During the 2012 election, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin drew fire for supporting aerial wolf hunting. Palin claimed this type of hunting was needed to control wolves in a state that “depends on wildlife for food and cultural practices which can’t be sustained when predators are allowed to decimate moose and caribou populations.” Today, she might not draw … [Read more...]
How and Why Tuition in Utah Has Doubled in the Last Decade
As Austin Dalry, a 26-year-old University of Utah student, makes his way from the parking lot to his nearest class across campus, several lavish new buildings meet his eye. This is very different from the campus he was first introduced to back in 2007. The new buildings,such as state-of-the-art facilities from the athletic department to the education building to the David … [Read more...]
Billboard Nation: Why Utah is Being Overrun by Billboards and Distracting Ads
November and December are the best months to see the scenery along Utah’s roads. Residents and tourists alike await the fall colors on Mount Timpanogos and the snow dusting Mount Olympus. But these views are becoming more scarce. We didn’t take an official survey, but everyone we spoke to—100% of those polled—said they would prefer to see mountains instead of billboards. So w … [Read more...]
How Salt Lake City’s Main Street Was Traded for Wall Street, Pt. 2
Out With the Old, In with the New The vision of the future was to construct buildings which didn’t offer arched entrances, overhanging awnings, or sandstone carved blocks. Instead, the buildings used cement dotted with pea gravel and parking terraces made of reinforced concrete. Hand-carved stone and brick was out; cinderblock, steel, skyscrapers and concrete, and very bland f … [Read more...]
How Salt Lake City’s Main Street Was Traded for Wall Street, Pt. 1
They say pictures never lie. The photographs of downtown Salt Lake City from the mid-1930s to 1950 show an interesting truth. Downtown was once the epicenter of the valley and populated with strong, flourishing local businesses. While the photographs of building facades and urban streets tell one story, historic economic data paints an entirely different truth. The truth was … [Read more...]
Cottonwood Heights Mayoral Election: Robinson vs Cullimore
It has been eight years since there has been competition in the Cottonwood Heights mayoral race. This year is different. Incumbent Mayor Kelvyn Cullimore, Jr. started his bid for re-election with three opponents. That number has whittled down to one – Peyton Robinson. Cullimore, a 33-year resident of Cottonwood Heights, was a member of the city incorporation group in 2004. He i … [Read more...]
Castle Creek Winery and Wine Making in Utah
"Move Over Napa Valley!" recalls lifelong Moab resident Arlis Roberts. “You couldn’t believe the excitement.” It was the early 1980s and the first four years of the Four-Corners Agricultural Development Agency of Moab. Vineyards sprouted up all over Grand County. The agency hoped to soften the blow of the uranium mill closure on the 1,500-resident town. Ken and Arlis Roberts we … [Read more...]
Tour of Utah
The Tour of Utah runs through rugged routes of Utah's scenic back country The fan’s clear favorite in Salt Lake City’s Stage Four of the Tour of Utah was German-born Jens Voigt, riding for Team RadioShack. He was the only rider who had posters in his honor, asking him to become Utah’s next governor. Voigt, at 41, is the oldest rider in the UCI tour, and is considered a top … [Read more...]
Chris Bodily Ogden Artist to Showcase Work
Chris Bodily’s illustrations are simultaneously raw, funny, messy, cartoonish, and heartbreaking. A big goofy monster holding prescriptions and wanting his heart to be seen with allusions to happiness scribbled on the wall says volumes about the human condition, his and ours. He wants us to take a closer look. Chris has struggled with heavy realities in his life: the early lo … [Read more...]
The Motorcycle Desert Doctor of Escalante
Looking around the town of Escalante we see old pioneer homes. Other homes have watchdogs and barbed wire with all sorts of junk in the front yard. Driving past the Desert Doctor’s abode we find a motorcycle hospital far removed from any medical plan imaginable. The Good Doctor’s operating room is just off Main Street. It’s impossible to miss with its hand-painted tires listi … [Read more...]