Day – I Have a Dream

Posted on January 16, 2006 | Leave a comment

Listen to the “I Have a Dream Speech”:

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Today in history

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January 16
Happy Martin Luther King Day!

Since 1986, the first Monday of January has been designated a federal holiday honoring civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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