Nominees announced for 2nd District Court vacancy
SALT LAKE CITY – The 2nd District Judicial Nominating Commission has selected nominees for a vacancy on the 2nd District Court. The vacancy results from the retirement of Judge Michael Allphin, October 16, 2018. The 2nd Judicial District includes Davis, Morgan, and Weber counties.
The nominees for the vacancy are: Michael Edwards, owner/attorney, Michael S. Edwards, Attorney at Law, PLLC; Brandon Poll, criminal division chief, Davis County Attorney’s Office; Reuben Renstrom, justice court judge, South Ogden Justice Court, South Weber Justice Court, Harrisville Justice Court, Riverdale Justice Court, Woods Cross Justice Court; David Williams, shareholder, Stoel Rives, LLP; J.C. Ynchausti, justice court judge, Davis County Justice Court.
Written comments can be submitted to the 2nd District Judicial Nominating Commission Chair Mark Johnson at judicialvacancies@utah.gov or Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, P.O. Box 142330, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-2330. The deadline for written comments is noon August 28, 2018. The Nominating Commission may request further information or conduct an investigation of the nominees after reviewing public comments. After the public comment period, the names will be sent to Gov. Gary R. Herbert, who will have 30 days to make an appointment. Gov. Herbert’s appointee is subject to confirmation by the Utah Senate..
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Happy Sunday!
How has your weekend been?
We are diving right in today with a brand new roll and graph activity, some math mats - and a fun craft for Back to School season!
Check it all out (and of course grab your Sunday Surprise freebie) below!
Onto this week's freebies and fun!
~Alex
Back to School Roll and Graph Math Activity
It's a race to the top of the graph with our NEW Back to School Roll and Graph Math Activity Printables!
Children will have a blast practicing early graphing skills with this math activity in your math center, small groups, or with a partner.
Check out our FREE Roll and Graph Math Printables for the Year!
Apple Addition and Subtraction Math Mats
Grab your counting bears to use with these Apple Addition and Subtraction Math Mats for back to school season!
If you don't have bear counters, you can use apple seeds, or any red or green manipulative you may have on hand to create an instant, effective math center.
We especially like the hands-on application of this math activity. Children will be able to build addition and subtraction problems with their own two hands!
See it in Action Here and Grab FREE Printables
Check out our FREE Printable Math Mats for the Year!
Dot Art Elmer Craft with FREE Printable
Our beloved children's book character, Elmer, is here to help your students make friends and learn how to be a good friend at the beginning of the school year!
We are excited to share with you our FREE Elmer Craft Printable. You can create an Elmer art masterpiece with tissue paper art, rip art or dot art!
Celebrate Differences and Friendship:
10 Read Alouds for Celebrating Differences
Rainbow Fish Craft and FREE Printable
Superhero Letter Sort
Welcome your superheroes back to school with this fun Superhero Letter Sort Activity!
This printable comes with both uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet as well as 2 letter sorting sheets.
Sunday Surprise
This week's freebie is a crayon beginning sounds activity!
Just print, laminate, and let your kids match up the crayons to their crayon boxes while building up their knowledge of beginning sounds! You can even make it self-correcting by printing on cardstock and then writing the correct letter on the back of the crayon boxes. :)
Get Your Freebie Sunday Surprise HERE (expires Tuesday!)
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Anti-American, anti-truth White House
by Tom H. Hastings
657 words
How is Trump doing in his fake MAGA quest? MPGA? Make Putin Great Again?
My career as an activist since the 1960s has focused on a critique of my own government’s activities, since we live in a democracy and our government’s actions are done in our names. Well, I said when I felt it appropriate, not in mine. No threats to annihilate cities anywhere in my name. No invasion of Iraq in my name. Been arrested, cuffed and stuffed, sent to prison for some fairly robust nonviolence.
And yet now I find myself almost sympathetic to the FBI, the same organization that played many dirty tricks against peace and justice organizations over the decades. I even feel some sympathy for some CIA officials, the same organization that disgraced itself in Iran, Congo, Chile and other places. How can this be? From where can these unbidden sympathies arise?
When I read testimony, tweets, or published emails, for instance, of Peter Strzok, the fired FBI counterespionage agent, it is clear that he is disgusted with Putin’s Russia: “F*cking conniving cheating savages. At statecraft, athletics, you name it,” and goes on to tell his co-worker that he is so glad to be on “Team America.” (I admit, I am nonplussed by the amateurish use of electronic communication by “professionals” to express fireable statements. Haven’t all activists known since the 1990s that, in the words of one movement lawyer, “never write anything in an email that you don’t intend for the FBI”?)
Strzok was one of the lead agents in 2016 investigating both Hillary Clinton’s improper use of email (sending official emails from a private account) and the Russian espionage on behalf of Donald Trump to get him elected. His conclusion was that Clinton’s email kerfuffle was a nothingburger and the Trump/Putin collusion/conspiracy was a foreign government’s attack on US democracy. A successful attack. So, of course, Trump had to fire him.
I am sickened by Putin and his murderous ways—killing journalists, arresting gays, defending chemical weapons-user Bashir al-Assad, etc.—but Trump loves a strongman. He seems to be mentored by Putin, he cozies up to other brutal leaders like mass murderer Rodrigo Duterte (who is currently buying submarines from Putin), and yet Trump’s base sticks with him, apparently more filled with hatred for peace and justice than care about democracy. The irony is inescapable. Trump evaded military service in Vietnam like most rich boys—his excuse was “bone spurs” in a fake news excuse from 50 years ago. Now he praises “his” military but mostly sends off a budget that covers obscene war profits for weapons manufacturers.
The people of Russia are my friends; their leader is not their friend nor mine. The people of America are not properly served or represented by Trump, a treasonous greedhead and wannabe dictator. He’s firing his detractors as fast as possible, fearful of an actual justice system that is coming close to charging him with impeachable offenses such as his demonstrable Obstruction of Justice, and he’s even defending Alex Jones, the way-way cray-cray who calls Democrats aliens, not human, who advocates killing Hillary Clinton and others. Trump has complimented Jones, appeared on his show, and stripped John Brennan and others of their security clearance and is firing his way toward a Department of Justice that is a Deep State for Trump.
Of course Trump’s many lawyers are spreading fake news as fast as possible. But their lead, Rudolph Giuliani, tops them all when he says Trump won’t submit to an interview by Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel investigating the Russian role in getting Trump elected. Rudy actually saidthe proposed interview would be nothing more than an attempt to get Trump to commit perjury, something for which we all know Bill Clinton was impeached. But there is one way to absolutely beat any chance of perjury, the method that Rudy and Donald never mastered and never will: Just Tell the Truth.
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Dr. Tom H. Hastings is PeaceVoiceDirector and on occasion an expert witness for the defense in court.
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DENVER—The Interior Department announced late Friday that it was reversing its previous proposal to sell off 1,600 acres of land in the original boundaries of Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument. The Salt Lake Tribune quotes an unidentified Interior official who claims Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was unaware of the proposal before it was released to the public.
The Center for Western Priorities released the following statement from Executive Director Jennifer Rokala:
“Does Secretary Zinke have any idea what’s going on inside the Interior Department? He was caught red-handed trying to sell off our public lands to his political supporters. It’s only after two days of terrible news stories that he is now changing direction. In the end, this changes very little about the plan to open up the national monument to unfettered drilling and mining for the benefit of Zinke’s industry friends.”
For more information, visit westernpriorities.org. To speak with an expert on public lands, contact Aaron Weiss at 720-279-0019 or aaron@westernpriorities.org. Sign up for Look West to get daily public lands and energy news sent to your inbox.
