Richard Robison

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Richard Robison

Richard Robison

@rhrobison

Digital dentistry R&D Biomechanical Engineer. Founder, Teton Resilience Institute.Technical Advisor for Teton Dam Rebuild Feasibility. Inventor/Idea Incubator

Cincinnati, OH Katılım Temmuz 2009
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Richard Robison
Richard Robison@rhrobison·
@RussFulcher @Vote_Davidson @WarrenDavidson @RodFurniss1 @MikeCrapo @BasedMikeLee 50 oral histories. 150 stories. Three generations. I'm turning the raw 1977 survivor testimonies of the 1976 Teton Dam disaster into: → Powerful adult literary narratives → Young Readers editions (ages 8–15) with real engineering lessons → Gentle illustrated Children’s Storybooks (ages 4–8) All faithful to their voices. All part of preserving history, teaching resilience, and building better for Idaho’s future. 50th anniversary project from The Robison Institute. Read the series → tetonletters.substack.com #TetonDam #IdahoHistory #BuildItAgain
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The Eternal Saints
The Eternal Saints@Eternal_Saints_·
Where Has All the Farmland Gone | A Look at the Decline of Agriculture Along the Wasatch Front “This was nothing but farmland as far as the eye could see! Old Man Peabody owned all of this.” That line from Back to the Future comes to mind every time I drive the Wasatch Front. From Ogden to Provo, what used to be green fields and irrigation ditches has turned into a corridor of warehouses, apartment blocks, and cul-de-sacs named after the things they replaced. The Wasatch Front was built by farmers. Pioneers carved canals from the mountains and made the desert bloom. By the middle of the 20th century, this strip of valley was growing nearly all of Utah’s fruits and vegetables. Agriculture wasn’t just work, it was the culture itself. Even in Salt Lake City, you could walk to a hay market. But since 2000, the state has lost millions of acres of farmland, and nowhere faster than along the Front. The region’s six major counties have seen developed land expand by nearly 100,000 acres while farmland shrank by almost half that amount. Utah County alone lost more than 47,000 acres in two decades. What was once orchard and pasture now sells for hundreds of thousands of dollars per acre, and with the average Utah farmer pushing seventy, the temptation to cash out is overwhelming. The organization Envision Utah, founded in the late 1990s to manage growth, is often praised for its consensus-building. But its “visioning” process has effectively legitimized steady suburban expansion into the state’s most fertile valleys. Under the banner of “smart growth,” local governments have rezoned farms, paved over prime soil, and rebranded it as sustainable development. Utahns overwhelmingly value agriculture: 98 percent in surveys say they want to protect farmland and increase local food production. However, Utah now produces only a sliver of its own food: about three percent of fruits, two percent of vegetables, and a quarter of its dairy. Everything else rolls in on trucks from California, Mexico, or wherever the global supply chain still holds. When the COVID-19 pandemic snarled distribution, those trucks stopped coming as reliably, and the illusion of plenty cracked. “If the supply chain is jeopardized, we need something in the state of Utah to help sustain us,” warned Jim Hoken of the state agriculture department. That warning went largely unheeded as the bulldozers kept moving south. Every rezoning meeting along the Front now feels like a ritual: a handful of old-timers standing up for open land while planners and developers nod about “balanced growth.” In Orem, the last organic farm on State Street barely survived a development push. In West Weber, 26 acres of cropland just became another subdivision. Salt Lake City annexed Northpoint, home to the last few working acres in the valley, in hopes of “managing” industrial growth; a euphemism that usually means replacing barns with warehouses. Even the county council that voted to protect a 48-acre farm near the Great Salt Lake did so as a gesture, not a policy. The long-term cost of all this is staggering. Utah’s food independence, the pioneer dream of self-reliance, is slipping away acre by acre. Once a state that could feed itself, Utah now relies on a global system it cannot control. If drought, disaster, or politics ever disrupt that system, there is no local fallback. The land that could have fed the next generation will already be under concrete. And something else is being lost too. Utah’s character, its rhythms of work, its sense of stewardship, its connection to the land, is eroding alongside the farms. The farmstead, the canal, the peach stand on the corner; these weren’t just remnants of the past, they were the scaffolding of a culture that believed the desert could bloom and the people could live off its promise. That vision is fading fast. What we’re paving over isn’t just soil. It’s who we are.
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TheBlaze
TheBlaze@theblaze·
Mamdani says if he were to have a talk with King Charles during his visit to NYC he would ask him to give India back the Kohinoor Diamond:
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TheBlaze@theblaze·
Zohran Mamdani declares a “budget crisis” in NYC: “We cannot close this deficit with savings alone. We need new revenue. And we need a structural reset in our relationship with the state.“
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Richard Robison
Richard Robison@rhrobison·
Two massive Rexburg Standard Journal features on The Teton Letters this week! Verl Bird & Leon Baron had “front-row seats on the slippery slide” as the flood roared through Sugar City. Now Jay Calderwood — the dam’s General Excavation Foreman — was “thirty feet from the end of the world” when the earth opened beneath him. Real 1976 voices, preserved for Flood 50. Read both RSJ stories 👇 rexburgstandardjournal.com/news/local/fif… rexburgstandardjournal.com/news/local/tet… Then subscribe for the full oral histories + Young Readers’ Editions → tetonletters.substack.com Share your flood memory below — let’s keep these stories alive! #TetonDam #Flood50 @rhrobison @RexburgSJ @CityofRexburg @byuidaho @rexcc
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Richard Robison
Richard Robison@rhrobison·
@conservmillen You're as annoying a personality as the dolt, Jacob. And that's saying something. So painful to watch two annoying dolts trying to have a So called intelligent conversation. Lmao
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Allie Beth Stuckey@conservmillen·
Who goes to heaven, according to Mormonism? Jacob Hansen, LDS apologist, argues that, according to Mormon teaching, one must be a part of the LDS church to spend eternity with Christ. Here’s my response:
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Richard Robison
Richard Robison@rhrobison·
@Lew541207 Not a fan of either. Jacob is a dick and she's just insufferably annoying. Couldn't listen all the way just because of both their personalities
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Mike Lee
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee·
“World War Eleven” Yes, that was deadly
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Nick Sortor
Nick Sortor@nicksortor·
ILHAN OMAR: “The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked was during World War ELEVEN.” Yep, that’s what she said. WORLD WAR ELEVEN. Why are we giving US citizenship to third worlders with subzero IQs??! THIS HAS TO END!
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Richard Robison@rhrobison·
@BasedMikeLee Do you think she is, Mike? You have thr power to do something besides post. So throw her ass out of my country
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Mike Lee
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee·
Do you think she might be part of the problem?
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Richard Robison
Richard Robison@rhrobison·
@mrddmia Until we start punishing traitors for treason, and the list of a mile long, it's just going to keep getting worse
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🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸
Fuck it. Gloves are off. From here on out. They don't fear us. They want to kill us. We must destroy them. Legally, financially, and politically.
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
If they’re willing to die to assassinate, imagine what they will do if they gain political power
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Richard Robison
Richard Robison@rhrobison·
@BasedMikeLee Fuck, Mike! I thought doge shut that fucking shit down a year ago!! Fucking do something besides post on X for the love of God! Write your own personal Title of Liberty. Be a Captain Moroni
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Mike Lee
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee·
No more federal funding for NGOs Who agrees?
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