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 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 ...

Posted // May 8,2013  - Until the Utah Supreme Court weighs in on her factual innocence, Debra Brown lives one day at a time. “The last day in prison is a day I will never forget,” Debra Brown says. There ...

Posted // May 8,2013  - Also: Gone Too Soon, Too Cool for School Things happened fast this week, with a rifle raffle and a slaughterhouse video barely maki ...

Posted // May 8,2013  - Local activists make friends with homeless It’s an 80-degree day in downtown Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Park at 300 South a ...

Posted // May 8,2013  -   Join a special celebration raising awareness of compassionate immigration reform ...

Posted // May 6,2013   While air delays avoided the sequestration squeeze, the Violence Against Women Act did not and will likely see a loss of $20 million in funds designed to fight domestic violence and sexual assault.

Posted // May 3,2013   The former Zephyr Club in downtown Salt Lake City, 301 S. West Temple; closed since October 2003.