Commentary: Single-payer health care is not the answer
Recently, The Salt Lake Tribune published commentary supporting the expansion of Medicare and a single-payer health care system. Unfortunately, single-payer’s track record abroad reveals that...
View ArticleCassidy-Graham bill sponsors include favors for one potential Republican holdout
Washington • An internal analysis by the Trump administration concludes that 31 states would lose federal money for health coverage under Senate Republicans’ latest effort to abolish much of the...
View ArticleUndefeated champ Andre Ward retires, desire no longer there
Oakland, Calif. • Andre Ward decided to end his career on top.Ward announced Thursday he is retiring from boxing because he no longer has the desire to fight, leaving the sport at age 33 with an...
View ArticleCommentary: Graham-Cassidy bill is not the answer for U.S. health care
The debate about U.S. health care reform and the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has once again “risen from the dead” in the form of the Graham-Cassidy bill in the Senate....
View ArticlePrep football: Top-ranked Corner Canyon blows out No. 2 Timpview
Draper • Timpview had the pedigree, but Corner Canyon had the No. 1 ranking when the second-ranked Thunderbirds came calling Thursday night.While the cold, rainy conditions left many scampering for...
View ArticleHoward Stephenson: Protecting taxpayers from out-of-control medication costs
As the debate over repeal and replace of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, winds its way through the halls of Congress, one thing is clear: Health care costs are out of control...
View ArticleHistorian: At $35M, original printer's manuscript of Book of Mormon a bargain
The original printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon now belongs to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and at $35 million, acquiring it was a bargain.At least, that’s what historian...
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: Oh no! Maybe CBS’ new ‘Star Trek’ stinks
Well, fellow Trekkers, I was planning a big cover story about “Star Trek: Discovery” this weekend, along with a review of the new series.That’s not going to happen. Because CBS won’t screen the show...
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Utah documentary tells intimate, gritty story of opiate crisis
In a dark bedroom, Maddy is tying off her arm, getting ready to shoot heroin with her girlfriend, Page. Through the camera’s eye, we watch these intimate, gritty scenes in Jenny Mackenzie’s new...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Ute basketball recruiting is riding momentum, creating a good...
In the past six months, my analysis of the University of Utah’s basketball recruiting has revolved around the players the Ute staff barely missed signing and those who came to the school and...
View ArticleCatherine Rampell: Republicans' brave new strategy for fixing health care:...
Republicans have unveiled their brave new strategy for fixing the U.S. health care system: Make someone else deal with it.Of all the god-awful Obamacare-repeal-and-replace plans that Republicans have...
View ArticleKim Jong Un fires off insults at Trump and hints at weapons test
Seoul, South Korea • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un lobbed a string of insults at President Donald Trump on Friday, calling him a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard” and hinting at a frightening new...
View ArticlePrep football: Pick 6 — Six games to watch in Week 6
American Fork at Lone Peak, 7 p.m.The Cavemen get a chance at revenge for their 66-19 loss to the Knights in the Class 5A state semifinals last year at Rice-Eccles Stadium. And it’s all about the...
View ArticleProsecutors chime in on ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio's pardon
Phoenix • Prosecutors in former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s criminal case say past court decisions back up their claim that President Donald Trump’s pardon nullifies the lawman’s conviction.But the U.S....
View ArticleUtah forecast: Valley rain and mountain snow
Valley rain — and yes, mountain snow — is expected to continue through the weekend in northern Utah.The National Weather Service predicts light rain will continue in the Salt Lake valley through the...
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Utah writer lyrically explores the trauma of the Vietnam War
Paisley Rekdal kept obsessing over the twisted sculpture made from wrecked plane parts, spoils of war stacked as high as a house.The Salt Lake City poet, temporarily living in Hanoi on a writing...
View ArticleScorpions still pack a sting more than 50 years later
Mention the Scorpions to casual music fans, and their mental inventory likely will have the German hard-rockers filed away as just another ’80s band.The thing is, the Scorpions were churning out...
View ArticleObama-era campus assault guidance scrapped, DeVos says rules were ‘unfairly...
Washington • The Trump administration on Friday scrapped Obama-era guidance on investigating campus sexual assault, replacing it with new interim instructions allowing universities to decide which...
View ArticleNo freedom or hope for migrants in Hungary transit camps
Belgrade, Serbia • When they set off from violence-plagued Afghanistan nearly two years ago, 17-year-old Hamad Ahmadi and his family believed Europe would give them a chance for a new life. They didn’t...
View ArticleAlleged victims can testify in one another’s sexual assault trials, judge...
A judge has ruled that six of the seven women who have accused former Utah State University football star Torrey Green of sexual assault will be allowed to testify at one another’s trials.Green is...
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