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LETTER: Honoring American sacrifices for humanitarian efforts

In Northern Utah, we are all proud of America’s humanitarian airlift to West Berlin during 1948 1949. That operation was considered successful beyond all expectation. The reason that airflow was so successful was due to an operation conceived during World War II. From 1942 to 1945, the ...

LETTER: Federal troops and ICE shouldn’t be a part of elections

President Donald Trump has expressed a willingness to send federal troops and/or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to polling places this fall. I believe that is illegal, but when and who has stopped illegal actions of Trump before it was too late to reverse them. The ...

LETTER: Voting changes aren’t acceptable

Well, once again, our legislature has done it to the public. They passed SB 153 that removes our voters privacy protection. Not that we don’t have enough private info out there already, but now our legislature has given more out to the public. This is just a few of the items they are giving ...

BARONE: Who wins the re-redistricted House?

As President Donald Trump's job approval sinks to or below 40% (depending on which poll you're looking at), betting markets and political conventional wisdom are that his Republican Party is not necessarily doomed to lose its narrow House majority, nor is it at serious risk of losing its Senate ...

Guest opinion: Our minds embrace trivial language

The brain is weird. And it has a very big job to do. On the whole, my brain does a decent job at keeping me alive. But it’s not so great at prioritizing what activities would make that life worthwhile. That’s why someday, when I meet St. Peter at the pearly gates, and he asks me if I served ...

Guest opinion: Why do Utah leaders choose projects people don’t want?

Data centers, inland ports, a nuclear campus, and coal power: Why do Utah’s leaders keep choosing projects Utahns don’t want? The answer is simple: Utah’s political leaders and their wealthy donors handsomely profit from them. The Salt Lake Tribune’s Pat Bagley had it exactly right ...