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- News, City Weekly REWIND March 24, 2025
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FLASHBACK 1991: George Bush gets a dose of the Four Freedoms.
1,004 Points of Light
- The Four Freedoms could have real meaning at home in a country that castigates those who oppose the Persian Gulf war as un-American and who cough the old "America, Love it or Leave It" routine. One can only wonder about the worth of Freedom of Speech and Assembly if these democratic talismans are only available in the lazy, Indian summer days when there is no war, and thus, no reason to take to the streets.
- News, Opinion March 19, 2025
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A near-miss on State Street brings angels to the rescue of one fallen traveler.
Opinion
- By the time I hit the pavement, I was already assessing the damage to my almost 75-year-old body.
- News, City Weekly REWIND February 24, 2025
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FLASHBACK 1990: Ron Yengich takes on Ronald Reagan's appearance at the witness stand.
Geriatric Funk
- Sneaking up behind the Federal Courthouse was the 40th President of the United States, slithering through the back door to do his best MTV geriatric funk on video for the historical record of his testimony at the criminal trial of John Poindexter. Poindexter was once his trusted confidante during those somnambulate days at the White House. The back door entree was highly symbolic of Reagan’s dodge to avoid the witness box under the guise of a Nixonian theory of executive privilege (Rosemary Woods notwithstanding).
- News, Opinion February 12, 2025
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The MAGA view of justice is justICE and finding a "them" to blame for "our" problems.
Opinion
- "Your concept of justice would freeze the Mississippi River in a heartbeat if you had a heart." — The author, to a judge friend many years ago at The Cabana Club.
- News, Opinion January 8, 2025
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Park City’s hardworking ski patrollers are right to fight back against corporate greed
Opinion
- The conglomerate (synonymous for "scofflaw" in American finance), is leaving their customers shushing in place over a raise of two bucks per hour, demanded by the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association members who refuse to work.
- News, Opinion November 13, 2024
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America is a nation of dreamers, who are too often ignored by both major parties.
Opinion
- After five decades as a criminal defense attorney, I have finally been paroled to retirement.
- News, City Weekly REWIND November 11, 2024
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FLASHBACK 1992: Ron Yengich pens a tribute to Ada Duhigg, the "Angel of Bingham Canyon"
Goodbye, Miss Duhigg
- I knew Miss Ada Duhigg only from the perspective of a small boy, but she taught me my first real lessons outside the home. Like many much older than I who came to sing a fond farewell to Miss Duhigg, the lessons only sometimes still hit home, but the spirit, like the sight of the waste dumps across the valley when we look to the west, never leaves us.
- News, City Weekly REWIND June 24, 2024
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FLASHBACK 1985: Ron Yengich gives U.S. AG Ed Meese a chance
Civil Liberty ala Meese
- Don't you wonder whether or not Ronnie and his ranch hands on Pennsylvania Avenue know what apartheid is?
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FLASHBACK 1992: Ron Yengich pens a tribute to Ada Duhigg, the "Angel of Bingham Canyon"
Goodbye, Miss Duhigg
November 11, 2024
