Colby Frazier

FLASHBACK 2014: Colin Wolf and Colby Frazier journey to Colorado for newly legalized marijuana.

Gone to Pot

• By Colin Wolf and Colby Frazier
• In late May, City Weekly reporters Colin Wolf and Colby Frazier, along with photographer Mike Fuchs, traveled to Colorado on a four-day mission to see, smell and experience legal marijuana as well as fulfill our duty as alternative journalists. In interviews with marijuana-dispensary owners and growers across Colorado, it became clear we weren’t the only Utahns who’ve made the trek to the high country.
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FLASHBACK 2014: Colin Wolf and Colby Frazier hail a uniquely Utah music memory

Today is the anniversary of Spanish Fork accidentally booking Rage Against the Machine and everyone losing their minds

• By Colin Wolf and Colby Frazier
• 1996 was a turbulent year for music. MC Hammer filed for bankruptcy, The Spice Girls debuted "Wannabe" and 9000 "delinquents" attended a Rage Against the Machine show in Spanish Fork, Utah, causing everyone to go batshit insane.
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Fire Line

UFA Board considers recouping bonuses paid to former chiefs and turning investigation over to law enforcement.

• By Colby Frazier
• A week after the Utah State Auditor issued an exhaustive audit documenting the misdeeds of former fire chiefs at the Unified Fire Authority, the board that oversees the state's largest firefighting agency is weighing whether it will seek criminal and civil action against its former employees.
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Home Sweet Home?

How a single real estate deal highlights a city in flux and in crisis.

• By Colby Frazier
• In January of 1974, Dick's brother told him that he was owed $10,000—an amount that could not be paid in any currency besides the seven-unit, red brick apartment that has, since 1909, been anchored between First and Second Avenue.
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Dead Red

That Utah could end up voting something other than Republican proved delusional.

• By Colby Frazier

Flame Keepers

Unified Fire Authority sets sights on rebuilding, restoring morale.

• By Colby Frazier
• In late 2015, UFA board members began to grumble about the more than $100,000 in bonuses that were doled out without board approval to Jensen, Scott and a pair of other top UFA officials.
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Money Chase

While some Utah politicians raise little money, others have been spending quite a bit on travel.

• By Colby Frazier
• But without a hefty campaign donation system, it is much easier to cull corporate influence in Hughes' financial disclosures.
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Election Guide 2016

• By Dylan Woolf Harris and Colby Frazier
• In case you've just emerged from a dank cave: Some time after dusk settles on Nov. 8, America might very well ring in the news of a new president-elect by freaking out.
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SLC Council to Take on Homelessness, Affordable Housing

With housing crunch and growing homelessness, city leaders to mull solutions.

• By Colby Frazier
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Thanks for Nothing

Tragic details of a young man's suicide in a Utah prison cell are brought back to life by his grandma's lawsuit.

• By Colby Frazier
• The stories that accompanied his death did not venture into the difficult question of exactly how a 19-year-old comes to kill himself in prison.
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