Ancient alchemists searched for a way to turn lead into gold. Modern politicians offer plans to provide more and better government services for less money.
The latter of those might sometimes be possible, if our elected officials would be more willing to approach old problems in new ways. And if they don’t over-promise what can be done and how fast.
It is unlikely that anyone who was paying attention to the whole process was all that surprised when it came out that Utah’s new state prison, for which the ground was broken less than two years ago, is going to take more time, hold fewer prisoners and cost more money than what the leaders of the Legislature told us when they rushed through the sight selection process back in 2015.