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BARONE: Trump’s outrageous threats get practical results

Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway did Sunday, on the first weekend of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the international press ...

ERICKSON: The status quo versus the alternative

The last two weeks have been, like the preceding weeks, nuts. The president insisted the United States must own Greenland and he would not rule out military force, if necessary, to take the island. He imposed tariffs on the NATO allies who oppose his territorial lust. Then he walked it all back ...

LETTER: Trump’s actions show instability

We’re watching a sitting president whose mental fitness is so clearly compromised that America’s closest allies are preparing to treat the U.S. like a rogue state. They’re not preparing tariffs because of policy disagreements, they’re preparing them because they’ve concluded, quite ...

LETTER: My form of Trump Derangement Syndrome

The President and his allies are fond of saying anyone who criticizes him suffers from “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” His actions on tariffs, killing people on the high seas, backing himself into a corner on Greenland, unleashing ICE, groveling after a Nobel Peace Prize, and other actions, ...

LETTER: What should Utahns want?

Our representatives' mandate is to represent the wishes of its constituents. They don’t. 82% of Utahns want existing monuments kept intact; 57% oppose states getting control over national public lands, and 85% want professionals to make decisions concerning public lands. 76% want water, air, ...

LETTER: Gratitude for efforts of Roy mayor

As a life-long resident of Roy, I would like to take this opportunity to offer my sincere appreciation to out-going Mayor Robert “Bob” Dandoy. His dedication and many years of service in two terms as Mayor, former member of the City Council and Planning Commission and also in 2012 as the ...