House Votes to Dump Safety Inspections for Cars
Representative Dan McCay (Republican – Riverton) began his defense of legislation that would remove safety inspections on all vehicles in the state by telling the…
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Coal Payola Scandal Erupts During Waning Hours of Session
In the last hours of Utah’s 45-day legislative session for 2016, a scandal has erupted involving two of the state’s most powerful policymakers and it…
UPC Show: Episode 136 – So Much Editing (Featuring Interviews With Representatives Dunnigan and Hall)
Welcome to the UPC Show with Curtis Haring and Alex Cragun! Have a listen to Part 2 of our broadcast from the Salt Lake County GOP….
Utah’s Medicaid Expansion Could Go Past July
Utah’s policy leaders were in Washington DC today, meeting with Health and Human Services Cabinet Secretary Sylvia Burwell for an hour and a half. …
Utah House Rules Committee Receives Media Protest After Closed Meeting
Late on Friday, the Utah House Minority made an effort to define Utah’s House members who were backing either Governor Herbert’s Medicaid expansion plan called “Healthy Utah,” or the…
House Rejects Healthy Utah in Favor of Scaled Back House Plan
In back-to-back committee hearings to a packed room of more than 200 people that spilled over to a second hearing room, the Utah House Business…
Republican Leadership Cold to Christensen’s Religious Liberty Bill
Lawmakers seemed cold to the news that Representative LaVar Christensen (Republican – Draper) introduced legislation that would protect religious liberties, but not members of the…
Christensen Defends his “Frail Utah” Plan
On Tuesday, Senator Allan Christensen (Republican – North Ogden) defended the so called “Frail Utah” plan he is proposing as a counter to Obamacare. “For…
Healthy Utah Rejected by Legislative Task Force
Even with the numerous hours, days, and months that the Herbert administration has put into the expansion of healthcare services to those Utahns most in…
Health Department: No Health Care Expansion Until at Least 2016
The state’s Health Task Force met again Thursday to discuss options for the expansion of Medicaid. That meeting was the seventh in the interim session with…