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Dick Galbraith’s father was charged with a murder he didn’t commit. Ever since, Galbraith’s heart, and money, has gone out to the falsely accused.

“When they come after you or a member of your family, you have no idea of the power of the machine that is coming at you,” says Galbraith. “All of a sudden you’re up against all these trained professionals whose agenda is not in your best interest. You have walked into the gates of hell.”

It took years for the charges against Nelson Galbraith to be dropped and for his name to be cleared. It also cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

Now, Dick Galbraith and his wife, Sandy Galbraith, support programs that help the falsely accused, including the BYU Law School and the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center in Salt Lake.

Read more about Galbraith’s efforts to support the innocent.

The West is having second thoughts on second homes

Julie Brown Davis writes: South Lake Tahoe is like many resort towns in the West, where tourism is the main driver of the economy, and has been for the last century.

Today, the Tahoe area sees an estimated 15 million visitors a year. A vast majority of jobs are in the service industry. Half of the city’s residents earn less than $49,000 a year.

With a $655,950 median sales price for single-family homes, locals can’t compete with out-of-town buyers looking for second homes. So, like many mountain resort communities where housing and wages are grossly mismatched, South Lake Tahoe is losing its full-time residents.

In Park City, Utah, 66% of the homes are empty six months out of the year or more, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data in 2022. Compare that to Salt Lake City, one mountain pass and a county line away, which has a vacancy rate of only 5%, and it becomes evident how this particular element of the housing crisis isolates itself to small mountain communities that rely on a local workforce.

Read more about how housing shortages are forcing resort towns to address second-home ownership in their communities.

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