Utah Health Exchange is now “Avenue H” — But Why?
Yesterday, the Utah Health Exchange announced that it is now branding itself as “Avenue H.” Its current website, exchange.utah.gov, is becoming avenueh.com. But why? A Salt Lake Tribune article on the metamorphosis...
Free Speech Zones in Brigham City
The national media is now shining the spotlight on a restrictive Brigham City ordinance requiring a permit for political speech, and requiring permit holders to exercise their individual right within a specially marked...
Winner of the First Annual Libertas Essay Contest’s Grand Prize
After a lot of excellent reading, Libertas Institute staff helped narrow down the top essays submitted as part our our essay contest. The contest’s theme—how to live free in an unfree world—sparked a variety of...
Winner of the First Annual Libertas Essay Contest’s People’s Choice Award
With 30 submissions in our first annual essay contest, three essays emerged as contenders for the People’s Choice Award—the $500 prize given to the author whose essay received the most Facebook “likes” by...
Two Sides of the Same Stick
Libertarianism has a media problem. Few reporters and pundits understand how to fit us into the paradigm they cling to, that of the false left/right spectrum in political philosophy. They look “left” and see...
Utah’s UTOPIA: Necessary Infrastructure or an Illegitimate Pseudo-Market?
A showdown in Orem earlier this week highlighted some of the (significant) problems faced by the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency, commonly known as UTOPIA. It also puts on open display the rampant violation of...
Federal Judge Strikes Down Utah’s Hairbraiding License Requirements
Jestina Clayton was raised in a village in Sierra Leone and was taught traditional African hair-braiding. Now living in Centerville, Utah, Clayton wanted to provide these services to a growing niche market. She started her own...
Drop the F Bomb, Go to Jail
KSL reported last night that Ogden city officials are responding to violence at kids’ sporting events by proposing that profanity be outlawed. To justify this component of the ever-increasing nanny state in Utah, Ogden...
What Do We Mean By Liberty, Exactly?
Since our launch, we’ve fielded a variety of questions from curious Utahns wondering more about what we’re up to. One question recently came in which merits a public response. A reader asks: In your view, what is...
Over 500 Utahns ask Governor Herbert to call a special session to nullify Obamacare
Rapidly growing list of Utahns want to see Herbert be a leader on this issue. Salt Lake City, UT, July 10, 2012 — In one 24-hour period, Libertas Institute has collected petitions from over 500 Utahns requesting that Governor...