A local businessman took issue with last week’s column encouraging Jordan School District to consider a small property tax hike rather than fire 500 employees (250 teachers), and significantly incr...

The 2010 Utah legislative session is about to end and I’m sure that nobody is looking forward to the close of this year’s 45 day session more than the 104 members of the Utah State House and Senate...

A study in 2009 estimated that a whopping 45 percent of all Americans participate in an NCAA “March Madness” pool. In fact, that number suggests that more of us go bracket-crazy in March than actu...

It was the Most Important Day of second grade, and Sarah was ready. And why not? She had been looking forward to this moment since . . . well, since the Most Important Day of first grade. But no...

Recently I had done a few articles about the Gateway 8 movie theater being closed in order to be revamped into a better, more “customer friendly” theater. The comments that were left by some of ou...

Next Tuesday evening on March 23, 2010, a small group of your neighbors are going to get together and make decisions about a lot of issues that will affect your life for years to come. Everyone is ...

I looked out of the window of my car before entering a local store and was so very grateful for my car. In my case my car has a ramp that comes out of the side of the car when I push a button. W...

Alzheimer’s is an insidious disease. Those suffering are totally aware at the beginning that they are heading down a frightening path. Even at the height, they realize “something is wrong.” Those...

You would think that after three decades of being in the media, there would be few surprises concerning audience response. With that said, we are somewhat dismayed over a couple of surprises we re...

When I want to practice humility, all I have to do is use a doohickey in public. It’s a well-known and well-observed fact that my mechanical aptitude obviously drowned in the family gene pool som...