Archive For The “Author – Ronald Mortensen” Category
Published March 10, 2017 Filed under USN Columnists, Utah. Total of no comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen / Mar 9, 2017 / Columnist at Utah Standard News Who demands that Utah Voters Make Their Personal Information Public – Lots of People HB348 was originally designed to limit the distribution of the…
Published March 7, 2017 Filed under Under Our Dome, USN Columnists, Utah. Total of no comments in the discussion. Column: Utah House Barely Passes Bill Allowing Voters Who Fear for Their Safety and Security to Protect their Private Information Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen / March 7,, 2017 / Columnist at Utah Standard News Late…
Published March 1, 2018 Filed under Under Our Dome, USN Columnists. Total of no comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint All is not well in Zion – Legislature must establish a strong oversight committee By Ronald Mortensen / March 1, 2018 / Columnist at Utah Standard News The Utah state legislature has a responsibility to…
Published June 1, 2017 Filed under Commentary, Under Our Dome, USN Columnists, Utah. Total of no comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen / June 1, 2017 / Columnist at Utah Standard News As members of the Utah State Senate, Margaret Dayton and Diedre Henderson, candidates for the Republican nomination for U.S. House…
Published February 28, 2017 Filed under Under Our Dome, USN Columnists, Utah. Total of 1 comment in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen / Feb 10, 2017 / Columnist at Utah Standard News Utah State Legislators and Salt Lake City Police Chief Vow to Protect Illegal Alien Identity Thieves During a joint press conference,…
Published February 16, 2017 Filed under Under Our Dome, USN Columnists, Utah. Total of no comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen / Feb 15, 2017 / Columnist at Utah Standard News Key Points: – Proposed HB159 automatically registers anyone obtaining or renewing a Utah driver’s license to vote. The state then sells…
Published February 28, 2017 Filed under Under Our Dome, USN Columnists, Utah. Total of 1 comment in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen / Feb 10, 2017 / Columnist at Utah Standard News Utah State Legislators and Salt Lake City Police Chief Vow to Protect Illegal Alien Identity Thieves During a joint press conference,…
Published February 23, 2017 Filed under Under Our Dome, USN Columnists, Utah. Total of no comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen / Feb 10, 2017 / Columnist at Utah Standard News Utah State Representative Angela Romero defends illegal aliens’ ability to work in Utah During a House committee hearing on SJR2, a…
Published February 10, 2017 Filed under Commentary, Under Our Dome, USN Columnists, Utah. Total of no comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen / Feb 10, 2017 / Columnist at Utah Standard News State Representatives: Utah’s Millennials don’t know how to buy or use a postage stamp During a committee hearing on a…
Published February 10, 2017 Filed under Around The Web, Commentary, Immigration. Total of no comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen / Feb 9, 2017 / Columnist at Utah Standard News With a stroke of the pen, President Donald J. Trump has destroyed the carefully constructed myth of the noble, law abiding illegal…
Published January 18, 2017 Filed under Under Our Dome, USN Columnists, Utah. Total of no comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen / Jan 16, 2017 / Columnist at Utah Standard News Utah legislative reform: Encourage greater citizen participation This is the fifth, and at least for the time being, final in a…
Filed under Under Our Dome, USN Columnists, Utah. Total of 1 comment in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen / Dec 6, 2016 / Columnist at Utah Standard News The Masters of Utah’s Public Policy have launched a coordinated and well financed initiative to raise Utah’s personal income tax by 18% while leaving the…
Published December 1, 2016 Filed under Under Our Dome, USN Columnists, Utah. Total of 2 comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen, Nov 29, 2016, Columnist at Utah Standard News KEY POINTS: – UtahPolicy is part of an elite business group that is dedicated to maintaining its exceptional influence over public policy in…
Published November 15, 2016 Filed under Under Our Dome, USN Columnists, Utah. Total of no comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen, Nov 15, 2016, Columnist for Utah Standard News Images by Ronald Mortensen On November 10, 2016, following an hour of speeches, more than a thousand people took over State Street in…
Published November 7, 2016 Filed under Under Our Dome, USN Columnists. Total of no comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen, 11/7/2016, Columnist for Utah Standard News After serving the United States during a portion of six separate decades (military, diplomat, international humanitarian responses), I am very concerned that we are currently controlled…
Published November 2, 2016 Filed under Election – 2016 – Utah, Under Our Dome, USN Columnists, Utah. Total of no comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint by Ronald Mortensen, columnist for Utah Standard News 11/2/2016 On November 1, 2016, the Utah Republican Party held a rally at the Utah state capitol building. The theme of…
Published October 28, 2016 Filed under Local, Wash. County, Under Our Dome, USN Columnists, Utah. Total of no comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint Oct 26, 2016 by Ronald Mortensen – USN Columnist On October 19, Evan McMullin and his running-mate, Mindy Finn, courted Republican office holders on Utah’s Capitol Hill. He invited them to…
Published October 24, 2016 Filed under USN Columnists. Total of no comments in the discussion. Republish Reprint By Ronald Mortensen, Oct 24, 2016, Columnist for Utah Standard News The United States funds 22% of the United Nation’s regular budget, 28% of its peacekeeping budget and pours still billions more into UN humanitarian assistance programs, special…
By Ronald Mortensen, Oct 21, 2016, Columnist for Utah Standard News Reader Alert: This article contains adult content. “Rick Wilson is with us. Are you? It’s never too late to do the right thing,” reads the invitation to join the Evan McMullin-Mindy Finn campaign. “America deserves much better than either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton…
by Ronald Mortensen / Jan 11, 2017 / Columnist at Utah Standard News This is the third in a series of columns on Utah legislative reform proposals. It focuses on the duty of legislators to honor and uphold their oath of office. As required by Article 6 of the United States Constitution, “….the Members of…