Editorial
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Can Utahns Trust Their Leaders?
The gap between the will of the people and the will of the elites is growing — why?
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Utah’s Identity Crisis
In this article we examine Utah’s identity crisis, problems, corruption, LDS church dominance, homeless crisis and more.
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Why Printing a Magazine in the Era of Social Media?
We were reminded why we print Utah Stories on paper. We were struck once again with a “community violation strike” for telling the truth.
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A Look at Tenement Housing as Opposed to Government Housing
Crossing the Chasm From Homeless to Productive Citizen. How free-markets could succeed where the government has failed.
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The Failure of the Metaverse and the Rise of the Real World
Meta (Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a massive bet on the “Metaverse” or the concept that Facebook users would want a more “immersive experience” when they join online communities.
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Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon: A Gondola Wins, Granolas Lose
UDOT (Utah Department of Transportation) determines to move forward with the Little Cottonwood Canyon expansion plan, which is a gondola serving Snowbird and Alta skiers using Utah’s taxpayers’ dollars.
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Salt Lake City’s Homeless Abatement Policies Examined
The cruelty of moving unsheltered people and families from empty lots who have nowhere else to stay is essentially harassing residents in dire need of assistance.
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Local and Mixed-Use Superior to Corporate Big Box Zoning
Mixed-use developments (a combination of retail and living space in one area) nearly always outperform strip malls, big-box developments and suburban-style cul-de-sac developments in terms of overall tax revenue collected…
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The Magnolia Apartments: The new Homes for the Homeless are a “Complete Failure” According to an Inside Source
An inside source provides Utah Stories with a look into the reality of the Magnolia Apartments and its failure as a solution for homelessness.
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Challenges and Obstacles to Maintaining the Utah Lifestyle
Utah (to our benefit) has always been considered a little too weird for most Americans. It has traditionally drawn far fewer migrants than Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Austin. But…
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Localism vs. Globalism: Utah Companies Bill Gates put out of Business
The worst of Bill Gates’ elitist policies is his idea about farming and agriculture. Gates is buying up farmland all over the United States. He wants to control more water…
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Utah’s Saints & Sinners
Reconciling the strange world of living in Utah as a “sinner” after leaving the LDS Church has been interesting.
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Free Speech and Censoring of Independent Voices and News Outlets
Democracy can only flourish if there can be free speech, free discussion and debate over the most important topics and issues.
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Five Points that the Utah State Legislature Should Consider in Revising Utah’s Medical Cannabis Laws
Five points on why easier access to medical cannabis can help solve problems such as the opioid epidemic and overdosing on fentanyl.
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Big Corporations Preventing the Shift in Medicine and Wellbeing?
Today, Big Pharma, Big Tobacco and Big Alcohol, all billion-dollar industries, are undergoing a sea-change in their market share and growth potential due to the re-emergence of ancient technologies and…
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Why Beer Is The Answer To Our Biggest Problems
All of the fears we believe in are mostly media products that are marketed and sold to us so that we’ll buy into the hysteria. So now, more than ever,…