After Maria, humanitarian crisis grows in Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico • A humanitarian crisis grew Saturday in Puerto Rico as towns were left without fresh water, fuel, power or phone service following Hurricane Maria’s devastating passage across...
View ArticleCommentary: Defending our country and its public lands
A few days ago, I wrapped up our fifth year of leading a Sierra Club Military Outdoors trip that brings 50 of our nation’s veterans and their partners through the Green River in Utah’s Dinosaur...
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Despite massive cuts, Utah nonprofits find opportunities to help people...
Relief washed over Luis Rios as he stood among the bundled-up crowd watching the Hispanic Heritage Parade on Saturday.The smiles, laughs and celebrations taking place at The Gateway were a welcome...
View ArticleLetter: Why the right is laughing at me and all my ‘snowflake’ friends
I’m getting really tired of defending people I disagree with, but my own side is forcing me to do so. I’m a liberal and I’m starting to see why the right is laughing at me and all my “snowflake”...
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Prep sports: This week's standout performers and key numbers
Each week, the TribPreps staff will choose standout performers and key numbers from the previous week’s action in Utah and showcase them. Here are this week’s picks.Breanne BitterThe Clearfield senior...
View ArticleLetter: Rolly just gets better with time
As a member of the Salt Lake chapter of the International Footprint Association, our club was treated by hearing Paul Rolly of The Salt Lake Tribune be our guest speaker at our luncheon on Sept. 12. To...
View ArticleLetter: Stop calling Medicare and Social Security entitlements
I am writing in response to David Spackman’s letter to the editor on Sept. 16. He calls Social Security and Medicare entitlements.They are not entitlements, unless you think that after paying into...
View ArticleNFL commissioner, players' union angrily denounce Trump
Somerset, N.J. • The National Football League and its players’ union on Saturday angrily denounced President Donald Trump for suggesting that owners fire players who kneel during the national anthem...
View ArticleLetter: Show is an insult to women
Thank you, Gus Wheeler.And thanks to The Tribune for making Gus Wheeler’s letter the Letter of the Week on Sept. 17. The nauseating Salt Lake expo called “What a Woman Wants” keeps repeating...
View ArticleLetter: Single-payer would set us free
The argument from the right against single-payer health care is that it creates a dependency on government. I would argue that what single-payer does is that it creates freedom. The type of freedom the...
View ArticleGolf: Colorado pro wins Sand Hollow Open
Hurricane – Colorado pro Tom Whitney played the last 10 holes in 7 under par Saturday and took a one-stroke victory in the Sand Hollow Leavitt Group Open.Whitney, who had conditional status this year...
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Prep football: Olympus senior Cameron Latu, an Alabama commit, a menace for...
Olympus outside linebacker/defensive end Cameron Latu leapt straight up and waved his long arms to take away the pass.As Washington State commit Cammon Cooper lowered his throwing arm, Latu dropped his...
View ArticleOne man injured in shooting at a family party in West Valley City
One man is recovering in the hospital after being shot during a family party in West Valley City on Friday night.A car pulled up near 2100 W. Alexander St. and someone inside fired shots into a crowd...
View ArticlePrep football: State rankings after Week 6
Class 6A1. Bingham (6-0) • Miners crush Westlake 56-7 and set up No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup against Lone Peak next week.2. Lone Peak (5-1) • Passing of Brock Jones, running of Masen Wake, lead Knights to...
View ArticlePrep volleyball: State rankings for Sept. 24
Records based on best 3-of-5 matchesClass 6A1. Pleasant Grove (5-1) • Vikings defend home court well, ascend to No. 1 by beating Bingham and Lone Peak by 3-1 counts.2. Lone Peak (7-1) • Knights beat...
View ArticleJohn and Joan Cusack talk early movie roles and Utah experiences in their...
Actors Joan and John Cusack have been in 10 movies together, but for the fans who packed the Q&A panel featuring the sister and brother Friday at Salt Lake Comic Con, 10 definitely isn’t enough.So...
View ArticleNo. 5 USC pulls away late for 30-20 win over California
Berkeley, Calif. • Stephen Carr ran for a fourth-quarter touchdown two plays after Southern California’s defense forced one of its six turnovers and the fifth-ranked Trojans won their 13th straight...
View ArticleNelson saves day for Utes in a 0-0 tie with USC in women’s soccer
Rain clouds overhead started their work, so as players — exhausted from a 110-minute Pac-12 Conference opening battle — left Ute Soccer Field on Saturday afternoon to avoid droplets, they were met with...
View ArticleGeorge F. Will: America’s engine is being slowed by complacency
Washington • It was an epoch-defining decision to place in Westminster Abbey, among statues of monarchs, priests and poets, a large one of James Watt, inventor of the separate-condenser steam engine....
View ArticleLetter: Can't afford health care? Blame Kim Jong Un
Why can’t America have socialized medicine? Blame Kim Jong Un. Forget about Scandinavia’s taxes, population and homogeneous societies as reasons for its health care success. While Democrats idolize...
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