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About Dixie’s “Gay Pride” Banner Controversy Thing

Published September 19, 2019

Commentary by Ed Wallace-Publisher at UtahStandardNews.com-9/19, 2019 Ed’s Note: The following was written in response to the City of St. George allowing banners on city light-posts that promote gay “Pride of Southern Utah”. This was pushed by Mayor Jon Pike whose Facebook page now has over 1,600 comments on his post September 17 at 12:02 […]

Polls Don’t Necessarily Tell Us What All Utahns Are Thinking

Published September 19, 2019

Polls don’t necessarily tell us what all Utahns are thinking By Dr. Ronald Mortensen/Columnist at UtahStandardNews.com/Sep 19, 2019 According to Utah Political Trends which conducts polls for UtahPolicy.com, their surveys “are administered to a sample of active registered voters in Utah taken from the publicly available registered Voter File.…Our panelists receive an email invitation and […]

Utah’s David vs. Goliath

Published September 7, 2019

By Wayne Wickizer / Columnist at Utah Standard News / Sept 7, 2019 We are a David vs. Goliath story that we hope the Nation reads, hears and sees! We have taken on all Utah Office Holders individually and collectively for being on the take from Special Interests. Here’s a sample: Sean Reyes is the […]

Senator Mike Lee Responds to Google/Technology Issue

Published August 22, 2019

From Senator Lee’s Blog: The Truth About Left-Wing Attacks on Mike Lee Aug 21 2019 The Tom Steyer-funded left-wing attack group CREW, which has sued President Trump more than 175 times, recently spun off a new attack entity devoted to attacking conservatives over technology issues. This new entity recently attacked Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) for […]

UTAH AG & 10-STATE COALITION OBTAINS VICTORY IN BLOCKING THE 2015 WOTUS RULE

Published August 22, 2019

For Utah Standard News.com SALT LAKE CITY—Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia granted summary judgment in favor of Utah and 9 other states in their lawsuit challenging the Obama Administration’s 2015 Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule and kept an injunction against the Rule in […]

Utah Tax Reform: Create a Crisis and Sell it to the Public

Published August 18, 2019

Ronald Mortensen, Ph.D. / Columnist at Utah Standard News and Co-Founder, CitizensForTaxFairness.org / Last Updated July 29, 2019 Key Points · Utah’s Republican governor and Republican legislators created a funding imbalance by driving up income tax collections while suppressing sales tax collections. · Republicans then packaged this […]

Exposed: The Driving Force Behind Utah’sTax Moderization

Published August 15, 2019

Analysis: Who was the major driving force behind the sales tax on services initiative? by Ronald Mortensen, Ph.D. – Columnist at Utah Standard News – 8/15/2019 Dr. Mortensen is a co-founder of CitizensForTaxFairness.org Question: – Who was the major driving force behind the sales tax on services initiative as reflected in HB441? Answer: The Salt […]

Media & Lawmakers hiding costs of Lake Powell Pipeline?

Published August 14, 2019

Media & Lawmakers hiding costs of Lake Powell Pipeline? By Ed Wallace / Publisher at UtahStandardNews.com KUTV reported TODAY that “A proposed pipeline to bring water from Lake Powell to Washington and Kane Counties will cost $3.2 billion, according to the Utah Rivers Council, a group opposed to the pipeline. The Utah Rivers Council also […]

Who Secretly Paid for Utah’s TAXapooluza Road Show?

Published August 14, 2019

Who secretly paid for Utah’s TAXapooluza Road Show? News/Opinion by Ed Wallace / Aug 14, 2019 A citizens group has submitted GRAMA requests to the Utah Legislature and Governor Herberts’s office for documents relating to the funding of the Tax Reform Road Show (Tax Modernization). There was a fiscal note appropriation to fund and compensate […]

Who is protecting Utahns’ privacy? Not the state of Utah!

Published August 5, 2019

Who is protecting Utahns’ privacy? Not the state of Utah! by Dr. Ronald Mortenson / Columnist at UtahStandardNews.com / Aug 5, 2019 Key Points · The state of Utah does not adequately protect the personal identifying information (PII) that it collects from its citizens. · The state of Utah fails to effectively inform its citizens […]

UtahGrassroots issues 2019 Leglislative Report Card.

Published August 2, 2019

By Ed Wallace / Publisher at UtahStandardNews.com / August 2, 2019 UtahGrassroots.org has released their annual 2019 Legislative Report Card on the Utah Legislature. UtahGrassRoots is an all-volunteer, non-partisan organization and has been issuing an annual legislative report card since 1992. The Constitutions of the nation and state are the guides which GrassRoots uses in […]

REP. TRAVIS SEEGMILLER Earns #1 Top Lifetime Constitutional Conservative Ranking Among Utah Lawmakers

Published August 1, 2019

REP. TRAVIS SEEGMILLER Earns #1 Top Lifetime Constitutional Conservative Ranking Among Utah Lawmakers News/Op by Ed Wallace, Publisher – July 31, 2019 Rep. Travis Seegmiller (HD62) tied with 1 other Rep. (Adam Robertson-HD63) for the First Place ranking in the “Top 25 Representatives Lifetime” category and took 2nd out of 75 Reps. in the 2019 […]

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