I would love to be able to contact Mike Wylie and Amiee Christensen and help them recognize why Lehi is doing things that make them feel “less desirable.” Their reactions to the idea of raising prices on non-residents for Lehi programs were published today in the Daily Herald. I’m not saying that their reactions were [...]
A local example of the negative effect of subsidies is playing out right now. Lehi citizens have been paying taxes to support services that benefit people in Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain. The result is that the people in those cities are unaware of the real costs of the services that many of them take [...]
From two very different sources today I was pointed toward two very similar views regarding our overly materialistic society. Misty Fowler linked to Winning the Rat Race by Quitting it:
We are a country obsessed with consumption, which would be fine if we seemed to be fulfilled getting bigger TVs but having less time to watch [...]
A story this morning instantly made me think about the discussion that followed when I wrote about Funding Mass Transit back in July. This story is about a driver who chose to use biofuel in his vehicle:
Bob Teixeira decided it was time to take a stand against U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
So last fall the [...]
Why is it that the government gets to tell me when I can spend my money?
That’s a question I have asked myself many times. The “you can’t touch it until you’re 60″ rule is proof of why it is not the business of government to get involved in what private citizens do with their money [...]
I was impressed with the New York Times editorial The High Cost of Health Care. I don’t really have time to review it here right now (it’s quite long) but it is well worth the read and I would like to come back to it later to review it. They talk about some of the [...]
Going against ages of parental wisdom, I am prepared to declare that naps for children are evil. Really the problem is not naps, it is anything to do with sleeping (including not sleeping). The holiday seasons seems to bring out the worst aspects of sleeping for kids. If you don’t make some effort to control [...]
The Boy Scout organization has always been important to me because it had such an impact on my life when I was scout aged. That is why I have been so disappointed in the scout unit I am currently working with where there seems to be so little vision to be found among most of [...]
In all my time at my current job I have enjoyed my various paid holidays, but never, until now have I enjoyed the holiday because of the break from work. I am coming in to this Thanksgiving weekend tired from some heavy work projects and also from some things outside of work (which is why [...]
There are a variety of ideas for how we can fix our primary election process. They range from a lottery system proposed in comments and a post earlier on my site to more authoritative proposals such as rotating regional primaries as outlined by Trey Grason (go to page 25 of the PDF - hat tip [...]
