The Bravo Network reality TV show franchise "real housewives'' has become a massive hit. This past year they added Salt Lake City to their roster of cities. Their formula is to put ladies who fit a unique set of physical characteristics together. The ladies are almost always tanned, evening-gown-wearing, glittery, dramatic, and out-spoken. For some reason, I don’t see ladies … [Read more...]
How Did Dave Robinson Get Away with Alleged Sexual Misconduct for so Long?
Salt Lake County Republican Party Chair Scott Miller stepped down due to increasing pressure from the media and the Republican Party about the mishandling of sexual harassment allegations. This story has been traveling around local news, but we at Utah Stories decided to ask a question that the other media isn’t asking: “How did Republican Chairman Scott Miller allow Dave … [Read more...]
Finding Focus:Advice from Bestselling Authors Mathew McConaughey and Tim Ferriss
In this episode of the Utah Stories podcast we depart from news, and we delve into a life philosophy. The main question we are seeking to answer is: How do we maintain focus in a world full of distractions? We find answers from a best-selling book, written for entrepreneurs nearly 14 years ago, "The Four-Hour Workweek." by Tim Ferriss and McConaughey's best-selling new book … [Read more...]
The Equality Act and Women’s Athletics in Utah
What do Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and Abigail Shrier have to say about trans-women (biological men) competing in women's athletics? Currently, Utah and other states are at a crossroads: We need to decide if we value the new NCAA compliance standards, more than the gains that women have achieved in athletics. The new NCAA standards allow trans girls to compete in girls' … [Read more...]
The Impact The Open Border Policy Has on Utah
There are currently over 3,000 children detained at the border. This is just a fraction of the 11,000 unaccompanied minors who have entered the country in 2021. The number of migrants crossing the border is now at a 20-year high. “On Monday, March 12, the border patrol took in 280 minors in the Rio Grande Valley sector. America needs to know how these children … [Read more...]
Should Utah Allow Transgender Girls – Biological Boys Compete in Sports against Biological Girls?
This past legislative session Utah joined 20 other states that proposed banning transgender girls (biological boys) from competing in school sports. HB 302, was introduced by Kera Birkeland R-Morgan, who is a women's athletics advocate. She made it clear in her statement: “This bill was never about not including others, and I want to make that very clear. This bill is about … [Read more...]
Who is Mitt Romney?
This past week Mitt Romney appeared out to prove all of the Utahns who are calling him a RINO (Republican in Name Only), that he is in fact a fiscal conservative as he called Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid Relief package, "a clunker". Romney pointed out how the United States is currently $23 trillion in debt, and that as interest rates begin to rise, there is no doubt that the … [Read more...]
Will The Church Be Softening Its Policy Regarding The Same Sex Marriage?
It’s been one year since BYU issued a statement that they will not be allowing nor providing any type of endorsement for same-sex couples or same-sex marriage. This statement released by the BYU honor code came as a blow to LGBQT students enrolled at BYU. Student organizer Baily Luck, a senior put together flyers and organized around fifty students who hiked up the hill with … [Read more...]
Utah’s Identity Crisis: Will Crony Capitalism Define Utah’s Future?
Get the story behind the settlement and development of the Great Basin in this episode of the Utah Stories Show that dives deep into Mormon Pioneer history and the community building efforts of the early pioneers. Find out what they had right, that we have largely forgotten. Why is this relevant today? Utah has now more tech jobs per capita than any other state. Our … [Read more...]
Can you still speak your mind on Instagram?
Big-tech is taking aim at the voices on the right and silencing decent. They do this under the pretense that they are preventing violence and hate speech. This perhaps seems justified to many Americans. But now voices on the center and independent publishers are being silenced as well. Utah Stories' mission is to promote civil discourse and the voices on both sides of … [Read more...]