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The Chicken and the Egg: A Budgeting Story

As the 2026 General Session gets cracking, so too does the Request for Appropriation (RFA) process. Before RFAs existed, many bills were drafted solely to appropriate money, even when no policy change was needed, which created a backlog for...read more

Winning Peers and Influencing Policymakers: A Performance Vision Board for the New Year

Dr. W. Edwards Deming said “if you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you are doing.” Over the past year, the Legislature’s Operations and Performance Team (Ops. Team) has done just as Dr. Deming advised,...read more

Passing Inspection: Stress-Testing the State’s Fiscal Foundation

In the field of structural engineering, a stress test is not a prediction of failure, but a verification of resilience. Engineers apply hypothetical, extreme loads to ensure that even under the worst possible conditions, the structure remains...read more

Muninn: A Bird’s-Eye View of Utah’s Revenue

In Norse mythology, the god Odin relied on his raven, Muninn (meaning memory), to fly across the world and bring back information. The Utah Legislature now boasts their own version of this valuable bird—a powerful new application designed to...read more

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The Chicken and the Egg: A Budgeting Story

Winning Peers and Influencing Policymakers: A Performance Vision Board for the New Year

Passing Inspection: Stress-Testing the State’s Fiscal Foundation

Muninn: A Bird’s-Eye View of Utah’s Revenue

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