Richard Markosian
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Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon: A Gondola Wins, Granolas Lose
UDOT (Utah Department of Transportation) determines to move forward with the Little Cottonwood Canyon expansion plan, which is a gondola serving Snowbird and Alta skiers using Utah’s taxpayers’ dollars.
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Salt Lake City’s Homeless Abatement Policies Examined
The cruelty of moving unsheltered people and families from empty lots who have nowhere else to stay is essentially harassing residents in dire need of assistance.
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Investigating Homelessness Death and Public Safety in Utah
How much has Salt Lake City spent on homeless “abatements”? Is there a better solution? Abatements are cruel and ineffective.
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New York Times Journalist Appalled by the Homeless Situation in Salt Lake
New York Times photographer Robin Pendergrast says Salt Lake City’s ongoing efforts to clear out homeless people are inhumane and unnecessary.
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Demise of Port O’ Call and Why Did the Borg Arrive In Utah?
The hidden story behind why Port O’Call, Salt Lake City’s most iconic bar of all time was replaced by a Borg cube.
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Is There a Homeless Serial Killer on the Loose Who The Salt Lake City Police Department is Refusing to Investigate?
It appears that the lives of the homeless and those who have been squeezed out of the housing market are in peril and the SLCPD made no comment about any…
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Local and Mixed-Use Superior to Corporate Big Box Zoning
Mixed-use developments (a combination of retail and living space in one area) nearly always outperform strip malls, big-box developments and suburban-style cul-de-sac developments in terms of overall tax revenue collected…
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Priced Out of the Rental Market Utah: Single Homeless Mother Explains Difficulty of Current Housing Crisis
The current rental market in Salt Lake City and beyond is pricing people out, who are ending up on the streets.
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Pioneer Day & Mormon Pioneer History (They Don’t Talk About)
Why Utahns celebrate Pioneer Day and the less known history of Mormon Pioneers coming to the Great Basin and forming a new state, Utah.