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Letter: Concern about toxic manhood

It has finally caught up with us. The 50% divorce rate has ruined our young men, being raised without fathers at home. Young men are anxious, obese and without direction and depressed. They have 4 times the suicide rate, 3 times the drug addiction rate, 12 times the arrested rate compared to ...

Letter: Creating a trails system

Ogden City and volunteers created the Ogden Trails Network in the mid 1980s. We knew the obstacles we faced including camping, trash, hobo camps with stolen electricity, hunting, vehicles and the coming of golf and mountain bikes. We were faced with private, city, county, university, and ...

Guest opinion: History has vindicated anti-imperialists

With the US contemplating increased violence against Venezuela it's well to review the history of US imperialism in the last 80 years. History has certainly vindicated the critics of US involvement in Vietnam. After World War II, the US bolstered the efforts of French imperialists to dominate ...

Guest opinion: The Running of the Christmas Bulls

I am the lucky mother of a beautiful, confident and independent daughter. All three of these qualities are problematic, the last two especially. My mother left both of her grandchildren a small legacy. Catherine was in college at the time and decided to spend some of the money on a study abroad ...

BARONE: In a gloomy winter, read a couple of classic books

After Christmas is over, and the sunrises start getting earlier and the sunsets later in the Northern Hemisphere, there are still two months of scarce daylight and lowering skies ahead. Here's a suggestion for how to fill the gloomy hours with uplift: read. Read some great books, returning ...