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- Mar 3: Stories from the Heart of the Land, 6:30 p.m., Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 West Broadway, Salt Lake City. RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio talks with award-winning National Public Radio Producer Jay Allison about Stories from the Heart of the Land, his innovative new radio series exploring the diverse connections between people and nature. Tickets are $10 at www.artix.org. Click here for more info.

- Mar 3: Desert Greens meeting, 7 p.m., Coffee Club, just south of 4800 S. Redwood Road (east side of the road). Desert Greens is Utah's national affiliate of the Green Party of the U.S. and meets on the first Monday of the month. For more info call Eileen at 801-201-0219.

- Mar 4: Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, and Vermont Republican and Democratic Presidential Primaries

- Mar 4: Non-partisan public meeting on the Utah caucus process, 5 to 6:30 p.m., Woodward Building, 121 West Tabernacle, St. George. Hosted by Utahns for Public Schools.

- Mar 6: Governor Huntsman to give remarks at Lifetime Hero Lunch, 11:30 a.m., Energy Solutions Arena.

- Mar 6: Non-partisan public meeting on the Utah caucus process, 6 to 7:30 p.m., South Jordan Library, 10300 Beckstead Lane, South Jordan. Hosted by Utahns for Public Schools.

- Mar 6: Lt. Governor Herbert to attend the Beaver County Lincoln Day Dinner, 6 p.m., Beaver High School, 197 East Center Street, Beaver.

- Mar 6: Governor Huntsman to give remarks at JPMorgan Chase Conference, 7:15 p.m., Deer Valley Resort.

- Mar 7: 2008 political office filing period begins (runs through March 17)

- Mar 7: "Education and the Media:  Finding Common Ground," 2 to 3 p.m., Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, 1731 Convention Center Drive, St. George. The event is a free workshop with Utah's newspaper publishers and editors. Sponsored by Utah Press and Utah Journalism Education Team (UJET).

- Mar 7: Governor Huntsman to attend the Rocky Mountain Special Needs Hockey Game, 4:15 p.m., E-Center, West Valley City.

- Mar 7: BYU Executive Master of Public Administration Information Session, 7 p.m., BYU- Salt Lake Center, 3 Triad Center, Room 101. For details call 801-422-4516, email, or click here.

- Mar 8: Wyoming Democratic Presidential Caucus

- Mar 10: American Samoa Democratic Presidential Caucus

- Mar 10: Lt. Governor Herbert to speak at the BYU Gerontology Health Conference, 8:45 a.m., BYU Harmen Building, Provo.

- Mar 10: Lt. Governor Herbert to participate in the Spanish Fork City Marshall Delegation Program, 9:30 a.m., Spanish Fork City Council Chambers, 40 South Main Street, Spanish Fork.

- Mar 11-13: Lt. Governor to participate in the National Lieutenant Governor's Association Winter Conference, Washington D.C.

- Mar 11: Mississippi Republican and Democratic Presidential Primary

- Mar 11: Lt. Governor Herbert to speak at the Utah Water Users Workshop, 8:30 a.m., Dixie State College, St. George.

- Mar 11: Non-partisan public meeting on the Utah caucus process, 6 to 7:30 p.m., Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 West 3100 South, West Valley City. Presentations in both English and Spanish. Hosted by Utahns for Public Schools.

- Mar 13: Non-partisan public meeting on the Utah caucus process, 6 to 7:30 p.m., Dolores Doré Eccles Health, Wellness, and Athletic Center, Westminster College, 1840 South 1300 East, Salt Lake City. Hosted by Utahns for Public Schools.

- Mar 13: The Young Democrats of Utah annual Legislative Hangover party "Take the Republicans to the Woodshed," 8 p.m., The Woodshed, 60 E. 800 South, South Lake City. See your favorite elected officials sing karaoke. Suggested donation is $5. Private club for members, must be 21 to attend. Click here for more info.

- Mar 14: Coalition for Utah's Future/Envision Utah 2008 Corporate Friends Breakfast, 7:30 to 9 a.m., Little America Hotel Ballroom. Keynote Speaker: Ralph Becker, Mayor of Salt Lake City. Cost: $30 per person or $300 for table of ten. RSVP by Mar 7 to kwidner@envisionutah.org or 801-303-1454.

- Mar 20: Utah Republican Party Executive Committee Meeting, 7:30 a.m., Party Headquarters.

- Mar 23: Easter Sunday
- Mar 25: Republican and Democratic neighborhood political party Precinct Caucus meetings. Contact your county leadership for more info, for Democratic party locations click here.

- Mar 29: Grand & San Juan Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinners

- Apr 1: Beaver County Republican Party Convention

- Apr 2: Millard & Juab County Republican Party Conventions

- Apr 3: District of Columbia Democratic Presidential Caucus

- Apr 3: Tooele County Republican Party Convention

- Apr 4: Wasatch & Summit County Republican Party Conventions

- Apr 5: Virgin Islands Republican Presidential Primary

- Apr 7: Desert Greens meeting, 7 p.m., Coffee Club, just south of 4800 S. Redwood Road (east side of the road). Desert Greens is Utah's national affiliate of the Green Party of the U.S. and meets on the first Monday of the month. For more info call Eileen at 801-201-0219.

- Apr 8: Rich County Republican Party Convention

- Apr 9: Morgan County Republican Party Convention

- Apr 10: Box Elder County Republican Party Convention

- Apr 11: Cache County Republican Party Convention

- Apr 11: Women’s Republican Club of Salt Lake City Third Annual Military Honor Event, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Utah National Guard Air Base.

- Apr 12: Davis & Weber County Republican Party Conventions

- Apr 15: Piute County Republican Party Convention

- Apr 16: Wayne County Republican Party Convention

- Apr 17: Garfield County Republican Party Convention

- Apr 17: Utah Republican Party Executive Committee Meeting, 7:30 a.m., Party Headquarters.

- Apr 18: Kane County Republican Party Convention
- Apr 18: Jefferson/ Jackson Dinner sponsored by the Washington County Democrats, 6 p.m. dinner and 7 p.m. silent auction, Kenneth N. Gardner Ballroom, Dixie State College. Keynote speaker Vik Arnold, U.E.A. Director of Government Relation and Political Action.

The cost is $35 per person. Contact Cyril Noble at (435) 229-1281.

- Apr 19: Washington & Iron County Republican Party Conventions
- Apr 19: Washington County Democrat Party Annual Convention, 9 a.m. registration, convention at 10 a.m., Dixie Convention Center, 1835 Convention Center Drive, St. George. Free and open to the public. Contact Cyril Noble at 435- 229-1281.

- Apr 19: Libertarian Party of Utah convention, 11 a.m., Sandy Library, 10100 South Petunia Way, Sandy, Utah. For more information, visit LPUtah.org.

- Apr 22: Pennsylvania Democratic Presidential Caucus

- Apr 22: Daggett County Republican Party Convention

- Apr 23:Uintah & Duchesne County Republican Party Conventions

- Apr 24: Grand & San Juan County Republican Party Conventions

- Apr 25: Emery & Carbon County Republican Party Conventions

- Apr 26: Utah County Republican Party Convention

- Apr 29: Sevier & Sanpete County Republican Party Conventions

- May 1: BYU Executive Master of Public Administration application deadline. For details call 801-422-4516, email, or click here.

- May 3: Salt Lake County Republican Party Convention

- May 5: Desert Greens meeting, 7 p.m., Coffee Club, just south of 4800 S. Redwood Road (east side of the road). Desert Greens is Utah's national affiliate of the Green Party of the U.S. and meets on the first Monday of the month. For more info call Eileen at 801-201-0219.

- May 6: Indiana and North Carolina Republican and Democratic Presidential Primaries

- May 10: Utah Republican Party State Convention, Utah Valley State College

- May 13: Nebraska Republican Presidential Caucus

- May 13: West Virginia Democratic Presidential Primary

- May 17: Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucus

- May 20: Kentucky and Oregon Republican and Democratic Presidential Primaries

- May 26: Memorial Day

- May 26: Primary Election walk-in registration deadline

- May 27: Idaho Republican Presidential Primary

- June 2: Desert Greens meeting, 7 p.m., Coffee Club, just south of 4800 S. Redwood Road (east side of the road). Desert Greens is Utah's national affiliate of the Green Party of the U.S. and meets on the first Monday of the month. For more info call Eileen at 801-201-0219.

- June 3: South Dakota Republican Presidential Primary

- See the entire calendar


 

Sunday

March 2, 2008


Sunday, March 2

Deseret Morning News

- Legislature gliding to a quiet finish

- Lawmakers get tough with feds

- Mitt's son says no to 2nd District run

- Hispanics relax a bit about session

- FEMA trailers to help Ute Tribe

- Incorporation law flawed, Wasatch officials say

- 'Anti-American' wasn't best word choice, legislator says

- Funding kills Curtis clown caper

- Salt Lake County No. 2 in U.S. for toxic deposits

- Parents must go through arbitration, court rules

- Pignanelli & Webb: How are key political races stacking up?

- Jay Evensen: Cold facts tend to cool off the ire over taxes

Standard-Examiner

- Business park keeps growing

- Editorial: Priming Hill's economic pump

- Op-ed: Utah is a fiscally well-managed state with strong financial principles

St. George Spectrum

- Editorial: SB 102 is right bill

Daily Herald

- Sp. Fork thinking green

- Utah County senator an unstoppable force

- Utah County receives $2M for projects

- Editorial: Poison pen taints Utah Senate

Logan Herald Journal

- Gas pipeline coming through?

- Editorial: Milk labeling plan puts burden on wrong guys

Salt Lake Tribune

- Giving pays off well for campaign donors

- Could dogged devotion earn guv a VP spot?

- Dispatch agencies analysis: West Valley police slowest to respond

- Labor leader a 'role model' for women

- Josh Romney will not seek office - at least not this year, he says

- Businesses claim political contributions a casual link to earmarks

- Heartfelt backer: Cannon was right man, but not anymore

- A tale of censure and censors plays out in South Salt Lake

- Walsh: Reinforcing Utah's image as ignorant and racist

- Border Patrol recruiting in Utah

- Teaching of global warming an inconvenient truth for some

- Keeping coal in the spotlight

- Airlines still trying to land merger deal

- Rolly: Battle brewing for the speaker's chair in the Utah House of Representatives

- Editorial: The Thumb

- Op-ed: Animal-rights terrorism threatens life-saving medical research

- Op-ed: Legislators didn't do their homework

- Op-ed: Police officers will pay the price if pension bill passes

- Op-ed: 17 alternatives to the water pipeline proposed by Nevada

Saturday, March 1

Salt Lake Tribune

- DOE paving way for trucks to haul tailings from Moab

- Veterans claim one last victory

- Domestic-partner registry bill past Senate, for now

- No funds for software to teach kids at home

- Bill rewrite would widely distribute school money

- House backs freeze in jail reimbursement rates

- Guv nixes bill that would have limited his authority

- Pet programs get last bite of budget

- Legislator apologizes for gibe at colleague

- Lawmakers put teeth in 'Henry's Law'

- Herriman in court, challenges Jordan split

- Bennett backs McCain, asks Huckabee to quit

- Moab hammering out big-box restrictions

- Study: Cancer high by old mill

- State again sued over freedom of speech issue

- Going green pays off for cities

- Coal plant friends become foes

- Air-quality ruling may be mostly moot

- Government watchdogs decry links between campaign donations, government money

- About the project

- As cities encroach on farms, sights, smells sure to irritate

- Counties sue, say Verizon undertaxed

- Utah's possible $22M boon vanishes as Boeing loses bid

- Editorial: Voting block: SB210 could disenfranchise citizens

- Editorial: TRAX attack: Commuters victimized by poor planning

- Op-ed: Preserving Spiral Jetty means preserving the space around it

Standard-Examiner

- Utah veterans nursing home gets unanimous approval

- Editorial: A dry future for Lake Powell?

KSL Editorial Board

- School Building Equalization

Daily Herald

- Eureka lead levels down

- Farmers lease water rights to help trout

- House talks animal cruelty, torture bill

- Sales tax could be raised for state roadwork

- Editorial: Beehives and Buffalo Chips

Park Record

- Immigrant students safe for another year

- Lawmakers tinker with liquor laws

- Editorial: City Hall says goodbye to trio of fine public servants

KCPW

- Legislature Approves Ogden Nursing Home for Veterans

- Water Rights Forfeiture Protection Passes Legislature

- Bill Making Extreme Cruelty to An Animal a Third Degree Felony Passes House

- Corroon Launches Re-Election Campaign

- Salt Lake County Mayor Opposes Airport Bill

- BYU Article Alleges KCPW Report is False and Misleading

KUER

- Utah Theater Center Stage

St. George Spectrum

- The Toquop flip-flop

- Bowman heals after surgery

- SUU facing new wave of cultural diversity

- Ed Kociela: Hit the road, Toquop, and take Noel and Tilton with you

- Editorial: Restore JAG funds

- Op-ed: Unfortunately, Utah politics reflects one party domination

Deseret Morning News

- Day for vets: Utah budget nears completion

- Snowpack raises flood concerns

- Demos hit over 100% turnout in primary

- Equalization = winners, losers

- Zions center is approved by Planning Commission

- Use of trucks OK'd for cleaning up tainted Moab site

- Tad Walch: Senators see the signs, undo IB de-funding

- Animal advocates sue over right to protest

- Immigration complexities spotlighted

- Hospital visitation rights cause a stir in Senate

- Guv vetoes bill restricting his authority

- Only UVSC may get additional funding

- Leavitt OKs access to papers

- Dixie officials change stance on power plant

- Matheson visits Colombia to push free-trade

- Legislative briefs

- 220 jobs coming to Utah

- Editorial: Another soccer bill?

- Editorial: The winners and the losers