Utah Politics Information Directory

This legislative session, I sponsored SJR7 “Joint Resolution on the United Nations Children Fund” in response to a request from a group of students from the University of Utah. Unfortunately due to politics, the resolution was not ...

I had the pleasure of serving on the Higher Education Appropriation Committee this year, and in those meetings, I had the opportunity to hear about the Utah Higher Education Assistance Authority (UHEAA). ...

Just curious if anyone here was paying attention, given all the Utah politics surrounding these issues lately. What does all this mean and how real do you think it is? http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/s...ory?id=4975762 ...

Precinct caucuses are the most fundamental grassroots level of political involvement. They are best served by a broad representation of Utah citizens. Those who attend play a critical role in selecting candidates. ...

“You better pay attention to us,” Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican, said Sunday during the winter meeting of the National Governors Association. “At the state level, where we have to actually get something done, we have no choice ...

State legislatures are often fertile ground for contentious or ribald behavior. And, while great strides have been made in the past decade to diversify our state representatives, the good ol' boys network seems to be prevailing. Just in the past ...

... districts bigger than DC that don't have the regular attention of the president of the American Federation of Teachers and routine glossy newsweekly stories: Knox County Schools, TN; Granite School District, UT; Polk County Public Schools, FL.

... Appeals is the miraculous timing of the nomination just as President Obama hosts his brother, Rep. Jim Matheson ... Matheson's price appears to be special consideration for what he considers to be the Royal Family of Utah politics.

WASHINGTON — They just don’t get it in Washington. There’s a gaping disconnect between what Americans care about and what President Barack Obama and Congress, Democrats and Republicans are actually doing. A new Associated Press-GfK poll tells ...

Gov. Gary Herbert indicated Thursday he almost certainly will not use his veto pen to block a $1 per pack increase in Utah's tobacco tax, saying to do so would undermine his efforts to protect public education. "Politics is the art of compromise ...

Both the media and many high profile politicos still seem to be flailing around trying to find some way to label, quantify and pigeonhole the myriad tea party groups which are springing up all around the country. Even Karl Rove, during a stop to ...

CEDAR CITY - Accommodating infirm and aging veterans with a Southern Utah State Veterans nursing home has divided St. George and Cedar City, which are both vying for it to be in their municipalities. The possibility of a veterans nursing home being ...

PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 11, 2010 – Karl Rove served as Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000–2007 and Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004–2007. At the White House he oversaw the Offices of Strategic Initiatives, Political ...

WASHINGTON -- They just don't get it in Washington. There's a gaping disconnect between what Americans care about and what President Barack Obama and Congress, Democrats and Republicans are actually doing. A new Associated Press-GfK poll tells the ...

Skipping through the Candy Land of the health care bill, one is tempted to hum a few bars of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." What a deal. For deal-makers, that is. Not so much for American taxpayers, who have been misled into thinking that the ...