Electricity bills are climbing almost everywhere, and the reasons have little to do with ideology. Three forces are driving prices higher: massive new utility spending on infrastructure, rising natural gas costs, and growing capacity shortages in electricity markets as power demand soars from ...
As President of the Weber Fraternal Order of Police (Weber FOP), I want to share our endorsements for this year’s municipal elections — and explain why these candidates reflect the kind of leadership that strengthens our communities. The Weber FOP represents law enforcement professionals ...
The summer I moved my family to Ogden to start teaching economics at Weber State, I spent a week at the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Its founder, Edward C. Harwood, was a soldier‑engineer turned economist who believed that monetary stability was ...
We are giving ourselves away one sense at a time. We’re giving our eyes away to our screens — phone, computer, TV. I watched an entire family at a restaurant fixated on their individual phones, the glow of their screens reflecting in their eyes as they retreated to different places, ...
Last April — in a move that should alarm anyone who believes education is more than a pipeline to a paycheck — Weber State University followed the dictates of the Utah State legislature and HB 265 and SB 334 cutting 89 courses. In anticipation of those cuts and earlier that month, Professor ...
When I was a missionary, I compiled my favorite General Conference talks into a binder so I could frequently refer to them for inspiration and comfort. Very quickly, Russell M. Nelson, then an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, became one of my favorite speakers because ...
