When my daughter, Catherine, was little, we gave her a Barbie. This was before we realized that parents should never, under any circumstances, give their child anything that is part of a huge franchise. We expected that we, or at least Grandma and Grandpa, would be pressured to keep Barbie in ...
“History will judge us by the difference we make in the lives of children.” — Nelson Mandela The Center for American Progress (Jan. 12, 2021) reports that there were 11 million children who were poor in 2019, about one-third of all poor people in the U.S. (www.americanprogress.org). The ...
Public schools are a shipwreck, and it may be time to save ourselves. “We shipwrecked in 2020, but it was already a leaky boat,” John Arthur said during a panel on learning loss at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute in Salt Lake City. It’s a good metaphor. Public schools were ...
This summer, I drove 2,432 miles for our annual family trip back east. When you count coming back to Utah, it was 4,864 miles in total. Don’t think this bothers me — I love driving. Sometimes I imagine I’m Lewis Hamilton in his Mercedes, and other times, if the music I’m listening to is ...
The Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and North Carolina universally has been condemned by the mainstream media as well as CNN, MSNBC and even the Salt Lake Tribune. Understandably, the Black community has furiously decried the decision and for good reason. ...
While the American health care system is far from perfect, moving toward socialized medicine would be a step backward for patients. While Congress works to find bipartisan consensus on lowering the cost of insulin and other medicines, self-proclaimed democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders ...
It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the “Community News & Small Business Support Act,” that has been introduced in Congress would offer relief to both newspapers and local businesses. For too many newspapers, ...
The ship captain’s spyglass I hold is at least 170 years old. Nearly 14 inches long when it’s completely telescoped out, its brass shell shows the wear expected on an instrument that weathered countless voyages. Imagine what the spyglass’s owner saw when he peered through it hundreds, ...
Let me share a secret with you. Utah Democrats are hard at work for policies that the majority of Utahns and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints enthusiastically support. The Church’s First Presidency recently stated, “Merely voting a straight ticket or voting based ...
Back in the day, I took a class in astronomy. Here I made the remarkable discovery that the whole universe contains just 164 stars. I proved this with an extra credit project, so you know you can trust my conclusions. The idea was to count the stars in a small section of sky, run the number ...
