Topic: Utah
Vote to aid troubled banks roils GOP primaries, claims one senator, more lawmakers could fallOne Republican senator lost his job because he voted for the 2008 bank bailout. Two other GOP lawmakers may be next.Former President George W. Bush's lifeline to financial ...
Republicans who supported bailout of banks in 2008 find votes come back to haunt themSome of Congress' staunchest conservatives voted two years ago to prop up the nation's banking industry. At the time, they saw a threat to American business. Now the ...
Utah governor says 2 trains of South Carolina depleted uranium won't come to Utah as planned About 6,500 tons of low-level radioactive waste from South Carolina won't be coming to Utah as originally planned, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said Monday in announcing ...
76 American Indian tribes to share $1B in stimulus funds; second round of grants totaling $2B Seventy-six American Indian tribes across the country will share $1 billion in economic stimulus money to help create jobs and revitalize Indian communities.The money, announced Thursday, ...
Watchdog group ranks all 50 states in how well they are tracking stimulus law funding. State governments in Kentucky, Illinois, Minnesota and Utah made the most dramatic progress in reporting their federal economic stimulus spending online in the last six months, according ...
Religious leaders, food banks urge Utah lawmakers not to hike food sales taxDays before the start of Utah's legislative session, representatives from religious groups and food banks voiced concern Thursday about a potential sales tax increase on food to help fill the ...
Democratic Utah lawmaker proposes raising income taxes on those who make $250,000 or moreAnyone in Utah who earns more than $250,000 a year would pay higher income taxes under a proposal being sponsored by a Democratic state lawmaker.Rep. Brian King, of Salt ...
In Utah, environmental cleanups get major chunk of federal contracts under stimulus programEnvironmental cleanup projects in two small Utah cities are the state's biggest winners so far of federal contracts awarded under President Barack Obama's stimulus program.New figures show that 535 jobs ...
Early statistics show teachers gaining the most from Obama's stimulus plan by avoiding layoffsTeachers appear to have benefited most from the effort to save jobs with the $787 billion recovery package, which sent billions of dollars to states that were on the ...
Utah Legislature decides against legal changes to accept $61 million in federal stimulus fundsUtah lawmakers have decided against changing state law to accept more than $61 million in federal stimulus money meant to help the unemployed.The Legislature would have needed to allow ...
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