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Summers: Not the average intern Stimulus battle not yet over MONDAY CLOSE-UP
Steven R. Hurst THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — One of President Barack Obama’s top economic advisers forecast Sunday a difficult struggle with Congress over Senate cuts of $40 billion for state and local governments from the administration’s massive spending and tax cut package to stimulate the failing economy. The $827 billion Senate version of the plan — designed to bring the economy out of the worst downward spiral since the Great Depression — was
See STIMULUS, A8 ∫ Economy: Recession sending students to community colleges, A4 Legislative intern, Roland Williams requests copies of bills that will be discussed in the coming week on Friday at the Capitol in Salt Lake City. “There is a great deal of tradition here that I find quite interesting,” Williams said.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY ASHLEY FRANSCELL
Springville tightens costs of new library with smaller design
Whether family, friends or strangers, one thing binds us together: Utah Valley is home. Here is the story of one of us, Roland Williams. n his first couple of weeks at the Capitol, Roland Williams, 61, has been mistaken for a Utah Representative and a new
Janice Peterson DAILY HERALD
studying pre-law or political science who get paid and university credit for their work. Not Williams. The time he puts in at the Capitol is all pro bono. Williams is the oldest intern Senator. this year by many years and When it happens, he laughs, he thinks he might be the flattered at the thought, but oldest ever. He admits to bethen introduces himself as ing a little slower and not as “Roland Williams, the world’s versed in the technology as the oldest intern.” others, but his spirit far outWilliams retired in 2006 weighs his shortcomings. after 32 years of teaching “I just really like being here history and government at and seeing how it all works,” Mountain View High School he said. and Timpanogos High School. Even after teaching the After campaigning this sumtopic for three decades and mer and fall for Represena master’s degree in history, tative Stephen Sandstrom, Williams has learned so much Williams was asked to be his in his first two weeks at the intern. legislature. “It has really been a treat,” “I knew the procedures,” he said Williams, who lives in said. “But now I can put a perSandstrom’s district in Orem. sonality to those procedures. I Most of the interns are Uni- get to meet the people behind versity of Utah or Brigham Young University students, See INTERN, A3
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∫ Stimulus for education: Plan emerges to boost financial aid for college students, A4
Above: Legislative intern, Roland Williams makes a phone call to the state’s Republican office for Representative Stephen Sandstrom on Friday at the Capitol in Salt Lake City. Below: Roland rides the elevator with other legislative interns from BYU.
Springville City is tightening the budget set aside for its new library, but officials say residents won’t see a difference in the quality of the new building. Pam Vaughn, library director, said the budget for the library has shrunk from $14 million to $11 million at the urging of city officials seeking to cut costs. Residents voted for a $9.8 million bond in November to build the library, with the city furnishing the rest of the costs. Most of the difference in cost will likely be in the size of the building,
See LIBRARY, A3
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