Holiday Schedule
Utah Policy Daily will not publish tomorrow, on Thanksgiving Day. On Friday we’ll publish a condensed version with headline links. We’ll be back to normal on Monday. Have a great Thanksgiving!
Wise Words
Thanksgiving
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
-- Irv Kupcinet
Redistricting On Fast Track
If you have an opinion on the new congressional district maps being drawn on a fast-track schedule by the Legislature’s Redistricting Committee, the committee wants to hear from you.
The committee is hoping for good participation in five public hearings it is holding around the state next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the district options and to receive feedback. Click here to see the times, locations and agendas of the hearings. From that page you can also click for a list of committee members.
If you can’t attend a meeting, but would like to study the maps, you can click on a link to the maps on the meeting schedule page. Options A, I and J will be presented for public comment at the hearings. Option A is the same map created in 2001. Options I and J are those most favored by committee members. At the bottom of the maps page is a link you can click on to send a comment to the committee.
The committee hopes to have a recommendation to the full Legislature after its meeting on Wednesday, with a special session called by the governor likely to be held on Thursday, Nov. 30, or Friday, Dec. 1. See also Blog Watch, below.
SL County Business Support
The latest issue of the Economic Review, the Economic Development Corporation of Utah’s weekly newsletter, spotlights Salt Lake County’s economic development website, called Upgrade. Marian Hein, a small business coordinator for the county, describes Mayor Peter Corroon as a small business person who wants to see small businesses flourish here.
Blog Watch
The Senate Site says: "The Redistricting Committee will take three or four [proposed congressional district] maps on the road next week: Map A, Map I, Map J, and possibly Map G. ... Maps I or J are probably the favorites. The front runner may be Map J, a bipartisan proposal, crafted with Senate Democrats" (see also here, here, and here).... Utah Taxpayer explains why "truth-in-taxation works".... Jesse Harris explains why "government must get back to basics".... Paul Rolly reports: "A petition drive has begun among the Utah Republican faithful to draft Enid Greene to run for party chairman next summer. Greene currently is the acting state chairman, filling in for Joe Cannon, who resigned just after the election with about nine months left on his term. She has said she wants to fill the rest of Cannon's term and finish 'the good job he has done' over the past five years. But she also said she probably wasn't interested in running for chair for the next two-year term. The petition drive was begun by members of the Republican State Central Committee and is being distributed among state delegates. Greene, who had not heard of the petition drive, says she is flattered by the movement but still is 'leaning against' running for her own two-year term" (see also here).... The Claremont Institute's Richard Samuelson says: "At Claremont we study statesmanship. One of the main elements of statesmanship in our republic is teaching. Great American statesman must educate the citizenry about the nature and purpose of republican government. I have only begun to pay close attention to the race for the 2008 Republican nomination, but so far [Mitt] Romney seems to be the only one who might understand that" (see also here, here, here, and here). |
