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Bulldozing Utah Farms For Vacation Condos: Is this what progress looks like?

December 9, 2020 by Richard Markosian Leave a Comment

Why isn’t food security and the preservation of farms and fertile soil and water an issue in Utah?  Fights in Costco and grocery stores over scarce food items during Covid-19 demonstrate that food security and preservation of farms must be a greater concern of Utah political leaders. This past spring we had a small window into what happens when food insecurity and the … [Read more...]

Salt Lake City Must Decide If We Are Smart Enough for Smart Growth with Soren Simonsen

January 2, 2020 by Richard Markosian Leave a Comment

There is plenty of excellent planning in the Salt Lake Valley.  "But we have to focus on implementing what we say we are going to do," says Soren Simonsen, executive director of the Jordan River Commission. Simonsen says that the focus on the auto must evolve to emphasize public transit and personal mobility.  "We don't solve our traffic problem by adding capacity to roads.  … [Read more...]

Six Legal Questions Concerning Salt Lake City’s Inland Port

November 9, 2019 by Richard Markosian Leave a Comment

  Salt Lake’s contentious inland port will undoubtedly impact the quality of life for City residents, especially those who live at the lower elevations along the Wasatch Front. It will add hundreds if not thousands of additional semi trucks to our roads, hundreds of additional jumbo cargo airplanes to our airways; and massive amounts of pollution to our air—which has … [Read more...]

Utah medical cannabis: the green lottery heats up

June 6, 2019 by Richard Markosian Leave a Comment

On the afternoon of June 6,  the second floor of the Utah Department of Agriculture was packed full of people who want to be farmers. But farmers? or lottery winners? These farmers will be licensed to grow product that hasn't been legally grown in Utah since before 1930. Medical Cannabis farms are coming to Utah. And these prospective "farmers" are actually mostly monied … [Read more...]

Salt Lake City Housing Crisis, Escalating Real Estate Prices and What is Being Done about It

May 8, 2019 by Richard Markosian Leave a Comment

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...]

 Boom Town: Salt Lake City and Utah are Rising

January 7, 2019 by Richard Markosian Leave a Comment

  The main local headline for 2019 is that Utah is officially a boom state, with no end in sight. According to U.S. News and World Report, Utah is the third fastest-growing state, just behind Idaho and Nevada. Salt Lake City was number 24 on Forbes list of fastest growing cities. Saint George appeared in the top ten fastest growing cities on two lists. Provo and … [Read more...]

Rafting the Yampa: A Libertarian Publisher is Exposed to the Beliefs, History and Ideology of Environmental Protectionists

July 29, 2018 by Richard Markosian Leave a Comment

“Okay,” I thought, “I’m going to be going down a river with people whose primary ideology I disagree with.” But then I reasoned, “maybe my point of view could provide an interesting story. Why should every story be about everyone being agreeable? I’ll go, I decided, be nice yet disagreeable, and completely honest.” So I went on a trip down the Yampa River with a group of … [Read more...]

Utah’s Changing Landscape

May 7, 2018 by Richard Markosian Leave a Comment

Taking my dogs running around Sugar House's main corridors offers a constantly changing landscape. First we run around Sugar House Park; then along the PRATT trail under 1300 East tunnel; we then go around Fairmont Park to the new dog park, then west along the S-Line Greenway to 700 East. Along this route we hear the constant pounding of nails, and sawing of boards, and witness … [Read more...]

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