Category: Utah

Utah Papers, Get on the Technology Bus 1

Utah Papers, Get on the Technology Bus

I like getting frequent updates from my favorite websites, so I'm a big fan of RSS, the technology that allows you to see what's new on a website without necessarily visiting it. Used with an aggregator like Bloglines or Google...

Vampire Season 0

Vampire Season

I really enjoy having seasons. Living in Las Vegas, I missed out on crisp falls with leaves crunching underfoot. Snow in the valley happened maybe twice in the 14 years I lived there. You more-or-less differentiated the weather between "hot"...

Who Won the Race for White City Community Council? 0

Who Won the Race for White City Community Council?

As part of the voting process on Tuesday, residents of White City also got to vote for some of the seats on the White City Community Council. Being that I'm in District 3, I was only able to vote on...

Whole Foods is coming to Utah! 3

Whole Foods is coming to Utah!

I can totally get excited about something like this, even if they are going to be way downtown. Wherefore art thou, Trader Joe's?

Utah Democrats, Please Ditch the Religious Bigots 4

Utah Democrats, Please Ditch the Religious Bigots

"Honey catches more flies than vinegar." It's an old English proverb and like most proverbs, there's something to it. In the art of persuasion, you are more likely to bring someone to your point of view with civility, rationality, and...

Live Where You Run 1

Live Where You Run

Tonight's news featured a big flap about a candidate for District Attorney in Summit County. No, it's not because he's running unopposed. It's not because he's a Republican in a Democratic stronghold. No, it's because he doesn't really live there....

Last night we won the Frozen Entree Lottery. 11

Last night we won the Frozen Entree Lottery.

Every day I bring a frozen Lean Cuisine meal for lunch at work. It's my way of being able to say I'm on a diet without actually having any kind of a hard and fast plan that I stick to. A...

Good News! 1

Good News!

Last evening the Council decided to move the ordinance to ban smoking in public areas in SLC to the next step which is having it considered at a Public Hearing next Tuesday. Hooray!

Don't Miss This Bus 2

Don't Miss This Bus

Don't miss the train either, for that matter. Salt Lake and Utah Counties have some very important questions on the ballot this year involving increasing taxes to pay for corridor preservation, expanding TRAX, and getting commuter rail from Payson to...