In recent weeks, the Utah Board of Education also faced a strange situation when Judy Park, an assistant superintendent, negotiated a contract estimated to be worth $5.4 million with Florida to share SAGE questions. The State Office of Education did not give full disclosure to the Board until after the fact, admitted that it lacked expertise in negotiating […]
USOE Negotiated $5.4M SAGE Contract with Florida without Board Knowledge or Legal Counsel Review
May 14, 2014 by
Male, middle-aged, moral, and…miserable? No, not the Republican Party.
May 8, 2014 by
What is predominantly male, middle-aged, miserable, underpaid and over-educated? Journalists, according to an Indiana University study reported in The Atlantic. They’re also predominantly liberal. Somehow, though, that left leaning bias (this is among all journalists, not just the politicos) hasn’t led to income parity between male and female reporters, for whatever reason. According to the study: […]
Book Review | The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester
May 7, 2014 by
There are few political leaders that have captured my imagination like Winston Churchill does. William Manchester not only tells the story of what is perhaps Britain’s greatest prime minister, he does it in fantastic detail. I’ve read complaints that Manchester uses perhaps too much detail, but I could not have enjoyed it more. Manchester paints […]
Senator Lee: “America’s crisis of crony capitalism”
April 30, 2014 by
In a speech on Wednesday (find the full speech below at bottom), Utah Senator Mike Lee took on what he sees as a major problem causing a loss of opportunity for the poor and middle classes–the rise and expansion of cronyism in the growth of government to benefit well-connected special interests and businesses. The more power […]
Book Review | Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia
April 21, 2014 by
Over the years, I’ve run into Camille Paglia’s essays at unexpected times, and I seem to always come away thoughtful and, occasionally, amused. Clearly coming from a perspective distant from my own, politically and culturally a member of East Coast academia, I never the less found her insights and way of putting things provocative. When […]
Reyes at the Tenth Circuit: Why We Don’t See More Kindness in Politics
April 11, 2014 by
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes went out of his way to be kind to his opponents. They took advantage of the opportunity to mock and ridicule him and his intent, even while ignoring his empathy and the tough position that defending the law requires. In the short few months since Judge Shelby flipped Utah law […]
Getting Dirty in Salt Lake County’s Assessor Race
April 8, 2014 by
The campaign for Salt Lake County Assessor, one of the sleepiest elected offices in Salt Lake County (if not the whole state), is getting dirty. In the race between the old and the young, surrogates of Kevin Jacobs’ have accused Jake Parkinson, also a candidate for Salt Lake County Assessor, of making sexist and degrading […]
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