The pandemic confirmed the essential role that small businesses play in our daily lives. Locally owned small businesses truly are the heart and soul of our cities and towns. The holiday shopping season is a crucial time for small retailers and restaurants that depend upon the boost in sales ...
Many of the founding fathers were originally quite skeptical of establishing a Bill of Rights. They were concerned that enumerating certain rights would lead to removing protections for those self-evident natural rights that could be left out of such an enumeration. James Madison was one of ...
The Interim Education Committee 2023 of the Utah State Legislature discussed three bills in its Nov. 15 meeting that, at first glance, seem laudable. Who would object to removing pornographic materials from public schools? Shouldn’t teachers maintain neutrality regarding socially divisive ...
On Nov. 12, the acting president of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, M. Russell Ballard, passed away at the age of 95. He had been suffering from various respiratory challenges and declining vision, the latter of which he noted in his most recent general conference talk when he ...
Education is changing. That simple statement can make people on the left and right nervous. The rise of microschools and the increase in homeschooling are leading factors for their anxiety. Kerry McDonald pointed this out in her recent article: “There can be a strong desire, especially ...
What did you believe when you were young that you later learned was false? I used to believe in Santa Claus. But a more profound example of something I no longer believe, that pervasively lasts through many adulthoods in Western civilization, is the Judaic Old Testament’s “chosen race” ...
