Now that RSL has missed the playoffs, the what-ifs begin
Even before Real Salt Lake came up one point short of a playoff berth on the last day of the season Sunday, captain Kyle Beckerman anticipated that the what-ifs that would follow.“It happens every...
View ArticleUtes, Ducks find themselves in similar funks before showdown in Eugene
The Utes could look into a mirror and see the Ducks.Utah coach Kyle Whittingham didn’t say it verbatim during his weekly Monday press conference, but it was close.“Two teams that need a win,” he said....
View ArticleCritics of the campaign for Canyons School District’s $283M bond are eager to...
When do public expenditures promoting a ballot bond proposal cross the line from being informational to campaigning?That’s the question some Canyons School District constituents are asking after...
View ArticleUtah voters evenly split on the Count My Vote initiative to rely solely on...
A new poll shows Utahns are evenly divided over the just-resurrected Count My Vote ballot initiative that seeks to let voters choose party nominees solely through a primary election, and dump the...
View ArticleDemocrats urge President Trump not to shrink Bears Ears, Grand...
Washington • Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin and 13 Democratic colleagues urged President Donald Trump not to change the boundaries of the Bears Ears or Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments,...
View ArticleIn retrospect, Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham says Zack Moss needed to...
Utah coach Kyle Whittingham believes his offense needs to establish an identity, and he’s clearly frustrated that’s still the case seven games into the season. It’s also clear that the running attack...
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Ricky Rubio’s offensive production has been a pleasant surprise for Jazz
When the Jazz traded for Ricky Rubio, they did so with his playmaking in mind.Rubio’s scoring, however, has been an added benefit, and something unexpected given his history in the NBA. He has never...
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BYU is ‘desperate,’ vows to let it all hang out in final five football games
Provo • Aggressiveness.That, and a lot of other traits, have been lacking in the BYU football program, head coach Kalani Sitake said at his weekly press briefing on Monday.The Cougars are 1-7 and...
View ArticleUtah woman facing trial after allegedly trying to help another woman commit...
Logan • A judge ruled Monday that there is cause for a Cache County woman — who allegedly tried three times to help a friend commit suicide — to stand trial on four of the five criminal counts filed...
View ArticleTask force says UTA needs to be reformed, but it can't agree how to do it
A state task force says the scandal-tainted Utah Transit Authority needs reform, but it isn’t yet sure exactly what shape that should take.“There is a desire to do something. But we haven’t quite hit...
View ArticleWham! Car hits wall of Salt Lake City comic book store, forcing relocation to...
Employees at a Salt Lake City comic book store scrambled Monday to move stock into new digs after a car smashed like Hulk’s fist into the business’s back wall Sunday afternoon.“It was a huge, huge...
View ArticleUtah school district says it’s taken ‘appropriate action’ against all...
A one-week investigation into a video of Weber High School students chanting vulgarities and racial slurs ended Monday, with school officials taking “appropriate action,” according to Weber School...
View ArticleOtt saga grows political as Republicans urge Gill to resign and Dems point at...
The death of former Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott has careened into a political firestorm as Republicans call on Democratic District Attorney Sim Gill to resign for failing to protect Ott, and...
View ArticleIncredible athleticism helps make American Fork's Tayler Tausinga a setting star
American Fork • Tayler Tausinga will be well-known on BYU’s campus in a few years if everything goes according to plan.But she wouldn’t mind herself and her American Fork volleyball teammates gaining a...
View ArticlePat Bagley Cartoon: The Lying Press
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.What Women Want (Just a Wild Guess)Monument...
View ArticleLetter: Kneeling is free speech
The Constitution guarantees us many rights, not the least of which is free speech. Kneeling during the playing of the national anthem is speech. It is expressing opposition to a perceived wrong and it...
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Eugene Robinson: Congress needs to reclaim its war-making powers
Washington • The Trump administration, its foreign policy largely shaped by military men, urgently needs to tell Congress and the American people what we’re doing in Niger — and where else we’re doing...
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Alyssa Rosenberg: Here’s how Trump could’ve apologized to Gold Star families...
America crossed another disgraceful Rubicon on Monday, when President Donald Trump decided to attack Myeshia Johnson, a Gold Star widow who confirmed that what was intended as a condolence call from...
View ArticleLetter: Sorry, Commissioner Lyman, but public lands belong to all
San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman’s recent op-ed (“Awaiting the fate of Bears Ears,” Sept. 19) demands a response.There is a perception in rural Utah that the land you live near belongs to you....
View ArticleLetter: Tribune’s online posting delays undermine The Public Forum
In recent years, The Salt Lake Tribune, like all other respected newspapers, has given its readers several options for reading the paper: the traditional hard copy, an online facsimile, or an online...
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