Barry Bickmore's article explained fossil fuels' external costs are high and unfair. He asserted reducing fossil fuel use would save more just in reduced health expenses than it might cost in higher energy bills.Bickmore isn't alone. U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson ruled in a ...

I’m a student at Payson High, and I’ve noticed a lot of people think Salem Hills High is a better school than Payson, but is it really? If you think about it, we’re both in the same school district, we’re both getting the same education, and we both have the same types of people.So can ...

Obesity, what does that mean? It is the condition of being very fat or overweight. Being fat isn’t a problem, but people need to realize that being obese isn’t good for their health.You need to be happy with your body, but you don’t need to say someone is beautiful when they are morbidly ...

Students and alumni,I have some bad news for you. If you are attending a ball game, a concert, commencement exercises, or any other event that you have spent money on gas, food and lodging so you could attend that special occasion, rest assured the boot gang will not be where you are. They will ...

The Provo City School District is proposing a $108 million bond initiative for rebuilding five Provo schools. I am in favor of this initiative.I attend Timpanogos Elementary School which was rebuilt in 2008. Since it was rebuilt it is safer for fires, earthquakes, tornadoes and lockdowns. I ...

On Sept. 8, the Daily Herald published a curious essay by regular columnist Pamela Openshaw, entitled "Welfare system is today's slave trade in America."Part of what made it curious from the point of view of a historian of American slavery was the series of questionable assertions relative to ...