POSTED // Nov 24,2010 - It was an unusually hot day on May 27, 2009—eventually climbing to 93 degrees with a searing sun and few clouds. Despite the heat, Kenneth Dewey Christensen, 75, was in search of soup.

POSTED // Nov 10,2010 - As the final seconds of Jose Hernandez’s life trickled out with his blood as he lay on the ground in Mexico, his last thoughts may well have been of Utah.

POSTED // Nov 3,2010 - Some short while after I accepted a professorship to teach communications in Utah, a strange business opened its doors around the corner from my new home and horrified me.

POSTED // Oct 27,2010 - In almost every race, the economy and immigration are the primary focus for voters, with the philosophical debate about ethics not far behind.

POSTED // Oct 27,2010 - In a year when the economy and immigration dominate political debates, the military has become the ignored front-page news. Even in federal races...

POSTED // Oct 27,2010 - When it came time to vote at the Republican caucus meeting, an elderly man approached Salt Lake County District Attorney Lohra Miller.

POSTED // Oct 26,2010 - Not only did a gay-rights bills fail to get a hearing during the 2010 Legislature—that’s normal—the expected supporters among Democrats abandoned the gay community ...

POSTED // Oct 26,2010 - Salt Lake County’s canyons are in the playbooks of most politicians as “wonders” or “hidden gems” worth protecting at all costs ...

POSTED // Oct 20,2010 - When “Laila” went to a Salt Lake City hospital to report she had been raped, a counselor told her that in Utah, “You get in more trouble selling a bag of weed than raping a woman.”

POSTED // Oct 6,2010 - Since Nikitina had borrowed Hernandez’s car that day, he told police who he was and that his fiancee may have been in an accident driving his car. The officer told Hernandez, “Your fiancee has been shot."