To the Editor:
Friday, April 19, 2013 was the government's trial run to see if the sheeple of a major metropolitan area would willfully submit to “martial law.”
In the search for one violent ninete...
Cyclops: Getting married at Denny’s is a bad idea The world is full of good ideas: microwaves, tablet computers, central air conditioning, Post-it notes, self-sealing tires, seatbelts, debit cards, “The Voice” and “Mad Men” television programs and...
Cyclops: Federal employee tax delinquents should lose jobs While Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz has often acted like the class clown in Washington, D.C., he was correct last week in pushing against tax cheats. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Democrats...
Letter to the Editor: Prairie dog 'collaboration' weakens rights To the Editor:
As a commissioner of Iron County I am committed to collaborating in preference to conflict. But I refuse to collaborate on terms that weaken the rights of my fellow citizens of Iron ...
Letter to the Editor: Government hoops victimize landowners To the Editor:
I read with interest the recent comments in your paper from Noreen Walsh, US Fish & Wildlife, regarding Iron County Commissioner Dave Miller’s concerns regarding the Utah Prairie Dog...
Letter to the Editor: Appreciation for our city employees To the Editor:
I have respond to the article Kristen Daniel wrote about investing in our city employees, which I absolutely agree with one hundred and fifty percent.
I’d like to thank our Cedar Cit...
It seems I began what I most intended with part one of my column last week regarding the Cedar City employees – a conversation.
People are talking about city employees and, I hope, have started thi...
A recent editorial authored by Iron County Commissioner Dave Miller expressed concern that protection of the federally listed Utah prairie dog infringes on private property rights. Commissioner Mil...
As the fiscal year draws to an end in June and Cedar City faces another round of lengthy discussions, allocations and salary negotiations, I suggest the community look at city employees and their c...
As a father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, I understand the desire to create and maintain a lasting legacy for our children and grandchildren. It is innate human nature to hope that our way o...
I was invited to attend the Lucky 13 Food Challenge, last week’s cholesterol-filled tournament for competitive eaters. I missed it; my stomach got queasy just thinking about it.
If I had attended I...
To the Editor:
Most people would find it hard to disagree with the surface message of Bryan Gray’s March 13 column, “Senators got it right on smoking law.” Agreed, personal liberties meet their lim...
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Nine-year-old Sydney Angle was "everywhere at once" when she was out on the softball field. Kyle Davis, 8, was nicknamed "The Wall" because of his size and presence on the soccer field. JaNae Hornsby, also 9, was the life of the party....
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- All that is left of Shayne Patterson's three-bedroom home is the tiny area where his wife hunkered down under a mattress to protect their three children when a tornado packing winds of at least 200 mph slammed through his neighborhood....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A Chechen immigrant shot to death in central Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent had several ties to that of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who authorities were questioning him about at the time....