"Where is the good news?" my son asked the other day, the kind of simple question that can only come from a child. Obvious, sensical, trusting. He still believes in our essential goodness and still wants to know about humanity's small kindnesses and large achievements. We had been ...

I was born and raised in Ogden, am a proud graduate of Ogden High, where over half our student body are minorities, and an alum of Weber State University, which also serves a significant Hispanic population. I love this city. I love our resilience and the way we celebrate our heritage ...

They say that this cold and flu season could be really dangerous. It might not be just a runny nose, nagging cough, and a bag full of over-the-counter meds all over our nightstands. It promises to be a month-long, very painful cough, hourly visits to the toilet, yuk, and a large bill for doctor ...

When you start talking about things that people feel strongly about, you get many different responses. I appreciated that after I published some thoughts last week about the importance of seeing the humanity of everyone involved in our current immigration enforcement processes. I talked about ...

A new year brings new resolutions that can lead to improvements in daily habits as well as health benefits for many older Americans. In fact, according to a 2020 study, older adults who engaged in healthy lifestyle choices such as physical activity, not smoking, not heavily drinking, following ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an ...