Lincoln's Legislative bLOG

Well, the week six may be redundant for all of you who are actively following the session through your local newspaper. Most of the issues ...

Week 5 Update Utah League of Cities and Towns While week five was fairly anti-climactic, the beginning of week six started with a bang. Qui...

Week 4 Update 2011 Utah Legislative Session Week 4 proved to be a great week for the ULCT. Not only did we mark the midpoint of the session...

Alcohol: With Valentine’s Day upon us, it was only appropriate that Sen. Valentine visited extensively with ULCT Policy Makers in week 3 on ...

Well, it proved to be a fairly slow week in committee and on the floor during week 2, but big things were happening behind the scenes. Most...

ULCT Week One Legislative Highlights and Recap (2011) It was a very successful first week of the 2011 session for the U...

Immigration: Most parties acknowledge that America’s immigration system is broken, and communities through out Utah and the country are suff...

It looks like several states are contemplating major changes in public pension reform. Even the staunches allies of public employees are re...

Many of you may be in receipt of a letter from the Attorney General's office regarding the implementation of SB81 from the 2008 sessio...

So, we are officially half way through the 2010 session and we are faring very well. Here is a quick recap of several major items. Billboar...

So we are two weeks in to the 2010 legislative session in Utah and things are going well for municipal government. Here is a quick recap of...

We had a great Local Officials' Day event on Capitol Hill today; providing an opportunity for local elected and appointed officials to i...

We are now one week out from the 2010 legislative session and the preparations for the session are well underway. Please make sure you check...

Here it is -- the final post in our five-part series. I hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have enjoyed writing it. Without further adie...

And now with our fourth installment -- Emergency medical services. Part IV: Ambulatory Service Issues: As cities and counties are uniquely p...

Here is our third installment of the five-part legislative update series. Today we will focus on local transportation funding. Part III: Tr...

As we continue our five part legislative update, here is part II, which deals with the public sector retirement issues. We will be highligh...

As we prep for another legislative session, we thought it would be helpful to highlight some key issues we have been working on over the int...

The Executive Water Task Force met yesterday, August 4 at the Department of Natural Resources. Lt. Governor Gary Herbert addressed the Task...

On July 13, 2009 the Utah League of Cities and Towns conducted it fourth subcommittee meeting on the Utah State Retirement issue. At this me...

The Water Coalition met on Thursday June 25 at the office of the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake & Sandy. Fred Finlinson chaire...

As the economic downturn continues to take it's toll on general fund of state and local budgets, one of the more subtle, but equally sig...

The ULCT has been working closely with Sen. Steve Urquhart to address the issues surrounding the posting of public notices and legal notices...

As the session continues, it appears that the ambulance service bill is clearly getting the post attention. It could be that practically eve...

This week has largely been consumed with discussions on billboard legislation, townships, and ambulance service; but I am happy to say that ...