by Tax Watchdog | Nov 3, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson These are truly historic times as Utah’s Governor resigns to accept the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency in President George W. Bush’s administration and the State of Utah installs its first female governor, Olene Walker....
by Tax Watchdog | Oct 27, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Utah has only 19 charter schools, which are small independent public schools each with a unique educational focus. By contrast, Arizona has over 400 charter schools. State and local boards of education in Utah are more and more opposed to the...
by Tax Watchdog | Oct 20, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson King Arthur lived in an imaginery ancient place called Camelot. Life was perfect there. Today many Utah citizens live in Utopia and don’t even know it. Eighteen Utah cities are pursuing a plan to invest millions of dollars in a fiber optic...
by Tax Watchdog | Oct 13, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Phone users pay a bewildering number of taxes for phone services that amount to 12.5% of a typical phone bill and 16.6% for phone plans that contain only basic services. Using the September 2003 phone bill of a Draper taxpayer, the Utah Taxpayers...
by Tax Watchdog | Oct 6, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson America’s legislators back to school week just ended and Utah legislators visited more schools than any other state in the nation. From the time Representative Marda Dilree and I chaired the first back to school week in 2000, Utah...
by Tax Watchdog | Sep 29, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson What if they held an election and nobody voted? If present trends continue, that could actually become a reality. The apathy of the American public toward civic involvement has never been more prevalent than it is today. I recently attended the...