POSTED // May 22,2013 - Daily newspapers have been writing their own obituaries for so long now that most readers have become desensitized to the stumbles, falls and collapses of some of the nation’s venerable gray ladies.

POSTED // May 16,2013 - Zach Baker, head of Salt Lake Community College’s Students for a Sensible Drug Policy club, says Utah law needs to be changed to protect lives at the point when an overdose means someone’s wrong decision to not report an overdose is at risk of becoming a fatal decision.

POSTED // May 8,2013 - It’s an 80-degree day in downtown Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Park at 300 South and 300 West, and people from the nearby homeless shelter are enjoying the weather.

POSTED // May 8,2013 - It could be a lead-in for a joke: A Utah attorney general, his fundraiser, and a political toady travel to a posh resort in Newport Beach, Calif., where their fun-in-the-sun trip allegedly is paid for by a white-collar criminal. While it sounds like a whopper of a tale told over a martini, according to receipts and invoices given to City Weekly, two of these bizarre wingdings really did take place.

POSTED // May 1,2013 - Imagine if an exact replica of two blocks of downtown were re-created, turned upside down and placed on stilts directly above the two city blocks it was based on so you could look up and see a mirror image of the city above

POSTED // Apr 24,2013 - The housing problem in Salt Lake City and the country is as stark as it is simple—not enough affordable homes leaves the economically vulnerable worried about keeping a roof over their heads. Now, a Salt Lake City man is taking an out-of-the-box approach to one of the problems of poverty by offering an in-the-box solution: “tiny homes” cheaply and efficiently constructed out of used shipping containers.

POSTED // Apr 17,2013 - When Rashad Nijim gave Utah Valley University administration a flag of Palestine to display in the Hall of Flags alongside the flags of other students’ countries, he was given the run-around for months before being told that, among other issues, the flag would be offensive to Israeli students.

POSTED // Apr 10,2013 - It’s a Wednesday night at the Christ United Methodist Church, and a small gathering of the One Voice Choir has halted in the middle of singing “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother.”

POSTED // Apr 3,2013 - What if the state didn’t have to pay anything for the massive prison relocation project? According to documents City Weekly obtained through a government records request, one company has offered to pick up the entire bill for the state.

POSTED // Mar 27,2013 - According to the accounts of the half-dozen witnesses of what is now jokingly referred to as “The Great Pickle Factory Raid,” on March 20, a Salt Lake City fire marshal, three city inspectors,