All posts by Dallas Hyland
OPINION – In Palm Beach County, the Florida House and Senate has just awarded a one-time, $1 million budget to Sheriff Ric Bradshaw for his newly formed “prevention intervention” units. Bradshaw’s …
ON Kilter: Society’s role in self-torture, victim-related suicides
OPINION – When a Nova Scotian teen was gang-raped 17 months ago at her friend’s house, one would have thought it was imaginably the worst thin ...
ON Kilter: The gay marriage debate is over
OPINION – The gay marriage debate is over. What remains is for our country to accept it. It may take some time, much like the Emancipation Proclama ...
ON Kilter: Lake Powell Pipeline, dead at last
OPINION – The Lake Powell Pipeline may at long last have taken a fatal blow. The project, succinctly packaged and marketed by the Washington County ...
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ON Kilter: Scott Prouty, reluctant ‘hero’?
March 16, 2013, 3 CommentsOPINION – There is a timeless bit of wisdom that says people will rarely remember what you say but they will always remember how you made them feel. Former presidential candidate ...
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ON Kilter: Consensus vs. conflict, welcome to growth
March 8, 2013, 5 CommentsOPINION – The President, with a little help from a heroic effort by Sen. Rand Paul and the ever active viral media, has made it clear that the White House has ...
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ON Kilter: The downside of advantage; or, how about those city contracts?
March 1, 2013, 24 CommentsOPINION – Breaking news! “County commissioners accused of ethical lapses regarding airport contracts will have to wait at least until May to have the complaints resolved despite two days of ...
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Moe’s Valley Maintenance: Trail building, competitions, cleanup; STGnews Photo Gallery
February 23, 2013, 2 CommentsST. GEORGE – The fourth annual Moe’s Valley Maintenance took place today in the box canyon south of Tonaquint Intermediate School, popular for bouldering, mountain bike riding and hiking. The ...
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ON Kilter: Knot as things appear
February 23, 2013, No commentsOPINION – I recently had the pleasure of meeting a young man who had just been awarded his Eagle Scout rank. I thought to myself that I must be getting ...
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ON Kilter: The litmus test for laws and government
February 15, 2013, 1 CommentOPINION – “Would you be willing to pay politicians in Utah to do nothing but make sure that no more bills were passed?” my friend and colleague, Kate Dalley, asked ...
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Southern Utah climbers clean up years of trash accumulation: Garth Rocks, Moe’s Valley
February 10, 2013, No commentsST. GEORGE – The Southern Utah Climbing Alliance was in full workout Saturday morning when it hosted a cleanup of a local bouldering area known to climbers as “Garth” or ...
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ON Kilter: Let’s look at the signs, not the symptoms in these shooting sprees
December 26, 2012, No commentsOPINION – Columbine. Virginia Tech. Phoenix. Aurora. Now an elementary school in a small Connecticut town joins a somber list in what is now becoming a common place statistic in ...
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ON Kilter: When a sculptor shapes public perception, who speaks for whom?
December 12, 2012, 17 CommentsOPINION – Jerry Anderson, the sculptor of the now infamous Confederate statue removed from Dixie State College last week, in an interview with The Spectrum Daily News, said “They should ...
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ON Kilter: Dixie State; there’s more at stake than a name
December 5, 2012, 21 CommentsOPINION – The debate for the name of Dixie State College of Utah, as it ascends to university status, wages on. Proponents for keeping the traditional name of “Dixie” argue ...
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ON Kilter: Merry v. Happy or the clash of December greetings
November 28, 2012, No commentsOPINION – With Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and the now socially-accepted Cyber Monday behind us, what say we reflect on our mindset some? We’ve lost any and all sense of what ...
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ON Kilter: Equality won
November 7, 2012, 15 CommentsOPINION -– The 2012 election is now behind us and if anything can be concluded from it, there was a clear winner which means there was a collective vote that ...
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ON Kilter: A platform premised on an oily farce
October 31, 2012, 6 CommentsOPINION – A Republican, a Democrat, and an Independent all walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, “Hello Mitt.” Sadly, this election cycle has not fallen short ...
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ON Kilter: Going forward by going backward is not forward; summoning some self-scrutiny
October 24, 2012, 1 CommentOPINION – With the last presidential debate behind us and a little less than two weeks left in this election cycle, it goes without saying that saturation has been reached. ...
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ON Kilter: When tactician meets strategist, ‘The Art of War’ in the presidential campaign
October 19, 2012, 7 CommentsOPINION – In what is undoubtedly a battle, application of “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu as an appraisal tool reveals some insights into our two primary presidential candidates, ...
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ON Kilter: It’s the NDAA, stupid
October 10, 2012, 2 CommentsOPINION – President Obama lost the first presidential debate of the 2012 election. Suffice it to say no one actually, credibly, contests that. Well, almost no one. But despite the ...
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ON Kilter: Mitt lost round one
October 8, 2012, 19 CommentsOPINION – Mitt Romney lost the first Presidential debate of the 2012 election. I assert this with little trepidation despite pundits from both sides of the political aisle declaring him ...
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ON Kilter: Armchair politicos and the Superbowl election
October 3, 2012, 23 CommentsOPINION – Want to know what I think of football? I see 22 men in need of rest being observed by 22 million in need of exercise. There I said ...
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Utah Air Quality Summit 2012 convenes in Washington
September 21, 2012, 1 CommentWASHINGTON – The 2012 Utah Air Quality Summit convened Friday morning at the Washington City Community Center. It was hosted by the Southern Utah Air Quality Task Force in conjunction with ...
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On KILTer: Gekko America
September 20, 2012, 1 CommentOPINION – Perhaps some of you remember the Oliver Stone movie Wall Street. More succinctly, perhaps you remember the now infamous speech by the character Gordon Gekko: “The point is ...
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On KILTer: An attitude of gratitude
September 14, 2012, 3 CommentsOPINION – “You seem like you have a particular axe to grind with people in the Mormon Church,” a colleague said to me on the Perspectives Morning show last week. ...
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On KILTer: Hear ye citizenry, hear ye police, we need to talk
August 22, 2012, 9 CommentsOPINION – In my now growing tenure as writer for this community, I often hear it said that unless I have walked a mile in the shoes of someone or ...
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ON Kilter: Never mind the airport, is that carousel running yet?
August 20, 2012, 32 CommentsOPINION – There is a timeless bit of wisdom that says what a person does screams so loudly in our ears that we can hardly hear what they say. When ...
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ON Kilter: What lies beneath the choice between evils two?
August 8, 2012, 6 CommentsOPINION – I appreciate a good political cartoon. Often a medium of intended mockery, political cartoons can painfully belabor the fine line between the serious ramifications of our societal state ...
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ON Kilter: ‘Forced tolerance’ is a farce, bias in the Boy Scouts unpacked
August 1, 2012, 9 CommentsOPINION – The decision of the Boy Scouts of America to uphold its stance against openly-gay leaders has brought about a predictable bit of fanfare wielding redundant mantras from both ...
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ON Kilter: Airport security deficit? The sum of the plane incidents at SGU
July 26, 2012, 8 CommentsOPINION – St. George made national headlines recently when a man suspected of murdering a woman in Colorado successfully commandeered a commercial passenger jet secured at the terminal of the ...
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ON Kilter: ‘At least’ we know we’re free; are we?
July 6, 2012, 2 CommentsOPINION - “I’m proud to be an American, where ‘at least’ I know I’m free.” At least? If the mindless dribble of a homogenous monoculture is the epitome of being an ...
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ON Kilter: Introduction to discussion on the future of Snow Canyon
June 30, 2012, 6 CommentsOPINION - When it comes to pristine landscapes and breathtaking views like the ones invariably taken in at Snow Canyon State Park, there are basically two types of people experiencing them: ...
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ON Kilter: Dancing with dominions, diversity and dissent
June 22, 2012, 2 CommentsOPINION - It has been two weeks to the day yesterday since our City Council here in St. George voted three to two against a zoning exception application to permit a ...
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Sports-theme community features Red Rock Wake Park
June 7, 2012, No commentsST. GEORGE – The Red Rock Wake Park will open its new facility to the public June 17, and plans to have its grand opening gala on July 28. The ...
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Analysis: Let’s get ready to rumble
June 1, 2012, 4 CommentsOPINION - Have you ever heard the saying the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing? When it comes to building a cohesive relationship with cyclists in ...
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Analysis: I was a kid once too; or, have I become my father?
May 25, 2012, No commentsOPINION - I live on a dirt road. It is a service access road for the National Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management that is frequented by the ...
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Sec. Salazar dedicates National Conservation Areas in Southern Utah
May 8, 2012, No commentsIVINS – U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey presided over the dedication ceremony for two national conservation areas yesterday at the Tuacahn School ...
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Analysis: Come race day or highway, a case for generosity on wheels
April 24, 2012, 20 CommentsDallas Hyland is a St. George News columnist, the opinions stated herein are his own and not those of St. George News. OPINION - The St. George Ironman is around the ...
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Analysis: Good intentions aside, how shall we then judge?
April 13, 2012, 4 CommentsDallas Hyland is a St. George News columnist, the opinions stated herein are his own and not those of St. George News. OPINION - There is an age-old adage that observes ...
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Man up guys, where’s the Miss Representation in your life?
April 2, 2012, No commentsDallas Hyland is a St. George News columnist, the opinions stated herein are his own and not those of St. George News. OPINION - In the book “Atlas Shrugged,” by Ayn ...
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Occupy redux
March 9, 2012, 1 CommentDallas Hyland is a St. George News columnist, the opinions stated herein are solely his own and not those of St. George News. OPINION – What is your problem with ...
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Utah HB 363; ignorance of sex is the best remedy
March 2, 2012, 3 CommentsDallas Hyland is a St. George News columnist, the opinions stated herein are solely his own and not those of St. George News. OPINION - If I don’t know, I won’t ...
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Water Conservancy District and Sales Tax Appropriations – If we don’t grow, we die?
February 24, 2012, 9 CommentsOPINION – “If we do not grow we die.” So said St. George City Manager Gary Esplin at the Washington County Water Conservancy District where the first portion of the ...
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Double the turnout for 2nd Annual Tuff Kids Criterium Race
February 11, 2012, No commentsST. GEORGE – A warm and clear February morning in St. George welcomed participants and spectators to the 2nd Annual Tuff Kids Criterium race, held at the old St. George ...
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It’s halftime America but is the game fixed?
February 10, 2012, 1 CommentDallas Hyland is a St. George News columnist, the opinions stated herein are solely his own and not those of St. George News. OPINION- I admit I did not watch ...
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How are you doing and am I listening?
February 3, 2012, No commentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a St. George News columnist, the opinions stated herein are solely his own. OPINION - It is no secret I like to frequent local coffee houses. ...
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Cake or death? The 2012 presidential candidates (OPINION)
January 27, 2012, No commentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not those ...
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Take my liberty, just don’t take my internet! (OPINION)
January 19, 2012, 1 CommentEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a developing columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not ...
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We call them heroes; they don’t see it (OPINION)
January 12, 2012, 1 CommentEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not those ...
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Will 2012 be any better? (OPINION)
December 28, 2011, 2 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not those ...
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If you cannot be part of the solution, at least be part of the problem? (OPINION)
December 21, 2011, 7 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not those ...
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Affable journalism: when did the middle of the road become safe?
December 14, 2011, No commentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not those ...
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Those who do not read are no better than those who cannot (OPINION)
December 8, 2011, 4 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not those ...
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Utah needs to get out of the liquor business (OPINION)
November 29, 2011, 5 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not those ...
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From gratitude to gluttony (OPINION)
November 22, 2011, 2 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not those ...
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The era of wholesale surveillance (OPINION)
November 15, 2011, No commentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not those ...
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It takes more than quoting the rulebook to be above reproach (OPINION)
November 1, 2011, 10 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not those ...
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Bluff Street road construction plans could relocate businesses (OPINION)
October 25, 2011, 10 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a developing columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not ...
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The Occupy Movement: This just may be the beginning (OPINION)
October 19, 2011, 1 CommentEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a developing columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not ...
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OPINION: ‘Occupy’ movement needs a victory
October 11, 2011, 5 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a developing columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not ...
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OPINION: Who are the good old boys? If you don’t like it, leave
October 4, 2011, 7 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a developing columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not ...
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Second annual Frog Hollow mountain bike race in full cycle
October 1, 2011, No commentsWritten by Dallas Hyland and Joyce Kuzmanic VIRGIN – Frog Hollow Mountain Bike race, which is a single-track trail race one mile south of Virgin, is a grueling race that ...
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Finding common ground
September 27, 2011, No commentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a developing columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not ...
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Twelve percent voting turnout; shame on you, St. George!
September 19, 2011, 23 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a developing columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not ...
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Uranium mining in Arizona Strip: What would Brigham Young say?
September 12, 2011, 17 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a developing columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not ...
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Clean Air Summit focuses on dust, idling vehicles
September 11, 2011, No commentsST. GEORGE – The 2nd annual Clean Air Summit was hosted at the Marriott Courtyard in St. George. The event was sponsored by Southern Utah Air Quality Task Force and ...
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DOCUTAH kicks off second annual festival; activities scheduled all week
September 11, 2011, No commentsIVINS - Among the many attendees at the kick off the second annual DOCUTAH were St.George Mayor Daniel D. McArthur, City Councilman John Pike, and of course Phil Tuckett, the ...
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Where were you when the world stopped turning?
September 11, 2011, 1 CommentEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a developing columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not ...
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Corporations, not people, tell government what to do
September 6, 2011, 3 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a developing columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not ...
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Standing room only turn out for Sen. Mike Lee’s Town Hall meeting
September 2, 2011, 1 CommentST. GEORGE – The City of St. George held a town meeting for Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) in the city council chambers Thursday evening. The senator fielded questions from a ...
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The merry-go-round of the political process
August 30, 2011, 16 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a developing columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and not ...
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Recent Robberies Undermine Utopian Façade
August 23, 2011, 12 CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas Hyland is a developing columnist for St. George News and blogs as The Amateur Broad Thinker. The opinions stated in this article are solely his own and ...
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St. George City Council Meeting: Five National Champions Honored; New Undercover Police Vehicles Approved
August 18, 2011, 4 CommentsST. GEORGE – Five youths were honored at tonight’s St. George City Council meeting for being five of 10 youths in Southern Utah to compete at the National Track Meet. ...
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Utah 3rd Highest State in Closing Costs for Mortgages
August 16, 2011, No commentsSOUTHERN UTAH – Utah currently has the 3rd highest real property loan closing costs in the nation, according to a recent report by Bankrate. According to the report, origination and ...
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Freedom of Religion Carte Blanche, Unless You are Warren Jeffs?
August 15, 2011, 17 CommentsWarren Steed Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison Aug. 9, 2011, for sexually assaulting two teenage girls under the guise of marriage. A marriage, he asserted, was ordained by ...
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The Lake Powell Pipeline Paper Chase
August 8, 2011, 1 CommentEditor’s Note: Dallas Hyland will be authoring a new weekly opinion column for St. George News. We are excited to have this new addition to our publication. The thoughts expressed ...
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Jerone Wedig Debuts His Blues
August 7, 2011, 1 CommentIVINS – Jerone Wedig is a local musician who debuted his first album, self-titled, at a sizable gathering in Kayenta on August 3, 2011. Family, friends and fans of Wedig ...
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Firefighters Battle House Fire on Bluff Street
August 6, 2011, 1 CommentUPDATE Sunday August 7, 2011: Capt. Brent Hafen of St. George Fire Department advised that although the cause of the fire remains under investigation, no suspicious cause appears to be ...
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We The People … Surrender
August 3, 2011, 8 CommentsEver heard the saying about history repeating itself? Guess who said this: ”The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership ...
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Motocross Park Approved in St. George
July 22, 2011, 14 CommentsST. GEORGE – The St. George City Council held their biweekly meeting Thursday, July 21, in the City Council Chambers. Among the items on the agenda was the application for ...
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City Council Approves Carousel, Community Lines Up for Rides
July 13, 2011, No commentsST. GEORGE – The City of St. George Carousel is in full swing this summer and riders young and old could not be more pleased. The carousel had its grand ...
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Residents Come Together to Battle Cancer in 23rd Annual Relay for Life
May 2, 2011, No commentsST. GEORGE – The American Cancer Society hosted the 23rd annual Relay for Life this weekend at Dixie State College’s Hansen stadium. The event kicked off Friday at noon and ...
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‘Carbon Nation’ Presents Positive Solutions to Negative Effects of Human Energy
May 2, 2011, No commentsST. GEORGE – Dixie State College played host for the new documentary, Carbon Nation at the Dolores Eccles Fine Arts Center as a precursor to the upcoming second annual DOCUTAH ...
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Representative Brad Last Discusses Immigration, HB477
March 17, 2011, 1 CommentHURRICANE - The Intermountain Hurricane Clinic and Instacare held its quarterly Health and Wellness Advocates Breakfast Thursday morning serving up green eggs and ham to keep in theme with Saint ...
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Rep. Last: Opposition to HB477 Coming from Uninformed Public
March 17, 2011, 2 CommentsHURRICANE - Representative Brad Last (R-Hurricane), spoke today to Southern Utahns about how HB477 has been dominating much of the media and subsequent conversations. The Hurricane Valley Clinic held its ...
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