Archive for the 'Current Events' Category


Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez has a first-hand account on the initial planning of the forthcoming Utah march for immigration reform. The event, scheduled for March 21, is taking shape.
Saturday at Centro Cívico Mexicano, 155 S. 600 W. in Salt Lake City, several hundred Latinos met for Rumbo a la reforma migratoria or working towards immigration [...]




The SLC Film Center continues its impressive series of first-rate documentaries in a fresh wave of free, public screenings wisely timed for their topical urgency.
First on deck is the Oscar-nominated 2009 film, “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers,” directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith. The film will be [...]




Editor’s Note: Salt Lake City attorney and writer Mark Alvarez, familiar to Selective Echo readers for his occasional columns, offers a terse yet highly instructive commentary on government. In particular, readers should pay close attention to the last several paragraphs. Absolutely. This game must be changed. As Andrew Sullivan occasionally notes, in the halls of [...]