I promise this is the last column about high rises here for a while. As an avid bird watcher, I know what a danger skyscrapers are to our avian friends due to reflections and lights at night. Most folks don’t realize that Utah is in multiple migratory bird flyways, including the Pacific and Central Flyways, […]

In a month we’ll learn who the new president of the United States will be, unless…?  I don’t want to go down that road of conspiracy theories but wanted to add some facts to the age old question, “Do president elections effect the housing market?” According to the data keepers at the National Assn. of […]

We’ve had unseasonally warm fall weather, but cold is coming. Imagine if you lost your job, had a major medical episode, no health insurance, couldn’t make your rent for a few months and ended up on the streets here. Where would you go seek shelter? During the Great Depression in the early 1930’s, Utah’s unemployment […]

September 11th, 2001 seems like a lifetime ago. That date, burned into many of our brains was when the twin towers fell in NYC and killed almost 3,000 people. At the time of the terrorist attack, the World Trade Center’s twin towers were the tallest buildings in NYC-1,369 and 1,362 feet tall, respectively.  They were […]

Unless you’re a Native American, we’re all immigrants to this state. We were discovered by trappers and explorers, some of whom stuck around, followed by the great Mormon trek of folks who sought a place to live and practice their religion. Once the white colonizers from Britian and Scandinavia took over the land industry began […]