By Michael Patrick O’Brien– A well-known suffragist and advocate for Irish freedom chose to live in Utah and start her family here just over a century ago. Catherine Mary Flanagan…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Forty years ago this fall I started my final year at the University of Utah College of Law. I was on the cusp of a doctorate,…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– One of the most significant institutions in Utah state history—Catholic schools—started here 150 years ago this month. In 1866, shortly after Brigham Young recommended changes to…

Michael Patrick O’Brien– I don’t know exactly when clowns crossed the line from funny to creepy, but I fear that the rate of devolution has accelerated during my lifetime and…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I enjoy my job but, like everyone, sometimes must deal with the challenges of…well, let’s just call it workplace excrement. It gets a bit easier, however,…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: This is the second article in a two-part series about the traumatic gunshot cases at the old Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: This is the first article in a two-part series about the traumatic gunshot cases at the old Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– When I was a teen living in an arid town in landlocked Northern Utah, we really had no need to think—let alone worry—about sharks. Yet, that’s…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: This is part three of a three-part series about how the Holy Cross Sisters were the face of the Notre Dame community in the…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: This is part two of a three part series about how the Holy Cross Sisters were the face of the Notre Dame community in…