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Poll: Did you watch the State of the Union?

January 25, 2011 by

What did you think? Please take a moment and vote below.

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Will Justice Roberts skip the State of the Union?

January 25, 2011 by

Remember when President Obama took a shot at the Supreme Court during last year’s State of the Union address? Go here to watch a short clip of it if you don’t. President Obama (aka POTUS) chided the Supreme Court for their ruling in Citizens United, which overturned aspects of then current campaign finance law, specifically cutting […]

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Looking to follow the Utah Legislature?

January 24, 2011 by

Image by Steven Vance via Flickr …but don’t want to leave the couch? Pull out a laptop, and pull up these sites for updates on the comings and goings (and “saunterings“) of your legislators: The Official Site of the Utah Legislature The Office Site of the Utah House Vox Populi, the blog of the Utah […]

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Opening of the Utah legislature

January 24, 2011 by

I’m here, up on “the hill” (which also happens to really be a hill, or at least a steep drive up towards Ensign Point) at the Utah State Capitol to watch the opening of the Utah legislature. They say that law making is like sausage making: you don’t necessarily want to know what goes into […]

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Pension Reform: what’s your plan?

January 20, 2011 by

If New York, California, New Jersey, and Illinois were the answer a Jeopardy question, the  category might be “States that are in Trouble because of Pensions.” On the other end of the spectrum, there’s Utah, where other states, including Montana, are starting to look for answers to the pension problems in their budgets. Pensions, or, simply […]

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the sound of a bubble popping?

January 14, 2011 by

Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts Today, Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Investors Service warned that the United States government is in danger of losing its AAA credit rating, the highest possible rating a large institution can hold. According to Taylor Graff at Cavanaugh Capital Management, the AAA rating is the “pinnacle of safety in the investment universe.” […]

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Social Value: The Market Is Smarter Than You, Mr. Congressman

January 11, 2011 by

Image via Wikipedia Economics. Whether you try to dodge it, ignore it, or explain it away, you cannot escape the laws of economics. Supply, demand, self-interest, etc, etc, etc. It’s like gravity. And like gravity, you ignore it at your own peril. Says Thomas Sowell (though I’ll not get into the partisan part of his […]

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