Debate: Cause to effect ... Logan H-J vs USU, Becker vs Burbank ...
With apologies to The Doctor [above], some not so wibbly-wobbly cause to effect: — Salt Lake City needs to act against sexual harassment on the job — Salt Lake Tribune Editorial (posted June 10) “Salt...
View ArticleDebate: How to drive an editorial writer crazy ...
[Above: Harvey Milk, first openly gay public official in the U.S., on why coming out matters, in 1978. It took awhile, and Milk didn’t live to see it all. But it worked.] A fairly big story today is...
View ArticleDebate: Man brandishes samurai sword at police. And lives to tell about it ...
Up Alaska way, a clearly disturbed man not only threatened the local SWAT team with a samurai sword, he also threw knives at the cops. And he lived to tell about it. — Man brandishing samurai sword...
View ArticleDebate: Folks who should quit, who did quit and what's on the ballot ...
At the Capitol: — Miller has lost effectiveness and should quit — Salt Lake Tribune Editorial “Rep. Justin Miller should quit his job at the Utah Legislature. He should do so because can’t seem to...
View ArticleDebate: Press should be free. But it has to be paid for ...
— Stealing the News — Matt Christensen — Twin Falls (Idaho) Times-News “We want you to read our stories, not steal them. “Your subscriptions help me pay reporters to gather the news, so when someone...
View ArticleDebate: ATVs are toys. Guns are not ...
— A nation of big babies with deadly toys — George Pyle | The Salt Lake Tribune “ ... Toys. That’s the biggest problem in the First World. Too many toys. And too many things that aren’t toys being...
View ArticleDebate: USU/Maverik deal: About as dull as they said it was ...
There, now. That wasn’t so hard, was it? After our brethren at The Logan Herald-Journal took the matter before the Utah State Records Committee, and won, Utah State University and the Maverik...
View ArticleDebate: Obamacare rides again ...
— Ruling means Obamacare is staying, and Utah should go along — Salt Lake Tribune Editorial “For the many Utah politicians who were wrong twice — when they thought the Affordable Care Act was a bad...
View ArticleDebate: Reflecting on the marriage equality ruling ...
Big day. Lots of punditry: — Court ruling strengthens marriage — Salt Lake Tribune Editorial “Same-sex marriage is now the law of the land in every corner of the nation. The war is over....
View ArticleDebate: 100 Scholars totally ignored by all nine justices ...
You may remember that a handful or two of Utah university types, Utah Valley University President Matthew Holland the most prominent among them, caught a little heat a few months ago when they signed...
View ArticleDebate: Voters choose their representatives, not the other way around ...
The Supreme Court says that the people can step in and demand that their democratic institutions be more, well, democratic. The ruling Monday in an Arizona case said that the whole of the people of a...
View ArticleDebate: Utah, not making the trains run on time ...
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” — Douglas Adams Seriously, what’s the point in living in a one-party state if the government can’t make up its mind and get...
View ArticleDebate: Groucho on parenthood ...
[Above: Groucho Marx on one of his memorable appearances on the Dick Cavett Show, this one from 1969.] Friday on the KCPW/Salt Lake Tribune program “Behind the Headlines” I was commenting on the...
View ArticleDebate: JFK on what makes a war hero
The Donald rightfully got burned in the political media over the last couple of days for dissing Sen. John McCain. The former Navy officer didn’t get elected president the time before last, part of a...
View ArticleDebate: Finally figuring out how to pay for Healthy Utah ...
It has been three years of foot-dragging and head-scratching. But leaders of the Utah Legislature may finally be ready to do what they should have done a long time ago. No, not just expand Medicaid...
View ArticleDebate: Planned Parenthood is eminently, or imminently, newsworthy ...
I was really, really proud of this paragraph in my weekend column: “And, yes, it’s true, if the government pays for those things [contraception, STD testing], that could leave Planned Parenthood and...
View ArticleDebate: Taking credit for somebody else's accomplishments ...
We said: — Utah County voters should be able to vote once — Tribune editorial, posted Aug. 24 “Five cities in Utah County have taken the wise step of allowing their citizens to vote by mail in local...
View ArticleDebate: The ACA in Utah: The clock keeps ticking ...
— Medicaid works — Toledo (Ohio) Blade Editorial “Two years ago, when Gov. John Kasich expanded Medicaid to include hundreds of thousands of working-poor Ohioans who couldn’t otherwise afford health...
View ArticleDebate: Anything the president should rename in Utah?
Denali is just the name of a mountain in Alaska. — Mount McKinley is being renamed Denali by President Obama — Matthew Yglesias | Vox “On Sunday, the Obama administration announced that the peak...
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