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Book bans, marijuana redactions and poop in mailboxes—recognizing the worst in government transparency.

The Foilies 2024
We're taught in school about checks and balances between the various branches of government, but those lessons tend to leave out the role that civilians play in holding officials accountable.

A Utah nonprofit works to turn unused food into meals for the hungry

Waste Not, Want Not
Each year, roughly 1.3 billion metric tons of food goes to waste worldwide, according to United Nations data, or roughly one-third of everything produced for human consumption.

The Secret Sauce

How Utah lawmakers disclose—or don't disclose—conflicts of interest.
But lawmakers' professional interests can also open the door for conflicts of interest.

Dating counselors help singles move past relationship hiccups and get to the next date.

Looking for Love
There were second dates, a few third dates, but no fourth dates. His relationships usually lasted three months or less.

Time is running out to give justice and medical aid to Utah's nuclear downwinders

Ticking Clock
Too many people have continued to suffer in the years since I wrote that story, and too many others have forgotten—or never knew—about the long trail of death left in the wake of four decades of weapons tests and production.

How DNA experts and law enforcement uncover hidden identities.

Written in Bone
He's a man of mystery. After all these years, no one knows his real name.

Sundance Film Festival celebrates four decades of groundbreaking independent film

40 for 40
They say that 50 is the new 40, and perhaps that notion applies to the Sundance Film Festival

SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall on her reelection victory, working with the Utah Legislature and the 'unrivaled' opportunities of the next decade.

Steady as She Goes
Erin Mendenhall began her second term as Salt Lake City mayor on Jan. 2, ringing in the new year with a swearing-in ceremony at downtown's Main Library.

Media censorship patterns signal a deeper truth: Our economics and our species' survival are deeply at odds.

Project Censored 2023
Each year, Project Censored releases a list of the Top 10 un- and under-reported news stories.

Corporate abuse and environmental harm dominate Project Censored's annual list of the Top 10 suppressed news stories

Project Censored 2023
"We have made the planet inhospitable to human life." That's what the lead researcher in Project Censored's No. 1 story this year said.

One of Utah's best-known police chiefs had a decadeslong side career defending police misconduct.

Use of Force
His stature is perhaps a natural denouement to a lengthy career in law enforcement, which he began in the 1970s working as a security guard while a student at Brigham Young University.

City Weekly's year-end guide to getting through the holidays and closing out those Christmas lists.

Gift Guide 2023
This city rocks! And there's no better time to pay back the love SLC has given us all than at the holidays. Got family in town?

While the Great Salt Lake dries up in the West, New Orleans faces its own saline crisis in the South

Salt and Water
Despite 2023 being what a lot of locals described as one of the hottest summers in memory, the positive trend of the past half-year was the notable lack of a tropical storm finding landfall.

Ski jumping legend Alf Engen helped put Utah's powder on the map

Athlete of the Century
Alf Engen was a ski jumper so remarkable, he broke the world record several times in a single day of competition—more than once.

Uncovering how two Utahns died on the job at Magna's Northrop Grumman plant.

Down in the Pit
Julie Steinke didn't see her son, Jonathan, 24, the morning he left their home to go die on the job at America's third-largest defense contractor.

Insiders look back on the 20-year evolution of Mormon Cinema

Mormonwood Magic
And it came to pass that yea, verily, the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs roamed, and then America was "discovered."

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