Monday, July 23rd, 2012
When a prominent restaurant like Sostanza closes, it’s unnerving. As a brand, Sostanza was unparalleled, after all. Mention that Sostanza was catering an event and guests knew they were in for a fabulous meal. In the wake...
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
This past Fourth of July dawned strangely, by Grantsville standards. For 17 years, the city had one Ray Barrus 5k memorial race. This year, there were two, reportedly due to philosophical differences between the longtime organizer and...
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
The United States Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding the provision in President Obama’s healthcare legislation requiring people to purchase health insurance (the mandate) has opened up a brave new world. The court’s decision appears to be both...
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
Step right up, step right up! Barrack Obama has another melodrama for you. Again? Yes. Again. This time, he’s pushing a new show called, “The Young and the Visa-less.” What’s it about? Well, it’s about this girl...
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012
School’s been out a couple of weeks, but school policy is still front and center for the Tooele County School Board and a committee of parents and teachers. According to a Transcript-Bulletin article (“Board asks committee to...
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
A quarter of a million dollars. That’s how much Grantsville High School students earned in college scholarships this school year. It sounded like an impressive amount of money until I heard that Stansbury High School students beat...
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
What defines Stansbury High School? More aptly, who defines it? Most would agree it is the students. This is a new school that has not yet graduated its first class to attend all four years at the...
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
I belong to the gender against which, Democrats claim, Republicans are waging a war. The “war on women” sound bite wears thin because it implies the Democratic Party supports values important to women like me. I beg...
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
The Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, has commendable provisions: no more lifetime coverage caps, extended coverage until young adults turn 26, and coverage even for those with pre-existing conditions, among others. Best of all, it...
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Similar to the feudal system of Medieval Europe, there are at least three classes of states within the United States of America. First are the eastern states, which comprise the original 13 colonies and the states of...