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Unequal compulsion in education

Did you know that the State of Utah allows school districts to set their own graduation requirements? The state requires 24 class credits for a diploma, but it lets individual school boards require more. Alpine School District requires 28 credits. Students in that district must take additional ...

Real Estate Matters: Realtors as your watchdogs

<strong>Steve Vincent</strong> and his wife, <strong>Stephanie</strong>, have been helping folks with their real estate needs together for more than eight years.They have also been serving fellow Realtors, and it looks very promising that ...

Value Speak: Flying the friendly skies

<p class="p1">It isn’t that Sam is unsociable. It’s just that he’s . . . well . . . you know . . . an engineer.</p><p class="p1">Not the kind that drive trains. Those guys are social animals (who wouldn’t want to party with a guy who has one of ...

Heavenly intervention

It should come as no surprise that the BYU-Utah game ended Saturday night on a fluke — a failed field goal attempt in which the ball bounced off the uprights.I say it was no fluke. It was heavenly intervention.The timekeeper marked that final play at 11:58 p.m. Had the field goal succeeded, ...

Confused Muslims

What is the reflex that drives some Muslims to violently attack other people over an opinion? I don’t get it. I really don’t. In Egypt, Afghanistan, Libya, the Philippines and elsewhere, a sophomoric movie satire lampooning Muhammad is being used as a pretext to wreak havoc (or support it) ...

Fetching for a living

My brown mutt and I went for a walk recently on an old railroad grade at the edge of a ghost-town where we sometimes stroll. Buster Brown is a Lab mix, with an emphasis on the mix.Buster likes to visit the ghost-town in part because it still has one occupied house, and friends of mine live ...