This past weekend, two families got the call no family should ever get. On Saturday, Jennifer Eckhart, a former Fox News producer who had spent years speaking out about trauma, died by suicide in Florida. She was 36. On Sunday, Presley Gerber, the 27-year-old son of Cindy Crawford, was found ...
Over two centuries ago Alexander Hamilton presciently identified the source of many of the problems we face today. Hamilton maintained state power was the primary threat to our ideal of "one nation, indivisible." He feared states would thwart the will of the majority of people; He ridiculed ...
At 12:33 p.m. on a sweltering Tuesday in June, a text pinged on Nancy Weston’s phone. The Weber-Morgan Medical Reserve Corps needed help fast. The Iron Fire was burning through Juab and Tooele counties, forcing community evacuation and activation of an American Red Cross shelter. The request ...
In my July 22 letter, "Utah's new Agent Orange Memorial highlights the cost of freedom" published in The Salt Lake Tribune ), I provided details about a new memorial in Sunset, Utah honoring Vietnam War casualties. The new memorial was installed in Sunset Veterans Park and is located near the ...
The other night, I got up at 3 a.m. to use the bathroom and heard the dishwasher making a terrible grinding noise. I couldn’t stop the cycle by pushing buttons, but it stopped when I opened the door. All good. We (meaning Dave) could deal with the problem in the morning. I plodded back BEEP ...
In my circles and in the landscape of education, I hear all too frequently a phrasing about the “industry of education,” or “in our industry,” leading into more talk about the nature of teaching and learning from early childhood through the university systems. To be fair, I know that ...
