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Top stories this past weekend
Utah's 104 legislators return to action beginning Monday, buckling in for a 45-day blitz of lawmaking, budget-writing, speechifying, statesmanship and - at times - political game playing. By the time the final gavel comes down, the state will have hundreds more new laws and commitments to spend close to $13 billion in taxpayer funds.
- http://bit.ly/waOzfw
Push to ban anti-gay bias gets new support at the Legislature
- For the past four years the Legislature has snuffed out efforts to ban discrimination against gay and transgender Utahns. But this year, the proposal has a new champion from an unlikely corner: the Republican majority. http://bit.ly/wk6hOR
Who is Nicola Riley, the Utah abortion doctor charged with murder?
- Two-story package that draw on records released by medical licensing boards in New Jersey and Maryland, including interviews with Riley, injured patient D.B. and her mother, C.B. http://bit.ly/AhlI8i (part 1); http://bit.ly/zX80Sh (part 2)
LDS Church joins effort to stop fraud, scams in Utah
- Concerned about the tidal wave of fraud sweeping over Utah that has reached an estimated $2 billion in purported scams, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is stepping up to participate this year in an event that aims to erect a protective wall. http://bit.ly/ynPSlS
Civil rights leader Julian Bond urges Utahns to learn the movement's history
- In Salt Lake City on Friday to be a panelist during an event at The Leonardo, which is hosting an exhibit of civil-rights era photography, Julian Bond emphasized the need for voting-rights diligence at a time when Democrats are calling on state legislatures to set aside bills that would change voting laws to make it more difficult for people to cast ballots this year. http://bit.ly/xDZoQ9
Sundance: Finding the cinematic fire in environmentalism
- The birth-squall of the environmental movement, according to filmmaker Mark Kitchell, came from the West, during the legendary wrangling over the region's great rivers and canyons. So it seems fitting that Kitchell's documentary, "A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet," makes its premiere in Utah at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday and that sometimes-Utahn and Sundance founder, Robert Redford, has agreed to narrate the sweeping and timely look at environmentalism. http://bit.ly/AdNuly
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