Individually, a package of recent legislative proposals has been presented as targeted reforms to Utah’s judicial system. Taken together, however, they represent significant structural changes to how judges are appointed, evaluated, and retained. These proposals deserve the attention of every ...

Is time an inflexible metronome, mechanically ticking down a one-way street, where past, present, and future are safely kept apart? Our highly structured society, with its schedules and deadlines, tends to reinforce this view. Yet from a scientific perspective, Einstein theorized, and later ...

The first person to live with our family was a 7-year-old foster child. Our kids came to us one day after holding their own family council to inform their parents that our family should foster a child. My husband and I were so caught off guard we agreed. We fulfilled the required training and, ...

It seems like everyone in Chicago has a story about the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died this week at the age of 84. Here's mine. I was a young reporter when I first talked to him, working the weekend and holiday shifts, which meant I often covered some of the bleakest stories in the newspaper. ...

I’ve always been partial to figure skating in the Winter Olympics. It’s probably the only Winter Olympics sport (well, aside from hockey) that I really care about knowing who won. A lot of that has to do with my mom. She watched figure skating when I was a kid and I ended up watching ...

When NBC affiliates in Tennessee showed the movie "Necessary Roughness" in 1994, those affiliates were required to give a Democrat Senate candidate 4 minutes and 13 seconds of free airtime. The Democrat was running against Fred Thompson, the actor turned Republican Senate candidate. When ...