Quite a fuss is being made by our legislators back in Washington DC about an issue of Funding for a water development project called the Central Utah Project. Amid all the spending that is going on in Washington they have decided to stop the federal funding for this project which is essential for further development of farmlands and the more suburban/urban Utah and Salt Lake County areas.

Additionally we discuss the proposed Utah Constitutional Amendment A which addresses the issue of Secret Ballots and seeks to institutionalize them through the amendment.

Listen In as we discuss these topics, how they relate to Utah, and you.

Many of the states proposed amendments to the Constitution at the same time they ratified it. How many amendments were suggested by the states – 10, 56, or 189?

Answer: 189 (Of course, a number of those amendments were duplicate proposals from different states. Others were trivial or were merely of local importance.)

As of 2010, how many amendments had been made to the Constitution?Answer: Twenty-seven (the last amendment was ratified in 1992)