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  • When Wolves Meet Grizzly

    Number of comments: 10
    Dear mullentown bloggers: I could give you 335 reasons why I love my husband. But on this particular day, I love him for his ability to witness a rare moment in nature and to describe it beautifully, and for his interest in keeping this neglected little blog alive. I must say [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2007, 3:57pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Ted Wilson Reviews “The Nine”

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    My husband, Ted, has plowed straight through Jeffrey Toobin’s new book, The Nine, in the past few days — even waking up before dawn several mornings to read it. He is so impressed with Toobin’s reporting, writing and insight into the inner workings of the current Supreme Court, I asked [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2007, 2:58pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Seriously, Why Not Hillary?

    Number of comments: 10
    OK, all you Mullentown regulars and vagrants who only happen to squat here every few days, tell me — again, and with your best descriptive power — why not Hillary Clinton for president? It isn’t a loaded or rhetorical question. I want a good answer. I wrote here a couple of [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2007, 3:55pm EDT
    by Holly

  • They Put the Noble in “Nobel”

    Number of comments: 10
    Consider, the 2007 Nobel Prize Trifecta: (According to me, anyway) Peace: The real U.S. president of 2000, Al Gore (with the United Nations). Literature: Amazing British author Doris Lessing, whose writing changed my life (for the better). Science/Medicine: University of Utah’s Mario Capecci (shared with Oliver Smithies, at the University of North Carolina at [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2007, 9:14am EDT
    by Holly

  • Public Art … Not!

    Number of comments: 5
    Check it out: Don’t get me wrong. It’s lousy that someone did this. But what I like is that the photographer landed right there, right then. And that our Web master at City Weekly, Bill Frost, picked up on the subtle grammar challenge at hand. Life in the City. [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2007, 3:32pm EDT
    by Holly

  • It’s Getting Trashy Around Here

    Number of comments: 8
    Oh great. That inch-deep acting talent Lindsay Lohan has announced, fresh from her stint in pricey drug rehab at The Cirque Lodge in Sundance, her decision to put down roots in Utah. The slow pace and wholesome environment here will apparently help Lindsay — who apologizes to her fans, “especially the younger [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2007, 5:04pm EDT
    by Holly

  • When the CHIPs are Down

    Number of comments: 10
    Our regular poster, twowheelfish, has goaded me out of my silence. Way to go, twowheel! Since you’re an avid fisherman, you know I have to take the bait. But mostly, I’ll toss this post off to you faithful visitors to mullentown. What can we liberals, who see nothing particularly wrong with [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2007, 10:58am EDT
    by Holly

  • Cute, Young, and C’mon, She’s 41!

    Kathryn Carling Wilson decided a few days ago she wanted her paintings back. Three of them have been hanging in Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson’s office for nearly eight years. And she did, indeed, reclaim them. Kathy is the mother of Jenny Wilson, who lost in the Sept. 11 SLC [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2007, 11:55am EDT
    by Holly

  • More and More Gore

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    Hmm. Not to get too caught up in this growing “Al Gore in 2008″cyclone here on mullentown, but none other than Christopher Hitchens is making a thoughtful pitch for His Globalness as a serious Democratic presidential candidate here. For all the reasons I wrote yesterday that Gore shouldn’t or won’t run, [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2007, 12:40pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Guts and Gore-y

    Number of comments: 6
    Well, a few people took the plunge and started posting last Friday about their early hopes for 2008 prez. Some of my favorite California bloggers (Chardonnay, Debi to name a couple) are gunning for Gore. I must say, I love that man. I can’t see him running, though. People will try [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2007, 5:11pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Leave Only Footprints …

    Number of comments: 6
    … take only photos. Isn’t that how the old admonition goes when traveling? Well, no worries there! No sweat at all for the Mullen-Wilson dyad. We got all the way to Pa’ia, Maui and realized Ted had forgotten to insert the battery in his camera! We found a Costco just outside [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2007, 4:46pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Aloha

    Number of comments: 6
    Ted and I are flying out to Maui in about 30 minutes. Nothing like Hawaiian sun and long, sandy beaches to recover from a hard loss. Not so hard, really. Jenny Wilson, my fabulous stepdaughter, waged a great campaign for Salt Lake City mayor. That’s all I’ll say here. This Wilson [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2007, 8:41am EDT
    by Holly

  • Moms as Mayors

    Number of comments: 6
    I’ll bet y’all think I’m going to go off on Mayor Rocky Anderson’s criticism of parents of young children running for mayor of Salt Lake City. I’m not. I’m out of this thing — especially where blogging on mullentown or my work at City Weekly is concerned. That doesn’t mean others [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2007, 2:00pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Rest in Peace, Dear J.D.

    Number of comments: 7
    We got word about an hour ago that our dear friend and political and professional mentor, J.D. Williams, died last night at his home in Holladay, Utah. He had been fighting cancer for more than a year. J.D.’s lovely wife and lifelong love, Bea, called Ted to deliver the news. J.D. [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2007, 12:10pm EDT
    by Holly

  • More Than a Potty Break

    Number of comments: 10
    OK. OK. I’ve been swamped. Been ignoring this blog again. And some of the most loyal posters on this blog have spoken. They want to discuss the mess surrounding Larry Craig, the U.S. Republican senator from our neighbor to the north and the growing sex scandal enveloping him. I can’t say [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2007, 12:49pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Speaking Up in Coal Country

    Number of comments: 10
    Ted and I hopped on the motorcycle last Sunday and rode the nearly three hours to Price, Utah, for a fundraiser for the six miners still trapped in the Crandall Canyon Mine and for the families of the three men killed trying to rescue them. We have always felt welcome [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2007, 11:39am EDT
    by Holly

  • Holly Five-0

    Number of comments: 10
    I am 50 today. It’s a huge birthday, I know. What I keep wondering is just how am I supposed to feel? Older? Wiser? Grateful? Relieved? Mostly, I feel a little blurry. (And not simply because my terrific staff at City Weekly treated me with a rich chocolate birthday cake and a magnum of [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2007, 4:22pm EDT
    by Holly

  • The Outsider’s View

    Number of comments: 10
    Thought-provoking view today on the latest tragic chapter of the Crandall Canyon Mine catastrophe. While we in Utah keep waiting for the latest updates to last night’s “bump” inside the mine that killed three rescue miners and injured six others, outside experts are all over the story with their analysis. I’m actually [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2007, 1:59pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Tribune Charade

    Number of comments: 6
    My regular column this week for City Weekly explains the back story of The Salt Lake Tribune’s endorsement on August 12 of Keith Christensen for Salt Lake City mayor. Some may see my opinion as classic sour grapes because the editorial board did not endorse my stepdaughter/mayoral candidate Jenny Wilson. I [...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2007, 12:18pm EDT
    by Holly

  • My Little Pompess

    Number of comments: 2
    I have to do a little bragging on someone near and dear to me. Nineteen-year-old daughter Kit and her blogging partner, Holly (that’s another one, and much younger), will be front and center at this event later in the month. This is a back-to-school marketing event for which they are mucho [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2007, 4:30pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Hard as Coal

    Number of comments: 10
    Did you all see this guy this morning during his rant outside the Crandall Canyon coal mine disaster? The screaming bald guy would be Robert Murray, president and CEO of Murray Energy Corp. I didn’t get to see him on live TV today, but did listen on the car radio to [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2007, 2:48pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Makes Me Want to Pull My Hair Out

    Number of comments: 10
    I just finished a telephone interview with Missy Larsen, executive director of Planned Parenthood Action Council for Utah. PPAC is the political action committee for Planned Parenthood, and has the legal authority to lobby state legislatures and Congress on family planning and abortion rights measures. Here in Utah, when the Legislature [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2007, 2:44pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Good Thoughts for Mpls.

    Number of comments: 8
    I must have driven both directions across the I-35 bridge 3,000 times during my six years in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Only a few times did I ever entertain a “what if” thought of the thing collapsing. You never do your life that way, right? Both of my children were born in St. [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2007, 8:49am EDT
    by Holly

  • We Dug Denver

    Number of comments: 3
    I just got back at 3 a.m. today from a long weekend in Denver with my son Sam, the best 16-year-old in the world. Flew over, watched two Colorado Rockies vs. L.A. Dodgers games and came home on Amtrak’s California Zephyr. I took no laptop, answered no voice or e-mails. [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2007, 5:06pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Wheels Off for Good

    Number of comments: 10
    That’s it. I’m done. No more Tour de France for me. No more professional cycling races of any kind for me. With two top riders out and under suspicion of doping, with teams dropping off all over the place and scandalized, I’m not one whit interested anymore in what happens in the sport. [...]
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    Posted: July 26, 2007, 1:08pm EDT
    by Holly

  • “We Have Nothing to Fear…

    Number of comments: 10
    … but fear itself.” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s immortal quote from his 1932 inaugural address is almost the sum total of my knowledge of this amazing man. That, and the regular moments of hero worship my parents–especially my mother–lavished on FDR’s memory as I grew up. My parents were born five [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2007, 10:40am EDT
    by Holly

  • Ask a Specialist

    Number of comments: 4
    In the news business, we never lack for sources to stuff into our stories. Take, for instance, those who are willing to help children suck up the expected dark ending to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final volume of the schoolboy wizard series. The book goes on [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2007, 2:59pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Ah, City Life

    Number of comments: 10
    The City Weekly staff returned about 30 minutes ago from the bomb scare across the street at the Wells Fargo Building. Details are still trickling in, but there appears to be no bomb. The call to evacuate Wells Fargo came at 2:30. We left obediently at 3:15 p.m. — one [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2007, 6:33pm EDT
    by Holly

  • How the Hell?

    Number of comments: 8
    Can someone tell me how this happens? And what is this “a family of about” 15 children? I have “about” 15 tomatoes on my plants in the garden. I have “about” 15 pens and pencils in the cup on my desk. But counting children? Isn’t that sort of an exact science? Unbelievable. [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2007, 5:55pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Proofreading the Panhandlers

    Number of comments: 2
    He looked healthy enough. He was sitting on a public bench five feet from the City Weekly offices at 248 S. Main Street and chatting with a man in a wheelchair beside him. He held a hand-lettered sign that read: “HOMELESS.” ANY SMALL CHANGE WILL DO. When I got upstairs to [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2007, 1:50pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Mr. Double Standard

    Number of comments: 10
    In today’s Salt Lake Tribune, columnist Rebecca Walsh outs Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson for what lies at the root of his growing whisper campaign against Jenny Wilson and her ambition for his current job: She’s a mother of young children with serious career interests and goals. I wrote about Anderson’s views [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2007, 9:06am EDT
    by Holly

  • Getting Defensive

    Number of comments: 10
    I guess a guy has to make a living. But isn’t it slightly weird to see this man defending convicted polygamist Tom Green’s son? David Leavitt (younger brother to former Utah Gov. Mike) was the Juab County Attorney who prosecuted the elder Green. Back then, Leavitt considered it a crime to [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2007, 2:34pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Prez-idential Meltdown

    Number of comments: 10
    I’m having this persistent image of George W. Bush sitting in the White House, head in hands, gazing out the window and asking “Where did I go wrong?” So many answers to that one. Meanwhile, everything–beyond his obvious plummeting in the polls–is just falling down around him. In the past 24 hours, [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2007, 4:35pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Keith Christensen will join Democratic Party

    Number of comments: 8
    That’s right. Look for an announcement by Sunday morning, 7/8, that Salt Lake City mayoral candidate and Republican Keith Christensen has decided to become Independent.* Will it help him? Don’t know. But lone Republican Dave Buhler will be turning cartwheels, as committed Repub voters will now turn to him with their [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2007, 8:13pm EDT
    by Holly

  • A Memory and a Tear

    Number of comments: 5
    This post seems to mesh nicely–if sadly–with the previous remarks about remaking our sad and ragtag Salt Lake City Main Street. A City Weekly reader, Jeanne Allein, just sent me this e-mail: Emilie Segil Martin left us on July 2nd at the age of 87. Do you know the history of this [...]
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    Posted: July 05, 2007, 2:27pm EDT
    by Holly

  • If You Were the Architect

    Number of comments: 10
    I am sitting at my office keyboard at City Weekly in the historic David Keith building. The address is 248 S. Main Street. I have two 8-foot high picture windows (which desperately need cleaning) looking eastward and straight down at the Gallivan Plaza TRAX stop. Sometimes I look down at [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2007, 5:01pm EDT
    by Holly

  • E-e-e-e-w!

    Number of comments: 10
    Just got an e-mail from a relative noting some great gossip from her friend’s Mormon ward: A 56-year-old member just announced her engagement to a 21-year-old male (he’s a friend of her youngest son). I’m 18 years younger than my hubby. But this? What say y’all? [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2007, 2:53pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Rocky’s Rip

    Number of comments: 10
    Amusing, it was, listening to our fair mayor, Rocky Anderson, on KSL radio this morning. He was working overtime to undercut the two front runners for the job he’s grown tired of. Rocky sent up a teeny-weeny trial balloon today in The Salt Lake Tribune hinting he may run for a [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2007, 1:30pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Call Your Deadbeat Dad

    Number of comments: 4
    Running across the Burnside Street Bridge in Portland last week, I came upon this graffiti message spray-painted in purple, letters a foot high, on the sidewalk bordering the vast Willamette River: CALL YOUR DEADBEAT DAD. HE STILL LOVES YOU. It was Father’s Day weekend. My mind started whirling. Did a specific dad [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2007, 4:11pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Arianna and Friends in Portland

    Number of comments: 9
    I’m here, bloggers. I’ve been in Portland, Ore., since last Thursday, attending the annual convention of the Association of Alternative Newspapers. More about that later. I went to a panel discussion led by three behemoth bloggers and/or journalists: Arianna Huffington, Matt Taibbi, and Jane Hamsher. Of the three, I would [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2007, 6:03pm EDT
    by Holly

  • On to “Big Love”

    Number of comments: 9
    I’ve spent more time than I should admit publicly reading day-after stories on-line about “The Sopranos” damn fine final episode. Here is a fairly pedestrian story from the Associated Press, which in the best wire story style tracks down the usual “expert quote” to sum up the existential ending to the [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2007, 5:47pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Staff Overboard!

    Number of comments: 9
    I quit the The Salt Lake Tribune last December after nine years of full-time employment as a news reporter, then sports editor, then metro columnist. Naturally, I still hear tidbits of gossip through the local media grapevine. And now that I edit the city’s best alternative newspaper, gossip from my [...]
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    Posted: June 07, 2007, 1:17pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Don’t Fall Off Your Chairs

    Number of comments: 10
    No kidding, I’m trying to get back up on the blog again. It’s delightful to feel loved and needed. I’ve received e-mails and yes, a few very pointed comments here as well about my long hiatus from mullentown. Let it be known that the flames from ttstark had nothing to do [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2007, 8:28am EDT
    by Holly

  • Moving On

    Number of comments: 10
    OK. Let’s move on. I plan on ignoring any further ttstark posts, unless they get so over the top as to cause me a migraine (a malady I’m not given to, so I don’t expect he’ll be much of a future problem). Thanks for all your comments on the topic. Snarky [...]
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    Posted: May 17, 2007, 10:09am EDT
    by Holly

  • Raised by Wolves …

    Number of comments: 10
    … That is the way I’ve come to think of “ttstark,” the person who posts flames on this blog that have zero to do with either the topic under consideration or the general tone of mullentown. I’m probably insulting wolves by saying that. Wolves are known for their strict social [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2007, 2:06pm EDT
    by Holly

  • Girl and Fire

    Number of comments: 10
    The phone rang last night at 10:40. Too early for a drunk calling with a nasty proposition (that actually happened not long ago) but too late even for my mother, a notorious night owl who is known to call at my bedtime. It was almost-19-year-old Kit, our freshman, calling from Occidental [...]
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    Posted: May 09, 2007, 8:32am EDT
    by Holly

  • Thrilla in Vanilla

    Number of comments: 6
    No, I can’t take credit for that headline. It’s the work of Bill Frost, a City Weekly staff writer whose writing always makes me laugh out loud. He gets all the credit. Go here for Bill’s blog post on the silly, overhyped debate between Hannity and Anderson. It’s the best [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2007, 5:08pm EDT
    by Holly
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