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Guest opinion: Is the Utah Legislature listening?

As a mom of grade school kids, I'm constantly nagging — "Brush your teeth! Get your shoes on, it's time to go! It's almost bedtime, finish your homework!" My kids may hear what I say, but chances are, they do not really listen or care the first time, or even the first 10 times. Often, it's ...

HARROP: So you want to be a plumber

The skilled trades have become hot of late. That has many young people dropping plans to attend college. Meanwhile, some desk-bound professionals are said to gaze longingly at nearby construction sites. They daydream about trading spreadsheets for tool belts. They imagine becoming plumbers, ...

BARONE: Supreme Court throws out Trump tariffs and upholds Constitution

So much for the notion that the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 majority of justices appointed by Republican presidents, was going to be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump. That is a frequently voiced charge by partisan Democrats, and a fear of many ambivalent voters who find many of Trump's policies ...

ERICKSON: The press versus America

Alysa Liu is an American figure skater whose family fled China and faced harassment and persecution by Chinese authorities. She won gold. You might have missed it. The American press corps chose, instead, to praise Eileen Gu, an American skier with family ties to the Chinese communist party. Gu ...

Guest opinion: How to make the Utah workforce AI ready

Around the country, colleges and universities have been making game plans for how to respond to the artificial intelligence boom. In Utah, these strategies were outlined by the Utah Board of Higher Education in the “Resolution on Strategic Direction for an AI-Driven Future,” released late ...