Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
She was a girl I knew from my kids’ childhood years. She and my kids and their friends roamed the streets playing games on summer nights. Her smile had a hint of swagger now that she had...
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I was sitting in my kids’ piano recital in early December when I Heard it Through the Grapevine: Stowe Family Music was closing down at year’s end. I gaped at my friend. “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart!”...
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“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need to be afraid.” — 1984 Band Aid song “Do they know it’s Christmas?” Two weeks ago, I was just getting ready to take my youngest daughter to school when the song...
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Most U.S. citizens are familiar with the Constitution’s First Amendment provisions both prohibiting government from establishing religion and from infringing upon its free exercise. Perhaps the difficulties inherent in striking a balance between the two provisions are...
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Tooele County is proposing to raise property taxes and the hounds are on the loose, out for blood. A favorite punching bag seems to be the Deseret Peak Complex because in 2011 the county reportedly spent $2.1...
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Every time I throw away an empty metal can or plastic bottle, I feel a twinge of guilt. It’s about as bad as the day I climbed down the fire escape during chapel in grade school and...
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It is common to use test scores that only measure minimum comprehension levels, like Utah’s Criterion Referenced Tests (CRT), to measure the performance of schools. However, most parents want to see measures of excellence at a school,...
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By all accounts, I should be happy to be a Republican in Tooele County. On the local level, Republicans won in all the contests. On the state level, we did pretty good, too. Then why am I...
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I was talking to a 20-something the other day whose attitude towards the election was a bit perplexing. We were talking about the presidential candidates, and she just about yawned, saying that she couldn’t care less about...
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I was talking to a 20-something the other day whose attitude towards the election was a bit perplexing. We were talking about the presidential candidates, and she just about yawned, saying that she couldn’t care less about...
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