Louis Godfrey

FLASHBACK 2007: The relentless fight for laissez-faire education in Utah.

Children as Cookies?

• By Louis Godfrey
• There may be a brief respite, but don’t expect vouchers to fade entirely from view. The money and high emotions continue to flow on both sides.
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Matthew Barney: No Restraint

Friday, April 9

• By Louis Godfrey
• It's a credit to Matthew Barney—the "most important artist of his generation" according to The New York Times ...
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Salt Lake Bees Slugger Has a Swing with Sting

Brandon Wood’s Major-League talent is still on display in a minor-league park.

• By Louis Godfrey
• Brandon Wood's swing is a major-league swing. His hands start low, about chest level, and never vary from that plane as his wrists break and his arms whip around his body.
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Crunch Time

Facing trial for disrupting a BLM lease auction, Tim DeChristopher thinks time is running out... for everyone.

• By Louis Godfrey
• The first time I saw Tim DeChristopher was on the evening news, December 19, 2008. He was on the sidewalk outside the Salt Lake City offices of the Bureau of Land Management on 400 West and 200 South ...
• Tags: Cover Story, Cover Story, The Auction, Louis Godfrey, Tim DeChristopher, LG:, Beyond The Wall, universalis, The Natio, tim dechristopher

Justice | Their Final Answer: Just how does a jury arrive at a death penalty?

• By Louis Godfrey
• Last week Floyd Eugene Maestas became the 10th man awaiting execution in Utah. Two weeks earlier, Maestas had been convicted of aggravated murder for killing of Donna Lou Bott in 2004. Prior to her death, the 72 year-old Bott was beaten, stabbed...
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“Trigger” Happy

Utah lawmakers chip away at abortion rights as they move closer to a total ban.

• By Louis Godfrey
• You would be hard-pressed to find a Republican in the Utah Legislature who doesn’t line up as pro-life, but few are as actively opposed to abortion as Rep. Paul Ray. So, it was no surprise that when Ray, the hard-line Clearfield conservative, first...

Roads to Nowhere

How history, along with Politics, fuels Utah’s rural road wars and turns ATVs into a distraction.

• By Louis Godfrey
• I drove a stretch of Hole-in-the-Rock Road between Harris Wash and Egypt, Utah, during midday when I crossed paths with a bulldozer headed in the opposite direction. The dozer moved at a labored pace, the teeth of its blade grooming the roads’ dirt...