This is the fourth and final guest opinion in a series I’ve been writing to share key findings of a comprehensive 2023 study called The Girls’ Index. The first focused on confidence and social media, the second on stress and well-being and the third on school. The final topic is ...
Point of view: You’re driving up a canyon, headed to the home of a wealthy classmate for your first garden party in law school. The canyon is steep and windy, and you’ve lost cell service, so when what looks like a massive mansion pulls into view, you’re more than a little relieved to ...
As someone who was born and raised in Utah, I know the spirit of our state: hard-working, forward-thinking and deeply committed to doing right by our communities — including our pet companions. Utah's journey to becoming a no-kill state is a perfect example of how grit, compassion and ...
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 ...
