Tribune Editorial: Don't let Obamacare fall apart
Mike Leavitt is nobody’s idea of a radical.So when the former Utah governor says that a deliberate decision to allow the Affordable Care Act to collapse would result in a crisis affecting millions of...
View ArticleThe board overseeing public services for thousands in Salt Lake County...
A board overseeing roads and public works for about 90,000 residents living outside cities in Salt Lake County tentatively opted for service cuts — rather than tax hikes — for its 2018 budget at a...
View ArticleNews roundup: Americans describe Trump as ’incompetent,’ ’strong,’ ’idiot’...
Americans describe Trump as ’incompetent,’ ’strong,’ ’idiot’ and ’liar’ in new survey. Rep. Chris Stewart says he’ll run for Orrin Hatch’s seat if the senator doesn’t run for re-election. Family of...
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Commentary: Zinke leaves San Juan County in economic limbo
Petzl makes climbing equipment that is used around the world to reach the most inaccessible places, both by professionals and by those who enjoy the great outdoors. One of the most famous climbing...
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Muslim woman from Utah represents her religion on ‘Project Runway’
One of the contestants on the new season of “Project Runway” is a Salt Lake City resident who has, to her surprise, found herself representing her religion on the reality/competition show.To a lot of...
View ArticleWhere's the winner? Lottery's Powerball error adds intrigue
Chicopee, Mass. — A mistake by the Massachusetts State Lottery on Thursday injected a little extra drama into the massive $758.7 million Powerball drawing — the largest won by a single ticket in U.S....
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Harvey regains tropical storm strength in Gulf of Mexico
Corpus Christi, Texas — Long lines extended from grocery stores along the Texas Gulf Coast early Thursday as residents braced for a slow-moving tropical storm that forecasters say could drop as much as...
View ArticleNavy ends search for USS McCain missing; confirms 1 death
Singapore — The U.S. Navy on Thursday called off the search at sea for sailors missing after a collision between a destroyer and an oil tanker, and confirmed the identity of one body.The 7th Fleet said...
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Lady Antebellum looking good, sounding good, feeling good ahead of show at Usana
There’s a simple reason Lady Antebellum’s latest album, “Heart Break,” sounds so energetic and happy, vocalist Hillary Scott told The Tribune ahead of Wednesday’s stop at Usana Amphitheatre in West...
View ArticleThe Cricket: An adulation junkie in the White House
For most people, addiction happens in private — with only a few close loved ones knowing the truth about someone’s problems with alcohol, or drugs, or gambling, or whatever it is that has taken over...
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Prep football: East’s Jaylon Vickers out to make noise vs. former team, Bingham
Jaylon Vickers kept to himself when he first arrived at his new school, preferring the Meek Mill tracks in the headphones he always seemed to be wearing to conversation with his new teammates.But the...
View ArticleBears Ears, Grand-Staircase won't be eliminated, Zinke says, but they may be...
After a four-month review, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending reductions to “a handful” of national monuments, including possibly Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante — but no...
View ArticleIn 'To Siri With Love,' the tale of a mother, a son with autism and a phone
Judith Newman’s twins, Gus and Henry, were born prematurely, after a difficult pregnancy. In the hospital, shortly after giving birth, Newman was visited by a friend, the editor of a parenting...
View ArticleMonson: Hey, Kalani Sitake, Matt Wells, Kyle Whittingham and every other...
Message to Kalani Sitake: Let Francis Bernard go.Message to Matt Wells: Let Joe Tukuafu go.Message to any college coach whose soul should be rotting because he’s punishing an athlete on account of the...
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Flavorful fun is boiling up in West Valley City at Tonkotsu Shabu Shabu Bar
West Valley City • Although shabu shabu is a popular Japanese cooking style popping up in many parts of the United States, it’s one that many Utahns might not be familiar with — but Tonkotsu Shabu...
View ArticleLetter: Standing up to hatred prevents history from repeating itself
Officials have been telling protesters to stay home and let the alt-right exercise their First Amendment rights. Maybe if decent people would have protested the likes of Adolf Hitler as he was coming...
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Utah’s top gas station eats: Places where you can fuel your belly and your tank
Images of greasy hot dogs, questionable pressed-meat sandwiches and microwaved burritos come to mind when someone mentions gas station food.But, on occasion, the road-food stars align and you discover...
View ArticleLetter: Patrolling the homeless
It’s about time, Salt Lake City. If the police would have started to patrol the homeless district 20 or even 30 years ago the drug problem and the homeless problem would have moved on. Why does it take...
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Former Utah man might have killed three women after his infidelity was...
Did former Utahn Gerald Michael Bullinger kill his wife, as well as his girlfriend and her teenage daughter at an Idaho farmhouse this summer because the women discovered he was cheating on them?That’s...
View ArticleLetter: Stop filling valuable commentary space with ‘inane drivel’
Holy Holly Richardson: Please, please, please, Tribune, enough already. Stop filling valuable commentary space with this airy inane drivel.Once again I read the column hoping to find some pearl of...
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