Buffalo Chip to the Utah Division of Securities for lousy performance. A legislative audit found that the agency was riddled with personnel conflicts, often failed to follow procedures and policies, managed cases poorly and possibly was overzealous, creating at least the impression of unfairness. It needs a credibility overhaul.

Beehives to Sens. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., for planning to introduce a bill to ban foreign nuclear waste from being imported into the United States. It's rare that a Beehive goes to out-of-staters, but they deserve it because their measure targets efforts by Utah's EnergySolutions to use its Tooele County landfill for waste from Italy's defunct nuclear reactors and maybe other foreign waste in the future.

Buffalo Chip to a Sandy man who failed to take basic precautions for a hike in American Fork Canyon. Adam Koritz, 28, went for a hike Monday morning, but the presence of bears and some bad weather left him stranded when night fell. "He had no food, no water, no extra clothing, no shelter, no lights," one rescuer said. Mitigating factor: He had told his parents of his plans, so they were eventually able to summon help.