Can USANA deal with Chinese laws? Major multi-level marketing companies like USANA face crackdowns in China, where the business practice is widespread, sometimes violent, and very illegal. The following story was written and reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah Stories. USANA encounters multi-level problems in China Multi-level … [Read more...]
Salt Lake City Housing Crisis, Escalating Real Estate Prices and What is Being Done about It
A conversation with Salt Lake City Planning Director Nick Norris Utah's population growth Salt Lake City is one of the fastest growing cities in the country and Utah’s population is quickly growing. For the first time since the Mormon Pioneers settled in Salt Lake City, there are thousands of people who want to live, work and play in downtown Salt Lake City and they are … [Read more...]
Medical Marijuana in Utah
This November Utahns have one major issue on the ballot that could dramatically alter our extreme-red, hyper-conservative state: the legalization of medical marijuana. The ballot initiative Proposition Two seeks to allow residents to utilize marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation. Currently 66 percent of Utah voters support this initiative. This would also allow for … [Read more...]
What Are The Causes of Utah’s Opiate Addiction Epidemic?
Bill (name changed) was a bright and happy kid who loved his family and life. He grew up, got married, had a successful career and bought a house. He had two beautiful children. Then a few years ago he was in an accident that left him in pain. He was prescribed pain pills and became addicted. He lost his family and home as he came to care about the drug more than anything else … [Read more...]
Young Living Farms Receives a Warning Letter from the FDA
Young Living Farms based out of Lehi, Utah has been selling essential oils for medicinal properties since they were founded by D. Gary Young over twenty years ago. Some of the claims D. Gary Young has personally made include that their essential oils can cure a myriad of illnesses and that their oils can also prevent disease. It's clear from the debate surrounding this issue … [Read more...]
West-ward Ho: Cowboy West Taylor
The pursuit of happiness comes in all forms, including how one St. George man made his dreams come true after having his house foreclosed and losing everything. “I remember being in the city and working and the stress, and I was wondering how I was going to just get happy. How am I ever going to achieve happiness?” West Taylor is sitting with us under a leaky outdoor … [Read more...]
Young Living Farms Wacky Somalian Adventures
Sultan Yusuf Ahmed Salah of Somalia recently posted a YouTube video in which he claims that Young Essential Oils Founder Gary Young visited Somalia to test resins from their rare Frankincense trees and write about his journey. According to Salah, Young promised to provide charitable donations to establish health clinics and money to train teachers. Young Living Farms’ legal … [Read more...]
Clean Air Rally A Huge Success According to Organizers
“It greatly exceeded our wildest expectations,” says Dr. Brian Moench of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, one of the organizers of the Clean Air, No Excuses Rally held on February 25, 2014 at the Utah State Capitol. According to Moench there were between four to five thousand people there, which was about ten times more than the organizers expected when they first … [Read more...]
Spooky Politics… Be Afraid
Did you ever stop to consider that Halloween and election day are so close to each other? They both have a lot in common - spectacles of gloom and doom, scary hereafters and hands extended for donations. Costumes also have much to do with it. For politicians and corporate types, wearing three-piece suits of armor psychologically shields them from the public. Such a costume … [Read more...]
School Lunch! Making yummy meals for kids.
Yummy School lunches that are healthy and good to eat! Let’s do lunch...at a Provo School District cafeteria! Whereas many school cafeterias are still mired in tater tots, Provo has created culinary concoctions that include rosemary chicken with sauteed mushrooms, roasted herb turkey, rice pilaf and watermelon popsicles. “We wanted to serve fresh, homemade meals and we just … [Read more...]
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