As Utah County healthcare providers, we see why the state's $75 million detention facility promises won't deliver the care patients need. In my orthopedic surgery practice, I regularly see patients whose medical recovery is derailed by housing instability. A patient discharged after hip ...
Utahans looking at the multiple rainbow colored redistricting maps currently before Judge Dianna Gibson in the litigation challenging the shapes of Utah’s four U. S. congressional districts could easily wonder if they were experiencing the sunspot afterimages one sees after looking at the ...
So, my husband, Dave, is a doctor, as in he has a PhD. I’m very proud of him, but he’s the wrong kind of doctor. He should have become an actual medical doctor. He says that he doesn’t like needles and blood. I say, “Fine. Be a physical therapist then,” because somehow, he just ...
As we search for solutions to homelessness we have to confront two tough questions. Is housing is a human right? Are the unhoused human enough to deserve it? Until we have answers, we need to talk about the importance of compassionate law enforcement to protect the dignity of Utah County. We ...
More than 1 in 10 Utahns relies on the Affordable Care Act marketplace for health coverage. For many of them, the cost will go up next year if Congress doesn’t extend particular tax credits. On Wednesday, a Democrat in the Utah Legislature and two in Congress urged Republicans in ...
A pedestrian was killed in a fatal train accident in Provo Thursday morning. A 35-year-old man was walking northbound on Freedom Boulevard and the 600 South railroad crossing at 10:15 a.m. when he went around lowered barriers and was struck by a Union Pacific freight train, according to Provo ...
