Well, it all depends.
I went to a well known pizza place for takeout. I didn't see 1 mask from anyone oops only me. I'm afraid the mask mandate was lifted to soon. Hey citizens use your brains. I'm elderly and work in a high risk environment. I have not been sick since we started wearing masks. Before I was sick …
I am ashamed of our legislators. There have been multiple mass shootings, and we all pray for the victims, watch interviews of the survivors and lower the flags as if these people were heroes. They were not heroes; they were victims. Their right to life has been snuffed so that gun advocates…
I am a lifelong fan of America’s Greatest Pastime, Major League Baseball. I am 68 years old and I have a voice with many avenues to express my will as afforded me under the US Constitution.
Individual gun rights should never be confused with Second Amendment rights. Ratification of the Bill of Rights (BR), including the Second Amendment, was completed Dec. 15, 1791, when Virginia, the 11th state, approved it. Did that adoption of the BR guarantee an individual right to gun owne…
When the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines first proved their efficacy, preventing nearly 95% of coronavirus infections in those who got the shots in test trials, a vexing issue immediately arose.
Understanding the concept of federalism is crucial to understanding the framework our founders established for our system of government. Municipal (city), county, state and national governments all have an important role to play in our country, and the better you understand the delineation b…
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by 7 million votes in November, but he still must invoke special presidential orders, as Trump did, to get his way, for lack of sufficient congressional support on certain controversial issues.
The big lie works — until it doesn’t.
I really feel like we are lifting the mask mandate too soon. Yes, we are doing a fine job with getting people vaccinated. I just think that a few more weeks would help keep infection down as we get more people vaccinated.
I am a member of the Ogden 100 Community about which Tim Vandenack wrote (SE March 27). We’re urging Ogden City to stick with the Community Renewable Energy Program, through which Rocky Mountain Power would deliver net-100% clean electrical energy to Ogden customers by 2030.
Time has come for the truth to come out of why this nation now finds it's in grave jeopardy directly from the government of Communist China. I listened to a retired Army General speak about the real prospect of China wanting to take the country of Taiwan by direct military force knowing that…
Sometimes, I wonder if I'm ever going to get over how some humans have behaved during this pandemic.
When Henry Ford introduced the Model T in 1908, he had a problem. There were almost no paved roads in America. To sell his product to the masses, he needed good roads.
"Which is better -- to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or three thousand tyrants one mile away?" -- Rev. Mather Blyes (1706-1788)
You know how sometimes couples who have been together for a long time can finish each other’s sentences? I used to think that was charming. After a year of COVID togetherness, forget finishing simple sentences. We can complete whole days of each other’s conversations. Maybe even ALL possible…
As Provo continues to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s important to recognize that other emergencies, such as wildfires, can still occur throughout the year — often with little or no warning. When these events happen, safety is the No. 1 priority, leaving little time to think about the financial information or records needed to help with the recovery process.
Gentle reader, I am coming to you today with a question. It may seem like a simple one, but really, it is multilayered and will require you to be patient with me. So, here goes: Do you believe in equality?
There’s something ironic about a Boomer sitting in a Zoom meeting talking to a 20-something professional about the Boomer’s 86-year-old mother’s needs. That thought went through my mind as I sought answers to some challenges my aging mother faces in her assisted living setting. I’m in the me…
“This is not politics,” President Joe Biden said last week. “Reinstate the mandate if you let it down.” Give him credit for consistency: When Gov. Greg Abbott ended Texas’ mask mandate last month, Biden called it “Neanderthal thinking.”
If now isn't the time, when is? For all Utah State AND local executives and health dept. bureaucrats to rescind ALL mandatory Covid mitigation measures. 100% Return our freedoms.
After an incredibly tumultuous year in regards to police shootings, it came as no surprise that the 2021 legislative session presented two new bills to try to bring about change. Senator Daniel Thatcher, R-West Valley City, proposed SB 47 and SB 53, both of which focus on mental health 911 c…
Don't give Joe the glory. President Trump gets the credit for getting the vaccine made at warp speed. It was ordered before Mr. Joe set foot in the White House behind the desk.
We live in challenging times. Faced with a global crisis, we continue to experience the pandemic’s impacts on our communities, our economy and our way of life. Each of us has been affected in one form or another, some through financial strain and others through illness, loss and loneliness. And no one has felt loneliness more than our children.
That God, which ever lives and loves,
Dateline St. George, Utah “Record Drought Strains the Southwest” the March 9 Wall Street Journal reported “For the first time ever, rancher Jimmie Hughes saw all 15 of the ponds he keeps for his cattle dry up at the same time this year.” Climate change is NOT a future risk. It’s here now and…
I'm concerned like others for our country. We have been sucked in under the disguise of equality. Take from the rich and give to the poor, right? That's not what happens. It never has. This system cannot support itself, taxes continue rising. It's the middle class that bears the burden and c…
Did you take the SATs to try to get into college? Your kids may not have to.
As the Biden administration looks for sources of revenue to pay for legislation addressing infrastructure and climate change, a familiar idea has reemerged: the wealth tax. Championed by progressives like Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, the potential legislation would tax the asse…
I get the idea of curses or bad karma. The house where a triple murder took place is going to sell for less than the one next door no matter how much you scrub the stains. I wouldn’t want to use Hannibal Lecter’s dishware no matter how much you cleaned it (and assuming he was a real person).…
Too often, graduating college students face the dilemma of applying for jobs that require experience — yet they can’t get experience without being hired for a job, even if they already have many of the skills needed. At the same time, businesses, nonprofits and entrepreneurs have immediate c…
Congressman Blake Moore made the correct decision at the start of his first term by not voting to overturn the election results, and now he has the opportunity to reaffirm another election — the recent vote in Puerto Rico in favor of statehood.
As of this writing (March 23) we've had 62 days of the Biden presidency. We've seen prices going sky high. Primarily gas prices which have risen more than $1 per gallon since January. Oil industry observers say this is the fastest gas prices have risen by this much.
In regards to the coronavirus which has plagued this planet and claimed many victims, the federal government has issued many regulations. And one of them is that facial coverings must be worn when entering and being in business buildings. But alas such coverings, both reusable and disposable…
During a joint interview with Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian secretary-general of NATO, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, fresh from his bout with the Chinese in Anchorage, took on Angela Merkel and the Germans.
All faiths, all ages, and people all across the political spectrum are invited to an online Town Hall with Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) Monday March 29th from 6-7:30pm. We’ll be continuing discussions about local solutions to our clean air problems here in Utah. You will hear presentations …
WASHINGTON — As a president who many voters said was too old for the job, Joe Biden is suddenly being cast as someone who can solve all the nation’s problems. Such is the nature of the American presidency in the eyes of its voters.
The acrid atmosphere last week at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska, with its vivid murals of the 18th-century British seafarer James Cook’s discoveries throughout the Pacific, sounds very much like the acrid atmosphere almost exactly 60 years ago in the Beaux-Arts American and Sov…
Hello, it’s me again, your freshly vaccinated columnist, here to tell you about Dose No. 2.
Well, the principled stand Democrats took against Congress trying to overturn duly certified elections lasted all of a month or two.
For the 2021 fire season, the writing is on the wall. The West, despite a few days of intense winter, is far drier than it was leading up to last year’s record-breaking fires.
What if liberty and democracy are opposites? What if the principle underlying liberty is to restrain the government to maximize individual autonomy? What if the principle underlying democracy is to unleash the government to give the people whatever they want?
What do people need to live?
HB 197 Voter Affiliation Amendments is not a good bill. It mimics Republicans across the U.S in trying to limit voter participation. This Utah bill restricts when members of third parties can change their voter registration, to vote in the closed Republican primary.
"WOKE" refers to a sensitivity to injustice in racial issues. We know that WOKE means to be awake as opposed to asleep. To be truly woke requires that we also have "light".
WASHINGTON — As if we weren’t divided enough, the latest partisan split is over whether to get the coronavirus vaccine. Republicans are less likely to get their shots. Why am I not surprised?
The most dramatic change in American capitalism over the last half-century has been the emergence of corporate behemoths like Amazon and the simultaneous shrinkage of organized labor. The resulting imbalance has spawned near-record inequalities of income and wealth, corruption of democracy b…
“Where’s the burger?” I heard from downstairs as my wife rummaged through our small basement freezer. I got up and checked our hand-written freezer inventory. “It should be there,” I shouted down, imagining her navigating around multiple objects including a huge, year-old bag of edamame. Tha…
Asked bluntly by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos if he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is “a killer,” Joe Biden answered, “Uh, I do.”
The people we were in 2019 are different from the people we are in 2021. That’s because 2020 was sandwiched between those two years, and 2020 was a year that changed us.
