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nbsp;OneUtah.org hopes to be an ersatz Public Square for Utah by featuring the writings’ and commentary of Utah’s many thoughtful and articulate citizens, community leaders, educators and law-makers and by facilitating discussion around current events, politics, and religion.
Ed Firmage has enthusiastically agreed to be our inaugural contributing author.
All are invited to become contributing authors. Just [...]

GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY — Mother Lode of Enron Emails Made Public.
…in a searchable database. Just go there and search “Tom Delay”, “Abramoff”, or “Grover Norquist”.
Have a blast! Its all there!
This was first brought to my attention by UtahBlue. The blog The Great Divide has pulled out some of the jucier ones [...]

Robert Kirby reveals how he took care of the neighborhood bully.
Kirby:There’s only one gang where membership has all the privileges
“The purpose of the Rangers was protection from Elwood Street’s resident bully. Howard was nearly 12 but still in the fourth grade. He enjoyed waylaying kids walking home alone. “

Student Brings Gun to High School in Roosevelt
A KSL Report - Friday, February 3, 2006
Coincidentally, only hours before this story broke, Reed Cowan, a graduate of Union High School in Roosevelt, Utah testified before a Utah Senate sub-committee hearing on an anti-bullying resolution. During his testimony he described being severely bullied at Union High and [...]

I suppose its time to let you know that apparently, Cliff has been accused of libel by The Deseret Morning News in the form of an e-mail received by Charlie Foster of The State of the Beehive for a comment made on his blog suggesting Brady was fired.
You may go there for the “juice”.
For the [...]

In a Public Forum letter (Jan. 30) a writer uses the word “liberal” as though it has a negative connotation, and criticizes The Tribune for its “liberal bias.” I must conclude that the writer didn’t bother to check on the definition of the word “liberal” before using it.
The gold-standard, Oxford English Dictionary, typically gives a [...]

Envirocare is changing its name and expanding its game. Its game is still the only game in town. But somehow, a “rose by any other name,” doesn’t quite fit. Their history, more like a ball and chain, is deep in our ground.
Ed Firmage

My best friend had major surgery at 8am. I had to wrap up a major personal transaction, prepare for the anti-bullying press conference and hearing at the capitol tomorrow www.mybully.org , then hit a staff meeting at Rhythms of Life www.rolusa.org, then deal with the Deseret News demanding a retraction over on http://utahbeehive.blogspot.com/
Then back to [...]

So sorry to have missed a day. I’m slammed getting ready for the press conference on Sen. Arent’s Anti-bullying resolution on Friday. I’m trying to harvest all the e-mail addresses from the 350 people that signed the petition at www.mybully.org (and where you can sign too) to invite them to come.
I hope you will too. [...]