POSTED // Jun 11,2008 - Free Parking The Salt Lake City Council reversed itself during budget talks and decided not to eliminate free evening and weekend parking in downtown after all. The about-face came after a collective scream from citizens. Business groups like the Downtown...

POSTED // Jun 4,2008 - Scarlet “T” A middle-school teacher who dared answer questions about sex posed by seventh- and eighth-grade students in a sex-ed class has been placed on paid leave in Herriman until authorities can get to the bottom of the scandal. Topics...

POSTED // May 28,2008 - For the Birds In a state of spectacular natural beauty, there are few sights more spectacular than a flock of pelicans flying in the middle of the desert. It happens at the Bear River Bird Refuge, just where the Bear River flows into the northeast corner...

POSTED // May 21,2008 - Public Houses Finally, Gov. Huntsman has found something to do with his monstrous approval rating: Get rid of the private club membership system. In recent meetings with state tourism officials, the governor noted weird liquor laws were one of the main...

POSTED // May 7,2008 - Rank Rank What is wrong with this list: Pittsburg, Los Angeles, Fresno, Birmingham, Logan? Those are the top 6 worst U.S. cities for spikes in microscopic air pollution that cause heart attacks and strokes, according to the American Lung Association’s...

POSTED // Apr 30,2008 - Dead Dam Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. killed plans for a hydroelectric dam on Bear Lake recently by instructing Utah’s Division of State Parks to stop negotiating with the damn dam company. Biologists and lake lovers argued the project would stir up the...

POSTED // Apr 23,2008 - Nukes 1, Huntsman 0 The folks at EnergySolutions aren’t dumb after all. When Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. last year inked a deal with Utah’s nuclear-waste dump for EnergySolutions to cap the amount of waste it would take at its disposal facility...

POSTED // Apr 16,2008 - Party Politics Don’t ask; don’t tell. That, it seems, is the new motto of the Utah GOP, at least when it comes to asking hard questions of incumbent lawmakers. Chance Williams, who is challenging incumbent Rep. Mike Morley, R-Spanish Fork,...

POSTED // Apr 9,2008 - Cheap Students This is getting old. April U.S. Census numbers again show Utah remains dead last in the country for the amount of money spent educating a student. Utah Legislators finally woke up to the fact that schools need money two years ago. But,...

POSTED // Apr 2,2008 - Hot, Hot Heat When you said living in Utah was hell, you thought you were joking. But it turns out the Beehive State is at the epicenter, the lowest ring so to speak, of global warming. According to a five-year study just released by the Natural Resources...