Utah small-business owners are some of the strongest, most creative and resilient people you will ever meet. In recent years, our small-business community has weathered a global pandemic, persistent supply chain issues, sometimes volatile prices and a tight labor market. Black-owned businesses ...
“Some days I feel like I'm gonna fight like hell; other days I'm suicidal and don't know how to give my kid hope to also stay alive; and other days I just want to move.” Those are the exasperated words of a transgender child’s mother. She sent me this message after the Utah State ...
I don’t understand the heart, but I know that mine is broken. As an organ, the human heart delivers the lifeblood of our living system, a function that is the very definition of our aliveness. In diagnostic terms, my heart is deficient in a few ways. There’s a genetic predisposition on my ...
Today, it’s typical for young children to have a phone in their hands to keep in contact with friends and family or use a tablet for fun or for educational purposes. In fact, much of today’s school-related curricula relies on children accessing certain devices. Technology can be a useful ...
I’m a lucky person. I love my husband (most of the time) and he loves me (most of the time). So one would think that February with Valentines Day and all would be a great time for us to celebrate each other. It isn’t. We try, but February always defeats us. In February, Christmas ...
Microchips, microchips, microchips. ... These days, almost everything we use in our daily lives is controlled by tiny integrated circuits. They’re the miniature brains in our cellphones, satellites, military defenses and wireless networks. The recipe for these microchips — and for the ...
A key tenet of the rule of law is that individuals should only be prosecuted for their specific alleged misdeeds — not who they are generally. It's essential to American democracy that this principle be honored for all potential criminal defendants. Even Donald Trump. The former president's ...
Many years ago, in my first or second year of teaching at Weber State University, I showed my students "Eyes on the Prize," which is a documentary about the Civil Rights Movement. When I first saw it in college, I thought to myself, “Thank god I am not a Southerner. I’d be so embarrassed to ...
Toyokazu, a foreign exchange student from Japan who spent a school year with our family, definitely increased the courtesy factor at our dinner table. In his quiet, respectful way, he never balked at any meal no matter how American it may have been to him, ate every scrap set before him, then ...
As a society, we talk a lot about the need to uplift vulnerable populations and frequently throw money into new, innovative programs to solve multigenerational poverty. After my experience with the Farr West Justice Court for a traffic infraction, I question if we are looking for complex ...
