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Opinion: The sentence that starts a disaster — why we cannot forget the Crandall Canyon mine collapse
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (625+ words) Coal is back in Utah's policy conversation. Grid reliability is back in the news. Aircraft safety never really left. One of the clearest lessons about how disasters actually form was written years ago, inside the record of Crandall Canyon. Disasters…...
Tour of Zimbabwe’s first Latter-day Saint temple brings the country’s leaders ‘closer to the Creator’
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (472+ words) Tours of the Harare Zimbabwe Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opened this week with a media day and tours for invited guests. Among those guests were Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Southeast African country's…...
Draper boy’s love of penguins leads to New Zealand adventure
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (604+ words) Andrew Jeffs knew exactly what he'd wish for when he was referred to Make-A-Wish Utah, based on his love of penguins. The 12-year-old, accompanied by his family, fulfilled his wish in November to see rare yellow-eyed penguins in their New…...
Harare Zimbabwe Temple open house underway
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (123+ words) Interior and exterior photos have been released as the public begins touring Zimbabwe's first house of the Lord Harare Zimbabwe Temple open house underway After five years of construction, members of the public are now invited to tour the Harare…...
Close encounters of the penguin kind
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (659+ words) Last month, my dreams came true when I got to spend time with penguins at the aquarium. There's a term in modern internet parlance for girls who had a horse obsession in childhood and the teen years. We call them…...
Opinion: U.S. refugee policy doesn’t match American attitudes toward refugees
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (685+ words) At a time when American politics often feel defined by division, new polling we released last month from the Refugee Advocacy Lab, Refugees International and Data for Progress reveals something remarkable. Across party lines, Americans still believe in the value…...
Trump curtails refugees to a trickle. How does this compare to other restrictions in U.S. history?
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1391+ words) A new federal memorandum was published on Oct. 31, entitled, "Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2026." "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States," wrote President Donald Trump in…...
Church breaks ground for Africa’s southernmost temple
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (317+ words) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially began construction of the Cape Town South Africa Temple " to be the southernmost temple in its country and continent " with a groundbreaking ceremony held Saturday, Oct. 25. This ceremony was presided over…...
President Nelson saw me for who I had the potential to become
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (824+ words) The rededication of the Washington D.C. Temple on Aug. 14, 2022, marked the first trip outside of Utah since the COVID-19 pandemic for President Russell M. Nelson, the 17th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After the event President Nelson sat…...
11 quotes from President Nelson on how to build peace in a hostile world
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (756+ words) The present hostility in public dialogue and on social media is alarming, said President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints earlier this year. "Hateful words are deadly weapons. Contention prevents the Holy Ghost from being…...