Here we go again. Another government agency made the decision to let the forest burn, during the hottest and driest part of the year “to see what would happen.” This time the fire on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon took the historic lodge plus around 80 other structures. We see this same ...
Whenever I see the 7-foot bronze likeness of Brigham Young standing resolute on the lawn of Provo City Library at Academy Square, I’m reminded that the answer to Utah’s homeless crisis isn’t as complicated as we might think. Over the past three years in my advocacy for the unhoused, ...
The Utah County Republican Party (UCRP) is endorsing candidates in nonpartisan elections for mayor, city council, and school board offices. In a recent Daily Herald opinion piece, Utah State Senator Mike McKell (June 18, 2025) expressed concern that the endorsement process requires, in his ...
When the minimum wage does not go up, it goes down in buying power. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009. For full-time workers that amounts to $15,080 if you are paid for 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. The minimum wage is falling further and further ...
What is it about living creatures that we can never be content with comfort? After all, we spend all of our lives searching for it. But give a person half a chance and you’ll find them struggling on a rock face with every muscle aching in their designer climbing wear. Even animals are not ...
There is that old adage that “life imitates art”. Or is it “art imitates life”? In 1987 Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd starred in the movie “Dragnet”, a spoof of sorts on the 1960s television series. Aykroyd’s character plays the nephew of Joe Friday, the straight-laced, all-business ...
