Salt Lake Tribune – Salt Lake Tribune Home Page On Wednesday, Rocky Anderson will make history. At noon in City Hall, the Salt Lake City mayor will quietly sign an executive order to offer a handful of health benefits to gay and unmarried heterosexual partners of city employees. This won’t last long – probabably not through the end of the next legislative session – but it’s nice to see these two categories together for the first (and probably last) time.
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This weekend is going to be pretty busy. I’m not looking forward to all of the meetings and running around, plus it gives David and me very little time to take care of an essential item on my agenda. I’ve got an all-day meeting Saturday that’s a kind of retreat for Holy Moly, and to be ready for that I’ve got some formatting to do for fliers and things that we’ll be handing out in bulletins. The meeting goes from 9am to 3pm and is supposed to be a planning event. We had better get some actual planning done, rather…
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Scandal Visits the White House: The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal reached into the White House yesterday, picking off President Bush’s top procurement official — who just barely had time to resign before being arrested. The federal charges against David Safavian stem from his tenure as chief of staff of the General Services Administration, predating his arrival at the White House a year ago. But his arrest nonetheless draws renewed attention to the ongoing corruption and influence-peddling inquiry swirling around Abramoff, a lobbyist well known for his connections to conservative Republicans in the White House and Congress. And for a White…