One Utah

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is doing whatever it can to help the Bush administration wreck our public lands. Back in February, I wrote:

They can’t be serious…. The federal government has come back to the idea, sensibly abandoned in the early 1980s, of extracting tar sands and oil shale in Utah. These are [...]

And here is Utah’s reward for being the reddest state, the most supportive of the Bush administration. As one of his last acts, he opens up new land to oil and gas exploration on the borders of Arches and Canyonlands Parks.
Late on Election Day, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a Dec. 19 [...]

Originally published on OneUtah June 2007.
Morris Berman, a distinguished professor and writer is known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. His most recent book, Dark Ages America, is not pretty. I first saw him on C-Span book TV. It was interesting because even among the predictably liberal sympathetic crowd in attendance, some got [...]

Hold me back. Steve “Attack Dog” Urquart (Sen UT-R St. George) has decided he is an expert in climate change science.
I’m giving him 24 hours to retract his arrogant, regurgitation of one of the most tired, global warming denier canards before I unleash the truth on OneUtah. And it won’t be pretty.
I am OVER [...]

Sustainability Summit:
Practicing Sustainable Community in Greater Salt Lake
Friday, October 3, 2008, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
The Leonardo (Old SLC Downtown Public Library)

“If we want sustainability at scale, it will only come
from the quality of our relationships with each other.”
Sustainability Friends of the Salt Lake Valley,
We know there are many individuals, groups, and organizations [...]

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich has come up with a terrific GOP strategy: shut down the government like they did in 1995.
What’s Gingrich mad about now? Congress hasn’t voted to lift a moratorium on new offshore oil drilling, which is a favor owed to the oil companies by the congressmen who took campaign [...]

On Capitol Hill, GOP partisans representing Big Oil are staging political theater in support of more offshore petroleum leasing. Senator John McCain opposed offshore oil production for years but changed his position a few weeks ago in exchange for $1.1 million in campaign contributions. Never mind that market speculation and the Bush administration’s [...]

Thanks, Raw Story. The House Judiciary Committee has released a witness list for its hearing on the impeachment of President George W. Bush.
Late Thursday afternoon, the committee released the full witness list, broken down into two panels.
Panel One
The Honorable Dennis Kucinich, Representative from Ohio
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Paul,
I’ll tell you a bit about myself qua LDS person. I was born and raised in the church, served a mission to Germany, got married in the temple, paid my tithing, did all of the right things. Then one night as I was reading the Book of Mormon in preparation for teaching a Sunday school [...]

Queers behind bushes, queers in dark alleys, queers in positions of power. Queers free on the streets, queers in pulpits, queers bearing arms. And worst of all, queers at the altar! Is no place free of this menace, no institution sacred? Our world teeters on the brink. Can no one save us?
Cue background music, William [...]

The first line of The Nation article linked below reads, “…even the most rabidly right-wing media hosts had to prove their populist cred…”
That gave me pause to reflect on Paul Mero’s comment this morning, “…and if congressional lefties (and spineless Republicans) would allow the domestic production of oil and gas…”
If career right-wingers are now looking [...]

Someone sent this to me anonymously with the caption.
An LDS ward parking lot near our home that accommodates over 180 cars, not including overflow on the street. The most of the congregation lives within 0.5 mi of the building.

If every Mormon in Utah walked rather than drove to church on Sunday and during the [...]