Big tech is censoring us, tracking us, selling our personal data to corporations to advertise to us more efficiently. We buy everything on Amazon, book our hotels on Expedia and rooms on AirB&b, get around on Uber and get all our news from YouTube and Facebook. We make Silicon Valley executives and Wall Street investors insanely rich, while our local small businesses and … [Read more...]
A Brief History of the Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake was born Lake Bonneville ― the massive inland sea that covered the entire area that is now the Salt Lake Valley, Provo/Orem Valley, and well north of Ogden. The sea extended as far North as Idaho and South to Nevada. It was 150 miles from east to west and 250 miles from north to south. Its shores extended high on the east “benches” and its waves lapped … [Read more...]
Could Tiny Homes Be the Answer to Utah’s Affordable Housing Shortage?
A Tiny Home Village is A Much Better Solution Than “Housing First” to Alleviate Utah’s Affordable Housing Crisis A tiny home village in Austin, Texas called Community First! Village, has been working to help alleviate the working-poor homeless gap in Austin, Texas, which is even more of a boom-town than Salt Lake City. It’s a much better solution for the working poor … [Read more...]
Six Years of Failed Homeless Policy in Salt Lake City
A look back at the last six years of Salt Lake City’s projects for handling chronic homelessness Eric Vini, a working homeless man put it this way, “They will give another person a house that is not working, but a working person can’t get a house!” Vini added, “A person who is out here every day, can get a house, but a working person who is trying to be a productive citizen … [Read more...]
Utah Armenians Commemorate the Ottoman Turkish Armenian Genocide
Several dozen Utah-Armenians who are descendants of the genocide that occurred in Armenia in 1915 gathered at Washington Square on Sunday to commemorate the 106th anniversary of the Armenian genocide and show their solidarity and support for the official announcement that President Biden and the entire United States Government now officially recognizes the Armenian Genocide as … [Read more...]
Burgess Owens Receives Scathing Review from Salt Lake Tribune
Burgess Owens is an anomaly in Congress, not only does he serve from one of the most white states in America, but he is a staunch Republican. Out of the 57 black congressional members, just two are Republicans. But this fact has not made Owens shy to speak his mind. Owens has been outspoken on many issues including slavery reparations and the border crisis. He recently said … [Read more...]
Rep Burgess Owens Condems Democrats Who Call New Georgia’s Voting “Jim Crow” Laws
Utah Rep Burgess Owens-R was invited to the Senate Judiciary Committee to speak about the backlash that has resulted for Georgia changing their voting laws to require a government-issued photo ID for all voters. The mainstream media has been comparing these new laws with former segregation laws in the South. They have called the hearing, “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest … [Read more...]
Why are Utahns Curbing the Obesity Epidemic?
It's an economic truism: whatever a government wants more of they must subsidize. Whatever a government wants to see less of they must tax. This being the case, why is our government subsidizing the massive factory-farm producers of corn and sugar? If the government were truly interested in helping the overall population of the United States to remain more healthy, why would … [Read more...]
A Visit to Utah’s Largest Medical Cannabis Farm
Two years ago there were 80 hopeful applicants vying for the coveted “golden ticket” to be one of ten of the official medical cannabis growers for Utah’s medical cannabis program. Only eight were chosen, one provisionally. The capital requirements disqualified 90% of applicants. Indoor-growing using hydroponics disqualified many more. To produce a consistent product, an … [Read more...]
Mark Hofmann’s Forgeries in the Rare Coin World Still in Circulation Today
Murder among the Mormons is the new Netflix film Directed by Jared Hess. The documentary film depicts the life of Mark Hofmann. The film does not spend much time on how Hofmann began producing successful forgeries of coins as young as fourteen. Hofmann's early forgery career was almost exclusively in coins and rare Mormon currency and he likely created hundreds of … [Read more...]