UTAH "Payson man was arrested on Tuesday, April 2 in connection to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after prosecutors say he lunged at officers with a stun gun."
@johnelalamo@ProPublica “Utah’s Republican-dominated Legislature adjourned this month after passing a record 591 bills during its session. Lawmakers earmarked nearly $2 billion in tax subsidies to build an MLB stadium and an NHL arena. They doubled funding for the state’s school voucher program. And they cut the income tax rate.
But they made no direct financial investment in child care…”
Utah ranks among worst in the world in this critical climate change metric
The Beehive State’s ranking rises to 19th when compared on a per capita basis. On average, each person in Utah generates more than 18 tons of carbon dioxide annually.
That is about 3½ tons more than the average American, and 10 tons more than the average Californian
Today in Labor History March 17, 1968: The U.S. Army Chemical Corps killed over 6,000 sheep while illegally testing a nerve gas agent at the Dugway Proving Ground in Skull Valley, Utah. A 1998 report, the by Air Force Press was the "first documented admission" from the Army that a nerve agent killed the sheep at Skull Valley. The incident inspired Stephen King's novel “The Stand.”
The desert north of Milford, #Utah, is full of a strange mix of land uses. There are large solar farms, extensive wind turbines, several geothermal plants, and then loads of pig farms.
@ai6yr A building next to mine had a pile of tumbleweeds 10 feet high and the entire length of the wall. Every single truck/SUV had tumbleweeds caught underneath it, and any truck with a snowplow attachment now looked like it had been plowing thorns. Going outside without being armored in a car meant risking being hit in the face with a thorn bush.
@ai6yr Yes, it's interesting that tumbleweeds are a staple of the "Western frontier" look, when they didn't get here until 1873. They are, rather, a staple of the "Western frontier as seen through Hollywood lenses."