DISTRICT - The Salt Lake Tribune

Rolly: School bus vandalism yields an unlikely culprit

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:28:55 MDT

Rolly: School bus vandalism yields an unlikely culprit

By PAUL ROLLY Tribune Columnist

Updated Jun 19, 2013 08:28AM MDT

When a school bus is vandalized, the usual suspects include unruly students, gang members or dropouts with too much time on their hands. But when vandalism occurred on the school bus that carried the Jordan School Board in the South Jordan Parade on Saturday, the offender was a school board member. Admittedly so. District transportation employees noticed an advertising placard on the side of the bus had been torn and partly pulled off. A handwritten note on the advertisement was addressed to Di...

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Granite schools will cut staff to make up budget deficit

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:34:51 MDT

Granite schools will cut staff to make up budget deficit

By Ray parker The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 18, 2013 09:34PM MDT

Granite School District officials will cut administrators, secretaries and other middle managers in order to balance its upcoming budget. Board members voted Tuesday night to make the cuts in personnel so that about $500,000 could be cut from the 2013-14 budget, said district spokesman Ben Horsley. The district did not have information on the number of people who would lose jobs; those decisions will be made in the coming weeks, Horsley said. “We’re doing the best we can to get the best bang fo...

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams turns his attention to helping education

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:43:25 MDT

Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams turns his attention to helping education

By Mike Gorrell The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 17, 2013 08:43PM MDT

South Salt Lake • Mayor Ben McAdams kicked off a campaign Monday to lend more Salt Lake County assistance to after-school programs and early-education opportunities in hopes of enhancing the community by doing more for its disadvantaged children. McAdams introduced Roderic Land, his assistant director of human services and a former clinical assistant professor of education, culture and society at the University of Utah, as the county’s liaison to the education community, government agencies and...

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Trib Talk chat: Lawmakers weigh options regarding Utah A.G. Swallow

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:30:39 MDT

Trib Talk chat: Lawmakers weigh options regarding Utah A.G. Swallow

By Jennifer Napier-Pearce The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 17, 2013 02:30PM MDT

Utah House Speaker Becky Lockhart, Rep. Spencer Cox, R-Fairview, and Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, D-Salt Lake City, joined Trib Talk’s Jennifer Napier-Pearce for a live video chat in advance of Wednesday’s GOP caucus to determine how to address alleged ethical violations by Utah Attorney General John Swallow. Most recently, jailed entrepreneur Marc Sessions Jenson filed a 3rd District Court motion asking that the entire attorney general’s office be barred from prosecuting the case against Jenson ...

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Record number of Utah inmates graduate high school

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:11:50 MDT

Record number of Utah inmates graduate high school

By Brooke Adams The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 12, 2013 11:11PM MDT

A record-high number of state inmates — 360 men and women — received high school diplomas Wednesday in a graduation ceremony at the Utah State Prison in Draper. Another 140 inmates at the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison will graduate from high school programs later this month. The Utah Department of Corrections coordinates with the Canyons School District in Draper and South Sanpete School District in Gunnison to provide high school equivalency programs. Various county jails that...

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Drunken-driving convictions declined after liquor laws liberalized

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:40:02 MDT

Drunken-driving convictions declined after liquor laws liberalized

By Donald W. Meyers The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 14, 2013 11:40AM MDT

Statewide, 39 fewer people were convicted on drunken-driving charges in 2012 than in 2008. Information from the Utah State Courts shows that 2,705 people were convicted in district courts of driving under the influence in 2008, the year before the Legislature abolished the state’s private club law. The law required people to obtain membership at clubs to purchase alcoholic beverages. At that time, Art Brown, director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving’s Utah chapter, warned that the change would m...

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Colorado City manager sentenced to probation for misusing money

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:50:03 MDT

Colorado City manager sentenced to probation for misusing money

By Erin Alberty The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 11, 2013 06:50PM MDT

The city manager of the polygamous community of Colorado City, Ariz., has been put on probation for misusing public money. The Kingman Daily Miner reported this week that David Darger was sentenced to 3 years on supervised probation. Authorities have said the fire district’s money was put into an unauthorized account and used for personal purchases. Darger, who previously served as secretary-treasurer of the fire district, was charged alongside former fire chief Jacob Leonard Barlow in an Arizo...

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

New Utah trend? Grads plug Mormon missions at commencement

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:26:43 MDT

New Utah trend? Grads plug Mormon missions at commencement

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Updated Jun 11, 2013 06:26AM MDT

Hundreds of Bountiful High graduates lined up to receive their diplomas at the Regional Center in Woods Cross on Friday, many of whom have already received their LDS mission assignments since the minimum age went from 19 to 18 for young men. As is the custom, graduating seniors wrote their names on a card to be read aloud as they crossed the stage. Apparently, dozens of young men added what appeared to be the place of their Mormon mission as a “middle name” – as in John “Russia” Doe and James “N...

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Candidates across Utah vie for mayor, council spots

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:22:57 MDT

Candidates across Utah vie for mayor, council spots

By Pamela Manson, Cathy Mckitrick & DJ SUmmers The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 8, 2013 12:22PM MDT

With incumbent Mike Winder out of the race for the West Valley City mayor’s seat, the field of candidates is getting crowded. By the time the filing period ended on Friday, seven residents of the state’s second-largest city — including three sitting members of the City Council — had filed to run for West Valley’s top spot. Salt Lake City is in for a major makeover as three incumbents — Carlton Christensen, Jill Remington Love and Soren Simonsen — are not seeking re-election. Incumbent Stan Penf...

Governor nominates Salt Lake County prosecutor to fill judicial vacancy

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:54:11 MDT

Governor nominates Salt Lake County prosecutor to fill judicial vacancy

By Marissa Lang The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 6, 2013 10:54PM MDT

Gov. Gary Herbert has appointed Salt Lake County prosecutor Paul Parker to fill a judicial vacancy in 3rd District Court, which serves Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties. Parker, who has worked for the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office for 24 years, was chosen from a pool of six attorney nominees to replace Judge Judith Atherton when she retires on Aug. 1. “Paul possesses an immense understanding of Utah’s judicial system,” Herbert said in a statement. “He brings over 35 years of e...

Salt Lake City Council candidate filings start adding up

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:39:52 MDT

Salt Lake City Council candidate filings start adding up

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 7, 2013 06:39PM MDT

The candidate filing deadline for the Salt Lake City Council is 5 p.m. Friday with seats from Districts 1, 3, 5 and 7 up for election. District 1 (Rose Park, Fairpark, Westpointe) • Incumbent Carlton Christensen is not seeking re-election. As of Wednesday afternoon, four candidates had filed for that seat. They include J. Dee Carlson, Isaac D. Arnold, Kevin S. Parke and Brad Bartholomew. District 3 (Avenues, Capitol Hill, Federal Heights) • Stan Penfold now holds the seat for Council District ...

Utah water district cutting irrigation deliveries

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:47:21 MDT

Utah water district cutting irrigation deliveries

By Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 5, 2013 09:47AM MDT

Some northern Utah irrigators will see their water deliveries reduced this summer thanks to a skimpy snowpack that has left many reservoirs only two-thirds full at the peak of runoff season. The Weber Basin Water Conservancy District board last week approved a 20 percent reduction in deliveries starting immediately. The board also voted to end irrigation season two weeks early on Oct. 1 and to ask retail customers to voluntarily reduce their outdoor water use by 20 percent. “Along the Wasatch Fr...

DI work hours

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 01:01:04 MDT

DI work hours

Updated Jun 5, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Re “Mormon-owned DI cuts workers’ hours, avoids Obamacare rule” (Tribune, May 30): It’s interesting that organizations like Deseret Industries and Granite School District, and many private companies, are not interested in paying for health care insurance for their low-wage, 30-hour employees (refugee clothes sorters and bus drivers). Sadly, these people are the ones who cannot afford to purchase individual health insurance. Not to worry — many are “eligible for premium tax subsidies and Medica...