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The EPA's not perfect, but it has a purpose

The EPA’s not perfect, but it has a purpose

February 16, 2017

It might have been forgotten in the midst of the travel ban and all the other things going on, but the gag orders put on the EPA and the USDA are still significant. Barred from talking about environmental...

Football is Not the Most Important Thing in the World

Football is Not the Most Important Thing in the World

February 15, 2017

There's certain satisfaction gained from watching other people exercise while you eat junk food. This is basically what sporting events have become. America doesn't really need another reason to eat unhealthily....

Activists meet at the Reproductive Freedom Forum in the Glendale Library in Salt Lake City, Utah on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (Rishi Deka, Daily Utah Chronicle)

The Battle for Women’s Health Rights Isn’t Over

February 15, 2017

For a long time women’s health, and health in general, hasn’t been given the educated attention it deserves. Lately, there’s been a newfound understanding and recognition of things we now consider...

Combatting Mental Health Stigma

Combatting Mental Health Stigma

By Bailey Shelden, Opinion Writer | February 10, 2017

I was a freshman in high school when my depression started. I kept it to myself and tried alone to make it through each day. It would be another two years before I had any professional help in dealing...

Utah's Psychotic Obsession with Alcohol

Utah’s Psychotic Obsession with Alcohol

February 7, 2017

The Zion Curtain is about to fall! Rejoice! And then I whisper under my breath, “What the hell’s the Zion Curtain?” I had no clue what it meant before yesterday and now that I do know I’m not...

Government Should Fund Defenses Against Ransomware

Government Should Fund Defenses Against Ransomware

February 1, 2017

When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, he pledged to modernize the health care system, with significant investments to digitize patient records. Following the Great Recession, the Obama administration...

The Antibacterial Apocalypse

The Antibacterial Apocalypse

January 26, 2017

Antibacterial soaps have been widely used since the 70s, but it wasn't until recently that their drawbacks were taken seriously. A couple years ago the FDA announced that manufacturers had to prove that...

H2H: Should Fathers Have a say in Abortion Issues?

January 23, 2017

Women Carry the Child and the Choice Dalton Edwards Women’s reproductive rights have, throughout recorded history and without cessation, concerned men in roles of power. It seems every four years...