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Letter: COVID concerns come home from school

I have been sick with worry since sending my kids back to school last week. My kids are worried, too. My family should be worried; here in Utah County, COVID-19 prevention guidance has been reduced to a mere suggestion. Students who test positive for Covid and those who came into contact with ...

Letter: The president is not a dictator

The president does not have the authority to mandate vaccinations or to mandate businesses to require them. That is dictatorial and must not be allowed. There is no such thing as a COVID "Delta variant." People started going to the hospitals with symptoms that were different from COVID right ...

Letter: Let’s revise an article of faith 

In Utah, many folks frequently repeat an article of faith that reads, “We believe in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.” This policy undoubtedly reflects the true sentiments of LDS believers. This particular article of faith also suggests that early LDS leaders were desirous of ...

Goodness Guru: When your grandchildren leave home

Many of us have been in this situation; the moment you realize your oldest child has really left the nest. You know it the second it really hits you that you now have more room in your home, fewer schedules to organize, less food to have to purchase, fewer loads of laundry to fold. It’s a ...

Shinkoskey: The story of democracy

The recently re-aired PBS presentation "Nature to Nations" retells the story of North American democracy. It moves the birthplace of American democracy from Philadelphia at the Constitutional Convention to a meeting of native tribes near Syracuse, New York, several hundred years earlier. The ...