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SLC's Jackie Biskupski offers advice to ABC's 'The Mayor'
Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski is offering advice to Courtney Rose, the mayor of Fort Grey, Calif.The quality of the advice doesn’t actually matter, because Courtney Rose is a fictional...
View ArticleCommentary: Strong Economies need Protected Public Lands
My wife and I recently ventured from our home in Montana on a two-week road trip to the Southwest. The excursion took us deep into Utah’s majestic canyon country and the West’s ongoing clash over our...
View ArticleLetter: Why we intend to shut down Ben Shapiro
We have no shame in saying that we intend to shut down Ben Shapiro. This is not a decision we came to based on youthful emotions, or out of some desire for the world to be “one big safe space.” This...
View ArticleFull federal court to hear 'Making a Murderer' appeal
Madison, Wis. • A federal appeals court will consider arguments Tuesday over whether detectives tricked a Wisconsin inmate featured in the “Making a Murderer” series into confessing and whether he...
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Albert Hunt: Yes, Trump's goal is to inflame racial tensions
Donald Trump’s ongoing fight with professional athletes has one purpose: to inflame racial tensions.The president says his demand that National Football League owners fire those players who protest...
View ArticleDana Milbank: Hatch brings the gavel down on handicapped demonstrators
Washington • Maybe the Senate janitor’s closet was already booked?For Monday’s hearing on the Cassidy-Graham bill to repeal Obamacare -- the one and only hearing scheduled on the measure -- Republicans...
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Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox says President Trump’s attack on NFL was...
Orem • Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox says President Donald Trump pulled a “diabolically brilliant” move by criticizing NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem — but one that deepens and exploits...
View ArticleBefore athletes took a knee: 7 movies where sports and social issues collided
“Can’t we keep politics out of sports?” was the question that echoed across America this weekend, thanks to two concurrent controversies: Dozens of NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem in...
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Catherine Rampell: 'Reasonable' Republicans are betraying us, too
President Trump clearly has no clue what’s happening on health care, taxes or really any other major policy front. He has also made abundantly clear that he has no interest in getting up to...
View ArticleWhat will Mormonism’s outer darkness and other versions of the underworld be...
General Conference. Time for counsel from LDS leaders as to how we can avoid going to hell. This is good. Hell isn’t supposed to be pleasant.One of the things I like about being a Mormon is that our...
View ArticleRepublican leaders: Senate won't vote on Obamacare repeal
Washington • Facing assured defeat, Republican leaders decided Tuesday not to even hold a vote on the GOP’s latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law, surrendering on their last-gasp effort to...
View ArticleMormon historian, scientist to speak on why his church needs to go further to...
Independent Mormon historian and scientist Gregory Prince holds fast to his faith, but he believes just as strongly that his church eventually must find a way to fully embrace its LGBT adherents.Such...
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Early concepts revealed for two Salt Lake City homeless shelters, including...
Two new homeless shelters inched closer to life with Tuesday’s release of preliminary design concepts — though not without shades of the contentious debate that roiled Salt Lake City neighborhoods when...
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Open for business: Utah Jazz officially christen renovated Vivint Smart Home...
There was one final flourish to unveil on Tuesday morning before fans could get a look at the $125 million renovation job to the home of the Utah Jazz.With the drop of a curtain, the Larry H. Miller...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia to allow women to drive for the first time
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia • Saudi Arabia says it will allow women to drive for the first time in the ultra-conservative kingdom.The kingdom, which announced the change on Tuesday, was the only the country...
View ArticleGarrison Keillor: The gentle people shall prevail
I passed through Houston Monday and found a lot of cheerful stoicism (“It could’ve been worse”) a month after Harvey had messed with Texas. Some boarded-up windows downtown, some houses awaiting...
View ArticleHow travel insurance works in case of a hurricane like Irma or Maria
Ever wonder what would happen if your dream Caribbean cruise was threatened by a major hurricane such as Irma or Maria.According to Squaremouth, a travel insurance comparison site, travelers on a...
View ArticleUtah residents ask Supreme Court to hear prairie dog case
Salt Lake City • Residents in southern Utah asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to hear their case claiming federal safeguards for Utah prairie dogs have prevented them from doing what they want...
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Utah congressional hopeful John Curtis removes ‘build the wall’ Facebook ads...
Provo Mayor John Curtis, the Republican candidate for Utah’s vacant congressional seat, has removed two campaign ads posted on Facebook — one exhorting Congress to “build the wall” and the other...
View ArticleUtah Soccer: Utes' Carly Nelson named Pac-12's goalkeeper of the week
Utah’s Carly Nelson was named the Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Week for the first time on Tuesday.The sophomore made a career-high 10 saves in a shutout of No. 10 USC on Saturday. The highlight of Nelson’s...
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