Our hospitals are full. This threatens patients who rely on hospital care from everything from COVID-19 to emergencies like heart attacks, strokes, surgeries and trauma. We must work together to keep infections low until a vaccine is…
Gary Herbert
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July 8, 2026
The burgeoning debt is just the result of not having appropriate balance between the state and federal government.
— Gary Herbert
The poorest among us will continue to struggle until Utah leaders can find agreement on this difficult issue.
I respectfully reject the attitude that it ought to be adversarial. I think it ought to be collaborative.
Jefferson said that 'the government closest to the people serves the people best' and that certainly applies to managing public lands.
if we really care about protecting the antiquities and the archeological artifacts, if we really care about giving the Native Americans co-management responsibility, it has to be done legislatively.
A great start would be Congressman Bishop's legislation that requires more public input and local buy-in based on the size of a proposed monument.
I believe that what we all want is to protect the antiquities in this area, but the question is how and through what means.
I have long said it is not the use of the Antiquities Act, but rather the abuse of the Antiquities Act by presidents of both parties, that now requires Congress to carefully review this law.
I think most all of us appreciate that government closest to the people tends to be more reflective and more representative of the people's needs.
It is not the use of the Antiquities Act; it is the promise, the abuse of it.