Have you ever noticed that on shows like “Cops,” the first thing officers do when arresting two suspects is separate them, putting them in different police cruisers or interview rooms? There’s a reason for that. Once alone, each person is offered a deal: “Testify against your partner ...
I really, really hate weeds. Especially this time of year. They lay in the ground quietly waiting, conniving, preparing. Then one morning — an explosion. Everywhere. Yellow dandelions popping up under the bushes, binder weed grabbing onto the fence, crabgrass sprawling across the lawn, ...
“Let’s do everything possible to make our classrooms one of the last remaining politically neutral places in our state.” So wrote Gov. Spencer Cox in a letter to lawmakers a couple weeks ago when he allowed House Bill 77 to go into law. The proposal was borne out of the explicit intention ...
The legislature has dropped the gavel on the 2025 session, having passed 582 bills. Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed six bills, meaning 576 pieces of legislation added thousands of pages of code that Utah’s public servants must implement. Some of these bills have been very controversial, like House ...
Some future day when my house is torn down for a bigger, better something, the demolition crew will be surprised at what they find behind the walls in the basement family room. When we moved here, our oldest daughter was all but engaged. Rather than share one of the regular bedrooms with a ...
As a 20 year-old, I was accepted into a minimalist study abroad program in Austria. I got off the plane, alone, with an old duffel bag full of clothes and a sense of excitement. Within three days, before finding student housing and after getting kicked out of the youth hostel I was staying in ...
