A former policymaker (a non-Weber State graduate) once told me that higher education had no business trying to address community issues. They went on to say that universities should leave that work to experts in the government and nonprofit sector, and folks at the university should stick to ...

All those new backpacks attached to all those young backs recently filed off to school — kindergarten to college bound. There’s no way for parents to get past that bittersweet, conflicting moment of feeling, “Yippee! I’m free!” coupled with, “Wait, we didn’t do everything I wanted ...

There is a ticking time bomb hanging over the U.S. economy. The nation’s electricity grid operators and utilities are projecting rapidly approaching power shortfalls. And instead of helping address the crisis, U.S. energy policy is making a bad situation far worse. Power demand is suddenly ...

Back to school — a state so many of us are in right now — comes with a mix of emotion. I’ve started my bizarre anticipatory dreams at night, while by day I pause to take deeper, longer breaths. The teachers I know put so much into the calling that the August ramp-up requires extra mental, ...

Maybe the guest article a couple of weeks ago by professor Rebecca Glazier from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is on to something about religious community. If church and synagogue can be a bigger part of the solution against political polarization, it would be after acknowledging ...

In the wake of the recent Utah Supreme Court ruling, there’s chatter about hiking the signature threshold for ballot initiatives to an alarming level — think 400,000 signatures instead of the current 134,600. The idea, they say, is to prevent jungle primaries or fend off laws that might ...