Mr. Ashdown

Without gushing, without elaborate phrasing, without babble: Pete Ashdown is the guy. It’s so simple as to be almost self explanatory. Pete understands how the world is changing and how technology is driving that evolution. While Senator Hatch has been an active...

Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony

I was at the State Observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Library today. The whole event was quite moving from beginning to end. That this was held at the library, and not, say, standing room only at the Delta Center or Rice Eccles, gives me worry...

Serious Hypocrite

Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert, moments after a press conference about high gas prices and alternative fuel vehicles, drives around the corner in a hydrogen powered (photo-op) car, climbs out and gets into his giant SUV (12mpg city; 16mpg highway). Seriously; who,...

Contract On America

Of the GOP Congressmen who signed the “Contract with America” which pledged to limit congressional terms to 12 years maximum, 30 are seeking reelection. When did they sign the contract? 1994

Friday April 28, 2006 – NO WAY DAY

As you may know, a nuclear waste company called Private Fuel Storage (PFS) is seeking permission to store 44,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste just 50 miles upwind of downtown Salt Lake City. The Bureau of Land Management, which has the power to deny PFS’s...