Here are just a few recent citations:

Places Rated Almanac (6th Edition)
Ranked Salt Lake City/Ogden area as the best place to live in North America.

Entrepreneur Magazine
Named Salt Lake/Ogden area as the second best large city in which to locate a business.

Yahoo! Magazine
Salt Lake named one of the top 25 "Wired Cities" in America.

Fortune Magazine
Listed Salt Lake third in its rankings of best cities in America for business.

Financial World
Rated Utah the best fiscally-managed state in the nation.

Western Blue Chip Economic Forecast and American Demographics
Refer to Utah as "one of the top three economies in the nation."

Newswatch
Cited Salt Lake City as the number on city with the best environment for business.

Adweek Magazine
Identified SLC as "poised to become a city of the future."

Morgan Quinto Press
Named Utah as the fourth most livable state in the nation.