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For Utah naturalist and author Terry Tempest Williams, 2004 was another year of speaking dangerously.
By Jake Parkinson
Terry Tempest Williams is to Florida Gulf Coast University as …1. Presidential adviser Karl Rove is to the University of Utah’s Law School,2. Dan Rather is to CBS,3. Michael Moore is to Utah Valley State College,4. Jayson Blair is to The...
Mayoral candidates answer 64 burning and itching questions.
By Jake Parkinson
A lawyer, a CEO and a lobbyist are in a tub on the Great Salt Lake. …It sounds suspiciously like the setup to a joke, something you’d expect to hear at a bar from a guy who has been draining pitchers all night. But mix it up and put the same...
Will Utah’s new gun law make schools -- and the rest of us -- safer?
By Jake Parkinson
Jim Bunger made a mistake.Late on the night of April 24, 2002, Bunger put on a jacket and walked his chocolate lab to nearby Mill Creek Elementary School, an old tennis ball in hand ready for a session of midnight go-fetch. Bunger, 58, a concealed weapons...