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Letter: Responding to “Families needing special healthcare need our help”

The guest opinion titled “Families needing special health care need our help“ by Andrea Harper makes many good points. There is a need to help get subspecies specialty pediatric care closer to the people needing it so that there is less of an impact on their time, budgets, families, and ...

Letter: Be smart with money and avoid debt

Did you ever wonder why there are so many banks, credit unions and credit card companies popping up all over America at this time? Americans have the most personal debt ever in the history of this country. That’s why. And they are getting rich off your money! People are getting the words ...

WSU guest opinion: A movie review and space sugar

I think I should just lay it out here: I don’t think “Project Hail Mary” was a great movie. Also, just to make the purists really upset with me, I didn’t love the book either. I know. As a scientist, I was supposed to really like this story as it dove into scientific ideas to save ...

WSU guest opinion: Why the government can’t outsmart the sun

To end the summer well, I am wading into the most controversial topic in American history — daylight saving time. The United States House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act last month and 19 states, including Utah, want to move to permanent daylight saving time. It presents ...

GARVEY: No price too high for evading back-to-school shopping

In the pantheon of parental duties, shopping for school supplies stands alone. At the tripart crossroads of "least enjoyable," "most expensive" and "least negotiable," it is an intrinsic part of life in late summer, and it has been since I was a kid in the Cretaceous era. I remember it much ...

The Homefront: Can we ever be completely prepared for a fire?

The absence of snowfall last winter combined with record high temperatures this summer set the stage for a devastating fire season. We knew it was coming but didn’t anticipate so many fires in so many places. We’re never prepared to watch entire neighborhoods in flames, never prepared to ...