POSTED // Sep 28,2011 - Utahns are frequently reminded how lucky we are to have elected civic-minded officials, and asked not to “impugn” their integrity.

POSTED // Sep 21,2011 - Way to encourage budding journalists, Deseret News! A front-page “letter to our readers” about a mistaken insert? Did we mention that...

POSTED // Sep 14,2011 - It’s good to remember. It’s good to mourn. It’s even better to learn moral lessons from past transgressions. But really, isn’t all this 9/11 coverage just a little gratuitous?

POSTED // Sep 7,2011 - You know you’re in trouble when the person conducting the GRAMA working group—Lane Beattie—says this: “As a person who thought I somewhat understood GRAMA, I want you to know I didn’t.”

POSTED // Sep 6,2011 - The biggest issue facing Salt Lake City’s District 6 may be one that isn’t really a District 6 issue at all. Can you say Walmart? You know, whether the big-box store will build a

POSTED // Aug 31,2011 - It’s official. Little Jason Chaffetz of U.S. Representative fame is not as dumb as editorial cartoonists would have you believe.

POSTED // Aug 24,2011 - Oh, they’re at it again, and no, lawmakers can’t seem to settle on just how they want the state Board of Education to meet its demise.

POSTED // Aug 17,2011 - There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned book banning to drive avid readers to their local library shelves.

POSTED // Aug 10,2011 - Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, has a really good idea if you don’t like the thought of a 306-mile pipeline ...

POSTED // Aug 3,2011 - OK, so maybe it came at the 11th hour, when the C-word (compromise) was all but inevitable. Still, you have to give U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop a high-five for trying to be practical