Utah on Tuesday June 30, 2009

UT: Utah recovery months away, consultant says
By Lois M. Collins, The Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City)
Like a timid swimmer watching for drop-offs on the pool bottom, Utah is cautiously inching its way through the recession. And experts predict it will be mid-2010 before a modest upturn indicates happier economic times for the Beehive State.
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UT: Utah's new liquor laws to bring changes
By Dawn House, The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah's liquor regulations can be confusing -- and the changes to club laws that go into effect at midnight are no exception.
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Furloughs cut into state services
By Pauline Vu, Stateline.org Staff Writer
With states facing a $121 billion shortfall in the next fiscal year, a growing number of them have turned to squeezing their workforce for savings, and effects both great and small will be felt.
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UT: Utah part of solar-energy study
By Amy Joi O'Donoghue, The Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Monday that close to 700,000 acres of federal land in Western states, including Utah, will be set aside as solar energy study areas to be evaluated for their suitability for large-scale solar energy production.
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NV: Public lands in 6 states, including Utah, set for solar projects
By Ken Ritter, The Associated Press, The Salt Lake Tribune
LAS VEGAS -- The federal government's top land steward said Monday that the United States will fast-track efforts to build solar power generating facilities on public space in six Western states.
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UT: Utah schools promote free lunches
By Kirsten Stewart, The Salt Lake Tribune
New federal guidelines and a struggling economy mean more Utah schoolchildren likely will be eligible for free or reduced-price lunches next year. Utah education officials urge families living "on the edge" to take advantage of the program, even if they think they earn too much to qualify.
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UT: Health clinics get a share of federal recovery money
By Andrew Maddocks, The Salt Lake Tribune
Patients at certain Utah community health centers will see holes patched in carpets and buildings renovated, receive home phone calls through new electronic record-keeping systems, and in a few cases see more fellow patients making appointments.
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UT: Utah Department of Health -- Hospital errors up
By Heidi Toth, The Daily Herald (Provo)
To make sure doctors didn't operate on the wrong side of a patient, they asked the teenage patient to write "yes" on the leg that needed surgery. He got bored. He had a marker. The surgeon came back to find doodles all over both legs.
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US: Ruling adds teeth to state oversight of banks
By Neil Irwin, The Washington Post
For years, state governments have had little power to enforce consumer-protection and lending rules at the country's biggest banks. No more.
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US: Obama steers health debate out of capital
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times
WASHINGTON — With Democrats deeply divided over health legislation, President Obama is trying to enlist the nation's governors and his own army of grass-roots supporters in a bid to increase pressure on lawmakers without getting himself mired in the messy battle playing out on Capitol Hill.
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US: A green way to dump low-tech electronics
By Leslie Kaufman, The New York Times
Since 2004, 18 states and New York City have approved laws that make manufacturers responsible for recycling electronics, and similar statutes were introduced in 13 other states this year.
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