While many of us in the United States closely watch the trials and tribulations that our troops and residents of Iraq and Afghanistan face, it seems as if the Darfur crisis, entering its seventh year, is not much more than a footnote in history.

Utah is becoming a two-party state. Competition is good. Change is coming.

If you're in school because your parents are "making you," drop out. If you're here because you think it's necessary to have a college degree to succeed, drop out. If you're here because you don't have any better ideas, well8212;that was my situation, and luckily in my senior year I stumbled on a course that changed my life8212;maybe don't drop out.

Brown v. Board of Education desegregated schools in 1954, and a man passing laws for our entire state believes that was the wrong thing to do. That atrocious idea in its own right should be reason enough for Buttars to be ousted from office Tuesday.

The Chronicle endorses the following candidates and proposals for this year's election.

Internet will be, if it isn't already, as ubiquitous as roads or TV, and it would serve Utah well to make an investment in what is increasingly a necessity in today's world.

It's worrisome to think some viewers believe everything they hear. Getting one's news from a comedy show is like using Wikipedia as a legitimate source.

Searching for a Halloween costume this year has been a complete joke. Sadly, Halloween has morphed into the one night of the year women are expected to dress up as a "treat" for men's fantasies and look as if they're ready to pick up a "trick."

It is disconcerting that the district invested in a technology that is unproven in the marketplace, not to mention that the product can only be utilized by 0.002 percent of its student body, as the district's Web site reports servicing 68,075 students.

Man has agency to do as he pleases, but that doesn't equate to freedom. Laws indeed come with consequences, but the ordination of such does not impede upon one's agency.