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4 days ago | 
standard.net | Leah Murray
By Leah Murray - | Jun 4, 2025 Photo supplied, Weber State UniversityLeah Murray Last month, my daughter graduated from DaVinci Academy of Science and the Arts. This is a big deal in a person’s life, sitting in the audience while your child’s name is called to walk across the stage. People have asked me how I feel about it.
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2 months ago | 
standard.net | Leah Murray
By Leah Murray - | Apr 2, 2025 Photo supplied, Weber State UniversityLeah Murray The legislature has dropped the gavel on the 2025 session, having passed 582 bills. Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed six bills, meaning 576 pieces of legislation added thousands of pages of code that Utah’s public servants must implement.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
standard.net | Leah Murray
By Leah Murray - | Mar 5, 2025 Photo supplied, Weber State UniversityLeah Murray My mother passed away on December 23, suddenly and unexpectedly. She and I had a complicated relationship and would go months without speaking.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
standard.net | Leah Murray
Photo supplied, Weber State UniversityLeah Murray In January, my husband took dozens of students to the Sundance Film Festival, which he’s been doing for over a decade. When he started teaching, he worked hard to make it possible for kids to attend the festival, and this year, he was one of 13 teachers whom festival organizers recognized for bringing students for the past 10-15 years.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
standard.net | Leah Murray
One memory came to mind as I chatted with family. I came home from college 30 years ago with all sorts of opinions based on new knowledge. I sat at my grandfather’s table and told him how cool I thought Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin was.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
standard.net | Leah Murray
Leah Murray, a Weber State University political science professor, took on duties in July 2020 as academic director of the Olene Walker Institute of Politics and Public Service. Last week was Thanksgiving, and I have so much to be grateful for. It was such a lovely day, sitting at my grandparents’ table, eating the food I’d prepared and then served on my grandmother’s Haviland china, remembering them.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
standard.net | Leah Murray
Photo supplied, Weber State UniversityLeah Murray Some will tell you that Kamala Harris lost because she’s a woman — and, as a woman, when I’m really feeling my feelings, I think that too. Some will tell you she lost because of Latino men going for Trump and somehow they don’t know what’s best for them, but that’s arrogant because Latino men get to decide what’s best for them.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
dividedwefall.org | Leah Murray |Jeff Jacoby
Do Politically Disengaged Voters Still Have a Civic Responsibility to Vote? By Leah Murray Director, Institute of Politics & Public Service at Weber State University, and Jeff Jacoby, Op-Ed Columnist, The Boston GlobeBy Leah Murray – Director, Institute of Politics & Public Service at Weber State University Perhaps one of the most pervasive myths in American politics is that a voter should vote because it matters to them personally.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
standard.net | Leah Murray
Photo supplied, Weber State UniversityLeah Murray We are in the month when ballots start arriving in mailboxes for voters in Utah. As of the printing of this essay, there are 34 days until Election Day. If you are an eligible voter in the state of Utah, you have a role to play in keeping this republic. If you have not thought about it yet, today is the day to get ready. First, you need to register to vote.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
standard.net | Leah Murray
Photo supplied, Weber State UniversityLeah Murray
In an American Enterprise Institute survey released in May, 71% of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said, “Neither party represents my views anymore.” This is a large number of people who find themselves politically homeless. Members of the church generally are Republican.
