Say the word “Gypsy” and it evokes numerous responses. The most innocuous being a term conveying one’s love of travel. When referencing a race of people, it often suggests mystery and distrust. It becomes a pejorative that presumes fortune telling, thievery, enchanting, child abducting, ...
In Northern Utah, if you talk to any employer focusing on science, technology or engineering, they’ll tell you the biggest issue they’re facing is access to a skilled workforce. Weber State University was recently in a room with representatives from five other western universities and a ...
Editor's note: On Feb. 15, former South Carolina governor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. The Washington Examiner spoke with Haley after the announcement. The following has been edited for length and ...
“How do I have this much stuff?” My sister’s question was sincere, asked in a daze as she stared at the alarmingly expanding stack of moving boxes we were piling up in her garage.
Widowed three years ago, she chose to continue living in her home, shouldering its care and keeping. For ...
Seventeen candidates entered the 2016 Republican presidential primary. All of them declared in 2015. Five of the 17 exited before the first votes were cast in 2016. In the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, 29 candidates announced they were running or forming exploratory committees. Eighteen ...
My husband went to California on a business trip a few weeks ago. While he was away, I found myself doing something completely out of character — switching on the TV while cooking or reading the paper. A silent house felt lonely. In 1960, just 13% of households were comprised of single ...
Which is more destructive to personal liberty, a government that engages in secret acts of war or a public and news media that are indifferent to it? In the current American toxic stew of anti-Russian hatred and beating the drums of war — in President Joe Biden's America — we have ...
As a nation's leader (?), Biden is as effective as a set of bald tires in a snow storm. More so, I listen to everything he says before I start to laugh.
Let's play a game called "what if." What if Biden gave a speech in a forest and no one was around to hear it, even animals. Would he still ...
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders' response to the State of "Confusion" address given from our nation's capital was right on! She defined the battle for "normal" verses "crazy" courageously and clearly. Normal says you don't spend more than you have, nor plan to do so. Normal easily ...
I did not agree with Sen. Todd Weiler, Woods Cross when he took the power of our locally elected School Board Members to act nimbly to control the spread of disease in classrooms by going to online classes. (Weiler HB183).
Also I did not agree with Weiler at a January 2023 Town Hall Meeting ...