Posted // May 22,2013  - Also: Unquiet Youth, Power to 'Merica Mike Noel, R-Kanab—not your mother’s Cowboy Caucus crony—recently got a ...

Posted // May 22,2013  - Utah alt publications conquer bad economy Daily newspapers have been writing their own obituaries for so long now that most readers ...

Posted // May 21,2013   This news is certainly unexpected, and perhaps even shocking to some, considering that Utah has a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. However, as reported by the Los Angeles Times, a study conducted by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law backs up the claim.

Posted // May 21,2013   Six designs have been selected as finalists in an innovative design competition to reimagine “the spaces between” two downtown Salt Lake City blocks. Now through May 31 the public can vote on a vision of downtown they like whether that means interactive games downtown or the creation of a giant upside down replica of two city blocks placed on stilts and suspended over downtown

Posted // May 21,2013   Democracy Now! looks at how how the economics of austerity exacerbate global health problems.

Posted // May 17,2013   The results are in; we're proud to announce that City Weekly garnered a number of coveted prizes—including nine first place awards—in the annual Top of the Rockies competition,

Posted // May 17,2013   Activist Amy Meyer recently made news in Utah for being charged with violating Utah’s now infamous “ag-gag” law that prohibits the filming of farm and agricultural operations, even if doing so documents illegal animal abuse. The charges against Meyer were dropped but local activists have not dropped the issue and are rallying Saturday to protest the law.

Posted // May 17,2013   The former Zephyr Club in downtown Salt Lake City, 301 S. West Temple; closed since October 2003.

Posted // May 16,2013   Predatory payday lenders have found a way to sneak around federal law to target the United States’ service men and women.

Posted // May 16,2013   As Utah moves more government services online, it also risks pushing more low-income Utahns away from access to services, like Medicaid and food stamps.

Posted // May 16,2013  - Students call for new Good Samaritan law Zach Baker, head of Salt Lake Community College’s Students for a Sensible Drug Polic ...

Posted // May 16,2013  - Stick up for open spaces This week, stick up for open spaces in Salt Lake City and fight for clean, open, carbon-fr ...

Posted // May 16,2013   While I have no designs on ever running for political office, I do often spend time thinking about what I would do if I held the levers of power.

Posted // May 15,2013  - Utah's attorneys general, past and present, learn the high cost of a free golf vacation Many of us enjoy vacation “bragging rights” and happily post photos of landmar ...

Posted // May 15,2013  - Also: Spread the Love, Moving Movies Uh-oh! American Fork could be dishing out a whole lot of trouble by erecting barriers to t ...

Posted // May 13,2013   U.S.-backed Guatemalan dictator Rios Montt has been found guilty in his own country of genocide, and prosecutors may now be investigating the dictator’s former accomplices, including U.S. officials.

Posted // May 10,2013   The former Zephyr Club in downtown Salt Lake City, 301 S. West Temple; closed since October 2003.

Posted // May 10,2013   Mother Jones argues that recent marriage-equality battles were won thanks to the LDS Church stepping out of the battle since Prop 8.

Posted // May 10,2013   There is intriguing news that some big-money Republicans have launched an effort to legalize gay marriage at the state level, starting in Minnesota. It’s a smart move when you think about it. 

Posted // May 8,2013  - A political insider and a convicted felon host the former attorney general at a luxury resort, hoping to win him over It could be a lead-in for a joke: A Utah attorney general, his fundraiser, and a political ...