Utah

Free Market

Drought, Again: Water Myths and What Freedom Can Teach Us

Utah, along with much of the West, is once again in a drought. With the dry year come the familiar conversations about farms, growth, and green lawns.

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Education Empowerment

Declining Achievement Means We Need New Solutions

70% of fourth-graders cannot read proficiently and 73% of eighth-graders fail math. That is worse than in 2019.

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Justice and Due Process

Government Shouldn’t Be the Only Check on Itself

Transparency is the foundation on which public trust is built on, and a watchful citizenry is how liberty continues to stand.

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Justice and Due Process

Untapped: The Programs Utah’s Corrections System Isn’t Using

Despite evidence of successful outcomes and available capacity, the therapeutic community model is largely underused as a corrections resource.

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Free Market

America’s Tax Exodus Holds a Lesson for Utah

Recently released IRS data confirms what common sense has long suggested. Americans are leaving high-tax states like California and New York for lower-tax alternatives.

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Education Empowerment

The College Path Isn’t Enough

Headlines say Gen Z cannot find work to support themselves. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs go unfilled every month.

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