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Political News
| Census Lawsuit Loses on Appeal |
| The judicial panel created to hear Utah's challenge
to the 2001 census turned down the challenge yesterday, leaving Utah with
only the possibility of an appeal to the US Supreme Court. The three judge
panel rejected all of Utah's claims, relying heavily on a previous Supreme
Court decision, Franklin vs. Massachusetts, which allowed the Census Bureau
to include overseas federal employees and exclude others overseas in the
census. |
| LDS Mother of Three is Mesa's Top Cop |
| Take the stereotype; the stern,distant man with a military
demeanor directing patrolmen to each crisis; and throw it out the window, at
least in Mesa, Arizona. The Chief of Police in this historically Mormon
suburb of Phoenix is LDS Church member Jan Strauss, a divorced mother of
three with 26 years of law enforcement experience. Strauss told the Arizona
Republic Sunday that her faith helps her in her job. |
| Shurtleff's First 100 Days Show Independence, Surprise |
| Ever the political Boy Scout, Utah Attorney
General Mark Shurtleff, is always ready to do "the right thing." The
state's first Republican attorney general in 12 years was supposed to
be the missing link in the GOP's unbroken supremacy over Utah
politics. The "good man caught off guard" describes Shurtleff's first
100 days in office. |
| LDS Bishop Encouraged to Return to Idaho Politics |
| Randy Hansen, an LDS Bishop and owner of car
dealerships in Twin Falls, Idaho, says he will consider running again
for the District 23 seat in the Idaho legislature, when campaigning
starts in the Summer of 2002. It is the same position he relinquished
last year. |
| Attention on Utah's Porn Czar Continues |
| While still bringing up the existence of
polygamy in Utah, and referring to the state as "sometimes comically
conservative," this article from probably the English-speaking
world's most prestigious news weekly praises Utah's appointment of
Miss Paula Houston as "obscenity and pornography complaints ombudsman" |
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