BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 79.7% saturation with 114 hits. Analysis detected 503 faulty-reasoning hits from 143 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 75.8% and a BS Rank of 83% (2,865 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 83.00% of the article peer group.
Lawmakers passed a $31 million budget late on Friday, and over the course of the session, introduced more than a thousand bills.
Still, some say this year’s round of lawmaking was a relatively stately affair compared to recent sessions.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t important bills to talk about, though — like the newly expanded Utah Supreme Court, jumping from five justices to seven.
Officials also banned cellphones during school hours.
There was a modest tax cut, as well as new restrictions on puberty blockers for minors.
Meanwhile, Harvey Milk Boulevard won’t be renamed after the late Charlie Kirk.
Which gets us to Representative Trevor Lee, who was behind that push.
Two of our guests say that, if you wanted to pick something to characterize this year’s session, Lee’s extreme rhetoric and disregard for process turning off his fellow lawmakers could be it.
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