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Utali Valley's 1 v. JL- Sunday FEBRUARY 8, 2009 LOCAL NEWS FOR 135 YEARS $1.50 111 YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR NEWSPAPER ONLINE: heraldextra.com Newspaper mm i ii VJ-IU III II 13 IN SPORTS TimTJir.var.'J state Swim -r-isg 2009 UTAH LEGISLATURE Utah stations delay Mtal to DRA WING LINES si flial after all THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ii III I 'If 4 i 11 p. 1 SALT LAKE CITY All but one Utah television station will delay the switch to digital-only transmitting untilJune. The owners of KTVX (4) in Salt Lake City voted this week to continue broadcasting in analog until June 12, the new date approved by Congress for broadcasts to go digital The Utah Broadcasters Association says that after the ABC affiliate's choice to wait until June, KUTV (2), KSL-TV (5) and KSTU (13) also decided to also delay the switch. Earlier this week all six of Utah's commercial stations had planned on going ahead with the change Feb.

17, the original date mandated by the federal government. Three public stations will also wait until June. KUCW (30) plans to still make the switch on Feb. 17. 1 iff Uncharted territory: Saving U.S.

banks 1 MARK JOHNSTONOaily Herald Student Nathan Murphy passes Robert L. Barnwn's oil painting "The Utah Valley University Story 2008, in UVU's Digital Learning Center on Friday. Valentine seeks to curtail utility committee's power Eagle Mtn. senator wants to catalog all state-owned art Stevenson Jacobs and Erin McClam THE ASSOCIATED PRESS These days, you can roll up to an ATM at the grocery store, the pharmacy, the gas station, the hardware store, the office, even the ballpark. You can check your Bank of America balance on your iPhone.

You can text Chase, and Chase will text you back. That's banking today: It has grown from an almost quaint relationship between teller and customer into a massive, dizzyingly interconnected network that touches almost every adult in this country. And right now, the federal government working without a road map, and without a net is putting together a plan to keep U.S. banks from collapsing. Not just to get the banks lending again.

To keep them alive. See BANKS, A2 i A Joe Pyrah DAILY HERALD The committee that represents the little guy in utility rate matters would be stripped of its policy-setting power under a new bill. Utah's Committee of Consumer Services would instead take an advisory role for its part in setting prices for the likes of Questar, Qwest and Rocky Mountain Power. It's a move that existing members say would weaken the organization. The bill being run by Sen.

John Valentine, R-Orem, would reorganize the six-member CCS based on the recommendations of a 2008 legislative audit. He said his aim isn't to gut the committee, but rather to fix problems that have been around for three decades. "CCS has resisted any change because they have been, in so many ways, the bane of some of our utilities," Valentine said. Bane or not, auditors found concern that the committee sets policy even though members do not have technical expertise in the utility industry. Another problem is that the board can set policy, while its director can, too.

There have been times in the past, Valentine said, when See COMMITTEE," A8 Joe Pyrah 1 DAILY HERALD There are tens of thousands of pieces of "art worth millions of dollars out there somewhere, and they're all yours. Well, they belong to all Utahns, anyway. And nobody knows quite where they are, how many there are, or how much they're worth The state has been collecting for a long time, you see. The Utah Arts Institute first met in 1899 and appropriated money to purchase its first painting, "Black Rock, 1898," by J.T. Harwood.

A bill that would help create a uniform database of all state-owned art in universities, courthouses and more is moving through the Legislature. See ART, A8 Daily Herald Sen. John Valentine, R-Orem, speaks during a news conference inProvoonJan. 31. Handmade goods CLASSIFIEDS ONLINE: provo.kaango.com movemeni cproviaes INSIDE jobs in Utah Valley 'w2tiS 't A4 BRIEFING A7 EDITORIALS OBITUARIES B4.B5 FUNNY BONE CELEBRATIONS C4 Some rain HIGH 41 LOW 30 cs TV LISTINGS C6 WEATHER Caleb Warnock DAILY HERALD A national movement encouraging people to eschew big-box stores in favor of handmade goods is allowing some Utah Valley residents to stay home with their children while working, vent their creative urges and make money from their hobbies.

Cynthia Winward of Provo makes decorative pillows from silk, linen and cotton and sells them to the tune of $2,000 a month. "I think I got 75 orders this month," she said. "At first I thought, 'Oh, I would be happy if I made $500 a It has turned into thousands a month." This is all thanks to Etsy. com, an online marketplace that has emerged as the eBay of what is being called the handmade movement. Etsy was started in 2005 by Rob Kalin, a frustrated painter and See HANDMADE, A8 CS BUSINESS VOLUME 86 ISSUE 192 SCOREBOARD D7 ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald '61055 0015 Cynthia Winward of Meringue Designs inspects a pillow cover on Tuesday at her home in makes a living selling her homemade pillows on www.etsy.com..