If you’ve been to the Salt Lake International Airport at any time in the last 12 months, you know.The airport’s current space is bursting at the seams with more travelers and more Utahns and it makes for a pretty chaotic, unpleasant experience.It seems odd that Utah’s current airport ...
The old cliche goes, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” This week, we feel we’ve been fooled more than once by Richard Brunst, and shame on him for doing so.A week ago today, Orem’s mayor, Richard Brunst, was cleared of criminal intent of misuse of retirement ...
Imagine the feelings of horror and helplessness you would suffer if you learned family members had been injured, perhaps even killed, in an accident thousands of miles away.Now think how much your anxiety would be alleviated — eliminating it would be impossible, of course — if you knew ...
<h2>UVU students host Global Climate Strike on campus as part of worldwide effort (Sept. 20)</h2>Spend one Saturday a month planting trees, it will do more good. Millions of students all over the world planting trees and lowering the co2 levels by planting the very ...
Thousands of people across the world came out on Friday to protest world governments failing to act quickly enough in response to climate change.According to Associated Press, “Scientists have warned that global warming will subject Earth to rising seas and more heat waves, droughts, powerful ...
Considering all of the chaos, doom and gloom that we editors are assaulted with daily as we read reporters’ articles and the news at large, like a lot of our readers, we love a chance to read a story that just makes us feel good.We had such an opportunity this week thanks to Braley Dodson’s ...
Lehi city recently created a sustainability committee with the hope to raise environmental awareness in the community — a move we applaud emphatically.We especially applaud committee chairman Stevel Roll’s comment that, “The challenge is depoliticizing it, and making it a stewardship ...
A study released this past week weighed in on the current media landscape in the country, shedding light on the makeup of media in Utah today.The study conducted by a team with the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media &amp; Democracy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy ...
Let’s talk about the s-word.It’s a conversation many in Utah don’t want to have, as evidenced by the recent fervor across the Beehive State, but we need to have the sex talk.Because clearly, someone isn’t having it, and because of this, STDs have been on the rise year-over-year since ...
While Utah led the way in the late 19th century for women’s participation in government and communities, that has not always continued through the past 100 years.This week, new data was released on women’s participation in voter turnout. According to a study from Utah Valley University, ...
