11+ hour, 34+ min ago   (712+ words) heraldextra.com MADSEN: Every day counts: Why showing up to school shapes Utah’s future By Susan R. Madsen and Deborah Lin - | Sep 12, 2026 As a new school year begins, it is worth pausing to consider the importance and value of education....

3+ day, 13+ min ago   (587+ words) September is National Recovery Month. Across Utah, people will gather this month to celebrate something worth celebrating: People can recover from addiction. But there is a question we don’t ask nearly as often. What happens after they do? We tell…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (577+ words) It was a day of deep thinking and heroic typing, my brain so fried I could hardly call out for pizza. Then the news and social media feeds exploded with reports that Harry and Meghan plan to leave California and…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (611+ words) An important new book by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), “Going Further,” calls attention anew to the life and career of the single greatest living American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. For many years after Thomas arrived on the court in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (398+ words) A proposal to launch a public boundary study and consider school consolidations and closures will go before the Timpanogos School District Board on Wednesday. TSD leaders say the issue at hand is a significant enrollment decline within the district boundaries…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (487+ words) The tragic deaths of Hayden Panettiere and Jason Arday can be tied to the same phenomenon. It’s not new but has accelerated in today’s influencer culture: youth’s hunger for fame. Panettiere was an accomplished actress who, buried in depression and…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (460+ words) I’ve stayed at The Grand America hotel nearly a dozen times over the years, and I have a confession: it still gets me. I walk through the front doors, step into that magnificent lobby, and for a brief moment I…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (489+ words) Did you know that the SAT is racist? During Woke I, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now calls it, “antiracists” said the SAT’s creators “were avowed eugenicists.” No wonder Black people get lower scores. Even if the test isn’t racist today,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (569+ words) It’s impossible to ignore the racial optics in the race, where Wasserman Schultz of Jewish heritage has created a conundrum for Democrats. Her very presence in the race challenges the most fundamental assumption about Democratic politics: that ethnic representation translates…...