Eric S. Peterson
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Utah Volcanoes & Massacres: A Tour of Southern Utah’s Violent Past
It’s a remarkable area of our state. Where else can one visit massacre sites and hike two different volcanoes within an hour of each other?
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Did These Utah Multi-Level Marketing Companies Really Need Giant PPP Loans?
Utah multi-level marketing companies thrived during the pandemic, so why did they need PPP loans?
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How to Protect Yourself from Fraud in Utah
For two state agencies heavily invested in protecting Utahns against fraud, it’s a strange decision to shield valuable resources from users
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Foothill: Residents Outraged Over a Proposed Lamplighter Square Project of Five-Story, 135-Unit Apartment Complex
East-bench neighborhood worries state and developer will bypass city zoning with liquor store development. The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah Stories.…
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Ticket to Ride: “Political Pressure” Comes to Bear on Little Cottonwood Canyon Transportation Plans
While cog rail in Little Cottonwood Canyon is an exciting prospect, it may also be a lucrative one for C.W. Management, a development company owned by influential former Utah State…
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Utahns Love Their Essential Oils, but Can the Science Back Any of Their Claims?
Utah-based Young Living Essential Oils has boasted of having over 3,000 global employees, more than six million members, and of being the “world leader in essential oil research and development.”…
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Will Utah Have Enough Water to Sustain Its Booming Population?
Utah’s dry climate is all the more reason water managers need to carefully consider an ‘all of the above’ approach to ensure there’s enough water to meet Utah’s ever-growing population…
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You can create glass beauty at Red Flower Studios!
At Red Flower Studios owners Daniel Bell and Micah Goddard teach the ancient art of glass blowing. Customers melt color into glass before a 2000 degree oven, blow air into…
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Creative Destruction – Smash Your Troubles Away in Rage Rooms
Smash Labs in St. George offers Rage Rooms where you can smash a piece of Deseret Industries tchotchke like a ceramic clown or that big screen TV that hasn’t worked…
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The Essential Facts: An expert reveals the slippery science behind essential oils
An expert in essential oils and public health, Dr. Jessie Hawkins, unpacks the slippery science on the popularly multi-level marketed products The following was written and reported by The Utah…
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Slippery Sales: Utah’s MLM companies push high volumes of “immunity boosting” essential oils during pandemic scare despite lack of scientific support
Multi-level marketers are prohibited by law from making direct health claims about their products. But since they overwhelmingly use independent distributors for direct sales, the industry often is unaccountable to…
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Your Summer Vacation on Ice in Escalante and Boulder Utah
Utah has so much natural splendor, it’s a shame we feel so strongly that it can only be enjoyed in the spring and summer, the same time the rest of…
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Cash Canyon: Former Lawmaker’s Bill to Allow Canyon Tolling Benefit His Development Project
In the 2018 Legislature, then-Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, one of the most powerful legislators on the hill, presented a bill in a committee to pave the way for toll roads…
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California Schemin’
As Zions Bancorporation would argue in court, they had no responsibility to monitor what was going on in IMG’s accounts. But the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that claim…