Jennifer Rubin: Sober, reasonable conservatives should oppose unpaid-for tax...
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin let on Thursday that the administration’s tax plan, which President Donald Trump was out selling, will arrive in the “next few weeks.” Hmm. The budget expires in a...
View ArticleTrump’s travel ban scares Utah Muslims from participating in a pillar of...
President Donald Trump says he’s all for religious freedom. He counsels with pastors about it in private. He stumps for it in public. He even signed an executive order to bolster it in a full-blown...
View ArticlePrep football: Pick 6 — Six games to watch in Week 3
Weber at Clearfield, 7 p.m.The Falcons are trying to get to 3-0 for the first time since 2003 when the team won its first eight games. Senior QB Jaxon Mansfield has thrown for 406 yards and four TDs...
View ArticleUtah Jazz, Rodney Hood discuss contract extension, sources say
The Utah Jazz and starting shooting guard Rodney Hood have opened contract extension negotiations, the Salt Lake Tribune has learned.The two sides have had preliminary conversations as the Jazz hope...
View ArticleMichelle Obama set to talk at upcoming Utah tech conference
Former first lady Michelle Obama is slated to speak in Salt Lake City this month.For those interested in attending, get ready to shell out some cash. A ticket to the Sept. 21 event costs $199.Obama...
View ArticleAsk Ann Cannon: How can I stop my recently divorced friend from getting...
Dear Ann Cannon • A close childhood friend recently went through a divorce from an abusive husband, to whom she was married for several years. They married young, so now she’s basically entering the...
View ArticleUtah forecast: Summer's bags are packed, but it just doesn't want to go
To say Utah’s summer is over is a matter of definition. Friday did mark the beginning of “meteorological fall,” but the oblivious sun will still bake the state through this weekend.Along the Wasatch...
View ArticleNews roundup: Treasury secretary suggests Harriet Tubman’s future on $20 bill...
Treasury secretary suggests Harriet Tubman’s future on $20 bill is uncertain. Utah leaders agree to close section of Rio Grande Street. Utahns unite in rally supporting DACA. Happy Friday. Treasury...
View ArticleExchanges in Koerber’s ‘Ponzi’ trial grow testy during investor’s testimony
Defense attorney Marcus Mumford and a trial judge grew testy Thursday during testimony from a man who said he and his brother lost $450,000 invested in businesses run by former Utah County real estate...
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George Pyle: New Orleans resident politely requests the Utah Jazz return its...
A letter from a friend of The Tribune, who prefers to be known only as Chris G from the French Quarter, notes that a lot of Utahns may be visiting the New Orleans Superdome Saturday for the hastily...
View ArticleCatherine Rampell: Republicans have only one idea. And Trump's pitch for it...
Washington • Republicans have one idea and one idea only: That we should cut taxes for the rich. The only thing that changes is the sales pitch.And the latest pitch, offered by President Trump on...
View ArticleBYU student Nadia Khristean using her (singing) voice to make a difference
One Christmastime just after the start of the new millennium, a young Nadia Khristean was sitting on the kitchen counter of her South Jordan home having her father try to explain the war in Iraq to...
View Article‘Who doesn’t want to hit a politician?’: Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes is...
Holladay • For Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes there are some strong similarities between politics and what he calls the sweet science of his beloved sport of boxing.Both require tenacity, discipline...
View ArticleRemember the day you said ‘I do’? Well, your wife does, So don’t forget that...
Robert Kirby is off doing … something (legal, we hope). This is a reprint of an earlier column:It’s time for another important interpersonal relationship test for men. Question: If you are married,...
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Foster the People approached new album as though ‘no one’s ever heard our...
Foster the People’s laid-back indie-pop tune “Pumped Up Kicks” became a viral sensation in 2010, which subsequently meant that, as multi-instrumentalist Isom Innis put it, “things kinda blew the...
View ArticleU.S. job growth slows to 156K, unemployment up to 4.4 percent
Washington • U.S. job growth slowed in August as employers added 156,000 jobs, though still enough to suggest that most businesses remain confident in an economy now in its ninth year of recovery from...
View ArticleOff-duty police officer finds body on Riverton trail
An off-duty Murray police officer found a body on a trail in Riverton on Friday morning. Investigators don’t believe the 60-year-old male’s death is suspicious, said Unified Police Detective Ken...
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‘Unmuzzled’ with ‘an open throttle full of heart!’ — Brenda Wong Aoki making...
Brenda Wong Aoki doesn’t just tell a tale. She lives it. Onstage. Out loud.Just watch her narrate the traditional Japanese story “Mermaid Meat,” for example. At first she is the fisherman, heaving and...
View ArticleCedar Breaks celebrates new trail as part of 84th anniversary
Cedar Breaks National Monument recently celebrated its 84th anniversary by dedicating a new paved all-access trail.Franklin Roosevelt used the Antiquities Act to designate the Cedar City-area park as a...
View ArticleJohn McCain: A charge to my fellow members of Congress
Americans recoiled from the repugnant spectacle of white supremacists marching in Charlottesville to promote their un-American “blood and soil” ideology. There is nothing in their hate-driven racism...
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