POSTED // Jun 19,2013 - If it were an episode of The People’s Court, the ugly contract dispute between Draper mechanic Eugene Ju and Draper City Councilman Alan Summerhays might be called the case of the Cranky Mechanic vs. the Municipal Moocher.

POSTED // Jun 14,2013 - After a leisurely hike, you stand on a peak and scan the majestic horizon, your breathing slightly labored and the crisp mountain air cooling your heated skin. But among the sagebrush and desert landscape, your eyes focus on a flat, black plain that harshly breaks the desert terrain. You squint your eyes from the sun, and your heart sinks as you realize wildlife there will never be the same. It’s a test mine for the U.S. Oil Sands company.

POSTED // May 31,2013 - Author and Tea Party activist Candace Salima says that when then-Attorney General Mark Shurtleff approached her in spring 2009 about publishing his historical fiction novel with her Valor Publishing Group ...

POSTED // May 29,2013 - As many as 400 concerned citizens had taken a day out of their holiday weekend to make some noise in opposition to biotech-seed-patenting goliath Monsanto.

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.