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The Homefront: How fire, knives and cold, dark nights grow families

Take your kids camping this summer. You won’t regret it if you do, but you should regret it if you don’t. Camping with kids is a demanding job, from packing to unpacking, because the things we help them do in the woods are the same things we help them do at home — except without the ...

Guest opinion: A writer’s lament

I know a surprising number of people who like to write and dream of hitting the big time, all the while keeping their pages in a drawer for fear that someone might read them. Putting your stuff out there is scary! Some, like me, write for their local papers, or self-publish, or have a blog or ...

Guest opinion: The Supreme Court in context

As the Supreme Court considers Donald Trump’s immunity claims, many commentators are deeply concerned. Writing in Politico, for example, Ankush Khardori asserted that, “There is good reason to remain worried about the conservative justices’ handling of the case so far, about how they ...

Kowalewski: As Utah grows, Great Salt Lake is ‘refuge’ worth protecting

June 1983 lake level: 4,204.70 feet The ’80s were a time of concern about too much water in the Great Salt Lake, which had just experienced its greatest seasonal rise in history. Up 5 feet from September 1982 to June 1983, it reached an all-time high of 4,211.85 feet in 1986. I know the ...

Guest opinion: Are 62% of Utahns ‘extremists’?

Labels like “far right” and “far left” get thrown around so much these days that they perhaps don’t mean anything anymore. How “far” one person’s worldview is from another’s is a matter of perspective. But if 62% of people agree on something, that’s the mainstream. This is ...