Would you rather walk around Sugar House or the big-box complexes in Sandy? Would you prefer to window shop in Park City or Draper’s Big-Box Furniture Row that offers acres of asphalt parking? Would you rather live in a rambler in Taylorsville or an old two-story Victorian mining house in Park City? These might sound like silly questions because if you know these cities … [Read more...]
The Magnolia Apartments: The new Homes for the Homeless are a “Complete Failure” According to an Inside Source
An inside source provides Utah Stories with an inside look into the reality of the Magnolia Apartments. Salt Lake City, along with the organization Shelter the Homeless, have been working to build “permanent supportive housing units for the chronically homeless”. The Housing First Model is an excellent idea in its basic theory: give temporary homes to the homeless first so … [Read more...]
Challenges and Obstacles to Maintaining the Utah Lifestyle
In the 1840s, a persecuted religious group headed west, braving hostile Indian/Mexican territory so they could control their own destiny. The Mormons designed and built this grid city so that everyone coming could homestead and raise their own food away from the menacing factories and the industrial revolution. They voted for a more simple self-sufficient lifestyle by moving … [Read more...]
Localism vs. Globalism: Utah Companies Bill Gates put out of Business
The world’s global elites convened last week in Davos, Switzerland to decide how to steer the ship they control–the world economy. Should we embrace their vision of the future? Leaders like Bill Gates and those who put more miles on their private jets in one year than most people will travel in their entire lives, want to tell us how to live our lives and more importantly … [Read more...]
Utah’s Saints & Sinners
Reconciling the strange world of living amongst one of the most dominant cultural/political/religious forces in the world as a “sinner” has been interesting. It was discovered over a decade ago that Utahns consumed more online porn than any other state. This became a serious problem. Surveys and polls showed that virtually zero LDS members admitted to viewing porn, but it … [Read more...]
Free Speech and Censoring of Independent Voices and News Outlets
Big Tech platforms such as Twitter and Facebook along with large corporate media outlets are actively silencing and censoring independent voices and opinions. Utah Stories has personally been silenced and shadow-banned for our social medical posts on the LDS Church's involvement in Utah's medical cannabis legislation, as well as our coverage of a right-wing protest at Utah's … [Read more...]
Five Points that the Utah State Legislature Should Consider in Revising Utah’s Medical Cannabis Laws
The Utah State Legislature has been working to fix the original highly flawed medical cannabis legislation since its inception in 2018. While the cannabis laws have come a long way from where they began, there are still some enormous flaws that end up limiting patient access to only the upper-class and wealthy, due to the medical recommendation card requirement. Perhaps by … [Read more...]
Big Corporations Preventing the Shift in Medicine and Wellbeing?
How Big Pharma is preventing the massive shift in medicine and wellbeing Today, Big Pharma, Big Tobacco and Big Alcohol, all billion-dollar industries, are undergoing a sea-change in their market share and growth potential due to the re-emergence of ancient healing practices and medicine. This is a story that the mainstream media isn’t covering much because so much of Big … [Read more...]
Why Beer Is The Answer To Our Biggest Problems
Have you watched the news lately? If not, let me fill you in: We are destroying our oceans, our soil, our ecosystems. A few more hot button items: Inflation is at an all-time high Housing prices as a ratio of take-home-pay is at an all-time high Kids have been home from school more days in the past two years than since the Pioneers spun wool. International turmoil … [Read more...]
Joe Rogan vs. CNN
Mainstream Media Culpability in the Rise of Extremism Whether you believe the main-stream media is as pure as the white-driven snow, or you believe that many main-stream media outlets regularly cover-up and commit acts of censorship and bias– Into the Storm documentary series is worth watching to better understand what happens when the “hostility of repression speeds up the … [Read more...]