Veteran Utah journalist Rod Decker recently published a book titled “Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room.” The book should be required reading for every Utah legislator, every Utah politician, every student of Utah history or politics, and every Utah journalist.
This does not mean simply carrying the book around and pretending to read it but actually reading the words and thinking about the numbers.
Two reasonable conclusions from reading the book are (1) that Utah is a good place to live and raise families, but (2) that the state has become less so in both categories over the past 30 years.