POSTED // Feb 1,2012 - Gov. Gary Herbert didn’t exactly use the n-word, but everyone could see he wants nuclear in his energy bag of tricks. During his State of the State address, Herbert cleverly tied “safer and cleaner ways to extract natural resources and utilize energy” to the issue of air quality.

POSTED // Jan 25,2012 - Nevermind if you’ve won awards and accolades—change for the sake of change must be good, huh?

POSTED // Jan 18,2012 - What goes around comes around, and that’s never more true than with the Spiral Jetty. The earthen artwork by Robert Smithson is rising again ...

POSTED // Jan 11,2012 - Royce Van Tassell of the Utah Taxpayers Association aired his frustrations in a post on Facebook.

POSTED // Jan 4,2012 - Well, the Cottonwood Mall site is still under development. No duh. Those 58 acres have been sitting fallow for years ...

POSTED // Dec 28,2011 - Enough already! Yes, it’s a Mormon miracle that two of our presidential candidates are LDS.

POSTED // Dec 21,2011 - There is a compelling reason to keep National Public Radio viable, and it has nothing to do with a “liberal” agenda. It’s about context and perspective.

POSTED // Dec 14,2011 - As the Salt Lake Valley basks in a thickening inversion, there’s no dearth of environmental red flags.

POSTED // Dec 7,2011 - So “Mike” was a homeless guy, he was in Pioneer Park and there probably was illegal drug use.

POSTED // Nov 30,2011 - It seems that if a politician really, really wants something, not even the cold, hard facts can stop him. So it is with Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker ...