Happy Labor Day and congratulations! As a Utahn, you can celebrate the fact that you live in one of the 27 "right-to-work" states across the nation that are home to a majority of America’s working people. You might not know it from right-to-work opponents’ rhetorical posturing, but ...
In the next three months, 12 Utahns who are joining the Peace Corps will each ship off to spend two years at a site in a country that has requested Americans to live and work among them. I envy their coming adventures and experiences in learning new languages, cultures, foods, geographical ...
A major part of what propelled Utah to the top spot in this year’s U.S. News & World Report "Best States" rankings was our economic and fiscal stability. Underlying this important distinction is what some are calling the “Utah family miracle” — the concept that strong, stable ...
Over the winter, California saw record levels of flooding. Parts of the state received up to 3 feet of rain over the course of three weeks. Cumulative snowfall for the state has been nearly triple the normal levels. In Northern California, the Ocean Ridge Airport recently transformed into a ...
Public schools are a shipwreck, and it may be time to save ourselves. “We shipwrecked in 2020, but it was already a leaky boat,” John Arthur said during a panel on learning loss at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute in Salt Lake City. It’s a good metaphor. Public schools were ...
While the American health care system is far from perfect, moving toward socialized medicine would be a step backward for patients. While Congress works to find bipartisan consensus on lowering the cost of insulin and other medicines, self-proclaimed democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders ...
