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Local Guest Opinions

Letter: Biden’s State of the ‘Onion’ speech 

There was plenty of soupy patriotism in both the President’s speech and Republican Governor Kim Reynolds' response, but plenty of Mardi Gras voodoo also. Biden said there will be “no foreign-made products” used on new federal infrastructure projects. He added, “all of it” will be ...

Guest opinion: I don’t like anybody very much

I have been hearing the moans and groans about 2020 and 2021. About the end of the world and how different it is from other times in history and suddenly the lyrics from the Merry Minuet were running through my mind. It was a song sung by the Kingston Trio in 1959 — over 60 years ...

Guest opinion: The most important weapon we can give our children

While Putin is invading Ukraine, 8,000-plus Utah high school students are being shown that Marxism really isn’t all that bad. The Springville Museum of Art’s (SMOA) permanent exhibit, “Soviet Stories – Layers of Reality” has, for years, displayed enticing Soviet propaganda as art. As ...

Guest opinion: Relaunching your careers as Utah women

Career paths for women tend to look a little different than career paths for men. Sometimes we don’t start a career before marriage and children. Sometimes we take an exit to start a family, or we merge into the slow lane while kids are young. And COVID-19 put many of us on a different route ...