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Commentary: Encouraging the American dream with tax reform
Thirty years ago, I was fortunate enough to fulfill my dream of coming to the United States and, after settling here in Utah, another dream took root – to start my own business.I began by selling...
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Commentary: Let’s not be afraid to talk about climate change
The horrifying images we have viewed on our screens over the past several weeks illuminate the unprecedented series of extreme weather that has cost lives, hundreds of billions of dollars in...
View ArticleDefending champion Warriors lose preseason opener to Nuggets
Oakland, Calif. • Kevin Durant drove through the paint for a quick one-handed slam. Stephen Curry dazzled with his dribbling and pulled up for quick 3-pointers that weren’t quite as accurate as...
View ArticleState colleges: Balanced BYU tops San Diego in volleyball
San Diego • The BYU women’s volleyball team, ranked ninth in the nation, used balanced play to secure a four-set win (25-23, 23-25, 25-20, 25-18) over conference rival No. 17 San Diego on Saturday at...
View ArticleI have a new job in my Mormon ward — it’s the perfect place to bank a little...
My meeting with the Rose Summit Ward bishopric two weeks ago went well, I thought. Being new to this Mormon congregation, I wasn’t sure how I would fare.Would the three members of the bishopric be...
View ArticleSo many Halloween stories for children to choose from this fall. Here are...
There weren’t a lot of Halloween books for kids when I was growing up.Or if there were, I never found them. Instead, my friends and I relied on telling each other scary stories at slumber parties about...
View ArticlePlan to allow a few more 'mother-in-law' apartments sparks outsized...
Leave it to the in-laws to stir things up.A proposed citywide allowance of mother-in-law apartments — or accessory dwelling units, in planner-speak — has sparked what passes for heated debate as it...
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Leonard Pitts: 'Battle of the Sexes' reminds us that we were such idiots then
We were such idiots then.That realization is, if you are a guy, an unavoidable hazard of seeing the new movie, “Battle of the Sexes.” The film, in which Emma Stone and Steve Carell recreate the 1973...
View ArticleLetter: Our Pledge, considered
Francis Bellamy, a socialist Baptist minister, wrote the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892. At the time, Bellamy was hired to work at the Youth’s Companion magazine for the purpose of writing a pledge to...
View ArticleLetter: Trump and Zinke don't value protection of monuments
The Trump/Zinke team is quite a pair to be making decisions about reducing the size of national monuments. Trump’s background is business, TV celebrity and playing golf. He does not appear to be...
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Why is Utah Opera going back to ‘Bohème’?
Kathleen Clawson admits there are some operas she wouldn’t go out of her way to see again, but “La bohème” certainly isn’t one of them.“It’s the first opera I had a record of when I was in seventh...
View ArticleUtes face big test with Bryce Love and Stanford coming to town
Sure, the Utes took advantage of the bye to rest weary bodies and tend to injuries, but the past week also served as part one of Stanford preparation.Utah (4-0, 1-0) went into this past week needing to...
View ArticleO.J. Simpson out of prison after 9 years for armed robbery
Las Vegas • Former football legend O.J. Simpson became a free man Sunday after serving nine years for a botched hotel room heist that brought the conviction and prison time he avoided after his 1995...
View ArticleLetter: There is no right to discriminate
The current discussion of whether bakers can refuse to make cakes for gay couples because their religious beliefs regard homosexuality as a sin reminds me of the 1960s civil rights debates.In those...
View ArticleLetter: Fire the cop. Promote the nurse.
Paul L. Hart implores Alex Wubbels to sue for every cent. Don’t settle in their favor, teach them a lesson! Good advice.Hart would like her to hold them accountable and publicly admit they were...
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Apostle urges Mormons to stand against racism, sexism and nationalism while...
After describing the heroic life of black Mormon pioneer Jane Manning James, LDS apostle M. Russell Ballard told a worldwide audience of Mormons on Sunday that bigotry in any form is un-Christian.“We...
View ArticleLetter: Arpaio is not commendable
Regarding the letter, “Grateful for the pardon,” (Sept. 9), I would like to respond.Cynthia Hafen, we are a nation of laws. If I disagree with a law, it doesn’t relieve my responsibility to follow that...
View ArticleUtah football: Utes rise one spot to No. 18 in latest Coaches Poll, stay at...
On the team’s bye week, undefeated Utah rose one spot in the Amway Coaches Poll to No. 18 and remained at No. 20 in the AP Top 25.The top four of both polls remained the same from last week with...
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How one woman sued her childhood sexual abuser years later — and won — thanks...
When Ginger Utley was 22, she wasn’t ready to sue the man who had sexually abused her for years when she was a teenager. So she missed the deadline set by Utah law, which had required her to file her...
View ArticleTerminally ill Utah teen creates custom collections to help him forget the...
Syracuse • Not only can Alec Unsicker face his own mortality with a smile, but he’s working to help others do the same.At 19, the Syracuse resident is facing a terminal cancer prognosis by delivering...
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