The buttes, canyons, and deserts of southern Utah are grand any time of year, but winter produces a particular magnificence. The vast emptiness clears the mind. But not entirely. As I hiked today through the craggy silence, I wondered what the Founding Fathers would have thought of Utah be being represented by the same number of senators as California, conferring on each citizen here more than ten times the voting power of each citizen of my adopted state. Rural values still dominate Washington even though Americans are becoming more and more urban.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 23:04:21 +0000