It is now a tradition in the United States Congress that whenever the new national budget and the national debt limit come for approval, politics get mixed up with economics. In 2007-08, when the country faced high unemployment and low inflation, Tea party and other conservatives wanted to ...
Convocations are over and our graduates have taken their pictures — some with us, their professors, dressed in our medieval robes and funny hats. Grades have been turned in and the cyclical stillness that comes with the summer is descending on our Weber State University campus. My dear ...
Several decades ago, my youngest daughter, all of three years old, responded to my request that she clean up some toys she didn’t want to clean up by standing before me, hands on her hips, chin jutted out and eyes blazing as she defiantly told me, “You can’t make me!” The thought that ...
With America’s Constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and design. America’s Constitutional convention occurred in 1787, several years after the Revolutionary War. In addition to addressing the errors that long plagued ...
Lately the complex connection between people and nature has been on my mind, as another semester closes on the course I team-teach in Weber State University’s General Education program. The interdisciplinary course examines the cultural origins of attitudes toward nature and how those views ...
On April 10, the day before my birthday, my husband saw a handwritten sign at the gym: “Tomorrow, April 11th, has the fewest historical events on the calendar, making it officially the most boring day of the year.” Hmph! It’s always been a good day for me. I was the first grandchild on ...
