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25-year-son of GOP senator gets $80,000 state-funded job
Kanab economic development officials say everything was above board in their hiring of a state senator's son for an $80,000 a year job after the Legislature funded the position. Kelly Stowell, son of Sen. Dennis Stowell, R-Parowan, was hired last week as a special consultant/executive director for southwestern Utah's Center for Education, Business and the Arts, located in Kanab. Sen. Stowell represents Kanab and surrounding counties and supported the funding for CEBA. : : MORE

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Q&A with Morgan Bowen: David vs. Goliath
Morgan Bowen, the Democratic candidate for Utah’s 1st Congressional District, says he feels like David going up against Goliath. In this case, the giant is incumbent Congressman Rob Bishop, who has been re-elected to the seat in 2004 and 2006. Bowen, 42, is campaigning on three major issues: family values, energy independence and eliminating the national debt. A reporter at The Herald Journal sat down with Bowen at his campaign office Monday to talk about the issues.
News Item · Logan Herald Journal · Jul 22, 2008

Bishop's cozy ties to EnergySolutions keep getting cozier
WASHINGTON - EnergySolutions Inc. and its executives have poured money into Rep. Rob Bishop's re-election campaign in recent months. The company, which is fighting a bill in Congress that would block its attempt to import foreign radioactive waste to Utah, has given Bishop nearly $25,000 since April. That's more than one-third of Bishop's total campaign haul of $67,000 for the time period covered in campaign finance disclosures filed late Tuesday. Bishop's opponent, Democrat Morgan Bowen, says the Salt Lake City-based company is not merely supporting a candidate it likes, it's buying one.
News Item · The Salt Lake Tribune · Jul 17, 2008

Westerners have seen this heedless rush to oil shale before
Since the 19th century, we in the West have been trying to extract oil from the vast oil shale riches that lie under our feet. It is no easy task, and past efforts have failed miserably. Commercial oil shale development would require not only immense financial investments but also an undetermined quantity of (scarce) water from the Colorado River basin and the construction of several multibillion-dollar power plants.
News Item · Commentary by Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colorado, in The Salt Lake Tribune · Jul 16, 2008

Infighting splinters GOP at the Capitol
The House is on fire, and Republican factions are busy dousing each other in gasoline. Long-running feuds and tension in the Utah House of Representatives have erupted recently in name-calling, ethical charges and countercharges, and claims of retribution and character assassination.
News Item · The Salt Lake Tribune · Jul 14, 2008

Matheson seeks end to oil-price manipulation
As the U.S. House Agriculture Committee considers ways to fight high oil prices, Rep. Jim Matheson on Wednesday asked the committee members to support a middle-ground bill he introduced to close loopholes that he says allow speculators to unfairly manipulate prices.
News Item · The Deseret News · Jul 10, 2008

Independent, nonpartisan ethics commission should be seated
What's truly shocking about is the fact that a member of the Capitol Hill gang was about to be investigated by his colleagues. The Walker case, amazingly, would have marked just the fourth time that a lawmaker's actions have been scrutinized by his peers in the past 22 years. Blame it on an unwieldy, unworkable process that requires three lawmakers to file formal complaints against a cohort to activate the ethics panel, which then serves as a biased judge and jury. Obviously, self-scrutiny doesn't work, as events of the past year have indicated.
News Item · The Salt Lake Tribune opinion · Jul 8, 2008

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