Utah's 0.05 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) law appears to be doing exactly what lawmakers hoped it would do. Research increasingly suggests it has reduced alcohol-related traffic deaths while encouraging more people to make safer decisions before getting behind the wheel. That's something ...
As I’ve worked in and studied higher education, one lesson stands out above others: Leading a university is among the most complex, demanding, and highly scrutinized jobs in America. During graduate school, that idea was supported by the books and academic studies I scoured. Today, a glance ...
Driving through the city at midnight I slow down, stop, peer into backyards, and randomly crawl through multiple neighborhoods. The police have every right to pull me over, I think, as I scan the darkness around me, desperately seeking but not finding. Recent noisy holiday fireworks delighted ...
In March 2023, standing before a crowd in Waco, Texas, Donald Trump issued a pledge that would define his return to the political stage: “I am your warrior, I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution.” What sounded to critics like campaign ...
Americans love ribbon cuttings. We celebrate the groundbreaking. We admire the rendering. We announce the project cost. Politicians gather for photographs. Local headlines proclaim progress. Then we move on. What rarely receives the same attention is what happens 10, 20, or 30 years later ...
First off, I have to apologize. The trip to the Redwoods was entirely my idea. I was seized with the compulsion to go before the war with Iran broke out. Naturally, I assumed that if we took a trip with lots of long drives that gas prices would go up for the occasion, but I had no idea it would ...
