<p class="p1"> I was walking into the office yesterday, minding my own business, when all of a sudden I turned the corner and there it was, sitting on my chair.</p><p class="p1">Waiting. Lingering. Lurking.</p><p ...

Too bad so many Utahns stuck their heads in the sand in 2007 during the debate over school vouchers. New data from a study by Harvard University and the Brookings Institution released Wednesday conclusively show that school choice makes a huge, positive difference. Legislators take notice.The ...

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 ...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/75696025@N03/7741136112/in/photostream/lightbox/"><img style="float: left; padding-right: 8px;" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8305/7741136112_918a5269c4_m.jpg" alt="RenoMahe" width="200" /></a>Oh, Reno, Reno, ...

A new music video, released Tuesday night, might make you feel like you have a knife twisting in your gut. But what the heck. See if you can figure out who's behind it, because once you do it's pretty funny (I'm not telling). The country music will sound familiar to ...