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COMER: One book that unquestionably deserves to be banned from schools

On Jan. 6, ABC4 reported new additions to Utah’s list of banned books, which resulted in a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union against the state of Utah. Said the ACLU in a press release, according to the article: “These laws undermine students’ fundamental freedoms by ...

BARONE: Big surprises in the 2030 census estimates

About a month late, presumably due to last fall's government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025. It provides an interesting picture of what the country is, and is becoming, halfway through the ...

HARROP: Exactly what business are we in with measles?

Measles is a "cost of doing business," says a highly placed official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I'd like to know what business that is. To be fair, let me finish the CDC principal deputy director's quote. Ralph Abraham said that measles is a cost of doing business ...

Guest opinion: Northern Utah’s new climate normal

Northern Utah has always been a land of contrasts: mountains and valleys, pioneers and tech bros, Cougars and Utes. But lately, the region has embraced a new identity: America’s premier climate-change laboratory, complete with a once great lake, vanishing snow, dust storms, forest fires, and ...