As you may have heard, former Republican Attorneys General John Swallow and Mark Shurtleff were arrested on numerous felony charges Tuesday morning. One of the charges in particular should be egregious to the average Utahn—that Shurtleff took campaign contributions rather than protecting…
Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably know that on Sunday two important and related events happened within the LDS Church. The first is that the founder and leader of the Ordain Woman movement, Kate Kelly, was facing a…
On Wednesday, Utah lawmakers on the Health and Human Services interim committee discussed the fate of e-cigarettes, which are battery-powered tubes that heat liquid nicotine into an inhalable vapor (rather than tobacco smoke) and are meant to simulate the taste…
The plight of Pioneer Park is familiar to many residents in Salt Lake County. The park is well known and enjoyed as the home of the Salt Lake Farmers Market and the Twilight Concert Series during the long summer days,…
As I sit down to write about my experience involving the Ordain Women Movement on Temple Square, I want to stress that this is only a collection of my thoughts and experiences. I am speaking only for myself, I have no…
In keeping with Salt Lake’s continuing expansion into the modern mindset that everything old is new again, last Thursday the Downtown City Creek Harmon’s played host to the latest findings on a study looking at a proposed downtown streetcar line…
***Note: this bill has been substituted, this analysis may no longer be valid*** It’s a routine sight in Utah’s state and national parks to come across vandalism, both spray painted graffiti on man-made structures and initials or drawings carved into…
If you happened to be watching live, last Wednesday’s meeting of the Joint Health and Human Services Interim Committee could have been misinterpreted as a brilliant piece of satire by the legislature highlighting government inaction. However, the hearing was a…
