Blood, sweat and a few taxes

Funding needs met, tensions unleashed and power altered

By Bob Bernick Jr.
Deseret News political editor

Published: Thursday, March 6 2003 3:00 p.m. MST

Summary

Which branch of government is winning, which is losing? Who's running for governor? Can huge media campaigns change votes? What's happening with the silent minority?

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SIZE="2">End-of-session coverage:

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Session called one of the most difficult in memory

New fees to add $1.7 million to state's coffers

Controversial plan for tuition tax credits dies again

Most have plenty to toast in the new liquor laws

Waste storage bills amounted to waste of time, critics say

House embraces, quickly rebuffs hate-crimes bill

Workers-comp bill stalled for now

State's actions may chase credit unions to a federal haven

Tax plan beckons aerospace industry

Lawmakers scratch up needed funds

Stalemate over a bonding bill is finally broken

Legislation affecting motorists

Whom lawmakers helped and hurt

4 measures on traffic safety come to a screeching halt

Session had a frivolous side

Will 'fund of funds' be high-tech boon?

And the giggle awards go to . . .

Polygamy laws toughened

Gun rights survive without losing any ground

New weapons against DUIs

Juvenile courts may be opened

Environmental legislation is chopped down

Trust-lands deal a win-win for state, schools

Sales tax change among local issues

HB271 passes, releasing city $$

Photo: Students raise their voices

UCAT loses one campus but gains 9 new ones

Therapy bill put on hold for a year

Parental-rights measures fail

Effects of trumpeted eduction bill uncertain

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