This is Banned Book Week. Should books be banned? With no small amount of curiosity, I set out to discover what qualifies as a banned book. I was curious to see what books end up getting banned and somewhat surprised to find that books of a quality both high and low end up on that […]
Archives for September 2013
Utahns are stressed…but also enjoying life
September 24, 2013 by
Not only are Utahns among the most stressed in the nation, but they are also among the happiest, too. Who knew? According to Gallup, Utah has been among the states whose residents show a high level of stress consistently over the past five years: Gallup has measured daily stress in its tracking survey since 2008. […]
The newest candidate to replace Greg Bell or news you can’t make up?
September 19, 2013 by
City Weekly has an interesting one in the ongoing John Swallow saga/scandal. Timothy Lawson wants to be the next Lieutenant Governor of Utah. (The jury’s still out on whether the story will wind up being a saga or a scandal… right now, I’m guessing the latter. In the meantime, the story just got stranger.) Over […]
Utah’s School Grading moves education the right direction
September 14, 2013 by
Maybe the Utah legislature really does hate public education. Or maybe the legislature just wants to make it easier for parents to know how their school is doing. On September 1, Utah’s public schools received grades based on criteria set by the Utah legislature and set down in statute. For the first time ever, parents […]
Senator Lee wants to protect paid journalists, but not bloggers.
September 6, 2013 by
In America, we believe in equal protection under the law. That law includes the First Amendment and its protection of speech. “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” In forty-eight states, called shield laws (or a shield rule, in Utah) laws on the books protect journalists from being forced […]
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