The latest setback for low-income children is the state's decision to close enrollment on Sept. 1. The $3.5 million the Legislature added last year to allow more children to enroll in Utah's CHIPS program won't go as far as originally believed, mostly because of rising health care costs. So instead of capping the enrollment at 40,000 children, Utah officials will cap it at 34,000. Currently, there are 32,000 in the program.

And even though Utah boasts large surpluses, not a dime of Utah tax money pays for the insurance program for low-income children. It comes out of the multistate settlement against tobacco companies that former Attorney General Jan Graham had to drag the legislators, kicking and screaming, into participating.

While the number of uninsured children nationwide is declining, in Utah it is rising, says Utah Children director Karen Crompton.

Her group is holding a press conference today to encourage parents whose children might be eligible for CHIPS to enroll them before the end of the month.

Wal-Mart wrong number? James Easton of Salt Lake City knew something was askew when he kept getting telephone calls from managers of the various Wal-Mart stores in the valley asking him to come in for an interview.

After several calls to the stores, he eventually learned that a man named Brian applied for a job at Wal-Mart and, on the application, mistakenly wrote down Easton's number.

Easton has explained that they have the wrong number. He has been told, however, that the number is in the computer, and the application is a legal document. So it can't be changed. He has been getting about three calls a day, but the good news is the calls will stop once the application period expires.

The law enforcers: Libby Hunter was following a vehicle down 800 South about 3 p.m. on Aug. 4 and noticed it cruised along in the bicycle lane while the driver gestured wildly, conversing with the passenger, and kept swerving in and out of the lane.

But it wasn't just any vehicle. It was a Salt Lake City Parking Enforcement vehicle, license 73243. Hunter's conclusion: We only have to follow traffic rules if we are parked.

Get over it: If you do a Google search for Foxley-Pignanelli, a law firm and lobbyist organization, the second item on the search list is Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's Web page, comparing himself to Frank Pignanelli and slamming Pignanelli for his positions on a variety of issues.

Pignanelli ran for mayor against Anderson - three years ago.