http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/articles.sec-8422-1-news-articles.html By Katharine Biele

It was all pretty funny double-agent play until Feb. 26, 2012, when Trayvon Martin was killed.]]> By Eric S. Peterson

Gold Bullion International founder Savneet Singh knew that launching a business that stores physical gold bars and coins for clients outside of traditional banks would mean the company would have to own secure vaults across the globe.]]> By Eric S. Peterson

When Phuong Nguyen heard about a Washington, D.C., protest against possible federal cuts to Medicaid services for people with disabilities, she knew she had to be there ...]]> By Eric S. Peterson

Tired of being normal? Are you a middle-age woman suffering from “sagging, dragging and nagging”? Have you heard any of these pitches either from websites or billboards featuring happy, smooth-faced grandmothers?]]> By Eric S. Peterson

While the message of sticking it to the corporate man may not be new for these groups, what is new are the strong bonds being formed by progressive activists.]]> By Eric S. Peterson

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will for the first time see one of the faithful nominated for president by a major political party. But while the faithful rejoice, so do the church critics, whose cries of hosanna may be just as loud as LDS members’.]]> By Eric S. Peterson

The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management has given a preliminary thumbs-up to a pair of massive projects that, combined, will open up nearly 5,000 new natural-gas wells in the Uintah Basin.]]> By Eric S. Peterson

Salt Lake County legislative candidate Michelle Facer Baguley is looking to capitalize on the popularity of social media and word of mouth to run a campaign that she’s committed to spend none of her own money on or accept any donations for.]]> By Eric S. Peterson

A few men walk into a bar and get into a fight. The fight spills out the bar until the police show up. What’s the punch line? One of the men in the fight, Jason Nicholes,]]> By Stephen Dark

Karen Baldwin wants to marry her boyfriend, Mark Yowell. The only problem is that the government, which held him first in the Salt Lake County Metro Jail for four months and for more than a year in the Utah State Hospital in Provo, has yet to release him.]]> By Eric S. Peterson

Utah drinkers watching the 2012 Legislature probably haven’t been doing celebration shots, but they probably haven’t been crying in their beers, either.]]> By Eric S. Peterson

A bill working its way through the 2012 Legislature wants to take animal activists’ undercover investigations of farm conditions out behind the barn and put them down for good.]]> By Stephen Dark

Kristen Cox, executive director of the Department of Workforce Services, cut $22.6 million from the department in the face of a recession-fueled tripling of the number of Utahns seeking public assistance. ]]> By Eric S. Peterson

The week that the Utah Public Lands Policy Coordination Office filed a massive legal action to reclaim 18,784 roads that crisscross public lands all over the state, the office’s lead attorney, Roger Fairbanks, was pretty busy. Not at the office, however; he was playing guitar in a fiddle band]]> By Eric S. Peterson

Most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are well aware of the perceived differences of the “Utah Mormon” and “regular” Mormons. Some say Utah Mormons are more righteous, while others say the exact opposite is true.]]> By Eric S. Peterson

“One person, one vote” is the rule of thumb when it comes to redistricting—the post-census process of drawing political boundary maps equally distributed by population. But while “one person, one vote” may equal fairness for adult residents, some advocates on Salt Lake City’s west side say the equation doesn’t add up to fair representation on the Salt Lake School Board for the huge number of children who live on their side of the tracks.]]> By Eric S. Peterson

The 2012 Legislature has begun, and with it being an election year, and with a slew of political players on the Hill angling for bigger office,]]> By Eric S. Peterson

When the economy went into a tailspin in 2008, 55,000 Utah families participated in the food-stamps program. That number has since jumped to roughly 115,000, according to low-income advocate Bill Tibbitts of the Crossroads Urban Center.]]> By Eric S. Peterson

People take their local governments for granted, says Ken Bullock, director of the Utah League of Cities and Towns. “If you’re stuck in traffic, it’s an inconvenience,” Bullock says. “If your toilet doesn’t flush—it’s a crisis. The services local government provides have become so commonplace that you don’t even think about it until it’s not there.”]]> By Austen Diamond

Ben Gaddis’ piece of scratch paper has a list inked onto it: apples, lamb, cumin, potatoes, a few odd household items. In Gaddis’ ideal world, he wouldn’t be taking his list to a national-chain grocery]]>