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Standard Deviations

No more Sundance? Maybe Ogden should shoot for Berlinale

“It’s not you, it’s me.”Wednesday, the <a href="https://www.sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival" target="_blank">Sundance Film Festival</a> announced it was breaking up with Ogden and that it would no longer be screening films at <a ...

Dressing for success at the Box Elder County Jail

Who knew visiting the jail could be so much like attending an LDS stake dance?<a href="https://www.mormon.org/" target="_blank">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>, already known for its fairly strict standards of modesty in dress and grooming, is ...

With divisiveness over recent shootings, is America irreparably broken?

Well, I suppose 240 years was a pretty good run.It seems a shame — especially with the blown-out candles on the birthday cake still smoldering from her July 4 party — but I fear that America is finally, and possibly irreparably, broken.I’m not talking about the recent shootings in ...

Standard Deviations: My annual plea against fireworks insanity

If it’s July, this must be my annual windmill-tilting exercise.Being completely neurotic and slightly unpatriotic, most years I attempt to convince my fellow Utahns that July is a month that would best be left to the British. Especially here in The Beehive State.Thanks to a complete lack of ...

Brexit trumps Justin Timberlake’s Twitter troubles

Back when our three children were teenagers, any time my wife and I would have even the slightest of disagreements in front of them, our youngest daughter would immediately seize upon the opportunity.“Woo-hoo!” she’d shout, pumping both fists in the air. “Two Christmases!”This ...

‘Adult Coloring Club’ comes to Weber County Library

A few months back, I caught my daughter coloring in a coloring book.I suppose “caught” is a strong word for such a seemingly benign activity. But the thing you need to understand is that this daughter is in her mid-20s, has a responsible job and is in a stable relationship. And she colors ...