A few weeks ago there was a group of people here at the U collecting signatures to change Utah’s primary election system. They got enough signatures and the bill was forced into the State Legislature....
Flowers blossoming, the sun shining earlier, longer and more intensely, birds chirping in the trees around you — summer is drawing near. The warmer it becomes and the sooner summer arrives, the more...
A group of eight United States peace activists took a brave stand for our constitutional rights 43 years ago this month. They exposed J. Edgar Hoover’s destructive and unconstitutional FBI agenda, which...
Within the past few months, progression, regression and stagnation occurred within Utah’s LGBT community, as marriage equality was legalized and then put on stay. SB 100, seeking to amend the state’s...
The worst of the winter inversion is behind us, leaving another year to look for more solutions to this issue. Gov. Gary Herbert tried to ease air quality complaints by announcing a gradual change to cleaner...
Contrary to what you might have read, the world is not teetering on the brink of World War III. The actions of the Obama administration have not destroyed America’s standing in the world, and we have...
If you are reading this article it means at least two things: you are somewhat literate, for which I congratulate you, and classes have resumed, about which I share your pain and sorrow. It also means...
It is far from often that I fête the actions of the Utah Republican Party. Even rarer is when the action worth lauding is inaction to avoid affecting the outcome of the state’s egregious lawsuit to...
I love science fiction, and I love the science that every day sounds more and more like it came straight out of fiction. While I like the utopian dreams of society that we read about in literature and...
The fate of Arizona’s SB 1062 — a bill meant to extend the freedom to practice religion into the realm of discrimination — has been sealed. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, in an exciting turn of events,...
