The pandemic confirmed the critical role that small businesses play in our daily lives. It sounds cliché, but locally owned small businesses truly are the heart and soul of our communities. The holiday shopping season is a crucial time for small retailers and restaurants that depend upon the ...
Two weeks after the funeral for Amerie Jo Garza, 10, the first of the Robb Elementary School students to be interred following the Uvalde mass shooting, I phoned the manager of my local Domino’s in Stamford, Conn., to inquire about a delivery job. Though I’ve never driven professionally ...
Editor's note: A previous version of this article was inadvertently attributed to the wrong author. The economist Arthur Okun described the redistribution of money through taxation as a “leaky bucket.” Some funds get lost in transit, some go to administrative costs and so on. Yet most ...
To quote the director of the local Provo Bicycle Collective, Kira Johnson, who has been cycling to work year-round since 2016, “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.” For most of us who rely on cars with four-wheel drive to get around in the snowy season, biking to ...
Former council member Sam Lentz, who lost re-election in 2019, made several inaccurate and misleading statements relating to the Orem Mayor and City Council. Listed are his statements and then the facts: “Cast aside working relationships with the District and neighboring communities, ...
With respect to forming an Orem-only school district, I was recently encouraged to “take a step into the dark” and support Proposition 2 upon which we will conclude voting today. That is, oddly, an appropriate way to describe the process pursued by proponents of this initiative. No effort ...
