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Salt Lake City attorney Joe Hatch realized near the end of December that his car registration was about to expire, and he had not received a notice from the Division of Motor Vehicles like he usually does.
He went to the DMV to ask and was told that he had moved to Washington.
He assured the clerk he had not moved, and she realized that Hatch's registration was part of group that had mistakenly been removed because of a computer foul-up.
She gave Hatch a temporary registration and said his permanent document would arrive later in the mail. She told him to put the temporary registration on his front dashboard.
Last week, he parked at the Utah Capitol to attend a legislative meeting. When he returned, he had a ticket for having an expired registration.
He tracked down the parking enforcement officer and showed him his temporary permit. The officer said he still was in violation because city ordinance requires the temporary registration to be in the back, not the front. He finally persuaded the officer to void the ticket, but not before he was advised to put the paper in the back.
This week, when he parked downtown near The Gateway and got another ticket for an expired registration, he called city parking enforcement and was told the temporary permit should have been in the front, not the back.
Go figure.
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Friendly relations • Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, the leader of the land-grab movement in the Utah Legislature, has started or co-founded a number of nonprofits that in one way or another tend to put money in his pocket through salaries, royalties or speaking fees.
There has been the American Lands Council, A Most Sacred Trust and Where's the Line?
An attorney, Ivory also has listed various corporations or firms for which he has worked on his legislative conflict-of-interest form.
His quest has been to force the federal government to give control of public lands to the states.
The good legislator has made an interesting change on his conflict-of-interest form. One of the firms listed before was Ivory Law, purportedly his legal practice. That has been replaced with a new law firm for which he counts himself an employee. That firm is Stratton Law Group, which is headed by fellow Rep. Keven Stratton, R-Orem, who oversees the Legislature's Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands, a leader in Ivory's movement to force the feds to turn over 31 million of acres to the state.
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Idling away in pollution-ville • It appears that Salt Lake City attorney Lincoln Hobbs is fast becoming the leading Utah Transit Authority pollution cop.
I wrote in January about Hobbs, on a morning walk with his wife in the city's Federal Heights area, when he noticed a large UTA truck idling in a Mormon meetinghouse parking lot. The occupants seemed in no hurry to go anywhere, but the engine was running just fine. They also didn't seem concerned about the city's anti-idling ordinance.
Well, on Thursday, it happened again.
At 6:50 a.m., while on his walk, another large UTA truck was idling away in the same lot. The license plate was EX515364.