No More Watchdog For Troubled Agency

By Andrea Moore Emmett

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - After five years and more than $100 million, Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt and the State Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) couldn’t find it within their power to live up to promises to protect children under state care. After all that time and...

Miscellaneous

City Life - White Guys Can’t Jump

By Andrea Moore Emmett

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Former members of polygamous groups say they aren’t about to be quiet so that Utah can continue to build its image nationally. Mormons want us to shut up so that Mormons will look good. And Utahns want us to shut up so the Olympics will look good,...

News & Columns

The Notorious Tanners

Longtime Mormon critics look back as they contemplate retirement.

By Andrea Moore Emmett

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - There are times when one plots out a course in life, and, with calculated steps, eventually reaches the sought-after goal. Other times, events occur and a person is carried along to a place in life that was never charted, but, once there, they are no...

News & Columns

Before and After

They had no idea that their plastic surgeon was only a dentist.

By Andrea Moore Emmett

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Imagine: You are feeling less than satisfied with the effects of age on your once-flawless complexion. You’ve acquired several large brown spots, or maybe there are a few wrinkles that have crept around your eyes, as if overnight. Every time you...

News & Columns

The Unsinkable Bill Finney

By Andrea Moore Emmett

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - If you put several friendly laboratory rats onto an electrified floor and turn on the juice, an interesting thing occurs. The once harmonious pack will single out one of its members for punishment through vicious attacks. The rat is not alone in this...

News & Columns

Crisis of Confidentiality

Janice Earl is battling the LDS church, alleging officials tried to cover up a sexual assault on her daughter, Lynette.

By Andrea Moore Emmett

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Janice Earl doesn’t look like a warrior woman. Standing just 5-feet tall and weighing under 100 pounds, this 50-year-old grandmother couldn’t flex a tricep muscle if she tried. But looks can be deceiving. When it comes to the interests of...

News & Columns

Blowing Holy Smoke

Sen. Orrin Hatch strong-arms religious protection bills into law again and again -- the Constitution be damned.

By Andrea Moore Emmett

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. —author Ruth H. Green, 1915-1981Questions Hatch Won’t AnswerThroughout the month of November, Sen. Orrin Hatch’s press secretaries in Washington, D.C., told...