Human Interest

You know the signs. The thunderous cough. The pounding headache. The full-body fatigue.

It's the flu. Last fall and winter, influenza sickened roughly 40 million Americans and killed 60,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This year's flu season is nearly upon us. Here are four tips to stay healthy.

• Alcohol & the brain

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” —Maureen Dowd

I’m declaring war on mediocrity.

When you accept mediocrity, when you accept average in any area of your life—financially, spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally—you accept a life that isn’t good enough.

That’s why you need to say no to average!

Alongside traffic and coffee, news radio is a staple of my morning commute. As I flip through the stations, I'll sometimes hear a pundit lament that "Nothing is made in America anymore."

In reality, there are nearly 13 million manufacturing workers in the United States, including thousands in Utah. Some of these folks are employed by U.S.-based firms. Many others work for companies headquartered abroad.

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Gun Grabbers Misleading Us

The Environmental Protection Agency recently revised some rules governing oil-and-gas rig methane emissions. Environmentalists in Congress immediately cried foul, with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) describing the proposal as a "horrifying blow" and Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) calling the policy "wildly irresponsible and reckless." 

Wildlife officials help restore desert bighorn sheep herds by relocating 50 sheep from Nevada to Utah 

BEAVER — A small herd of desert bighorn sheep was released last Thursday and Friday in the Ranch Canyon area of the Mineral Mountains west of Beaver by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and other partnering organizations. The translocation creates a herd in a location that has been void of bighorn sheep for many years and is part of a long-term effort to fill vacant wild sheep habitat. 

• Dogs & genes