The Absolute Worst that Utah Has to Offer
The 2012 General Legislative Session starts today, January 23rd. Many bills, however, have already been written and queued up. We took a dip into the current backlog to see what’s in the pipeline for our favorite local circus. House Bills HB49 – In the presence of “threatening behavior”, possession of a firearm no longer violates [...]
Utah’s democrats, all three of them in the Utah Legislature, held a token Twitter town meeting on January 5th to discuss the Utah DABC woes. While it’s nice to have a pretend democratic process, the meeting itself was about useful as, well, the Utah DABC. As the bastard great grandson of Orin Porter Rockwell, Brother [...]
Leave it to the overreaching government to take away the rights of American citizens and private business owners, all in the name of alleged safety. Three Alarm Saloon in Midvale, Utah received nine critical violations and 56 non-critical violations during an October 2010 inspection by the Salt Lake County Health Department. A month later—after the strong arm [...]
I don’t know why this stuff bothers me so much; I don’t even drink. A few weeks ago I wrote about Provo’s ban on Sunday beer sales. The ban was ultimately lifted, but the idea of government being influenced so heavily by a local religion is upseting. Well, a similar drama is unfolding—this time in [...]