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Lame duck Stuart Adams out for blood; Gov. Cox goes bananas on nuclear energy.
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Stuart Adams is not a happy camper. As the Utah Senate president and member of the state's shadow government—the Military Installation Development Authority, MIDA—he found himself knee-deep in public outrage over plans for a gigantic data center in Box Elder County.
The back-door deal caught Utahns by surprise and Adams was voted out in a June primary. Now, Tribune ace Robert Gehrke reports that Adams is threatening to sue four people who he claims made false statements about his role in the approval of the massive Death Star.
For the past two decades, Adams has swung a lot of weight at the…
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