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Making Education a Top Priority

June 01, 2012 (Utah Business) - Education is a critical component of individual and collective prosperity. Are we doing enough to ensure our children and, therefore, our community is effectively educated? Will Utah’s future workforce be able to successfully compete on a national and international level?

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Juggling work, kids, debt and college, older Utah women earn degrees

April 29, 2012 (Salt Lake Tribune) - A few years ago, Amy Jensen had more employment and educational experience than most Utah women her age. She had worked for years in victim advocacy and law enforcement, while raising a daughter on her own, but opportunities for advancement and better pay had dried up because she didn’t have a college degree.

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Intriguing Election Match-ups

April 27, 2012 (Utah Policy) - A look this week at two interesting races in Utah this year – the GOP primary between U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch and former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist and the November match-up between Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson and Republican wonder-woman Mia Love.

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Utah Republican State Convention Results

April 23, 2012 (KUER) - Senator Orrin Hatch won a majority of delegate votes, but not enough to avoid a primary. Delegate and state representative Ronda Rudd Menlove says she\’s glad that voters will get a chance to choose between Hatch and former state Senator Dan Liljenquist.

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Hatch Heading for a Fall?

April 22, 2012 (National Review Online) - All the senator’s horses and all the senator’s men couldn’t quite wrap up the Utah Republican nomination for Orrin Hatch on Saturday. At the GOP convention, the seven-term senator narrowly missed winning the 60 percent of delegates he needed to avoid a primary against former state senator Dan Liljenquist.

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Hatch Favored in Primary, But Faces Tea Party Test

April 21, 2012 (National Journal) - For Sen. Orrin Hatch, almost was not quite good enough on Saturday. \r\n \r\n By the slimmest of margins, the sixth-term senator from Utah, who seized all of the momentum in the GOP primary the last two months, failed to seal the deal at the state Republican convention, leaving him with the task of campaigning for two more months in a one-on-one race against former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist.

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Kroes: Education, transportation key to Utah recovery

April 20, 2012 (The Daily Herald) - Things are looking up. The most recent economic news shows the national unemployment rate held steady or fallen for seven months in a row, coming in at 8.2 percent for March. During that period, 1.5 million new jobs were added nationally.

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2012 Should be More Moderate Politically in Utah

April 19, 2012 (Utah Policy) - Even before the March 15 GOP neighborhood caucuses, Utah political experts were saying that the big push to get more registered Republicans to those delegate-electing meetings would mean the 2012 crop of delegates would be more moderate, less angry, than the 2010 gaggle that kicked U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett out of office in the state Republican Party Convention.

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On the Road

April 19, 2012 (Utah Policy) - One unique pleasure of my job is to hit the road, to visit the great people and places of Utah. Whether they\’re visits to school districts or conventions, speaking engagements at civic clubs or commencements, meet-and-greets at the local library, bill signing ceremonies, Lincoln Day dinners, town hall or meetings in a home, I thoroughly enjoy meeting and speaking with Utahns in all corners of our state. It gives me the chance to hear their … Continued

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Tea Partied Out

April 18, 2012 (City Weekly) - Recent delegate and voter surveys find the Tea Party may be all partied out this election, and that “states’ rights” might not be the battle cry it once was. That\’s good news for moderate candidates going into the State Republican Convention this weekend, and possibly bad news for others.

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Utah Priorities — Delegates & Voters

April 18, 2012 (KUER) - Utah’s Republican and Democratic parties will hold their state nominating conventions this weekend. Delegates to those conventions are political activists — people who’ve made participating in the process a high priority, and they tend to hold strong views. The Utah Foundation, a non-partisan research group, has had its eye on convention delegates and how their views differ from ordinary voters. KUER’s Dan Bammes spoke with Foundation President Steve Kroes as he went through the results … Continued

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62% of Republican voters back Hatch

April 18, 2012 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Prospects appear rosy for Sen. Orrin Hatch to again win his party’s nomination in a primary fight, with a new Salt Lake Tribune poll showing that 62 percent of Utah Republican voters support him over the nine GOP hopefuls challenging him.

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