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, ...
We are witnessing in political thinking and actions at all levels of governments, and among the median voter, that there is an increasing aversion against social spending to assist the poor or those at the lower end of the income distribution. This is even though it is well known that income ...
In the early 2010s, a group of us in Utah's underground music scene came together to transform a backyard into an amphitheater. We brought together all the things we loved most — tasty food, good music and each other. We called it Grillfest — a cheeky name for what was really just a family ...
On Utah’s Capitol Hill, I’m often among the youngest in conversations with our legislators. As a Zillennial — born between millennials and Gen Z — I’m part of a microgeneration that grew up fast, graduated college in uncertain times, and is now navigating adulthood in a culture that ...
Today’s college graduates face a startling reality. Many of the jobs they were hoping for are rapidly disappearing because of artificial intelligence. As Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” fame recently observed, “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code. Well, AI is coming for ...
Recently, I visited the Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg, New York. It sits just a few blocks from the hospital where I was born. Both overlook the blue waters of the huge St. Lawrence River, which drains the Great Lakes. The international border with Canada is somewhere midstream, ...
