About a month late, presumably due to last fall's government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025. It provides an interesting picture of what the country is, and is becoming, halfway through the ...

Let's take a minute to do a little thought exercise. For the next couple of minutes, try to step back from the emotions and fears and political views and focus on the people. Imagine being an agent for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (commonly referred to as ICE) today. I'll ...

Measles is a "cost of doing business," says a highly placed official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I'd like to know what business that is. To be fair, let me finish the CDC principal deputy director's quote. Ralph Abraham said that measles is a cost of doing business ...

Northern Utah has always been a land of contrasts: mountains and valleys, pioneers and tech bros, Cougars and Utes. But lately, the region has embraced a new identity: America’s premier climate-change laboratory, complete with a once great lake, vanishing snow, dust storms, forest fires, and ...

Alex Pretti, a legal gun owner exercising his Second Amendment rights in a state that allows open carry, was killed by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. After trying to help a woman pepper-sprayed and physically assaulted by masked agents, six or seven Border Patrol agents tackled the ICU ...

They want to live in a house made out of wood and concrete and stone with gypsum wallboard and nice windows. They want central air and heating – keeping the temperature about 70 or72 degrees year around. They want lights in the house and lots of lights the surrounding areas for safety. They ...