Real Monarchs open USL playoffs with No. 1 seed, favorite status
The Real Monarchs popped Champagne and tossed beer in the plastic-lined locker room. They passed around the silver shield with the large USL engraved in the center.“It was so exciting to see the guys...
View ArticleResurgent Derrick Favors full of fight in season opener vs. Nuggets
There were stretches where the Utah Jazz just were trying to survive in the season opener before the bench took off and crushed the Denver Nuggets.Derrick Favors was helping the starters stay afloat,...
View ArticleBagley Cartoon: Monument Removal
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at...
View ArticleCass Sunstein: Russia uses Marxist tactics, and so does Trump
Karl Marx and his followers argued that revolutionaries should disrupt capitalist societies by “heightening the contradictions.” Russia used a version of that Marxist idea in its efforts to disrupt the...
View ArticleBYU football notes: Days before second meeting, Cougars and ECU add two more...
Provo • East Carolina and BYU will play each other in football for just the second time ever on Saturday in Greenville, N.C.It won’t be the last.Two days before their 5 p.m. MDT matchup at...
View ArticleWhite nationalist Spencer drowned out by protesters
Gainesville, Fla. • Counter demonstrators greatly outnumbered white nationalist Richard Spencer’s supporters on Thursday at the University of Florida, their chants drowning Spencer out during his...
View Article‘Two years of straight hell’: Woman says system failed her after Utah jury...
A day after a jury acquitted the man she said sexually assaulted her, a 21-year-old woman said she feels like the criminal justice system failed her.There’s pressure put on victims of sexual crimes to...
View Article‘Behind the Headlines’: Advocates want to pause The Road Home’s closure,...
Religion leaders send a letter to Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski, urging her not to close the Road Home shelter before the new homeless resource centers are open. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah,...
View ArticleCommentary: The role of men in the #MeToo movement
Women have en masse been revealing via #MeToo posts on social media that they have been sexually assaulted. My heart breaks that this is normal. That it is unsurprising to see so many friends and...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: Make foolish anti-vax parents acknowledge the risk
Two million children a year. Maybe 3 million.That’s how many lives are saved world wide each year by the routine vaccination of children, according to estimates from the World Health Organization.In...
View ArticleCommentary: Boys and men are also victims of abuse
Regarding the Salt Lake Tribune editorials of Oct. 5, “Justice for victims: New law remove cruel time limit,” and Oct. 12, “More is better: Sexual assaults get needed attention,” the authors exclude...
View ArticleLos Angeles police open Weinstein sex assault investigation
Los Angeles • Los Angeles police say they are investigating a possible sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein — the first involving the producer in the city.Police spokesman Sal Ramirez says the...
View ArticleFederal officials target harassment in Arizona tribes
Phoenix • A scathing new report released this week by the U.S. Department of Interior casts a critical light on the Bureau of Indian Affairs response to sexual harassment complaints by Colorado River...
View ArticleEugene Robinson: Trump's the one who didn't know 'what he was signing up for'
Washington - One person who obviously didn’t know “what he was signing up for” is President Trump. Others include Trump voters who believed they were electing a decent human being to be commander in...
View Article2026 or 2030? Utah Olympic committee doesn’t know which billion-dollar Games...
Fraser Bullock, once again, dusted off his 2002 jacket.Which should come as no surprise.He wore it at the 10th anniversary celebration of the 2002 Olympic Games. And in December 2012, when Utah...
View ArticleMax Boot: Republicans have Stockholm Syndrome and it’s getting worse
The lobotomization of the Republican Party appeared complete last year when the same GOP paladins who had denounced Donald Trump as a “lunatic trying to get ahold of nuclear weapons” (Marco Rubio), as...
View ArticleSenate approves budget in crucial step forward for Republican tax cuts
Washington • The Senate approved the Republican-backed budget Thursday night, a major step forward for the GOP effort to enact tax cuts.The budget's passage will allow the GOP to use a procedural...
View ArticleManti snaps woes vs. Judge Memorial to advance in playoffs
Manti and veteran coach Cole Meacham might have been excused for groaning when the Templars drew Judge Memorial in the first round of the Class 3A football tournament.The Sanpete County team had lost...
View ArticleHernandez hits 3 HRs, Dodgers top Cubs to reach World Series
Chicago • Enrique Hernandez put a Hollywood ending on an L.A. story three decades in the making.Fueled by Hernandez’s home run trilogy, Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers are finally going to...
View ArticleUtah National Guard brings in Black Hawk helicopter to rescue hiker who fell...
As a snowy chute on the side of Kings Peak came into view through Sgt. 1st Class Zach Kesler’s night vision goggles, he thought, “Wow, I’m about to be on that hill with those guys.”“What am I about to...
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