One of the great iconic — and ironic — pop culture lines comes from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. That's when — after a prolonged lightsaber between hero Luke Skywalker and villain Darth Vader that includes Luke having his hand severed — Darth Vader (voiced by the incomparable ...
At its Worldwide Developers Conference last week, Apple previewed its biggest overhaul of parental controls since Screen Time launched in 2018. The new tools, arriving this fall with iOS 27, will let parents manage what their kids can see, who they can talk to and how long they can spend in ...
For most of the Utah retirees I work with, Medicare feels like the one part of retirement that finally runs itself. You enroll, the premium comes out of your Social Security check, and you stop thinking about it. It looks like smooth sailing. Then, one day, a letter arrives from Social Security ...
Just about anywhere you go in the United States, you'll see one of its most common symbols: The American flag. Iterations of the flag wave from flag poles in front of buildings, from stands on houses, honoring veterans at cemeteries and countless other locations. Images of it are used in ...
A couple of years ago, I found myself home alone one evening. My husband was out of town on business, and the tenants in our basement apartment had gone to visit family in Wyoming. It was just me. Around 7 p.m., I heard a knock at the door. Being all of 5-feet, 1-inch on a good day, and with ...
For the last couple of years, I have watched a lot of careful Utah savers feel like they finally beat the system. After more than a decade of earning next to nothing at the bank, their CDs and money market accounts were suddenly paying 4, even 5 percent. No stock-market white-knuckling, no ...
