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ExcelinEd’s Shan Goff shares how the Hope Scholarship is helping Florida students
ExcelinEd’s Florida Policy Director Shan Goff joins Sutherland Institute’s Christine Cooke to discuss Florida’s new Hope Scholarship Program. This scholarship helps vulnerable students who have been bullied in public schools (as reported by the student) to apply for a scholarship…
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Millennial leaders are emerging with strong foundations
Originally published by the Deseret News. The next generation is well on its way to assuming leadership roles both in business and politics. More and more often, while scanning LinkedIn, I see the name of a young executive and think,…
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Wildfire retardant is often ineffective. Here’s what communities should do instead.
Originally published by The Salt Lake Tribune. Right now air tankers are flying the skies above the western United States where wildfires threaten homes. When these massive firefighting airplanes drop gallons and gallons of retardant, it can seem like the cavalry…
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A Public Lands Discussion with Senator Mike Lee
The following is a transcript of Senator Mike Lee’s remarks during a public lands discussion sponsored by Sutherland Institute. Federal Lands and Royal Forests By Sen. Mike Lee Thanks so much, Rick. It’s great to be with you today at…
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Is the Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision Broadening?
Originally published by Newsmax. The recent Supreme Court decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission has been widely understood to be a narrow one. Not that it was not significant. The 7-2 majority decision roundly condemned the Colorado…
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U.S. faces Hamilton’s question: ‘reflection and choice, or…accident and force?’
Originally published by Utah Policy. Seasonal sentiments around the Fourth of July are always justified, but this year – given all we are going through as a nation – they are also instructive. Justified, because as years distance us from our…
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Sutherland signs coalition letter urging legislation to prevent family separation
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Western states brace for most severe wildfire outbreak since 2012
Originally published by The Hill. Smoke is beginning to rise from the West’s public lands — and it is just a taste of what’s to come. In a briefing to members of Congress, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdueshared predictions of above-average potential…
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Work — the common thread through all Americans
Originally published by the Deseret News. Summer is upon us and so too is a tale that’s been overtold: Americans are terrible at taking vacation. Every year we collectively fail to use millions of paid vacation days. The experts say…
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Sutherland’s Matt Anderson on For The People (KVNU)
Director of Sutherland Institute’s Coalition for Self-Government in the West, Matt Anderson speaks on an upcoming public lands panel with KVNU’s For The People. Click Here To Listen