‘This pay inequity simply cannot continue’: Salt Lake City police seek pay...
Police in Salt Lake City deal with more calls for services than other law enforcement agencies in the Wasatch Front, and officers are more likely than others to deal with hazardous situations or be...
View ArticlePope Francis makes historic choice, names moderate Gregory as first African...
Vatican City • Pope Francis on Thursday named Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory as the new archbishop of Washington, D.C., choosing a moderate, and the first African American, to lead the archdiocese...
View ArticleCohen asks lawmakers to help keep him out of prison
New York • Attorneys for Michael Cohen are asking members of Congress to help keep him out of prison.In a letter sent to lawmakers Thursday, Cohen’s legal team said he is still sorting through...
View ArticleThink you know Utah? Take our news quiz and find out.
Last week, 98% of you knew that Utah women will no longer need a prescription for birth control, but only 47% knew that 135,000 acres of public land in Utah were leased for oil and gas exploration....
View ArticleCould it be a match? BYU law school pairs up with dating website company for...
Brigham Young University’s law school and the dating website Match.com may seem like an unlikely pair.But the two organizations recently partnered up to take a new approach to the law school’s...
View ArticleKirby: LGBTQ revelation — coming out of the stupid closet
I was raised homophobic. Yup. A full-on gay basher by the time I was in third grade. I didn’t even know what homosexuality was, other than something to be reviled as the most horrible of things.My...
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: ‘Sabrina’ is back — and one of the episodes features (faux)...
If you thought the first 11 episodes of “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” were dark — and they definitely were — wait 'til you see episodes 12-20, which begin streaming on Netflix on Friday.Oh, and...
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Learning how Salt Lake City’s homeless find refuge and respect in the library...
On three mornings each week, some 40 or 50 people gather on clear days in the plaza of the Salt Lake City Library’s downtown branch for tai chi. Wednesday was not a clear day, so they improvised.Marita...
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Erik Wemple: Facebook’s concern about local news comes awfully late
Art Cullen is the editor of the Storm Lake Times, a 3,000-circulation newspaper in Iowa. In 2017, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing disguised as investigative reporting — an exposé on...
View ArticleLetter: DirecTV and KSL impasse has gone on long enough
C’mon DirecTV and KSL owners, you’ve been at impasse for too long now. It’s time to step up and think about your customers.If the issues were programming or program content, maybe we could overlook the...
View ArticleLetter: Will these babies Sen. Mike Lee talks about have special powers?
Well, Mr. Lee, you've done it again.What a performance you did on the floor of the Senate, trying your best to show how climate change is nothing more than a hoax, perpetrated on the good citizens of...
View ArticleLetter: Trump is ‘The Great Compromiser’
Folks, you can’t seriously make this stuff up.Recently, Kellyanne Conway, assistant to the president, said House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff is “completely” compromised. I guess she takes this...
View ArticleLetter: The military knows climate change is a threat
The military has warned us that climate change is dangerous on many fronts, including direct impacts on our military infrastructure and the destabilizing forces causing conflict and migration...
View ArticleYour cellphone bill will go up after Utah’s Legislature again increased 911 fees
Gov. Gary Herbert let a bill go into law without his signature Wednesday that imposes a 178% increase in a statewide 911 fee.The measure was one of just three Herbert didn’t sign — a signal of...
View ArticleLetter: A wall won’t stop human traffickers
Recently the American people have been bombarded with stories of human traffickers making their way into the United States, people who can only be stopped by a border wall.Yet, despite this and many...
View ArticleLetter: Maybe just one baseball box score a day?
My wife and I just got back from spring training baseball in Arizona. Along the way we stayed in several cities and towns, each smaller than Salt Lake City in population. I was amazed to see that the...
View ArticleCommentary: No good reasons for Utah’s rejection of Medicaid
“Why do Utah legislators not want to help people in need of health care?”A thanks to the U. of U. social work students whose op-ed in the March 31 Tribune asked the above question.For a primary care...
View ArticleLetter: Keep teens busy and away from screens
Teen suicide was very rare in my father’s time. Back then, everybody in a family who was able-bodied had to work just to survive. Suicide was almost unheard of, as was the word “bipolar.”Rather than...
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An Instagram account sharing anonymous stories has renewed conversation about...
Sidney Draughon got a call from Brigham Young University two days before Christmas.A man she dated had told the college, owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that their...
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National championships in Salt Lake City prove you’re never too old to figure...
A neon green headband with a fuchsia bow and matching hot pink gloves made figure skater Marci Richards easy to spot as she glided across the ice at the Salt Lake City Sports Complex.But Richards, a...
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