Stryker gets $3.4 million incentive to expand medical technology business in...
The state made another investment Thursday to bolster its life-sciences industry, extending a $3.4 million tax-rebate incentive to medical technology company Stryker, which is expanding its...
View Article‘Happy Death Day’ scared me, and my daughter just laughed, mostly at me
My adult daughter got the entertainment she was hoping for when she accompanied me to a screening of “Happy Death Day.”I jumped and sort of screamed at one point. Amanda sort of laughed at me. As we...
View ArticleBagley Cartoon: Inferno
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at...
View Article‘Behind the Headlines’: Calls for D.A.’s firing, Operation Rio Grande...
On this week’s “Behind the Headlines”:Body-camera footage of a police shooting is released and leads to protests — including calls for the ouster of Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, who...
View ArticleSalt Lake Valley police, nursing group announce policy for hospital...
Salt Lake Valley police and a Utah nursing organization on Thursday announced a new protocol for interactions between police and hospital staff, in the wake of the arrest of University Hospital nurse...
View ArticleFormer Portland, Ore., port CEO named director of airports for Salt Lake City
Mayor Jackie Biskupski named Bill Wyatt, retired CEO of the port of Portland, Ore., as her pick for executive director of the Salt Lake City Department of Airports.Wyatt, if approved by the City...
View ArticleJazz focus on themselves during long break before season opener
Call it a transition period for the Utah Jazz.The Jazz finally can focus on the games that count with eight days between the last preseason game against the Los Angeles Lakers — Tuesday’s 105-99 win —...
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Jared Bernstein: It’s going to take more than facts to win the tax debate
In an effort to sell their big, wasteful, regressive tax cut, Team Trump has shifted its nonsense machine into overdrive. It’s making up numbers and “analyses” and offering transparently phony...
View ArticleLetter: Stand up for our nurses
I’m proud of the nurse Brandon King has become. Like nurse Alex Wubbels of recent news stories, he puts his patients first. Most nurses and nursing assistants do.This means that the nurse is always...
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What we've learned (and haven’t) about the Jazz during the preseason
The regular season is upon us and the Jazz are about to embark on their annual 82 game journey through the NBA.Are they ready?The preseason was fun from an observation standpoint. The Jazz were...
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‘Pick a torch’ tweet by Democrat Allen ripped by Curtis campaign as charge of...
Democratic congressional candidate Kathie Allen posted a tweet Wednesday afternoon that urged her Republican opponent, Provo Mayor John Curtis, to “pick a torch” with a picture showing two options:...
View ArticleVisigoth trying to turn their fantasy-themed metal into reality on the road
Swords, sorcery, battles and epic journeys are at the helm of Salt Lake-based heavy metal band Visigoth’s music. The five-piece got its start seven years ago when lead singer/songwriter Jake Rogers and...
View ArticleUtah’s fertility rate is declining. Is that a problem?
As with much of the nation, Utah’s fertility rate has declined each year since the Great Recession in 2008. But experts disagree about whether this poses a problem for the state, which remains one of...
View ArticleDemocrat Kathie Allen plans districtwide tour in race to replace Chaffetz
Democrat and first-time candidate Kathie Allen will spend a day driving across Utah’s 3rd Congressional District next week as she runs for former Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s seat.“I’ve enjoyed getting to...
View ArticleLetter: Multiple-payer health care would be better
It appears that “universal health care” has become conflated with “single payer.” The Netherlands, France and Switzerland all have universal health care systems with multiple payers, as efficient as...
View ArticleLetter: The right supports tyranny
I can’t help but notice the blatant hypocrisy that is screaming from within the conservative right. Considering the recent action by our current administration and President Donald Trump in regards to...
View ArticleLetter: Our president may be the most dangerous man on the planet
All of us are living in fear of what our president will do or say next.Protect Medicaid preserve Medicare; not on his watch. Respect all Americans; that is a joke. This paper on Sept. 23 carried a...
View ArticleLetter: Anthem protesters likely haven’t experienced the high cost of freedom
To disrespect our flag and/or protest the playing of our national anthem is a right guaranteed to every American by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.This freedom is not free, it comes at an...
View ArticleUtah school board in ‘pause mode’ on making middle school heath, PE and art...
The Utah Board of Education will take another pass at a divisive policy making art, PE, health and career awareness classes optional for middle school students. After a series of false starts, the...
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Where’s Zinke? The Interior secretary’s special flag offers clues.
Washington • At the Interior Department's headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C., Secretary Ryan Zinke has revived an arcane military ritual that no one can remember ever happening in the federal...
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