We are witnessing in political thinking and actions at all levels of governments, and among the median voter, that there is an increasing aversion against social spending to assist the poor or those at the lower end of the income distribution. This is even though it is well known that income ...
In the early 2010s, a group of us in Utah's underground music scene came together to transform a backyard into an amphitheater. We brought together all the things we loved most — tasty food, good music and each other. We called it Grillfest — a cheeky name for what was really just a family ...
On Utah’s Capitol Hill, I’m often among the youngest in conversations with our legislators. As a Zillennial — born between millennials and Gen Z — I’m part of a microgeneration that grew up fast, graduated college in uncertain times, and is now navigating adulthood in a culture that ...
Today’s college graduates face a startling reality. Many of the jobs they were hoping for are rapidly disappearing because of artificial intelligence. As Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” fame recently observed, “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code. Well, AI is coming for ...
Recently, I visited the Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg, New York. It sits just a few blocks from the hospital where I was born. Both overlook the blue waters of the huge St. Lawrence River, which drains the Great Lakes. The international border with Canada is somewhere midstream, ...
What is it about living creatures that we can never be content with comfort? After all, we spend all of our lives searching for it. But give a person half a chance and you’ll find them struggling on a rock face with every muscle aching in their designer climbing wear. Even animals are not ...
