The following is a release from Lion's Pride Idaho and comes after the group requested an apology from Rep. John A. "Bert" Stevenson (R-Rupert) for comments made during a segment on "Zeb at the Ranch" with Zeb Bell. Yesterday Rep. Stevenson made another appearance on the prog...

As anyone who's been paying attention this Session has discovered, Democratic Sen. Michael Sanchez is getting a reputation for publicly bad mouthing ethics and campaign finance reform measures and their supporters on the Senate Floor and in some committee hearings. According to Sen. Sanchez's rants,...

Progress in Utah must always come in "baby steps." There are blaring headlines all across the Utah print media this morning, with stories from the Standard-Examiner, Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune, reporting that Utah's quirky private club system stands on the verge of abolition. Key "stakeholde...

The Utah legislature moves one step further along its inexorable path toward keeping the public's nose out of the government's "private" business The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the Utah legislature has moved one step further along its inexorable path toward keeping the public's nose out of the g...

This is a guest blog by Barbara Grothus, an artist and activist who lives in Albuquerque. As a worker in the private sector, I was rarely offered an opportunity to receive health insurance. I was young, I didn’t need it. I paid for my annual exams and was never sick. One year I witnessed the death...

Time still remains to drive a stake through this citizen-unfriendly bill's heart There's disheartening news for advocates of transparent government this morning from this morning's Salt lake Tribune , wherein Cathy McKitrick reports that Governor Huntman's office has intruded itself at the eleventh ...

“During these hard economic times New Mexico must be creative and proactive in order to bring economic growth to our state. The Research Applications Act will help attract investment to drive technological innovation and create high paying jobs,� said Sen. Stephen H. Fischmann (D, Dona Ana & Sie...

It's a House divided between Reps. David Rivera and Marcelo Llorente. The two Miami Republicans are co-pilots in building the House budget and both are battling for a Miami-Dade Senate seat in 2010 along with a third House member, Rep. Anitere Flores. This is a recipe for political disaster. Rivera ...

Earlier this week, I learned (from the excellent blog, "Popehat") that West Virginia lawmaker Jeff Eldridge (D-Lincoln) had introduced a bill that would make it illegal to sell Barbie dolls in the state: A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, de...

Charles Rambo was 11 when he was arrested for jumping the fence after hours at a Tallahassee swimming pool. He was sent to the Dozier School for Boys for 11 months in Marianna. It was 1955 and the school had a practice of brutal beatings as routine discipline for infractions at the school. Rambo's w...