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Foreign policy impotence gripping U.S.

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:16:31 -0400

In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are palpable in both language and ...

Letters My View irresponsible

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:44:16 -0400

Publishing information in your paper that seeks to attribute the MMR vaccine to autism is grossly irresponsible and destructive. The link stated by Cindy Pokezwinski in this piece is not based in scientific fact ("MMR vaccine caused my son's autism," May ...

Letters Fair Tax and the IRS

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:44:15 -0400

Recent news regarding the IRS targeting certain political groups and their members for harassment via tax-exempt applications and tax return audits provides further reason why we the people should vote to disband the ...

Immigration reform overlooks asylum-seekers

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:19:26 -0400

"Work authorization is not meant to get you rich, it's to let you live," said an Egyptian asylum-seeker who fled to the United States after a radical group beat him and tried to kidnap his wife and daughter. After fleeing persecution in their home countries, asylum-seekers like this man in New Jersey face a new type of maltreatment in the United States: The U.S. government ...

Friends of Palestine Presents Dr. El Farra from Gaza

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:41:13 -0400

Israel's Operation Cast Lead was described by a UN fact finding mission as "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorise a civilian population." The 2008-09 assault claimed the lives of 1400 Palestinians and thrust the crisis in Gaza into the centre of the debate about the Israel/Palestine conflict. The crippling siege continues to block ...

George F. Will Obama takes a page from George Wallaces book

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:39:32 -0400

Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: "Although the parties have not raised it, one issue needs to be resolved before we turn to the merits of the case." The issue he raised but could not resolve — that is up to the Supreme Court — illuminates the ...

My view Fighting the ignoble reign of money

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:39:31 -0400

The older I get, the more I am convinced of the truth of the oft-repeated maxim suggesting money is at the heart of much ...

Giving up on terror

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:13:25 -0400

The FBI has now reportedly identified at least five suspects wanted in connection with the Benghazi terror attack. This is the way the Associated Press reported it, quoting unnamed U.S. officials:"The officials say they have enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists - but not enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration ...

Week In Politics Obama And Drone Strikes

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:29:49 -0400

Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: As we mentioned, President Obama's commencement address comes the day after he delivered an hour-long speech on national security. The president talked about redefining the effort away from what he called a boundless global war on terror. Here to ...

A next-generation model for MinnesotaCare

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:17:39 -0400

The result of their ongoing hard work this year is a lesser-known but even more pioneering and compassionate Minnesota twist on federal health reform: a next-generation MinnesotaCare program that will roll out in January and begin to take advantage of newly available federal dollars to better cover the working ...

Editorial I-5 bridge collapse should prompt focus on maintenance

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:09:19 -0400

BREATHE a sigh of relief that Thursday’s Interstate 5 bridge collapse is an economic disaster, not a human tragedy. Mercifully, no one died. Immediately, some politicians began to suggest the collapse of the 165-foot span over the Skagit River was a case study on the cost of deferred infrastructure maintenance. But that narrative does not seem to fit the facts. Instead, the collapse, as ...

Keep drones in the air as long as terrorists target U.S.

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:09:32 -0400

The United States risks losing the advantage of surprise if individual drone strikes become entangled in slow-motion bureaucracy back home. We fear U.S. warriors shrinking from what in effect are battlefield decisions because they have one eye on Congress, or judges, or some other overseer who is not their commander in chief. We don’t want drone operators hoping their targeted terrorist ...

Readers Write Natural disasters North Korea transit IRS bridge collapse bad drivers state politics

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:09:30 -0400

A child stands in front of a house and vehicle that were destroyed by a massive tornado in Moore, Okla., May 24, 2013. Heading into Memorial Day weekend, cleanup continued and people were still sorting through their damaged and destroyed properties after Monday's Category 5 tornado tore through ...

Letter of the Day Zach Sobiech

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:09:28 -0400

Minnesota is known for musicians, such as Bob Dylan, Judy Garland and Prince. We can now add Zach Sobiech to that list (" 'Clouds' songwriter dies at 18," May 21). Sobiech passed all of the well-known musicians around the country and made it to the No. 1 spot on iTunes for downloads of his song "Clouds." How many people make their biggest contributions to the world ...

Editorial notebook Swinging to the rescue of Century Ballroom

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:55:12 -0400

Seattle Times editorial page intern Ana Sofia Knauf marvels at how the fans of the Century Ballroom rallied to pay the dance hall’s unexpected state tax ...

Immigration reform needs to help families

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:34:17 -0400

United States illegally. Although her two younger children are American citizens and her long-term partner is a legal permanent resident, Sonia, 50, was in the U.S. without legal papers. So when she tried to return after a brief trip to Mexico for the funeral of her eldest son, she was arrested at the border and convicted of illegal entry, a federal crime. After serving a 45-day prison sentence, ...

What’s ‘Development’ With Rights Abuses Along the Way

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:34:16 -0400

A grandmother in Cambodia told me recently, "I just want you to know my story in case something happens and I am gone." Police and government officials have threatened and harassed "Kunthea" for her protests against government agencies and appeals to the World Bank after she was forcibly evicted from her home by a private company. The World Bank’s involvement was through ...

Mr. Mayor youre a mess. And somewhat of a master.

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:02:46 -0400

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford reads a statement to the media at City Hall on Friday, May 24, 2013 in Toronto. Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and says he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. Ford did not say whether he has ever used the ...

Student loan rates must remain manageable

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:02:45 -0400

Earlier this month, I visited the University of Minnesota to hear from students about the impact of student debt. I heard stories like Kirsten’s. She recently graduated from Minneapolis Community and Technical College and plans to get a bachelor’s degree. But she already has $30,000 in student loans, making it difficult to pursue her goals. Student debt has nearly tripled over the ...

U.S. needs a federal media shield law

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:02:43 -0400

reintroduction of the 2009 Free Flow of Information Act , which would create a federal media shield law. The previous version was similar to state-level laws. According to an analysis by ...

My view Voting members perspective on the BSA policy change

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:53:52 -0400

I am just back in my hotel room reflecting on the envelope that was just opened by Wayne Perry, the National President of the Boy Scouts of America in a packed convention room in Texas. It’s one hour ...

Mark Mother’s Day by Reforming Family Leave Laws in US

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:26:57 -0400

Diana T. worked full-time for a large retail store in the US when she became pregnant. Her manager was unhappy about her pregnancy and about Diana’s six-week unpaid maternity leave. Her employer refused to pay her accrued sick time during leave. Diana’s baby was born with asthma, and doctors suspected she had cystic fibrosis. Diana had severe post-partum depression. Diana’s ...

Blunder in Burma Scrapping of EU Sanctions Sends Wrong Message

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:26:57 -0400

Over the past two years, Burma has been emerging from 50 years of brutal military rule at a breathtaking pace. The country has made some impressive and unprecedented changes, including the release of many political prisoners, the rolling back of censorship and the lifting of restrictions to allow opposition political parties, including Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, to ...

A New Chance to Act on Guantanamo

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:26:57 -0400

The last time Amina al-Rabeii video conferenced from Yemen with her brother Salman, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, she barely recognized the skeletal man on the screen. "His eyes were sunken into dark recesses," al-Rabeii told me when we met recently in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital. "He was slumped in his chair and he could barely keep his head up. He ...

Topic of the day President Obamas speech on defense

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:44:06 -0400

Yesterday, President Obama gave a long awaited speech at the National Defense University, chiefly addressing the concerns on the administrations use of drones. The big takeaway from his speech? It’s time to end the war on terror. Here is a collection of opinions from around the web about Obama's remarks. ';President Obama’s speech on Thursday was the most important ...

Violence against women and girls shifting culture | Editorial

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:28:59 -0400

the Oxford grooming trial .Bleak as it feels, perhaps some of this may be evidence of a long-overdue change in a moral climate which, as the Savile affair has revealed, was lethally complacent until all too recently. But it is also true that both technology and family breakdown have hugely increased the range of dangers girls and women face, and it is increasingly questionable whether either ...

Unthinkable Hooray for tick-box culture | Editorial

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:28:49 -0400

tick-box, bean-counting culture " that keeps prison officers from dealing with offenders. Everyone knows where tick-box sits in the political thesaurus: as a synonym for bureaucratic, pettifogging, obstructive ineffectuality. Well, perhaps the MPs and columnists should visit the cockpit of a plane or the operating theatres of a hospital to see just how useful a tick-box culture can be. Both ...

Europes centre-left a programme without frontiers | Editorial

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:28:46 -0400

With Munich matched against Dortmund in the Champions League final at Wembley tonight, today is a day to remind us once again that Germans are uncommonly good at football. But they have always been pretty decent at centre-left politics too. No centre-left political party ...

Bahrains Rights Britains Failure

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:18:19 -0400

, claimed that "so-called human rights organisations" are "largely administered by ex-ideologists and even terrorists". It continued: "As much as beasts cannot be left to roam freely, so in human society the feral element’s freedom should be under control." In fact, it is well documented ...

Repressing Rights While Talking Law in Uganda

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:09:22 -0400

forced two newspapers and two radio stations to shut down while they conducted a search – and kept them shut. After years of documenting human rights abuses in Uganda, including threats to free expression, I was not impressed by her words. Her claim that the day’s events were grounded in law only further illustrated the government’s emerging practice of citing laws to justify ...

BOOK REVIEW Saul Bellows Heart

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:37:07 -0400

Greg Bellow Bloomsbury, $26, 228 pages, illustratedThis probing but fond memoir is perfectly titled (and subtitled), for it gives us a unique look at one of the 20th century’s most distinguished American novelists. There is certainly a lot of heart ...

What is the result

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:19:38 -0400

* We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present ...

Five ways of putting an end to anger

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:19:37 -0400

1. If there is someone whose bodily actions are not kind but whose words are kind, if you feel anger toward him, meditate to put an end to your ...

Who cares about cricket

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:19:35 -0400

cricket for about a decade. The only form of the game that i paid any attention in recent years was Test cricket. And i'm beginning to wobble even on that. The howl of outrage from the Indian media and cricket pundits over the match-fixing scandal in ...

PIL filed in Madras high court questioning its month-long summer leave

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:19:35 -0400

Madras high court seeking the court's direction to quash its own month-long summer vacation merits serious consideration. Such long leaves for the judiciary, which is already under considerable strain due to a mountain of backlog cases, are not in keeping with the realities of the courts. According to the law ministry's own admission, there are over three crore cases pending in various ...

Corruption of the American dream

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:19:34 -0400

corruption in every alleyway in India, so wise up, why should cricket be an exception? The second, and higher order, perspective, is that corruption is increasing the world over. Time permitting, we can magpie-pick our favourite corruption site and that could be in any continent, anywhere. Go ahead, surprise yourself! Why has corruption become so pervasive all over? We know about Indians and ...

In death as in life our netas claim priority over us

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:19:33 -0400

Death is said to be the great leveller. As the poet put it: "Sceptre and crown/ Must tumble down,/ And in the dust be equal made/ With the poor crooked scythe and spade." The one exception to this universal rule is India. Here, our political VVIPs -- our netas -- are not only larger than life, they are also larger than death. During their lifetimes -- and very long lifetimes these ...

U.K. U.S. warn against travel in Sweden during riots

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:57:17 -0400

The United Kingdom and the United States have issued a travel warning for Sweden following a string of arson attacks in Stockholm's suburbs, officials said. The United States Friday sent an email to all U.S. nationals living in Sweden, warning them to stay away from the affected areas, The Local.se reported. "Even demonstrations intended to be peaceful can turn confrontational and ...

Extractive Industries A New Accountability Agenda

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:31:56 -0400

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was founded in 2003 with the goal of strengthening governance by increasing transparency over revenues from the oil, gas, and mining sectors. EITI has contributed to much greater disclosures of information and helped spur dialogue in many countries. But EITI has not made progress toward its ultimate purpose of enhancing accountability in ...

WOLF Tyranny in our time

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:42 -0400

King George III .';He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance,'; in the words of the Declaration of ...

PAUL Blocking the pathway to a national ID

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:41 -0400

Judiciary Committee this week is expected to be considered by the in June. Many see measures contained in this bill, such as a strong E-Verify and a ';photo tool,'; as a means to control unlawful immigrants’ access to unlawful employment. I worry that they go too far.I think there are better ideas that err on the side of individual privacy while still strengthening our borders. We ...

EDITORIAL Reids court-packing scheme

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:40 -0400

Harry Reid doesn’t like the direction the federal judiciary is heading, so he has come up with a variant of court-packing to achieve his results. He took ...

LAMBRO Dodging job talk

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:40 -0400

Senate is working on an immigration bill and puts out a statement urging its passage - though the West Wing has had nothing to do with designing its key provisions or moving the process along.Earlier this month, it dawned on Mr. Obama’s advisers that he hadn’t said much about the economy for quite a while. So he made a photo-op, fly-by visit to Texas to talk about jobs, but uttered no ...

EDITORIAL The nanny blows his top

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:40 -0400

the court rebuke he got in March for trying to prohibit sales of ';supersized'; sodas. He blew his top last week at a second judicial slight. A judge scuttled Hizzoner’s scheme to require all of Manhattan’s Ford Crown Victorias and other cabs to be replaced by the ';Taxi of ...

KUHNER An enormous abuse of IRS power

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:40 -0400

IRS was transformed into a partisan arm of the administration in order to persecute Mr. Obama’s critics. This was not only unethical, but also unconstitutional and illegal. ...

SHERK A union of one

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:39 -0400

View results Desperate times call for desperate measures, but the union movement has taken this saying to a new level. It has reacted to dwindling membership by unionizing recipients of public assistance. In more than a dozen states, unions now extract dues from government benefit checks.The latest example is Minnesota. The legislature just passed a law unionizing day-care providers at the behest ...

GHEI The price of eroding trust

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:39 -0400

IRS has long been used by those in political power against their opponents is symptomatic of the larger problem in the United States. Years of redistributionist rhetoric, bailouts to firms who should have been responsible for the risks they took, subsidies flowing to the politically connected, and the replacement of flexible social norms by rigid top-down regulations are causing erosion of trust ...

EDITORIAL Windmills of death

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:39 -0400

View results There’s a killer on the loose. Known for murdering in cold blood with a sharp blade, the government has nevertheless turned a blind eye to the killer’s trail of death and destruction. The lucky ones who survive are maimed and left to die. The American taxpayer is forced to subsidize the slaughter.We’re not taking here about the Tsarnaev brothers and their ...

HANSON When paranoia becomes prescience

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:38 -0400

White House press secretary Jay Carney all peddled it.The problem with an all-powerful, rogue government is not just that it becomes adept at doing what it should not. Increasingly, it also cannot even do what it should.Philadelphia ...

Dear Tiny Desk Miss You

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:06 -0400

Tiny Desk , I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work maybe 20 feet from you. Before that, I worked about 10 feet from you, but people used to come stand behind me and breathe their miscellaneous lunch smells on my neck while you were entertaining guests, so I moved. When I saw our new building, it was so open that I assumed I would still be able to hear everything, even though ...

Whos The Best Drinker Dogs Cats Or Pigeons

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:06 -0400

It's a dog drinking water. It's also the answer to a riddle. When you and I take a drink, we can lift a glass, hold it to our mouth, tilt and use gravity to pour the water in. Dogs can't do that. In a pinch, we can kneel down, put our mouth to the surface and suck water up (or, to be polite, use a straw). Dogs can't do that either. They don't have sucking ability. Yet ...

Plimpton A Fond Look At A Man Of Letters

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:05 -0400

With: George Plimpton, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Graydon Carter, James Lipton, Hugh Hefner, Robert Kennedy Jr., Gay Talese If ever there was a man who made a virtue out of failure, it was George Plimpton. He played quarterback with the Detroit Lions without even knowing where to put his hands to take the snap. He had his nose bloodied by knockout king Archie Moore. He sweated through ...

Breakin The Rules 20 General Principles Suspended In Fast And Furious 6

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:05 -0400

. 1. Newton's Laws Of Motion 2. The Reluctance Of Brilliant Criminal Masterminds To Freely Confess 3. The Inability Of Two Things To Coexist In The Same Physical Space 4. The Integrity Of Vending Machines 5. Gravity 6. Gina Carano's Ability To Snap Most Of These People Like Twigs Pretty Quickly, If We're Being Honest 7. The Hardness Of Cars, Which Are Actually Kind Of ...

Pitbull Gets Epic You Constantly Have To Defend Your Success

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:05 -0400

. Armando Christian Perez -- better known as Pitbull or Mr. Worldwide -- has sold five million albums and had No. 1 hits in more than 15 countries. He's worked with artists like Usher, Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez. Now, he brings the party to the big screen in the new animated feature ...

Douglas Damon Illuminate HBOs Candelabra

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:05 -0400

- when you just consider the concept of the TV movie and its casting -- this new HBO Films production raises all sorts of questions: How much will be based on verifiable fact, and how much will be fictionalized? On an anything-goes premium-cable network such as HBO, how graphic will the sex scenes be? And the most important questions involve the drama's two leading men, playing an ...

Here’s a chance to ease the misery of fistula

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:22:21 -0400

I was profoundly moved to meet these women and girls, most from poor, rural backgrounds, who had suffered severe physical and social consequences because of this largely preventable illness. Mourning the stillbirth of their babies, ashamed of the fetid odour they produced, having lost a chance at education, being confined to their homes, they were left feeling hopeless, depressed and ...

A new response in the war on terror

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:44:53 -0400

Beyond these changes in policy, Obama's speech offered tantalizing signals that the president is contemplating a downsizing of what many - but not Obama himself - refer to as the global war on terror. Even as he defended the use of drone strikes and other efforts against "specific networks of violent extremists," the president ...

Good news on health costs

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:44:51 -0400

Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state agency running the state's new health exchange, announces the plans and prices that will be offered by private insurers during a news conference in ...

Op-Ed Contributor Asian Tensions and the Problem of History

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:26:48 -0400

The political turmoil currently roiling Northeast Asia ...

Put a Spotlight on African Women’s Reproductive Rights

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:52:19 -0400

Victoria J. married in 2009 at age 14, and became pregnant shortly after. "I started labour in the morning on a Friday …. The nurse kept checking and saying I would deliver safely. On Monday she said I was weak. "The doctor decided to operate on me. (During the) operation they found the baby was dead. The doctor said the baby had died due to the long labour. After that, I found ...

Newspaper unfair to Minneapolis police

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:15:30 -0400

Whenever interactions between police and citizens result in death or serious injuries, in what is commonly called a "critical incident," the public needs to know what happened and whether their police officers acted properly in these tragic circumstances. Clearly, the media plays an important role in gathering and disseminating the facts so that the public can make its determination. ...

Proposed lower alcohol limit for drivers too severe

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:15:28 -0400

The earlier progress came after states lowered the blood alcohol concentration for driving under the influence from 0.10 to 0.08, raised the drinking age and adopted a "zero tolerance" rule for drivers under age 21. With the most potent changes already in place, public safety improvements have gotten a bit harder to come ...

Stockholm suburbs beset by 5th night of violence

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:04:05 -0400

Eleven cars and parts of two schools and a police station were charred early Friday after a fifth night of unrest in immigrant enclaves around Sweden's capital. Some 300 to 500 youths gathered around eight blazing cars in northwestern suburban Rinkeby, with some young men vandalizing other vehicles, police told Sweden's Tidningarnas Telegrambyra news agency. More than a dozen ...

Letters Bennett is right

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:30:28 -0400

What a breath of fresh air to read former Sen. Bob Bennett's article regarding John Swallow — something that really makes sense instead of the wild rhetoric to which we are exposed on a daily basis ("Swallow needs administrative leave," May 20). Regardless of whether Swallow is falsely accused or blatantly guilty, Bennett's suggestion that Swallow be placed on the ...

White House press corps has been turned into potted plants

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:30:28 -0400

On days when the president is coming, the White House press room, the East Room and even occasionally the Rose Garden are ornamented with dozens of objects that perform the decorative and utilitarian purpose of potted ...

Letters Let organizations decide

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:30:27 -0400

Rich McKeown, spokesman for Count My Vote (CMV) said, "We just think we can do better" (GOP delegates reject changes to nominating system," May 18). A few people believe their ideas on how to improve the process private organizations use to select their representatives. Then when the groups don't agree, these ideas should be imposed on them by force of law. If my friends and ...

Letters Murdock Canal trail

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:30:27 -0400

Fifteen years ago while serving as mayor of Highland, I sat in meetings with other elected officials where we discussed the possibilities of a trail along the Murdock ...

What others say Solving a non-problem

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:30:26 -0400

The following editorial appeared recently in the Philadelphia Daily News: Think back — back before we knew that the IRS was unacceptably targeting right-wing groups for scrutiny or that the Department of Justice was unbelievably searching the phone records of journalists. Think all the way back to February, when all anyone in Washington was talking about was the country's fiscal ...

Turkey puts a new paradigm in play

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:21:52 -0400

if you are interested in contributing. A new paradigm is in play in Turkey as the "Kurdish peace process" gains traction and Turkey's willing involvement in the Syrian crisis continues. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government seeks to turn the tables on what many see as major regional crisis into an opportunity not to be missed for Turkey's momentous ...

Jay Evensen On Memorial Day look beyond the fog of war

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:46:51 -0400

Looking back 70 years with the sure knowledge that allied forces defeated the Nazis, it's hard to feel the heart-pounding fear of that day as crews loaded their B-17s, revved their engines, took their places behind guns or as navigators or pilots, walked the narrow catwalk above bomb bays and wondered if they had safely touched ground for the last ...

In our opinion Utahs caucus system needs reform

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:46:50 -0400

Many Utah voters, however, feel disenfranchised by the process, and some experts cite disillusionment with the caucus system as one of the primary reasons behind Utah's declining voter turnout in recent years. Many feel the decision has already been made for them by a relative handful of people, and, in some cases, that's exactly what happens at the state ...