POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - “The Democratic Party is an easier venue to find listening ears,” Dr. Joseph Jarvis says. Indeed his position paper expounding his theories on universal health care can be found on the Utah Democratic Progressive Caucus’ Website. nn“Not...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Utah’s Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is not, and never has been, a practicing polygamist. But he knows quite a few of them. Like many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, polygamists rest in his ancestral closet. Among...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The Utah Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Christmas Gala, 2005. Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. is walking around in a circle. He has a svelte Miss Latino on his arm, a rather gaudy Mexican poncho slung over one shoulder, while before him a child walks strewing petals...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Jennifer Ruff sits beside the closed casket in the dusky silence of Lake Hills Cemetery’s viewing room on State Street and 10055 South. The funeral’s not for another hour, but the 21-year-old widow wants time alone with her husband’s...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - “Que pechos!” shouts Argentine tango teacher Tomas Howlin as a young woman walks along the sidewalk before entering the Coffee Garden at 9th and 9th, where he sits at the window like a cartoon cat that’s suddenly turned into an arrow....

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - “You want my number, dawg?” shouts a young man to a passing friend as he huddles in the doorway of Miniature Market, a beige-walled convenience store on the corner of 3300 South and 300 East. Except for the neon signs boasting “Brewskis”...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - “I spun around to fire at him,” says Phoenix Police Department Sergeant Craig Church about the day he was certain a gunman had taken his life. “He went down, there was an eternity of seconds while I was yelling commands at him, and...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - “I’m not lost,” says the sign outside Hooters restaurant on State Street and 6700 South, “I’m just exploring.â€� Anyone who’s tried to figure out a religious direction in life knows exactly what those words mean. Amidst...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - “I could tell by the color of his hands that he was dead,” Shayneh Starks says. It was the beginning of June this year and her father, Bert, who was in the end stages of emphysema, had been dead for several days. He was sitting up in a chair...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - If trailer-park activist Virginia Marrufo Martinez ever needs a reminder of how high the stakes can be for people who live in mobile homes, she has only to look out the back window of her Rose Park residence. Her garden is full of rose bushes that trailer...