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Guest opinion: How a Utah commissioner is protecting the Beehive State in DC

The late, great Orrin Hatch said that public service isn’t about holding power. It’s about speaking truth to power even when it’s hard. Fortunately, at least one of Utah’s current political leaders has adopted this mindset as her own governing philosophy and Beehive State residents are ...

Guest opinion: ‘Made in America’ should be ‘Mined in America’

Mineral supply chains are reshaping how we think about energy security. Supplies of lithium, graphite, copper, and rare earths—among many other essential metals—are already dictating the speed of energy technology deployment and creating new global centers of industrial strength. ...

Guest opinion: Dreading further restrictions of women’s rights under Trump

With the recent anniversary of the overturning Roe v. Wade, I was flooded with memories of the 2017 Women’s March. It was a momentous day and one of the largest protests ever. Nearly half a million people took to the streets of Washington, D.C., millions across the country, thousands here ...

Guest opinion: An unprecedented July should put democracy on high alert

Where to start when describing July? We could start with Independence Day — the day 54 brave individuals severed ties with a monarchy that ruled without their consent. How ironic that, 284 years later, almost to the day, the U.S. Supreme Court created a modern-day monarchy by ruling that ...