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 ...
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 ...
The great news is the Ashley National Forest has been saved from a "landscape scale" deforestation plan in which the Forest Service planned to bulldoze in skid trails to log and burn up to 147,000 acres (230 square miles!) of inventoried roadless areas. But when faced with the lawsuit brought ...
I have spent many years trying to understand why Utah has the high violence rates it does toward girls and women. Recently, yet another Utah woman emailed me about the intimate partner violence she has been enduring for over 12 years. But because she has never had cuts and bruises, she didn’t ...
Last week, I attended the America's Freedom Festival at Provo Grand Parade, where tents, sleeping bags and lawn chairs clogged Center Street and University Avenue. I was dismayed. Provo’s sidewalks teemed with thousands of proud Amercans dressed in red, white and blue; everywhere, stars and ...
"Sicario" is a 2015 adventure thriller that realistically depicts the violence and complexities of the drug war along the U.S.-Mexico border. Its 2018 sequel, "Sicario: Day of the Soldado," shows an escalation where drug cartels begin trafficking terrorists into the U.S. The third installment, ...
