Utah has a model sentencing system. Convicted criminals in the State serve just under 85 percent, 84.2 percent to be exact, of their full sentence under indeterminant sentencing guidelines. Our system works better than almost any other in…

I speak today, with both sorrow and anger, in commemoration of the massacre of over one and a half million Armenians between 1915 and 1923. The systematic persecution of the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire clearly ranks among the…

I am simply not among those people who say that this is a bad institution filled with bad people. Quite the contrary, it is an honorable institution, and everybody that I have met here is an honorable person, working extraordinarily hard…

when Mattie Hughes Cannon came to Washington, DC in 1898 she testified in Congress on behalf of women's suffrage. At the time she was a Utah State Senator. She had won her seat in 1896--the first woman in the country elected to a state…