Years ago I served on a city council in Cache County. My service there taught me several truths about governance. One primary truth is that processes are created for a purpose. When we, as a council, carefully followed established processes to address proposed developments, citizens and ...

China built 400 gigawatts of new power in the last two years. Most of it is feeding AI data centers. And while Washington debates permitting reform, Kevin O’Leary just proposed putting the world’s largest data center, 40,000 acres of hyperscale AI infrastructure, in Box Elder County, Utah. ...

My retirement provider’s term “Post-Retirement” as an inventive euphemism for death provided a jumping off point for reflections on end-of-life planning in last month’s op-ed. But maybe I jumped too soon. Though the grim reaper creeps closer up the driveway every year, as my 92-year-old ...

I recently re-watched the Disney movie, Secretariat, which came out in 2004. I like a good sports movie and that’s a classic, representing the story of probably the greatest racehorse of all time. In that movie, the character of Penny Chenery (played by Diane Lane) tells her father, Chris ...

On Twitter, I noted that a lot of actual, practicing Christians, not people who call themselves Christians, will stop voting if both parties keep nominating moral cretins insisting that people of faith choose between the lesser of two evils. It is still a choice for evil. Christians are ...

How is it that the "Saxophone Colossus" Sonny Rollins lived to 95? Aren't jazz musicians supposed to die at tragically early ages? Actually, that's a myth that Rollins and others proved flawed. It's true that Bix Beiderbecke, king of the cornet, was gone at 28, Charlie Parker at 34, Dinah ...