Letter: This tax credit would be a first step for reducing intergenerational...
The recent commentary "Intergenerational poverty creates a permanent underclass" in Sunday’s Tribune is spot-on in its assessment of state earned income tax credit (EITC) being a data-backed effective...
View ArticleLetter: Continuing to serve America in Russia is the right thing to do
Congratulations to Ambassador Jon Huntsman for staying the course and remaining in his position. It is the right thing to do.I have had the pleasure to meet the ambassador, his father and two sons who...
View ArticleLetter: Now we know Huntsman is complicit, too
Ambassador Jon Huntsman’s feeble attempt to justify his continued support of the president’s treason (“Ambassador Huntsman to Gehrke: Why I’m Staying,” July 21, 2018) was weak, deflecting and...
View ArticleLetter: Other Utahns bear the burden for large families
There had to be a special session to reduce the taxes paid for large families because the government reduced these deductions? I always thought that having large families was a choice, and the costs...
View ArticleLetter: Haughty Huntsman doesn’t understand Gehrke’s role — or his own
Ambassador Jon Huntsman’s response to Robert Gehrke’s heartfelt and well-reasoned column was condescending and off point.Rather than address the actual facts in Gehrke’s article, Huntsman tried to...
View ArticlePolitical Cornflakes: Once again, what President Trump called ‘Fake News’...
Once again, what President Trump called ‘Fake News’ turns out to be true. Love, McAdams spar over position on abortion rights. South Salt Lake councilwoman questions sexism after female mayor denied a...
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Leonard Pitts: On the question of God, the condescension gets old
All she asked was that someone pray for her.As relayed on Twitter by the activist Brittany Packnett, the unnamed woman certainly had good reason to seek help, divine or otherwise. She was one of the...
View ArticleKirby: To shoot or not to shoot — standing your groundless ground
For the record, I have never intentionally shot another person. Not with a gun larger than .22-caliber.However, I’ve accidentally shot other people with lots bigger stuff — fireworks, pellet guns, dart...
View ArticleGravel pit won’t pop up near Capitol Reef National Park as Utah land...
A gravel pit proposed near Capitol Reef National Park won’t be mined under a deal reached Thursday between Teasdale residents opposed to industrial development in their historic town and Utah trust...
View ArticleAsk Ann Cannon: My neighbor cut down the ivy between our yards and now my dog...
Dear Ann Cannon • Recently my neighbor cut down a solid wall of ivy and vines that happened to be the dividing line between our properties. Because this “wall” extended about 2-3 feet onto my property,...
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E.J. Dionne: Trump just buries his old lies with new ones
Washington • “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”When the history of the Trump era is written, this quotation from our president will play a prominent role in...
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Monica Hesse: As Ivanka shuts down her fashion brand, it’s clear that the...
I once flew to Germany for 19 hours to watch Ivanka Trump sit on a panel with a bunch of female leaders and to be summoned by her later that evening for an off-the-record chat in her hotel lobby, where...
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Commentary: I’m a sheriff. Don’t flood this country with 3D-printed guns.
I am not fearful of firearms. I believe the Second Amendment was written with purpose and with sensitivity to generational circumstances. But what I am extremely concerned about is who has access to...
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Crews battle out-of-control blaze in Tooele County
Some evacuations have been lifted, but the Middle Canyon fire continues to burn out of control in Tooele County on Friday afternoon.Crews from the North Tooele Fire District arrived on the scene...
View ArticleHookworms burrowed into a teenager’s skin during a trip to Florida. You can’t...
Warning: This story contains graphic images and descriptions of how hookworms burrowed into a teenage boy’s skin.Kelli Mulhollen Dumas said she thought the small, red bumps on her son’s skin were bites...
View ArticleMissing boy seen near Enterprise; Beaver County calls off search
A 13-year-old boy who ran away from a wilderness program for wayward youth has been sighted in Washington County, prompting Beaver County officials to cancel their plans to search for him.Roberto...
View ArticleFox holders approve Disney merger and megadeal reaches next stage
21st Century Fox and Walt Disney shareholders approved the sale of Fox’s entertainment assets Friday, moving one of the biggest media mergers in history nearer to completion.The companies' investors...
View ArticleRoseanne Barr on racist tweet: ‘I wish I worded it better’
Los Angeles • In Roseanne Barr’s first TV interview since her ABC sitcom was canceled for a racist tweet, the comedian apologized for her “ill-worded” post and insisted she isn’t a bigot.During her...
View ArticleHundreds of migrant children remain in custody, though most separated...
Washington • At the expiration of a court deadline to reunite migrant families separated during its “zero tolerance” border crackdown, the Trump administration said Thursday that it has delivered 1,442...
View ArticleEPA seeks dismissal of Gold King Mine spill lawsuit
Albuquerque, N.M. • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking a federal court in New Mexico to toss out a lawsuit over a mine waste spill in Colorado that polluted rivers in three states.The...
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