Happy Valentines Day. Go find some mistletoe (Oops, wrong holiday!).
Valentine's Day Love Quotes
(Source: 123Holiday.net)
- “If music be the food of love, play on.” (Shakespeare)
- “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” (Robert Browning)
- “Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.” (Lamartine)
- “Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” (Albert Camus)
- “It's not the men in my life that count -- it's the life in my men.” (Mae West,1892-1980)
- “One of the keys to happiness in marriage is a bad memory.” (Rita Mae Brown)
- “Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.” (Judith Viorst)
- “At the touch of Love every one becomes a poet.” (Plato)
- “Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.” (Sean Connery)
- “Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.” (Jules Renard)
- “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” (Oscar Wilde)
 State Senator Focuses on Fiscal Responsibility
UPD will periodically publish short profiles of Utah political leaders. Sen. Wayne Niederhauser, District 9, recently sat down with UPD’s Wesley G. Smith to discuss his background and his legislative priorities.)
Sen. Wayne Niederhauser, elected in November and serving his first term, is a busy man. He is one of many Utah legislators who manage to wear multiple hats as he serves as a state senator, runs a small business, raises five children with his wife, Melissa, and finds time to enjoy the beautiful mountains that surround his Sandy district.
Niederhauser is an unabashed conservative. He is proud to admit that his political hero is President Ronald Reagan and that he particularly admired Reagan’s policy positions on taxes and the economy. He also acknowledges that if he had to choose a winning candidate for president in 2008, from the existing field, he would probably select former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, but adds, “I don’t know if he is conservative enough.” When questioned about his views on the state and the issues facing Utah he is quick to note that he is not a malcontent — “I’m generally pleased with how the state is run.”
As a state senator, Niederhauser focuses on what he believes to be his primary responsibilities to his constituents. He is advocating use of a Zero Based Budget process by the Legislature. Such a process would require state agencies and other entities to justify their budgets from the bottom up before any appropriations would be made, as opposed to the current process which starts at a baseline level from past appropriations and works from there. Niederhauser believes this type of stringent oversight is his responsibility to Utah taxpayers.
But Neiderhauser is not to be dismissed as overly idealistic. He recognizes that because of the short sessions and part-time nature of the Legislature, along with the massive undertaking required to review the entire appropriations process, Zero Based Budgeting will require creative solutions. He has suggested that legislators and staffers could perform such a review during the interim break between legislative sessions. He further acknowledges that it may take several years to rotate through the entire budget process. Being open to creative solutions, he pushes forward with what he considers his responsibility—to ensure that tax payer dollars are spent wisely.
Niederhauser owns and operates CW Management Corp., a real estate development business. He is particularly proud of his firm’s work in the Spring View Farms community development in Bluffdale. Envision Utah recognized Spring View Farms in 2004 for excellence in planning and design of a residential community—chiefly for its innovation in preserving and incorporating the natural resources of the region into the development.
Niederhauser met his wife, Melissa, at Utah State University. They now have five children ranging in age from 9 to 22. Notwithstanding his growing family and his incredibly busy schedule, Niederhauser has found time to remain an avid biker (both street and mountain). In the summer he rides from 100 to 200 miles each week. He is also proud to mention that his district is in the perfect location to enjoy such recreation, at the base of several great mountain biking trails.
The senator is direct and straightforward with his thoughts and beliefs on political issues. But he can be very politically adept when necessary. Asked how he felt about the outcome of the recent BYU-Utah basketball game he quipped, “Utah State didn’t lose so I’m happy about that.”
CPPA Policy Brief
The University of Utah's Center for Public Policy & Administration has posted a policy brief whitepaper on in-state tuition for undocumented students in Utah.
Podcast Watch
KVNU's Tom Grover interviews Sen. Lyle Hillyard about tax cuts, the state budget, university status for UVSC, and the Real Salt Lake soccer stadium, among other things.
Blog Watch
Paul Rolly reports: "[LaVar] Christensen was seen in the halls of the Legislature last week drumming up support from his former colleagues for an apparent attempt to run against [Rep. Sylvia] Andersen, his fellow Republican, and win back his old seat in the Legislature” (for more Legislature-related posts, see Under The Dome, Utah Taxpayer, CoolestFamilyEver, UAC Blog, Lincoln's Legislative Blog, Red Pills, Davis County Watch, and Political Spyglass).... Big Cynic says: "When future historians write the timeline of the slow destruction of one of America's most important institutions -- free public education -- they may trace the beginning of the end to February 12, 2007. On that day, America's religious right won a major victory in its jihad against public education: Utah Governor Jon Huntsman signed into law a bill that will give up to $3,000 for any public-school student whose parents wish to send the boy or girl to a Christian madrassa. ... In short, just as the 9/11 attacks emboldened Islamofascists the world over, the Utah bombshell of 2/12/07 is sure to embolden America's Christofascists in their war against an education system whose instruction runs counter to fantasy-based belief systems" (for more on the voucher issue, see Classically Liberal, OregonCrossroads, and The Utah Amicus). |
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