Last January, American Whitewater, Outdoor Alliance and Public Land Solutions submitted comments to the Bureau of Land Management opposing a poorly conceived proposal to lease recreation lands for oil and gas development. This lease would have affected significant recreational boating on ...
Ah, the joys and perils of growing older! If there's one truth I've come to accept, change is our only companion. Take last year, for instance. I found myself engrossed in a digital engineering conference. Over dinner, the chatter took an unexpected turn as some attendees couldn't stop raving ...
On a trip this summer, I got to visit the scene of one of Earth’s greatest disasters, the rim of Crater Lake in southern Oregon. As a kid, I was enthralled with this and the entire Cascade Range spanning from Washington through Oregon and into California. My experiences of mountains were the ...
The last day of school occurred a couple of weeks ago, or so it seems. Next came the glorious days of summer vacation, which felt like maybe three weeks long. And now back-to-school time is here, leaving us bewildered and wondering, “Where did summer go?” Moms and kids are experiencing ...
When my daughter, Catherine, was little, we gave her a Barbie. This was before we realized that parents should never, under any circumstances, give their child anything that is part of a huge franchise. We expected that we, or at least Grandma and Grandpa, would be pressured to keep Barbie in ...
“History will judge us by the difference we make in the lives of children.” — Nelson Mandela The Center for American Progress (Jan. 12, 2021) reports that there were 11 million children who were poor in 2019, about one-third of all poor people in the U.S. (www.americanprogress.org). The ...
Public schools are a shipwreck, and it may be time to save ourselves. “We shipwrecked in 2020, but it was already a leaky boat,” John Arthur said during a panel on learning loss at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute in Salt Lake City. It’s a good metaphor. Public schools were ...
This summer, I drove 2,432 miles for our annual family trip back east. When you count coming back to Utah, it was 4,864 miles in total. Don’t think this bothers me — I love driving. Sometimes I imagine I’m Lewis Hamilton in his Mercedes, and other times, if the music I’m listening to is ...
The Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and North Carolina universally has been condemned by the mainstream media as well as CNN, MSNBC and even the Salt Lake Tribune. Understandably, the Black community has furiously decried the decision and for good reason. ...
While the American health care system is far from perfect, moving toward socialized medicine would be a step backward for patients. While Congress works to find bipartisan consensus on lowering the cost of insulin and other medicines, self-proclaimed democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders ...
