Utah Gov. Herbert suggests returning power to states would help ease shutdown pain

Decrying the federal government shutdown as a failure of leadership, Gov. Gary Herbert says the most alarming thing about it is that shutdowns seem to be becoming a sort of business-as-usual tactic in Washington.His solution — at least in the long run — is shifting power from the federal government to states.“I don’t presume to suggest a way out of the current gridlock, but the increasing frequency of federal shutdowns — this is the third one in the past year &mdash