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Members of the NAACP took a bus rideon a 1953 bus in downtown Salt Lake in honor of the 50th anniversary of the day that Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man.

I found an article in the Salt Lake Tribune about a “leadership breakfast” held yesterday in recognition of
World Aids Day. While the cause is noble, I find it odd that a fancy breakfast in a fancy corporate hotel was held. I cannot help but think that a low-cost event would have been just as effective and the money that would normally be spent on a swank affair could be donated to the Utah Aids Foundation. Perhaps the cost of the event was absorbed in some other way, the article did not say.

At any rate,the article stated that in Utah, the HIV numbers have tripled since 2001, from 36 that year to 102 projected for 2005, a startling figure. Yes, more resources are needed to address this issue.