Bruce R. Baird

FLASHBACK 1997: Bruce Baird ponders the difference between pioneer vision and modern Utah leadership

Enough Already

• By Bruce R. Baird
• The fifth- and sixth-generation descendants of those people who were willing to risk everything on a plan and a vision are now incapable of risking anything, have no vision and abhor any sense of planning.
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FLASHBACK 1999: Bruce Baird ponders the electoral prospects for Gov. Mike Leavitt

Marty vs. Mike

• By Bruce R. Baird
• Forget the speculation in the press. Next year Leavitt will be re-elected with about 65 percent of the vote against whomever the Democrats nominate.
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Valedictory

• By Bruce R. Baird
• I knew that sooner or later I would be writing my last Voices column. I hoped it would be later but am glad it wasn’t sooner. This is it.Over the last decade, I have written about 100 columns. In that run, I have managed to piss off virtually...

Child’s Play

• By Bruce R. Baird
• My childhood memories include some minor competitive elements'spelling bees, a science fair and, of course, sports. Getting good grades in school was important mostly because my parents told me so. But the extracurricular competitions were, at least for...

Bigger Issues

• By Bruce R. Baird
• When I turned 50 in February'pretty old for a columnist in an alternative newspaper'I had my annual physical. My doctor told me that, despite a few marginally abnormal scores in my blood work-up, I was healthy as a moderately overweight horse. But I wasn’t.I...

Twirling M-1s

• By Bruce R. Baird
• On a sweltering August night, my boys and I watched “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, as proclaimed by Thomas Jefferson. nnThe band, along with the “Commandant’s Own” Drum and Bugle Corps, played Sousa...

Pioneer Narc

• By Bruce R. Baird
• A few Saturdays ago, I went to the Downtown Alliance’s Farmers’ Market in Pioneer Park. That wonderful activity, combined with the Utah Arts Festival and other summer events, make me feel like I live in a real, almost cosmopolitan, city. About...

Chop-Logic

• By Bruce R. Baird
• Last week ABC 4’s Vanocur Group debated the confirmation of federal judges. Inevitably, the issue of abortion came up. Inevitably, because the right wing of the Republican Party wants not only to overturn Roe v. Wade but criminalize all abortions....

Not the News

• By Bruce R. Baird
• I was at home writing this column while half-listening to the local evening news on TV in the background. I had to change my topic because of the sheer stupidity of what was masquerading as newsworthy information.Channel 13, the very intelligent news...

Gadflies

• By Bruce R. Baird
• This column isn’t about evils perpetrated by Jesse Jackson’s recent headline-grabbing appearances in the Terri Schiavo and Michael Jackson cases. Nor is it about other gadflies attracted by the television lights to tragedies and media circuses....