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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April 26, 2010 (Deseret News) - Facing the strong possibility of elimination at the upcoming state GOP convention, Sen. Bob Bennetts campaign pulled out all the stops and spent a huge $271,000 in just the first 18 days of this month.
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April 25, 2010 (KSL TV) - Utahs political conventions are just weeks away. Delegates elected in caucus meetings will choose who is on the ballot, but do they represent their grass roots? And is Utahs hybrid system of selecting candidates fair? These topics are explored on Sunday Edition with guests Randy Shumway from Dan Jones and Associates, the director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics, Kirk Jowers, and consultant and founder of the Exoro Group, LaVarr Webb.
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April 25, 2010 (KSL TV) - Utah Sen. Robert Bennett knows his opponents are not just an idle threat right now, and a new study for KSL and the Deseret News has the research to back that up.
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April 25, 2010 (Deseret News) - Are state Republican and Democratic party delegates politically out of step with both their party rank-and-file and most other Utahns?
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April 25, 2010 (Deseret News) - Alyson Heyrend has been around Utah politics for a long time, first as a newspaper and TV reporter, then a public activist, and now as a staffer for U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah. But she was not expecting the reception she got at Skyline High School last month.
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April 24, 2010 (Deseret News) - Sen. Bob Bennetts 18-year career in the U.S. Senate could well end in the state GOP convention in two weeks, a broad-ranging new poll of Republican state delegates by the Deseret News and KSL-TV shows.
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April 23, 2010 (Deseret News) - Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate sharply disagree on earmarks, term limits, banning the importation of foreign radioactive waste to Utah and even whether to buy state convention delegates dinners to woo them.
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April 15, 2010 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Utah bankruptcy filings are steadily climbing as the recession continues to take a toll on the financial well-being of more and more people.
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