Orem is largely a community of wonderful, cooperative people and is generally a community of willing volunteers and peacemakers. On the other hand, in the nation and world, there is often a perception that contention is synonymous with power and politics. It is easy to get sucked into that ...
While the American health care system is far from perfect, moving toward socialized medicine would be a step backward for patients. While Congress works to find bipartisan consensus on lowering the cost of insulin and other medicines, self-proclaimed democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders ...
There is a housing crisis in rural America, including in our community, and the federal response needs to be up to the task. Of the 25 million units in rural and small communities, more than 5%, or 1.5 million, of these homes are considered either moderately or severely substandard; more ...
Proponents of the ongoing push for national industrial policy, whether they come from the left or the right, frequently argue that we need to promote certain sectors or technologies to create a manufacturing boom. This boom, we're told, is necessary to create more high-paying jobs. But I beg to ...
Politicians have big plans for us. President Joe Biden repeatedly says, "I have a plan for that." "I alone can fix it," shouted President Donald Trump. But most of life, and the best of life, happens when politicians butt out and let us make our own choices. Chinese philosopher Zhuang Zhou ...
It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the “Community News & Small Business Support Act,” that has been introduced in Congress would offer relief to both newspapers and local businesses. For too many newspapers, ...
