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Alliance for a Better Utah calls for immediate resignation of San Juan County clerk

Katie Matheson August 11, 2018

(KUTV) — Alliance for a Better Utah called for the immediate resignation of San Juan County Clerk John Nielson after a federal judge found a falsified official document Saturday morning. Following a federal judge’s finding that Nielson falsified an official document – which led to the contested removal of Willie Grayeyes from the November ballot – Alliance

Parenting and policy

Katie Matheson August 9, 2018

As a working mother and a politically-minded Utahn, I spend a weird amount of time thinking about legal and government policies as I go about my day. Now, I don’t get as into the weeds as my brilliant colleagues do–one of the perks of not having the word “policy” in my title–but I do consider

Something stinks in Utah. It’s our congressmen.

Katie Matheson July 30, 2018

Something in in the air stinks. No, it’s not the delightful scent with overtones of boiled egg wafting in from the great Salt Lake, nor is it our EPA-rated-dangerous air. It’s an odd scent, one that people on the political left in Utah are familiar with and have come to recognize as omnipresent. That smell

Sutherland Institute should claim their role in the ‘NASCAR pileup’

Katie Matheson May 24, 2018

This op-ed originally appeared at Utah Policy.com. In a recent op-ed, Rick Larsen, the president of Sutherland Institute, makes a call for increased civility surrounding the medical marijuana ballot initiative. He bemoans the spectacle that the discourse has become– like “a NASCAR pileup”– and frets that ultimately, uninformed voting on ballot initiatives could lead to anarchy. While

Enough is still enough

Katie Matheson May 21, 2018

I will never forget the small, high-pitched voice behind me in the crowd of thousands that tirelessly chanted, “enough is enough.” When chanting had become fatiguing for the adults, that little voice kept going, kept chanting, kept the momentum until the surrounding adults again joined in. The voice didn’t seem to falter or tire; it

Impact on Children

Katie Matheson April 13, 2018

The truth of parenthood that I didn’t fully comprehend until I joined the world’s harried throng of parents is that it truly does take a village to raise a child and support a family. I finally understood Mrs. Weasley, the beloved mother-figure from Harry Potter, when it was revealed that her greatest, most terrible fear

Utah County Commissioner Slips Out Back as Group Calls for Resignation

Kyle Garahana March 14, 2018

PROVO — A Utah advocacy group on Tuesday renewed its call for embattled Utah County Commissioner Greg Graves’ resignation — but he left the room before they could speak. Graves was present throughout the commission’s three-hour meeting, but he stepped out a back room right before the public comment period when Katie Matheson, spokeswoman for

New Sandy Mayor Bradburn: ‘I Got This One Wrong’ — Gives Back 10% Raise and Then Some

Kyle Garahana February 17, 2018

Sandy Mayor Kurt Bradburn ran and won office last fall on a pledge to cut spending. So imagine the blowback this week when news broke that, after cutting positions in his office, he gave himself a $15,000 raise. On Friday, he gave it all back and then some, reducing his salary by $43,000. “I’m the

Our Greatest Shame

Katie Matheson February 15, 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The flu this year is scary. For a variety of reasons that experts are still working to understand, the flu is killing around 4,000 Americans a week and will likely end up taking more lives than were lost to the Swine flu in 2009-2010. As a mother of two young children ages 3 years and

Utah on the Verge

Katie Matheson December 27, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Let me begin by saying that I don’t have the traditional background for this work – the majority of my life has been dedicated to music. I have a degree in music and have been performing and teaching for many years. In my life as a classical singer I passed the days studying stories and

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