Bullying is not a new phenomenon; it's as old as man. But bullying has reached a point of near epidemic proportions, with one in four children experiencing bullying and up to 35 percent of the U.S. workforce reporting being bullied at work. Bullying is wrong, and should have no defenders.

Bullying knows no boundaries. It's not just boys on the playground or people at work; it can even be organizations on the national stage as was revealed in a federal courtroom on February 6th.

The following is the full letter sent to President Obama from the Utah Sheriffs' Association referred to in the March Edition of the Sentinel Newspaper.  

"Dear President Obama:

"We, the elected sheriff's of Utah, like so many of our fellow Americans, are literally heartbroken for the loved ones of the murdered victims in Connecticut.  As Utahans, we are not strangers to this kind of carnage - one of the latest being the 2007 Trolley Square murders wherein nine innocents were gunned down - five losing their lives.

Both Weber County Sheriff Terry Thompson, and Box Elder County Sheriff J. Lynn Yeates were part of, or fully supported a letter from the Utah Sheriff’s Association(28 of 29 County Sheriffs in agreement) to President Obama declaring their firm determination to keep their “…oath to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States,...”  On January 31st, Sheriff Yeates said that all but one person he had talked to, agreed with his support of the letter.

When I attended primary and secondary school -- during the 1940s and ‘50s -- one didn’t hear of the kind of shooting mayhem that’s become routine today. Why? It surely wasn’t because of strict firearm laws. My replica of the 1902 Sears mail-order catalog shows 35 pages of firearm advertisements. People just sent in their money, and a firearm was shipped.

Local Citizens Group Support Getting Out of Obamacare

(Say they support the Constitution by Removing Utah from Unconstitutional Obamacare)

By Jim Mackley

Editor,

We are producing a musical by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ, the creator of WICKED, called CHILDREN OF EDEN.  This is a beautiful story of relationships, family, love, loss, and especially… second chances. 

Dear Editor

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ONE ACT and TEN MINUTE Plays Sought for New Rocky Mountain Voices 2013 Competition

The Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts announces New Rocky Mountain Voices 2013, the organization’s fifteenth annual play competition. New Rocky Mountain Voices is a program dedicated to showcasing new works by playwrights in the Rocky Mountain States and is sponsored by the non-profit Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts in Westcliffe, Colorado.