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Free Market

Utah’s Universal Sandbox Is Open for Business


If regulations are what's holding back your great business or product idea, come play in Utah's universal sandbox.

  • Caden Rosenbaum
  • 4th Feb '22
Policy Analysis

Permit Freedom: Reducing Regulation in Everyday Life


Utahns have the right to reasonable, consistent, and clear rules governing how, when, and to whom permits will be granted.

  • Libertas Institute Staff
  • 14th Jan '21
Policy Analysis

Protecting the Right to Privacy in a Digital Era


The desire to use new technologies in the name of protecting the community cannot come at the expense of an individual’s fundamental rights.

  • Libertas Institute Staff
  • 8th Jan '21
Op-Eds

It’s time to scale back licensing requirements


It's critical that Utah lawmakers remove barriers to entry for workers. Here's why…

  • Connor Boyack
  • 17th Nov '20
Policy Analysis

Government Accountability for Causing Individuals Harm


Utahns should be able to hold their government accountable when its actions cause them harm.

  • Libertas Institute Staff
  • 7th Mar '19
Justice and Due Process

Hate civil asset forfeiture? Here’s a court case in Utah to follow…


The Utah Highway Patrol seized money from a person not suspected of a crime, and then gave it to the federal government—circumventing state law that prohibited them from doing so.

  • Connor Boyack
  • 10th Oct '17
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Free Market
Free Market

What Does Occupational Licensure Have to Do with Mental Health? A Lot.


Thankfully, policymakers — especially in Utah — are working to help meet the state’s demand for mental health practitioners by improving the portability of licenses while decreasing variations in their requirements.

  • Ben Shelton
  • 27th Apr '22
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Op-Eds
Op-Eds

The public needs protection from public safety agencies


Departmental failures involving state agencies undermine the public’s trust in government, which is a necessary ingredient to the healthy functioning of a free society.

  • Leslie Corbly
  • 22nd Apr '22
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Free Market
Free Market

Relocation Shouldn’t Mean Losing Your License


With these compacts, if you are a licensed physical therapist in Texas and Texas has engaged in a compact with Utah, you could move to Utah and immediately begin work in your profession.

  • Ben Shelton
  • 14th Apr '22
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Education Empowerment
Education Empowerment

Public Comments for Proposed National Charter School Guidelines


The following was submitted to the US Department of Education during its public comment window for the proposed update to the national charter school guidelines. Dear Secretary of Education Cardona, The people of Utah are tired...

  • Jon England
  • 13th Apr '22
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Op-Eds
Op-Eds

Utah lawmakers just made it easier to earn a living


Utahns and local businesses across the state are still struggling to find the workers necessary to help run their businesses or provide necessary services — and the government is partly to blame.

  • Ben Shelton
  • 11th Apr '22
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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...

  • Connor Boyack
  • 7th Apr '22
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2022 Bills
2022 Bills

Not Every Bill Passes in Utah, And That’s Good


In the end, we do more than just encourage legislators to pass a variety of good policies. Libertas Institute also serves as a watchdog for legislation that will negatively impact the rights and lives of Utahns

  • Michael Melendez
  • 6th Apr '22
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2022 Bills
2022 Bills

The Year of the (Modest) Tax Cut


A number of changes and reductions to tax burden of Utahns made it through the Legislature in 2022, but what were they?

  • Michael Melendez
  • 5th Apr '22
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Education Empowerment
Education Empowerment

Education Innovation: Good for Students, Good for Teachers


In my 14-year career, I had never witnessed this amount of innovation and change in education. It was a change that responded to what parents and teachers and the dollars they represent wanted.

  • Jon England
  • 30th Mar '22
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Op-Eds
Op-Eds

Latest CIA revelations show clear need for privacy protections


The erosion of individual privacy rights within federal law enforcement agencies directly correlates with the rise of unchecked agency power, particularly in the realm of national security agencies such as the CIA and, post-9/11,...

  • Leslie Corbly
  • 28th Mar '22
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