...would not get any new money. It looks as though education in Utah will no longer escape the sinking economy's pull. Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. recommended Thursday that the next state budget include no new raises for teachers, no increase in the amount of state...
...leaner, the state plans to give Medicaid -- slammed with a swarm of new enrollees -- the boost in funding it needs. Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. recommended Thursday giving the program $14.6 million in general fund money to cover an anticipated 13 percent increase...
...and Education and Related Agencies, held one hearing and subpoenaed Murray for another, which was postponed. Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. also set up the Utah Mine Safety Commission to study the state's role in mine safety, accident prevention and accident response....
...Jon Huntsman Jr. proposed a state budget today that is more than $1 billion smaller than last year, as the governor asked legislators to cut current state spending by as much as 7 percent in the face of a dismal economic picture. Legislative leaders asked...
... While next year's budget is bad, more spending cuts must be made to this year's budget, too. Thursday, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. recommended a budget for next fiscal year that is $1.1 billion less than his spending plan of just a year ago. And no state program...
...to needy families, the third-largest number in roughly four decades. After four years of healthy budget increases, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. will take a dramatically different course today when he releases his financial proposal for the coming year, with drastic...
...increasing caseload, is estimating it needs $14 million in supplemental money -- an amount it hopes to see in Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s budget today. Absent that boost, Medicaid could be faced with making cuts where it legally can -- such as dropping coverage...
...communities are more often reporting crime linked to gangs, prosecutors and police say. That trend is one reason Gov. Jon Huntsman has established a new task force to develop a strategy to handle Utah's growing gang problem. The goals: To decrease gang-related...
...of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics, brought up another possible candidate for 2012 who'd appeal to Utahns Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. Recently elected to a second term, Huntsman has said that's not going to happen. But if it does, Jowers said, "There's very...
...something of a sales tax. The state is expected to have a revenue shortfall in the hundreds of millions. On Thursday, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. will release his budget for 2009. UDOT officials didn't drop any hints Wednesday of what they expect from the governor's...