NHL roundup: Miles Wood has hat trick, Devils outscore Blackhawks 7-5
Chicago • Miles Wood had his first career hat trick and added an assist to help the New Jersey Devils rally for a wild 7-5 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday night.Rookie Nico Hischier had a...
View ArticleWeek begins warmer than normal but will cool down
Temperatures Monday will be at least 10 degrees higher than they normally are in mid-November, but a cold front will arrive Tuesday to cool much of Utah.The western two-thirds of the state have been...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Republicans might be stuck with Alabama’s Roy Moore
Republicans might be stuck with Alabama’s Roy Moore. Lee drops Moore endorsement. Utah state senator starts draft Mitt petition.Happy Monday. Republican leaders desperately want Alabama GOP Senate...
View ArticleGomberg: Why I celebrate the day I tried to end my own life
It’s a weird thing to annually celebrate a personal failure, but I do it every single November. It’s not like I bake a cake or anything; I just note the passing of the day when however many years ago...
View ArticleAfter a generation as Sandy mayor, Tom Dolan — deal-maker supreme — says he...
Sandy • Community angst over breakneck growth is what first swept Tom Dolan into the Sandy mayor’s office 24 years ago.After his election loss last week, it looks like those same concerns swept him...
View ArticleGehrke: After Trump’s shocking victory a year ago, two Utah women have...
Andrea Himoff remembers the despair of election night last year.She had braced for the possibility that Donald Trump could win the White House and was “petrified” at the idea. It wasn’t that she was a...
View ArticleSex education could move out of the classroom and onto the internet under...
The perennial and often fiery debate over sex education in Utah schools is now likely to be rekindled on Capitol Hill.Rep. Justin Fawson, R-North Ogden, is drafting a bill that would tailor the state’s...
View ArticleLetter: What to do to get redistricting initiative on 2018 ballot
As a member of the League of Women Voters, I have been collecting signatures for the statewide redistricting initiative. This is the same initiative The Salt Lake Tribune reported about on Oct. 27,...
View ArticleLetter: To stay in LDS Church is to be complicit in the suffering caused by...
I would like to add to Terry Marasco’s commentary of Oct. 29 that not only every LGBTQ Mormon should leave the LDS Church immediately, but also everybody who is and feels connected to them, or just...
View ArticleLetter: Pruitt's record shows he's a terrible choice for EPA
A Salt Lake Tribune political cartoon showed Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, changing a sign to read “Environmental Polluters Agency.”From an environmental stand point,...
View ArticleLetter: Ambassador Huntsman, join in condemning persecution of LGBTI Chechens
On Oct. 3, former Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. was presented as the U.S. ambassador to Russia. I wish Ambassador Huntsman the best and I would urge him to use his position to draw more attention to the state...
View ArticleLetter: Keep Trump — and his detroying pen — out of Utah
We all know, all of us, Republicans, Democrats and independents alike, that the current president has absolutely no interest in anything but money.He can see land only as a source of wealth from...
View ArticleTwo Utah police chases yield stolen vehicles and $20,000 in stolen equipment
Suspects with stolen vehicles led Utah police on two car chases in two days — one that hit speeds of 120 mph and another that yielded $20,000 in stolen equipment, authorities say.One chase took place...
View ArticleTrump names former drug executive Alex Azar as new health secretary
Washington • Turning to an industry he’s rebuked, President Donald Trump on Monday picked a former top pharmaceutical and government executive be his health and human services secretary, overseeing a...
View ArticleAlbert R. Hunt: Biden 2020? It's not as crazy as it sounds
In reporting on politics all my adult life, I’ve enjoyed indulging in candidate scenarios, especially thinking unconventionally about what might happen if somebody runs for president. If people I...
View ArticleComey, called a 'liar' and 'leaker' by Trump, tweets a quote about truth and...
Former FBI Director James Comey has been somewhat active on Twitter over the past month, mostly tweeting nature photos and avoiding anything blatantly political.In one of his latest tweets, he quoted a...
View ArticleMargaret Sullivan: Trump won, and Northam crushed Gillespie, so why believe...
Back in 1962, Elmo Roper, a pioneer in public opinion polling, identified a problem in his field. “A preference for certainty over doubt, for the plausible over the proved, for drama over accuracy, for...
View ArticleKragthorpe: If Jazz lose to Minnesota, they may never get back to .500 this...
If the Jazz were going to establish themselves as a playoff team in the Western Conference, they needed to take advantage of this initial, home-heavy phase of the schedule.Instead, this stretch with 10...
View ArticleKeurig pulls ads from Sean Hannity’s Fox News show; Utah coffee company steps in
Four companies, including the coffeemaker company Keurig, said they will not be advertising on Sean Hannity's Fox News show following a wave of criticism over the conservative host's coverage of sexual...
View ArticleBusiness briefs: Tolero opens new HQ, molecular pathologists to meet
This week in business news:Tolero Pharmaceuticals opens new HQTolero Pharmaceuticals opened its new headquarters in Lehi on Friday, a facility that includes a research laboratory where the company will...
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