On a recent evening I decided to go for a walk along the Ogden river by the Botanical Gardens and what I saw nearly knocked my socks off. A young couple went under the yellow warning tape that was up to keep people from going near the raging Ogden river, took off their shoes and stuck their ...
I want to thank a prior contributor for two things: first, for introducing me to the term, “snollygoster,” (meaning a “shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician), and second, for prompting me to look up Paul Harvey’s, 1965 broadcast. In it, Harvey said, “If I Were the ...
What do you do when life’s circumstances serves you up a bunch of unpleasant surprises, or lemons? Ogden City has found itself in that situation with the purchase of the highly toxic “Swift” building which spiked almost 6 million dollars in environmental clean-up. The building has been ...
Although it has taken years and millions if not billions of taxpayers' hard earned dollars, John Durham's report pretty much exonerated Pres. Trump of any wrong doing. However, the left wingers (and some RINOs) will never accept the results. They will only try harder. With all of the nonsense ...
Just listened to Vivek Ramaswamy, American, candidate for U.S. President, speak about the issues facing our nation today. I really like his proposals, his agenda or plans to promote the nuclear family first, close the borders, change the voting age to 25 (18-25 can still vote under certain ...
As Congress and the President consider ways to address the looming debt limit, our nation’s progress against cancer should not be up for negotiation. Capping federal funding will lead to cuts to cancer research and impact future innovation. Cancer research can’t be turned on and off like a ...
Congratulations to Weber School District for building Little Homes and donating 1 a year to Salt Lake City's Other Side Village. Evidently Ogden/Weber area does not or chooses to ignore the fact that there are homeless or very low income people right here in our area that also need ...
In your May 20-21, 2023 edition a Mr. Miguel Serda Jr. spoke of the rising deficit and basically posed the question, “who’s to blame?” He correctly cited that the Republicans are as much to blame as the Democrats for the rising deficit. However, he erred big time in saying Trump inherited ...
The Guest Commentary that appeared in the Standard Examiner on May 25 by Charles Trentelman brought back fond memories of the commentaries and stories he used to write for the newspaper for many, many years. He held the title of “Wasatch Rambler.” His articles always were the first thing I ...
The current discussion or lack their off concerning the deficit and raising the debt ceiling has the country in a bad position with both political parties at odds with one another of what to do about it. It seems that the congressional republicans are only concerned about the deficit when there ...