The Road Home is spending $4,400 per night to keep Utah families out of its...
The Road Home estimates that the cost to spare families the environment of its downtown Salt Lake City homeless shelter has risen to nearly $4,400 per night — or more than twice what the state has...
View ArticleUtah forecast: Midweek hot and smoky, but storms on the way
Smoky skies and hot temperatures ruled northern Utah at the midweek, but incoming thunderstorms and rain could help clear the air on Thursday and Friday.The National Weather Service predicted high...
View ArticleLetter: Time for us to leave the ‘Graveyard of Empires’
The “Graveyard of Empires.” What have you given up for Afghanistan? Having served in Vietnam, 1966-1968, I have always been against our actions in Afghanistan. I believe most who have served during war...
View ArticleWithout Gary Ott to speak for himself, judge delays decision on future of...
West Jordan • A decision about who will be the permanent legal guardian of enfeebled former Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott has been delayed a month, along with a ruling over whether the news media...
View ArticleLetter: Stewart off-base going after leaks
Rep. Chris Stewart (The Tribune, Aug. 20) quotes the adage “loose lips sink ships” to justify legislation addressing deliberate leaks of classified information. He’s treating the symptoms, which are...
View Article7 movie clowns who provoked laughs, tears, screams and a flinch or two
Clowns are supposed to be makers of mirth, messengers of merriment, producers of pratfalls, fabricators of frivolity.And, yet, as Stephen King’s “It” (the adaptation of which hits theaters this Friday)...
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Zac Posen, the comeback kid in fashion, featured in new documentary
Boy wonder, tyrant, genius: Zac Posen has been called that and more.The fashion designer, at 36, has experienced more ups and downs than his years might indicate and all are laid bare in a new...
View ArticleLetter: Today's authoritarians do it differently
President Trump is destroying the GOP by openly displaying that party’s willingness to promote plutocratic interests by authoritarian and demagogic means.The pardoning of “Sheriff Joe” signals Trump’s...
View ArticleLetter: Trump is exacerbating everything
The news media, not the fake news, are reporting that President Trump exacerbated tensions in his big speech in Phoenix. Me-versus-you exacerbation. Poor little Donald, the put-upon victim.Trump...
View ArticleLetter: Piling on against President Trump
Every Sunday for some time now I buy a Salt Lake Tribune just to read the Opinion section. Living in Tooele, it’s a way for me to get a feeling on how Salt Lake City people see things.I read a letter,...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Can Ty Detmer make the BYU offense productive? We’ll see shortly
Provo • Long before LSU tormented BYU’s offense, Penn State’s defense stymied a Cougars quarterback who completed only 8 of 26 passes in a September game that BYU lost by four touchdowns.Owning a...
View ArticleUtah gymnastics: Coaches Farden, Marsden ink five-year contract extensions
Utah is keeping the faces of the Red Rocks around for a while.Utah athletic director Chris Hill announced Wednesday morning that gymnastic co-coaches Tom Farden and Megan Marsden both have signed...
View ArticlePope Francis’ Colombia agenda: peace, ecology and the way forward
Vatican City • Pope Francis’ efforts to consolidate Colombia’s peace process with a five-day visit produced a result even before the trip began: a cease-fire between the government and the country’s...
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Tiger muskie and 2 other fish species part of new plan to help curb chubs at...
Scofield Reservoir has been one of Utah’s best fishing waters over the years, except when Utah chubs take it over and outcompete game species such as trout and kokanee salmon for food.And, in recent...
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Gehrke: It’s 2017, but people in Utah still put on ‘redface’ for an...
Wellsville • Because Utah was not exactly a flashpoint of the Civil War, we have been insulated from the debate about whether to tear down the monuments to Confederate generals who fought to defend...
View ArticleDana Milbank: Apparently, it's illegal to laugh at Jeff Sessions
Washington - Did you hear the one about Jeff Sessions?I’d like to tell you, but I can’t. You see, it’s illegal to laugh at the attorney general, the man who on Tuesday morning announced that the...
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Former Daggett County sheriff, two officers, plead guilty in inmate-abuse case
Silver Summit • The former Daggett County sheriff and two of his officers pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges accusing them of mistreating inmates at the county jail, abuse that included the use of...
View ArticleFor Steve Tate and Reno Mahe, tragedy forged a powerful bond between a Ute...
For several days last November, Steve Tate did little else but watch his son die. The hospital room felt cold to him, and the outside world dim. He thinks he stayed in that room for five straight days...
View ArticleUtes podcast: Is seven straight an inevitability? Or can BYU surprise in Provo?
Tyler Huntley’s escapability. Troy Taylor’s adaptability. And, like it or not, the inevitability of Saturday’s rivalry game in Provo. Reporters Chris Kamrani and Lynn Worthy discuss it all on this...
View ArticleFrancis Wilkinson: Trump dumps young immigrants on a hapless Congress
The mixed signals and cowardice emanating from Trumpworld on the fate of almost 800,000 “Dreamers” will soon be complemented and echoed by mixed signals and cowardice emanating from Republican members...
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