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click to enlarge Editor's Note: As more and more print media scale back or even cease their print editions, a burning question remains: Which publication left standing can proficiently cover the ever-expanding cannabis universe? After years of trying to enlighten and save the lives of Utah's close-minded, anti-science rubes, John Saltas—founder of City Weekly and author of the Private Eye column that usually appears in this space, admits to being driven back to bong. And beginning April 1, he intends to focus on "happy things...

Stranded hikers rescued from icy cliff in northern Utah April 1, 2021 GMT OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Two hikers in Utah were rescued by county search teams and a state helicopter after they became stranded on an icy cliff near Ogden, authorities said. The Weber County sheriff’s office search and rescue said in a post on social media that the hikers called 911 on Tuesday to report they had gone off the Beus Canyon Trail, got stuck in a cliff area and could not return to the trail safely because of snow and ice, the Standard-Examiner reported Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT Crews located the pair using a...

Ready for some fun? The Salt Lake Tribune recently published a readers' quiz called "Think You Know Utah?" asking questions such as: "Why did Mark Hofmann ruin reporter Peggy Stack's first day at the Tribune?"; and "What does A.G. Sean Reyes do under his desk every morning?" Well, it got the staff here at Smart Bomb to thinking that maybe we, too, should have a quiz. We'll call it, "Do You Get Zion?" 1. Where did the Utah Democratic Party get those Klingon cloaking devices? 2. Why did Rep. Burgess Owens bet his COVID Relief $$ that Nancy Pelosi is a lesbian?

Blaine Lafreniere Outbreaks Create Isolation When living in Chicago years ago, I was involved on a philanthropic mission with the historical leper colony at Kalaupapa on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. What started out to be a single mission to support the final 90 leprosy patients in a community that for 150 years had been home to thousands of patients became a 15-year endeavor. The community is still occupied by a final few residents, even though now there is a cure for the disease and the mandatory quarantine at the isolated location at Kalaupapa was lifted in 1969. The extensive publicity...