November 1, 2019 Municipal “growth-management plans” and their crushing fiscal and social costs Median home prices in growth-managed regions are typically two to four times more than those in unmanaged areas. Growth restrictions also dramatically increase home…
May 20, 2019 Missouri law will protect farms and ranches from local anti-agriculture ordinances Proponents argue that a patchwork of county-by-county regulations creates regulatory uncertainty for farm and ranch families and prevents them from expanding and stops new…
January 7, 2019 Government shutdown makes the case for state control of national parks and monuments The federal government, on the other hand, has no skin in the game when it comes to shutting down monuments and national parks thousands…
May 26, 2017 Natural Resources head moves to bring more local control to land, resource policies “Our experience has been that the BLM [Bureau of Land Management] planners hold very few public meetings where information is given, but not exchanged,”…
May 18, 2017 Utah Senators wants to throw out Obama-era BLM policies, start fresh “A court-ordered deadline for publishing RMPs (resource management plans) resulted in BLM rushing its plans from the start, cutting out local voices in the…
April 16, 2017 SCOTUS partly to blame for America’s ‘Rural vs Urban’ resentment Thus the concept that was established in the US Constitution for representation of the people in Congress, held true for the states as well…
January 24, 2017 Poll: Utah ready to fight for state control of public lands The question is should use of those lands be determined by federal land agencies – like the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest…
January 23, 2017 Wyoming lawmakers consider future of lands stewardship amendment On the other side are critics of the federal government’s bureaucracy. They note that it can take over a decade to permit grazing, mining,…
January 16, 2017 Will Bears Ears go the way of Grand Staircase/Escalante, or can it be reversed President-elect Trump has agreed to look into reversing the Bears Ears National Monument designation, all or in part, and he has the authority to do so. But…
December 20, 2016 Obama Bears Ears takeover would be un-American The protection of our nation’s historic, cultural and natural resources is among the noblest of pursuits. However, turning our backs on the democratic process…
