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Guest opinion: Legislative reform suggestions for Utah

It is my experience that offering solutions goes much further than simply complaining. Offered solutions, if nothing else, can help the creative juices flow so that great solutions can be imagined and implemented. With that spirit in mind, these are broad strokes of my thoughts in three areas ...

Guest opinion: Mass killings – A historically constant human tragedy

A few weeks ago, UtahPolicy.com published a piece I had written that was a short and relatively straightforward defense of thoughts and prayers in the wake of tragedy. Unfortunately, many people on social media and beyond took it as an insensitive swipe at those who point out that after ...

Guest opinion: We need to reassess our opinions on addiction and recovery

I screamed in my car for what seemed like five minutes after the phone call came. My son’s fiancée's name flashed across the screen when I answered my cell somewhere near Payette, Idaho, on Interstate 84. I wondered why she was calling at 7:30 a.m. When I answered, her voice was barely ...

Guest opinion: Why regulating AI is a losing battle

If artificial intelligence could be regulated with export bans, we’d have nothing to worry about — but that’s wishful thinking. The recent reports of China circumventing U.S. restrictions on AI technology through smuggling networks and front companies highlights a fundamental flaw in ...

Guest opinion: America’s nuclear ‘downwinders’ deserve justice

It’s been nearly 80 years since the first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico. Communities have been reeling ever since. For generations, Americans who live “downwind” of nuclear testing and development sites have suffered deadly health complications. And this summer, funding for the ...