by Derek Monson | May 20, 2022
How to rebuild public trust in public health Written by After several months of harsh lockdown measures in Shanghai due to a COVID-19 outbreak, the city of some 26 million people has begun preparing to reopen after hitting some public health benchmarks. As China...
by Derek Monson | May 19, 2022
New voting trends show the strength of Utah’s approach to vote by mail Written by Derek Monson News coverage of primary voting in various states has noted a trend of voters returning to pre-pandemic levels of in-person voting as compared with vote by mail (VBM). The...
by Derek Monson | May 13, 2022
Polls suggest parents, teachers should influence curriculum Written by Derek Monson Last year, Sutherland Institute released a poll showing broad agreement between parents and teachers when it comes to civic education. More recent state and national polls show...
by Derek Monson | May 12, 2022
More evidence needed to clarify the ranked-choice voting debate Written by Derek Monson As Sutherland Institute recently researched ranked-choice voting (RCV) in Utah and analyzed its benefits and drawbacks, it became apparent that the debate around RCV tended to...
by Derek Monson | May 6, 2022
Supreme Court leak harms American democracy Written by Derek Monson Originally published in The Salt Lake Tribune. The unprecedented leak of a draft court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has accomplished what decades of culture war politics...
