POSTED // Mar 6,2013 - You go, Girl … Scouts! That’s telling the male-dominated Legislature, although you have to tread lightly, what with being a nonprofit and all.

POSTED // Feb 27,2013 - Utah voters march down the red line in lockstep, and you have to assume that they know for whom they’re voting.

POSTED // Feb 20,2013 - It’s hard enough to keep up with the John Swallow soap opera, but headlines in the state’s two daily newspapers don’t help.

POSTED // Feb 13,2013 - Not to second-guess a judge or to indict someone who’s presumed innocent, but we might want to be careful with children’s lives. Utah legislators ought to look at what’s happening in Washington.

POSTED // Feb 6,2013 - It could be that Gov. Gary Herbert is getting the message—or maybe he’s trying to silence it. Herbert has been the poster child for voluntary measures that don’t measure up.

POSTED // Jan 30,2013 - You know it almost never happens, but you’re about to see a shrinking of bureaucracy. Maybe. Salt Lake City is considering a streamline of its records-access ordinance.

POSTED // Jan 23,2013 - Well, it’s official. Most of Utah’s elected sheriffs have lost their collective mind.

POSTED // Jan 16,2013 - Well, you know, Utahns like a drink now and then, and, for the most part, we abide by Utah’s draconian laws—the Zion curtain, the use of euphemisms like “spirits,” stuff like that.

POSTED // Jan 9,2013 - What is it about police busting into people’s homes—and the wrong ones at that? Must be part of the post-Sept. 11 defense momentum, along with a creeping culture of fear and violence.

POSTED // Jan 2,2013 - It’s beginning to look like 2012 was one wild water year, what with drought, super storms and, of course, the Utah-Nevada battle over precious groundwater and a pipeline aimed at Las Vegas.