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Polygamous sect’s sway has dwindled in twin towns on Arizona-Utah line. Residents enjoy new freedoms

Polygamous sect’s sway has dwindled in twin towns on Arizona-Utah line. Residents enjoy new freedoms

COLORADO CITY, Ariz. (AP) — The prairie dresses, walled compounds and distrust of outsiders that were once hallmarks of two towns on the Arizona-Utah border are mostly gone. These days, Colorado City, Arizona, and neighboring Hildale, Utah, look much like any other town in this remote and picturesque area near Zion National Park, with weekend soccer games, a few bars, and even a winery. Until courts wrested control of the towns from a polygamous sect whose leader and prophet, Warren Jeffs, was imprisoned for sexually assaulting two girls, youth sports, cocktail hours and many other common activities were forbidden. The towns have transformed so quickly that they were released from court-ordered supervision last summer, almost two years earlier than expected. It wasn’t easy. “What you see is the outcome of a massive amount of internal turmoil and change within people to reset themselves,” said Willie Jessop, a onetime spokesman for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who later broke with the sect. “We call it ‘life after Jeffs’ — and, frankly, it’s …

Polygamous working: why are people secretly doing two or three full-time jobs at once? | Work & careers

Polygamous working: why are people secretly doing two or three full-time jobs at once? | Work & careers

Name: Polygamous working. Age: It’s really a post-pandemic phenomenon. Appearance: A Zoom meeting window, with video disabled. I’ve heard of polygamy, but I didn’t know you could make money from it. This has nothing to do with polygamy; it’s a term for having more than one job. You mean like moonlighting? Moonlighting refers to someone taking on a secondary job to make ends meet, usually at night. Like a side hustle, then? A side hustle generally involves freelance work undertaken in your own time, as an additional income stream. What if you don’t make any money doing it? Then it’s a hobby. So what’s the polygamy thing? Polygamous working is holding two or more full-time jobs simultaneously, without an employer knowing. Presumably they figure it out when they notice you’re only there half the time. In the old days maybe, but with the rise of hybrid and remote working, polygamous employment can easily go undetected. If no one can tell, then what’s wrong with it? There’s no law against having two jobs, but in some …