September 20, 2010 (Deseret News) - The political tide that seems to be favoring Republicans across the nation appears to be sweeping Utah\’s U.S. Senate race toward a landslide.\r\n \r\n The latest Dan Jones & Associates poll for KSL and the Deseret News shows Republican Mike Lee in a commanding position, even if incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett had been on the ballot as an independent.
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September 20, 2010 (ksl.com) - The political tide that seems to be favoring Republicans across the nation appears to be sweeping Utah\’s U.S. Senate race toward a landslide.\r\n \r\n The latest Dan Jones & Associates poll for KSL and the Deseret News shows Republican Mike Lee in a commanding position, even if incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett had been on the ballot.
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September 16, 2010 (Deseret News) - A new poll released Wednesday gives GOP Gov. Gary Herbert a 21-point lead over his Democratic challenger, Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon.\r\n \r\n But the full impact of the continuing controversy over Herbert\’s campaign contributions and state contracts likely wasn\’t measured by the survey for the Utah Priorities Project, which includes the Deseret News and KSL-TV.
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September 15, 2010 (ksl.com) - Voters in Utah are starting to make up their minds about the candidates they want to see in office. Dan Jones and Associates has just released results of its latest poll on the governor\’s race.
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September 10, 2010 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Just about everyone has heard of studies that suggest the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.\r\n \r\n A new report by the Utah Foundation indicates that also appears to be the case in the Beehive State. Yet the study, which examined economic mobility among the state’s residents, also noted there is a lot more upward movement among different income groups than most would suspect.
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September 10, 2010 (KUER Radio) - A new study by the Utah Foundation shows more than half of Utah families were able to improve their circumstances from 1994 to 2007. Utah Foundation President Steve Kroes talked about the report with KUER\’s Dan Bammes.
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September 09, 2010 (Deseret News) - New research suggests that moving up the economic ladder is still a viable possibility in Utah.\r\n \r\n The news comes with a caveat, though: don\’t expect to rise more than a few rungs.\r\n \r\n The Utah Foundation report \”Moving Up the Economic Ladder: An Analysis of Economic Mobility in Utah,\” released Thursday, shows that, over time, a majority of people in the Beehive State experience an increase in income relative to other Utahns — although … Continued
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September 09, 2010 (utahpolicy.com) - The Utah Foundation has released a new study that documents \”the ability of Utahns to move up the economic ladder\” by examining \”tax returns from Utah households in 1994 and 2007 to measure income mobility.\” The study also looks at \”income inequality, finding Utah\’s gap between rich and poor has grown but is the smallest gap in the nation.\”
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August 27, 2010 (Deseret News) - Education funding can be measured in many different ways. One of the most popular among teachers and educators is to divide the amount spent by the number of pupils. By that measure, child-rich Utah virtually always finishes last in the nation.
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August 25, 2010 (Deseret News) - State government spending — especially for public education — is shrinking compared to what Utahns are earning, according to a new analysis by the Utah Foundation.\r\n \r\n The nonprofit research organization released its findings Tuesday as part of the Utah Priorities Project, an ongoing effort to identify the top issues of voters in this November\’s special gubernatorial election.
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July 26, 2010 (Deseret News) - Americans had saved less and less of their incomes since the 1980s, with savings of only 1.2 percent of disposable income in the third quarter of 2005 and also in the first quarter of 2008, according to research by the Utah Foundation.
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June 30, 2010 (KSL TV) - The Salt Lake Chamber has put together a group of economic experts to help advise business leaders and lawmakers to make good decisions to make Utah\’s economy even stronger.\r\n \r\n [Utah Foundation\’s Steve Kroes was appointed to the council.]
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May 15, 2010 (Standard-Examiner) - We have a message to those protesting teacher and staff cuts at the Davis School District: We sympathize with you but your complaint needs to be directed at the Utah State Legislature, which funds education.
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May 09, 2010 (USA Today) - Sen. Bob Bennett, a Republican from the reliably Republican state of Utah, looks like the model of an entrenched incumbent on paper. During 17 years in the Senate, he has won top ratings from the American Conservative Union and the National Rifle Association and has amassed a multimillion-dollar campaign war chest.
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May 07, 2010 (Deseret News) - Perhaps the most critical political decisions of 2010 will take place Saturday. And most Utahns have nothing to say about them. Both the state Republican and Democratic party conventions meet in the Salt Palace. The 3,500 GOP delegates and the 2,500 Democratic delegates will vote on candidates seeking state and federal partisan-elected offices.
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May 06, 2010 (Deseret News) - Look at this editorial, which originated in the Twin Falls, Idaho Times-News. It argues that Utah is more successful at attracting business than Idaho because its workforce is more educated.
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May 06, 2010 (Deseret News) - Ensuring public education is properly funded during the recession is of utmost importance — and something Utah will regret for a long time if neglected, a national education economist told lawmakers, state education leaders and other dignitaries Thursday.
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May 05, 2010 (KUED TV) - KUED will air a special Hinckley Institute of Politics forum co-sponsored by the Utah Foundation on Thursday, May 6 at 11:00 p.m. The forum was taped April 27 in the Hinckley Caucus Room on the University of Utah campus.
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May 04, 2010 (Deseret News) - More than half of the 3,500 state GOP delegates meeting in convention Saturday support the tea party states rights movement, a Deseret News/KSL-TV survey shows.
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May 04, 2010 (Deseret News) - The current bashing of Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, by some GOP state delegates apparently will be part of the official Republican state convention agenda Saturday.
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April 30, 2010 (Deseret News) - A new poll shows that U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett could be eliminated in the May 8 state GOP convention. Bennett believes he will survive the convention and win the June 22 closed party primary. But the survey of state Republican delegates, by Dan Jones & Associates for the Deseret News, KSL-TV, the Utah Foundation and the Hinckley Institute of Politics, is still striking.
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April 27, 2010 (KSL TV) - Women are disproportionally under-represented in Utahs political process, especially on the Republican side. That is one of the key findings of a new Dan Jones poll for KSL and the Deseret News, in partnership with the Utah Foundation and the Hinckley Institute.
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April 27, 2010 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Ponder this: Just 2,100 people could — for all intents and purposes — pick a senator to represent nearly 3 million Utahns. That is the crux of a long-standing debate given new life as of late over whether the method Utah uses to select its political candidates ultimately produces office holders elected by the fringes of both parties who fail to represent the interests and desires of mainstream Utahns.
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April 27, 2010 (Deseret News) - Does Utahs system of choosing candidates to represent political parties need to be overhauled to boost voter participation? That question was raised repeatedly Tuesday during a discussion held at the Hinckley Institute of Politics and based on the latest Utah Priorities Project survey.
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April 26, 2010 (Deseret News) - You have probably heard the adage before. During a dinner party, on the golf course or at the grocery store. It does not matter which political party is in power, nothing ever changes. The chasm that divides the parties in Utah, however, is a lot broader than one might guess, according to the results of a new survey of voters and party delegates.
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