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The Homefront: Kids find success when adults guide them to it

The sight of a mom squeezing her young son’s arm as he turned away from the sheep he’d just auctioned off was so subtle, but so full of love. Walking around the 4-H Davis County Annual Jr. Livestock Show and Sale last week, I noticed a young boy sitting quietly in a small pen with his ...

Guest opinion: Taxpayer-funded deals shouldn’t be this murky

Back in 2009, Ogden City set its sights on a river walkway project. Properties along 18th Street between Grant and Wall Avenues were acquired, families displaced, and vacant homes quickly became magnets for squatters, creating public outrage. Eventually, the houses were bulldozed, and the land, ...

LLOYD: What kind of journalism do we want enough to pay for?

Veronique De Rugy's opinion piece "What kind of government do Americans want seriously enough to pay for?" (published today) asks every citizen of the entire nation a very important question. Since we have government — as President Abraham Lincoln put it in the famous Gettysburg Address — ...