What to watch for: Utah at USC
Time, Place and [Radio Waves in] Space • The Utes’ second Pac-12 road game of the season will take place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum at 6 p.m. MDT Saturday. You can watch on ABC or listen on...
View ArticleUtah wildlife officials want to put mountain goats where they haven’t been...
An experiment is underway in the La Sal Mountains, where a species of wild mountain goat is making a new home along the eastern Utah range’s rock-studded ridge lines and talus slopes falling away from...
View ArticleAt White Horse, PB&J stands for pork belly and jam
Take every memory invoked by the letters PB&J and throw them out the window. Then sit down at White Horse for this $10 adult version, where the letters stand for pork belly and jam.Thick slices of...
View ArticleFor one of the hottest symphony tickets of the season, head to the bar
Patricia Kopatchinskaja will do some moonlighting in Salt Lake City, in more ways than one.Two nights before playing the Schoenberg Violin Concerto with the Utah Symphony at Abravanel Hall,...
View ArticleSouth Salt Lake Council starts to take a harder look at where the city’s...
South Salt Lake • The City Council has begun digging into crime data as the Nov. 7 election approaches.Councilman Mark Kindred, who is challenging incumbent Mayor Cherie Wood, led a discussion...
View ArticleLetter: Hatch is behind big give-away to Big Pharma
Howard Stephenson, R-Draper, made a nice case for reducing medical costs by making generic medicines more accessible (The Tribune, Sept. 22).Generics increase competition while monopolies decrease...
View ArticleLetter: One unstable dictator vs. another
No one doubts the danger posed by North Korea and its unpredictable and unstable dictator. However, that same description could apply to our president as well.One would wonder what action would provoke...
View ArticleLetter: 'Magic' mushrooms the root of religious visions?
Thanks, Robert Kirby, for considering caffeine in the genesis of the Book of Mormon. It makes sense.And there may be other biochemical inputs to the Book of Mormon — or to Joseph Smith’s “visions”:...
View ArticleLetter: Limits on 'free speech' at the U.
Last year, I commented on the University of Utah’s Facebook page, pointing out that it was misleading people when it claimed its animal research programs were in compliance with federal law. The U. had...
View ArticleFriday the 13th: Flight 666 makes it safely to HEL
Copenhagen, Denmark • The Helsinki airport says Flight 666 has arrived safety in HEL — the airport code for the Finnish capital — for the last time.The Finnair flight took off from Copenhagen, Denmark,...
View ArticleLittle goes right for 1-6 BYU in humbling 35-10 loss at Mississippi State
Starkville, Miss. • That broken record coach Kalani Sitake keeps talking about, the one that repeats itself and has come to symbolize the 2017 BYU football season, played out on the field again deep in...
View ArticleLetter: Religion not required for patriots
Being a believer in a god is not a prerequisite for being an American soldier or an American hero. No matter race, gender or religion or lack thereof can determine whether or not an individual is unfit...
View ArticleLetter: Donald Trump and the Peter Principle
What is the Peter Principle? It’s a theory formulated by educator Laurence J. Peter from Canada, and published in 1969.It states that a person will rise to “their level of incompetence.” Every time I...
View ArticlePrep volleyball rankings for Oct. 15
Records based on best 3-of-5 matchesClass 6A1. Lone Peak (13-1) • Knights reclaim top spot with sweep at American Fork and narrow home win over Pleasant Grove.2. Pleasant Grove (8-2) • First a 3-2 win...
View ArticleUtah governor urges appeal of records panel’s order on releasing secret legal...
Gov. Gary Herbert’s office wants to appeal a unanimous decision by the Utah State Records Committee that the Utah Attorney General’s Office should make public a written legal opinion it prepared for...
View ArticleSearch continues for missing Brigham City man with dementia
Brigham City police continue to search for an 89-year-old man with dementia who has been missing since Wednesday evening.Floyd Kling found the keys to his red pickup truck at 6 p.m. Wednesday and...
View ArticleLetter: Some dates that will live in infamy
Dates that will live in infamy: Dec. 7, 1941, Sept. 11, 2001 and Jan. 20, 2017, the Trump presidential inauguration.Loni F. De LandSalt Lake City
View ArticleDraper man enters not guilty pleas in hate crime case
Court records show 58-year-old Mark O. Porter entered the plea Wednesday to a federal housing violation charge and was taken into custody ahead of a detention hearing.Prosecutors say he yelled a racial...
View ArticleHistorian digs into the hidden world of Mormon finances, shows how church...
Some Mormons — and plenty of others — were appalled to witness their church build a $1.5 billion mall in downtown Salt Lake City and hear their prophet proclaim, “Let’s go shopping.”Isn’t religion,...
View Article'We've got to go!' A California couple awoke to flames crackling. They...
Daniel Pomplun jolted awake. It was 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, and he heard the crackling of flames. He noticed the power was out, and he rose from bed and went to the window.They had been fast asleep, and...
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