… with disabilities. But the most Medicaid enrollees in Utah are children. Medicaid is the cornerstone of children’s health care, providing a crucial lifeline of coverage for poor children as well as those with special heath care needs. Through …
Category: Utah
Letter: Lawmakers should treat Utahns as adults
The ground trembled today: Are we having an earthquake? Was this the march to Utah’s Capitol? Or the trembling of fear once Donald J. Trump became president? No, it was none of these things. It was Utah smokers tramping to Idaho and Wyoming to bring back contraband cigarettes.
Salt Lake City Eye Surgeons Promote Glaucoma Awareness For High-Risk Individuals
… Month and making extra efforts during January to educate their patients about this serious disease. The National Eye Health Education Program (NEHEP) cites glaucoma as a leading cause of vision loss and blindness in the United States. The Glaucoma …
US Supreme Court won’t hear ‘Sister Wives’ bigamy law appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it won’t hear an appeal from the family on TV’s “Sister Wives” challenging Utah’s law banning polygamy. The decision ends the family’s long legal fight to overturn a seldom used and unique provision of Utah’s law that the Browns and other polygamous families contend has a chilling effect by sending law-abiding plural families into hiding because of fear of prosecution.
Hansen makes presentation on wagon trains at SUP meeting
On Thursday, Jan. 5, Robert Hansen told a fascinating and little-known piece of LDS immigration history that has been largely lost, even by those who are descendants of those immigrants involved.After The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established in Utah, the Perpetual Immigration Fund was established to help converts, especially … (more)