Utah Governor 'Honored' With Blackhole Award

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @07:06AM from the prize-nobody-wants dept.

The national Society of Professional Journalists plans to 'honor' Utah's Gov. Gary Herbert with the first-ever Black Hole award for a restrictive new open records law. From the article: "David Cuillier, SPJ's Freedom of Information Committee chief and a journalism professor at the University of Arizona, said he'll try to present the award to Herbert on Wednesday. The award, Cuillier said, is part of Sunshine Week, an annual initiative begun in 2002 to promote greater transparency in government. Nominations were gathered from around the country, but Cuillier said 'there was no question' the award should go to Herbert as the chief executive of the state."

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Re:Utah: More of the same by interkin3tic · 2011-03-15 07:26 · Score: 0, Troll

Take out polygamists and that describes most states.

Alaska: Palin, bridge to nowhere, and the internet described as a bunch of tubes. And it's ass-cold.
Arizona: bass-ackwards, racist politics
California I guess you have a little more, like mudslides, fires, and crime, but most news seems to be "Out of money" or "Pot smokers vote against legalizing pot."
Delaware: ... I can't recall any national news from Delaware.
Florida: just refused an assload of money. I guess they have more money than they can use? They have retirees rather than polygamists
Wisconsin: Cheese and billionaires busting up unions.

Hawaii is the one exception I can think of.