I stand corrected.To all of my friends on social media who keep parroting President Donald Trump's cries of #fakenews, I owe you a sincere apology.Because, as it turns out, the Standard-Examiner IS publishing fake news.Specifically, we ran it on Wednesday, Sept. 12.Page A3, for those keeping ...
OGDEN — It took more than 40 years, but I finally attended my very first homecoming dance.As did my granddaughter. And my mountain bike.Back in high school, I was much too awkward and shy to have ever asked a girl out on a date. Although I attended a couple of semi-formal dances in my three ...
Talk about your shams …Wellsville’s controversial Founders’ Day “Sham Battle” is going forward again this year, although this one promises to be much more white and delightsome than previous versions.The Logan Herald Journal reported this past week that <a ...
I don’t like to say “I told you so,” but, well, I did indeed tell you so.Yes, yes. We all know that gloating is terribly unbecoming. But I’m so infrequently right that on those rare occasions when I do happen to hit the proverbial nail on the head I feel the need to point it out to ...
I’m not saying it’s like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.But I am saying it’s a bit like concerning yourself with what you want people to call those deck chairs, when maybe you ought to focus on — oh, I don’t know — steering the ship or something.On Thursday, The Church of ...
Just in time for the impending War in Space, along comes …Vanity rooftop solar panels.It all began about a year ago, when Matt Jackson, a salesman with <a href="http://www.essolar.net/" target="_blank">ES Solar</a>, was trying to sell a solar power system to a ...
<em>“For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”</em><em>— Galatians 6:7</em>If the apostle Paul had been writing to the Galatians in 2018, the above well-known biblical passage might have turned out a bit more colorful: ...
Water fight!And not the fun kind, either.There’s been a battle brewing in my <a href="http://www.farmington.utah.gov/" target="_blank">Farmington</a> community for a few weeks now, and it all boiled over last Tuesday morning.Pioneer Day dawned hot, and as a result ...
Global warming, global schmarming.I gotta hand it to anyone talking about a major expansion to a North American ski resort these days: They’re certainly putting their money where their mouth is.Take James Coleman, the Durango, Colorado, businessman who, as the new operator of <a ...
Thanks to an unhinged gunman with a grudge against an East Coast newspaper, it’s about to start heating up here in the Standard-Examiner’s newsroom.Quite literally.Immediately following last Thursday’s horrific mass shooting at the <a href="http://www.capitalgazette.com/" ...
