School is getting underway and this can be both exciting and anxiety-inducing, for both students and parents. As children and teens start another school year, here are some ways for parents to encourage mental health wellness and practices that could help. Suicide Prevention Ask to make ...
‘Twas the night before carpet, and all through the house Not a creature was stirring except one very confused cat. While Pa with his backache, And I with my head, had just settled down On a strange makeshift bed. We’d decided to carpet all of our floors, Inside the ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth views warfare through the lens of a cartoonish Macho Man, claiming that military members “are not defenders anymore”; they are “warriors, trained to kill the enemy and break their will.” Directing the war in Iran, he ordered, ”No quarter, no mercy for ...
Those of you of a certain vintage — who, like me, are close to being fitted for coffins — must be applauding the re-appearance on TV (the INSP channel) of Have Gun - Will Travel (for some reason with a hyphen, not a dash or a comma; let’s call it HGWT). That extraordinarily popular show ...
The Trump Administration 2.0 will be famous for a lot of things. And one of them is the number of “national emergencies” the President has declared. To give you all a short history of the national emergency declaration, the first one was issued by President Woodrow Wilson in February ...
In the coming days, children across Utah County will return to school. Backpacks will be filled, classrooms will come alive and families will once again settle into the familiar routines of early mornings, homework and after-school activities. The beginning of a new school year is filled ...
The Daughters of the American Revolution has found itself at the center of a national political debate after Rep. Ben Cline introduced legislation that would amend the Society’s federal charter to prescribe membership eligibility. Senator Marsha Blackburn has since announced companion ...
Should families suffer because their child’s healthcare needs require specialists far away? Primary Children’s Hospital is the only full-service pediatric facility in the area. There is now a second location in Lehi, but we need more facilities to support children’s healthcare ...
My favorite YouTube couple, Penn and Kim Holderness made a cute little video about what their middle age marriage vows might look like. It made me think of what our own vows would look like after 37 years of marriage. I’m biased of course, but I think this is what true love looks like. Dave: ...
Utah's 0.05 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) law appears to be doing exactly what lawmakers hoped it would do. Research increasingly suggests it has reduced alcohol-related traffic deaths while encouraging more people to make safer decisions before getting behind the wheel. That's something ...
