Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
Since 2010, there’s been a rumbling going on in school lunch cafeterias. It’s the sound of students — especially high school athletes — grumbling over smaller portions thanks to Michelle Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. My son,...
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The case of George Zimmerman, whom a Florida jury just acquitted in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, demonstrates that no matter how much anyone favors “law and order,” police and prosecutors cannot and should not abdicate their...
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On behalf of budget-conscious parents like me out there, can I please ask schools to put a moratorium on huge, expensive extra-curricular activities? Last I checked, we’re in a bit of an economic slump. The county’s trying...
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A fter laying off 25 percent of its workers, merging departments, closing down services and exercising other cost-cutting measures, Tooele County has determined it still needs to impose a 66 percent tax hike. This amounts to an...
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Once upon a time, the American public — who had, some 40 years ago, nearly impeached a president over wiretapping — would have been roiling with outrage over the National Security Administration’s exposure as a busybody. Intercepted...
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Let me preface my comments by emphasizing that this subject I’m addressing in no way equals, or even comes close to, the many Tooele County employees that lost their jobs or have been impacted in some way....
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“A week?” I said, my voice rising in a panic. “Yes,” the woman on the other line said. “I’m afraid that’s the soonest we can get your Internet connected.” “You don’t understand,” I said. “My livelihood depends on...
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Suppose you had the following job. Stand ramrod straight, and maintain that ramrod posture, come what may—oppressive cold or oppressive heat, wind, rain, snow or shine. Maintain it through driving rain, blinding snow, and sometimes even in...
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I was late by 20 minutes. That’s what happens when you don’t pay attention to the street signs at Stansbury’s Country Club neighborhood. Gilbert Major, who was waiting at the curb for me, looked unworried. He stood there...
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More cuts. More layoffs. I don’t know how much more I can take of the bad news, and I don’t even work for the county. As the weather warms up and the county comes out of hibernation,...
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