When some Wasatch County residents opened their 2022 property tax bills and saw that their taxes had nearly doubled, they knew something was wrong. What they didn't know was that they were about to uncover a systemic failure in Utah's property tax assessment system — one that creates unfair ...

In physics, we keep track of how complex a system is by determining its “degrees of freedom.” In essence, this provides a guide for how many different ways something can change to create possible futures. A cart on a track can only move back and forth in one line, but a tumbling cat has ...

My husband and I just became a statistic in a very small minority. Less than 7% of couples in this country have been married 50 years or more. (I married when I was 5 years old. ...) Anyways, when friends learn this about us, they ask how we did it. Some turn to my husband and ask him why. ...

In U.S. presidential elections, the value of a vote is entirely dependent upon three factors: 1. location 2. location 3. location. This indisputable fact means that in each presidential election millions of votes are utterly irrelevant and immaterial. Consider: Recently, Trump received ...

As we approach 2025, I’ve been thinking about and researching how we can better ensure that more girls and young women in our state can thrive. Importantly, I also care about boys and young men and encourage others to do that work as well. The bottom line is that we need to promote mental ...

Evangelical Republicans today are like certain characters in the Bible in Jesus’ day, the very spiritual, very educated, very rich, very law-abiding and very beautifully clothed Pharisees. Jesus could hardly find words to describe them because they were so certain of themselves and yet so far ...