SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney and Utah House and Senate Republicans talked about a GOP State Central Committee move to kick out some candidates who collect signatures to get on the primary election ballot during closed-door meetings Tuesday. But the former Republican presidential nominee isn’t wading into the controversy. “I believe
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 27, 2018 CONTACT: Katie Matheson | Alliance for a Better Utah LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR COX MUST DECERTIFY THE UTAH REPUBLICAN PARTY IF BYLAW CHANGES ARE NOT REPEALED Salt Lake City, UT – The Alliance for a Better Utah called on Lieutenant Governor Spencer Cox to decertify the Utah Republican Party
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 7, 2018 CONTACT: Katie Matheson | Alliance for a Better Utah ABORTION BILL SHOULD BE CONSIDERED IN CONTEXT OF ITS TRUE COST Salt Lake City, UT – A good government advocacy group is claiming the full costs of a controversial abortion bill have not been disclosed to the public
Last year in Draper, 57-year-old Mark Porter was arrested after shouting racial slurs at a 7-year-old boy and then zapping the boy’s father in the neck with a million-volt stun cane. Charged with third-degree aggravated assault, Porter faced no more than five years in prison. This September, the state charge against Porter was dismissed to
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune The amount of time passing between each public mention of a possible Utah Olympic bid is getting shorter and shorter, and the “volume” of comments seems to be rising. To me, that means that the decision has already been made. Utah will put its hat in the ring to be awarded another
Source: Deseret News Last week saw an important development in the long simmering public debate over “payday” lending. As most Utahns know, payday loans are relatively small loans, typically about $375, lent with an agreement to repay when the borrower receives their next paycheck. Payday loans have extremely high interest rates averaging about 400 percent per
In middle school and high school, I convinced myself I was destined for the stage (#MusicalTheaterNerd). I sang in choirs, took voice lessons, struggled to touch my toes in ballet class, emoted fiercely in my acting classes… Then everything changed when I took AP Environmental Science at Highland High (go Rams). This led to my
Source: Draper Journal In her 12 years of teaching and 13 years as principal, Amy Martz has worked to provide the best for Utah students. She cares so much for her students that, when as a principal, she discovered students in need of a home, she applied to be a foster parent and brought them
I had planned to write today about the importance of understanding the New American Majority. Understanding the NAM, who it is, what NAM members think, what matters to them, and what makes them vote, is critical to the future of our elections. But, and this won’t surprise anyone, Donald Trump changed my train of thought.
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, September 14, 2017 CONTACT: Josh Kanter | josh@betterutah.org – – – – – – UTAH LEADERS SHOULD JOIN EFFORT TO PROTECT UTAHNS’ RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS – – – – – – Salt Lake City, UT – As reported this week in The Wall Street Journal, a bipartisan group of state treasurers
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