Some months ago I wondered about a guy who wrote a column for the Salt Lake Tribune, before we were colleagues on the Senate staff of Sen. Orrin Hatch. (How many incredible things in that sentence?) I had lost touch with Dan Valentine, Jr.
Dan surfaced, and surfed the highways, surfaced again — and started writing a daily dispatch.
His words interest me. I hope you’ll find them interesting, too. I’m going to give each dispatch a post of its own, to highlight them so each can have a chance to get some of the readership it deserves.
Newspaper columns are high art, and high civics. Newspapers are dying? We still have need of good essays, short humor pieces, and the humanity that flows freely from the writings of learned and experienced souls. Please give Dan’s work a read.
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