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Why We’re Less Healthy Than Our Parents and What Happened
Something has gone wrong with our health. Each generation appears sicker than the one before, despite spending more on medicine than any society in history. At the same time, trust…
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Chronic Disease in America: Treating Too Late, Prescribing Too Much
Every January, Americans reflect on the year behind them and draft a familiar list of resolutions. Eat better. Lose weight. Exercise more. Reduce stress. These intentions recur not because people…
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From Immigrant Miner to U.S. Senator: The Rise of Thomas Kearns in Park City
In June of 1883, 21-year-old Thomas Kearns arrived in Park City with little to his name and no guarantee of success. Like many young men drawn to the mining camps…
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An Argentine Food Tradition Finds a Home in Sugar House
In Sugar House, Maria Florencia Farr makes empanadas that carry more than filling. They carry memory. Each one recalls suburban Buenos Aires, where families gathered late at night and meals…
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Utah Craft Whiskey: How Barrels and Utah’s Climate Shape Flavor
Utah’s craft whiskey scene is shaped by more than grain, yeast, and time. The state’s dry climate plays an unusually powerful role in how spirits age, intensifying the relationship between…
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Utah Year in Review: Free Speech, Media, and the Fracturing of American Discourse
Three months after a political killing in Utah stunned the nation, the shock has faded but the consequences have not. What followed was not collective reflection, but open celebration from…
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Ogden Valley City Incorporates as Voters Deliver a Surprising Mayoral Outcome
Ogden Valley City has officially incorporated at a pivotal moment for northern Utah, just as growth pressures tied to the 2034 Winter Olympics begin to accelerate. Voters also delivered an…
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From Dead Walmarts to a Billion Dollar Trampoline Empire
Dead Walmarts and gutted Kmarts sit across America as relics of a failed retail era. While most saw blight, Sky Zone founder Case Lawrence saw potential. His path from near…
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The Utah Village Proving Housing First Was Never Enough
Utah has spent years investing in Housing First, yet homelessness continues to rise and street conditions grow more chaotic. In the middle of this debate, a small village on Salt…
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The Real Battle of Our Age Isn’t Political — It’s Spiritual
The turmoil of our age doesn’t feel accidental anymore. Outrage and tribalism have become the air we breathe, pushed through our screens and fed to us as if division were…
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Utah’s Wine Loophole
Most people assume Utah is the strictest state in the nation for alcohol. One small importer discovered the opposite—and uncovered a legal quirk that gives Utah more freedom than the…
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Purpose, Pressure, and Reinvention in Utah’s Restaurant World
An immigrant restaurateur built twelve Utah restaurants while wrestling with purpose, burnout, and personal reinvention. Her story reveals what happens when ambition collides with identity inside one of the state’s…
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Sugar House Restaurants on the Rise: New Spots Reshaping the Neighborhood
Sugar House is in the middle of a full-scale dining shift. Over the past two years, new openings, relocations, and rebrands have reshaped the neighborhood, bringing everything from shabu-shabu and…
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The Haunting History of Park City’s Glenwood Cemetery
In Park City’s Glenwood Cemetery lies the town’s first music teacher, who listened to his own funeral concert through a telephone. Around him rest miners crushed in avalanches, children lost…
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Halloween in Ogden: Haunted Houses, Neighborhood Displays, and Fall Festivals
Ogden transforms every October. Streets become haunted spectacles, farms turn into fall wonderlands, and ghost stories echo through historic districts. From pumpkin patches to bone-chilling haunted houses, here’s where the…
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Utah’s X-Files: Is Utah Ground Zero for Alien Activity?
From reptilian encounters in Provo to strange lights over Utah Lake, the Beehive State is a hotbed of mystery. As UAP hearings unfold in Washington, Utah’s skies—and stories—are drawing new…