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I get really angry when I hear the lie that immigrants don't want to learn English. At the school where I tutor English, there's a lengthy waiting list for students to enroll and never a waiting list for English speakers to begin helping immediately.---
Not that most Utahns believe in this crazy “climate change” hysteria, but in a recent book, UCLA economist Matthew Kahn rates Salt Lake City as the city most resilient to climate change.--- Which is good news for the local pols here since most Utahns believe climate change refers to the difference between ski season and boating season.
Sam Granato, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat, calls Mike Lee's 40 percent budget cuts "irresponsible."--- In a statement released yesterday, Granato responded to the blog I posted Friday, reporting that Mike Lee suggested 40 percent cuts to the federal budget.
Another Monday into the fall TV season, and nothing else has been canceled—yet. Don't count on Life Unexpected to be around for much longer, however; The CW has conspicuously left it off the pickup list.
We have some wildly divergent options for getting out of the house and braving the onslaught of winter Monday night, and which one you choose probably depends a lot on your mood.--- Take me, for example.
For those of you who aren't familiar with Ingrid Michaelson, you've probably heard her hit "The Way I Am" featured in an Old Navy commercial. Here is your chance to get better acquainted.
Before I could reach the steps of Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah last night, the Thriller experience had begun. Performers of the Odyssey Dance Theatre were outside, dressed as zombies, crawling, dragging and limping up to unsuspecting patrons, ---and eliciting shrieks that echoed through the crowd.
The second Jónsi took the stage, an eerie silence fell over the crowd of 2,000 gathered at the Complex. People held their breath as if they were afraid to miss the first string of notes sung, which rang out and reverberated off the walls with ethereal clarity.---
