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Why REI, Levis and Coca Cola, and many local businesses are no longer advertising on Facebook
Stop hate for profit has gained enormous momentum in ending the spread of misinformation and hate on the social media platform. It was announced today that Starbucks and Pepsi will…
Utah’s COVID Conundrum: When to Reopen Critical “Essential” Local Businesses?
The state, city and county leaders find themselves in a position where they are able to essentially pick economic winners and losers. Now a month into this Utah has seen…
Psychedelics Craze Spreads to Utah
As research and main-stream acceptance of psychedelics has spread across the United States, the movement officially arrived in Utah.
A Tale of Two Prisons: Construction of a modernized state penitentiary is underway almost 70 years after the closure of Utah’s first state prison in Sugar House
Nearly 70 years ago, Utah’s first state prison closed its doors and was transformed into the much-loved Sugar House Park. Construction is now underway on a new penitentiary that is…
Cash Canyon: Former Lawmaker’s Bill to Allow Canyon Tolling Benefit His Development Project
In the 2018 Legislature, then-Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, one of the most powerful legislators on the hill, presented a bill in a committee to pave the way for toll roads…
The Lawsuit Challenging Southern Utah’s Wilderness
The Dingell Act was a rare glimpse of true bipartisanship, passing 92-8 in the Senate and boasting a diverse list of cosponsors. Praised by the likes of Dianne Feinstein, Mitt…
Moab’s Affordable Housing—Is There Hope?
One might deduce that there is an affordable housing crisis when stories are circulated of working adults living with their parents, camped out on public lands and in the yards…
How to Distinguish Between “Fact” and “Fake”
In order to get all the facts about a story or issue, balance your Fox News viewing with a more mainstream and objective source of news such as Bloomberg, NPR,…
Downtown Salt Lake: Out With the Old, In With the New
Rising rents and redevelopment of aging infrastructure have left many long-standing businesses priced out of the market or evicted.
Utahns Strike for Climate Action
A broad cross-section of Utahns, from schoolchildren to the elderly, braved a drizzly Friday on the north steps of the City and County Building to strike in protest of a…
Little Cottonwood Canyon is under threat by Utah’s population boom
Today, 2019, the environmental infrastructure in place to accommodate both the protection of Little Cottonwood Canyon’s natural beauty and protect what’s left of it, as well as preserving the people’s…
Utah State-controlled Medical Cannabis is up in smoke
Highly flawed central fill concept gets shot down The highly flawed central fill distributions center for medical cannabis in Utah has been scratched. Lawmakers are now crafting a bill that…
Salt Lake City mayoral candidates David Ibarra & Luz Escamilla weigh in on issues that affect You
Luz Escamilla and David Ibarra are both vying for the title of mayor of Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City faces a lot of problems, issues that affect each one of…
Former Utah Mayor Rocky Anderson—”I think the people should rise up!”
We talked openly about Salt Lake City local businesses, economic development, the Inland Port, how the state’s medical cannabis compromise bill (3001) puts federal dollars in jeopardy, and the future…
Utah farmer seeking medical cannabis grow permit
Now that medical cannabis in Utah has been legalized, it’s time to turn our attention to how the medicinal plant will be grown—will there be supply to meet the projected…
Bangerter Farms update: “I can guarantee the land will never be anything but a farm.”
A year after Farmington granted agricultural protection for the Bangerter family farm, a 22-acre plot of farmland, and ended any effort to put soccer fields on the site, the city’s…