The Trib has an editorial decrying Utah’s campaign finance laws. I happen to agree with their position, but I don’t feel like the public has reacted with anything beyond apathy.
During the last election cycle, a handful of candidate were accused (some, rightfully so, IMNSHO) of being a bit too cozy with certain contributors. In every [...]
A few days ago, District Court Judge Dever granted the defendant’s (AG’s office) motion to dismiss the first two counts of the lawsuit questioning the constitutionality of last year’s (2008) SB2 (2nd substitute). After listening to the Judge ask both parties questions in court (back on March 26th), frankly I’m a bit surprised. According to [...]
It’s probably not as much of a hot topic since the State Board of Ed, in an effort to protect other parts of the education budget during these lean times, held back money for district performance pay programs pushed by our peerless legislature, but I suspect the conversation hasn’t wholly died. I may not [...]
Although public education was putatively held harmless during the budget cuts coming out of the recent special legislative session, the Minimum School Program (MSP) budget was reduced for fiscal year 2010 by $73,979,500. The State Board of Education was asked by the legislature to propose ways to achieve this reduction.
Friday in Board meeting, the [...]
As part of my MBA program, I’m taking a class on teams. Last week we discussed power dynamics in groups. I found the discussion interesting as it relates to state politics.
I’ve copied my notes (which are effectively copies of the instructor’s slides) below:
Power corruptsEffects on power holders:
Self-serving attributions
Ingroup favoritism
Outgroup derogation
Creation of systems, rules, [...]
My son’s first-grade class must have been talking about politics. He came home from school last week telling us about the election they had.
He was excited to tell us he voted for “Morocco Obama.” (Apparently his name sounded cooler.)
I was surfing John Gruber’s Daring Fireball, and he linked to an article on programming and journalism.
The article itself didn’t do anything for me, but the way John described the link connected some synapses for me. (I wish I could recover what it was—something about exposing government APIs to journalists.)
Utah does pretty well with [...]
I’d been meaning to write this before the announcement from the ethics committee was posted, but it’s still relevant.
Media reports indicate Rep. Hughes has been found not to have committed ethical violations, but has been found to have participated in “conduct unbecoming a member of the House of Representatives.” I’m not clear on what the [...]
Two years ago, there was some general concern about declining college enrollment. I posted about it. One one biggest reasons for the decline was the growing economy. I said then that there is an inverse relationship between economic strength and college enrollment.
The Trib has an article about how college enrollment is now increasing:
About 20.5 [...]
The legislature will be called into special session to reduce the current year’s budget by about $200 million. (See senatesite.com, SLTrib)
If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion, I suspect few in education would miss the $1 million appropriation for UPSTART (from the controversial SB2 second substitute, line 1108), which provides [...]
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