Persecuting Polygamists: The Utah Attorney General’s Awkward Appeal
After two requests for delayed filings, the Utah Attorney General’s office recently submitted its appeal in the Kody Brown polygamy case to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. In it, the state’s attorneys seek to...
Zoning Meets Property Rights: Airbnb and VRBO Outlawed in Several Utah Cities
Recently we interviewed a St. George resident who was warned by a city code enforcement officer that his house sharing attempts via the popular site Airbnb were in violation of an ordinance prohibiting short-term...
St. George Shutting Down Airbnb Providers
Editor’s note: The following is a lightly edited interview with Stephen Palmer, a St. George resident who has been renting out his basement on Airbnb. The comments in this interview do not necessarily reflect the views of...
Utah Media Outlet’s Superficial “In Depth” Report on Common Core
This morning, KSL alerted the public to an “indepth” segment they would be airing about Common Core in Utah: Our 6:15 indepth: an investigation into the Utah Core Standards finds they are sound, legal and rigorous....
Death penalty is unfair, costly and an ineffective deterrent
The following op-ed by our policy analyst, Josh Daniels, was published today in the Salt Lake Tribune. Earlier this year, the state of Utah was widely mocked for considering the re-authorization of firing squads as a form of...
The Criminality of Truancy from Public School
Sam Giles, a young student in Georgia, missed a few days of school beyond what the law considered acceptable, and as a result, his mother was arrested. Julie, who works as a substitute teacher, notes that “Sam originally...