Insights & Takeaways is Sutherland Institute’s official blog that informs the public and policymakers alike. The blog addresses important issues through the two distinct yet complementary lenses of the seasoned policy professional and the engaged citizen.
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Testimony in support of HB 57 – Utah Intergenerational Poverty Work and Self-sufficiency Tax Credit
Presented before the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee of the Utah Legislature by Stan Rasmussen, Sutherland Institute vice president. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good morning, Senators. Stan Rasmussen with Sutherland Institute. Supplementing information we...
Sutherland Institute applauds passage of Cannabis Cultivation Amendments
SALT LAKE CITY – Sutherland Institute Vice President Stan Rasmussen released the following statement today in response to HB 197, Cannabis Cultivation Amendments, which passed out of the Utah House of Representatives: “Like most of Utah, Sutherland Institute looks...
We are heirs to a wealth of freedom
Originally published in the Deseret News. In my previous career as a business and philanthropic consultant, I often accompanied financial planners advising people who were about to inherit significant amounts of money. My role was to provide insights into effective...
Statement in support of SB 132 – Competency-Based Education Amendments
Testimony given to the State Education Committee by Christine Cooke on February 7, 2018: Members of the Committee, My name is Christine Cooke. I’m the director of education policy at Sutherland Institute. I sit on the Competency Based Learning Review Board, so I’m...
Sutherland Institute supports ‘right to try’ bill
SALT LAKE CITY – Today Sutherland Institute Executive Director Derek Monson released the following statement in response to HB 195 “Medical Cannabis Policy” which passed out of the Utah House of Representatives: “When properly balanced and combined, compassion...
Sutherland Institute releases statement as Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games begin
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}} SALT LAKE CITY – Today Sutherland Institute President Rick Larsen released the following statement in anticipation of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games: “In 1996 I had the...
“The Prohibitive Costs of a Value-free Society” – with 40 years of accrued interest
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Forty years ago today, on February 7, 1978, Neal Maxwell presented a luminous message to members of the Rotary Club International. A former professor of political science and later executive...
Millennial women — we need to hear your voices
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Originally published in the Deseret News. The great American experiment only works when all voices are heard — men and women, liberals and conservatives, religious and nonreligious, old and...
Education choice is all about giving students what they need to learn
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Education choice is a principle, not a specific policy. And more people agree with this concept than you might think. At its core, education choice is the idea that we should give each...
Testimony in support of HB 57 – Utah Intergenerational Poverty Work and Self-sufficiency Tax Credit
Presented before the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee of the Utah Legislature by Stan Rasmussen, Sutherland Institute vice president. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good morning, Senators. Stan Rasmussen with Sutherland Institute. Supplementing information we...
Sutherland Institute applauds passage of Cannabis Cultivation Amendments
SALT LAKE CITY – Sutherland Institute Vice President Stan Rasmussen released the following statement today in response to HB 197, Cannabis Cultivation Amendments, which passed out of the Utah House of Representatives: “Like most of Utah, Sutherland Institute looks...
We are heirs to a wealth of freedom
Originally published in the Deseret News. In my previous career as a business and philanthropic consultant, I often accompanied financial planners advising people who were about to inherit significant amounts of money. My role was to provide insights into effective...
Statement in support of SB 132 – Competency-Based Education Amendments
Testimony given to the State Education Committee by Christine Cooke on February 7, 2018: Members of the Committee, My name is Christine Cooke. I’m the director of education policy at Sutherland Institute. I sit on the Competency Based Learning Review Board, so I’m...
Sutherland Institute supports ‘right to try’ bill
SALT LAKE CITY – Today Sutherland Institute Executive Director Derek Monson released the following statement in response to HB 195 “Medical Cannabis Policy” which passed out of the Utah House of Representatives: “When properly balanced and combined, compassion...
Sutherland Institute releases statement as Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games begin
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}} SALT LAKE CITY – Today Sutherland Institute President Rick Larsen released the following statement in anticipation of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games: “In 1996 I had the...
“The Prohibitive Costs of a Value-free Society” – with 40 years of accrued interest
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Forty years ago today, on February 7, 1978, Neal Maxwell presented a luminous message to members of the Rotary Club International. A former professor of political science and later executive...
Millennial women — we need to hear your voices
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Originally published in the Deseret News. The great American experiment only works when all voices are heard — men and women, liberals and conservatives, religious and nonreligious, old and...
Education choice is all about giving students what they need to learn
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Education choice is a principle, not a specific policy. And more people agree with this concept than you might think. At its core, education choice is the idea that we should give each...