Clark is a regional vice president for Zions Bank.

Now, Clark is co-chair of the Legislature's Privately Owned Health Care Organization Task Force and deciding, among other things, whether the giant nonprofit Intermountain Health Care should be taxed.

IHC competitors make a similar argument that the banks have made about the large credit unions - that IHC operates as a large corporation and generates profits, even though it is set up as a nonprofit. They say it has an unfair competitive advantage by avoiding taxes.

But while Clark was for taxing credit unions, he, like most of the members from the House side of the joint committee, has made comments and motions to indicate he is on the side of IHC and its officers' arguments that IHC should not be taxed because of its nonprofit status and charitable activities.

Clark's wife is employed at Dixie Regional Medical Center, which is owned by IHC.

Second time's the charm? An alleged serial burglar who was released from jail mistakenly in August is back in the slammer.

And this time, it looks like he might stay a while.

Joshua Austin Beebe, 32, was arrested by Salt Lake City detectives in August after downtown condominium owners identified him from security camera pictures in a series of car burglaries in underground parking garages.

Some owners had even followed him in their cars and called police on their cell phones, but he remained elusive throughout the summer.

When he was caught, he was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on 23 counts of burglary. But he was released after the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office failed to file formal charges within the required 72 hours of booking.

He has been on the lam since and is suspected in numerous burglaries that have been committed since his erroneous release. But he was arrested Sunday at the Gateway condominium complex in downtown Salt Lake City and is being held on $110,000 worth of warrants.

When he was arrested, he possessed about 100 sets of keys to various models of cars, as well as about a dozen entry cards that grant access to secure parking garages.

Police are expected to file more charges this week.

Gone but not forgotten: Since this is the 64th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the United States' entry into World War II, it's a good time to remember Utah native Mervyn Sharp Bennion, born in Vernon, who was captain of the USS West Virginia.

He died during the attack on his ship after being carried to the bridge by Messman 2nd Class Doris Miller, a steward who then manned a machine gun and downed two Japanese bombers.

Bennion, who is buried in the Salt Lake City cemetery, received posthumously the first Medal of Honor of World War II and inspired the naming of the destroyer, the USS Bennion, which was in service from 1943 to 1972. Miller, who died later in the battle of Tarawa, received the Navy Cross.

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