| Updated: Feb. 23, 2021, 12:40 a.m.
The annual attempt by Utah lawmakers to bypass the signature-gathering path for candidates to get on the primary ballot is headed to the Senate floor.
A Senate committee gave the thumbs up to SB205 on Monday, to give political parties several options for determining how candidates qualify for the primary ballot.
“We have about $2.5 million being spent on the signature-gathering process over the last six years,” says bill sponsor Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton. He added that “99.3% of elections during that time were won by candidates that qualified for the ballot through the convention process.”
McCay’s bill creates four categories of political parties, with various paths for candidates to win the nomination, including one that would allow the party to send the top two vote-getters at convention to the primary unless one secured two-thirds support from delegates and clinched the nomination.
Jayne-Ann Young, principal of Queen Margaret College Wellington.
Schools have been dealing with smartphone use by students for the better part of a decade, so are they are necessity in a modern world, or a scourge that needs to be removed? Sarah Catherall reports. On a sunny Wellington lunchtime, students at Queen Margaret College are clustered on the school lawn, laughing and chatting. They’re making eye contact, they’re engaging, and they’re the things that principal Jayne-Ann Young spoke about when she told parents the night before about the reasons why the private girls’ school banned phones during school hours. Young’s voice boomed in the auditorium when she told parents what sparked the ban: a Tik Tok video, which went viral last year, showing a man committing suicide amid what appeared to be a cutesy video of kittens playing.
| Updated: Feb. 7, 2021, 4:28 p.m.
Utah cattle inspectors got rifles they didn’t need and ATVs they didn’t use. They deposited fees in their private bank accounts before reimbursing the state and drove state vehicles for personal use.
Those were some of the findings of an audit released Thursday that criticized the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food for having a “weak control structure” that “would not adequately prevent fraud and abuse from occurring.”
Conducted by the Office of the Legislative Auditor General, the investigation revealed that:
• Livestock inspectors were depositing cash fees into their personal accounts and then writing personal checks to the department.
A COURT has heard a Carlisle woman’s moving account of the devastating impact on her life of being repeatedly raped as a child. The woman’s powerful statement was read out at the city’s crown court as a judge sentenced 71-year-old Harold Nicholson. The pensioner, of Holywell Crescent, Botcherby, had denied the allegations, but after hearing the evidence, a jury convicted him of five counts of raping the schoolgirl, who was just 11 when her ordeal began. He was jailed for 20 years. The victim now an adult penned a detailed statement about how his crimes had ruined her life, leaving her with a legacy of trauma, pain and repeated mental health breakdowns.
Carlisle man jailed for 20 years for rapes committed in the 1990s
Harold Nicholson
A Carlisle man who raped a young girl repeatedly in the 1990s has been jailed for 20 years.
Harold Nicholson, 71, of Holywell Crescent, was sentenced today at Carlisle Crown Court for five counts of rape.
The offences, which were committed against a girl in Carlisle in the early 1990s, were reported to police in 2019.
Nicholson was found guilty by a jury at a hearing in November last year.
Detective Constable Kerry Gibson, North Cumbria Crime and Safeguarding Team said: âI would like to praise the victimâs bravery in coming forward and speaking to us in order to bring her abuser to justice years after the offences occurred.