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Guest opinion: Your community, your choice

Driving north on Washington Boulevard in Ogden, it’s hard to miss the iconic Ogden Arch. It has been there since 1936 announcing during the day, and lit up at night, “It Pays To Live In Ogden.” It was meant to convey that Ogden, at least on the Arch, was named “America’s Fastest ...

WSU guest opinion: The Real Tradwives of the West

Spend a few minutes online and you will find the “tradwife:” Bread on the counter, children in matching clothes, a husband just off-camera, and a nostalgic performance of domestic life. It is more romantic than historical. I just read Wallace Stegner’s “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” ...

Guest opinion: Celebrating teaching’s quiet successes at Weber State

Excellent teaching rarely announces itself in big, visible ways. It happens in intangible and often difficult-to-quantify moments of connection and “aha” in our classrooms and labs. It also happens in emails, in feedback and in the quiet back-and-forth in online spaces where encouragement ...

Guest opinion: The worst party game ever

My birthday is in April. I don’t know what, exactly, I’ll be doing to celebrate (other than opening a gigantic pile of presents I hope). But one thing that I will for sure NOT be doing is playing “The Game of Averages” from the February 1904 Cosmopolitan magazine, which bills this ...