Task force says UTA needs to be reformed, but it can't agree how to do it
A state task force says the scandal-tainted Utah Transit Authority needs reform, but it isn’t yet sure exactly what shape that should take.“There is a desire to do something. But we haven’t quite hit...
View ArticleWham! Car hits wall of Salt Lake City comic book store, forcing relocation to...
Employees at a Salt Lake City comic book store scrambled Monday to move stock into new digs after a car smashed like Hulk’s fist into the business’s back wall Sunday afternoon.“It was a huge, huge...
View ArticleUtah school district says it’s taken ‘appropriate action’ against all...
A one-week investigation into a video of Weber High School students chanting vulgarities and racial slurs ended Monday, with school officials taking “appropriate action,” according to Weber School...
View ArticleOtt saga grows political as Republicans urge Gill to resign and Dems point at...
The death of former Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott has careened into a political firestorm as Republicans call on Democratic District Attorney Sim Gill to resign for failing to protect Ott, and...
View ArticleIncredible athleticism helps makes American Fork's Tayler Tausinga a setting...
American Fork • Tayler Tausinga will be well-known on BYU’s campus in a few years if everything goes according to plan.But she wouldn’t mind herself and her American Fork volleyball teammates gaining a...
View ArticlePat Bagley Cartoon: The Lying Press
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.What Women Want (Just a Wild Guess)Monument...
View ArticleLetter: Kneeling is free speech
The Constitution guarantees us many rights, not the least of which is free speech. Kneeling during the playing of the national anthem is speech. It is expressing opposition to a perceived wrong and it...
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Eugene Robinson: Congress needs to reclaim its war-making powers
Washington • The Trump administration, its foreign policy largely shaped by military men, urgently needs to tell Congress and the American people what we’re doing in Niger — and where else we’re doing...
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Alyssa Rosenberg: Here’s how Trump could’ve apologized to Gold Star families...
America crossed another disgraceful Rubicon on Monday, when President Donald Trump decided to attack Myeshia Johnson, a Gold Star widow who confirmed that what was intended as a condolence call from...
View ArticleLetter: Sorry, Commissioner Lyman, but public lands belong to all
San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman’s recent op-ed (“Awaiting the fate of Bears Ears,” Sept. 19) demands a response.There is a perception in rural Utah that the land you live near belongs to you....
View ArticleLetter: Tribune’s online posting delays undermine The Public Forum
In recent years, The Salt Lake Tribune, like all other respected newspapers, has given its readers several options for reading the paper: the traditional hard copy, an online facsimile, or an online...
View ArticleWentz tosses 4 TDs, Eagles beat Washington 34-24
Philadelphia • Carson Wentz tossed four touchdown passes, and the Philadelphia Eagles overcame losing nine-time Pro Bowl left tackle Jason Peters in a 34-24 win over Washington on Monday night.Wentz...
View ArticleDodgers’ Clayton Kershaw set for World Series debut
Los Angeles • In the Twilight Zone of October, the clock turns back at Dodger Stadium.To the mound, to the moments that defined World Series champions. Orel Hershiser, steely and standing tall....
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Monson: BYU and Utah still have something important to play for
It used to be that saying a team tried real hard was a pathetic admission of its sad-and-sorry status, a kind of good-job-good-effort patronization.I’m not so sure anymore.In a local college football...
View ArticleSWAT: Multi-agency car chase, spikes and standoff end with fugitive's arrest
A fugitive wanted on multiple felony warrants led police on a high-speed chase before officers spiked his vehicle’s tires, bringing on a prolonged early Tuesday morning standoff with SWAT in northwest...
View ArticleMajority of Utahns favor trimming Bears Ears, but most oppose breaking up...
While a slight majority of Utahns believes the new 1.3-million-acre Bears Ears National Monument is too big, they oppose by a 2-to-1 margin breaking the bigger and more-established Grand...
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Commentary: Sad case of Gary Ott shows that we should be more caring about...
In reading The Salt Lake Tribune recently and reflecting on the fiasco of the Salt Lake County recorder, I am reminded of a bigger and more global concern.There was speculation for a good deal of time...
View ArticleHave thoughts on Alta's proposed tram and expansion plans? You have until...
Should Alta Ski Area be allowed to build a tram to Mount Baldy so its patrollers can do avalanche-control work without using outdated equipment, including a military howitzer?The public has until Nov....
View ArticleSalt Lake City has $22M to spend on affordable housing. A North Temple motel...
Salt Lake City has less than two years before its homeless shelter system will be reduced by 400 beds, and city officials have vowed to create 1,000 units of deeply affordable housing to meet the...
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Is the Antiquities Act broken? Utah congressman thinks so
Utah’s Rep. Rob Bishop joked with reporters last year that he hoped President Barack Obama would designate Bears Ears National Monument so he could use such an act of presidential “overreach” to rein...
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