COVID-19
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‘Enormous challenge’ ahead for students returning to public ed this fall
With COVID-19 spiking again across the state, parents and other education leaders are asking: What’s next? Sutherland Institute connected with Rick Hess, a former high school teacher, current lecturer, and leading education policy scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI),…
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Mandating masks in public
Utah leaders should focus on finding a policy response to the COVID-19 surge that is calibrated toward widescale public compliance. If they do, they will have a better chance to effectively gain control over the pandemic before the fall.
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Strong economy and disease can co-exist: 5 fundamentals for Utahns and their leaders
Even as the disease spikes, we now have enough data to know more – and do better – in our public health response. We also have enough evidence to recognize that disease and a strong economy can, and regularly do,…
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Q&A: What churches ought to be doing in a pandemic
“We may have to just do the right thing, and know that God sees.”
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Supreme Court weighs in on pandemic limits on worship
The most encouraging sign from the court is shared by both sides of Friday’s decision: Religious practice must not be singled out for disfavored treatment.
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Politics, public health don’t mix
Politics and public health should be like sick people and healthy people: kept apart as much as possible. Politics erodes everything that it touches, especially in a public health crisis.
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Goodbye to ACT & SAT exams? COVID continues to propel change in higher ed
Part of that equation will be the budget, and part of it will be higher education’s ability to adapt to a new reality in upcoming years.
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Who turns down $54 million?
Agree or disagree, it is good for all of us that many of our fellow citizens are motivated by a higher cause.
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COVID-19 vaccine, cancer treatments all show dire need for free market in drug manufacturing
If and when a safe and effective vaccine is found, it will be private drug manufacturing companies that produce the billions of doses necessary to defeat the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Stanford law professor: Government should not decide whether religious worship is ‘essential’
“It is none of the state’s business to decide that religious worship is not important, it is the state’s business to decide whether particular forms the religious worship might take may be dangerous to public health.”