Entries by Babs De Lay

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 […]

Brewpub

Here’s why one of Utah’s most popular brewpubs is expanding to the west side BUSINESS • SQUATTERS CORNER PUB By KOLBIE PETERSON | The Salt Lake Tribune People who live on the west side of Salt Lake County now have a brewpub close by, in a majority-minority city that is Utah’s second most populous. Squatters […]

Code Blue

Damn it got cold fast! As I scurry around my home trying to finish winterizing my yard, replacing furnace filters, changing out batteries in my smoke detectors and putting away yard tools I find I’m so incredibly grateful to have a home and not be out on the streets, unsheltered in the cold. Luckly almost […]

Trans Away

Well, this is something I never expected. Clients and potential customers are calling me to sell their homes. That’s not unusual, but the WHY is unusual and disturbing. They are calling me because they are leaving Utah due to the anti-trans laws our phobic legislature has passed and they simply don’t feel they and or […]

Bye Bye Retail

Do you remember going to Kmart and experience the ‘blue light specials’? You could literally stand in the store and wait until an employee rolled up a cart with a pole that went up a few feet above the average human head, which was topped with a flashing blue light similar to a police car […]