Letter: Our Pledge, considered
Francis Bellamy, a socialist Baptist minister, wrote the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892. At the time, Bellamy was hired to work at the Youth’s Companion magazine for the purpose of writing a pledge to...
View ArticleLetter: Trump and Zinke don't value protection of monuments
The Trump/Zinke team is quite a pair to be making decisions about reducing the size of national monuments. Trump’s background is business, TV celebrity and playing golf. He does not appear to be...
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Why is Utah Opera going back to ‘Bohème’?
Kathleen Clawson admits there are some operas she wouldn’t go out of her way to see again, but “La bohème” certainly isn’t one of them.“It’s the first opera I had a record of when I was in seventh...
View ArticleUtes face big test with Bryce Love and Stanford coming to town
Sure, the Utes took advantage of the bye to rest weary bodies and tend to injuries, but the past week also served as part one of Stanford preparation.Utah (4-0, 1-0) went into this past week needing to...
View ArticleO.J. Simpson out of prison after 9 years for armed robbery
Las Vegas • Former football legend O.J. Simpson became a free man Sunday after serving nine years for a botched hotel room heist that brought the conviction and prison time he avoided after his 1995...
View ArticleLetter: There is no right to discriminate
The current discussion of whether bakers can refuse to make cakes for gay couples because their religious beliefs regard homosexuality as a sin reminds me of the 1960s civil rights debates.In those...
View ArticleLetter: Fire the cop. Promote the nurse.
Paul L. Hart implores Alex Wubbels to sue for every cent. Don’t settle in their favor, teach them a lesson! Good advice.Hart would like her to hold them accountable and publicly admit they were...
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Apostle urges Mormons to stand against racism, sexism and nationalism while...
After describing the heroic life of black Mormon pioneer Jane Manning James, LDS apostle M. Russell Ballard told a worldwide audience of Mormons on Sunday that bigotry in any form is un-Christian.“We...
View ArticleLetter: Arpaio is not commendable
Regarding the letter, “Grateful for the pardon,” (Sept. 9), I would like to respond.Cynthia Hafen, we are a nation of laws. If I disagree with a law, it doesn’t relieve my responsibility to follow that...
View ArticleUtah football: Utes rise one spot to No. 18 in latest Coaches Poll, stay at...
On the team’s bye week, undefeated Utah rose one spot in the Amway Coaches Poll to No. 18 and remained at No. 20 in the AP Top 25.The top four of both polls remained the same from last week with...
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How one woman sued her childhood sexual abuser years later — and won — thanks...
When Ginger Utley was 22, she wasn’t ready to sue the man who had sexually abused her for years when she was a teenager. So she missed the deadline set by Utah law, which had required her to file her...
View ArticleTerminally ill Utah teen creates custom collections to help him forget the...
Syracuse • Not only can Alec Unsicker face his own mortality with a smile, but he’s working to help others do the same.At 19, the Syracuse resident is facing a terminal cancer prognosis by delivering...
View ArticleMelee in Catalonia as Spanish police violently attack voters
Barcelona, Spain • Spanish riot police smashed their way into Catalan polling stations Sunday to try to halt a disputed referendum on independence, firing rubber bullets and attacking voters who were...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake: Called upon after an ejection, Horst’s last ditch clearance...
Carson, Calif. • There was a moment in the 88th minute of Saturday’s match at L.A. when it looked as if all hope of 10-man Real Salt Lake tying the game was about to melt away. Then RSL center back...
View ArticleFirst caffeinated sodas, now beards? BYU alum starts petition to end facial...
Provo• Now that Brigham Young University will offer caffeinated soft drinks on campus, some people are wondering if the school’s ban on beards will end.Skyler Thiot started an online petition called...
View ArticleWho will start at quarterback just one of major questions facing Cougars as...
Provo • Amidst the misery that this week will surely bring for BYU fans disgusted with the football team’s 1-4 start and seven-turnover loss to Utah State on Friday comes a perplexing question that...
View ArticleMan who stabbed officer, struck four pedestrians had Islamic State flag,...
Canadian police say a man driving a white car struck a police officer and stabbed him multiple times outside a football stadium Saturday.Hours later, police say, the same man — this time driving a...
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Mormon apostle Robert D. Hales dies between conference sessions after a life...
When Robert D. Hales was a young teenager living on Long Island, his father took him to the Sacred Grove in upstate New York, the same forested sanctuary where Mormon founder Joseph Smith — at about...
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Alexandra Petri: I am Jared Kushner. I have no idea what I'm doing.
”[Jared] Kushner has been criticized in the past for initially not disclosing more than 100 contacts with foreign leaders including those from Russia, as well as ownership of a multimillion dollar tech...
View ArticleLetter: Bagley is a source of sanity
Richard Davis (“Bagley spreads discord,” Sept. 8) needs to turn on his hearing and humor aid. Bagley’s political cartoons are a rare source of sanity in this political climate.Lorna M. HardyMillcreek
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