We love our cars. We love driving them everywhere. We shuttle our kids around, pamper our cars with the best gasoline and fresh suds from the carwash — the Carnauba hot wax treatment. We drive to work and back, drive the kids to Jiu-Jitsu and dance lessons, drive to get out of the house, drive to the gym, and drive to visit “nature”. Nature has become something “out there”. … [Read more...]
Salt Lake City’s Inland Port: From Bad to Worse
Opinion Just twenty-five years ago Salt Lake City’s tech sector was a tiny piece of the economic picture of the region, Geneva’s plant in Vineyard, Utah was still producing thousands of tons of steel and Utah’s mining industries and toxic waste disposal were leading sectors of the economy. Back then an “inland port” offering more jobs, more traffic to Salt Lake City’s airport … [Read more...]
Will Utah Run Out of Water?
Paul Nielson is a fourth-generation farmer in Perry, Utah who has personally been at it for fifty years. “In all my years of farming it has never been this bad,” he observes. Nielson serves on the Weber-Box (Weber County/Box Elder Water Conservation Board of Directors, which controls the outflow of water from Pineview Reservoir. With Pineview being at its lowest level in years, … [Read more...]
Destruction of Great Salt Lake in the Name of Progress
We are destroying the Great Salt Lake. We are turning this once mighty Great Lake into a cesspool. If “progress” wins, the lake will indeed die. The inland port, which promises to poison the food supply for millions of migratory birds, moves forward. The proposed landfill on the inlet of where the Salt Creek flows into the GSL, where thousands of ducks and … [Read more...]
Are Sports More Important than Safety?
High school has been extremely difficult for students because of Covid-19. For 2021 seniors, it is even tougher. Their last year of high school has been unprecedented. Things have been flipped upside down. School dances and many other events have been canceled. In hard times, students need friends and extracurricular activities to unite them as a community. Yet, … [Read more...]
Is the Rise of Hard Seltzer the Future of Craft Beer?
It all started with a few billboards for White Claw... That was before I saw the end caps in supermarkets. Then I believe the ads appeared on buses and Trax. “Could this really be happening?“ I thought. “Could this White Claw and ‘hard seltzer’ replace beer as La Croix and energy drinks are replacing soda?" Consumer fads are hard to differentiate from actual cultural … [Read more...]
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 end in so many forms, that for many, it will become unrecognizable. Due to these changes, many Utahns are unnecessarily fearing the very worst. But this is not a message of doom and gloom. There is hope on the horizon. … [Read more...]
Do We Need to Ruin Local Economy to Support “Indigenous Renewal”?
We don’t need to ruin the area’s local economy under the guise of a sanctimonious indigenous renewal, which will only result in providing the federal government greater powers in landlordship. There is a better alternative than locking up land under greater federal control for improving the land’s viability both economically and environmentally. A major part of this idea … [Read more...]
Another Take on the Moral Implications of Bears Ears Size Reduction
The moral implications of Bears Ears This is in reply to an editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune published on December 3rd, 2020 written on the subject of Bears Ears National Monument and the “ethical implications” of the policy of the reduction of its size. Mrs. Shea Sawyer asserts that the re-expansion of Bears Ears will allow for a “sustainable modern society that honors … [Read more...]
From our readers: On Eliminating the Electoral College
The debate has started again as to whether the US Constitution should be amended in order to change the presidential election process. Some promote eliminating the Electoral College in favor of a direct popular vote for president while others believe the Electoral College should remain unchanged. Just as compromise solved the initial problems of the framers so it is that … [Read more...]