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Guest op-ed: Don’t pave Utah Lake?

You may have wondered about some recent signs in Utah County that say “Don’t Pave Utah Lake.” Nobody is proposing to pave all of the Lake, but developers calling themselves “Lake Restoration Solutions” are proposing to dredge up lake-bottom silt to build islands that would cover a ...

Guest: Time to make right by Northern Utah Downwinders

January 27, which marks the anniversary of the first nuclear bomb detonation at the Nevada Test Site, has been designated by the U.S. Congress as National Day of Remembrance for Downwinders, the many people who worked and lived downwind of the test site and were exposed to lethal levels of ...

Guest op-ed: Dubai islands in Utah Lake — a dubious project

By now, you’ve probably heard that a company is proposing to build islands in Utah Lake — like those offshore from Dubai. Utah Lake is not the Persian Gulf, but I decided to explore how the Dubai Islands are doing. This might be good to know before we allow someone to mess in a significant ...

Guest op-ed: Polls and political astrology

Ever since 2016, there’s been a lot of talk about how much and how often polls seem to be getting things wrong. At the same time, both sides of the political divide zero in on the results of certain polls that cater to their belief that the majority of Americans are on their side. But ...