Utah ACLU: All Bark

Advocates worry that the ACLU of Utah has lost its bite.

POSTED // Apr 21,2010 - Carol Gnade may have come to Utah for the skiing, but she stayed for the civil-liberties abuses—or, more accurately, to defend against them ...

Gambling in Utah

Utah Hold ‘Em: Games of chance are illegal in Utah, but some players like their odds.

POSTED // Apr 14,2010 - I wasn’t thrilled to be out in an April evening snowstorm, tired, edgy and rushed—the only dinner I’d eaten was the smell of my wife’s lasagna...

End of an Era: John Saltas Sells City Weekly

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints buys Salt Lake City's alternative weekly.

POSTED // Mar 31,2010 - Today was bound to come. Things have been pretty good at City Weekly during a very difficult time in the newspaper industry ...

Judge Dread: Michael Kwan

If you're getting high while enrolled in Taylorsville drug court, Michael Kwan may make your life hell. Or not.

POSTED // Mar 24,2010 - Taylorsville Justice Court Judge Michael Kwan wants to know where the drug-court defendant got his meth. The man says that he got it at a 7-Eleven ...

Utah Legislative Wrap-Up 2010

All Hail Utah: This year, legislators made their gun slinging, fetus-protecting, climate-change denying pride loud and clear.

POSTED // Mar 17,2010 - It snows and temperatures hover around freezing during Utah’s winters. Come summer, the mercury can top 100 degrees ...

What Happened To 2010 Citizen Lobbyists

POSTED // Mar 17,2010 - Gay activist Eric Ethington feels he, and the LGBT community got screwed this year. “It seemed like the Legislature did not take much input from their constituents...

The Bad, Worse and Truly Evil

Ethical lapses dominate a session in which the little guy really got screwed.

POSTED // Mar 17,2010 - It’s ironic that the two men tasked with sponsoring, defending and ultimately passing ethics reform legislation this session were each caught in salacious scandals ...

Conservative Wrap-Up

The Sutherland Institute knows their work is not over until the liberals cry.

POSTED // Mar 17,2010 - In a perfect world, Paul Mero muses, the Utah Legislature would do whatever the Sutherland Institute recommends ...

LDS Church & SLC Development

This Is the Place: The LDS Church eyes barren wetlands as a future city within Salt Lake City.

POSTED // Mar 10,2010 - The air is still, quiet but for the distant and occasional flap of a hawk’s wings. Barely discernible is the muted skyline of SLC...

Jim Matheson vs. Democrats

Jim Matheson's most passionate opponents may be the Democrats he won't face.

POSTED // Mar 3,2010 - Wrapped in white sheets to memorialize the uninsured dead, a crowd of 150 gathered to wave protest signs demanding universal health care.