July 2025 Archive

While our Grandma’s legendary two-year supply of emergency rations might be more rice and beans than legislative genius, this Pioneer Day we’re digging into a different kind of foresight: the Legislature’s plan to steady the public education budget during difficult economic times. Developed in 2020, this plan (titled the Public Education Funding Framework) includes three […]

In Utah—and the rest of the western United States—footing the bill for wildfire prevention, suppression, and mitigation is a persistently hot topic. The challenge of addressing wildfire on state, private, and federal lands, layered with the complexities of increasingly arid conditions, multiplied by population growth, and seasoned with competing budgetary priorities results in a natural […]

In the world of higher education budgets, funding takes one of three forms: Historically, the Legislature has only tracked the first two buckets, and even those were appropriated primarily in lump sums to institutions with little to no programmatic guidance. To provide greater insight into the budgets of Utah’s colleges and universities, the Higher Education […]