August 11, 2026

The Patrick Henry Caucus getting some love from GOP voters?

Rep. Stephen Sandstrom (left) & Rep. Carl Wimmer (right). (Photo KSL.com) The Deseret News put a poll out this last weekend. It shows, among other things, that if the election for the 4th Congressional District were held today, Matheson would probably win. Meh. This same polling company also put Philpot at 26 points behind Matheson back […]

Utah Legislature Watch: a few bills I’m following

Conservative, moderate or liberal: there have been a few bills that bug me this session of the Utah Legislature, and there have been a few that I liked that just aren’t making it. Here are four that sample both. One I liked: As biker, I liked Senator Niederhauser’s bill that would have allowed bikers at […]

The Utah Compact on Immigration

If you care about immigration, an interesting thing happened a couple days ago. Some of Utah‘s leaders–religious, political, and secular–joined together to propose an a set of principles on to guid the immigration reform discussion. It is seen as an alternative to recent proposals such as those passed in Arizona and proposed for Utah by […]