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    Howard Sierer

    Publishing On My Own Now

    Howard Sierer - February 2, 2025
    Utah’s legislature

    Utah’s Contentious Legislative Challenges

    Department of Government Efficiency

    DOGE’s Mission Impossible

    COVID

    COVID Lockdown Skeptics Vindicated

    Wild animals are not pets. Besides the harm that could occur to wild animals kept in homes, keeping wildlife as pets poses great danger to humans.

    Wild Animals Are Not Pets

    Guest Contributor - March 8, 2020
    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

    Guest Contributor - March 1, 2020
    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?

    Guest Contributor - February 23, 2020
    Ivins touts itself as a “resort destination.” But some citizens, myself included, are beginning to wonder what the vision really is.

    Ivins City: Little but growing

    Lisa Rutherford - February 16, 2020
    The $150 million Northern Corridor will not solve congestion problems, as has been made clear by the county’s own transportation plans.

    Citizens are not getting full story about the Northern Corridor

    Lisa Rutherford - February 9, 2020
    If we can’t conserve water now when we are being warned about running out of water, will we if the Lake Powell Pipeline water is made available?

    What happens to conservation in Washington County with the Lake Powell...

    Lisa Rutherford - February 2, 2020
    A church in Minnesota has been asking its older members to haul their old carcasses to some alternative congregation out of sight of hoped-for newbies.

    Should older people be banned from church?

    Danny Tyree - January 26, 2020
    The proposed changes to NEPA could allow federal agencies to approve projects without considering human health effects or public involvement.

    Shutting public out of environmental decisions is not MAGA

    Lisa Rutherford - January 19, 2020
    The Christian tenets of extending kindness and compassion compel us to take a stand against the acts of animal cruelty committed by Jordan World Circus.

    Utahns of faith should unite against Jordan World Circus’s animal cruelty

    Guest Contributor - January 12, 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
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