Amid big spending and questionable last-minute litigation, voters decide the future of the county commission

Shortly after noon today, the President of the United States was finally seen again after days locked away in the White House since his disastrous State of the Union address. As he walked toward repor...

I’m going to be clear with you: I won’t let this budget bill get swept under the rug.

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

Utah attorney Carlos Trujillo is one of several U.S. citizens who received what appears to be a mass email telling them to self deport.

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Why Your Self-Care is a Revolutionary Act

This was written by a local, small businessman. Ok. I’m shaking. This is my first thread. My small business that I’ve had for 20 years is probably dead as of now. Trump and his idiotic tariffs killed...

I have a friend and colleague named James Brown, a Utah resident who at 80 years of age heads up a nonprofit and hosts a TV talk show about enjoying life as we age.

Just as Senate Bill 197 passed in the final hours of the Utah Legislature, Gov.

Sometimes a recent bill fresh off Capitol Hill swaggers in just begging for a governor’s veto. In Utah, SB 197 is one of those. Here’s a bit of its story: Although somewhat of a sleeper bill, the fou...

JD/Trump are thugs. And this ambush of Zelensky at the White House will do deep damage to Ukraine, to our allies and to the U.S. Openly ridiculing and demeaning a man who has kept his country alive ...

The right’s jihad against DEI isn’t about fairness; it’s about losing privilege and control…

As of 2023, Weber County’s largest employer was the U.S. Department of the Treasury, with upwards to 10,000 federal workers, many of them at Internal Revenue Service installations in Ogden. Under Pr...

Farmers are facing financial ruin after a funding freeze

Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture attention.

SB 197 substack Circuit Breaker, a 40-year-old property tax relief program for low-income seniors in Utah, again finds itself in the crosshairs of some state lawmakers who hope to eliminate it by 203...

Legislative audit reveals Sean Reyes ran official business from private barbershop and concealed details about his activities from investigators

A bishop asked the president to show mercy to immigrants and scared children. The response tells us everything about the next four years.

The Column: 01.24.25

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