Utah Local News

If you've ever visited Utah, you should realize this state is essentially controlled by the mormon's. They control the media, the government, the schools and even the liquor stores. They monitor your comings and goings in your neighborhood (although this may just be my paranoia) and know whether to visit your home and if you'd be receptive to "missionaries". The neighbors inform their local ward and the assigned missionaries will inevitably show up and attempt to convert you in a series of steps. First of course, is to establish a basic acquaintance.

The local news usually has a leadoff story once a week about some missionary in Idaho or Southern Utah or South America that was killed in an automobile accident. Unbelievably, that is the lead story. Not about the child abduction in Provo or the multicar pileup in the fog near the airport, but a story about missionary's leads off the local news. And all the local news outlets do exactly the same thing. Go figure.

But I do admire the news outlets in Utah. It is a mix of local folksy style news mixed with factual national news. Of course, you have to put up with all the latest messages from the "prophet" mixed in, but I do agree with their political view. They want good schools, low taxes, quality roads, great emergency services and above all... prayer in school.