How fitting that the first Insight Award given by the Utah Foundation should go to public policy experts and long-time pollsters Dan and Pat Jones.
The couple, who celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary last month, were honored at a foundation 70th-anniversary luncheon and remembrance in the Grand America Hotel Tuesday.
Dan Jones & Associates was formed by Dan and Pat way back in 1980. One of its first clients was the Deseret News – later to be joined by KSL-TV.
Almost from the first of those newspaper polls I was writing stories about Jones’ surveys.
As first a City Hall reporter, then state government reporter, then political editor, over the last years I’ve written literally hundreds of Jones poll stories.
Now as a contributing editor for UtahPolicy I find myself writing Jones poll stories again.
I never tire of it because Jones’ polls educate Utahns on the issues of the day – not just the sexy questions who is ahead in which race, but what citizens are thinking, how they want their representatives to act, what they like and don’t like, want and don’t want.
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