Orem City Recorder Donna Weaver is on the hot seat. It will be up to her to decide whether or not to certify a voter drive that would put the city’s recently passed 25 percent tax increase on hold.In Utah, voters can nullify any law passed by an elected body — including a tax increase — ...

<p class="p1">My reasons for joining the junior high band can be summarized in one word: Ringo.</p><p class="p1">Ringo Starr, the Beatles drummer, was cool. He looked cool. He talked cool. He played the drums cool. And since few things in the world are ...

<strong>Editor's mail bag</strong>A Provo resident wrote to Mayor John Curtis last week and sent a copy to me:<em>"Dear Mayor Curtis: Being a long-term Provo citizen, I feel privileged living where there is order and ...

So I took my 24-year-old son to lunch at Joe Vera's Mexican Restaurant on Monday. At Joe Vera's you have to pay at the cash register on your way out -- a habit I've never mastered. Most restaurants take your money at the table and bring you the change.Anyway, with a 24-year-old, you're bound to ...

<p class="p1">I don’t remember why I finally decided to watch “Pride & Prejudice” on TV.</p><p class="p1">It certainly wasn’t because I liked the Jane Austen novel. I confess, I’ve never read it. In eighth grade literature we had a ...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/75696025@N03/7793151256/in/photostream/lightbox/"><img style="float: left; padding-right: 8px;" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8439/7793151256_f1db3fc04d_m.jpg" alt="Pig" width="300" /></a>Last week the Utah ...