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- Nov 19: Equalization Task Force Meeting, 2 p.m., room W135.
- Nov 20: Medicaid Interim Committee Meeting, 9 a.m., room W135.
- Nov 20: Hinckley Forum: Washington Update, 10:45 a.m., Hinckley Caucus Room, Orson Spencer Hall Room 255, University of Utah. Congressman Jim Matheson (D-UT). Congressional schedule permitting.
- Nov 20: Judicial Retention Election Task Force, 2 p.m., room W025.
- Nov 20: Lt. Governor Herbert to participate in the Coalition for Families Awards/Seasons of Service Concert, 7 p.m., Thanksgiving Point, Lehi.
- Nov 22: Thanksgiving Day
- Nov 23: Desert Greens Green Party of Utah second annual Buy Nothing Day Winter Coat Exchange, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Library Plaza, downtown Salt Lake Library 200 East 400 South. If you need a coat, come get one. If you have a coat, we know someone who can use it. For more info see http://www.desertgreens.org/.
- Nov 26: Hinckley Forum: "Turkish American Relations at the Crossroads," 11:50 a.m., Hinckley Caucus Room, Orson Spencer Hall Room 255, University of Utah. Hakan Yavuz, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, U of U.
- Nov 27: Native American Legislative Liaison Committee meeting, 2 p.m., room W025.
- Nov 27: Lt. Governor Herbert to speak at the Bear River AOG, 12:30 p.m., Brigham City.
- Nov 28: Hinckley Forum: "Radical Islam in Europe," Hinckley Caucus Room, Orson Spencer Hall Room 255, University of Utah. Leslie Lebl, non-resident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council of the United States and Principal of Lebl Associates; writer, lecturer and consultant on political, security and military matters.
- Nov 29: Downtown Alliance 13th Annual Achievement Awards and Annual Meeting, 7:30 a.m. registration, 7:45 to 9 a.m. breakfast program, Downtown Marriott, 75 South West Temple, Salt Lake City. The Downtown Achievement Awards honor individuals and organizations for extraordinary contributions to Downtown Salt Lake City. Tickets are $25 per person or a table for ten for $250. Contact Carla Wiese at 801-328-5043, or email carla@downtownslc.org.
- Nov 30: KCPW, Sam Wellers and the Deseret Morning News event featuring Jenna Bush, author of Ana's Story, 7 p.m., Main Salt Lake City Library Auditorium. $35 ticket includes copy of book. Tickets available at Sam Wellers, 254 S Main Street, Salt Lake City.
- Dec 3: Lt. Governor Gary Herbert to speak to the Center for the Advancement of Leadership students, 4 p.m., Utah Valley State College, Student Sorenson Center room 206 A.
- Dec 3: Desert Greens Green Party of Utah Salt Lake County Local Meeting, 7 p.m., The Coffee Club, 4879 S Redwood Rd, Murray. Meetings are the first Monday of each month. For more info click here.

- Dec 25: Christmas Day
- Jan 1: New Year's Day
- Jan 4: Annual Senate Leadership Breakfast, 8 to 10 a.m., Grand America Hotel. Contact a member of the Utah Senate Majority for details.
- Jan 21: Martin Luther King Day

- Jan 21: 2008 legislative session begins
- Feb 5: Western States Presidential Primary
- Feb 14: Valentine's Day
- Feb 18: Washington's Birthday

- Mar 23: Easter Sunday
- Mar 25: Neighborhood political party Precinct Caucus meetings

- May 26: Memorial Day

- July 4: Independence Day

- Sept 1-4: Republican National Convention, Minneapolis, MN

- Sept 1: Labor Day

- Oct 13: Columbus Day

- Oct 31: Halloween

- Nov 11: Veterans Day

- Nov 27: Thanksgiving Day

- Dec 25: Christmas Day

- See the entire calendar


 

Sunday
November 18, 2007


Sunday, November 18

Deseret Morning News

- Matthew Godfrey's Ogden

- Mining reform on the docket

- Protesters take on big-box retailers

- Many balk at dropping Dixie name

- Riverton OKs site plan for sewage water treatment

- Shurtleff is seeking constitution change

- Will Navajo fund get new trustees?

- Utah's fiscal '07 Medicaid bill: $267M

- Pignanelli & Webb: Talkin' turkey — the political kind

- Jay Evensen: Why you should appreciate your property tax bill

Standard-Examiner

- Editorial: Payback time

- Op-ed: Powder Mountain rezone change a concern

Logan Herald Journal

- Logan to revamp municipal codes

St. George Spectrum

- Editorial: Balance is essential

Daily Herald

- Preliminary work begins on Utah's first wind farm

- Cities work to draw in retailers

- Editorial: Nuclear power has role to play

Salt Lake Tribune

- Utahns exercise right to openly carry firearms

- Utah less Mormon than ever

- S. Utah touts ritzy retreats

- Utah activists parade against big chain stores

- Utah in top 10 in math and science

- Rebecca Walsh: Godfrey's imaginary 'mandate'

- Off the Agenda

- Rolly: Municipal justice courts' conflict of interest will get legislative scrutiny

- Op-ed: Preserving the future of river corridors requires action now

- Op-ed: Great Salt Lake Minerals' expansion plan driven by high fertilizer demand

- Op-ed: Voters rejected fallacious arguments of voucher advocates

- Op-ed: Unite behind public education

- Op-ed: An updated approach to an old problem

- Op-ed: What I mistakenly called a statewide IQ test was actually an insanity test

Saturday, November 17

Salt Lake Tribune

- Calls to voters target Romney's LDS faith

- Senate hands CEO subpoena in mine disaster hearing

- Voters reject developer's plans

- Response to escapes is overkill, sheriffs say

- Goldman offered $20M to hire more SLC workers

- BLM plan would ease land restrictions

- Dixie State College: 'Rebels' nickname dropped

- Project plans to bury CO2

- Editorial: The Thumb

- Editorial: Vote on tax hikes: Putting property tax increases on ballot is no magic bullet

St. George Spectrum

- Task force moving forward

- St. George planners choosing committee

- Toquop foes file petition

- Ed Kociela: Residents get fired up about coal-fired plant in Mesquite

Logan Herald Journal

- Calls undercut Romney, his faith

KCPW

- Huntsman Steps Up His Call for Climate Change Policies

- Report Says Cap and Trade Programs to be Costly to Utah

Daily Herald

- Beehives and Buffalo Chips

Deseret Morning News

- Romney, McCain attack anti-Mormon 'push polls'

- A Senate Appropriations subcommittee subpoenaed Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy

- Nuclear plant fight focuses on waste-storage woes

- Bonds put Provo project on target

- Goldman urged to expand

- Military tax break may get revived

- Bush to host Gore — and U.'s Capecchi

- Editorial: The winners and the losers