Why did Salt Lake City at the end of the 1990s approve residential housing--ironically named "Bliss Court"--adjacent to warehouse property that now houses The Rail Event Center?
City Weekly founder John Saltas told an anecdote of one speedy, rude bicyclist he didn’t see coming and who didn’t see him, either, nearly causing a collision at a crosswalk.
Sin is in the eye of the beholder, certainly, but sometimes, is it also in the womb? “Sin taxes” are intended to discourage certain behaviors, like smoking, that have dark sides.
A battle has been brewing on our Letters pages these past weeks about the tax burden levied on the wealthiest Americans and whether they pay a “fair” share.