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Connor Boyack
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Connor Boyack


Connor Boyack is president of Libertas Institute and was named one of Utah's most politically influential people by The Salt Lake Tribune. He is also the author of 30 books, including the popular Tuttle Twins children's series. Find him on Facebook or Twitter.

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Personal Freedom
Personal Freedom

Utah’s Medical Cannabis Program Has Doubled Early Estimates


How many Utahns would use medical cannabis? That was a question we were often posed during the campaign to legalize its use for sick patients in our state, but we couldn’t reliably answer it; we didn’t have the data...

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  • 7th Apr '22
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2022 Bills
2022 Bills

New Restrictions on Home Invasions by Police


A new law restricts how officers can use no-knock warrants to forcibly enter your home.

  • Connor Boyack
  • 9th Mar '22
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2022 Bills
2022 Bills

Darker Vehicle Window Tint Legalized in Utah


The Utah legislature just loosened a restriction on how dark your vehicle window tint can be.

  • Connor Boyack
  • 7th Mar '22
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Op-Eds
Op-Eds

Occupational licensing can make the labor shortage worse


A Utah State University study estimated that occupational licensing in the United States is responsible for 2.8 million fewer jobs and costs to consumers exceeding $20 billion annually.

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  • 25th Jan '22
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Op-Eds
Op-Eds

A decade of reform since Matthew David Stewart’s death


We can support these good officers — and better prevent unnecessary uses of force from happening — by continuing to reform our laws to ensure that “bad apples” are not empowered and excused in their ability to abuse authority.

  • Connor Boyack
  • 4th Jan '22
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Free Market
Free Market

Utah Businesses Shouldn’t Comply with Biden’s OSHA Vaccine Mandate


The 490-page mandate from OSHA — the federal agency issuing this mandate without Congressional review — has no end date, and also requires business owners to ensure that "each employee who is not fully vaccinated wears a face...

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  • 4th Nov '21
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Op-Eds
Op-Eds

I’m pro-life, so I’m anti-capital punishment


I didn’t always oppose the death penalty. In fact, when someone on my team told me that our organization should take a stand against it, I scoffed. I couldn’t imagine not putting murderers to death for their egregious crimes.

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  • 28th Oct '21
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Free Market
Free Market

Tuttle Twins Didn’t Take Your Tax Dollars


This high-quality kids cartoon, which will — like our wildly popular books — teach the ideas of freedom to the rising generation, was directly funded by those who wanted to will it into existence. Put differently… no taxpayers...

  • Connor Boyack
  • 7th Oct '21
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Justice and Due Process
Justice and Due Process

New Effort to “Repeal and Replace” the Death Penalty in Utah


This new approach aims to solve a critical problem for victim family members.

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  • 8th Sep '21
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Personal Freedom
Personal Freedom

SLC Mayor’s K-12 Mask Mandate Is On Shaky Legal Ground


Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has unilaterally issued an executive order declaring an emergency due to Covid-19, and ordering all children in K-12 schools in the city to wear a face mask. But does she have the authority...

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  • 20th Aug '21
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