A few years ago, I was invited to speak at an event in Mobile, Alabama. Driving down from Indiana, I stopped for the night in Nashville, Tennessee, but on the way back, I decided to drive all the way from Mobile to Indianapolis. I had planned an early start, but, enjoying the company of good ...
Utah is known as one of the healthiest and most outdoors-oriented states in the country. We ski, hike, bike, fish, paddle, and live close to mountains that people travel thousands of miles to see. Communities from Ogden to Park City to Logan take pride in staying active and connected to the ...
Whence cometh the conviction, in America and even more in Britain and Europe, that open borders is the only moral immigration policy? Of course, not everyone believes that, and many who do stop short of saying so. But the contrast between the rhetoric and policies of the first two decades of ...
Time will tell whether the recent ruling by Judge Dianna Gibson that all but guarantees a Democrat will win one of Utah’s four congressional districts will hold up. But if it does, it will be extremely fascinating to see what we learn about the political preferences of those living in the ...
In the summer of 2022, an unattended campfire caused a wildfire near the Salmon River in Idaho, leading to the nation’s largest fire that summer and causing the deaths of five firefighters. Eventually the fire burned more than 203 square miles. In 2024, near Chico, California, a man pushed a ...
Editor's note: Students at Layton High School wrote guest opinions as part of a class assignment and submitted them to the Standard-Examiner. Here is one example: Have you ever thought about the lives lost due to vehicular pursuits? If you don’t know what that is, I can give you a little ...
