February 18, 2017 House Oversight pushes for probe of ethics breaches, possible crimes of BLM bully Dan Love “As a federal law enforcement officer, Love’s actions have the potential to not only taint your investigation, but to seriously undermine the trust in…
February 18, 2017 Fact checking Utah’s corporate environmentalist exit …the governor won’t be hurt. The Legislature won’t be hurt. The congressional delegation won’t be hurt. In fact, they’ll be liberated. No longer will…
February 15, 2017 Too Big: Effort to shrink Grand Staircase/Escalante NM gets bi-partisan support At 1.88 million acres, Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is larger than the combined footprints of the state’s “Mighty 5” national parks and Cedar…
February 14, 2017 A monument to ‘presidential vanity,’ it’s time to rescind Bears Ears Even modern progressives must admit that such monuments to presidential vanity are a bad thing. Like many Progressive Era policies, the Antiquities Act is…
February 13, 2017 FLASHBACK: Utah sheriffs sounded warnings about BLM bully, Dan Love, years ago Love and a team of FBI agents unearthed human remains discovered in the national monument in 2008, reasoning the site could be a crime scene. The…
February 12, 2017 Bears Ears Archaeology: What’s truly ancient and what’s not? With modern scientific breakthroughs we can now more wisely use those resources, by applying less invasive strategies. Mother Earth has always been generous, and…
February 11, 2017 Legacy of Kindness: James Redd, the man bullied to death by the BLM “Dr. Redd’s patients suffered as much direct personal loss as anyone. Many of them had medical histories that existed only in Dr. Redd’s memory. …
February 5, 2017 Letter to Zinke: Bears Ears is a special interest ‘scheme,’ not the will of the people As the details emerge of the new Monument, it is clear that scheming special interest groups have been crafting the details of this Monument…
February 4, 2017 Will BLM agent Dan Love misconduct cripple federal prosecutors in Bundy trial? Whipple represents ranch owner and Bundy family patriarch Cliven Bundy, 70, whose years-long feud with the federal government over cattle grazing rights on federal land culminated…
February 3, 2017 Millard County Utah: A case study in urban ‘values’ infringing on rural property rights Although Millard County is the literal definition of rural, “urban” values increasingly seem to dominate local thought processes and resulting public policy. Despite lip…