Bloomberg View: Another phony crisis
The absurdist political theater surrounding the U.S. government debt ceiling is having another revival. With debt default looming next month, President Donald Trump has agreed to a deal that will grant...
View ArticleLawyers available to give free legal advice to DACA recipients
Immigration lawyers are offering free services to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals beneficiaries this week at the Mexican Consulate in Salt Lake City.They will be available at the consulate, 660...
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Crime spree tests a more secular Hildale and Colorado City
On the morning of July 13, Harvey Dockstader Jr. arrived at his grocery and health store in Colorado City, Ariz., to find a window broken and his cash register busted open. Dockstader did not want to...
View ArticleHomeless people scatter throughout Salt Lake Valley in wake of Operation Rio...
Police are responding to frantic calls from residents who report homeless transients in nearby parks, alleyways and backyards — a reaction to the law enforcement initiative aimed at clamping down on...
View ArticleLetter: Direct hostility at the politicians who start wars
The writer of a recent letter to the editor accused George Pyle of insulting the sacrifice of American service personnel who died in Vietnam because Pyle questioned the necessity of the war being...
View ArticleLetter: Ending DACA would be a wasted investment
If after 10 years of investment, just as the new road was getting ready to be used, the government declared, “ignore the dollars already spent, ignore that this new road is ready to finally start being...
View ArticleLetter: Utah wildlife policy a beacon of ignorance
I’ve hiked nearly every day in Utah’s wild places for over 16 years and have never encountered a cougar, even though I’ve observed all other major Utah mammals, and find it unconscionable that Utah...
View ArticleLetter: Clean up Utah's sickly air
Gov. Gary Herbert is too lazy on air quality. Thank you for the, cough, cough, timely article in the Aug. 31 Tribune. It is bad enough to wheeze through the winter inversions but this summer has been...
View ArticleLetter: A monumental opportunity for education
Since Charlottesville, the debate about Confederate statues has been an ongoing story. John Carlson argues (Aug. 30) for preserving Confederate statues on grounds that doing so is educational for...
View ArticleLetter: Focus on the victims of disasters
In the middle of great destruction and despair, the politics as usual carry on. Gov. Chris Christie calls out Sen. Ted Cruz for his lying about Sandy relief and how the money was used. So America, it...
View ArticlePresident Trump on 9/11: ‘America cannot be intimidated’
Arlington, VA • Leading his first commemoration of the solemn 9/11 anniversary, President Donald Trump said Monday that “the living, breathing soul of America wept with grief” for each of the nearly...
View ArticleIrma loses hurricane status but keeps spreading misery
Tampa, Florida • Hurricane Irma weakened to a still-dangerous tropical storm Monday as it pushed inland, triggering record flooding in Florida’s northeastern corner, while rescuers in its soggy,...
View ArticleU.S. calls for Monday vote on new North Korea sanctions
United Nations • The United States called for a vote Monday on new U.N. sanctions against North Korea, though exactly what measures would be in the resolution remained a mystery.Security Council...
View ArticleAlbert R. Hunt: Don't expect Trump and Congress to do anything
As a presidential deal-maker, Donald Trump is, in Texas parlance, all hat and no cattle. It’s a big reason that, aside from disaster relief, not much is likely to get get done this month or this...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Is BYU's football season beyond repair? Maybe not — but time is...
Well into the early hours of Sunday at LaVell Edwards Stadium, seven crew members were stomping around the field, replacing divots and making other repairs to the grass.The work started soon after...
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Jennifer Rubin: What Republicans should have learned (other than not to trust...
Republicans learned the hard way this week that the tactic of using the debt ceiling to extract further spending cuts is a losing one. And now, thanks to President Donald Trump, they may lose it...
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Gehrke: Morning of 9/11 changed the world, setting us on a path of indefinite...
I was due on Capitol Hill by 10 a.m. for a hearing on security preparations for the 2002 Winter Olympics. So, as we’d done numerous times, we strapped our 6-month-old daughter, Georgia, into the car...
View ArticleCache Humane Society takes in dogs, helps Texas shelters
Logan • Several animal shelters in Utah including the Cache Humane Society have taken in pets from Texas to make sure animal shelters there have room for pets lost or left behind in Hurricane...
View ArticleHungary says Ukraine's new school law hurts minority rights
Budapest, Hungary • Ukraine has “stabbed Hungary in the back” with a new education law that “drastically” limits the rights of ethnic minorities to study in their mother tongue, Hungary’s foreign...
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Real Salt Lake relying heavily on homegrown talent as it rebuilds itself into...
A header from 16-year-old Justen Glad floats over the goalie’s outstretched hands in Houston, giving the RSL-Arizona academy team a late lead in the 2013 U.S. Developmental Academy championship game....
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