When Bigger Stops Being Better in School Districts
What I learned from the research is that there are more questions than answers & that some of Utah’s largest school districts could potentially better serve students & taxpayers by downsizing.
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27.09.2025 18:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘Irreparably harm’: Utah judge will not pause own ruling in gerrymandering case. But lawmakers get more time to draw maps.
Utah voters are entitled to “a lawful congressional plan” that complies with Proposition 4, Judge Dianna Gibson wrote Tuesday.
BREAKING: Judge Dianna Gibson rejected the Legislature’s request to pause her own directive for lawmakers to draw new congressional maps, saying time is short, but it would be an affront to the will of Utah voters to let the existing maps stay in place for the 2026 election.
03.09.2025 00:01 — 👍 38 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 3
Gets worse bsky.app/profile/drke...
29.08.2025 23:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
If the #Utah Legislature can shove vouchers, anti-DEI, and anti-union bills down the throats of their constituents within the first couple of weeks of the legislative session, they can figure out how to use some crayons to color in a map in 30 days. #utpol
29.08.2025 23:36 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Notice how the Utah supermajority says “fuck you” to voters when they pass unconstitutional & unpopular bills & then when they are challenged in court or through ballot initiatives they ask for a “compromise”?
28.08.2025 14:16 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Trump is out here with our f*cking national guard catching jaywalkers meanwhile two children are dead, ages 8 and 10, after a gunman opened fire at the Annunciation Catholic School during a morning Mass on the south side of
27.08.2025 18:50 — 👍 63 🔁 21 💬 8 📌 0
I love that some #Utah Republicans are losing their mind right now 😊
Funny how they are afraid of merit-based performance and competition 🤷
27.08.2025 15:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hang in there Greg, it’s a super tough job market
18.08.2025 03:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That’s a bummer. Very bad for office morale
13.08.2025 22:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My son is starting school and he starts at 8…his lunch is at 10:30 🤷♂️
09.08.2025 19:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Research shows that adolescents have a shifted clock.
09.08.2025 02:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Means so much to join the Board of Directors at ACLU of Utah. I am very excited to collaborate alongside others with a shared vision that all people have access to the rights promised in our federal & state constitutions & laws.
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08.08.2025 21:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ideas solve problems, keep at it.
04.08.2025 02:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We started the Millcreek Community Council Pioneer Day Scavenger Hunt & made it to 4 out of 10 historical sites. If you are a #Millcreek #Utah resident, join in on the fun for a chance to win an ice cream gift card…and to learn a little bit 🤓
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15.07.2025 03:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All smoke…they’ll forget about and rally again at the Capitol come 2029
13.07.2025 03:43 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
This is a yearly problem that could be easily solved.
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Treat it like a textbook:
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11.07.2025 03:18 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
It’s been over a week since Utah State Board of Education received notice from the DOE that congressionally approved grants have been withheld from the 7/1 release date. Where is the strongly worded letter from our governor like the one against student loans?
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09.07.2025 17:41 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Arizona's 'concentration camp': why was Tent City kept open for 24 years?
In 1993 Joe Arpaio, America’s ‘toughest sheriff’, opened a temporary outdoor jail in Phoenix. After more than two decades, the notorious project is finally closing
The administration’s Tent concentration camp is not new. Arizona employed something similar for years & it failed as a deterrent & costed taxpayers millions.
“He got away with it because people could excuse the embedded racism in his message”
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07.07.2025 22:49 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
AC went out on the 3rd of July, along with a pipe leak with secondary damage…first-time homeowner and middle class challenges that the current US administration just can’t understand.
04.07.2025 01:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shrinking government programs & reducing dues for the wealthiest is the conservative plan. The sad thing is that Republican Representatives are not supporting it because of their constituents but because of a dictator & for their own personal rise. Utahns deserve better representation. #utpol
02.07.2025 13:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yet we are one of the happiest states 🤷
30.06.2025 13:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I would like to see change too.
25.06.2025 02:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Opinion: Medicaid saves lives – Utah’s leaders should reject cuts and barriers
Fifteen years ago, my life changed because of a car accident. It triggered a storm of health issues leaving me unemployed, uninsured and undiagnosed. I was sick and scared — left bouncing between free clinics and charity-care doctors. Each visit ended with more questions than answers. One doctor suspected multiple sclerosis. Another feared early onset Parkinson’s disease. Without health insurance, I couldn’t afford the specialists and tests needed to find out what was happening to me.
Far too many Utahns living with chronic illnesses, cancer and disabilities can relate. The journey to a diagnosis can be difficult. Disease doesn’t always include a paper trail. In the case of cancer patients, tumors can cause symptoms and threaten lives before they are even detected. A person can spend years in pain, confined to a bed or a wheelchair, without a formal diagnosis. And yet, without the paperwork to prove their illness or “officially disabled” status, patients are often denied the care they desperately need.
That’s why Medicaid must be protected.
Thanks to Medicaid expansion in Utah, eligibility is now based on income instead of documentation of a disability. Since _January 2020, an estimated 120,000 Utahns have become eligible to access the health care they desperately need._ That means people with disabilities and chronic illnesses are accessing care without needing to deal with mountains of paperwork. But that progress is now under threat by the federal government and the Utah Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
At a state level, DHHS is trying to move forward with work reporting requirements for Medicaid enrollees. Patients would be forced to prove they’ve filled out 48 job applications. At the federal level, Congress is proposing to add similar work requirements. Paperwork should not stand between people and their treatment.
Utah residents speak out against proposed Medicaid work requirements
That’s why I’m sharing my story and echoing the voice of Utahns with cancer by urging Sen. John Curtis to protect Medicaid by voting NO to cuts and additional barriers to care. Data _shows_ one in three children with cancer are enrolled in Medicaid at the time of diagnosis. One in 10 people with a history of cancer rely on Medicaid. Access to Medicaid increases cancer survival rates, improves early detection and ensures timely treatment.
Simply put: Medicaid saves lives.
Senator Curtis and officials with the Utah Department of Health and Human Services can save lives by protecting the program as it exists. Hundreds of thousands of Utahns are depending on you to do the right thing and oppose cuts.
Opinion: Budget bill’s Medicaid cuts hurt all Utahns
23.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I was right there too lol. Thanks for being out there. Did you pop by the big tent at the bottom of the water slide? Millcreek community council was there.
21.06.2025 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We’re you at cottonwood? Must have missed you.
21.06.2025 04:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Opinion: A time for mourning and resolve in Utah, not insensitive tweets from a Utah senator
Mike Lee's social media posts only add to the pain of a weekend marred by political violence
"The tweets were unacceptable for anyone, let alone from a member of the Senate. It revealed a lack of compassion for both victims and their loved ones and cast a poor light on Utah....An apology and recognition of the mistake should follow."
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18.06.2025 18:46 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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