The Non-Partisan Independent thoughts for a partisan world…

Utah’s Legislative Stupidity….ad nauseum

Tuesday, 9 March, 2010

The Salt Lake Tribune yesterday reported that the Utah State Senate passed SB250, asking the party caucuses in the state legislature to create a ratings system for Senate candidates and to evaluate the performance of U.S. senators.  The bill’s sponsor, Howard Stephenson (R-Draper), stated:  ”I believe this would enhance the attention our U.S. senators give [...]

The Corporation of Utah, continued….

Monday, 8 March, 2010

Well, our dear friends in the State Legislature are at it again, working hard to ensure that corporate interests prevail over the needs and wants of We The People.  In their latest bit of chicanery, our elected employees have decided to pass a resolution opposing the creation of any National Monuments or parks in Utah. [...]

Full Body Scanners

Friday, 5 March, 2010

Here we go again, with the theater of airport security.  It seems that our dear friends at Homeland Security have purchased a large number of the full body imagers and are planning to roll them out to several US airports over the course of the next year.  Apparently Congress-toddler Chaffetz’s objections are being ignored on [...]

Utah’s Legislative Time Waste

Wednesday, 3 March, 2010

So Utah’s legislative general session is winding down now and our illustrious elected employees have spent another session wasting their time (and ours) on ridiculous nonsense while again continuing to ignore the real issues that face our state.
They passed (and Governor Herbert signed) a lovely bit of a bill that attempts to exempt Utah from [...]

Education in Utah…

Tuesday, 2 March, 2010

My apologies to my loyal reader or two, it’s been too long since I’ve made a post.  By way of making excuses, my time has been pretty chewed up with work and family, moving into a new house and all of that fun domestic kind of stuff.  That being said, however, NonPart is back in [...]