http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 12. http://www.hcn.org/issues/265/14451 Now that Mormons are debating environmental issues such as draining Lake Powell, it’s high time they looked at overpopulation and the rampant development of Utah’s Wasatch Front No publisher Greg Hanscom Communities In Transition Mormon Church LDS Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over- population population control birth control growth and development religion and ecology Glen Canyon Dam Utah Salt Lake City Wasatch Front Greater Wasatch Area 2010-02-05T09:55:40Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/303/15681 The problem of gang violence in Salt Lake City offers a disturbing glimpse into the conflicted soul of Utah and the rest of the rapidly growing West No publisher Greg Hanscom Communities in Transition Mormon Church LDS Church Polynesian gangs Tongans Samoans immigrants youth crime religion Western cities population growth refugees migrant workers violence 2012-04-09T18:37:42Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/303/15680 Drawn to Utah by the Mormon Church, young Polynesians struggle to find an identity, and to escape from a seemingly endless cycle of gang-related violence No publisher Tim Sullivan Communities in Transition Mormon Church LDS Church Polynesian youth Polynesian gangs Samoans Tongans Hawaiians gang violence Lucky Dube Kautoke Tangitau crime murder shootings drugs cocaine methamphetamine Tongan Crip Gang Club Suede domestic violence ethnic ten 2012-04-09T18:36:32Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.11/the-utah-solution-to-immigration Utah religious, business and political leaders suggest an immigration compromise, but the state's lawmakers are terrified of being caught voting for "amnesty." No publisher Sarah Gilman Mormon Church Utah HB116 Rep. Bill Wright Utah politics Arizona SB1070 Roman Catholic Church guest workers Rep. Stephen Sandstrom Bishop John Wester Illegal immigration 2011-06-29T16:45:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16385 The Mormon Church has issued a statement opposing a planned nuclear waste storage site not far from Salt Lake City, Utah, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation No publisher Allison Gerfin Waste Mormon Church Skull Valley Goshute Reservation nuclear waste storage First Presidency Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints green Mormons anti-nuclear protests MX missile George Handley Brigham Young University Mormon church politics Utah 2011-11-12T23:19:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/331/16595 Jennifer Napier-Pearce uses her own money to produce a Salt Lake City-based podcast called Inside Utah No publisher Laura Paskus Mormon Church Web Sites Utah politics journalists Communities in Internet Media interviews Transition audio recordings podcasts broadcasting radio tax policy Inside Utah Communities Jennifer Napier-Pearce reporters independent media 2010-10-26T21:47:15Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/339/16824 In Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming, Kevin Holdsworth describes his love for a harsh landscape in essays, poetry and fiction. No publisher Julianne Couch Human beings and nature Mormon Church childhood oil and environmental problems energy boom Kevin Holdsworth autobi Mormon nature Utah poetry fiction family life Martin’s Cove gas drilling nonfiction Wyoming writers essays memoir Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming 2010-08-26T22:05:27Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/265/14462 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gains control of the Wyoming historic site of Martin’s Cove, where Mormon immigrants died 150 years ago No publisher Christopher Smith Martin’s Cove Wyoming history Mormon Church Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mormon Trail historic sites Bureau of Land Management 2010-02-05T09:55:45Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.4/going-down-in-flames Today, the mountain and Pacific states have the highest collective cremation rates in the U.S. No publisher Marian Lyman Kirst Mormon Church Cremation scattering ashes death in America Georgia O’Keeffe funerals 2012-03-02T19:39:44Z Infographic http://www.hcn.org/issues/369/17675 Amy Irvine’s memoir, Trespass, describes how she moved to rural Utah after her father’s suicide. No publisher Sara Rubin Mormon Church autobiography suicide memoirs Wilderness Amy Irvine Trespass women’s lives rural Utah life 2010-07-26T22:37:12Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.10/flds-continues-abusive-polygamist-practices-in-utah-and-arizona The states' failure to crack down on Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints means abuses still happen, despite the conviction of extreme polygamist Warren Jeffs. No publisher Debra Weyermann fundamentalist sects Polygamy Short Creek Hildale, Utah religious harassment FLDS Suzette Steed Warren Jeffs fundamentalism welfare fraud Lyle Jeffs multiple wives sexual assault religious tolerance religious compounds extreme polygamists polygamy trials child abuse former FLDS members child custody Brigham Young Mormon sacred covenants religious cults Colorado City, Arizona Mormon Church Joseph Smith Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Yearning for Zion ranch 2013-06-04T18:17:13Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.10/calling-for-a-crackdown-on-polygamous-crime Crimes committed by a fundamentalist sect on the Utah-Arizona border needs to be seriously investigated by both the Mormon Church and those states. No publisher Ray Ring Mormon Church Arizona Warren Jeffs Polygamy Short Creek Hildale, Utah Colorado City FLDS child abuse sexual assault fundamentalism Debra Weyermann 2012-06-06T15:47:12Z News Article