Back in the early ’90s, life was a bit different for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Utah. Does that surprise anyone? So much progress has been made in this state — progress that decades ago people in the state advised our gay activists to just lie back and wait until change happens from without. Nothing...
read moreLiberals ask about the war and the war-cry goes up that we don’t “support our troops.” Conservatives boo a gay soldier and … crickets. I remember the Bush presidency days – W that is – when conservatives would call you “anti-American” and “against the troops” if...
read moreThis is not an easy column to write. I am usually an upbeat person — a more half-full than half-empty kind of guy. But we have found ourselves in more of an “almost-empty” situation and I hope I am sending this to you in time to reverse the situation. Earlier this year I was feeling pretty good about where QSaltLake was and...
read moreOver time, the list of seven deadly sins has changed a bit, but in almost every list, pride (or hubris or superbia in Latin) is considered the original and most serious and the source of the others. In these lists, pride is defined as a desire to be more important or attractive than others, failing to acknowledge the good work of...
read moreI realized while driving in to put this issue to bed that we have been doing so for seven years as of this Friday. I also realized that I have never lasted seven years at a job before. Huh. We had nothing else to do at the office but figure out a bunch of trivial information about the paper: • We have distributed over 57...
read moreI grew up in the thriving metropolis of Sunset, Utah. It is two miles long and a half-mile wide and, at the time, had a population of about 8,000 people. Yes, it is in Davis County and, yes, it is made up mostly of Mormons, but my immediate neighborhood was a bit of a microcosm inside a micro-city. You see, Sunset is a stone’s...
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