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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March 26, 2010 (Deseret News) - There were no fireworks Thursday during the first joint campaign appearance of GOP Gov. Gary Herbert and Democratic Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon. Instead, the major gubernatorial candidates focused on many of the same voter priorities identified through a survey funded by the Utah Foundation, Deseret News and KSL to kick off the 2010 Utah Priorities Project.
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March 26, 2010 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Should Utah score high marks for its handling of education dollars — or find itself with a failing grade? The answer to that question separated Republican Gov. Gary Herbert and Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon, a Democrat, on Thursday as the two candidates for Utahs highest political office met face-to-face for the first time this season to deliver opposing campaign pitches.
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March 25, 2010 (Deseret News) - Jobs and the economy top the list of issues facing the state, according to a new poll that also found many Utahns believe their quality of life is declining.
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March 25, 2010 (KSL TV) - The non-profit organization Utah Foundation released a new study of Utahs priorities, taken from a citizen survey. But the issues are already playing a part in the political season — especially in the race for governor.
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March 25, 2010 (Fox 13 News) - Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday there is no reason for his fellow Republicans to question U.S. Sen. Bob Bennetts conservative credentials, but he stopped short of saying the three-term incumbent should be re-elected. [Includes coverage of speeches at Utah Foundation annual meeting].
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January 13, 2010 (Salt Lake City Weekly) - Want to be a real ‘nowhere man?’ Try being carless in Salt Lake City on weekends, beginning April 4. Reduced sales-tax revenues are forcing the Utah Transit Authority to consider eliminating or reducing Saturday service on a number of routes.
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December 10, 2009 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Gov. Gary Herbert plans to issue an executive order Friday, directing state agencies to make immediate 3 percent across-the-board spending cuts to help cover a shortfall in the current budget year.\r\n \r\n The order will give broad latitude to department heads to implement the cuts, necessary because the recession has driven down tax collections by as much as $190 million.
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November 28, 2009 (Salt Lake Tribune) - At first glance, Utah students seem academically superior to those in most other states.\r\n \r\n Utah students have a higher high school graduation rate than the nation on average; they have a higher average ACT score; and they meet or beat national averages on nationwide math, reading, writing and science tests.\r\n \r\n But a deeper look at the data shows Utah students might not be doing as well as they appear to be.
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November 12, 2009 (KUER Radio) - Property taxes are much lower in Utah than many other states — even neighboring states in the Mountain West. But voters have shown time and again that raising them is potential trouble for politicians. Even so, in a time of tight budgets, they may be the place elected officials look for new revenue. KUER\’s Dan Bammes reports.
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November 10, 2009 (Deseret News Editorial) - Utah used to be known for the education level of its residents; but not anymore.\r\n \r\n A research brief published last week by the Utah Foundation used data from the census and the American Community Survey to track the state\’s educational trend since 2000. An earlier foundation report tracked it from 1940, the first year the census gathered such information, to 2000. The news isn\’t good.
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November 10, 2009 (Deseret News) - National statistics show that more women enroll in college than men, but in Utah, women remain a minority at many of the state\’s colleges and universities.
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November 08, 2009 (Ogden Standard-Examiner) - According to the Utah Foundation, our state is falling behind in its rate of growth of college-educated adults compared to the national increase of college graduates.
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October 30, 2009 (KCPW Radio) - A new report from the Utah Foundation shows the state is falling behind in national rankings for college graduation, particularly among young people. Foundation President Steven Kroes says the trend is concerning, and policymakers should act to reverse it.
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August 09, 2009 (Deseret News) - The room is packed wall-to-wall with people whose facial muscles are tense, their eyes glaring and their lips turned down; when they talk, their fingers jab like knives through the air — these are the telltale signs of a property tax-hike hearing, one of the few times regular people show up for a local government meeting.
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July 28, 2009 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Utah continues to rank last in the nation when it comes to money spent per student, and the gap between what Utah spends and what other states are doling out continues to grow, according to census data released Monday.
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June 23, 2009 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Two economists at Brigham Young University in Provo believe they have found an answer to the puzzling question of why the rate of personal bankruptcy filings vary so greatly from state to state.
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April 09, 2009 (Deseret News) - The number of Utahns filing for bankruptcy protection has increased 56 percent during the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same period last year.
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