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Pictures from Italy, Round 2: Florence 3

Pictures from Italy, Round 2: Florence

The pictures from Florence are now up! I promise I'll add captions as time and motivation permit. In the meantime, check out the new gallery.

Pictures from Italy, Round 1: Venice 2

Pictures from Italy, Round 1: Venice

Yes, yes. I know we've been remiss in sharing tales of foreign lands and awesome foods. I've been working on the trip log since we got back (when time presents itself) and I promise to have it done by New...

Good Money After Bad? More Money Proposed for Education 8

Good Money After Bad? More Money Proposed for Education

As the statewide referendum showed us last month, Utahns feel very passionately about education despite the varied ways in which we all want to improve it. One solution is as old as the education system itself: spend more money. Certainly...

If You Give a Rat a Stadium 5

If You Give a Rat a Stadium

I'm sure many of you have read the children's book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. In it, a young boy does what the title suggests, yet this action leads to getting the mouse a glass of milk to...

Restaurant Roundup: Ames, IA 2

Restaurant Roundup: Ames, IA

The Midwest solidly earned its reputation for harsh winters. After just a few days in Iowa, I can see that Utahns have it rather easy. We usually don’t have that kind of cold until mid-January and only for a few...

Thanks for your support! 1

Thanks for your support!

The final votes are in in the Bloghive Advisory Board election and I won one of the seats! Thanks to everyone for your support. I highly recommend checking out the final results to see how the votes ended up being...

The Derrangement of Modern Competition 3

The Derrangement of Modern Competition

Competition is the basic building block of a healthy system of free enterprise. With it, we get better consumer choice, a wide variety of products and services and the chance for each of us to start our own enterprises. Without...

Mark Towner Strikes Again, Uses FeedBlitz Once More to Send Spam 4

Mark Towner Strikes Again, Uses FeedBlitz Once More to Send Spam

Apparently unsubscribe requests mean nothing. I got yet another spam from Marky Mark today, this time through FeedBlitz. Now if you recall, he used FeedBlitz back in June to send another round of spam. Rather than have his account terminated...