Recent Articles by Jackie Hicken
Published: Monday, June 17, 2013 12:00 am MDT
Google is stepping up its fight against child pornography, announcing its intention to take action through "hashing" technology, which allows it to tag known child sexual abuse images and then identify, block, ...
Published: Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:00 am MDT
The Democratic Convention in Charlotte, N.C., ended at the beginning of September, but organizers are looking for lost electronics they say total more than half a million dollars, or in some cases, as much as 6...
Published: Friday, June 14, 2013 4:41 pm MDT
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., found themselves apologizing for their sons this week after Buzzfeed revealed offensive comments made by the two teenagers online.
Published: Friday, June 14, 2013 12:00 am MDT
Flag Day and the flag it honors have a long history behind them, reaching back to 1777, when the Second Constitutional Congress settled on a design for a national flag, to 1949, when President Harry Truman sign
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Published: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:00 am MDT
According to the latest Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll, 56 percent of Americans believe the NSA's tracking of telephone records of Americans is "acceptable."
Published: Saturday, June 8, 2013 12:00 am MDT
The Philadelphia Orchestra is currently in China as part of the 2013 Residency & Fortieth Anniversary Tour of China, which celebrates the orchestra's trip to the country a year after President Richard M. Nixon
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Published: Saturday, June 8, 2013 12:00 am MDT
Peter Mayhew — known for playing Chewbacca in the "Star Wars" films — challenged a different sort of Galactic Empire at the Denver Airport on June 3, and walked away with his lightsaber cane in hand...
New urbanism pioneer Joe Alfandre helped build communities, and now son James looks to shake them up
Published: Friday, May 31, 2013 7:14 pm MDT
The roots of Joe Alfandre's new urbanism, planted 25 years ago, have grown into what Alfandre calls "old new urbanism," and which — under the hand of his son James — is looking to bloom in Salt Lake...
Published: Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:08 pm MDT
According to a tally by The Washington Examiner, former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House at least 118 times between 2010 and 2011, far more than any other high-ranki...
Published: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:00 am MDT
Former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt and his team were all set for President Mitt Romney's first 200 days in office, setting a detailed plan to make presidential appointments and tackle — among other things R...