But it is still designed and maintained by Ric Cantrell, chief staffer to Senate President John Valentine, R-Orem, who is paid out of the taxpayer-funded budget of the Legislature.

So it's interesting that besides just Senate news from the Republicans and individual posturing on issues from the majority party members, it is OK to blatantly use the site to solicit political donations from partisan supporters for the Senate president.

Earlier this month, the site posted the details for "Valentine's Day in May," the annual fundraiser for the Senate president, which was held Saturday at the McCune Mansion.

It has since been taken down from the site, but you can still find it on the server at senatesite.com/vdm.php.

Exclusive and inclusive: The annual National Day of Prayer event held across the country earlier this month highlighted once again the conservative Christian group's policy of excluding Mormons from participating in the official events.

The National Day of Prayer Committee established a task force in the 1990s and connected it with Colorado-based Focus on the Family, led by James Dobson.

Here is the irony: Dobson's wife, Shirley, is chairman of the task force that three years ago issued the edict excluding Mormons.

Yet Dobson is a regular commentator on the LDS Church-owned KSL radio, sharing his Focus on the Family message each weekday afternoon.

So who are the real Christians here?

A double standard? Parents for Choice in Education complained publicly and loudly that schoolteachers might be touting the referendum to repeal the school-voucher law at the public schools.

The organization even sent letters to school principals warning them that such discussions or petition drives could be seen as political advocacy and not allowed at public schools.

So Trudy Henderson, a teacher at Cook Elementary in Syracuse, thought it was strange when she received a notice from Parents for Choice in Education placed in her school mailbox inviting her to the pro-voucher rally at the state Capitol on Tuesday.

Gone to the dogs: I wrote Monday about the problem the McGillis School at 1300 East and 700 South has with dogs pooping on the playground and the owners not cleaning it up.

Now I'm told Rowland Hall St. Mark's at 970 East and 800 South has the same problem with irresponsible dog owners. Teachers often have to start class late in order to clean up the field. Signs posted around the playground and boxes containing bags in which to put the dog feces have done no good. The school might be forced to build a gate around the field.