In today's Deseret News, Lisa Riley Roche wonders whether Jim Bennett will be the first ever 3rd party candidate to make the cut for a Utah Debate Commission debate.

The dangerously dysfunctional presidency of Donald Trump has endowed the nation with a Divider in Chief.

Many of the Trump supporters in Utah liked the way he was willing to pick a fight. The trouble with fight-picking, though, is that our government is set up to require cooperation and compromise. The founders deliberately built a governing machinery that grinds when it gets too hot. It has to cool down to get moving again. At the moment, there are at least two hopeful signs that lubrication may be coming.

Voters want problem solvers 

United Utah Party candidate notes differences with Curtis and “Party of Trump”

Read Richard Davis' Deseret News Op Ed!

Supporting increased funding for and reform of public education as a vehicle for creating good citizens, preparing Utahns for the future, and improving the economic prospects of all Utah citizens. Favoring significant education funding increases along with accountability from Utah’s education system for its role in educating Utah’s future generations.

The Great Salt Lake is a foul body of water because that which flows into it never leaves.  It just stays and stays and stagnates.

Sort of reminds you of Congress.

Late last month the Utah County Clerk admitted his office had made a big mistake. The office had sent GOP primary ballots to 60,000 voters in Utah County who weren’t supposed to receive them. An election was being held but these voters were not allowed to participate.

Protecting the role of religious belief in public life as well as the constitutional right to free exercise of religious expression for all.