One Utah

We’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we’re taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren’t aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new [...]

The Deseret Morning News (DMN) can hardly be blamed for headlines like “Too much flitting about by Anderson?”.The editors know well, Rocky-bashing keeps their Davis County subscriber base happy. And after all, revenue takes precedent over social responsibility in a free market void of pesky liberal things like an informed citizenry.
But the content of the [...]

Well over 100,000 Mexican and Latino Americans marched through Salt Lake City today in a peaceful reminder that they are here, they are American families, and they are peaceful and proud. The AP quoted SLC Police as estimating the number at 20,000. As one with a great deal of experience counting and then verifying [...]

The New York Times | Editorial
Sunday 02 April 2006
Iraq is becoming a country that America should be ashamed to support, let alone occupy. The nation as a whole is sliding closer to open civil war. In its capital, thugs kidnap and torture innocent civilians with impunity, then murder them for their religious beliefs. The rights [...]

by Ellen Birrell (”BURR ell”)
As submitted for KUER’s “Life in Utah” contest
There arrived a president to Zion
Whose Senator also did fly in.
A protest ensued
Hatch came unglued
Announcing “There are Nutcakes in Zion!”
There once was a Senator Buttars.
Evolution did make him shudder.
Good at maligning
and Intelligent Designing
But Utahns gave no bread for their Buttars.

Advice from friends: America needs to clean up its act
Thad Box
Salt Lake Tribune
America is in moral decline. Most of the world knows it. A recent British Broadcasting Company survey shows that only Iran ranks below us in being trustworthy and honest. Countries most like us, our “natural family,” tell us why.
Great Britain is our mother. [...]

A friend of mine, beloved for his eccentric and often passionate however informed views, passed through SLC this week. And on his way south this morning he listened to Doug Wright on KSL do a listener poll (mayoral) between Rocky and city council person Dave Buhler and wrote about it on his blog.

His “take” on [...]

Ken, I’ll save a seat for you!
Mayor Rocky Anderson will moderate a panel discussion including experienced government interrogators at The library on Sunday following a screening of Frontlines, “The Torture Question”.
Details in the press release.

A friend just sent me a link to the KSL article about Rocky getting another award for standing up for equality.
I’m sad because the comments on the KSL blog are just SO mean and visceral.
Some of the more tempered comments are suggesting that the homophobes are LDS.
I don’t believe it. I am not LDS. [...]

Rocky’s recent heretical executive order providing domestic-partner benefits (which happen to include gay couples) did nothing more than to make city employment benefits competitive with most of the fortune 500 companies.
The City Council ordinance passed last night was nothing but a waste of energy to light and heat the meeting room. That’s probably why Rocky [...]

The Biased and Deceptive Reporting in the Deseret Morning News
Statement by Mayor Rocky Anderson - November 4, 2005
It’s my understanding that this letter was distributed to the media at the time but re-printed nowhere. It is fiercely well documented and I believe demonstrates an undeniable reality…The Deseret Morning News for whatever reason, has [...]

One of my favorite projects while I was at the Mayor’s office, was this Freedom Forum, Freedom to Criticize Government.
Which was inspired by the national praise (DailyKos), but also, all the local “stuff” Rocky took for inviting others to, and speaking at the anti-war protest on August 22, while president Bush was in SLC speaking [...]