Charles F. Trentelman

OGDEN — The OUTreach Resource Center for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender youth will hold a community forum tonight to encourage discussion on marriage equality, including same-sex marriage.

Utah’s lawmakers have the amazing ability to completely forget their own positions on major issues, to the point that they can contradict themselves without cracking a smile.

OGDEN — Here’s a thought to cheer you up after all the shoveling you’ve done this week, with more probably to come:

While all the snow that people along the Wasatch Front have shoveled is very real, it is snow that doesn’t run into mountain reservoirs in the spring, so it only counts minimally for water supply.

The amount of water in the mountain snow, all that stuff you think has to be piling up and will probably flood us out in June, is only at 78 percent of normal.

The guy wandering JC Penney a week ago with an assault rifle slung over his back has been pretty well beat up by now.

OGDEN — OUTreach Resource Center is sponsoring a community forum Tuesday to promote awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender homeless young people in Northern Utah.

NORTH OGDEN — Reports by students of a man with a gun resulted in a brief lockdown at North Ogden Elementary School Friday afternoon, but police said the reports proved to be unfounded.

A few random thoughts about guns, and then I leave it up to Congress: