Make education our top priority - Provide our children with a first rate education
- Support teachers with mentoring, training opportunities, and adequate compensation
- Reduce class size
- Increase higher education funding to meet student needs
- With utah's premier economy -- we can do better -- we must do better
Support and strengthen Utah families- Put children first
- I am concerned about the future of my 11 grandchildren in Orem and all of the children of Utah.
- We need to do a better job of supporting families with improvements in education, healthcare, and a clean, safe and livable environment.
| | Quality healthcare for Utah's children - Over 300,000 Utahns are uninsured
- 90,000 of those are children
- Many business owners report that rising health care costs are their biggest challenge
- We can no longer postpone action on healthcare
Enact ethics reform in the Legislature- Lobbyists reported gifts of $250,000 to legislators in 2007
- Utah has the "Best legislature that money can buy" according to the Deseret News
- Legislators need to represent their constituents, not special interests
Speed up progress on mass transit- Reduce air pollution; 50% of pollution in Utah County comes from car emissions
- Ease road congestion with commuter rail & bus rapid transit
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