Sutherland Institute

SALT LAKE CITY — Today the Utah Senate voted in favor of SB 172 – Medicaid Waiver Amendments. This legislation, making changes to the current Medicaid system, can be explained in two parts. First, it allows the Utah Department of Health to ask for…

Testimony given by Christine Cooke, education policy director at Sutherland Institute, in support of HB 408 (Public Education Amendments), on Feb. 26, 2018, before the House Education Committee of the Utah Legislature. Thank you, committee members. My name is Christine…

Will focusing on a student’s individual needs and creating personalized learning paths cost taxpayers more money and result in ANOTHER tax hike? The short answer is no.

Statement written by Christine Cooke in support of HB 354 (Student Prosperity Savings Program Amendments) and submitted to the House Economic Development and Workforce Services Standing Committee of the Utah Legislature. Last year Sutherland Institute supported the creation of the…

Statement written by Christine Cooke in support of SB 195 (Credit Acceptance by Higher Education Institutions) and submitted to the Senate Education Committee of the Utah Legislature. Sutherland Institute believes that education should be fitted to the individual student, which…

SALT LAKE CITY — Today HJR 2 – Joint Resolution Urging Congress to Relocate Federal Land Management Agency Headquarters and HB 357 – Evaluating Tax Revenue Foregone From Federally Controlled Lands passed the Utah House and Senate. Matt Anderson, director of the Coalition for…

Originally published in the Deseret News. Truth in America is in trouble. For many of us, it is difficult to know what to believe anymore, and we are facing a crisis of trust in the media and in our institutions.…

Originally published in the Washington Examiner. When the Outdoor Retailer and Snow Shows debuted last month in Denver, attendees surveyed the latest and greatest in outdoor recreation equipment. But even with all this novelty and innovation, the same old rhetoric about…

Originally published by The Hill. On a September morning in 1996, then-Gov. Mike Leavitt of Utah opened the newspaper to read that, with the stroke of a pen, nearly 2 million acres of land in southern Utah had been unilaterally designated as…

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 emailed to you yesterday, Sutherland…