http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/articles.sec-8418-1-hits-misses.html By Katharine Biele

Uh-oh! American Fork could be dishing out a whole lot of trouble by erecting barriers to the homeless.]]> By Katharine Biele

Things happened fast this week, with a rifle raffle and a slaughterhouse video barely making the news before being snuffed out.]]> By Katharine Biele

There’s something inspiring about a vision made real. That’s what has long been the hope of those involved in the Bend-in-the-River project.]]> By Katharine Biele

Earth Day is every day, clean-air advocates say. But this week kicked off with a cold reception outside the Governor’s Mansion ...]]> By Katharine Biele

Well, it is the end of the world as we know it, if you are to believe Fair Elections Utah. The group wants to stop left-leaning, socialist types like former Gov. Mike Leavitt ...]]> By Katharine Biele

It’s been quite a week for women. Plan-B Theatre Company came out with the polygamist play Suffrage, which notes the stark disparity between Utah’s backward reputation and its rich history of women’s rights.]]> By Katharine Biele

OK, we get sequestration—sort of. It’s all about forcing Congress to do something about the budget, and when it won’t, making everyone else suffer.]]> By Katharine Biele

If kids are the future, then it makes sense to start targeting them now with political propaganda.]]> By Katharine Biele

First, congrats to KUER for its series on air quality, Clearing the Air. The program’s “stories and conversations” dealt not only with the bad air we breathe but also with ideas and solutions, as well as the economic and health costs of all that gunk.]]> By Katharine Biele

It looks like clear sailing for a clean-air bill that’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Sen. Stuart Adams, R-Layton, is pushing Senate Bill 275 ...]]> By Katharine Biele

You go, Girl … Scouts! That’s telling the male-dominated Legislature, although you have to tread lightly, what with being a nonprofit and all.]]> By Katharine Biele

Utah voters march down the red line in lockstep, and you have to assume that they know for whom they’re voting.]]> By Katharine Biele

It’s hard enough to keep up with the John Swallow soap opera, but headlines in the state’s two daily newspapers don’t help.]]> By Katharine Biele

Not to second-guess a judge or to indict someone who’s presumed innocent, but we might want to be careful with children’s lives. Utah legislators ought to look at what’s happening in Washington. ]]> By Katharine Biele

It could be that Gov. Gary Herbert is getting the message—or maybe he’s trying to silence it. Herbert has been the poster child for voluntary measures that don’t measure up.]]> By Katharine Biele

You know it almost never happens, but you’re about to see a shrinking of bureaucracy. Maybe. Salt Lake City is considering a streamline of its records-access ordinance. ]]> By Katharine Biele

Well, it’s official. Most of Utah’s elected sheriffs have lost their collective mind.]]> By Katharine Biele

Well, you know, Utahns like a drink now and then, and, for the most part, we abide by Utah’s draconian laws—the Zion curtain, the use of euphemisms like “spirits,” stuff like that.]]> By Katharine Biele

What is it about police busting into people’s homes—and the wrong ones at that? Must be part of the post-Sept. 11 defense momentum, along with a creeping culture of fear and violence.]]> By Katharine Biele

It’s beginning to look like 2012 was one wild water year, what with drought, super storms and, of course, the Utah-Nevada battle over precious groundwater and a pipeline aimed at Las Vegas.]]>