Tag: Dallas Hyland
Keyhole Canyon tragedy: Sometimes the limits push back
Last week's Keyhole Canyon tragedy marked the single largest loss of life at one time due to natural disaster in Utah’s history. Heartfelt condolences to...
Pesky facts the religious right ought to know
When conversing with individuals or groups who lay claim to an association or membership to the conservative and religious right in this country, there...
Greetings from Punta San Jose
Mark Twain famously said that travel is fatal to prejudice and bigotry.
Those words resonated in my mind as I worked my way to a...
Phil Lyman is no champion of civil disobedience
San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman was convicted along with one other person on May 1 of this year for misdemeanor charges of conspiracy...
The role of the writer: to sell or to serve?
When John Steinbeck was presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 he famously said:
"The ancient commission of the writer has not changed....
St. George City: Arbiter of justice or henchmen for powers unseen?
In what can now be famously attributed to the late Christopher Hitchens as "Hitchens' Razor," the statement, "What can be asserted without evidence can...
The power of a single image
I was five years old in 1972 when the photo that perhaps planted the seeds for what would be a professional pursuit in photography...