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Halfway home: Looking back, ahead at Aggies and WAC Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Print Tone: Positive Outlet: Las Cruces Sun-News (NM) Journalist: Jason Groves City: Las Cruces State: NM

Jan. 24--While the halfway point is still a game away, we can already see some trends developing for the New Mexico State men's basketball team, as well as the Western Athletic Conference.

The Aggies have hovered around .500 all season. Now 10-11, it should come as no surprise their conference record is also average. NMSU sits at 4- 3 in WAC play, but since the Aggies begin their second trip through most league opponents this weekend, it seemed like a good time to look back and ahead.

With a new look for the WAC Tournament bracket, which awards the top two teams a bye into the semifinals, there could be cause for concern regarding the Aggies current spot in fifth place.

NMSU was the first team with a conference road win, beating Idaho on opening weekend. On that same trip, the Aggies outplayed Boise State for 30 minutes before losing by three. Their home win against Fresno State (who came into the Pan American Center 3-0 in the conference) isn't as impressive, since the Bulldogs have lost their last four.

The second-half schedule also provides reason for optimism. NMSU plays five of its last nine WAC games at the Pan Am.

Boise State and Idaho make the return trip to Las Cruces this weekend. The Aggies follow that up with a road game at Fresno State (3-4) and back-to- back games against winless Louisiana Tech. The Aggies then make the always challenging San Jose State/Hawaii road trip, which appears easier than in past years.

It all sets the Aggies up for meaningful home games against Utah State (March 2) and Nevada (March 5) to close out the season. After an up and down start, that's all the Aggies could ask for.

--- From an individual standpoint, NMSU junior forward Troy Gillenwater has been terrific.

Gillenwater leads the league in scoring in WAC play and has showed toughness in his first year as a starter, playing through a foot and ankle injury.

Due to early-season injuries, young players have been asked to step in right away. Some have responded better than others.

It's unfair and unrealistic to expect much from freshmen or sophomores playing for the first time. You take what you can get from young guys.

One player who needs to return to form for the Aggies to contend is junior center Hamidu Rahman. Rahman has missed games due to a calf injury this season, but even before the injury, his production was less than what we expected from him entering the year. Throughout his career at NMSU, Rahman has shown the ability to get up for big games. He needs to do so to take some pressure off Gillenwater and the younger players.

--- Other things that have stood out to me:

Utah State has won a piece of three straight WAC regular season championships. At 7-0 in league play and riding a 21-game regular season conference win streak, the UtAgs seem well on their way to a fourth.

I was worried about Idaho entering the season after the team lost its best player in point guard Mac Hopson, as well as one of the top defensive big men in the conference in center Marvin Jefferson.

I don't want to take anything away from the Vandals, who started 5-1 in conference play. But I can't help myself. Of Idaho's first five wins, the Vandals' opponents were a combined 9-23 entering Saturday's games. Only Nevada, at 3-3, was .500 or better.

The Vandals fell to Boise State by three on Saturday to move both clubs to 5-2.

Idaho is second in the WAC is scoring defense (60.9 points per game) and first in field goal defense, holding teams to 38 percent shooting.

WAC staying put: The WAC has a conference RPI of 15, according to RealTimeRPI.com. Not bad, but not great and it won't get any better. Utah State (43 RPI) is the only conference club in the top 150, but the UtAgs have a schedule strength of 205. Boise State has the next highest RPI at 158.

First half all stars: If I was voting for a first-team All-WAC right now, here it is.

La'Shard Anderson (Boise State point guard) -- Anderson's 2.8 steals and 5.2 assists per game lead the WAC. In conference play, he's also second in scoring at 17.9 points per game.

Adrian Oliver (San Jose State guard) -- Oliver has the two highest scoring outputs of any WAC player of 42 and 35 points. He leads the conference in scoring at 23.3 points per game. Troy Gillenwater (New Mexico State forward) -- Gillenwater is second behind Oliver in scoring with 19 points for the season, shooting 36 percent from 3-point range in WAC games. He's also seventh in rebounding with 7.1 per game.

Tai Wesley (Utah State forward) -- Wesley has taken leadership of the UtAgs, scoring 16.3 points and pulling down 7.1 rebounds per game in WAC play.

Dario Hunt (Nevada center) -- Hunt has responded to the challenge of adding offense to his game as a sophomore, scoring 13.3 points per game in league play and shooting 65 percent (second in WAC). He's also fourth in rebounding with 7.9 and first in blocked shots with 2.3 per game.

Jason Groves can be reached at (575) 541-5459

Serendipity in the Desert Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Print Tone: Positive Outlet: High Country News Journalist: Zaffos, Joshua City: Paonia State: CO

HEADNOTE

The mood in the Sagebrush Rebellion's capital - Kane County Utah - is not entirely angry

On a crisp June morning in the heart of Sagebrush Rebel country, a steady stream of rental cars, minivans and SUVs flows north from Kanab on Highway 89, heading toward the serene, red-rock walls of Angel Canyon. As the highway curves, the landscape flickers through sun and shadows, the sandstone glowing like embers in a fire. Beyond the sagebrush and juniper, a sublime yet unnerving desert of sand dunes sparsely dotted with yucca plants extends to the west.

These tourist vehicles resemble the ones heading for the nearby spectacular national parks - Zion and Bryce - and sinuous Lake Powell in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The traffic could be seen as part of the boom that southern Utah was promised in 1996, when President Bill Clinton designated a big slice of federal land near here as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, over the fierce objections of many locals.

But the throngs coming to Angel Canyon are neither intent on outdoor recreation nor here to protest federal land management. They've come to see puppies and other furry critters at the Best Friends Animal Society. At any given moment, Best Friends has roughly 1,700 dogs, cats, rabbits, pigs, horses and other animals recuperating from abuse on its 3,800 acres of scenic private land, which has also served as the backdrop for many Western movies. Families, retired couples and all sorts of animal aficionados pack into the group's vans for guided tours that offer a chance to visit the Angel's Rest pet cemetery and a gift shop and enjoy a vegetarian lunch.

On the tour - which takes me from Piggy Paradise to the Bunny House - Barbara Williamson, a spokeswoman for the group, explains that what started in 1984 as a small ragtag hippie commune dedicated to protecting abandoned and sick pets has blossomed into one of the largest and best-known animal-welfare groups in the world. Like just about everyone I encounter at Best Friends, Williamson speaks with a zeal that invites comparisons with that of the region's dominant Mormon population. After discovering Best Friends, Williamson says, she just "had" to come work here in 2002, giving up her previous life as an Arizona university media handler. She now lives in nearby Kanab, with 15 cats. Other staff and volunteers share their past lives - California bartender; 911 highway-patrol dispatcher; Boulder, Colo., chef; rocket scientist - and describe how they were drawn here to help make Angel Canyon the country's largest "no-kill" animal shelter. Best Friends even has its own TV show, DogTown, on the National Geographic Channel. The group has orchestrated massive cat and rabbit rescues in faraway places, and took in 22 pit bulls that NFL quarterback Michael Vick used for illegal dogfighting.

Much as many locals saw the national monument as a power grab by distant environmentalists and a Democratic president, at first "the local people thought we were crazy," says Cyrus Mejia, one of Best Friends' founders. This is a conservative rural community, after all. In Kane County, of which Kanab is the seat, many of the 6,600 residents can trace their lineage back to the Mormon pioneers who settled the region in the 19th century. Republicans outnumber Democrats by more than six to one.

Most of the initial hostility toward Best Friends has subsided; the group has done a lot of local networking and in the process increased its annual revenue to $40 million. In 2009, more than 32,000 supporters made the pilgrimage to visit and volunteer at the sanctuary, providing a significant boost to the local economy. The nonprofit now employs nearly 400 people at its headquarters; almost one out of 10 locals works for it.

There's no obvious connection between Best Friends' success and the controversial 1.9-million-acre national monument. Mejia attributes the group's expansion to its trailblazing no -kill populationcontrol policies, which are now practiced by many other animal -welfare groups. Best Friends shies away from anything remotely political, and Williamson says founders, staff and volunteers are spread across the spectrum in their personal backgrounds and politics.

But at the least, serendipity is at work in this desert. Even though Utah - and especially Kane County - continue to earn a reputation as leaders of the Interior West's anti-federal Sagebrush Rebellion, the community is changing. The local animal-welfare crowd dovetails neatly with a growing number of wilderness lovers and others who have moved here largely to enjoy southern Utah's public lands. Today, Kanab 's main drag includes Laid Back Larry's vegetarian market. New restaurants and other small businesses cater to backpackers and Best Friends volunteers. A progressive minority has emerged as a force in Kane County, questioning local politicians' traditional hard-line stands and anti-federal bombast.

Kane County's signature rebellion - a nearly decade-long legal battle over all -terrain-vehicle access to backcountry roads and trails in and around the monument - might even be losing intensity.

"There's a lot of parallel motion," says Rich Csenge, who, with his wife, moved here from Maine five years ago to be close to Grand Staircase- Escalante. A wood-furniture craftsman, he started the Amazing Earthiest in 2006. It's an annual celebration of this area's public lands and natural and cultural history. About 1,100 people attended last year's Earthiest, which featured an interpretive dance held at Best Friends called "Invocation to Sustainability" as well as an ATV ride along a historic trail. Csenge - who serves on the board of directors of Grand Staircase-Escalante Partners, the nonprofit that advocates for the monument - avoids speaking out on political issues, but he sees the festival as his "community service" to reduce polarization.

Robert Houston is a Mormon who, with his family, runs Houston's Trail's End Restaurant - "where the waitresses wear 'guns on their hips, and smiles on their lips,' " according to the restaurant's website. A former county commissioner, he has lived in the area since 1960. He considers himself conservative, but he's also looking to reduce polarization. He believes in the need for moderate local leadership that knows when it's time to "bend." It's too soon to say that southern Utah's bitter culture wars - Old West versus New West, Sagebrush Rebels versus Enviro Warriors and Puppy Savers - are over. But a kind of détente appears to be emerging.

ABOUT 63 PERCENT of Utah's land belongs to the federal government - the secondor third-highest percentage among all the states. In Kane County, the feds own about 83 percent.

And backcountry driving on that federal land is soaring. The number of all -terrain vehicles in Utah (also known as off-road vehicles, or ORVs, and including motorcycles and dune buggies) has more than tripled since 1998, amounting to nearly 180,000 today. Kane County residents are even more likely to own an ATV than the average Utahn, according to a survey by Utah State University, and AT Vers usually recreate on federal land.

Those are some of the reasons why, in May 2009, people on 300-plus ATVs poured into the wide canyon of the Paria River, 40 miles east of Kanab and inside the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. In a protest organized by the local Tea Party enclave, the UT/AZ (that's "oo-taz") Patriots, they revved up and drove in the riverbed, disobeying a U.S. Bureau of Land Management policy that prohibits motorized recreation in the canyon.

According to many of the protesters, the route dates back more than a century, to when Mormon pioneers established a town in the canyon. They see it as a scenic way past the remnants of the settlement and an old movie set, north to some surviving small towns. "In the summertime, it's a great ride. You splash through like little kids," says Ray Wells, president of the Utah/Arizona ATV Club, who lives in Kanab and participated in the protest. "You ride in the river bottom most of the time, and you probably cross (the river) a couple of hundred times up and back, so any tracks that may ever be there, every time there's a flood, which is multiple times a year, they're gone."

The BLM tried to halt off-road traffic in the canyon and elsewhere in its first travel-management plan for the monument in 2000. Kane County sued, but an appeals court upheld the travel plan in 2009. Portions of the canyon pass through a wilderness study area and critical habitat for Mexican spotted owls. Other reaches don't meet state water-quality standards due to natural salinity, and a state report suggests continued traffic would further degrade water quality.

Wells and other off-road drivers view the BLM's closure of the Paria Canyon route as a test case, since it's a popular and highly visible trail with a history of use. Kane County's government - and Utah's state government - argue that the trail belongs to the county under Revised Statute 2477, a rule tucked inside the 1866 Lode Mining Act, which granted rights of way to counties and states "for the construction of highways over public lands, not reserved for public uses." The rule was originally intended to encourage the development and mineral exploration of the Western frontier, but the modern Sagebrush Rebellion has made it notorious.

The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 prohibited new RS 2477 roads, in order to preserve remaining wild landscapes, while allowing counties or states to make claims to older roads if they could prove continuous use. Since then, D.C. policy-makers have batted around interpretations of the law. When the Sagebrush Rebellion ignited in the 1980s - in support of resource extraction and local control of public lands - President Ronald Reagan's Interior Department loosely construed RS 2477 to allow primitive trails to be claimed as county rights of way. In the '90s, President Clinton's Interior secretary, Bruce Babbitt, who was instrumental in the creation of Grand Staircase-Escalante and 15 other national monuments, leaned the other way, imposing a moratorium on processing almost all RS 2477 claims.

If counties and states can claim ownership, they can set rules about access. And the implications are even wider: Roads in rural areas impede the designation of new wilderness areas, which prohibit motorized travel and most resource development.

"I think the RS 2477 issue is really a stand-in for every other federal publicland issue," says Heidi Mcintosh, associate director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), which has battled Kane County in court over roads issues. "It's not really about roads, and it's not really about transportation, because the RS 2477s that are controversial are the dirt two -tracks and trails that are dangerous to drive and lead nowhere."

But ATVers enjoy navigating those risky routes to nowhere. Many southern Utahns already blamed the federal government for the shutdown of uranium mines and timber operations. Clinton simply ignited more anger by creating the monument, and some key local leaders fanned the flames.

MIKE NOEL, a native Utahn who holds a bachelor's degree in zoology and a master's in plant ecology, has lived in the Kanab area for more than 30 years. He's been a Mormon bishop, a basketball coach and a Boy Scout leader, and has run a small cattle ranch, a local restaurant and the local water conservancy district. He has relatives who died of cancer linked to fallout from atomic bomb tests in Nevada, and he's advocated for more benefits for such "downwinders." He was doing environmental impact analyses for the BLM when the Grand StaircaseEscalante monument was created. Noel resented the fact that the feds hadn't consulted with local officials; he also objected to the monument's prohibition of a big coal mine proposed for the Kaiparowits Plateau. He quit his BLM job and channeled his anger into activism in the late 1990s, organizing local chapters of People for the USA, a grassroots group that became one of the loudest mouthpieces of the Sagebrush Rebellion.

Mark Habbeshaw attended an early meeting of People for the USA and struck up a kind of partnership with Noel. Habbeshaw, a retired police detective from Las Vegas who had also worked as a U.S. Forest Service wilderness ranger on Nevada's Mount Charleston, moved with his wife to 10 acres outside Kanab shortly after the monument was created. He liked riding horses and motorbikes, and he believed that the monument unfairly restricted motorized use and gave the federal government undue influence over the region's land base.

Crippled by a shrinking membership and funding base, People for the USA disbanded in 2000. Noel, however, got elected to the Utah Legislature in 2002, and Habbeshaw won a seat on the Kane County Commission the same year. The two former federal employees used their political power to oppose the feds' road closures and environmentalists' buyouts of grazing permits in the monument.

Habbeshaw risked federal prosecution in August 2003, when he and the county sheriff personally removed 31 closure signs from backcountry roads and trails in the monument. The county officials selected routes they considered to be county highways under RS 2477. "We were absolute heroes to everybody then," says Habbeshaw. "The ranchers were patting us on the back. All the ATVers and the jeep club could go wherever they wanted."

Environmentalists near and far viewed them as outlaws. President George W. Bush's Department of the Interior failed to take action, so in 2005, when the county began putting its own signs inside the monument, opening 63 new routes to motorized travel, The Wilderness Society and SUWA intervened to sue the county for ignoring federal law. The county responded by suing the BLM, claiming that it - and not the federal government - had the right to regulate travel where it had RS 2477 claims.

Kane County has claimed rights to more than 60 roads in all. That includes the county's most recent roads lawsuit, filed last October, which seeks control of 49 roads; one is the Hole-in-the-Rock Trail, an unpaved road that stretches through the monument to hiking trail - heads and an 1880 Mormon landmark where pioneers blasted a route 1,200 feet down a cliff to a river passage now submerged by Lake Powell.

Over the years, federal judges have issued rulings that favor both sides. In September 2009, a three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals found that Kane County still hadn't proved any valid road rights and that its actions that violated the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says that federal law trumps any conflicting state, county or local law. The court reviewed that decision in an en banc hearing (gathering all of the circuit's judges) and ruled on Jan. 11 that environmentalists have no standing to file that lawsuit. That's a victory for the county, effectively putting the pressure squarely on the feds to represent the pro -regulation viewpoint without help from environmentalists. Meanwhile, at the end of last summer, the Ob ama administration's lawyers ceded to Kane County the rights to five of the least controversial contested roads (totaling 75 miles) - the first victory by any Utah county involved in the RS 2477 battles, Habbeshaw says.

Habbeshaw and Noel accuse environmentalists of deliberately dragging out the court cases to wear down local resistance. The county needs to push all of its potential road claims now, rather than later, Habbeshaw says, because witnesses to historical use are getting old and a statute of limitations might prevent later claims. But it's equally clear that the court fights have consumed the local politicians. They've pursued an aggressive strategy even though the monument allows motorized travel on more than 600 miles of roads, and even as other rural counties have sought more practical alternatives, sometimes compromising with the BLM for limited motorized rights.

Kane County officials have not only refused to compromise, they've exacerbated the issue by ceasing to maintain many of the contested roads. As a result, some paved roads and dirt two-tracks that are important to ranchers, hikers and other recreational users have fallen into disrepair and become dangerous.

"That's one of the discrepancies between (Habbeshaw's) opinion and mine," says Ray Wells of the local ATV club. "They're punishing the local community by not maintaining these roads, and I don't think the federal government gives a rat. His passion for what he wants is good. As far as bringing the two sides together and having any successes, it's not happening." (The Obama administration's recent surrender of five roads opens a way for the county to resume maintenance on those roads without the county having to back down.)

Ted Wilson, a former SUWA board member and now a senior environmental adviser to Republican Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, frames the legal battle in similar terms: "Part of it is the personal persuasion and passion of both Mike Noel and Mark Habbeshaw."

Noel, who was among the motorized masses on the Paria Canyon protest ride, makes no apologies: "We have absolutely gone down the road we needed to go." Habbeshaw, who gave an encouraging speech before the protest but didn't drive in the canyon, agrees that the roads cases are a proxy for the general local opposition to the monument and the ongoing battle over wilderness in southern Utah. "New West, Old West, that's what this is about," he says. "Are we going to eventually lose the Old West, the traditions and the culture, (and) shift towards a New West and urban life? You bet we are. But why rush to it?"

WHEN I MEET SKY CHANEY at his home in the relatively posh Kanab Creek Ranchos subdivision, in piñon-juniper foothills not far from downtown, he is quick to point out that he owns and rides an ATV and four-wheel-drive vehicles. "We spend a lot of time out on the dirt," Chaney says.

But locals have a nickname for people like Chaney: a "move-in." He represents a demographic trend: Retirees from elsewhere are increasingly settling here.

Chaney is a retired psychologist and part-time college professor from Santa Rosa, north of San Francisco. He and his wife, Bobbi, bought a house here in 2005. As they've put down roots, they've become active in community theater as writers, producers and performers; one recent musical comedy involved Internet dating. Obama posters and wilderness images are displayed in their house.

Their position on the roads issue becomes clearer when I hear one of their musical compositions, a political parody performed by the Tumble wee dz (the Chaneys and two other couples). They can be seen on YouTube, performing "Highway Robbery" in cowboy hats with an exaggerated country twang:

"We're glad to have our monument, of Bill Clinton we are proud ...

He saved our precious landscape from the motor madness crowd ...

So let's take those ATVs and put them on a pile ...

Let's torch them with a match and burn them with a smile."

There's another reason Chaney is opposed to the Sagebrush Rebels. After a few years here, he noticed his property taxes skyrocketing. He formed the Taxpayers Association of Kane County to explore the causes, focusing on the roads claims, the resulting pricey lawsuits and their costs to residents.

"For many people, over the last four years, their property taxes have about doubled, and I realized there had to be something wrong," Chaney says. Through the Taxpayers Association, which has a 450-person mailing list, Chaney and others have pressed the county government for accountability. The group filed an open-records request in early 2010, seeking to review county documents that would reveal the county's legal expenses and any connections with the property-tax hikes. The county government resisted the request and demanded that the group pay $27,000 to cover the cost of compiling the information. A Brigham Young University journalism professor called the sum "outrageous" in the Salt Lake Tribune.

Ultimately, the county government retracted its demand for reimbursement and turned over 60 pages of budget spreadsheets. Chaney says the numbers are difficult to decipher, but he estimates that the county has spent at least $1 million on legal expenses for the roads cases. He believes the actual total could be double or triple that amount, considering related costs, such as computer equipment, staff overtime and contract labor for surveying and mapping. He acknowledges that there is more behind the tax hikes than just the lawsuits: Some resulted from a local economic boom and bust in the 2000s. (The county government hired a bunch of new employees and launched construction projects just as the bottom fell out.)

Habbeshaw insists there's "no correlation" between lawsuit expenses and the property-tax hikes. He estimates the county spent roughly $60,000 to $100,000 a year on legal expenses up until 2009, a small fraction of the county's budget, which has ranged between $6 million and $8 million in recent years.

The lawsuit costs have also been shared by the Utah state government and taxpayers statewide. Over the past decade, the Legislature has allocated roughly $13 million to support efforts to assert counties' rights over backcountry roads, ranging from mapping to jumping into the lawsuits, according to the Governor's Public Lands Policy Coordination Office. Noel , who is still in the Legislature, has also wrangled a way to force all Utah drivers to share the costs of the legal battle. In 2009, he sponsored legislation that has allowed counties to divert one-third of the money they get from statewide gasoline taxes to cover roads litigation or secure titles to roads. By tapping its share ofthat tax revenue stream, Kane County can now spend more than $300,000 each year on lawsuits without any impact on county tax rates.

The Taxpayers Association's inquiries aren't about county finances, Habbeshaw says. He points to Chaney 's songs and his appearance in a photo of "activists" on the SUWA website as proof that the association is a front. "It's more about providing a shell cover for his environmental activism than really an interest in taxes," Habbeshaw says.

"The county (government) doesn't want local residents and taxpayers to really know how much the actual cost is," Chaney responds, "because there will be more people thinking that it hasn't been worth it. I know people who are (off-road drivers) and longtime residents of this area who are in favor of the county owning these roads through the RS 2477 process but are dead against (the county) spending all this money on this."

Ray Wells is proof of that: "My opinion is we're just throwing that money away. The only people coming out of it ahead is the attorneys."

Restaurant-owner Houston, the former county commissioner, thinks that many of the back roads should be managed by the county, but regrets that the whole legal war was started. Now, he says, it's too late to back off. Whenever he inquires about the cost of the lawsuits, he says, "I always get the answer that it's not directly costing us money, but obviously it's got to be costing us something."

SUSAN HAND, tanned and fit from years of boating on rivers and hiking in canyons, moved to Kanab in 1994 to open Willow Canyon Outdoor, an outdoor gear shop. Without the monument, she says, her business might not have succeeded.

Hand kept a low profile at first. "We were very cognizant of the fact that we were outsiders, and we tried to just live quietly," She says one afternoon as we sit on the patio behind her shop. "We just sort of wanted to blend in."

Hand's attitude changed when some school-board members began talking about using schoolchildren - including her daughter - to stage a protest against the designation of Grand Staircase-Escalante. Since then, she has become a vocal supporter of the monument and other environmental causes; she helped organize a small group of counter-protesters that observed the Paria Canyon ride last year.

"There's a pretty strong alternative community (here)," Hand says, and its members have refused to sit back when the conservative majority's opinions spilled over into social policies. In 2006, the Kanab City Council passed the Natural Family Resolution, which endorsed "a local culture that upholds the marriage of a man to a woman, and a woman to a man, as ordained of God." It called for households to have a "full quiver of children" and said, "We envision young women growing into wives, homemakers, and mothers; and ... young men growing into husbands, home -builders, and fathers."

The resolution was drafted by the Sutherland Institute, a Salt Lake City think tank that promotes traditional values, and the language aligned closely with a 1995 statement by the Mormon Church. The institute circulated the resolution to every town in Utah; Kanab was the only one that acted on it. "I felt it was demeaning and hurtful," Hand says.

But if the resolution was designed to accentuate lines between old and new, straight and gay, Mormon and others, it had the opposite effect. Even some members of the Mormon Church, such as Houston, who say they agree with its principles, now question why the city council took on the issue. Most of the locals whom I asked about the resolution - which is technically still on the books - look back on it as an embarrassing over-reaction to all the changes in the region. "It's not as easy as 'them' and cus,' " says Hand, who tries to maintain a nuance d demeanor - fiery, but civil and amused - when culture clashes flare up.

After the town built a new public swimming pool in 2008, the city council imposed a bikini ban in the name of decency. National media mocked the policy and the council quickly reversed its decision. Hand used the occasion to launch bikini sales in her store. "It's actually really entertaining living here," she says.

Despite its lively alternative community, in some ways Kane County's divisions appear to be deepening. "Kanab is more or less a microcosm of what is happening on a national scale," Hand muses. "There's a lot of anti -government sentiment, a lot of hostility, a lot of verbal abuse between groups that think differently. It's useful to be respectful and understand each other ... I think that part has deteriorated in the time that I've lived here."

Still, the community is gradually changing in a New West direction. The Best Friends Animal Society is a good example. Early on, the group formed partnerships with ranchers who share an animal -welfare ethic. In the lean '90s, when the group struggled to pay its bills and even buy pet food, local businesses extended lines of credit. One supermarket began making special produce orders and stocked tofu to serve the founders; Mejia even gave vegetarian cooking lessons at the grocery store. Restaurants including Trail's End now feed tables of Best Friends volunteers. Local lodging is very pet-friendly to accommodate the group's sleepover program, which sends dogs, cats and potbellied pigs into town to spend a night with visitors.

Yet some locals still see the group the way Shawna Cox does. A leader of UT/AZ Patriots, Cox warns that Best Friends is just "a cult." She also believes that the monument regulations and other federal lands policies are secretly controlled by the government of China. IN THE SUMMER EVENINGS, the cedar gnats come out and pester anyone bold enough to tempt them. Sitting in a chair on his front lawn, Jim Mats on appears undisturbed. After many years here, he has learned to adapt and endure.

Matson used to run a nearby timber mill, which closed in the mid-'90s. This past year, he worked as the local point person for the development of the hyperritzy Amangiri resort, near Lake Powell, which opened in October 2009. The fivestar hotel - part of the worldwide Aman Resorts chain - is tucked away on 600 acres. It's architecturally designed to blend in with the desert and surrounding sandstone cliffs, and "basic" suites - with glass walls, private courtyards and even heated floors and fireplaces - start at $850 a night. Matson says Amangiri has already provided a nearly 5 percent bump to Kane County's tax base.

Matson's next challenge starts this month, when he will be one of two new Kane County commissioners. Habbeshaw and another hard-line colleague are stepping down. On paper, Matson agrees with many of the positions held by Habbeshaw and Noel: He shares the heartburn over the monument, and he believes the lawsuits are the only way that Kane County will ever settle its differences with the BLM. (There are three seats on the commission, and the other new commissioner, Dirk Clayson, also supports the litigation.) But Matson also thinks the county commissioners have been "distracted." He says he plans to examine budgets and expenses to ensure that county services have not been neglected because of the litigation.

As far as launching more lawsuits, Matson says, "Anybody that wants to take a poke at the feds, have at it. I'm not interested in doing it just as Sunday sport."

Some locals hope that Matson will restore a sense of moderation. Similar optimism greeted a recent changing of the guard on the Kanab City Council. Both levels of local government still slant hard right, recently supporting proposals to develop a coal gasification plant within city limits and a coal mine about 40 miles away. But, "I think we have elected some more moderate people who are less paternalistic," says Hand. "The thing that makes me feel hopeful about our future as a community is that these are people who will engage in dialogue and try and listen to everybody and not represent a particular faction to an extreme."

The Obama administration appears at least somewhat open to negotiation, even as Kane County seems determined to stick to its guns. The BLM didn't arrest any of the motorized protesters who openly rebelled against the closure of Paria Canyon. And some other Utah counties are trying to work with the feds on less combative - and less expensive - ways to resolve road claims and publiclands management issues. Last summer, the Interior Department and Utah state government announced a pilot project in neighboring Iron County. It will approve "recordable disclaimers of interest" on roads where that county claims ownership and the federal government would be willing to basically relinquish its rights because there is no controversy over use. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar hailed the agreement as "a model for consensusbuilding and problem-solving," and officials said Iron County was selected because it's less hostile to the federal government than some other counties, basically pointing a finger at Kane.

Last March, Obama signed a compromise land conservation law negotiated by stakeholders in Washington County (another neighbor), designating 256,000 acres of wilderness and allowing the sale of thousands of federal acres around the city of St. George.

Yet the Sagebrush Rebellion continues to smolder - apparently hotter than it's been in a while. In November, Utah voters overwhelmingly elected an avowed rebel, Mike Lee - an attorney who represented Kane County in the full 10th Circuit Court hearing on the key RS 2477 case - as their new U.S. senator. Lee replaces a somewhat moderate Republican, Bob Bennett, who supported locally negotiated wilderness deals. The incoming senator says he won't support any deals unless the conservative, Republican-dominated Legislature approves them - a position that's also held by Mike Noel.

Noel has been front and center at several motorized protests around the state Capitol in 2009 and 2010, led by Take Back Utah, the latest group to channel the Sagebrush Rebellion. It rallies Tea Party supporters and voices the familiar demands for less regulation on federal lands. Noel remains a bulwark for his rural, archconservative constituency He supports a new state law that seeks to enable Utah to seize federal lands through eminent domain, and devotes $3 million to defend the effort in court. Some legal scholars say that law stands on shaky legal ground and even Noel says "it doesn't have that good of a chance to prevail" in the courts.

Noel's participation in the governor's Balanced Resource Council, chaired by Ted Wilson, might provide an arena for some compromise, or at least conversation. The council weighs in on publiclands and natural-resources issues, and helped negotiate the Iron County pilot project. Last August - after a Salt Lake Tribune editorial skewered Noel for "bitter, nonsensical ranting (that) does nothing but prolong the old and intractable debate" - Wilson came to Noel's defense, saying: "Mike Noel may have shown his anger, but at times he has a point."

"I try my very best when I'm in the Resource Council to say, OK, is there an opportunity here to compromise on some of these issues?' and when I can I will," Noel says. "I will even talk to SUWA. I'm going to tell them what I think ... but I will at least listen to people."

It's a promising notion. In a 2008 report on ATV use, Utah State University researchers surveyed about 1,400 ATV drivers in Utah by mail and found they're mostly white, middle-aged, longtime Utah residents, with household incomes above $50,000, politically conservative, and - from their perspective - respectful of the environment. Half agreed with the statement that "Humans are severely abusing the environment." Two- thirds agreed with "Plants and animals have as much right as humans to exist." Eight hundred and fourteen of those who received the survey forms did not respond, so the results might be skewed toward more responsible ATV drivers. Still, there appears to be some opportunity for common ground.

"We just need to figure out what we can do cooperatively (with federal agencies), and then agree to disagree amicably, if and when there's a difference of opinion on how to do this stuff," Matson says. "There's much more to work on and I think that agreements can be made (rather) than to spend all of our time with these distractions. And, sometimes, when these things get to be ideologically based, they're huge distractions."

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Scenes from the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, near Kanab» Clockwise from top: Keeley Floyd with Giah and Nikon; Donna Arellano feeds horses; Cyrus Mejia, one of the founders of Best Friends, with Roxy, a rescued Doberman. Parrot Garden vet-tech Wendy Hatchel holds Zoey, a 10-week-old green-winged macaw, NICK ADAMS

About 63 percent of Utah's land belongs to the federal government, the second- or third-highest percentage among all the states. In Kane County, the feds own about 83 percent. SIDEBAR

Kanab's softer side shows through at the entrance to town (facing page). Four- wheeling at a wilderness study area near the Rimrocks on Brigham Bench in the Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument.

"The RS 2477 issue is really a stand-in for every other federal publicland issue."

-Heidi Mcintosh, associate director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

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Utah State Rep, Mike Noel (facing page) stands near a fresh Kane County road marker on Skutumpah Road - Kane County's first RS 2477 victory - on the western edge of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Below, Sky Chaney, president of the Taxpayers Association of Kane County, shows a letter from Kane County Attorney Jim Scarth in which Scarth estimated it would cost $27,000 and take "a few years" to collect requested records, NICK ADAMS

"So let's take those ATVs and ... torch them with a match and burn them with a smile."

-The Tumbleweedz, in their political parody song, "Highway Robbery"

"The only people coming out of it ahead is the attorneys."

-Ray Wells, president of the Utah/Arizona ATV Club, on Kane County's legal battle over backcountry driving

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Bryce Nuckols, left, and Ray Wells ride the Nephi Pasture Road in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, where more than 550 miles of trails are designated for ATVs, NICK ADAMS

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"We have elected some more moderate people ... who will engage in dialogue and try and listen to everybody and not represent a particular faction to an extreme."

-Susan Hand, owner of Kanab's Willow Canyon Outdoor gear shop

AUTHOR_AFFILIATION

Joshua Zaffos is a freelance writer based in Fort Collins, Colorado. He's had a long relationship with HCN1 including a stint as an intern in 2002 and has covered a range of issues including politics, tribes, off-road driving and wilderness. He's also written for Miiier-McCune, Wired and the Northern Colorado Business Report. His website is joshuazaffos.com.

This coverage is supported by contributors to the High Country News Enterprise Journalism Fund.

Digest: San Jose State could be close to landing invitation to join Mountain West Conference Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Print Tone: Positive Outlet: Argus, The (Fremont-Newark, CA) Journalist: Wire services City: Fremont State: CA

As the Mountain West Conference board of directors met in Las Vegas on Monday, indications were that the conference was preparing to extend invitations to San Jose State and Utah State.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Comcast, the Mountain West's television partner, is pushing hard for Utah State's inclusion. Comcast also has a strong presence in the Bay Area, making San Jose State an attractive option even after a 1-11 football season.

San Jose State athletic director Tom Bowen didn't respond to requests for comment.

Expansion from 10 to 12 teams would allow the Mountain West to hold a multimillion dollar football championship game.

Fellow Western Athletic Conference members Hawaii, Fresno State and Nevada have already joined the Mountain West.

NHL

Sidney Crosby won't even attend the NHL All-Star game this weekend because he's still recovering from a concussion. Crosby will miss his ninth straight game Tuesday when the Penguins host the New York Islanders. n Brandon Yip scored twice and Kevin Shattenkirk broke a third-period tie on a power play, helping the host Colorado Avalanche snap a two-game skid with a 4-3 win over the St. Louis Blues.

Baseball

The Arizona Diamondbacks have added depth to their pitching staff with a right-hander who was nearly perfect. Arizona acquired Armando Galarraga in a trade with the Detroit Tigers for minor league pitchers Kevin Eichorn and Ryan Robowski. Galarraga went 4-9 with a 4.49 ERA in 24 starts and one relief appearance last season with the Tigers, gaining national attention when umpire Jim Joyce blew the call at first base against Cleveland and later made a tearful apology.

* The A's have traded right-hander Clayton Mortensen to the Colorado Rockies for minor league righty Ethan Hollingsworth. Oakland also announced it has agreed to terms with third baseman Andy LaRoche on a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. Mortensen was designated for assignment last Tuesday. LaRoche batted .206 with four home runs and 16 RBIs in 102 games for Pittsburgh last year.

* Billionaire Alec Gores is preparing a bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the event the current owners' divorce forces them to seek a buyer, according to a person with knowledge of the plans. The Dodgers are drawing interest as a community property dispute between Frank and Jamie McCourt winds through the courts.

College football

Florida cornerback Janoris Jenkins has been arrested on a marijuana possession charge, his second arrest in the past 20 months. Jenkins was arrested early Saturday in a Gainesville nightclub.

* Former Southern California running back Stafon Johnson has sued the university and an assistant conditioning coach for negligence in the weight- room accident that crushed his throat in 2009. Johnson's suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court seeks unspecified damages.

Motor sports

Fox Sports chairman David Hill says he thinks NASCAR races are too long and would like to see them cut down to run during a three-hour window.

The Associated Press and Bloomberg News contributed to this report.

Digest: San Jose State could be close to landing invitation to join Mountain West Conference Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Print Tone: Positive Outlet: Alameda Times-Star (CA) Journalist: Wire services City: Oakland State: CA

As the Mountain West Conference board of directors met in Las Vegas on Monday, indications were that the conference was preparing to extend invitations to San Jose State and Utah State.

San Jose State athletic director Tom Bowen didn't respond to requests for comment.

Expansion from 10 to 12 teams would allow the Mountain West to hold a multimillion dollar football championship game.

Fellow Western Athletic Conference members Hawaii, Fresno State and Nevada have already joined the Mountain West.

NHL

Baseball

College football

Florida cornerback Janoris Jenkins has been arrested on a marijuana possession charge, his second arrest in the past 20 months. Jenkins was arrested early Saturday in a Gainesville nightclub.

Motor sports

Fox Sports chairman David Hill says he thinks NASCAR races are too long and would like to see them cut down to run during a three-hour window.

The Associated Press and Bloomberg News contributed to this report.

Digest: San Jose State could be close to landing invitation to join Mountain West Conference Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Print Tone: Positive Outlet: Daily Review, The (Hayward, CA) Journalist: Wire services City: Pleasanton State: CA

As the Mountain West Conference board of directors met in Las Vegas on Monday, indications were that the conference was preparing to extend invitations to San Jose State and Utah State.

San Jose State athletic director Tom Bowen didn't respond to requests for comment.

Expansion from 10 to 12 teams would allow the Mountain West to hold a multimillion dollar football championship game.

Fellow Western Athletic Conference members Hawaii, Fresno State and Nevada have already joined the Mountain West.

NHL

Baseball

College football

Florida cornerback Janoris Jenkins has been arrested on a marijuana possession charge, his second arrest in the past 20 months. Jenkins was arrested early Saturday in a Gainesville nightclub.

Motor sports

Fox Sports chairman David Hill says he thinks NASCAR races are too long and would like to see them cut down to run during a three-hour window.

The Associated Press and Bloomberg News contributed to this report.

Digest: San Jose State could be close to landing invitation to join Mountain West Conference Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Print Tone: Positive Outlet: Oakland Tribune, The (CA) Journalist: Wire services City: Oakland State: CA

As the Mountain West Conference board of directors met in Las Vegas on Monday, indications were that the conference was preparing to extend invitations to San Jose State and Utah State.

San Jose State athletic director Tom Bowen didn't respond to requests for comment.

Expansion from 10 to 12 teams would allow the Mountain West to hold a multimillion dollar football championship game.

Fellow Western Athletic Conference members Hawaii, Fresno State and Nevada have already joined the Mountain West.

NHL

Baseball

College football

Florida cornerback Janoris Jenkins has been arrested on a marijuana possession charge, his second arrest in the past 20 months. Jenkins was arrested early Saturday in a Gainesville nightclub.

Motor sports

Fox Sports chairman David Hill says he thinks NASCAR races are too long and would like to see them cut down to run during a three-hour window.

The Associated Press and Bloomberg News contributed to this report.

Digest: San Jose State could be close to landing invitation to join Mountain West Conference Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Print Tone: Positive Outlet: San Mateo County Times (CA) Journalist: Wire services City: San Mateo State: CA

As the Mountain West Conference board of directors met in Las Vegas on Monday, indications were that the conference was preparing to extend invitations to San Jose State and Utah State.

San Jose State athletic director Tom Bowen didn't respond to requests for comment.

Expansion from 10 to 12 teams would allow the Mountain West to hold a multimillion dollar football championship game.

Fellow Western Athletic Conference members Hawaii, Fresno State and Nevada have already joined the Mountain West.

NHL

Baseball

College football

Florida cornerback Janoris Jenkins has been arrested on a marijuana possession charge, his second arrest in the past 20 months. Jenkins was arrested early Saturday in a Gainesville nightclub.

Motor sports

Fox Sports chairman David Hill says he thinks NASCAR races are too long and would like to see them cut down to run during a three-hour window.

The Associated Press and Bloomberg News contributed to this report.

Digest: San Jose State could be close to landing invitation to join Mountain West Conference Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Print Tone: Positive Outlet: Tri-Valley Herald (Pleasanton, CA) Journalist: Wire services City: Pleasanton State: CA

As the Mountain West Conference board of directors met in Las Vegas on Monday, indications were that the conference was preparing to extend invitations to San Jose State and Utah State.

San Jose State athletic director Tom Bowen didn't respond to requests for comment.

Expansion from 10 to 12 teams would allow the Mountain West to hold a multimillion dollar football championship game.

Fellow Western Athletic Conference members Hawaii, Fresno State and Nevada have already joined the Mountain West.

NHL

Baseball

College football

Florida cornerback Janoris Jenkins has been arrested on a marijuana possession charge, his second arrest in the past 20 months. Jenkins was arrested early Saturday in a Gainesville nightclub.

Motor sports

Fox Sports chairman David Hill says he thinks NASCAR races are too long and would like to see them cut down to run during a three-hour window.

The Associated Press and Bloomberg News contributed to this report.

Taylor recruits big at Old Dominion, and it works Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Print Tone: Positive Outlet: Star-News (Wilmington, NC) Journalist: Brian Mull City: Wilmington State: NC

Jan. 24--Notre Dame played Old Dominion in the 2010 NCAA Tournament, and beforehand Irish coach Mike Brey said the Monarchs' size and style of play was comparable to what his team faced nightly in the rugged Big East.

He saw high-major bodies in a mid-major's uniform, and the Monarchs won the game, 51-50.

Imagine how ODU's rivals feel.

While many programs in the CAA and similar conferences rely on quick guards and long-range shooters, the Monarchs under coach Blaine Taylor have become elite due to a physical frontcourt that allows them to control the paint and the backboards.

Taylor emphasizes bulk and length because of his influences. At Montana he played for Jud Heathcote, who later led Michigan State to a national championship. Taylor was an assistant to Mike Montgomery at Stanford and worked for the successful Utah State coach Stew Morrill from 1986-91 at Montana.

"The old high-low offense was the backbone of it and it dictated that you had an interior threat," said Taylor, who recently became the all-time wins leader at ODU. "I've had an all-league interior player for 20 years and part of that is we recruit to it and part of that is we develop it. At our level, you're not going to get the size ready-made."

Taylor inherited a weak and struggling ODU program in 2001. During his tenure, the Monarchs have signed only high school seniors, never taken a division I or junior college transfer. And now that ODU is established -- having averaged 24 wins over the past six seasons -- he redshirts more players than any coach in the CAA. Of the 13 players on his roster, eight have used a redshirt season to develop their bodies -- including both freshmen on this team.

It produces an identity unique among teams at this level of college basketball.

ODU is one of only two mid-major teams in the top 20 nationally in offensive and defensive rebounding percentage. They score only 23.7 percent of their points on 3-pointers, 11th in the CAA and below the national average of 27.4.

By contrast, UNCW scores 35.6 percent of its points behind the arc.

UNCW coach Buzz Peterson said an ODU frontcourt that features Frank Hassell (6-9, 255), Chris Cooper (6-9, 230) and Keyon Carter (6-8, 220) reminds him of what he faced during his four seasons as coach of SEC program Tennessee.

He thinks it helps the Monarchs endure the 18-game CAA season and gives them an edge in the current stretch where teams play four games in eight days.

Therefore, it's not surprising that ODU has finished in the CAA's top four each of the last seven seasons.

"After time, their size and everything is pretty valuable," UNCW coach Buzz Peterson said. "Blaine does a good job of getting those big guys involved and getting the ball inside to them to get some high percentage shots."

It leaves CAA programs a choice: match the Monarchs physicality or try to counter it.

When time has allowed this season, the slender Seahawks have lifted weights three times per week. Peterson has said that he wants to explore adding a training table for athletes in the future, to ensure his players receive proper nutrition. And he's considering redshirting at least one of the three incoming freshmen post players next season.

"I'm not so egotistical to think that I've reinvented basketball, but we have been a little bigger," Taylor said. "Some people can beat you with different styles. Whatever you do you need to be good at it. You can have contrasting styles. That's what makes college basketball good."

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Taylor recruits big at Old Dominion, and it works Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Print Tone: Positive Outlet: Star-News (Wilmington, NC) Journalist: Brian Mull City: Wilmington State: NC

He saw high-major bodies in a mid-major's uniform, and the Monarchs won the game, 51-50.

Imagine how ODU's rivals feel.

It produces an identity unique among teams at this level of college basketball.

By contrast, UNCW scores 35.6 percent of its points behind the arc.

He thinks it helps the Monarchs endure the 18-game CAA season and gives them an edge in the current stretch where teams play four games in eight days.

Therefore, it's not surprising that ODU has finished in the CAA's top four each of the last seven seasons.

It leaves CAA programs a choice: match the Monarchs physicality or try to counter it.

Brian Mull: 343-2034

On Twitter.com: @BGMull

USU hoping for new athletic center to support basketball, volleyball Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Online Tone: Positive Outlet: AllVoices Journalist: [email protected] City: National State: n/a

First published 8 minutes ago Updated 8 minutes ago Utah State University intends to build a 28,000-square-foot practice venue and athletics center west of the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, under a plan approved by Friday the Utah Regents. The entire $7.5 million cost would have to come from private donors,... FULL ARTICLE AT The Tribune

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Bingham native key fundraiser at Utah State Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Online Tone: Positive Outlet: Blackfoot Morning News Journalist: City: n/a State: n/a

LOGAN, Utah Growing up in Bingham County provided Neil Abercrombie with much of the understanding of his new job at Utah State University.

In December USU President Stan Albrecht named Abercrombie as director of government relations.

As such he will help USU garner state and federal funding for key academic programs and research projects.

"A lot of our programs and research have direct relevance to Bingham County," Abercrombie noted in a ...

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USU hoping for new athletic center to support basketball, volleyball Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Online Tone: Positive Outlet: Salt Lake Tribune Journalist: Brian Maffly City: Salt Lake City State: UT

Utah State University intends to build a 28,000-square-foot practice venue and athletics center west of the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, under a plan approved by Friday the Utah Regents. The entire $7.5 million cost would have to come from private ...... which would also host about 12 volleyball competitions a year, freeing up the busy Spectrum arena, USU President Stan Albrecht said.

For us to keep it on a time frame that works we wanted to put it through [USU] trustees and regents now ...

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WAC back to zombie status as Utah State, SJSU reportedly jump ship Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Blogs Tone: Positive Outlet: The Living Room Times Journalist: Brendan Loy City: n/a State: n/a

Just when it looked like the WAC might survive , shedding its status as a zombie conference in favor of just being a really bad conference, the Karl Benson #PANIC!!! Meter is back to Defcon 1 this afternoon with the news, spreading like wildfire on Twitter, that Utah State and San Jose State will apparently join a 12-team Mountain West, leaving the WAC with just three current members out of its current 9-team lineup (Idaho, Louisiana Tech and New Mexico State). With Texas State, Texas-San ...

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Utah State appreciates the national ranking Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Blogs Tone: Positive Outlet: ESPN.com - College Basketball Nation Blog Journalist: Diamond Leung City: n/a State: n/a

There are now two teams from Utah in the national rankings.

Utah State is riding the nation's fourth-longest winning streak at 13 games and is now getting recognized for it with a No. 25 ranking in the coaches poll.

"It is nice to finally get some national recognition and I feel like we deserve it," forward Tai Wesley said in a statement. "The two teams we lost to this year are nationally ranked teams that are having successful seasons."

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Steelers and Packers to Face Off at Super Bowl; A Bipartisan Step in the Right Direction; Giffords' Rehab Delayed - Part 2 Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Print Tone: Positive Outlet: CNN: American Morning Journalist: Kiran Chetry, T.J. Holmes, Susan Candiotti, Jim Acosta City: New York State: NY xfdcn AMERICAN-MORNING-02

Step in the Right Direction; Giffords' Rehab Delayed - Part 2>

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: You know, we were told, Kiran, on Friday, that at the beginning of this week, if they're going to start checking and seeing how that fluid is doing and if they can take the drain out of her head. She's got a drain that drains the fluid from inside her head to it outside.Take a look at what I mean by this fluid. Over here would be a normal brain where there's some fluid. Over here you can see there's an overabundance of fluid. That pink is swelling. It's putting a lot of pressure on the brain. You have to drain that fluid. And as long as that drain is in her head, she has to stay in the intensive care unit.

She can get a little bit of physical therapy but can't truly begin her full rehab until that drain comes out. Kiran.

HOLMES: And forgive my ignorance here. But you speak of it as a drain. How exactly is this taking place? How do you exactly drain the brain?

COHEN: You know, it's actually a lot simpler than it sounds. It's literally a drain. It is a tube that's placed in her head. It goes into - let me bring that up again. It goes into this fluid and brings it to outside her body. And so this is - what you've got is you've got a tube going from outside to inside the brain.

Now, as you can guess, this is not a great situation. You don't want to have this in there for too long. It's not unusual for someone to need it after her injury, but you can introduce infection relatively easily. So they really want to get that drain out of there. That's what they're aiming for.

Now, if there's still too much fluid they do something that's quite interesting. What they do is they take what's called the shunt. So they take kind of a drain and they drain it internally in her body and the fluid instead of going outside would stay inside her body and go to her abdomen.

So again, if there's too much fluid to take that drain out entirely, instead of draining it outside her body, they'll set it up so it drains inside her body. And some people walk around with those shunts for the rest of their lives.

CHETRY: And it sounds gruesome, of course. I mean, this is not something easy to recover from at all. But they're still noting her remarkable progress and noting some new things that she's able to do,

Elizabeth.

COHEN: Right. They say she is way stronger, Kiran, than they thought she was. For example, and way more aware, too. She noticed, for example, that one of her nurses in Arizona, as she was coming back from Arizona to Texas, they noticed that she was looking at a ring that one of her nurses was wearing. So the nurse took off the ring and she held her nurse's ring and she twisted it around and she looked at it.

And then when the nurse went to take back the ring she held it. She didn't want to give it back. They said that showed a certain amount of coordination in her arm and that also showed that she had a sense of humor about keeping this ring. They've really been impressed with the strength on the left side of her body. Her right side not as much. But they've been impressed with the strength on her left side and one of the doctors told a little story about that when I was there a couple of days ago. Let's take a listen.

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DR. GERARD FRANCISCO, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER FOR TIRR MEMORIAL HERMANN:

At one point her leg was dangling off the bed. We asked her to bring her leg up. After a couple of seconds she brought her leg up without any further delay.

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COHEN: So that doctor told me he didn't think that she would be able to take a leg that was dangling on the bedside and lift it up on top of the bed. He said he was actually pretty impressed with that.

Kiran, T.J.?

HOLMES: So much of what she's done over the past two weeks has been impressive. But certainly wishing her the best as she continues her rehab. Thank you so much. Elizabeth Cohen.

And Mark Kelly, her husband, Gabrielle Giffords' husband, wants to stay by her side, even if that means giving up being by the side of the first lady at the

State of the Union. Yes, an invitation has been extended to Mark

Kelly to be at the State of the Union, a special invitation to be in the first lady's box but in all likelihood, he will not make it, going to have to turn down that invitation because he wants to stay next to his wife in Texas.

Meanwhile, the intern, Daniel Hernandez, you saw a lot about him, it sounds like he's going to be going to the State of the Union, telling the Arizona newspaper he's sitting in the first lady's box.

We're trying to confirm this with the White House. But he's reporting he is doing so. He's the one in the picture there. You have seen so much about since that shooting, he was there, applying pressure to her wound. A lot of people crediting him with keeping her alive until the paramedics got there.

CHETRY: He also got the standing ovation when the president spoke at that memorial service as well. Well, it is capitol hill craze right now. Pairing off for the State of the Union address. Sitting by your member from the other side of the aisle.

Our John Avlon is going to be sitting next to me live in just a moment to talk about it. Is it just some political posturing or is it a true fresh start in terms of working together in Congress. We'll talk about it coming up.

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CHETRY: 40 minutes past the hour. They're calling it date night in

Washington. Members of Congress pairing off with a colleague from the opposite party to sit next to you at the State of the Union. So far

59 lawmakers have agreed to cross the aisle and sit together. And that includes New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. She is going to be sitting with South Dakota Senator John Thune. People joke it's the good hair pairing.

Illinois Senators Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk and also southwestern senators Tom Udall and John McCain. So the big question is whether or not these seating arrangements will actually turn into any long- lasting bipartisanship or whether this is just a show.

And joining me now to talk about it is CNN contributor John Avlon who has written a lot about the need for more civility in politics. So is this real bipartisanship or do you think this is just (INAUDIBLE).

JOHN AVLON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: You can call this photo-op bipartisanship. It's a symbolic step in the right direction. And that's an improvement over what we've seen in Washington in recent years. They should be applauded for taking even this symbolic step.

CHETRY: It's interesting, not everyone is on board. Because the leader in the senate, Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the senate said he's not going to do. He went on to say, you know, people are more interested in actual bipartisan accomplishments than sitting arrangements. Does he have a point?

AVLON: Well, yes, sure. I mean, it's not, you know, the style and the issue at the end of the day, it's the substance. But if McConnell and other folks are going to say I'm not even going to indulge in this. What is to make them think they're going to have good faith on actually building this one when it comes to real legislation.

The real question facing Republicans, in particular, is if President

Obama as expected tries to reach out on some policy issues, are they going to meet him halfway or is there still going to be a wing in the

Republican Party that's addicted to the no Obama strategy that they've used very effectively the first two years. I think there will be a misreading of where the American public is. A new Gallup poll showed over 80 percent of Americans want the president and Republicans to find a way to work together.

That's a pretty clear message. So I think it's incumbent on both of them to realize that and follow through on it. CHETRY: Well it's interesting that you say that because there are some Republicans who say look, I mean, we are not going to say yes to new spending in any way, shape, or form, regardless of how we want to put it, if we want to say, you know, it's for reinvesting in our nation, if it's for investing in innovation. And in fact, Georgia's

Paul Brown called the sitting arrangement, he's a GOP congressman there. He said that it's a democratic trap and a ruse because it would stop Republicans from being able to express some reservations about the substance of the president's speech.

AVLON: Yes, let's consider the source here. This congressman was the first congressman with less than a week after President Obama's election in 2008 to compare the president to Hitler and a Marxist dictator.

CHETRY: Why do we love the Hitler references?

AVLON: Well, we don't. We have seen that and it is a symbol of Bush derangement syndrome on the left and Obama derangement syndrome on the right. But when a congressman with that kind of track record, criticizes an effort to reach across the aisle as some kind of a trap,

I discount the source. He's clearly out of touch with the change the

American people want to make. So we got to follow through on the real substance of this and it's going to be a real question.

There are things the president can't propose, like an infrastructure bank, like deficit reduction, like dealing with entitlement reform.

The Republicans should be able to get behind but it will take some political courage to reach across that aisle. But it's out of what they've been conditioned to do in recent years.

CHETRY: Americans also like the idea too. 72 percent agreeing that they like the display of bipartisanship according to a new CNN opinion research poll. But they also - they also say, OK, fine, this could be a good first step. But we want to see further action.

AVLON: Absolutely. Look, that's what this is about. At the end of the day, this - the State of the Union address is the Super Bowl for policy walks. This is an opportunity to put policy ideas ahead and really set national agenda. But it's all about the substance, it's all about the follow through.

The photo-op bipartisanship is not enough. They really need to find the common ground they can find on policy legislation and then build on it. That's the opportunity. That's the obligation.

CHETRY: I just want to ask you one other quick question.

AVLON: Sure.

CHETRY: Rudy Giuliani, you were his speech writer for many, many years. He was asked whether or not he was going to throw his hat in the ring for president by Piers Morgan. It's airing tonight. It was interesting that He said it depends on what Sarah Palin does in a way.

Meaning that he wants to sort of differentiate himself as a more moderate Republican voice. Is he going to do it again?

Well, look, he said he's going to keep the door open. I take Rudy at his word. I do think it's interesting though that there is an opening in the field. That centrist Republican tradition that used to be so strong right now is not represented by anybody obvious in the political field that's considering a run for 2012. So I think that's what Rudy was responding to. He's right, there is an opening in the field and not location.

CHETRY: Latest straw poll, New Hampshire, Romney topped the pack.

AVLON: 35 percent. He got out of the straw poll, Sarah Palin came in at seven.

CHETRY: All right. Well, it was great to talk to you.

AVLON: Always.

CHETRY: I know you'll be watching the State of the Union tonight

(sic) to see if the seating arrangements will then perhaps bud into a new found bipartisanship.

AVLON: Let's hope so.

CHETRY: We'll see. Don't hold your breath, though.

Thanks so much. Well, you can watch the president's State of the

Union address tomorrow night, live, CNN 9:00 Eastern. And our special coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. Eastern.

HOLMES: Meanwhile, we got some weather you need to be paying attention to. One part of the country getting bitter cold. Another part of the country going to see some rain, possibly snow. Rob

Marciano up next. It's a quarter until the top of the hour.

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HOLMES: Good morning. Atlanta, Georgia. Beautiful shot. Thank you for panning over to us, for us there in downtown Atlanta. Looking at the skyline. Sun's starting to come up. It is going to be a beautiful 53 degrees there today. Right now it's about 34. But some more rough weather could be on the way for the south.

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CHETRY: We have our top stories coming up, including teachers grading parents, holding parents more accountable for how involved they are in their kid's education. We're going to talk about whether this idea would work or whether it would just lead to more finger pointing and blame.

HOLMES: And what now from the airline? A new fee possibly, for a carry on. Does your child qualify as one?

CHETRY: Well, you can't check the baggage if it is your kid.

HOLMES: There's that. It's 10 minutes until the top of the hour.

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CHETRY: Fifty-four minutes past the hour right now. You know, when it comes to marriage, money matters. It is often the number one cause of fighting among couples.

HOLMES: I did not realize that. Christine Romans here with us. And we talk about fighting about money, we're talking about you lying about debt, lying about a purchase.

ROMANS: All of these things. Lying about debt brought in to the couple, lying about how someone makes their purchases.

But it's fascinating to me because new research of married couples in the recession shows that couples who are paying down their debt and managing the crisis together are strengthening their marriages.

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ROMANS (voice-over): This couple dugout of $80,000 of debt together.

This financial adviser schedules financial date nights with her husband. And this student never hides her spending.

BRIANNA STRONG, STUDENT: I'm the spender. He's the money maker. But we are very conscious in saving, especially in this economy.

ROMANS: Not all couples are so in sync financially. Some bring huge debts into the relationship and hide them. Sometimes savers resent their spouse's spending, sometimes a spouse secretly spends for revenge, or independence. (on camera): If you're doing little white lies about your money, does that show that either you don't trust your spouse or you're worried your spouse won't trust you?

JACQUETTE TIMMONS, AUTHOR, FINANCIAL INTIMACY: What else then are you not discussing in your relationship?

ROMANS: So, it's trust?

TIMMONS: It's trust because it's never just about the money. It's all about what is revealed as a result of that.

ROMANS (voice-over): Revealed in a recent survey, 31 percent of

Americans who've combined their finances say they've lied to their spouse about money. Sixty-seven percent of those say it caused an argument. Sixteen percent broke up as a result.

Many of those lies are about debt, a potential marriage destroyer.

Research from Utah State University show thrifty couples are happiest and too much debt can ruin a marriage.

JEFFREY DEW, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: Couples with consumer debt tend to fight more, they're more stressed about their money. And some recent research that I've done even shows that consumer debt is associated with divorce.

ROMANS: He says a couple with $10,000 in debt and no savings is about twice as likely to divorce as a couple to divorce as $10,000 in savings and no credit card debt.

DEW: When your savings can take the financial pressure off, then couples are able to focus on each other rather than the financial problems that they have.

ROMANS: If the debt is unavoidable, then bring plenty of patience and a plan.

TIMMONS: How well do you communicate? Do you have the same shared values? Do you have the same goals.

ROMANS: Communication, after all, is free.

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ROMANS: Bottom line, money can't buy you happiness exactly. But being careful about how you manage it together can make you happier.

And that researcher Jeffrey Dew, he told me that even couples who have low income but have even $600 stashed away, are happier than couples with middle income or even high income but they have lots of debts. So just having that cushion and no big debt, or working through that debt together is something that can strengthen the marriage. And that's what his research has showed again and again and during the recession.

CHETRY: The compatibility issue is key, too. I mean, people have -- people worry about all these ways that they're compatible when they're deciding whether or not to get married. Financial compatibility is key.

ROMANS: Absolutely.

CHETRY: You guys have to be going in the same direction.

ROMANS: Even if you are different -- a saver and a spender -- as long as you understand it. Also his research shows that couples who've been married together for a very, very long time have the fewest money problems of everyone because they have managed to work it out. Give a take all those years. So even a big money shock doesn't hurt a longer married couple like it does a younger couple.

HOLMES: These are fascinating. This is the second time you've given us one of these concepts (ph).

ROMANS: I love these kinds of stories.

HOLMES: These are great. These are great. Christine Romans, appreciate you, as always.

Quick break here. Your top stories coming up.

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CHRISTINE ROMANS, HOST: At home, admit it, you're a little wary of the swift rise of China, the outsourcing of jobs, the U.S. debt they own, and - and competition for oil means maybe higher gas prices for you.From a man who'd advised four presidents, why China matters.

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DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: I do think it's going to define the 21st century, not just this generation but much of the 21st century.

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ROMANS: But the big culture story this week has nothing to do with President Hu. The star of the week is the Tiger Mom. Landing on the cover of Time magazine, the Chinese-American mother who has sparked a national conversation, a national outrage about how Americans parent. The question no one really wants to ask: Are we falling behind, and is what she's saying maybe striking a chord a little bit too close to home?

Jeff Gardere is a clinical psychologist, and Pete Dominick is a regular here on CNN and Sirius XM's POTUS Channel. You got into a big fight with your wife about this.

PETE DOMINICK, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: I did. Listen, I was outraged by this article, like so many people that read it. But this is -

ROMANS: Which part in particular? The part about making her daughter practice piano and -

DOMINICK: When she called her daughter garbage, OK?

ROMANS: (INAUDIBLE).

DOMINICK: And some of the discipline.

ROMANS: You have two girls?

DOMINICK: That bothered me. I have a 6-year-old and - and a 3- year-old, and that - that bothered me. It sparked a real argument between my first generation American wife, who's Italian-American, and myself. I - I thought it was wrong. I thought - and my wife said, you know - we had this long argument -

But here's the thing, without getting too specific, this is the most important article and issue, I think, in - in parenting in America in a long time because it sparks the discussion we're having, the discussion I had with my wife, and you talk about parenting, you talk about - I think there needs to be a balance.

But, I'll tell you, when my - when I woke up the next day, and my kids, after reading that article, I felt different as a parent. I felt - ROMANS: Me, too.

DOMINICK: My daughter - you did too? My daughter gave me a hard time, my 3-year-old getting out of bed. She started kicking me. I said, No, you piece of garbage, and I threw her in the snow.

ROMANS: You did not!

DOMINICK: I didn't. I did not, of course. But I did - (INAUDIBLE) you can't take advantage of me -

DR. JEFF GARDERE, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: But I'll tell you what. But - but I'll tell you what, how many people are out there right now who took piano lessons and didn't take it dragon mom's way, and now they can't play a lick on the piano -

ROMANS: Me.

GARDERE: -- and wish they had a parent who just was unrelenting in getting them to practice for hours?

ROMANS: Well, let's be clear. I want to talk about what that (INAUDIBLE) -

GARDERE: I wish I did.

ROMANS: She - and this is - in this article, which is based on her book, which is Battle Hymn of A Tiger Mother, a runaway bestseller. You can't even get it in the bookstores because so many - this has struck a chord with so many people - she said she made her young daughter practice the piano, not go to the bathroom, not eat, not get up from the piano bench until she perfected a very complicated piece.

Most of us out there would say - she said she was hoarse from screaming at her daughter.

GARDERE: Yes.

ROMANS: Most of us - in the - in the course of the book, she gets her comeuppance in the end and, you know, she kind of backs off about this kind of - way of parenting.

GARDERE: Sure. Sure. ROMANS: But it has really struck this chord about, wait a minute, at the same time that President Hu is coming to town, on the rise, on the decline. Are American - are we not tough enough? Are we not hungry enough, not eager enough?

GARDERE: I - I think we need to be tougher as parents. There's some real lessons learned from Amy Chua. Not that many, but some lessons learned, and that's about getting our kids to practice, getting them to have higher standards, not always saying when you get a B, oh, that's absolutely terrific, but I think we should say you got a B. Now try harder and try to get towards that A.

And I - and I think that's the real lesson here.

ROMANS: Let's talk about some of the things first. No - no sleepovers, no - no play dates, no birthday parties, you can't a grade less than A, cannot go to a play date, cannot go to a sleepover. These are some of the things - she's -

I want you to listen to what she says in her own words here to CNN about - about this book and her experience as a - as a Tiger Mother.

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AMY CHUA, AUTHOR, BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER : I grew up with extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese parents, immigrant parents, and, for me, I mean, as a grown up looking back, their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was really the greatest gift they could give me.

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ROMANS: Are our expectations too low for our kids?

DOMINICK: Yes. Yes.

You know, I think we've been so comfortable, this country - some of us. Some of us.

For generations, for a few - three or four generations, we - we demonized these illegal immigrants that come here. Do you ever watch them work? They don't take breaks. They don't take lunch. They don't sleep. They just work and work and work because they want something. They want more, and that's the same case in a lot of Asian countries as well.

And, yes, we need to discipline our kids more. We need - and I'm - I'm the worst. Well -

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GARDERE: I think - I think we should point out that - that Amy does say, hey, look, it's not just about Chinese parents, it's Jamaican parents, Haitian parents and so on. I was raised (INAUDIBLE) that way - ROMANS: And she says it's really Americans - it's actually very American values that sometimes people have been here for a long time aren't doing. DOMINICK: But -

ROMANS: Listen up, because the Chinese-American mom's getting all the press this week, but check out this next story. It gives new meaning to the term training your toddler. It's sports training for the diaper set, and, according to the woman you're about to meet, you can never start too soon.

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DOREEN BOLHUIS, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, GYMCO: Hey. You guys ready?

We would not leave academic education to champs and hope that children figure it out. We cannot leave physical literacy education to chance.

ROMANS (voice-over): At Gymco Sports at Grand Rapids, Michigan, Doreen Bolhuis trains tykes, some of them only a few months old, to kick, throw, climb and balance. Bolhuis' goal is to get kids moving earlier than ever before.

BOLHUIS: That's very good balance.

We like to do things that we're good at, so when we teach children how to move well, they're going to keep moving and choose to be active.

ROMANS: Nora Cares is an acolyte. Her now middle school kids have been training since they were two.

NORA CARES, PARENT OF FORMER GYMCO STUDENTS: I think it's set them apart in that they built their confidence a lot sooner than other kids their age.

AVA CARES, FORMER GYMCO STUDENT: I remember, when I was really young, I'd like to go on the balance beams.

GEO CARES, FORMER GYMCO STUDENT: I remember jumping on the trampolines.

ROMANS: But doctors like NYU's Dennis Cardone worry about pushing kids into specialized sports too soon.

DR. DENNIS CARDONE, SPORTS MEDICINE, NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: Now we are seeing injuries in younger children that we had never seen before. We're seeing overuse injuries which were exclusive to adults, and now we see them in seven and eight year olds.

ROMANS: The government now classifies more than 10 percent of preschool aged children as obese.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Swing forward. Atta boy. Land on the blue. Perfect.

ROMANS: Everyone agrees kids need to be more active, it's the how that's the question. There's organic play and then there's specialized sports. Where do you cross the line?

CARDONE: Unstructured activity is - probably will lead to less of these overuse type injuries that we see. It's not until you introduce a parent or a coach into the activity that it leads to these overuse type injuries.

ROMANS: It's one thing to encourage babies to stretch and roll, says psychologists like Wendy Walsh. But toddler sports training is extreme parenting, she says, especially for kids who may not be ready.

WENDY WALSH, BLOGGER, MOMLOGIC.COM: You want to be a good parent? Go to the playground. Climb the monkey bars with your kids. You can get in shape with them. I used to do pull ups on the bars and sit ups in the sandbox, OK? That's what kids need.

ROMANS: The Mayo Clinic includes unstructured physical activity, not training, is what's best for kids up to age five, but tell that to a thriving gym full of two, three and four year olds.

BOLHUIS: I understand that there are skeptics and there are concerns, and every good thing can be done in a harmful way. But the fear of that should not keep us from doing the good things that we know are important for our children.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Go for it.

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ROMANS: So the Tiger Mom gets all this grief, but look, I mean, we are pushing our kids younger than ever before. Is this the right thing to do?

GARDERE: Well, I think we've been pushing kids a little bit too long. It's not just with the gyms but also with testing, with getting them academic work and so on too, too early.

I would say here, when - when they talk about what is the dividing line here, if your child does not want to do this after a week or so, the child is just not ready for it.

ROMANS: There you go.

GARDERE: You just let them go. Don't force them to do it.

DOMINICK: Well, I was a - a youth lacrosse and soccer coach, and I was also a personal trainer for kids. I know a little bit about this. Everything in moderation. You can't get a kid out there doing some physical repetitive motion that's not good for their growing bones and muscles. Moderation. GARDER: That's true.

DOMINICK: But the president and the first lady, they've got it right.

Listen, the - the obesity problem has to do with the crap that we eat, that we feed our kids, and the fact that we don't spend time, as the first lady said, moving.

ROMANS: But you can't just take them to a gym and say, hey, do some specialized sports training. I mean, in a way, busy parents could just say, oh, I've got them in a specialized sports training. Now I'm doing my job.

DOMINICK: Just get moving and eat real food, things that grow in the ground.

GARDERE: Well, keep them away from the computers too much, but, of course, if they're enjoying it - most kids were having fun there. If they're enjoying it, then yes, keep doing it.

DOMINICK: Like did you find (ph) that Wii, the bicycle thing with the Wii -

ROMANS: Oh, yes.

DOMINICK: And my three-year-old beat me, by the way. It's embarrassing.

ROMANS: I've got mine doing the 100-yard dash and there - I have a stopwatch and - no, I'm just kidding.

DOMINICK: The javelin. Have you tried the javelin one?

GARDERE: I think both of you guys are extreme parents, all right?

ROMANS: I know! I know! Extremely -

DOMINICK: One way or the other.

ROMANS: Extremely something. I'm not quite sure.

No, and doctors say that, you know, diet is the most important thing for kids.

DOMINICK: Absolutely.

ROMANS: All right. Gentlemen, thank you so much. Great to see you.

GARDERE: Thank you.

ROMANS: Talk to you again both soon.

GARDERE: All right. ROMANS: Extreme parenting may not be your - be the reason our next guest is thriving, but he did something extreme in his own right. He paid for an outstanding college education without loans, without scholarships, without mooching off his parents. He'll tell you how, next.

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ROMANS: Imagine getting a great education without borrowing any money, without taking out loans and without mooching off your parents. This guy did it.

Zac Bissonnette is a senior at UMass Amherst and the author of Debt-Free U. You wrote a book about the experience.

Most kids end up either mooching off their parents or getting a huge, complicated student loan package and graduate with $20,000-some in student debt. That is not you.

ZAC BISSONNETTE, AUTHOR, DEBT-FREE U: No. That's the absolute worst thing that you can do is your retirement - your parents' retirement. The second worst thing you can do is put yourself into a bunch of debt to pay for college.

ROMANS: Most important thing here is don't go for those rich schools, for those elite schools. I mean, you're just chasing after a dream that you could really - you can be the great kid at the other schools that are going to cost less.

BISSONNETTE: Absolutely, Christine. There was a study out of Princeton that found that students who were accepted into elite colleges but attended less selective colleges actually ended up earning just as much money as students who went to elite colleges. What determines your success in life is who you are, how hard you work, how smart you are, not the name on your diploma.

ROMANS: It's also what you do with it. I mean, one of the things - we talk about the student debt, and I want - I just want to get your perspective on this. We talk about all the student debt the kids graduate with, some $20,000, yet there's this study, this book, actually, this week, that was released that's fascinating, that shows that 45 percent of students after the first two years of college, they don't show any gains of learning, Zac.

So they're paying all this money and they're not really getting very far. And then you look at how kids are spending their time in college - Academically Adrift is the name of this book, and it shows that kids spend most time socializing and recreating. I mean, what does that tell us about the value, I guess, we're putting on college and the time? We're paying so much for it.

BISSONNETTE: The first thing it tells you, because I hear this from parents all the time. They say to me, I don't want my kid to work during college because then he wouldn't have time to study.

I mean, look at the results of this survey and Academically Adrift. About half their time is spent socializing. That's a laughable sort of argument, that your kid needs the time to study.

The average college -

ROMANS: They're not studying.

BISSONNETTE: The average college student is drunk 10.2 hours per week. So if you think that your kids should not work during college -

ROMANS: So they should be working, not being drunk?

BISSONNETTE: Absolutely. And -

ROMANS: You work, right?

BISSONNETTE: I do. Yes.

ROMANS: Right. I did too (ph).

BISSONNETTE: And I say this all the time, like if you're going to go into debt so that you can drink beer and play video games, I don't think that's sane.

ROMANS: So, look, you say that kids should be working, kids should be helping pay for college. What about loans? Avoid loans all together?

BISSONNETTE: Here's the deal, tuition and fees and room and board at the average four-year public college in America runs to $15,500 a year. Most families also get a $2,500 cash credit which brings the cost down to $13,000 a year -

ROMANS: Right.

BISSONNETTE: -- which, if you break that out over the course of the year, it works up to $250 per week, assuming you have no savings. So if you have the kid working and the parents cutting expenses back, not looting retirement -

ROMANS: Right.

BISSONNETTE: -- just skipping lattes and that kind of thing, it's not an insurmountable amount of money to come up with. It's certainly not an amount of money that you need to borrow $20,000 or $30,000 or $40,000 or $50,000 for.

ROMANS: All right, Zac Bissonnette. Debt-Free U is the name of the book. Thanks so much.

And, you know, and I met Zac on Facebook and Twitter because we were starting to talk about the same conversations about saving money and how to get ready for college. So, best of luck to you and great to meet you, and thanks for coming on the program. BISSONNETTE: Thanks so much.

ROMANS: Great book. All right, if you or one of your kids is planning to head off to college next fall, the deadline for the free application for student aid, otherwise known as the FAFSA, is looming. Filing deadlines vary by school, but many have a February 1 completion date. Keep in mind, no matter how many schools you apply to, you only have to fill out this form once, so work with the earliest deadline.

The form itself requires about an hour of time, but it could open the door to Pell grants, Stafford loans, Plus loans, and work study programs. Head to FAFSA.ed.gov to get started.

It's easiest to fill out the online form after you've completed your 2010 tax return, because all of that pertinent financial information will be available. But for early deadlines, you can always update later.

Up next, none of us expected this. Existing home sales - home sales - up 12 percent. The American Dream stipulates you should strive to own your home, but could it be actually smarter to rent?

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ROMANS: You know, some would say it sounds sort of un-American to suggest owning a home might not be for everybody. But with home values unlikely to make a speedy recovery, when does it make sense to invest in a home and when are you better off simply renting?

Carmen Wong Ulrich is the author of The Real Cost of Living and joining us from the CNN Center in Atlanta is my good friend and colleague, Ali Velshi.

You know, Carmen, you said that cost of homeownership only makes sense if you can answer a few key questions. What are the questions people need to be asking about whether buying a house is right for them.

CARMEN WONG ULRICH, AUTHOR, THE REAL COST OF LIVING : Yes, exactly. Forget about everyone saying this is a buyer's market. It can be a buyer's market for you. Can you stay put - I want you to stay put for at least five years.

ROMANS: Five years.

ULRICH: Five years. Do you have enough money put away in an emergency fund if you buy this home and you lose your job? And this is after the down payments. We know we're saving for the down payment, but you're not going to be able to get that mortgage unless the lenders see that you have a solid emergency saving fund.

And can you manage the tremendous responsibility of owning a home? If the heater breaks, if the toilet breaks, if you need plumbing, all of those things you really have to consider before you buy a home.

ROMANS: You know, my lender - I bought a house last year. My lender also wanted to see if there was six months of expenses - ULRICH: Six months, yes.

ROMANS: -- in that and even for the - for the utilities, you'd to pay ahead for the utilities.

ULRICH: Yes.

ROMANS: Because the utility companies - people are skipping out on the utility bills.

ULRICH: And sometimes the tax bills alone they want you to pay ahead.

ROMANS: You're right.

Ali, you say that this is now the time to buy. I assume you agree that those are the questions you need to answer. Who should be buying?

ALI VELSHI, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Yes to everything including the fact that we should stop forgetting - we should forget about this idea that it is part of the American dream to buy a house. Over your - this shoulder where you are, there's a thing that says your number one investment, I want people to understand I think it's a great time to buy a house right now because prices are low and interest rates are down.

I do not thing that you should really be thinking of your primary home as an investment. That's the issue. If you have that $10,000 to put down and you can answer all of Carmen's questions but you're doing it because you think it will be a good investment, forget it. I can get you a better investment in the stock market or anywhere else.

If you answer all of those questions Carmen has put to you and you would like to be at a home and you're going to stay in that home and you've got all the other things, the contingency money, then this is a fabulous time. There may not be a better time to buy a house.

But I think Carmen will agree and you will, too, Christine, that the best time to buy a house for you is when the price is right and you need a house and you can afford the house.

ROMANS: Right.

VELSHI: Forget about the investment.

ULRICH: Absolutely.

ROMANS: It's hard to put a value on a good school district that you need -

VELSHI: Right.

ROMANS: -- or suddenly your kid just turned for and, you know, who cares about the ups and downs of the housing market, you got to get some place where you think you're going to be for the next 10 to 15 years.

VELSHI: Right.

ROMANS: And those are the fundamental reasons why we use to push for homeownership.

Carmen, you have this rule of 15, your rule of thumb to compare renting versus buying. When should you be renting instead? When does it make more financial sense for your family to rent?

ULRICH: Well, it really - it really depends. That's just the start, this rule of 15. It's just a mathematical formula in terms of, you know, adding up the rent over the year and divided by 15 to see if you're getting a good price and if it's cheaper in that market. But, again, that's only just today. That's the price today.

But when you buy a home, this is a huge long-term commitment. So you need to think beyond that. So you just think about what - can I manage being a homeowner? Do I want to stay put like you mentioned in that school district in that place? Will I get a job transfer? Do I have some job security? We all can't say that.

VELSHI: Right.

ULRICH: But, you know, really ask yourselves those questions. For a lot of folks, it makes sense to rent, because as Ali mentioned your money actually works better for you in terms of investment someplace else. So don't think of it that way. VELSHI: Right. If you don't have a ton of excess money, then - then it makes sense maybe to put it in your house because it will appreciate over time. But the realities don't let the tail wag the dog on the tax - the mortgage interest rate deduction. It's a bad reason to buy a house.

And remember, Christine, what have you and I talked about for years and that is the new mobility of the labor market. The fact is our new reality is that we may live in different places and you may need that flexibility. If you have bought a house, that is one element of flexibility that's taken away. Now, you happen to have three kids in the school system, then you're out of flexibility anyway.

ROMANS: Right.

VELSHI: So you might as well buy the house, if you can afford it. But, you know, look at other countries where they do not encourage homeownership the way we do structurally here in the United States, in Canada, in Australia and Great Britain and Germany. Guess what? Homeownership rates are as high or higher than they are in the United States. So the fact is let the market find itself. If it's right for you, buy the house. But don't do it because someone is pitching you on the idea that it's good. ROMANS: Carmen Wong Ulrich, The Real Cost of Living is the book. Fantastic. (INAUDIBLE).

ULRICH: Thank you.

ROMANS: And also Ali Velshi in Atlanta. Thanks, Ali.

Ali, you're going to stick around, because I want know what you think is the most hazardous thing to your love life?

ULRICH: All right.

VELSHI: You want me to answer that?

ROMANS: I want you to answer it.

VELSHI: Oh, probably me.

ULRICH: I want to know.

ROMANS: Well, so far I've managed to control myself, Ali. But I'm going to tell you what the foolproof way is to stay in love.

VELSHI: OK.

ROMANS: That's next.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

ROMANS: Love, marriage and money, Ali Velshi. It might seem like a little white lie, hiding a credit card, downplaying your debt to your significant other. Some people - do you know some people even lie just a little bit about how much they make? But too much debt and frequent disagreements about money can be disastrous to your relationship.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ROMANS (voice-over): This couple dug out of $80,000 of debt together, this financial adviser schedules financial date nights with her husband, and this student never hides her spending.

BRIANNA STRONG, STUDENT: I'm the spender, he's the moneymaker, but we are very conscious and saving. Especially, in this economy.

ROMANS: Not all couples are so in sync financially. Some bring huge debts into the relationship and hide them. Sometimes savers resent their spouses spending. Sometimes a spouse secretly spends for revenge or independence.

(on camera): If you're doing little white lies about your money, does that show that either you don't trust your spouse or you're worried your spouse wouldn't trust you?

JACQUETTE TIMMONS, AUTHOR, FINANCIAL INTIMACY : What else then are you not discussing in your relationship?

ROMANS: It's trust.

TIMMONS: It's trust, because it's never just about the money. It's all about what is revealed as a result of that.

ROMANS (voice-over): Revealed in a recent survey, 31 percent of Americans who've combined their finances say they've lied to their spouse about money, 67 percent of those say it caused an argument, 16 percent broke up as a result.

Many of those lies are about debt, a potential marriage destroyer. A research from Utah State University shows thrifty couples are happiest and too much debt can ruin a marriage.

PROF. JEFFREY DEW, FAMILY CONSUMER HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: Couples with - with consumer debt tend to fight more. They're more stressed about their money. And some recent research that I've done even shows that consumer debt is associated with divorce.

Technology Technical Amendments Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Print Tone: Positive Outlet: LegAlert (Full Text) Journalist: n/a City: n/a State: n/a

Bill ID: UT HB 235

Session: 2011-2011

Version: Filed

Sponsor: Arent, P.

H.B. 235

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TECHNOLOGY TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS

2011 GENERAL SESSION

STATE OF UTAH

Chief Sponsor: Patrice M. Arent

Senate Sponsor: ______

LONG TITLE

General Description:

This bill amends certain reporting requirements and deletes references to the Utah

Information Technology Commission.

Highlighted Provisions:

This bill:

. eliminates the submission of model rules or standards and technology transfer

14 reports;

. modifies the reporting requirements to include the Public Utilities and

Technology

Interim Committee; and

. makes technical corrections.

Money Appropriated in this Bill:

None

Other Special Clauses:

None

Utah Code Sections Affected:

AMENDS:

46-4-501, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2008, Chapter 382

63A-9-801, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2008, Chapters 3 and 382

63B-3-301, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2008, Chapter 382

63F-1-102, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 169

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63F-1-104, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 169

63F-1-201, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 117

30 63F-1-203, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 169

63F-1-404, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 169

63F-1-504, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 169

63F-1-604, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 169

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:

Section 1. Section 46-4-501 is amended to read:

46-4-501. Creation and retention of electronic records and conversion of written

38 records by governmental agencies.

(1) A state governmental agency may, by following the procedures and requirements of

Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, make rules that:

(a) identify specific transactions that the agency is willing to conduct by electronic

42 means;

(b) identify specific transactions that the agency will never conduct by electronic

44 means;

46 generated, sent, communicated, received, and stored, and the systems established for those

47 purposes;

(d) if law or rule requires that the electronic records must be signed by electronic

49 means, specify the type of electronic signature required, the manner and format in which the

50 electronic signature must be affixed to the electronic record, and the identity of, or criteria that

51 must be met, by any third party used by a person filing a document to facilitate the process;

(e) specify control processes and procedures as appropriate to ensure adequate

53 preservation, disposition, integrity, security, confidentiality, and auditability of electronic

54 records; and

(f) identify any other required attributes for electronic records that are specified for

56 corresponding nonelectronic records or that are reasonably necessary under the circumstances.

(2) A state governmental agency that makes rules under this section shall submit copies

58 of those rules, and any amendments to those rules, to[Deleted: : (a)] the chief information officer ------

59 established by Section 63F-1-201 [Deleted: ; and][Added: .]

[Deleted: (b) the Utah Technology Commission established by Section 63D-1a-201

(3) (a) The chief information officer may prepare model rules and standards relating to

62 electronic transactions that encourage and promote consistency and interoperability with

63 similar requirements adopted by other Utah government agencies, other states, the federal

64 government, and nongovernmental persons interacting with Utah governmental agencies.

(b) In preparing those model rules and standards, the chief information officer may

66 specify different levels of standards from which governmental agencies may choose in order to

67 implement the most appropriate standard for a particular application.

[Deleted: (c) Before submitting any model rules or standards to state governmental agencies for

69 their adoption as permanent rules, the chief information officer shall submit the model rules

70 and standards to the Utah Technology Commission for its review and suggestions.]

71 [Deleted: (d)] [Added: (c)] Nothing in this Subsection (3) requires a state agency to use the model rules

72 and standards prepared by the chief information officer when making rules under this section.

(4) Except as provided in Subsection 46-4-301 (6), nothing in this chapter requires any

74 state governmental agency to:

(a) conduct transactions by electronic means; or

(b) use or permit the use of electronic records or electronic signatures.

(5) Each state governmental agency shall:

(a) establish record retention schedules for any electronic records created or received in

79 an electronic transaction according to the standards developed by the

Division of Archives

80 under Subsection 63A-12-101 (2)(e); and

(b) obtain approval of those schedules from the State Records Committee as required

82 by Subsection 63G-2-502 (1)(b).

Section 2. Section 63A-9-801 is amended to read:

63A-9-801. State surplus property program -- Definitions -- Administration.

(1) As used in this section:

86 (a) "Agency" means:

(i) the Utah Departments of Administrative Services, Agriculture, Alcoholic

Beverage

Control, Commerce, Community and Culture, Corrections, Workforce Services,

Health,

Human Resource Management, Human Services, Insurance, Natural Resources,

Public Safety,

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Technology Services, and Transportation and the Labor Commission;

(ii) the Utah Offices of the Auditor, Attorney General, Court Administrator,

Crime

Victim Reparations, Rehabilitation, and Treasurer;

(iii) the Public Service Commission and State Tax Commission;

(iv) the State Boards of Education, Pardons and Parole, and Regents;

(v) the Career Service Review Board;

(vi) other state agencies designated by the governor;

(vii) the legislative branch, the judicial branch, and the State Board of

Regents; and

(viii) an institution of higher education, its president, and its board of trustees for

99 purposes of Section 63A-9-802 .

100

(b) "Division" means the Division of Fleet Operations. 101

102 electronically manipulate, store, or transfer any form of data.

103

(d) "Inventory property" means property in the possession of the division that is

104 available for purchase by an agency or the public.

105

(e) "Judicial district" means the geographic districts established by

Section 78A-1-102 .

106

(f) (i) "Surplus property" means property purchased by, seized by, or donated to, an

107 agency that the agency wishes to dispose of.

108

(ii) "Surplus property" does not mean real property.

109

(g) "Transfer" means transfer of surplus property without cash consideration.

110

(2) (a) The division shall make rules establishing a state surplus property program that

111 meets the requirements of this chapter by following the procedures and requirements of Title

112

63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act.

113

(b) Those rules shall include:

114

(i) a requirement prohibiting the transfer of surplus property from one agency to 115 another agency without written approval from the division;

116

(ii) procedures and requirements governing division administration requirements that

117 an agency must follow;

118

(iii) requirements governing purchase priorities;

119

(iv) requirements governing accounting, reimbursement, and payment procedures;

120

(v) procedures for collecting bad debts;

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(vi) requirements and procedures for disposing of firearms;

122

(vii) the elements of the rates or other charges assessed by the division for services and

123 handling;

124

(viii) procedures governing the timing and location of public sales of inventory

125 property; and

126

(ix) procedures governing the transfer of information technology equipment by state

127 agencies directly to public schools.

128

129 agencies to public schools [Deleted: to the Utah Technology Commission] and to the Legislative Interim

130

Education Committee at the end of each fiscal year.

131

(3) In creating and administering the program, the division shall:

132

(a) when conditions, inventory, and demand permit:

133

(i) establish facilities to store inventory property at geographically dispersed locations

134 throughout the state; and

135

(ii) hold public sales of property at geographically dispersed locations throughout the

136 state;

137

(b) establish, after consultation with the agency requesting the sale of surplus property,

138 the price at which the surplus property shall be sold; and

139

140 requesting the sale in accordance with Title 63J, Chapter 1, Budgetary

Procedures Act, less an

141 amount established by the division by rule to pay the costs of administering the surplus

142 property program.

143

(4) Unless specifically exempted from this chapter by explicit reference to this chapter,

144 each state agency shall dispose of and acquire surplus property only by participating in the

145 division's program.

146

Section 3. Section 63B-3-301 is amended to read:

147

63B-3-301. Legislative intent -- Additional projects.

148

(1) It is the intent of the Legislature that, for any lease purchase agreement that the

149

Legislature may authorize the Division of Facilities Construction and

Management to enter into

150 during its 1994 Annual General Session, the State Building Ownership

Authority, at the

151 reasonable rates and amounts it may determine, and with technical assistance from the state

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152 treasurer, the director of the Division of Finance, and the director of the

Governor's Office of

153

Planning and Budget, may seek out the most cost effective and prudent lease purchase plans

154 available to the state and may, pursuant to Title 63B, Chapter 1, Part 3,

State Building

155

Ownership Authority Act, certificate out interests in, or obligations of the authority pertaining

156 to:

157

(a) the lease purchase obligation; or

158

(b) lease rental payments under the lease purchase obligation.

159

(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of

Transportation dispose of

160 surplus real properties and use the proceeds from those properties to acquire or construct

161 through the Division of Facilities Construction and Management a new

District Two Complex.

162

(3) It is the intent of the Legislature that the State Building Board allocate funds from

163 the Capital Improvement appropriation and donations to cover costs associated with the

164 upgrade of the Governor's Residence that go beyond the restoration costs which can be covered

165 by insurance proceeds.

166

(4) (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize the State Building

Ownership

167

Authority under authority of Title 63B, Chapter 1, Part 3, State Building

Ownership Authority

168

Act, to issue or execute obligations or enter into or arrange for a lease purchase agreement in

169 which participation interests may be created, to provide up to $10,600,000 for the construction

170 of a Natural Resources Building in Salt Lake City, together with additional amounts necessary

171 to:

172

(i) pay costs of issuance;

173

(ii) pay capitalized interest; and

174

(iii) fund any debt service reserve requirements.

175

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the authority seek out the most cost effective

176 and prudent lease purchase plan available with technical assistance from the state treasurer, the

177 director of the Division of Finance, and the director of the Governor's

Office of Planning and

178

Budget.

179

Department of

180

Natural Resources not be increased to fund these lease payments.

181

(5) (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize the State Building

Ownership

182

Authority under authority of Title 63B, Chapter 1, Part 3, State Building

Ownership Authority

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183 Act, to issue or execute obligations or enter into or arrange for a lease purchase agreement in

184 which participation interests may be created, to provide up to $8,300,000 for the acquisition of

185 the office buildings currently occupied by the Department of Environmental

Quality and

186 approximately 19 acres of additional vacant land at the Airport East

Business Park in Salt Lake

187

City, together with additional amounts necessary to:

188

(i) pay costs of issuance;

189

(ii) pay capitalized interest; and

190

(iii) fund any debt service reserve requirements.

191

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the authority seek out the most cost effective

192 and prudent lease purchase plan available with technical assistance from the state treasurer, the

193 director of the Division of Finance, and the director of the Governor's

Office of Planning and

194

Budget.

195

(6) (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize the State Building

Ownership

196

Authority under authority of Title 63B, Chapter 1, Part 3, State Building

Ownership Authority 197

Act, to issue or execute obligations or enter into or arrange for a lease purchase agreement in

198 which participation interests may be created, to provide up to $9,000,000 for the acquisition or

199 construction of up to two field offices for the Department of Human Services in the

200 southwestern portion of Salt Lake County, together with additional amounts necessary to:

201

(i) pay costs of issuance;

202

(ii) pay capitalized interest; and

203

(iii) fund any debt service reserve requirements.

204

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the authority seek out the most cost effective

205 and prudent lease purchase plan available with technical assistance from the state treasurer, the

206 director of the Division of Finance, and the director of the Governor's

Office of Planning and

207

Budget.

208

(7) (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize the State Building

Ownership

209

Authority under authority of Title 63B, Chapter 1, Part 3, State Building

Ownership Authority

210 Act, to issue or execute obligations or enter into or arrange for lease purchase agreements in

211 which participation interests may be created, to provide up to $5,000,000 for the acquisition or

212 construction of up to 13 stores for the Department of Alcoholic Beverage

Control, together

213 with additional amounts necessary to:

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214

(i) pay costs of issuance;

215

(ii) pay capitalized interest; and

216

(iii) fund any debt service reserve requirements.

217

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the authority seek out the most cost effective

218 and prudent lease purchase plan available with technical assistance from the state treasurer, the

219 director of the Division of Finance, and the director of the Governor's

Office of Planning and

220

Budget.

221

Department of

222

Alcoholic Beverage Control not be increased to fund these lease payments.

223

(8) (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize the State Building

Ownership 224

Authority under authority of Title 63B, Chapter 1, Part 3, State Building

Ownership Authority

225

Act, to issue or execute obligations or enter into or arrange for a lease purchase agreement in

226 which participation interests may be created, to provide up to $6,800,000 for the construction

227 of a Prerelease and Parole Center for the Department of Corrections, containing a minimum of

228

300 beds, together with additional amounts necessary to:

229

(i) pay costs of issuance;

230

(ii) pay capitalized interest; and

231

(iii) fund any debt service reserve requirements.

232

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the authority seek out the most cost effective

233 and prudent lease purchase plan available with technical assistance from the state treasurer, the

234 director of the Division of Finance, and the director of the Governor's

Office of Planning and

235

Budget.

236

(9) If S.B. 275, 1994 General Session, which authorizes funding for a Courts

Complex

237 in Salt Lake City, becomes law, it is the intent of the Legislature that: 238

(a) the Legislative Management Committee, the Interim Appropriation

Subcommittees

239 for General Government and Capital Facilities and Executive Offices, Courts, and Corrections,

240 the Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst, the Governor's Office of

Planning and Budget, and

241 the State Building Board participate in a review of the proposed facility design for the Courts

242

Complex no later than December 1994; and

243

(b) although this review will not affect the funding authorization issued by the 1994

244

Legislature, it is expected that Division of Facilities Construction and

Management will give

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245 proper attention to concerns raised in these reviews and make appropriate design changes

246 pursuant to the review.

247

(10) It is the intent of the Legislature that:

248

(a) the Division of Facilities Construction and Management, in cooperation with the

249

Division of Youth Corrections renamed in 2003 to the Division of Juvenile

Justice Services,

250 develop a flexible use prototype facility for the Division of Youth Corrections renamed in 2003

251 to the Division of Juvenile Justice Services;

252

(b) the development process use existing prototype proposals unless it can be

253 quantifiably demonstrated that the proposals cannot be used;

254

255 detention, observation and assessment, transition, and secure programs as needed at specific

256 geographical locations;

257

(d) (i) funding as provided in the fiscal year 1995 bond authorization for the Division

258 of Youth Corrections renamed in 2003 to the Division of Juvenile Justice

Services is used to

259 design and construct one facility and design the other;

260

(ii) the Division of Youth Corrections renamed in 2003 to the Division of

Juvenile

261

Justice Services shall:

262

(A) determine the location for the facility for which design and construction are fully

263 funded; and

264

(B) in conjunction with the Division of Facilities Construction and Management,

265 determine the best methodology for design and construction of the fully funded facility;

266

(e) the Division of Facilities Construction and Management submit the prototype as

267 soon as possible to the Capital Facilities and Administrative Services

Appropriation

268

Subcommittee and Executive Offices, Criminal Justice, and Legislature

Appropriation

269

Subcommittee for review;

270

(f) the Division of Facilities Construction and Management issue a Request for

271

Proposal for one of the facilities, with that facility designed and constructed entirely by the

272 winning firm;

273

(g) the other facility be designed and constructed under the existing

Division of

274

Facilities Construction and Management process;

275

(h) that both facilities follow the program needs and specifications as identified by

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276

Division of Facilities Construction and Management and the Division of Youth

Corrections

277 renamed in 2003 to the Division of Juvenile Justice Services in the prototype; and

278

(i) the fully funded facility should be ready for occupancy by September 1,

1995.

279

(11) It is the intent of the Legislature that the fiscal year 1995 funding for the State Fair

280

Park Master Study be used by the Division of Facilities Construction and

Management to

281 develop a master plan for the State Fair Park that:

282

(a) identifies capital facilities needs, capital improvement needs, building

283 configuration, and other long term needs and uses of the State Fair Park and its buildings; and

284

(b) establishes priorities for development, estimated costs, and projected timetables.

285

(12) It is the intent of the Legislature that:

286

(a) the Division of Facilities Construction and Management, in cooperation with the

287

Division of Parks and Recreation and surrounding counties, develop a master plan and general

288 program for the phased development of Antelope Island;

289

(b) the master plan:

290

(i) establish priorities for development;

291 (ii) include estimated costs and projected time tables; and

292

(iii) include recommendations for funding methods and the allocation of

293 responsibilities between the parties; and

294

Appropriations

295

Subcommittee and Capital Facilities and Administrative Services

Appropriation

296

Subcommittee.

297

(13) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize the University of Utah to use:

298

(a) bond reserves to plan, design, and construct the Kingsbury Hall renovation under

299 the supervision of the director of the Division of Facilities Construction and Management

300 unless supervisory authority is delegated by the director; and

301

(b) donated and other nonappropriated funds to plan, design, and construct the Biology

302

Research Building under the supervision of the director of the Division of

Facilities

303

Construction and Management unless supervisory authority is delegated by the director.

304

(14) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize Utah State University to use: 305

(a) federal and other funds to plan, design, and construct the Bee Lab under the

306 supervision of the director of the Division of Facilities Construction and

Management unless

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307 supervisory authority is delegated by the director;

308

(b) donated and other nonappropriated funds to plan, design, and construct an Athletic

309

Facility addition and renovation under the supervision of the director of the Division of

310

Facilities Construction and Management unless supervisory authority is delegated by the

311 director;

312

313 to the Nutrition and Food Science Building under the supervision of the director of the

314

Division of Facilities Construction and Management unless supervisory authority is delegated

315 by the director; and

316

(d) federal and private funds to plan, design, and construct the Millville

Research

317

Facility under the supervision of the director of the Division of Facilities Construction and

318

Management unless supervisory authority is delegated by the director.

319

(15) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize Salt Lake Community

College to use:

320

(a) institutional funds to plan, design, and construct a remodel to the Auto

Trades

321

Office and Learning Center under the supervision of the director of the

Division of Facilities

322

Construction and Management unless supervisory authority is delegated by the director;

323

(b) institutional funds to plan, design, and construct the relocation and expansion of a

324 temporary maintenance compound under the supervision of the director of the

Division of

325

Facilities Construction and Management unless supervisory authority is delegated by the

326 director; and

327

Amphitheater under the

328 supervision of the director of the Division of Facilities Construction and

Management unless

329 supervisory authority is delegated by the director.

330

(16) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize Southern Utah University to use:

331

(a) federal funds to plan, design, and construct a Community Services

Building under

332 the supervision of the director of the Division of Facilities Construction and Management

333 unless supervisory authority is delegated by the director; and

334

(b) donated and other nonappropriated funds to plan, design, and construct a stadium

335 expansion under the supervision of the director of the Division of

Facilities Construction and

336

Management unless supervisory authority is delegated by the director.

337

(17) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize the Department of

Corrections to use

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338 donated funds to plan, design, and construct a Prison Chapel at the Central

Utah Correctional

339

Facility in Gunnison under the supervision of the director of the Division of Facilities

340

Construction and Management unless supervisory authority is delegated by the director.

341

(18) If the Utah National Guard does not relocate in the Signetics Building, it is the

342 intent of the Legislature to authorize the Guard to use federal funds and funds from Provo City 343 to plan and design an Armory in Provo, Utah, under the supervision of the director of the

344

Division of Facilities Construction and Management unless supervisory authority is delegated

345 by the director.

346

(19) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Utah Department of

Transportation use

347

$250,000 of the fiscal year 1995 highway appropriation to fund an environmental study in

348

Ogden, Utah of the 2600 North Corridor between Washington Boulevard and

I-15.

349

(20) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Ogden-Weber Applied

Technology

350

Center use the money appropriated for fiscal year 1995 to design the Metal

Trades Building

351 and purchase equipment for use in that building that could be used in metal trades or other

352 programs in other Applied Technology Centers.

353

(21) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Bridgerland Applied

Technology Center

354 and the Ogden-Weber Applied Technology Center projects as designed in fiscal year 1995 be

355 considered as the highest priority projects for construction funding in fiscal year 1996.

356

(22) It is the intent of the Legislature that:

357

(a) the Division of Facilities Construction and Management complete physical space

358 utilization standards by June 30, 1995, for the use of technology education activities;

359

(b) these standards are to be developed with and approved by the State

Office of

360

Education, the Board of Regents, and the Utah State Building Board;

361

362

(i) determining utilization of any technology space based on number of stations capable

363 and occupied for any given hour of operation; and

364

(ii) requests for any new space or remodeling;

365

(d) the fiscal year 1995 projects at the Bridgerland Applied Technology

Center and the

366

Ogden-Weber Applied Technology Center are exempt from this process; and

367

(e) the design of the Davis Applied Technology Center take into account the utilization

368 formulas established by the Division of Facilities Construction and

Management.

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369 (23) It is the intent of the Legislature that Utah Valley State College may use the

370 money from the bond allocated to the remodel of the Signetics building to relocate its technical

371 education programs at other designated sites or facilities under the supervision of the director

372 of the Division of Facilities Construction and Management unless supervisory authority is

373 delegated by the director.

374

(24) It is the intent of the Legislature that the money provided for the fiscal year 1995

375 project for the Bridgerland Applied Technology Center be used to design and construct the

376 space associated with Utah State University and design the technology center portion of the

377 project.

378

(25) It is the intent of the Legislature that the governor provide periodic reports on the

379 expenditure of the funds provided for electronic technology, equipment, and hardware to the

380

[Deleted: Information Technology Commission] [Added: Public Utilities and Technology

Interim Committee],

381 the Capital Facilities and Administrative Services Appropriation

Subcommittee, and the 382

Legislative Management Committee.

383

Section 4. Section 63F-1-102 is amended to read:

384

63F-1-102. Definitions.

385

As used in this title:

386

(1) "Board" means the Technology Advisory Board created in Section

63F-1-202 .

387

(2) "Chief information officer" means the chief information officer appointed under

388

Section 63F-1-201 .

389

[Deleted: (3) "Commission" means the Utah Technology Commission created in Section

390

63D-1a-201 .]

391

[Deleted: (4)] [Added: (3)] "Computer center" means the location at which a central data processing

392 platform is managed to serve multiple executive branch agencies.

393

[Deleted: (5)] [Added: (4)] "Data center" means a centralized repository for the storage, management, and

394 dissemination of data.

395

[Deleted: (6)] [Added: (5)] "Department" means the Department of Technology

Services.

396

[Deleted: (7)] [Added: (6)] (a) Except as provided in Subsection [Deleted: (7)]

[Added: (6)](b), "executive branch agency" 397 means an agency or administrative subunit of state government.

398

(b) "Executive branch agency" does not include:

399

(i) the legislative branch;

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400

(ii) the judicial branch;

401

(iii) the State Board of Education;

402

(iv) the Board of Regents;

403

(v) institutions of higher education;

404

(vi) independent entities as defined in Section 63E-1-102 ; and

405

(vii) elective constitutional offices of the executive department which includes:

406

(A) the state auditor;

407

(B) the state treasurer; and

408

409

[Deleted: (8)] [Added: (7)] "Executive branch strategic plan" means the executive branch strategic plan

410 created under Section 63F-1-203 .

411

[Deleted: (9)] [Added: (8)] "Information technology" means all computerized and auxiliary automated

412 information handling, including: 413

(a) systems design and analysis;

414

(b) acquisition, storage, and conversion of data;

415

416

(d) information storage and retrieval;

417

(e) voice, radio, video, and data communications;

418

(f) requisite systems controls;

419

(g) simulation; and

420

(h) all related interactions between people and machines.

421

[Deleted: (10)] [Added: (9)] "State information architecture" means a logically consistent set of

422 principles, policies, and standards that guide the engineering of state government's information

423 technology and infrastructure in a way that ensures alignment with state government's business

424 and service needs.

425

[Deleted: (11)] [Added: (10)] "Telecommunications" means the transmission or reception of signs,

426 signals, writing, images, sounds, messages, data, or other information of any nature by wire,

427 radio, light waves, or other electromagnetic means.

428 Section 5. Section 63F-1-104 is amended to read:

429

63F-1-104. Purposes.

430

The department shall:

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431

(1) lead state executive branch agency efforts to reengineer the state's information

432 technology architecture with the goal of coordinating central and individual agency information

433 technology in a manner that:

434

(a) ensures compliance with the executive branch agency strategic plan; and

435

(b) ensures that cost-effective, efficient information and communication systems and

436 resources are being used by agencies to:

437

(i) reduce data, hardware, and software redundancy;

438

(ii) improve system interoperability and data accessibility between agencies; and

439

(iii) meet the agency's and user's business and service needs;

440

(2) (a) coordinate an executive branch strategic plan for all agencies;

441

(b) identify best practices from agencies and other public and private sector entities;

442 and

443 (c) develop and implement processes to replicate information technology best practices

444 and standards throughout the executive branch;

445

(3) oversee the expanded use and implementation of project and contract management

446 principles as they relate to information technology projects within the executive branch;

447

(4) serve as general contractor between the state's information technology users and

448 private sector providers of information technology products and services;

449

(5) work toward building stronger partnering relationships with providers;

450

(6) develop service level agreements with executive branch departments and agencies

451 to ensure quality products and services are delivered on schedule and within budget;

452

(7) develop standards for application development including a standard methodology

453 and cost-benefit analysis that all agencies shall utilize for application development activities;

454

(8) determine and implement statewide efforts to standardize data elements and

455 determine data ownership assignments among executive branch agencies;

456

(9) develop systems and methodologies to review, evaluate, and prioritize existing

457 information technology projects within the executive branch and report to the governor and the

458

[Deleted: commission] [Added: Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee] on a semiannual basis

459 regarding the status of information technology projects; and

460

(10) assist the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget with the development of

461 information technology budgets for agencies.

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462

Section 6. Section 63F-1-201 is amended to read:

463

63F-1-201. Chief information officer -- Appointment -- Powers -- Reporting.

464

(1) The director of the department shall serve as the state's chief information officer.

465

(2) The chief information officer shall:

466

(a) advise the governor on information technology policy; and

467

(b) perform those duties given the chief information officer by statute.

468

(3) (a) The chief information officer shall report annually to:

469

(i) the governor; [Added: and]

470

[Deleted: (ii) the commission; and]

471

[Deleted: (iii)] [Added: (ii)] the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee.

472

(b) The report required under Subsection (3)(a) shall:

473

(i) summarize the state's current and projected use of information technology;

474

(ii) summarize the executive branch strategic plan including a description of major

475 changes in the executive branch strategic plan; and

476

(iii) provide a brief description of each state agency's information technology plan.

477

(4) (a) In accordance with this section, the chief information officer shall prepare an

478 interbranch information technology coordination plan that provides for the coordination where

479 possible of the development, acquisition, and maintenance of information technology and

480 information systems of:

481

(i) the executive branch;

482

(ii) the judicial branch;

483

(iii) the legislative branch;

484

(iv) the Board of Regents; and

485

(v) the State Board of Education.

486 (b) In the development of the interbranch coordination plan, the chief information

487 officer shall consult with the entities described in Subsection (4)(a).

488

489

(i) is an advisory document; and

490

(ii) does not bind any entity described in Subsection (4)(a).

491

(d) (i) The chief information officer shall submit the interbranch coordination plan to

492 the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee for comment.

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493

(ii) The chief information officer may modify the interbranch coordination plan:

494

(A) at the request of the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee; or

495

(B) to improve the coordination between the entities described in Subsection

(4)(a).

496

(iii) Any amendment to the interbranch coordination plan is subject to this

Subsection

497

(4) in the same manner as the interbranch coordination plan is subject to this Subsection (4).

498

(5) In a manner consistent with the interbranch coordination plan created in accordance

499 with Subsection (4), the chief information officer shall maintain liaisons with:

500

(a) the judicial branch;

501

(b) the legislative branch;

502

503

(d) the State Board of Education;

504

(e) local government;

505

(f) the federal government;

506

(g) business and industry; and

507

(h) those members of the public who use information technology or systems of the

508 state.

509

Section 7. Section 63F-1-203 is amended to read:

510

63F-1-203. Executive branch information technology strategic plan.

511

(1) In accordance with this section, the chief information officer shall prepare an

512 executive branch information technology strategic plan:

513

(a) that complies with this chapter; and

514

(b) which shall include:

515

(i) a strategic plan for the:

516 (A) interchange of information related to information technology between executive

517 branch agencies;

518

(B) coordination between executive branch agencies in the development and

519 maintenance of information technology and information systems, including the coordination of

520 agency information technology plans described in Section 63F-1-204 ; and

521

522 information systems;

523

(ii) priorities for the development and implementation of information technology or

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524 information systems including priorities determined on the basis of:

525

(A) the importance of the information technology or information system; and

526

(B) the time sequencing of the information technology or information system; and

527

(iii) maximizing the use of existing state information technology resources.

528

(2) In the development of the executive branch strategic plan, the chief information

529 officer shall consult with all cabinet level officials and the advisory board created in Section

530 63F-1-202 .

531

(3) (a) Unless withdrawn by the chief information officer or the governor in accordance

532 with Subsection (3)(b), the executive branch strategic plan takes effect 30 days after the day on

533 which the executive branch strategic plan is submitted to:

534

(i) the governor; and

535

(ii) the [Deleted: commission] [Added: Public Utilities and Technology Interim

Committee].

536

(b) The chief information officer or the governor may withdraw the executive branch

537 strategic plan submitted under Subsection (3)(a) if the governor or chief information officer

538 determines that the executive branch strategic plan:

539

(i) should be modified; or

540

(ii) for any other reason should not take effect.

541

Committee] may make

542 recommendations to the governor and to the chief information officer if the commission

543 determines that the executive branch strategic plan should be modified or for any other reason

544 should not take effect.

545

(d) Modifications adopted by the chief information officer shall be resubmitted to the

546 governor and the [Deleted: commission] [Added: Public Utilities and Technology Interim

Committee] for their

547 review or approval as provided in Subsections (3)(a) and (b).

548

(4) The executive branch strategic plan is to be implemented by executive branch

549 agencies through each executive branch agency adopting an agency information technology

550 plan in accordance with Section 63F-1-204 .

551

Section 8. Section 63F-1-404 is amended to read:

552

63F-1-404. Duties of the division.

553

The division shall:

554

(1) develop and implement an effective enterprise architecture governance model for

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555 the executive branch;

556

(2) provide oversight of information technology projects that impact statewide

557 information technology services, assets, or functions of state government to:

558 (a) control costs;

559

(b) ensure business value to a project;

560

561

(d) ensure the uniform application of best practices; and

562

(e) avoid duplication of resources;

563

(3) develop a method of accountability to agencies for services provided by the

564 division through service agreements with the agencies;

565

(4) beginning September 1, 2006, and each September 1 thereafter, provide the chief

566 information officer and the [Deleted: commission] [Added: Public Utilities and

Technology Interim Committee]

567 with performance measures used by the division to measure the quality of service delivered by

568 the division and the results of the performance measures;

569

(5) serve as a project manager for enterprise architecture which includes the

570 management of applications, standards, and procurement of enterprise architecture;

571

(6) coordinate the development and implementation of advanced state

572 telecommunication systems;

573 (7) provide services including technical assistance:

574

(a) to executive branch agencies and subscribers to the services; and

575

(b) related to information technology or telecommunications;

576

(8) establish telecommunication system specifications and standards for use by:

577

(a) one or more executive branch agencies; or

578

(b) one or more entities that subscribe to the telecommunication systems in accordance

579 with Section 63F-1-303 ;

580

(9) coordinate state telecommunication planning in cooperation with:

581

(a) state telecommunication users;

582

(b) executive branch agencies; and

583

584

(10) cooperate with the federal government, other state entities, counties, and

585 municipalities in the development, implementation, and maintenance of:

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586

(a) (i) governmental information technology; or

587

(ii) governmental telecommunication systems; and

588

(b) (i) as part of a cooperative organization; or

589 (ii) through means other than a cooperative organization;

590

(11) establish, operate, manage, and maintain:

591

(a) one or more state data centers; and

592

(b) one or more regional computer centers;

593

(12) design, implement, and manage all state-owned, leased, or rented land, mobile, or

594 radio telecommunication systems that are used in the delivery of services for state government

595 or its political subdivisions;

596

(13) in accordance with the executive branch strategic plan, implement minimum

597 standards to be used by the division for purposes of compatibility of procedures, programming

598 languages, codes, and media that facilitate the exchange of information within and among

599 telecommunication systems; and

600

(14) provide the chief information officer with an analysis of an executive branch

601 agency information technology plan that includes:

602

(a) an assessment of how the implementation of the agency information technology

603 plan will affect the costs, operations, and services of: 604

(i) the department; and

605

(ii) other executive branch agencies; and

606

(b) any recommended changes to the plan.

607

Section 9. Section 63F-1-504 is amended to read:

608

63F-1-504. Duties of the division.

609

The division shall:

610

(1) establish standards for the information technology needs of a collection of

611 executive branch agencies or programs that share common characteristics relative to the types

612 of stakeholders they serve, including:

613

(a) project management;

614

(b) application development; and

615

616

(2) provide oversight of information technology standards that impact multiple

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617 executive branch agency information technology services, assets, or functions to:

618

(a) control costs;

619 (b) ensure business value to a project;

620

621

(d) ensure the uniform application of best practices; and

622

(e) avoid duplication of resources;

623

(3) in accordance with Section 63F-1-204 , provide the chief information officer a

624 written analysis of any agency information technology plan provided to the division, which

625 shall include:

626

(a) a review of whether the agency's technology projects impact multiple agencies and

627 if so, whether the information technology projects are appropriately designed and developed;

628

(b) an assessment of whether the agency plan complies with the state information

629 architecture; and

630

631 agency plan comply with policies, procedures, and rules adopted by the department to ensure

632 that:

633

(i) information technol

Joint Professional School of Veterinary Medicine Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Print Tone: Positive Outlet: LegAlert (Full Text) Journalist: n/a City: n/a State: n/a

Bill ID: UT HB 57

Session: 2011-2011

Version: Introduced

Sponsor: Mathis, J.

H.B. 57

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JOINT PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL OF VETERINARY

MEDICINE

2011 GENERAL SESSION

STATE OF UTAH

Chief Sponsor: John G. Mathis

Senate Sponsor: ______

LONG TITLE

General Description:

This bill provides for the establishment of a veterinary education program offered by

Utah State University in partnership with Washington State University.

Highlighted Provisions:

This bill: 14

. allows Utah State University, with the approval of the State Board of

Regents, to

15 enter into a partnership agreement with Washington State University to establish a

16 veterinary education program;

. provides that, initially, up to 20 Utah resident students and 10 nonresident students

18 may be accepted each year into a four-year program leading to a doctorate degree in

19 veterinary medicine;

. provides that students pursuing a doctoral degree in veterinary medicine complete

21 the first and second years of study at Utah State University and the third and fourth

22 years of study at Washington State University; and

. requires the Legislature, subject to future budget constraints, to annually appropriate

24 money to pay for the nonresident portion of tuition for Utah students enrolled at

Washington State University under a partnership agreement.

Money Appropriated in this Bill:

This bill appropriates as an ongoing appropriation subject to future budget constraints,

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$1,700,000 from the General Fund for fiscal year 2011-12.

Other Special Clauses:

This bill takes effect on July 1, 2011.

Utah Code Sections Affected:

ENACTS:

53B-18-1301, Utah Code Annotated 1953

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:

Section 1. Section 53B-18-1301 is enacted to read:

[Added:

53B-18-1301.] Veterinary education program -- Partnership agreement.

[Added: (1) With the approval of the State Board of Regents, Utah State

University may enter]

[Added: into a partnership agreement with Washington State University to establish a veterinary]

[Added: education program.]

[Added: (2) The partnership agreement may provide that:]

[Added: (a) (i) initially, up to 20 Utah resident students and 10 nonresident students may be]

43 [Added: accepted each year into a four-year program leading to a doctorate in veterinary medicine; and]

[Added: (ii) if resources become available to expand the doctoral program in veterinary]

[Added: medicine, additional Utah resident students and nonresident students may be accepted into the]

[Added: program; and]

[Added: (b) students accepted into the doctoral program in veterinary medicine pursuant to]

[Added: Subsection (2)(a) complete the first and second years of study at Utah

State University and the]

[Added: third and fourth years of study at Washington State University.]

[Added: (3) Subject to future budget constraints, the Legislature shall annually provide an]

[Added: appropriation to pay for the nonresident portion of tuition for Utah students enrolled at]

[Added: Washington State University under a partnership agreement authorized by this section for the]

[Added: third and fourth years of a doctoral program in veterinary medicine.]

Section 2. Appropriation.

[Added: (1) As an ongoing appropriation subject to future budget constraints, there is]

[Added: appropriated from the General Fund for fiscal year 2011-12, $1,700,000 to Utah State]

[Added: University for a veterinary education program.]

[Added: (2) Money appropriated in Subsection (1) may be used for personnel costs and other]

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[Added: expenses related to offering courses in veterinary education.]

Section 3. Effective date.

[Added: This bill takes effect on July 1, 2011.]

Legislative Review Note as of 9-13-10 9:52 AM

Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel

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USU students to participate in 'Research on Capitol Hill' event Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Online Tone: Positive Outlet: Cache Valley Daily Journalist: City: n/a State: n/a at 12:04 AM MST

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Undergraduates from Utah State University and the University of Utah will gather in the Utah State Capitol rotunda on Wednesday, Jan. 26 for the annual "Research on Capitol Hill" event.

The projects will cover such disparate topics as understanding the genetics of children with speech sound disorders, identifying interstate ...

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A handful of gadgets, gizmos and gear that saved us time and made our lives easier in 2010 ...... and moisture level to support production of the botulism toxin.

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What's new in 2011 tax law ? Sarasota Herald-Tribune – John Hielscher Those who itemize deductions on Schedule A, claim the higher education tuition … 14 while the IRS updates its processing. Taxpayers who must wait include … IRS sets processing ...... school year. But lawmakers in a mood to cut spending may take a different approach. Read More UT: Utah State reopens ROTC building after threat of violence By The Associated Press, Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) LOGAN, Utah — The ROTC building at ...

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STUDENTS SHOWCASE RESEARCH WITH POSTERS ON THE HILL Project: 2011 Date: 1/24/2011 Media Type: Newswire Tone: Positive Outlet: US Federal News Journalist: n/a City: National State: n/a

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 24 -- The University of Utah issued the following news release:

More than two dozen University of Utah undergraduate students will join counterparts from Utah State University in presenting "Research Posters on the Hill: A Celebration of Undergraduate Research" to Utah State Legislators on Wednesday, Jan. 26, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the rotunda of the State Capitol.

The event, now in its eleventh year, gives lawmakers the opportunity to see the high-caliber research projects coming from undergraduate students at the state's two public research institutions, in addition to the continued necessity for funding from the state of Utah to support higher education.

Student's visual representations will present overviews of individual research in disciplines ranging from oncology to cardiology, bioengineering to psychology.

"Research is rapidly becoming an essential part of undergraduate education," says Michael K. Young, president of the University of Utah. "Engaging in research or creative activity with a faculty mentor adds a critical, hands-on dimension to the learning that goes on in the classroom. It also makes students partners in the enterprise that defines the character of a research university such as the University of Utah."

Students selected to participate represent a diverse range of research topics. A sampling of this year's subjects include research on contaminants in wastewater effluent and river water, studies on familial inheritance of T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, technology for alternate ironmaking processes resulting in reduced energy consumption and CO2 emissions, the production of a simulator to evaluate neurologic feedback from prosthetics, exploration of neurons in fat pads surrounding the heart, and the use of miRNA levels to detect breast cancer. For any query with respect to this article or any other content requirement, please contact Editor at [email protected]

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