One Utah

Clearly, I’m thinking about food this week.
On Sunday, the D-News ran a story about childhood obesity - the opening paragraph evokes the lifestyle problem facing many Americans:
There will be no more Monster Tacos from Jack in the Box, no more drumsticks from KFC. No more french fries, Coke, ‘tater tots or anything else from the junk-food [...]

3018 Old City Park Road
Moab, Utah 84532-3472
June 16, 2007
The Hon. Orrin Hatch
104 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-4402
Dear Senator Hatch:
In the next few weeks you will have the opportunity to vote on a package of energy, fuels, and transportation initiatives. I urge you to protect our future by supporting strong fuel economy, renewable [...]

The Trib’s food critique has a pretty sharp tongued take down of the Five All’s this morning - Ye olde mediocre restaurant.  This wonderfully snarky passage jumped out at me:
Five Alls, Salt Lake, is something of a period piece, but the period - as you understand the minute you see “Filet Oscar” on the menu [...]

Editor & Publisher has a column by Greg Mitchell that’s worth reading. Using a quote from a former New York Times war reporter, Mitchell concludes: “The reality of the war—the fact that the occupation forces have become, along with the rampaging militias, a source of terror to most Iraqis—is not transmitted to the American [...]

I enjoy reading and writing for One Utah. I don’t have as much time to do it as I’d like because I’m usually juggling several projects at my studio, maintaining my own blog and website and developing my business in the Salt Lake area one year after moving here. You encounter many different people (including [...]

It doesn’t take very long using the Internets to find reliable information that confirms that the whole illegal immigration scare/thing is a bunch of overblown, over-hyped propaganda perpetuated by republicans, bigots and generally lazy uninformed whiners.
Fact: The rate of undocumented migration has not increased in over two decades.
Neither is Mexico a demographic time bomb; [...]

Via IraqSlogger, there is a new report by the Iraqi Red Crescent (IRC) about the situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Iraq. By end of May 2007, the IRC was caring for over one million IDPs of which at least 70 percent are women and children (under age 12). Currently, the number [...]

“..not surprising since the administration is running out of actual human beings willing to defend the war. So instead they rolled out the Crockerbot2000.”…read more
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A recent legal case in California raises a number of questions.  
How does a diverse and tolerant community treat its members who are intolerant, who see diversity as a problem?
At what point does a person’s private values negatively impact public spaces in such a way that requires administration action?
At what point does administrative action become discriminatory and [...]

I hobbled, with my mate’s kindly help, toward my bedroom, over the auto’s. But my partner said, “Ed come look at this sunset ! ” So, obedient as ever to those I love, we proceeded to our sun deck. It was a literal fire show in the heavens. The Sun, having just set, hurled her [...]

Again today, dear reader, Thomas Friedman is wawahing over the lamentable state of endemic violence and the chaos and blood that is created:”Gaza is turning into Mogadishu. Hamas is shelling Israel, Israel is retaliating”. (Retaliating? After what Israel has done to all the Arab lands it now occupies, the question of who is attacking [...]

Dedicated to Glenn, Richard and all the other closeted household appliance geeks of One Utah:
When I saw water trickling out of the downspout on a clear, sunny morning this week, I knew something was wrong. To people who live in dry climates like Utah, the evaporative, or more affectionately, “swamp” cooler is as common as [...]