Henry David Thoreau went into the woods to ”front only the essential facts of life.” What then are the essential facts of life? I imagine they are a little different for each of us. But in the mountains, …
In 1861 the Mormon church sent 309 families to southern Utah to establish what was called then the “cotton mission”. Many of the families sent south had had experience growing cotton in the South, and with the …
In the fall of 2008 the United States government purchased assets from several financial institutions that were on the brink of financial collapse. The Troubled Assest Relief Program—TARP—and related bailouts, have cost as much as $7 trillion. TARP was …
I was recently and disparagingly called a “libertarian environmentalist” because of my support for a free society, and my opposition to the SkiLink project. The term was used by a Utah Republican lobbyist who sees no problem with …
It’s easy to be cynical. National news is grim. It’s an election year. And here in in Utah, the winter has been perfunctory. But cynicism is tiresome. And anyway, spring is near at hand. And with it, all the …
