Last week the world witnessed another record fall by the wayside as earth-warming carbon dioxide levels reached an all time high of over 400 parts per million. Its not exactly the kind of record we should be breaking. In an interview with the New York Times, one scientist, describing the feat, said, “It feels like
New numbers released last week by the Department of Environmental Quality don’t bode well for cleaning up our winter inversions. According to a report by the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah County–which repeatedly found itself with the country’s worst air this past winter–needs to cut its wintertime pollution by an additional 20 percent to meet even
Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of Richard Hofstadter’s influential, The Paranoid Style in American Politics. Hofstadter, then a historian at Columbia University, first published the essay in Harper’s Magazine in 1966. At the time, the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and the rise of the John Birch Society were already history, but the resurgence of
The following is the transcript from this week’s Better UTAH Beat. It aired on April 23, 2013. ——– This is Maryann Martindale from the alliance for a better utah and Welcome to the Better UTAH Beat The United States’ relationship to torture got a little clearer this week after a nearly 600-page report was released,
In this week’s edition of the Better UTAH Beat, Maryann discusses the way contemporaries use history to advance claims in support of their arguments. From gay marriage to gun rights, many on the American right are distorting history to make their own claims seem reasonable and consistent. The practice is similar to the tactics used
The following is the transcript from this week’s Better UTAH Beat. It aired on April 9, 2013. ——– This is Maryann Martindale of the Alliance for a Better UTAH and welcome to this week’s edition of the Better UTAH Beat. It was Socrates who famously said over 2500 years ago, “The unexamined life is not
The following is the transcript from this week’s Better UTAH Beat. It aired on March 126, 2013. ——– This is Maryann Martindale of the Alliance for a Better UTAH and welcome to this week’s edition of the Better UTAH Beat. Nearly two months ago, House Speaker Becky Lockhart started off the 2013 legislative session with
The following is the transcript from this week’s Better UTAH Beat. It aired on March 19, 2013. ——– This is Maryann Martindale of the Alliance for a Better UTAH and welcome to this week’s edition of the Better UTAH Beat. It might be tempting to say that the divide in the state legislature is between
The following is the transcript from this week’s Better UTAH Beat. It aired on March 12, 2013. ——– This is Maryann Martindale of the Alliance for a Better UTAH and welcome to this week’s edition of the Better UTAH Beat. The 2013 legislative session finally ends this week while Utahns continue to hold their collective
The following is the transcript from this week’s Better UTAH Beat. It aired on March 5, 2013. ——– Cui bono? It is a latin phrase the great Roman orator and politician Cicero used when considering a piece of legislation. Translated, the phrase reads: Who benefits? And it is a question that should be asked over
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