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Utah producer aims to crowd-fund animated ‘sizzle reel’

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:54:03 MDT

Utah producer aims to crowd-fund animated ‘sizzle reel’

By Sean P. Means The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 17, 2013 01:54PM MDT

A Utah businessman has a big dream, which began with a little golf ball. “I’ve never given up on it, and it’s finally bearing fruit,” said Steve Brown, who is pitching an animated project called “Henny Bogan” to major media outlets — and has started a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter to get it off the ground. The project began, Brown said, a decade ago with a business venture in a golf-related game. The game wasn’t a success, but people asked about licensing the artwork associated with it. ...

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Radio spots highlight Utah lawyers’ contributions

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:45:50 MDT

Radio spots highlight Utah lawyers’ contributions

By Jennifer Napier-Pearce The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 18, 2013 06:45PM MDT

Lawyers in the Beehive State are trying to polish up their image. The Utah State Bar has launched a public information campaign to let people know about the productive role attorneys play in the community. And they’ve taken to the airwaves, producing four 60-second radio spots being played on KSL, KODJ, ESPN, KSFI, KUBL, KZNS and KONY in St. George. Bar president Lori Nelson said in a statement that the state’s 10,000 lawyers and judges perform a vital role in society, from instilling justice to...

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Dyer: A new broom in Iran?

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:28:03 MDT

Dyer: A new broom in Iran?

By Gwynne Dyer Syndicated Columnist

Updated Jun 17, 2013 04:28PM MDT

You certainly can’t say that Iranian elections are boring. In 2005, Iranians surprised everybody by electing the darkest of dark horses, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the presidency. They didn’t know much about him, but at least he seemed different from all the establishment candidates. Well, he was different, but not in a good way. By the 2009 election Ahmadinejad’s erratic and confrontational style had turned people off, and he should have lost – but he rigged the vote and triggered mass protests th...

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Swallow took in $105,000 from donors in trouble with regulators

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:49:20 MDT

Swallow took in $105,000 from donors in trouble with regulators

By Tom Harvey The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 15, 2013 05:49PM MDT

John Swallow took in $105,000 in campaign contributions from companies or individuals who already had run afoul of regulators — even though the attorney general’s office he hoped to run could be called upon to prosecute some of those same donors. Take the case of Nathaniel “Than” Merrill, a star of the A&E television series “Flip This House” and co-owner of FortuneBuilders, a real estate investment seminar company. Sometime in May 2012, two investigators from the Utah Division of Consumer Protec...

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Bryant promotes IOC’s get-active campaign

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:37:47 MDT

Bryant promotes IOC’s get-active campaign

The Associated Press

Updated Jun 15, 2013 12:37AM MDT

Lausanne, Switzerland • Kobe Bryant has joined forces with the IOC to promote a global get-active campaign. The Los Angeles Lakers star — a two-time Olympic gold medalist with the U.S. — posted a video on Friday urging people to take part in sports activities on “Olympic Day” on June 23. Bryant, who is recovering from surgery to repair a torn Achilles tendon, says “I can’t run, I can’t jump and I can’t swim yet, so I need you guys to pick up the slack for me and be doubly active.” The Inte...

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Will: Scowling face of the state

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:01:04 MDT

Will: Scowling face of the state

By George F. Will The Washington Post

Updated Jun 13, 2013 01:01AM MDT

WASHINGTON — As soon as the Constitution permitted him to run for Congress, Al Salvi did. In 1986, just 26 and fresh from the University of Illinois law school, he sank $1,000 of his own money, which was most of his money, into his campaign to unseat an incumbent Democratic congressman. Salvi studied for the bar exam during meals at campaign dinners. He lost the election. Today, however, he should be invited to Congress to testify about what happened 10 years later when he was a prosperous lawye...

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MLS, union partner on anti-discrimination campaign

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:00:08 MDT

MLS, union partner on anti-discrimination campaign

The Associated Press

Updated Jun 14, 2013 05:00PM MDT

New York • Major League Soccer and its players’ union are partnering in an anti-discrimination campaign, a move less than a month after Robbie Rogers signed with the Los Angeles Galaxy and became the first openly gay male athlete to play in a major U.S. professional league. MLS and players said Wednesday they are partnering with a group called the You Can Play Project, founded by Philadelphia Flyers scout Patrick Burke in memory of Brendan Burke, his brother and the son of former NHL general m...

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Sierra Club leaders visit Utah to unveil national campaign

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:30:08 MDT

Sierra Club leaders visit Utah to unveil national campaign

By Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 12, 2013 06:30AM MDT

Using Utah canyon country as a backdrop, senior Sierra Club executives on Tuesday unveiled a renewed effort to protect the nation’s scenic treasures, highlighting environmentalists’ hopes to establish a Greater Canyonlands National Monument and shut the door on tar-sands development. The “Our Wild America” campaign also steps up the environmental group’s commitment to connect kids with nature, restore forest health and reduce the nation’s reliance on the fossil fuels behind climate change. “Poll...

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Salt Lake City Move to Amend on the move

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:19:41 MDT

Salt Lake City Move to Amend on the move

By Christopher Smart The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 11, 2013 11:19AM MDT

Move to Amend Salt Lake is looking for a few good people who don’t believe in corporate personhood and the free-flow of money into politics — and the beer is on them. The grass-roots organization is kicking off its summer campaign 7 p.m. Thursday at the Washington Square Cafe in the lower level of City Hall, 451 S. State. Rita Kelley, an organizer with the volunteer group, said the program includes a 1920s-style “Speakeasy Pub Quiz.” An invitation explains it further: “Have a beer or other bev...

Utah’s corrupted beehive

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 01:01:06 MDT

Utah’s corrupted beehive

By paul svendsen

Updated Jun 8, 2013 01:01AM MDT

No matter how you stack it, the last few years have been troubling for anyone who cares about ethics in Utah government. Today, there is Attorney General John Swallow and allegations of bribery, campaign disclosure violations and other misdeeds. There is his predecessor, Mark Shurtleff, and allegations of a pay-to-play attorney general’s office. Yesterday, there was Utah Senate Majority Leader Sheldon Killpack’s DUI, Rep. Mark Walker’s campaign violations, and House Majority Leader Kevin Garn’s ...

Owens: Don’t appoint AG

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 01:01:06 MDT

Owens: Don’t appoint AG

By steve owens

Updated Jun 8, 2013 01:01AM MDT

State Sen. Todd Weiler said in a June 2 op-ed for The Tribune that he wants to allow the governor to appoint our state’s attorney general. I like and respect Weiler, but he is trying to solve the wrong problem. In his “Utah attorney general should be appointed,” he does not mention John Swallow, but obviously the attorney general’s present predicament is what has started the conversation. Our problem is that our AG sought and obtained hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars from shady sources....

Briefs from Tribune news services

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:41:10 MDT

Briefs from Tribune news services

Updated Jun 7, 2013 10:41PM MDT

Tough decision for anti-abortion guv Des Moines, Iowa • Catholic, anti-abortion Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad could soon find himself in an uncomfortable position: He may have to sign off on payments for every Medicaid-funded abortion in his state. A bill requiring that authorization is sitting on the Republican’s desk after moving through the statehouse. If Branstad signs it, Iowa is likely to be the only state that would have the unique requirement. Iowa’s Medicaid program covers a small number of...