Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah – As one of their first acts of the 2021 session, Utah lawmakers approved a resolution honoring the late Rep. LaWanna “Lou” Shurtliff, who died in December after a three-week battle with pneumonia. “Her loss is a great loss for all of us. A loss of somebody who was a revered educator,” Senate Majority Whip Ann Millner, R-Ogden, said on the Senate floor. Shurtliff’s popularity in District 10 was fueled by love and support from students and parents. Weber County’s lone Democrat, Shurtliff, who was just reelected to represent House District 10, had been hospitalized for three weeks after becoming…

OGDEN, Utah – The war on plastic is undoubtedly ramping up. While we’ve ditched single-use plastic bags at stores and supermarkets, cut out microplastics in face washes, and scrapped plastic-stemmed cotton buds, there’s still a way to go in effectively reducing our use of non-recyclable plastics – especially in the kitchen. From yoghurt pot films and confusion over meat packaging, to crisp packets and anything that continues to be depressingly labelled ‘not yet recycled’, for many of us, the majority of our plastics usage stems from breakfast, lunch and dinner. Bamboo food containers, beeswax food wrap and brown paper snack…