POSTED // Jun 18,2007 - The money flowed like sweet cream to Utah’s school voucher camp earlier this year via a national political-action committee called All Children Matter. The donations to All Children Matter came in part from heirs to Amway and Wal-Mart fortunes'the...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - As I write this piece, details of the April 16 massacre at Virginia Tech are flowing on the Internet in one long, uninterrupted stream. Last I checked, Google kindly offered 839 news links after typing in key words “Virginia Tech shootings.”...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The noise at last week’s Best of Utah 2007 awards party was ear-splitting (I mean that in a good way). Yet somehow, a familiar voice rose above the din. It was Rod Decker. KUTV 2’s irrepressable newsman won second place from City Weekly readers...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Today, a promise: This will not be an embarrassing drool-fest promoting the May 4 “debate” between Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson and right-wing radio show host Sean Hannity.nnEvent sponsor KSL radio, with help from its TV station sibling,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Jay Shelledy, longtime editor of The Salt Lake Tribune, did more than anyone I know to bridge the so-called “great divide”'cultural, political, theological'between Utah’s Mormons and “nons.” Nearly a decade ago, Shelledy devoted...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Had I not been so busy checking my look in the vacant storefront window, I might have noticed the man in the baggy, grease-blotted coat shuffling toward me. Our eyes met about three feet short of colliding into each other on the sidewalk at 248 S. Main...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I love Utah. I’m even for Life Elevated. In actual fact, that is'and not simply the $50 slogan that state tourism officials have sold us.nnBut honestly, Utah can get obsessed with the damnedest things. Just as we rid ourselves of the stink of that...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The bicyclist was tearing westbound down 400 South, parallel to the University TRAX line. A full two seconds after the light turned red at 900 East, he bolted through the intersection. I watched from a line of idling cars as a Comcast truck with the southbound...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I made a quick trip to Los Angeles last weekend. Out on Saturday, back on Monday. I missed Salt Lake City’s Pride weekend. Sad. Worse than that, while standing in the Southwest Airlines line for seating, I had to overhear the 30-something guy four...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - A couple of weeks ago, Connell O’Donovan e-mailed my husband an invitation to the 30th anniversary celebration of Affirmation, a worldwide support group for gay and lesbian Mormons. We accepted the offer'partly out of curiosity, but mostly due to...