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Sugar Town: Snelgrove Development Will Change What’s Left of Sugar House
The 323-unit apartment and retail project ― to be named Sugar Town ― will undoubtedly change the look and feel of Sugar House neighborhood.
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Tiny Houses May be the Solution to a Big Problem in SLC
Salt Lake City, like most metropolitan areas, has an affordable housing crisis along with a growing homeless crisis, and tiny houses may be the solution.
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Cash or Crops? Is Clark Burgess Selling His Orchards this Year?
With the land fetching around $1 million per acre or more, Burgess and his children are realizing that the enormous difficulty of maintaining operations compared to the enormous ease of…
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The High Cost of Cheap Food
In just four generations, the main health worry of all inhabitants of the western world has shifted from starvation to obesity.
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The February 2021 Fun Guide and the End of the World
The world will end in 2021. (The middle of that sentence is where you would expect me to make the disclaimer, “as we know it”.) But the world will actually…
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Getting to the Heart of the Black Lives Matter Movement
Criminal justice and police reform are central for the cures to the problem, but it’s much better — in our estimation — to understand the heart of the problem, to…
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Fringe Gambling in Utah- New Law Takes Another Swipe at a Persistent Pastime
Whether in the form of poker games in mining town saloons to less obvious games of chance such as church raffles, gambling has been a secret vice in Utah since…
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Why REI, Levis and Coca Cola, and many local businesses are no longer advertising on Facebook
Stop hate for profit has gained enormous momentum in ending the spread of misinformation and hate on the social media platform. It was announced today that Starbucks and Pepsi will…
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Psychedelics Craze Spreads to Utah
As research and main-stream acceptance of psychedelics has spread across the United States, the movement officially arrived in Utah.
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A Tale of Two Prisons: Construction of a modernized state penitentiary is underway almost 70 years after the closure of Utah’s first state prison in Sugar House
Nearly 70 years ago, Utah’s first state prison closed its doors and was transformed into the much-loved Sugar House Park. Construction is now underway on a new penitentiary that is…
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Cash Canyon: Former Lawmaker’s Bill to Allow Canyon Tolling Benefit His Development Project
In the 2018 Legislature, then-Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, one of the most powerful legislators on the hill, presented a bill in a committee to pave the way for toll roads…
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Moab’s Affordable Housing—Is There Hope?
One might deduce that there is an affordable housing crisis when stories are circulated of working adults living with their parents, camped out on public lands and in the yards…
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How to Distinguish Between “Fact” and “Fake”
In order to get all the facts about a story or issue, balance your Fox News viewing with a more mainstream and objective source of news such as Bloomberg, NPR,…