Utah home prices remain near record levels, but there is good news for buyers: inventory has improved, homes are taking longer to sell, and buyers have more choices, including significantly more opportunities below the $500,000 mark than we became accustomed to during the ultra-competitive ...

The U.S. national debt just crossed the $40 trillion threshold, doubling in less than a decade. Washington politicians have responded with their favorite fiscal game: blaming the other party. Democrats say Republican tax cuts are the culprit. Republicans say Democratic spending is the root ...

There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully. The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops functioning -- when spending becomes ...

Entering Friday's season opener, one might look to Northern Colorado's sideline and see Ed Lamb, the veteran coach, and assume he'd have an upper hand on his opponent. Weber State brought first-year college head coach Eric Kjar to Greeley to face Lamb's Bears in the 2026 season opener. Not ...

Although many grade school students in our area have been in school for a week or two, many of our college students are gearing up to get back to classes. It's been a personal journey for me this year, seeing family members at various points of their secondary education careers. I see the ...

An important new book by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), "Going Further," calls attention anew to the life and career of the single greatest living American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. For many years after Thomas arrived on the court in the early 1990s, his conservative, originalist ...