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Transcript: Sutherland’s Congressional Series event with Rep. Ben McAdams and visiting scholar William Smith
The following are unedited and electronically transcribed remarks delivered by both Rep. Ben McAdams (D-Utah) and William S. Smith, Pioneer Institute’s visiting fellow in the life sciences, during the event Reining in the Cost of Healthcare.
Transcript: Rep. Rob Bishop on education at Sutherland’s 2019 Congressional Series
The following are unedited and electronically transcribed remarks delivered by both Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Christine Cooke, the director of education policy at Sutherland Institute. They were delivered during Sutherland’s Aug. 28 Congressional Series event,...
Transcript: Sutherland’s Congressional Series event with Rep. John Curtis and visiting scholar Mary Hasson
The following are unedited and electronically transcribed remarks delivered by both Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah) and Mary Hasson, the director of the Catholic Women’s Forum, during the event Religious Liberty for All.
As Hamilton said, civil and religious liberty go together
Our Founders concluded that religious liberty should be prioritized and protected — but not in a manner that guards only one specific religion.
Juab partners with ASU Prep Digital to offer Utah students college-prep courses
Sutherland Institute seeks to share innovative approaches to education that offer students as many options as necessary to succeed. And as always, we applaud the courage it takes for innovative leaders to try something new. Thursday night Juab School District...
Tax reform? But I thought …
It’s not hard to understand that Utahns may be experiencing a bit of confusion, and for some a sense of whiplash, about the current focus on and potentially significant pending changes in the state’s tax structure. After all, didn’t we have a $1 billion-plus...
Helping Utahns afford healthcare starts with finding common ground
Finding consensus on policy can and should become the rule, not the exception.
Supreme Court leaves Maryland memorial cross standing
In a second religion-related decision this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a public World War I memorial to war dead in Maryland – which included a cross – need not be removed. The case did not involve the more familiar question about religious...
What are the implications of Supreme Court’s refusal to hear 2nd cake case?
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear a religious liberty case from Oregon. The court did, however, vacate the Oregon decision, which fined cake decorators $135,000 for declining to create a cake for a same-sex wedding. The Supreme Court directed...
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