Utah photos of the week, July 30-August 5
Here's a look at the past week in Utah through photographs by Tribune photographers. Keep up with our photographers by following The Salt Lake Tribune on Instagram.
View ArticleUtah teen dies during Boy Scout camping trip
A teenager from Salem died Saturday during a Boy Scout camping trip in the High Uintas.The troop had been camped in the Chain Lakes area in Krebs Basin on Thursday when Douglas Jeffrey Julian, 17, told...
View ArticleVisit by Dynamo a chance for RSL to erase bad memories
Sandy • The Houston Dynamo’s name unearths bad memories for Real Salt Lake.The last time RSL faced the Dynamo, it lost 5-1 in a dark stretch of the season. So when Houston arrived at Rio Tinto Stadium...
View ArticleBody of missing West Bountiful man found
Friends of a missing West Bountiful man found his body in Tooele County on Saturday morning. The search party found John Darrell Page just after 9:20 a.m. on a rocky slope in the Lakeside Mountains,...
View ArticleUtah teen girls break through stereotypes at firefighting-based Camp Fury
After more than 10 years as a Girl Scout, 17-year-old Shelby knows a thing or two about going to camp.As a member of Troop 1, which exposes older Girl Scouts to sailing, canoeing and whitewater...
View ArticleOp-ed: Children need an opportunity to grow
Nothing is more important to me than making sure all children become healthy, self-sufficient contributors to society.As a Utahn, I want our kids to have an opportunity to grow up in stable, loving...
View ArticleSalt Lake Bees fall to Colorado Springs 8-1 for third straight loss
Following a script eerily similar to Friday’s contest, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox roughed up Bees starting pitcher Luis Diaz early, scoring three runs on four hits during the first two innings...
View ArticleLaDainian Tomlinson steals the show at Hall of Fame ceremony
Canton, Ohio • As he so often did on the field, LaDainian Tomlinson stole the show.With a powerful speech calling for “Team America” to be a place for inclusion and opportunity, the great running back...
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Jennifer Rubin: Mueller's grand juries are a key milestone in Trump...
Commentators who assert revelation of a grand jury in federal court in Washington to investigate possible criminal wrong-doing is no big deal have a point. Technically, this is just one more step in...
View ArticleCommentary: Climate change places life in the West in danger
This summer, Salt Lake City has already suffered a dozen days over 100 degrees with August still to come. This spate of hot, stagnant air has left us breathing ozone and fine soot that are twice the...
View ArticleCommentary: All taxpayers should be treated equally
We’ve all experienced the annoyance of a single mosquito bite, but can you imagine 29 mosquitoes biting you at the same time? You don’t even know where to start swatting.That’s what it used to be like...
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George F. Will: The GOP's Southern Gothic page-turner
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Southern Gothic is a literary genre and, occasionally, a political style that, like the genre, blends strangeness and irony. Consider the current primary campaign to pick the...
View ArticleCommentary: Medical cannabis opponents have irrational position
Utahns have now become well-versed in the Legislature’s message to patients: Use opiates and risk death, or use medical cannabis and risk jail time, fines, or losing your children to state custody.Sick...
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How did Salt Lake City’s homeless district get so bad and why can’t we fix it?
The area around Pioneer Park and Rio Grande Street’s homeless shelter has long been a place to score illegal drugs. Crack cocaine, methamphetamine and alcohol were the substances of choice until about...
View ArticleKirby: Dear missionary, read between the lines
Editor’s note • Robert Kirby is recovering from rocket-related activities. This is a reprint of an earlier column.I just received a letter from an LDS missionary. Because he wants to continue being a...
View ArticleCommentary: Carbon threatens our state’s economy
The recent Rocky Mountain Power proposal to increase net-metering fees on its solar customers is a drastic step in the wrong direction. People in Utah who are investing in solar are doing their part...
View ArticleCommentary: It’s time to close the Hogle Zoo. Permanently.
The London Zoo was probably the first zoo opened to the public, in 1847, the same time Brigham Young arrived in our valley.At that time, a zoo made sense. People could barely imagine many wild animals....
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Summer program pays high school students cash to get a head start on classes
Midvale • Ben Fuentes starts high school later this month — and he’s actually feeling confident. For the past six weeks, Fuentes and fellow soon-to-be freshmen at Hillcrest High School have spent their...
View ArticleLetter: Don't let Rocky Mountain Power gouge us
Rocky Mountain Power’s dishonest attempt to gouge solar customers with an unreasonably high service fee and arbitrary demand charge is unfair.I live in Salt Lake City in a house that has solar panels...
View ArticleLetter of the Week: The political crisis of gerrymandering
Obviously there are several reasons underlying our present political crisis. One factor has not received much attention: congressional districts. What, you say? Yes, the 2010 redistricting.The...
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