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Guest opinion: Don’t buy junk stocks – Viewing college as an investment

College degrees are taking longer and costing more than ever before. On top of that, most people who do earn a degree won’t be employed in a job that typically needs one within a year of receiving it. Despite this, most high school graduates are still going to college. Just over 40% ...

Johnston: Ballet lessons

I’ve never been on an acid trip, but I imagine the experience is something similar to attending the live ballet performance of “The Nutcracker.” I don’t mean to make light of the production or my experience with it. Just the opposite. While there are lots of feats of humanity worth ...

The Homefront: ’Tis the season to recycle

As I stared through the viewing window at two massive, side-by-side piles of garbage and recyclable materials, the singular thought that struck me was, why is there so much cardboard in the garbage pile? This, of course, is precisely why the viewing window at the Wasatch Integrated Waste ...

Guest opinion: Informational exhibit at Utah Cultural Celebration Center

As a young girl raised in Utah, I grew up in the arms of the Great Salt Lake. I floated in her salty waters, built sandcastles on her shores and could walk just a few feet from where my parents parked their vehicle to touch my toes in the cerulean blue water. Now, as an adult, in order to ...

McCaughey: End the sanctuary-for-migrants madness

There are over 660,000 illegal migrants already convicted of felonies or facing charges who have come across the southern border and been released into the U.S., according to newly released federal data provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some are in jail - on the taxpayers' tab, ...