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Hundreds who oppose vaccines particularly the COVID-19 vaccines currently used to fight coronavirus globally gathered in Moroni, Utah to burn a giant syringe in effigy to celebrate a night of liberty and the end of medical tyranny.
Former police officer Eric Moutsos broadcast the event that attracted hundreds of people, including many families, to watch the syringe go up in flames. Moutsos was put into the public eye when he was put on leave as a Salt Lake City Police Department officer for declining to ride as a motorcycle escort for a Utah Pride parade.
During 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, he has been a vocal leader and organizer against the way Utah has responded to the coronavirus pandemic. He produced the film Non-Essential and has played it at tour stops in several states, including several in Utah. He also organized business rallies against mask mandates.
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Sen. Mitt Romney, R-UT, addresses delegates at the Utah GOP convention Saturday where he was met with booing from the crowd when he took the stage.
Members of Utah’s Republican party shut down a resolution Saturday at the state convention that would have
Nine delegates sponsored the formal statement of disapproval, which also thanked Utah’s federal delegation minus Romney for their votes against impeaching Trump.
Don Guymon, a delegate from Davis County, presented the resolution to mixed reception from the crowd.
“Mitt Romney’s votes to impeach President Trump and remove him from office in two illegitimate impeachment trials hurt our constitution, hurt our republic and hurt our party,” Guymon said.
The current unbridled growth of the tourism industrial complex in Moab and much of southeast Utah points out the need for urgent protection of our nearby county, state and federal public lands. Locally, we can all see what happens when public lands are not adequately protected.
Looking more regionally, our new Interior Secretary, Deb Haaland, recently toured southeast Utah to learn more about Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. She visited with Native American groups, Bureau of Land Management employees and Utah politicians to determine whether the two monuments should be returned to their former status.
Without protection for Bears Ears, is it too much of a stretch to imagine âMoon House Manor Overnight RentalsâStay two nights and get discount tickets to the nightly laser showâBringing the Ancients Back to Life!â Or how about buying a time-share at the âCedar Mesa Extreme Adventure Resort and OHV Parkâ?
Our new <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/04/08/update-deb-haaland-tours/" target= blank>Interior Secretary Deb Haaland toured southeast Utah</a> recently to learn more about Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. She visited with Native American groups, Bureau of Land Management employees and Utah politicians. She even took time to visit the Bears Ears Education Center in Bluff run by local environmentalists, and to view petroglyphs on the banks of the nearby San Juan River.
Lannie Chapman, Salt Lake County chief deputy clerk, and Carson Adams, Salt Lake County election coordinator, load ballots onto an Agilis ballot packet sorting system at the Salt Lake County Government Center in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020.
Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
If ranked-choice voting belongs anywhere, it is in nonpartisan municipal elections. Salt Lake City will consider adopting this method at a meeting April 20, and the City Council probably ought to do it.
Use it for anything bigger than that, however especially congressional races and this otherwise intriguing way to vote will run straight into the buzzsaw of ultra-partisanship that defines so much of American politics these days.