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The scene is satire. The numbers are the State of Utah’s own — and they answer, in dollars and jobs, why the men and women in that gallery should never be treated as costs to be trimmed by clowns.
When a federal bench recuses from its own network’s RICO case, that isn’t a conflict of interest. That’s a confession — confessed by Chief Judge Jill Parrish, who started the stampede.
For years I have handed Utah's newsrooms and elected officials documented cases of inappropriate and shameful conduct. They received and peeked at it and then — "crickets." Consider this a spanking.
The sequel to “The Tangled Trio” follows the money into a closed circuit: elect them, lobby them, fund them — and one of the firm’s own principals now holds the office of Attorney General.
A Utah Senate President’s campaign account spent more than $180,000 on travel in five years, on trips that reached four continents.
Three Utah offices tangled into a single circle — and the company that lines up at the attorney general’s door. All of it lawful. All of it disclosed. All of it on the record.
The Deseret News ran the press release again. For the fourth year in a row, Utah is the “No. 1 Best State in America!” It makes a great campaign speech but we know that the "con" game is back on!
How Utah’s Governance is degraded not by bribers but by manipulators of lawful policy and paltry disclosures. Beholden to those they should check — they are the Four Horsemen of Utah's Apocalypse.
Utah didn’t strengthen disclosure. Senator Stevenson and others put it on a diet.
Utah quietly bricked up every ordinary path to the richest incentives in the state — then left one door standing, and seated its own man, Senator Jerry Stevenson, on the boards that hold the key.
How a bill named for “housing and transit” delivered $1.8 billion to a private arena — and erased one county’s right to vote on its own land.
