Utahns love energy efficiency and buy more electric cars per capita than...
Utah is rising in the ranks among the nation’s most energy-conscious states, according to a new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).Though it has yet to break into...
View ArticleLetter: Utah follows a greed-driven agenda
As one who recognizes the value of protecting our public domain, I had a long conversation with Gov. Gary Herbert’s office recently about public land management and the state’s seeming hostility to our...
View ArticleLetter: University of Utah students should welcome all points of view
I was a freshman at the University of Utah in the fall of 1963. I attended a talk by Ross Barnett, governor of Mississippi and an old-line segregationist of the George Wallace school. I agreed with not...
View ArticleDid testimony from state environmental regulators undermine a lawsuit against...
An environmental group’s long-running lawsuit against southeast Utah’s White Mesa uranium mill has been dismissed in federal court, after state regulators testified on the company’s behalf and...
View ArticleLeonard Pitts: When ignorance is impervious to fact
You could call it a moment of truth, except that what actually came out of that moment was a realization of how little truth now matters.This is back in 2010, after I recounted in this space an...
View Article‘Sports don’t have a gender’: Utah women’s tackle football players respond to...
The quarterback spent part of the night practicing with the wide receivers, and they all went to a Buffalo Wild Wings to hang out when they were finished. That’s where Elizabeth Lane, who plays tackle...
View ArticleReview: Do you need to see yet another ‘Bohème’? Actually, yes.
If you’re like most people with even a passing interest in opera, chances are you don’t need your arm twisted to go see another production of “La bohème.” But if you’re one of the few on whom the...
View ArticleUtah coaches hope FBI investigation into ‘dark underbelly’ of NCAA men’s...
Mark Pope loves his old coach.If not for Rick Pitino, he never would have transferred to Kentucky, won an NCAA championship and become a coach himself.“I’m where I am now because of him,” said Pope,...
View ArticleChildren’s authors dish on the sly humor of ‘The Wolf the Duck and the Mouse’...
So, let’s say you’re a mouse. And let’s also say you run into a wolf one day. And let’s finally say the wolf eats you because that’s what wolves do. What would you expect to find in the belly of the...
View ArticleLetter: Trump only cares about making a scene
I think it is fair to say that everything Donald Trump says is intended to make a political and obviously dramatic effect. He is so insecure that he is the exact opposite of what he tries to be. All he...
View ArticleLetter of the Week: LDS positions on bigotry don’t add up
The headline on the front page of The Salt Lake Tribune on Oct. 1 was, “Same-sex union opposition affirmed.” The article explains that during Saturday’s LDS General Conference, apostle Dallin H. Oaks...
View ArticleA year later, much different BYU team faces revenge-minded Mississippi State
Provo • Exactly a year after knocking off Mississippi State 28-21 in double overtime at LaVell Edwards Stadium, BYU will head east on Saturday for a rematch with the Bulldogs in Starkville,...
View ArticleUtah drops out of AP Top 25, slips to No. 23 in Coaches Poll after loss to...
Utah fell out of the AP Top 25 and dropped five spots in the Amway Coaches Poll to No. 23 after a 23-20 loss to Stanford Saturday night. The top five of both polls changed after Oklahoma was upset by...
View ArticleProtesters want District Attorney Sim Gill fired, say bodycam shows Salt Lake...
Ian De Oliveira can watch only a few seconds of body camera footage that includes the fatal shooting of Patrick Harmon by a Salt Lake City police officer before he has to look away.“Every time I see...
View ArticleSalt Lake Acting Company unveils a comedy with an appetite for revenge just...
“I’d been wanting to tell a soapy, lively story about revenge in a very modern setting,” playwright Steve Yockey says. “After a particularly intense holiday experience with my family, where it was...
View ArticleHerriman's Jaren Kump announces commitment to Utah football program
pic.twitter.com/BvBln6rpcw— Tricia Kump (@TriciaKump) October 8, 2017Herriman High School senior Jaren Kump, a 6-foot-5, 261-pound offensive tackle, announced via Twitter on Sunday that he’d switched...
View ArticleLetter: Our president has no heart
During Trump’s campaign for president he commented on John McCain that “I like people who were not captured.” It was a shocking and harsh criticism.Having just watched episode 5 of Ken Burns’ “The...
View ArticleBYU guard Nick Emery ready to put past struggles behind him
Provo • A lot of newness surrounds the BYU basketball team, which will begin the formal process of moving on without star center Eric Mika on Monday when preseason training camp officially begins.That...
View ArticleVP Pence leaves NFL game after players protest during anthem
Indianapolis • Vice President Mike Pence has left the 49ers-Colts game after about a dozen San Francisco players took a knee during the national anthem.The former Indiana governor flew in so he could...
View ArticleCutler silences boos with late TD as Dolphins beat Titans
Miami Gardens, Fla. • Adam Gase stubbornly stuck with Jay Cutler until his quarterback finally silenced the boobirds.Cutler drew jeers while struggling through much of the Miami Dolphins’ home opener,...
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