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Show Thursday March 8, 2007 i www.heraldextra.cora X. YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR TOWN 3 etitft Ml Utah valley edition 50 CENTS YOUR NEWSPAPER ITototo readers: Eagle Mtn. Mounting investigates second Herald TV about ways to skin a now there's another to get local news. Right now, you're either reading a printed newspaper or you're looking at a computer screen linked to heraldextra.com. But as of Wednesday, many residents of Utah Valley have another choice. It's called television. The Daily Herald now has it's own TV channel It's Channel 74 on MStar, a cable television provider on iProvo and the rapidly growing UTOPIA network, which serves 14 cities in Utah. So, why would the Dairy Herald want a TV channel? Several Forget councilman 4 f x t; 4'f-- i ' J" i Caleb Warnock DAILY Eagle Mountain confirmed on Wednesday that a second member of the City Council is under investigation. Mayor Don Richardson confirmed the investigation, but refused to say what the investigation focused on or who was involved. "We cannot say anything, to protect the integrity of the investigation," said city spokeswoman Linda Peterson. "The city is not conducting the investi- reasons. First, we see it as a way to bring local news, sports and features to life. Print journalists have always been a bit jealous of television's ability to use video. Advances in video production technology and the Internet now enable us to take the plunge. Second, we want to connect even more with local residents and communities. The Herald is by far the dominant source of local news for Utah Valley, and we want as many people to have access as possible. We will use our traditional reporting resources to tell stories in new and exciting ways. Reporters will not only write articles for the printed newspaper; they will now present themthe information selves. In this way, we hope to get better acquainted with viewers and readers alike. Our approach to programming will also allow us to include a large number of videos, including advertising, on our Web site, www.heraldextra.com. The Herald will become a truly integrated news organization. Local news and advertising has always been in high demand, and the Herald is in a better position to deliver it than anyone else. While our initial step into television is modest a news show called "In the Loop" that airs at hours we will grow, day by day, adding programming as quickly as we are . ,!''' - .",'., ' i US. Geological Suney Zebra mussels already have invaded the Great Lakes, choking out aquatic life and causing water quality. problems because of new algae growth. Activists.arworking to protect Lake Mead from the mussels. iake gation." In individual interviews on Wednesday, each member of the City Council said they had no knowledge of being the subject of the second investigation. Late Wednesday, Richardson again refused to clarify whether a City Council member or city staffer was the subject of the investigation. County attorney Jeff Buhman was out of town and no one at the county attorney's office was able to confirm an investigation. "Someone is hying," said Councilman David Lifferth, when told what the other council members said about the second inquiry. Lifferth and Council-woma- n j Heather Jackson said they have been told by city officials not to disclose the name of the person who is under investigatioa Other council members said they were unaware of a second investigation. Lifferth revealed during Tuesday's City Council meeting that Councilman David Blackburn is the subject of an internal investigation, ongoing since in See Aggressive mussels from Europe threatening waters in Utah and Nevada ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS able. To view the Herald TV channel today, you will need to subscribe to MStar, which also provides Internet services and digital telephone services. Randy Wright Quagga Executive Editor heart-shape- PHOTOS FOR SALE See a photo you would like to have in your home or office? Daily Herald photos now are available online at heraldextra.comgallery. INSIDE II CI OUR TOWNS BUSINESS C4 Clouds, COMICS UV sunshine EDITORIALS A6 MOVIES UV OBITUARIES TV GUIDE gO UV BS WEATHER HIGH 54 LOW 30 VOLUME 84 ISSUE 220 055 00050"." costly jump Midwest Mead. Deal- ing with them will be anything but a vacation. On a summer day in 1988, in a lake near shallow, Detroit, two Canadian university students found the future. While searching for native mussels to use in a research project, the students fished up a rock, and on that rock was an unfamiliar striped mussel, no larger than a fingernail. "We had no idea what it was, except that it was something new and very strange," recalls biologist Paul Hebert, who supervised the project. "So I took a picture of it. I figured it'd be the last and only one I'd ever see." Experts soon identified the specimens from Lake St. Clair as zebra mussels, a species native to the rivers around the Black and Caspian seas. In a matter of months, the diminutive mussels had conquered the lake, coating hard surfaces with solid layers of sharp shells. They even encrusted the lake's large native mussels, eventually killing them alL "The poor things starved to death," says Hebert. The zebra mussels hitched rides in boats, bait buckets and d SPORTS A mussels, an INVESTIGATION, A8 Matheson and 'Blue Dog' Dems Michelle Nijhius even-number- high-spee- HERALD Conservatives assert power to moderate liberal U.S. House d - , y.tr- - Julie Hirschfeld Davis 7 . THE WASHINGTON When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faced scorn from fellow Democrats during a recent closed-doo- r meeting for not moving more aggressively on Iraq, it was conservative Blue Dogs her ideological who rose to defend her. opposites The unlikely support reflected an emerging dynamic in the House, where the 43 right-o- f center fiscal hawks are increasingly asserting their power, working to moderate the policies and image of a party with a liberal base and leaders to match. The coalition's name is a play on yellow dog Democrats, an epithet that came into being in the 1920s to describe party loyalists in the South who, it was said, would vote for a yellow dog if it ran on the Democratic ticket. Democrats who said their moderate to conservative views had been "choked blue" by the party's liberal flank started re- - f f erring to themselves as blue dogs and formed their group after Republicans swept control of the House in 1994. With Democrats in charge again, 100thMeridlan.org attach to other aquatic many species and affecting water quality. Small zebra mussels virtually killing off life, . , - "We had no idea what it was, except that it was something new and very strange." . Paul Hebert biologist on first finding the zebra mussel river currents, and within five years, they had established themselves in the five Great Lakes and in seven major rivers, including d the Mississippi, Tennessee, Ohio. Their ecological and economic misdeeds were ' soon infamous: Zebra mussels can rip apart native food webs, dog water intakes with tons of shells and mussel meat, foster' , Hud-son'an- the growth of noxious algae, and turn sugar-sanbeaches into treacherous, stinking expanses of jagged shells. - Three years after Hebert snapped his photograph, scientists discovered another species of invasive mussel in Great Lakes, close relative of the , d : See ASSOCIATED PRESS ' MUSSELS, A4 See 8 BLUE DOGS, A8 3 Payson 465-995- 6 IProvo-Ea- Bay 812-070- 0 Iftovo-Jamosto- 343-087- 2 IOrem 426-591- 0 Pleasant Crort 796-606- American Fork 0 2 763-1437- 7 1 Highland 847-202- 5 lehl (New Ownerl) 768-485- 5 |