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Surgery From the Other Side of the Scalpel

Tom Garrison - February 14, 2023

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Letter To The Editor: Déjà Vu With A Twist – The Ten Year Ponzi

I would hope that Utah lawmakers take the necessary steps to discourage the inherently harmful way of life that is polygamy.

Letter to the editor: Financial responsibility to curb the polygamy damage

I was sold as a child bride in polygamy. I had nine pregnancies and six living births by the time I was 23. Please consider the following about polygamy.

Letter to the editor: Polygamy a choice?

Why don't you find out the facts before you write an article in regards to something you know VERY little about.

Letter to the editor: Mad about “Does tithing buy you a...

Guest Contributor - January 17, 2020

$Kanab officials unanimously agreed (a 50 year contract) to release a quantity of their sparse and precious high desert drinking water, and in unison with that vote, they understood the water would be used to “wash” the frac sand with toxic chemicals, creating the potential to contaminate the very aquifer(s) from which they acquire their drinking water. Not only did their decision defy common sense, but it imposed a reckless double whammy risk on their citizens!$

Letter to the editor: Why neither 1922 thinking nor the Lake...

Guest Contributor - January 5, 2020

Give your school bus drivers a break, back off, leave earlier, don't cut them off or give them the finger. They are driving our future generations.

Letter to the editor: Back off the school bus

Guest Contributor - December 29, 2019

When the Red Hills Parkway was established, the public was promised that no further development would occur north of Red Hills. Now developers and politicians are pressing for an amendment.

Letter to the editor: UDOT, Washington City, and St. George are...

Guest Contributor - December 22, 2019

Great community

Letter to the editor: Great community

Guest Contributor - November 10, 2019

Last week I read Howard Sierer's letter 'U.S. Temperatures Unchanged Since 2005'. I couldn't resist the temptation of checking out the data.

Letter to the editor: Howard Sierer’s “U.S. Temperatures Unchanged Since 2005”

Guest Contributor - September 20, 2019

Staking our claim as the most powerful economy in the world, we, as Americans, share a great responsibility to support the will of the people in Sudan.

Letter to the editor: Resolutions can’t overshadow the lost lives of...

Guest Contributor - August 17, 2019

Dear Democrats: The only way to counter Trump's fake populism is with actual populism because the need is real, even though his answers were not.

Letter to the editor: Dear Democrats

Guest Contributor - May 1, 2019

I just finished reading your March 2019 article about canine cancer after reading many others, and I just had to tell my Cody’s story.

Letter to the editor: Cody’s story

Guest Contributor - April 27, 2019

The United States consulate in Lagos, Nigeria and the embassy in Abuja are denying students’ parents’ visas for ten days to attend DSU's graduation.

Letter to the editor: Parents of DSU international students denied visas

Guest Contributor - April 26, 2019

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