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1. McCain wins.
2. Normal American checks and balances: Guv can sign "treaties" but they need to be ratified.
3. Senator Fred Fife on the Minority Site.
4. Timeless: The heat of a thousand suns.
5. Human Victories: Drug Courts.
6. Capitol worker was electrocuted.
7. Radar: in-state tuition bill passes house committee and goes to the full House of Reps. SLTrib. DNews.
8. Utah Policy Daily.
9. Health care takes center stage. Again. DNews. Davis County Clipper. KCPW.
   
10. Health care 2: A Trib reporter, dressed in a cheer squad outfit, gives a holler for the Governor. No hint of any other viewpoint on the issue. If she had called us her readers would have learned President Valentine thinks the executive and legislative branches need to hammer this out together.
11. KSL pens a nice editorial about President Gordon B. Hinckley.
12. The Boston Globe gives Rep. Jim Matheson some love.
13. Senator Pat Jones: still wanna throw trash out your window? Highway littering fine will increase from $100 to $250. You're welcome.
14. Senate committee approves funding for a Vets Home. Not because we know the Feds will come through for vets, but because vets need it, and we're not sure the feds will come through for vets. DNews. SLTrib.
15. Nontraditional relationships bill passes senate committee.
16. Senator Scott McCoy: Don't smoke with kids in your car. Duh. Now the bill goes to the house.
17. Senator Mark Madsen: the right to defend yourself vs. property rights.
18. Senator Madsen's other bill re: the right to self protection in your car: Trib. Daily Herald.
19. Utah's Jessica's law will be best in the nation.
20. The Power of Trout: first time Mike Noel has voted in favor of a bill supported by the Sierra Club.
21. Senator Jon Greiner: Two bills to fight gang-related crime.
22. The Deseret News editorial board opines on USTAR funding.
23. The Senate clarifies tax code for vets' families.
24. Stephenson for Obama.
25. David J. Miller says charter school kids are going to kick your trash.
26. Senator Sheldon Killpack wants stiffer penalties for mortgage fraud violators. And world peace.
    
27. Tom Grover cuts his hair.

[Update @ 4:00 p.m.] Paul Rolly just called with concerns about #10, above. So . . . for Mr. Rolly and anyone out there who may have missed it: The cheer squad outfit mentioned above was figurative.* We were saying – at sixish a.m. – that this article seemed to be cheering for the Guv.

* Of course it was figurative. It's a printed article. How would we know what the reporter was wearing when the article was written? I was wearing an Echo & the Bunnymen T-shirt when I pounded out the blog. Now, if I were talking about TV Reporter Rod DECKER wearing a cheerleading outfit, THAT would be another story. (Apologies for planting that visual in your minds.)

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