Ain't no way to run a railroad, Congress, facing a debt limit crisis. The United States Treasury came close to going over the edge of default — and danger lingers if Congress doesn't act to raise the federal borrowing limit like, now. The lesson learned: Republicans who threatened to derail ...

On a recent evening I decided to go for a walk along the Ogden river by the Botanical Gardens and what I saw nearly knocked my socks off. A young couple went under the yellow warning tape that was up to keep people from going near the raging Ogden river, took off their shoes and stuck their ...

I want to thank a prior contributor for two things: first, for introducing me to the term, “snollygoster,” (meaning a “shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician), and second, for prompting me to look up Paul Harvey’s, 1965 broadcast. In it, Harvey said, “If I Were the ...

What do you do when life’s circumstances serves you up a bunch of unpleasant surprises, or lemons? Ogden City has found itself in that situation with the purchase of the highly toxic “Swift” building which spiked almost 6 million dollars in environmental clean-up. The building has been ...

Last week, noted pastor and theologian Tim Keller died. While the world is focused on Gov. Ron DeSantis's bid for the presidency, many Christians have focused on Keller's wit and wisdom. A Presbyterian pastor, Keller's death drew comment from all corners of Protestantism and even from Catholic ...

"If you can't admire Joe Biden as a person," Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham once said, "you've got a problem. You need to do some self-evaluation, because what's not to like? He's as good a man as God ever created." That was back when Graham had credibility. Those were also the days when he ...

Standing in front of the century-old, peach-colored granite headstone of Ole Julius Hansen, two stories spring to mind: one about gunpowder, and the other about being in the right place at the right time. The gunpowder story first (since that sounds more interesting). Legend has it that this ...

A conservative, to paraphrase and slightly alter Irving Kristol's saying, is a liberal who has been mugged by reality — especially by a reality that is plain to the vast bulk of ordinary people but remains inexplicably invisible to liberal intellectuals and politicians. That saying applies, ...

Congratulations to Weber School District for building Little Homes and donating 1 a year to Salt Lake City's Other Side Village. Evidently Ogden/Weber area does not or chooses to ignore the fact that there are homeless or very low income people right here in our area that also need ...

In your May 20-21, 2023 edition a Mr. Miguel Serda Jr. spoke of the rising deficit and basically posed the question, “who’s to blame?” He correctly cited that the Republicans are as much to blame as the Democrats for the rising deficit. However, he erred big time in saying Trump inherited ...