At the Salt Lake Chamber Blog, David Jordan says: "In his State of the State address, Governor Gary Herbert called on the Legislature to hold education harmless from further budget cuts. That challenge presents the Legislature with some difficult and critical choices. Without increasing user fees on tobacco or motor fuel, and barring significantly improved revenue projections, something has to be cut. Should legislators make across-the-board cuts to the entire state budget or should they fund education at the expense of other programs and projects? The right answer is to follow the governor's charge to fund education." (For more on the Legislature, see The Senate Site, Utah Senate Democrats, Salt Lake Crawler, Out of Context, Under The Dome, Sausage Grinder, Utah Legislature Watch, Steve Urquhart, Political Notebook, and UAC Blog.)
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