John Swallow has a habit of making newspaper headlines, but for all the wrong reasons. If it’s true that where there is smoke there’s usually fire, then the headlines that have followed Swallow’s career indicate a lot of fire. Only time will tell how much or if it will catch up to Swallow this time around.
Frugal Dougall starts his term three hours earlier
January 7, 2013 by
If you’re in Utah, today is inauguration day. That means state officials will take the oath of office to some fanfare and probably a speech or two, and a new set of public officials (and some of the old ones) will start their work.
Only one won’t–former state legislator John Dougall, recently elected state auditor, is skipping the pomp and circumstance in favor of an early morning swearing-in at his new office so that he can get right to work.
Entitlements are…earned? [video]
December 12, 2012 by
Someone tell me this isn’t a scene from the movie version of Atlas Shrugged…
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on the house floor “reminds” her collegues that entitlements are “earned.”
John Dougall cleans house in the Utah Auditor’s office
December 11, 2012 by
John Dougall, who was elected Utah State Auditor in November, has asked for the resignations of all appointed staff in the Auditor’s office. The resignations are to be effective January 6, 2013.
Dougall told me that he had spent the past 2 weeks interviewing almost everyone in the office, as well as a group of auditors assisting with an outside assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the offices audit methodologies. Of the appointed staffers, 88% requested consideration for reappointment and 76% of those were immediately offered appointments.
The fiscal cliff of 2013 is the debt ceiling of 2011
December 7, 2012 by
If it feels like we’ve been here before, it’s because we have.
While President Obama and Speaker Boehner negotiate plans to avert the fiscal cliff next year, the scene has begun to look not unlike one we’ve seen before.
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