Inspiration
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Beyond Religious Labels: Utah’s Interfaith Roundtable
A place for all faiths to congregate, share ideas, and educate.
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Six Progressive Utah Women Making Waves
In honor of Women’s History Month, Utah Stories is celebrating Utah women by naming some of the most influential women in the Salt Lake area.
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San Rafael Secrets: What Did Madame Marie Curie Do in the Middle of a Utah Desert?
High-quality uranium brought Madame Curie to Emery County Deep in the San Rafael Swell lie the lonely stone remnants of the Temple Mountain townsite, a remote cluster of stone cabins where…
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Studio Artistic: An Immigrant Story That Will Make You Believe In The American Dream Again
Marcelo Galvan immigrated to the United States from Argentina as a young man and built up a successful business creating ornamental ironwork.
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Making New Year’s Resolutions That Stick
The new year is upon us. So, how can we make 2022 different and set a resolution this year that we can actually keep?
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Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: Park City woman seeks to ascend Seven Second Summits
Park City woman, Jennifer Drummond planning to ascend Seven Second Summits, the second-highest mountains on each of the seven continents.
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Do We Need to Ruin Local Economy to Support “Indigenous Renewal”?
We don’t need to ruin the area’s economy under the guise of a sanctimonious indigenous renewal, which will only result in providing the federal government greater powers in landlordship.
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What are those Take-a-Book Leave-a-Book Boxes You’ve been seeing in Sugar House all about?
The take-a-book leave-a-book boxes seen in Sugar House are known as Little Free Libraries. These are small, sidewalk adjacent book houses eagerly waiting to share their contents with a passerby.
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Hidden Utah
Utah is a massive place. In twelve years of writing Utah Stories, I can still say I’ve only seen a small fraction of this incredible state. Every year if I…
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Sewing for Lives: 11,000 volunteers are sewing mask covers
Sewing for Lives: 11,000 volunteers are sewing cloth mask covers to go over the n95 masks (medical masks) to extend their use to help healthcare professionals.
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Embracing Life: From Teenage Drug Addiction to Happily Ever After
Br’ette, destined to be a more rebellious teenager than most, was literally on the brink of death from her drug addictions a decade earlier. Today she works full-time, is raising…
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Keira Shae: Writer Survives the Unimaginable
in her memoir, How the Light Gets In Keira Shae talks about growing up in poverty, neglect, mental, physical, and sexual abuse.
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Starry Starry Night: Dark Sky Parks and Research Flourish in Utah
While Utah is known around the world for extraordinary landscapes, the International Dark Skies Association has designated 15 official Dark-Sky Parks in the Beehive state—more than any other place in…
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The Other Side Academy: A Home for Recovering Addicts and Criminals in Salt Lake City
The Other Side Academy is a home for recovering addicts and criminals in Salt Lake City.
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How To Beat The Virus Without Feeling Like a Prisoner
Sheltering in place isn’t easy for any of us, but there are ways to maintain some semblance of normalcy without feeling like prisoners in our own homes.
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Life Well-Lived: Physical Impairments Not a Factor in Exceptional Accomplishments of Bradley Hintze
Bradley Hintze was born with mild cerebral palsy, and in his teens developed a neurological disorder of the neck called cervical dystonia. He has always been pragmatic about the effect…