Beehive Blunders

16/02/2024

Paul Huntsman stepped down as The Salt Lake Tribune chair. We are thus re-sharing a five-part series we wrote about Tribune issues that pertained to Huntsman. They resulted from an interview we did with a former Tribune journalist.
Here's the fifth.

Note: This is Part V in a series of stories about issues that The Salt Lake Tribune has faced.

15/02/2024

Paul Huntsman stepped down as The Salt Lake Tribune chair. We are thus re-sharing a five-part series we wrote about Tribune issues that pertained to Huntsman. They resulted from an interview we did with a former Tribune journalist.
Here's the fourth.

Note: This is Part IV in a series of stories about issues that The Salt Lake Tribune has faced.

14/02/2024

Paul Huntsman stepped down as The Salt Lake Tribune chair. We are thus re-sharing a five-part series we wrote about Tribune issues that pertained to Huntsman. They resulted from an interview we did with a former Tribune journalist.
Here's the third.

Note: This is Part III in a series of stories about issues that The Salt Lake Tribune has faced.

13/02/2024

Paul Huntsman stepped down as The Salt Lake Tribune chair. We are thus re-sharing a five-part series we wrote about Tribune issues that pertained to Huntsman. They resulted from an interview we did with a former Tribune journalist.
Here's the second.

Note: This is part II in a series of stories about issues that The Salt Lake Tribune has faced.

13/02/2024

Paul Huntsman stepped down as The Salt Lake Tribune chair. We are thus re-sharing a series of articles we wrote about Tribune issues that pertained to Huntsman. Here's the first.

Note: This is part I in a series of stories about issues that The Salt Lake Tribune has faced.

05/11/2022

You may be able to teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime.
But if you tell a politician’s campaign a handful of times to not contact you, they may very well not care in any way whatsoever.
In the case of Evan McMullin’s campaign for the U.S. Senate, it may just keep contacting you.

You may be able to teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. But if you tell a politician’s campaign a handful of times to not…

15/10/2022

Candidates’ campaigns would contact a repeat state delegate. However, not one of them contacted him more than a handful of times each.

Except for Evan McMullin's.

Evan McMullin is an independent candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Utah currently held by Sen. Mike Lee. McMullin is also a Latter-day…

19/09/2022

Elora Murray, a host for KUTV's lifestyle show Fresh Living in Salt Lake City, claims she is “a strong believer in spreading around more kindness.” Yet, she disconnected with an individual on Facebook not long after he responded to her request in a Facebook post for work leads with a lead.
Bubbly, soft news personalities act in certain ways to be likable, but are they that way privately often enough?

26/07/2022

Progressives in Utah are claiming to be Republicans.
They could also reject deception and find a better government in moving to one of the six blue states near Utah.

Progressives in Utah are claiming to be Republicans, as City Weekly reported. They say they want their vote to count. It’s funny given…

11/07/2022

Alliance for a Better Utah, a left-leaning advocacy organization, gave 65% of Utah Republican lawmakers Fs or Ds based on their votes on 51 bills in the 2022 Utah legislative session. The nonprofit’s fifth annual “progress report” has one-quarter of GOP members of the Utah legislature with Fs. Five got negative scores.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Alliance for a Better Utah, a left-leaning advocacy organization, gave 65% of Utah Republican lawmakers Fs or Ds…

10/07/2022

With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the politically moderate United Utah Party is urging Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and the Utah legislature to convene a special session to review Utah’s abortion trigger law.

With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the politically moderate United Utah Party is urging Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and the Utah legislature to…

23/04/2022

None of six Utah Republican candidates opposing Reps. Burgess Owens, Chris Stewart and Blake Moore opposed the three U.S. House members getting Fs and a D, respectively, from a Republican-supporting group.
And three of the four candidates running against Moore didn't speak to him violating a federal law twice, two months apart.

And Three of Four Utah GOP Candidates Against U.S. Rep. Blake Moore Didn’t Speak to Him Violating a Federal Law Twice, Two Months Apart

01/04/2022

We need far fewer Sen. Mike Lees representing Utah and in the Senate, but Isom isn’t the solution.

Ally Isom vowed “I’m going to build bridges” during her current U.S. Senate candidacy, as the St. George Spectrum reported. Yet, Ally Isom…

23/01/2022

In the first week of the 2022 Utah general legislative session, Republicans in the Utah State Legislature passed a resolution and a bill that halt efforts to protect public health in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Utah’s governor, a political party official and an activist were among the politicos who spoke of problems with the resolution and bill that passed this week.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — In the first week of the 2022 Utah general legislative session, the Utah State Legislature passed two pieces of…

20/01/2022

In order to rush through a bill that would overturn Salt Lake County's mask mandate, GOP leadership accelerated the timeline of the bill so that it would be debated and voted on without a public hearing or opportunity to give public comment, according to Alliance for a Better Utah, a left-leaning political advocacy organization.

“Legislative leaders are actively tying the hands of local leaders who are working hard every day to protect their residents.”

12/11/2021

The Republican-controlled Utah legislature concluded a two-day special session by adopting new maps for congressional, Utah House, Utah Senate, and Utah State Board of Education districts. As they were created by Rep. Paul Ray and Sen. Scott Sandall (Republicans and the chairs of the Utah Legislative Redistricting Committee), none were recommended by the Utah Independent Redistricting Commission, which was initially approved by voters. And all of them were “grossly gerrymandered,” according to left-leaning advocacy organization Alliance for a Better Utah.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has indicated that he will not veto the maps, according to media reports.

Rallying Utahns ask Cox to veto the maps; voter-approved organization creates PAC to defeat lawmakers who did not support independent…

11/11/2021

Republican legislators in the Utah Senate and Utah House of Representatives passed the congressional map approved by Republicans in the Utah Legislative Redistricting Committee. It now goes to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s desk, and Cox said last night that he “likely” won’t veto it, according to Deseret News reporter Katie McKellar. The map, which was drawn by Republican Rep. Paul Ray, the committee co-chair, was “grossly gerrymandered,” according to Alliance for a Better Utah.

Voter-approved organization has formed political action committee ‘to pursue electoral consequences’

09/11/2021

Utah redistricting committee Republicans approved Rep. Paul Ray's and Sen. Scott Sandall’s maps after the legislators heard hours of pleas for a voter-approved, independent commission's maps, which followed the chairs not recommending those maps.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Catherine Kaminsky had unfortunate news to share about Rep. Paul Ray.

07/11/2021

The Utah Independent Redistricting Commission considered maps drawn by Utahns and gathered around 1,200 comments from the public after holding 32 meetings across the state, spanning six-and-a-half months. Only after doing that did the commissioners present their slate of 12 unanimously recommended maps Monday to the Utah Legislative Redistricting Committee.
Sen. Scott Sandall and Rep. Paul Ray, the committee’s co-chairs, are not recommending any of those maps. Instead, they are proposing their own.

The Utah Independent Redistricting Commission considered maps drawn by Utahns and gathered about 1,200 comments from the public after…

29/10/2021

Hillary Stirling says a new initiative is necessary for a truly independent commission.

Hillary Stirling Says Initiative Is Necessary for a Truly Independent Commission

27/10/2021

In light of problems revealed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation of Utah’s Davis School District, which revealed widespread racism there, the state of Utah government should undertake a full review of all districts and charter schools to assess if similar problems are occurring elsewhere.
That’s what Moe Hickey, executive director of Voices for Utah Children, said.

In light of problems revealed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation of Utah’s Davis School District, which revealed widespread…

19/10/2021

Why Russ Keisel shouldn't be elected as the Mt. Pleasant mayor

I covered the Mt. Pleasant city council as a journalist for a year. My experience in doing that helped me understand that Michael Olsen…

27/07/2021

Just days before the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual meeting, this year hosted in Salt Lake City, the left-leaning watchdog organizations Center for Media and Democracy and Alliance for a Better Utah filed a campaign finance complaint July 26 with Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson. The complaint is against ALEC, Sen. Lincoln Fillmore, and Sen. Stuart Adams for illegally giving and failing to report the receipt of valuable campaign software linked to the Republican National Committee.

Complaint to Utah Lieutenant Governor alleges that ALEC illegally gave sophisticated voter management campaign software linked to the RNC…

29/05/2021

As the Utah Legislature met last week in a special session to consider agenda items proposed by Gov. Spencer Cox, they also chose to consider items in what the Utah Senate described as an “extraordinary” session. Hillary Stirling, chair of the centrist United Utah Party, called the items “frivolous” and “misguided use of time and energy.”

As the Utah Legislature met last week in a special session to consider agenda items proposed by Gov. Spencer Cox, they also chose to…

13/05/2021

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced today that the additional $300 weekly unemployment benefits and other federal unemployment programs related to the pandemic would end June 26, rather than the federal expiration of Sept. 6. The move to end the unemployment stipend prematurely is a trend among states with Republican governors.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah— Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced today that the additional $300 weekly unemployment benefits and other federal…