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Davis cities debate spending balance for drug task force

Last updated Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 5:18pm

WOODS CROSS -- Drug related crimes in Davis County continue to occur, and in response, Davis mayors recognize the importance of continuing to support and fund the Davis Metro Narcotics Strike Force.

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Utah agriculture task force makes recommendations to enhance farming, ranching

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 6:26pm

Following seven months of research and study the Utah Agriculture Sustainability Task Force is offering 29 recommendations that are expected to protect and enhance Utah agriculture. The recommendations generally call for the creation of new laws and policies at the federal, state and local levels that remove obstacles for safe and modern farming and ranching.

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Doreen Alfaro holds a photograph of herself and her mother Anita Franco at her home in Aptos, Calif. , in this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. Dementia is poised to become a defining disease of a rapidly aging population _ and a budget-busting one for Medicare, Medicaid and families. The Obama administration is developing the first national Alzheimer's plan to combine research aimed at fighting dementia with help for caregivers. Around the country, thousands of families are pleading for changes to improve early diagnosis and help keep loved ones at home instead of in nursing homes. Doreen's mother Anita Franco died from Alzheimer's Disease in 2005. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Alzheimer's task force holding public hearing

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 8:27am

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah officials will be discussing the impact of Alzheimer's disease and taking public comment during an upcoming hearing.

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Multistate polygamy task force proposed

Kiah Collier Standard Times

Last updated Monday, August 22, 2011 - 1:40pm

SAN ANGELO, Texas -- On June 11, 2008, top cops from Arizona, Nevada and Utah walked out of a meeting in Las Vegas excited about the prospect of banding together with federal authorities for a multistate effort to fight crimes related to polygamy.

The task force still hasn't materialized.

Federal authorities apparently remain cool to the idea, but state officials in Texas, Nevada and Utah remain hopeful. They see a glaring need for a coordinated state-federal effort to investigate allegations ranging from tax evasion to the sexual assault of underage "celestial" brides in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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Court backlog studied by national task force

Concord Monitor, Melanie Plenda

Last updated Friday, May 27, 2011 - 2:29pm

CONCORD, N.H. -- Wayne and Kristy Haggie lost their children to Kristy Haggie's parents in a custody battle two years ago. While a judge ruled in June that they could begin visitations, it took four months for the couple to be reunited with their children.

The Nashua, N.H., couple had to wait, they said, because the judge's order got lost in stacks of courthouse paperwork.

"I feel let down by the courts," Wayne Haggie said during testimony before the Task Force on Preservation of the Justice System, which met Thursday at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. "We missed our daughter's first steps."

The American Bar Association created the task force to gather testimony from across the country on the effect of budget cuts to court systems -- and to the people who rely on those systems. The result will be a joint resolution penned by the ABA in the fall and delivered to Congress.

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