After generally positive reviews for its handling of the Red Butte oil spill, Chevron has outraged and alienated victims by attaching a legal waiver releasing the company from all future liability to the reimbursement payments to families evacuated from their homes.

Utah's colorful history. A series of rare color photos taken by the Farm Services Administration during the Great Depression (the other one) have been put online by the Library of Congress. Among them are shots of the construction of the Geneva steel plant (that's one above), built in Utah during World War II to be beyond the range of Axis bombers. The plant, of course, fell victim 50 years later to cheap foreign steel.

It's called politics. A bipartisan group, led by progressive Democrat Claudia Wright and conservative radio mouth Mills Crenshaw, wants to get to the bottom of the Obama White House's mysterious involvement in the selection of a new U.S. Attorney for Utah. The White House dumped Democratic Congressman Jim Matheson's favorite in favor of Republican Scott Burns, a pal of Sen. Orrin Hatch. I wonder if Matheson will join the Republican attempt to overturn Obama's health-care reform?

Doughboy-Dough Girl hook up? General Mill's legal steam-rolling of Salt Lake's My Dough Girl cookie shop because its name is too close to its Pillsbury icon brand is getting exposure in the food giant's Minnesota homeland and around the world. Pillsbury’s Facebook page has lit up with complaints like this: "Drop your lawsuit against My Dough Girl, you big, fat bullies!" It's unfortunate because General Mills could afford to have some marketing fun and win PR points by bringing the cookie gal and the biscuit boy together.