Send to a friendOpen Mike, Feb 3-5, 2012 Politico fellow, Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics : Barack Obama's election was supposed to consolidate the millennial generation, 18-29 year olds, as a current and future element of the Democratic base. It was an article of faith among Democrats...
Blue Dog Democrat Rep. Heath Shuler retires Fox News "I have always said family comes first, and I never intended to be a career politician." In brief comments off the House floor, Shuler added "I'm putting undue stress on my wife. I feel very much at peace." Shuler decided on Tuesday that he would not ...
College students rally for higher ed funding Salt Lake Tribune Nolan Karras, a businessman and former Utah House speaker, is co-chairman of Education First and said his group plans to get involved in the political process, attending Republican and Democratic caucuses in the spring and supporting candidates who ...
Increasing Density and Diversity Likely to Make Western States More Blue The Atlantic Cities The geography of American politics is shifting, and this is especially true in the Mountain West. These six states – Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah – are undergoing changes large and small as they rearrange their political...
McEntee: Karen Shepherd, businesswoman and Democrat, on life beyond politics Salt Lake Tribune By peg mcentee Karen Shepherd has served in the Utah Senate and the US House. She was publisher-editor of Network, a seminal magazine for Utahns for a decade, and the US executive director with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, ...
Barack Obama's reckless and politically foolish war on religion Daily Mail Which prompted Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah (and a Mormon) to comment acidly: 'Someone needs to remind the President that there was only one person who walked on water and he did not occupy the Oval Office. I think most Americans would agree that the ...