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 …
Camp Lynda is this weekend. Instead of chasing people around the St. George desert on mountain bikes, I will be home. Healing from cornea transplant surgery. I’m disappointed to miss camp. But I’m happy that I will …
The never-winter is over. Pacific storms moved into Utah last week and dropped more than 40 inches of snow in the upper reaches of Little Cottonwood Canyon. The rapid arrival of new snow has turned the …
