Garrison Keillor: Beauty is truth and truth is factual
Truth begins with facts. Facts are solid, like bricks. You build a house out of facts, the wolf won’t blow it down. But you drop a fact on your foot, it hurts.I learned this as a boy, living near the...
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Pac-12 football: USC’s domination of Stanford gets people’s attention
Stanford would rather not have this distinction in Pac-12 football, but the Cardinal have become a predictor of the conference champion.Washington’s 44-6 defeat of Stanford last September stamped the...
View ArticlePilot survives after single-engine plane crashes, burns on Roy street
The pilot of a single-engine airplane survived a fiery crash on a street in Roy Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.Roy police Sgt. Matthew Gwynn said the pilot was transported to a hospital “out of...
View ArticleFEMA estimates 25 percent of Florida Keys homes are gone
Lower Matecumbe Key, Fla. • Search-and-rescue teams made their way into the Florida Keys’ farthest reaches Tuesday, while authorities rushed to repair the lone highway connecting the islands and...
View ArticleUtah lawyers offering free legal advice to DACA recipients
With the clock ticking, the Mexican Consulate in Salt Lake City is providing free legal services to Dreamers — people who came to the U.S. as children — seeking to renew their status by Oct. 5.The...
View ArticleEdith Windsor, who helped end gay marriage ban, dies at 88
New York • Edith Windsor, a widow who brought a Supreme Court case that that struck down parts of a federal law that banned same-sex marriage and led to federal recognition for gay spouses, died...
View ArticleSalt Lake City ready, willing and able to host 2026 Winter Olympic but...
For the past several years, Austin Schofield has run a small grassroots social media push he started as a BYU marketing student to promote the return of the Olympic Games to Salt Lake City.He may have...
View ArticleRoy man charged with murder in beating death of month-old baby
Enraged when a baby boy wouldn’t stop crying, a Roy man repeatedly, and fatally, punched the month-old infant in the head, police and prosecutors say.Matthew Daniel Graves, a 22-year-old ex-con, awaits...
View ArticleResults around MLS work in Real Salt Lake’s favor
Scoreboard-watching is a given at this point in the season, with five regular-season matches left for Real Salt Lake.RSL liked what it saw over the weekend.“All the results went our way over the...
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Stephen Colbert rolls out the red carpet for what could be a political Emmy...
If this whole TV thing doesn’t work out for Stephen Colbert, he has a bright future in carpet sales.The first-time Emmy Awards host helped roll out the show’s ceremonial red carpet Tuesday at L.A. Live...
View ArticleBYU football: Depth at safety has kept defense afloat
Provo • While BYU’s offense rightfully has been fingered as the reason the 1-2 Cougars are off to such a horrible start, its defense has been fairly solid, considering the competition.Utah quarterback...
View ArticleUtah Supreme Court considers challenge of surrogacy law from married gay male...
The Utah law that governs gestational surrogacy agreements should apply equally to all married couples, or be deemed unconstitutional because it bars gay men from having a biological child.That’s the...
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Utah football: Boobie Hobbs finally seizing a long-awaited opportunity
Boobie Hobbs stayed in his lane, backpedaling down the left seam inside LaVell Edwards Stadium, never unlocking his eyes from Tanner Mangum. As BYU’s starting quarterback let loose, Hobbs was precisely...
View ArticleBagley Cartoon: Sympathy for the DeVos
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at...
View ArticleChampions League kicks off with night of one-sided games
As the Champions League opened with a series of one-sided games, Jose Mourinho was blunt. For the Manchester United manager, it wasn’t the Champions League at all.“For the Real Madrids, Barcelonas and...
View ArticleLetter: Just call it what it is: The Republican base
White supremacist? Ku Klux Klan? Neo-Nazi? Let’s be kinder, nicer. Let’s just call them the Republican base.You guys have been wooing those people with encoded racism since the Reagan years. It has...
View ArticleAuditor says Mountain Accord expenses look OK but transparency questions sent...
The government entities that joined with private businesses to plan for the future of the Wasatch Mountains didn’t appear to improperly spend public money as they paid $7.5 million mostly to...
View ArticleMexico takes steps to ease return of young immigrants
Los Angeles • Mexico’s top diplomat on Tuesday said his country is taking steps to ease the return of young immigrants whose deportation protection is being rescinded by the Trump administration, but...
View ArticleLetter: Utah delegation must recognize the mistake we have made
Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, Reps. Rob Bishop, Mia Love and Chris Stewart: When, oh when, are you and your Republican colleagues going to acknowledge that a mistake has been made? We have elected a...
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Northwest Shoshone, Wellsville city leaders discuss ’options’ for the future...
Wellsville leaders and members of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation met for an amicable hour and a half Tuesday after rising tensions over the city’s “Founders’ Day” tradition in which white...
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