This week, Greg exudes excitement for becoming Utah’s new Speaker of the House. Natalie and Jim chastise the GOP for suing to kill the ‘Count My Vote’ compromise, the gang mull the merits and hitches of raising taxes to fund education.
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: December 3, 2014) – Recently a group of advocates for early childhood education reform gathered for a panel discussion at the University of Utah. Until this year, Utah was one of 10 states that provided no public funding for early childhood education. But HB96 was passed to provide…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: November 26, 2014) – Racial tensions and civil unrest erupted across America, again, following the decision this week by a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, to not indict a white police officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing 18-year-old Michael Brown in August. Ahead of the grand jury’s…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: November 25, 2014) – Any entrepreneur who is fortunate enough to have an idea grow into something worth tens of millions or even a billion dollars needs timely, accurate and actionable financial and business information to run their company. This information provides valuable feedback on what is going well, what…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: November 19, 2014) – Nine countries possess more than 16,000 nuclear weapons. The United States and Russia maintain roughly 1,800 of their nuclear weapons on high-alert status – ready to be launched within minutes of a warning. Most are many times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: November 12, 2014) – Prof. Scott Stroud and Prof. Natalie Jomini Stroud are two scholars from the University of Texas at Austin who research how extreme partisanship hurts democracy. Scott Stroud researches and lectures on the intersection between rhetoric, philosophy, and the connections linking artful communication and democracy…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: November 11, 2014) – Once the domain of relatively small mom and pop shops, the event rental business has grown up. It is now highly sophisticated and brings in over $5 billion dollars a year nationwide. One of the best-run regional players in the country is located here in Salt…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: November 4, 2014) – Twenty years ago during the dot-com boom, entrepreneurs in the Bay Area were turning away investors while companies in Utah were starving for capital. That has all changed now – thanks in large part to the efforts of Gavin Christensen, Founder and Managing Partner of Kickstart…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: October 28, 2014) – Twenty years ago during the dot-com boom, entrepreneurs in the Bay Area were turning away investors while companies in Utah were starving for capital. That has all changed now – thanks in large part to the efforts of Gavin Christensen, Founder and Managing Partner of Kickstart…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: October 22, 2014) – this week some top policy makers, planners, academics, and economists gathered at the University of Utah for a conference on Africa, co-sponsored by the Council of American Ambassadors and the Hinckley Institute of Politics. Among the speakers was Daniel Bausch, a virologist who’s spent…
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