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Show r ONLINE: www. hcraldoxtrd.com" Thursday March Utah Qkintit's I.I.AD! 20, 2008 U vai. k IN M:vs 50 CENTS YOUR NEIGHBORS ,ti"" - YOUR NEWSPAPER IN UV MAGAZINE Y production of 'Roof sliding' brings a little piece of Scotland to Provo Shurtleff: Enough with private meetings Republican legislative control allows laws to be passed behind closed-door- s Brock Vergakis THE ASSOCIATED PRESS :. Attorney CJeneral Mark Shurtleff said Wednesday that state lawmak- ers should stop meeting behind closed doors to discuss the public's business. Legislators are exempt from open meetings laws in Utah if they're meeting as a political party to discuss strategy. Some lawmakers say that meet ing behind closed doors allows them to be more candid with each other when discussing public policy. But in Utah. Republicans control enough seats in the House and Senate that they can effectively decide what laws they'll pass behind closed doors. "That shouldn't be happening," said Shurtleff, a Republican. Shurtleff said these closed caucus Tensions meetings should stop so the public isn't kept in the dark about the way government operates. On Wednesday, he said he would encourage lawmakers to consider changing state law. "The people's business should be ease on done in public," he said. Utah's legislative session 45-da- y See MEETINGS, A2 iProvo funding ' Joe Pyrah , , DAILY HERALD Months after they promised reports from consultants and action to reverse the financial slide of the iProvo telecommunications network, i city officials say they need a little more time to get a plan in place. Though the reports are late, the previously toxic atmosphere between the mayor and some of the council appears to be clearing. For example. Councilman George Stewart has long decried iProvo as a service that should be provided by the priv at elector and fiercely defended himself from perceived attacks during Mayor Lewis Billings's address just two months ago. But on Wednesday he took a different tack. "I feel like they're moving actually in a positive direction," he said. His perspective has changed since the mayor has come forward with ways to bring iProvo back into the black. (The system was $1.2 million short last year and is on track to be $1.8 million short this year.) Options include bringing on new service providers, requiring city utilities to pay for use of iProvo (much like they would with a private business) and the possibility of some sort of private partnership. Those ideas aren't new, but the fact that the Mayor's Office js looking for change instead of steadfastly claiming iProvo will work out is encouraging to Stewart. Even not seeing the reports doesn't bother him as long as the information comes before work on the city budget begins in earnest in May. "I'm willing to give them that MARIO RUIZDaily Herald Reverend Kathleen West center of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Provo leads a group of BYU students in song on Wednesday those who have served in the Iraq war. Wednesday marked the fifth year since the start of the Iraq war. at a vigil remembering Provo participates in nationwide vigil Janice Peterson DAILY HERALD more than 800 similar vigils nationwide. Those who attended said they turned out to show their support for American troops abroad, but also to voice their dis- To commemorate the fifth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, dozens taste for the war. Alex Peacock, an Orem High School of Utahns gathered at the Historic Utah senior who organized the event, said the County Courthouse on Wednesday to location of the event was key. Legislaremember fallen soldiers. tors such as Orrin Hatch have offices The anti-wa- r vigil was sponsored by www.moveon.org, which also sponsored in the courthouse, and Peacock said he Today's sturdy cars tough on Daily Herald photos now are BRIEFING A4 EDITORIALS A5 WEATHER A12 SPORTS B1 OUR TOWNS CI OBITUARIES C4 7M A.M. snow, rain mix HIGH 52 LOW 30 C6 BUSINESS COMICS IN UV TELEVISION IN UV VOLUME 85 ISSUE 233 See VIGIL, time," he said. Another iProvo opponent, Councilman Steve Turley, isn't so willing. On Monday, he told council leaders he wanted to see the consultant reports or he'd go after them himself, through an open records request if Bush: Expensive but necessary war has made U.S. safer, page A3 See A2 THE ASSOCIATED SACRAMENTO .'7 v1 PRESS TAMPA, Fla. Capt. Clint Roberts makes his living cutting accident victims out of hideously mangled vehicles, but even he could hardly believe it when two people in a 2007 midsize lis n full-size- d y 6 lll,61055"00050m,8 See TOUGH, A6 BEE As newspapers struggle with changing times, one young entrepreneur has cast his lot with the printed word. Finnegan O'Toole Boire of Davis, Calif., founded his own paper in September. He writes, takes photos, sells ads and handles printing and circulation. "I'm the he said. "I'm also the delivery boy. I do pretty much everything all editor-in-chief- ," car survived a head-ocrash with a pickup last year. The Ford Fusion's reinforced steel construction probably saved the lives of the driver and his passenger. But Roberts said it gave his Hillsborough County Fire Rescue crew fits as they tried to free them last November. Because hydraulic cutters couldn't shear the roof posts, rescue workers had to turn to heavy-dutelectric saws, replacing blade after blade as they dulled on the rugged material. A2 Hudson Sangree ! Mitch Stacy IPROVO, runs news gamut 7-year--old rescue workers available online at heraldextra.comgallery. INSIDE hopes state and national legislators will of the citizens' views. While he encouraged attendees to not give up and let their voices be heard by lawmakers, he said he did not know if the legislators would pay attention to their constituents. "Knowing some of our legislators, I don't think they read the newspaper," take note ANNE CHADWICK WILLIAMSThe Sacramento Bes Finn O'Toole Boire, 7, reads over the 18th edition of his weekly newsletter, The Weekly Block, before taking it out to be copied. He then delivers them in his neighborhood. by myself." Finn is 7 years old. His paper is called The Weekly Block and covers his own small part of the world in central Davis. The second-grade- r with a mop of brown hair was inspired by the hero of his favorite tales, Geronimo Stilton, a storybook mouse and editor of The Rodent's Gazette; "I was bored and thinking about Geronimo Stilton, and I See NEWS, A2 |