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It hasn’t been business as usual at the Sutherland Institute in hopes of upending politics as usual in Utah.

In three years on the job, President Paul T. Mero has almost completely turned over the staff and the boards of trustees and scholars at the conservative, free-market think tank. And in ridding Sutherland of its stubborn ideologues, he has brought a new ethic to the obscure organization.

Deseret News

by Michael Owen, September 11, 2003, The City Weekly.

The tenants of Independence Square, a colonial-style office building in a quiet Sandy neighborhood not far from State Street, include a doctor’s office, an investment firm, and a conservative think tank called The Sutherland Institute. A Utah-based nonprofit concerned with influencing public policy, Sutherland churns through the social issues of the day, assessing the issues of poverty, education, and the family—especially the family, which Institute President Paul T. Mero calls “the fundamental unit of society.” read more