Why have there been unseasonable blizzards in Utah in March?
Because the Utah Legislature has made all the calendars secret.
Beehive State lawmakers went on a tear in the recently completed session, passing bill after bill that had as its main goal, or as an aside, taking some document, official process or body and removing it from public view.
The bill most of us noticed, SB240, retroactively allows Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes to keep his official calendar a secret. After a state judge said he shouldn’t. And, while they were at it, legislators also allowed every other government official, state or local, to hide their comings, goings and meetings with who-knows-who as they conduct official business. Your business.
Meanwhile, SB211, pushed through with the personal sponsorship of Senate President Stuart Adams and House Speaker Mike Schultz, created a new state bureaucracy to, among other things, go looking to other states for new sources of water for our parched state. And it made all the work, research, negotiations and spending of that creation secret.
There will be no more important issue for Utah going forward than our water supply. Which means there is no issue that is in more need of public oversight.
Maybe Adams and Schultz just don’t want us to know how loudly other states will laugh at them when Utah asks to buy some of their water.
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