POSTED // Feb 29,2012 - A year ago, northeastern Japan was rocked by the fourth-largest earthquake ever recorded. It triggered a massive tidal wave that swallowed entire cities and swamped the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down, causing explosions and fires that spewed radioactive contaminants that mostly headed west by air and sea toward the United States.

POSTED // Feb 22,2012 - While walking across an empty parking lot recently, I came across two pennies lying side by side.

POSTED // Feb 15,2012 - Anti-sex-education crusader Bill Wright would have loved me. In seventh grade, I was just like the tiny blond granddaughter the Republican legislator from Holden hauled up to Capitol Hill ...

POSTED // Feb 3,2012 - The “War on Drugs” has entered a new phase in Utah, pitting hometown, combattrained young men against each other in a backyard battle.

POSTED // Jan 25,2012 - So, what is Martin Luther King Day? King was part of the civil-rights movement, gave a speech called “I Have a Dream” and was assassinated. But, of course, there is more. King was key to one of the most momentous times in American history.

POSTED // Jan 11,2012 - In the obvious absence of an attorney’s advice, I publicly declare: I want to be found guilty in Salt Lake City Justice Court.

POSTED // Jan 4,2012 - In 2011, Elizabeth Smart came into her own.

POSTED // Dec 21,2011 - A few years ago, the Ghost of Christmas Present paid my family a surprise visit, just as it did to Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ famous 19th-century novel.

POSTED // Dec 13,2011 - Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Those old enough to have taken a typing class remember that drill. Rocky Anderson knows the drill, too.

POSTED // Dec 7,2011 - My wife has long disapproved of the hillside gallery at the Red Butte Garden concerts. Her years as an elementary school teacher have left her with an unwavering respect for rules. To her way of thinking, a rule is as inviolate as the multiplication tables her students struggled to memorize.