Entries by Babs De Lay

Choo Choo!

Many of us Boomers grew up with a toy train set at home. I had to laugh when I recently sold a home for a couple hilarious senior citizens and discovered the entire basement housed a miniature train set and scenery that he built over the years with fake mountains, a town with a gas […]

The Millenial’s

The demographic for City Weekly readers is Millennials. Interesting stuff coming from rentcafe.com about the typical Millennial. Using a fictional male named ‘Matt’ who’s 35 years old, he graduated from college with a master’s degree in business, is tech-savvy and is optimistic about the future of AI and tech. He owns his home where he […]

HOA’s Updating

I lived in a condo downtown for 20 years. I loved the ‘lock and leave’ lifestyle-I could go out of town and not worry about watering a lawn, snow removal. The building didn’t have amenities like a swimming pool, gym or movie room and the HOA fees were very reasonable. When you opt to live […]

Hey Powderheads!

As the fall colors start to turn, many powderheads start pacing back and forth, looking longingly at the top of our Rocky Mountains for that first dusting of Utah snow. The Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts near to below-average snowfall for Utah during the 2025-2026 winter season, with warmer-than-normal temperatures overall. La Nina may influence our […]

Museum of Utah

Thinking of NOT traveling outside of the state this summer for a vaycay? Rather stick around for a staycay and maybe explore what we have here in the state to see? Utah has over 260 museums covering a wide range of topics, from art to culture, history to science. There’s a ski museum in Park […]

Price Gouging

Summertime is baseball time! My dad and later stepmom were sports nuts and always had a radio or TV on listening to some game or post-game talk show, and my brothers were into football, wrestling, and basketball in school.  My nephew went to play in the little league world series. I was happy during college […]

Con Artists

Scammers and fraudsters are just a common fact of life these days. From credit card hackers to criminals who pretend to be family members, cops or IRS representatives, it seems everyone has been or is a potential victim of something nefarious crime. One of the most costly crimes can be what is known as title […]

Heat Wave

Naaa, there’s no global warming-right? Bah! Our planet is warming and from all predictions this is going to be a summer of record breaking heat in the state. Make yourself a checklist to prepare for summer: -Reduce your air conditioning costs by keeping curtains/blinds closed in the day, seal around windows with weather stripping where […]

Licensing Us

Sometime this summer I got pulled over by Utah Highway Patrol on I-80. I wasn’t speeding and frankly, I don’t know why he pulled me over. I have a ‘fast lane’ pass and when he flipped on his lights, I was in that far left lane and so I pulled over to the extreme far […]

Bad Landlords

I’m not sure if Trump intends to keep the U.S. Department of Justice as part of our government, but after going through rigorous investigations as to his practices in and out of office he certainly wants to punish many affiliated with the DOJ. Two weeks ago, Special Counsel Jack Smith who investigated Trump said that […]