Human Interest

Summer safety for kids

Summer is a season for running in the yard, swimming, and playing in a tree house.

But for some children summer becomes a dangerous or deadly season.

Lawn Mower Safety

National Columnists Day

 Suicide is now the second-leading cause of death for

Fewer but bigger fish to be stocked this year

SALT LAKE CITY — If you like fishing for large fish, this is your year. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) will be stocking fewer fish in some Utah waterbodies this year, but the fish will be larger.

Almost $3M raised for habitat projects through conservation permits

SALT LAKE CITY — Several big wildlife conservation and habitat projects have been funded after almost $3 million was designated toward the projects during the annual conservation permit project funding meeting on April 3.

As a nation under the U.S. Constitution we are 230 years old.  It may surprise readers to learn that for the first 124 of these years we had no federal income tax and handled our expenses quite well.  Today the 55% who pay federal income taxes (77.5 million do not) pay nearly a fifth of their income to the federal government. Prior to 1913 one kept what is now taken from them.

The Trump administration recently rolled back an Obama-era environmental rule that restricted oil and natural gas drilling. Almost immediately, the Environmental Defense Fund, California, and New Mexico sued to block the move.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned the administration's rollback "risks the air our children breathe."