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Starting next week the University of Utah will be offering summer classes on urban homesteading. With classes on wild mushroom foraging, fly fishing, bee keeping, and chicken raising, you can get mountain-man self reliant in no time.---
Utah’s watchdogs of fraudsters, affinity scammers and all-around-shysters, have always warned there’s no such thing as a free lunch. That being said, if you register in advance, you can get a free lunch at the upcoming Fraud College consumer education event on June 30.--- Luckily this is a deal that is good enough to be true.
You NPR snobs probably didn't notice, but KNRS 105.7 "Family Values" talk radio dumped 10-year talker Bob "Flanders" Lonsberry last week and replaced him with a second (live) feed of Glenn Beck in the morning. Though the shrill, squeaky Lonsberry was promoted as a "local" host, he actually did his show from New York--and he was still as on-top of Utah issues as "real" locals like KSL's Doug Wright.
City Weekly received a voice mail from a reader who took exception to our recent cover story on the gay Latino club scene. --- His remarks add another uncomfortable dimension to the hard-knock life of this community—that is: contempt from within the LGBT community:
Happy Hour News: Primary Results plus prescient analysis and November predictions.--- For those of you who missed my live blog last night or the multiple news reports (D-News here, Daily Herald here, Trib website is down, so no link) this morning about the primary results, here is a quick rundown with some deeply insightful and sober analysis by yours truly:
Silver Eagle Refinery this week received a $1 million fine from state safety regulators, a fine five times greater than the combined total of all the fines for safety violations assessed against all of Utah's oil refineries over the last decade.---The five refineries combined paid $174,360 in fines for 106 serious safety violations between 2000-2010, according to Utah Occupational Safety and Health records.Silver Eagle was assessed the $1 million fine for an explosion Nov. 4, 2009, that damaged dozens of homes, an unnatural disaster I investigated in my January cover story, Utah's Unstable Oil Refineries. For that story, I compiled explosion and fire data from the refineries and cross-referenced that with safety violation fines.
Headed back out onto Gallery Stroll for what's technically the last one of spring, you could tell summer was in full swing. Which went by rather quickly thanks to the snow.
