Throughout my time representing Utah’s 2nd District in Congress, I consistently sounded the alarm on the devastating effects that social media has had on our nation’s youth. The data speaks for itself: the unchecked spread of addictive algorithms and predatory platforms correlates directly ...
Have you ever sat and listened to someone tell their story about how their addiction started? I have talked to many people. I can tell you, nobody wakes up one day and chooses addiction. Drug addiction in the US is a massive public health crisis, with nearly 49 million Americans or about 1 in ...
Jaxson Dart, New York Giants quarterback, introduced President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in New York. Abdul Carter, New York Giants outside linebacker, called his quarterback out on social media posting, “What we doing man?” This led to a closed-door Giants team meeting, during which ...
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 ...
