POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Depending upon whom you listen to, it is either an effort to undermine the voting public’s rights or a great move to protect the tradition of Utah living. It is either a plan financed by national, rightwing firearms and hunting groups, or a maneuver...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - A management audit of the Salt Lake City Police Department is apparently unable to square poor morale among police officers with findings that Chief Ruben Ortega’s department is making progress and is relatively well run. But the yet-to-become-public...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Former members of polygamous groups say they aren’t about to be quiet so that Utah can continue to build its image nationally. Mormons want us to shut up so that Mormons will look good. And Utahns want us to shut up so the Olympics will look good,...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - There on the news was the mangled remains of John Stockton’s car. Good Lord! Was he dead, or maybe life support? He’s a tough guy, but could he have survived the crash? The car was in worse shape than Princess Diana’s Mercedes, and you...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Bud Weed was in a funk, his normally bristly mustachio drooping like limp genitalia. This Hitler and potato chip thing is what gives advertising a bad name. It makes us look like a gaggle of moral simpletons and silly chuckleheads. Bud—bon vivant,...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. I’m not sure who said this—Mark Eubank, Mark Twain or maybe Mark Eaton. I was relieved to see that apparently somebody is doing something about it. According to an article...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Finally. Someone has stepped forward and said Enough! We’ve got to stop coddling the children of America. I read the headline in the afternoon paper and exclaimed aloud, Good for you, Mayor-For-Life Deedee! CORRADINI HOPES TO WHIP U.S. KIDS INTO...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - What is sex? This is a question that has troubled me for some time, and soon, it appears, we will have a definitive answer. Next week our president will go before the grand jury and tell them if he had sex with what’s her name—is it Monica...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Like most of you, I have been spending a lot of time lately worrying about the image of our state. I’m especially concerned now because the 2002 Winter Games will be here before you know it, and all this bad publicity about our state keeps popping...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - When an exasperated Orrin Hatch called the Big He (Monica’s pet name for the object of her affection) a jerk, many good citizens were offended by the senator’s pungent use of the vernacular. It strikes me as a rather mild, and entirely accurate...