March 05, 2013 (Deseret News) - Gov. Gary Herbert apparently questions the wisdom of Utah’s voters. He recently suggested that a Republican under investigation for a potential federal crime could still defeat a qualified Democratic candidate for statewide office. What does that say about Utah voters?
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January 30, 2013 (Deseret News) - The burgeoning IT corridor in southern Salt Lake County and northern Utah County is poised to be the focal point of Utah\’s economic future. It\’s where the state\’s two largest metropolitan areas converge, both of which have major universities and expanding transportation systems. Companies including Adobe and eBay already call it home.
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January 27, 2013 (KSL) - In this Sunday Edition: a preview of Utah’s 2013 Legislative Session. We’ll talk to legislators, reporters and political experts about what we can expect this year. Plus, the latest gun debate has fired up both sides. Doug Wright offers his opinion on how to have a logical discussion. And lots of people see whales off the coast of California, but most people have never seen a pod like this one.
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January 11, 2013 (Deseret News) - In a report published a little more than a year ago, the Utah Foundation, a nonpartisan research group, said a system that made it easier for candidates to compete and qualify for primary elections would have changed the look of many elections over the past decade.
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January 08, 2013 (Utah Data Points) - The news reports a proposed ballot measure to reform Utah’s nominating system. \r\n \r\n This might be a good time to remind readers of an excellent report by the non-partisan Utah Foundation about a year ago. The report’s author, Morgan Lyon Cotti, published a guest post on our blog summarizing the report. The full report is at the Utah Foundation’s website.
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January 07, 2013 (Salt Lake Tribune) - A group of Utahns plans to launch an initiative drive Monday aimed at changing how political candidates get on the ballot, opening Utah’s primary process and undermining the parties’ existing caucus system.
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December 22, 2012 (Salt Lake Tribune) - There will be a lot of talk during the 2013 session of the Utah Legislature about public education. Gov. Gary Herbert has already laid the groundwork with his budget recommendation, which would channel about two-thirds of the state’s expected revenue increase into the classroom, primarily as a small salary hike for employees and to pay for a projected perennial enrollment increase.
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December 04, 2012 (Vernal Express) - The Utah Foundation released a report last week on the educational challenges faced by Utah’s rural schools. This extensive report includes results from high school senior, high school principal and school district superintendent surveys, all administered by Utah Foundation.
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December 04, 2012 (KCPW - City Views) - Utah’s rural students have a higher graduation rates, but fewer go to college. Those are conclusions from a new study by the non-partisan think-tank Utah Foundation. On Tuesday, we’ll examine the challenges and opportunities to students in the state’s rural areas.
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November 30, 2012 (Utah Public Radio) - The percentage of high school students from Utah\’s rural areas who attend college is much lower than that of their city and suburb dwelling counter parts.
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November 29, 2012 (KCPW) - The percentage of high school students from Utah’s rural areas who attend college is much lower than that of their city and suburb dwelling counter parts. That’s according to a new study by the Utah Foundation that examined the challenges faced by Utah’s rural schools. Research Analyst Shawn Teigen says rural students are offered fewer advanced placement courses that would allow them to score higher on college entrance tests.
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November 23, 2012 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Even in a year with Mitt Romney on the ballot, Utah citizens turned out to vote in lackluster numbers that will likely put the state among the lowest voter turnout in the nation.
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November 15, 2012 (Utah Pulse) - With the threat of running off the fiscal cliff by the end of the year becoming more of a possibility with each passing day, members of the Utah Economic Council expressed cautious optimism Congress would at least keep the worst case scenario from becoming reality.
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October 29, 2012 (Salt Lake Tribune) - The non-partisan Utah Foundation surveyed voters this year and found environmental issues were the seventh highest priority in the election year, making them a consistent top-ten issue for Utah voters.
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October 15, 2012 (Vote Utah) -
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October 12, 2012 (Salt Lake Tribune) - But public lands, according to a survey released this week by the Utah Foundation, ranks as the 14th most important issue to voters. Immigration was 10th. Jobs and the economy ranked first.
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October 12, 2012 (KUER) - At the bottom of the recession in 2009, Utah’s economy was losing jobs at the rate of six percent a year. A year later, the number of jobs was growing again, but slowly. Today, Utah is adding jobs at close to three percent annually and the state’s unemployment rate has dropped below six percent for the first time since 2008.
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October 11, 2012 (KUER) - Utah spends less per student in its public schools than any other state. Not just a little less – 15% less than Idaho, the next on the list. Utah’s been at the bottom since 1988.
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October 10, 2012 (KUER) - Utahns cringe when they look at the prices on the gas pumps these days, though prices here haven’t reached the levels seen in California this fall. Most of the gasoline that’s refined and sold in Utah comes from oil produced in the Mountain West. But Utah Foundation researcher Shawn Teigen says the price still responds to national and international markets.
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October 09, 2012 (Utah Policy) - It seems like nothing more than a fantasy cooked up in the fevered brains of Utah Democrats – voters getting tired of Republican dominance in the state. But, that might be just what is happening.
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October 09, 2012 (KUER) - The Affordable Care Act promises to extend the reach of health care coverage to many people who don’t have it now. Critics say it will do that at a huge cost in both money and individual liberty. But the mandate in the law for nearly everyone to buy health insurance has been upheld by the U-S Supreme Court and that requirement will take effect in 2014. The question facing Utah and the rest of country … Continued
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October 08, 2012 (KUER) - When Utah’s economy was roaring along in the middle of the decade, then-Governor Jon Huntsman and legislative leaders were looking for ways to reduce the burden of taxes on Utah’s economy. It seemed as though there was plenty of new money to raise pay for teachers, build new roads and expand the reach of social services.
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October 05, 2012 (KUER) - Higher education dropped out of the Utah Foundation’s survey of voter concerns over the past couple of election cycles, but it turned up again in its 2012 poll. It’s risen to the 6th position in the ranking of top ten issues identified by the Utah Priorities Project.
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October 04, 2012 (KUER) - Concern about the environment moved up a notch this year in the Utah Foundation’s survey of issues important to voters. And while there are many aspects of that issue to look at, voters insist air pollution is at the top of their environmental agenda
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October 03, 2012 (KUER) - The increasing polarization of the political process in Utah and across the nation is the next issue identified by the Utah Foundation as part of its Utah Priorities Project. In their open-ended survey, voters ranked partisan politics the 8th most important concern.
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