I’ve often thought I should write a column called “Weird Things Lawyers Do,” to explain to normal people why attorneys, like me, spend so much time arguing meaningless points. If you read any of the Prop 8 federal trial transcripts you may have noticed that a lot of the trial was spent arguing whether LGBT people had political...
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A deposed emperor; a mysterious sister; alleged affairs with a Utah state Senator and Mormon apostle; death by AIDS. God, I love living in Utah. Who said history is boring?
On Saturday, May 5, 1979, at the fourth coronation held in the old Kettle Drum Salt Palace, Carole Martindale and Weldon Young stepped down as reigning monarchs...
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My mom said I learned how to run before I learned how to walk. Considering my future endeavors, there was truth to that statement.
I never stick to a task for long. As a young girl when I got bored, I threw down my Play-Doh and Slinky, and ran my head into the wall. Sure, it hurt a little, but it amused me. It put my boredom at bay...
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It seems like only yesterday I was beating my favorite dead horse, but here we are again with an election just around the corner. The 2012 ticket is set; Mitt Romney has locked up the Republican nomination and will be squaring off against President Barack Obama in November.
Utah’s political observers have speculated that voter...
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Is anyone really shocked about the revelations from the recently released internal memorandum from the National Organization for Marriage (“NOM”)? If you haven’t heard yet, this formerly confidential memo from 2009 lays out NOM’s national strategy for fighting same-sex marriage. There’s nothing in it that we didn’t...
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I hope by the time you read this column it will already be outdated. As the euphemism goes, I’m between jobs right now.
A few weeks ago, the new CEO of the large mental and behavioral health nonprofit for which I served as director of communications called me in to tell me that, in a cost-cutting effort, he was eliminating my...
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