After a slow start, Depeche Mode unleash their ‘Spirit’ in North American...
West Valley City • I was not a Goth kid back in my youth, preferring the hair-metal of Def Leppard to the moody alt-synth of Depeche Mode.Fortunately, the latter band and my ever-expanding musical...
View ArticleJohnnie Moore: Why I won’t bail on the Trump White House
One Sunday night this summer, a particular White House staffer popped in my mind. The week before had been a bit tumultuous and I knew the hours this person was putting in were intense.The staffer had...
View ArticleLetter: A simple solution to the Rio Grande business crisis
The Rio Grande neighborhood, aka business owners, behoove all of us to help them by standing up to the drug dealers and gangs by doing business with them.The decision to do business in the Rio Grande...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake players to scatter after Saturday for international duty
Albert Rusnák yet again will join the Slovakia national team for the World Cup qualifiers next week, RSL coach Mike Petke revealed in his postgame comments Wednesday.“Albert sees things [on the field],...
View ArticleBYU women’s volleyball hope to learn from last year
Provo • It was one of the most gut-wrenching ways imaginable to see a season end.BYU’s women’s volleyball team battled back from a 2-0 deficit at No. 4 Texas in an NCAA Sweet 16 meeting and was a point...
View ArticleLetter: Racism in the LDS Church ‘alive and well’
About 40 years ago, the Mormon clergy “abandoned” its sinful racist doctrine. And recently it vehemently reiterated a very firm stance against its sin of yesteryear.However, despite these official...
View ArticleLetter: Republicans have lost the claim to moral authority
I remember when Bill Clinton was president the Republicans talked about the importance of character in the Oval Office. With their party’s nomination and subsequent election of Donald Trump, knowing...
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Dana Milbank: All things Confederate-ish must go
Washington • If something is worth doing in America, it’s worth overdoing.ESPN proved this eternal truth anew this week when it announced that, in response to the violence in Charlottesville, it was...
View ArticleLetter: President Trump is a living history lesson
I became interested in Hitler and his regime when I was in high school, 50-plus years ago. It was unbelievable that this man could come to power and create an industry of death for those that he...
View ArticleHearing delayed on whether to revive charter for teen moms
The future of Kairos Academy, a West Valley charter school for young mothers and pregnant teens, will come down to two meetings in the first week of September. After being forced to shut down by the...
View ArticleWest Jordan Republicans are looking to fill the House seat opened in county...
About 100 delegates for the Salt Lake County Republican Party will meet next month to pick a replacement for Rep. Adam Gardiner, who left his position representing his West Jordan district to take over...
View ArticleUDOT wants to convert Highway 89 into a freeway in Davis County
The Utah Department of Transportation is proposing to convert U.S. 89 into a full freeway in Davis County to connect Interstates 15 and 84.That preferred alternative in a new draft environmental study...
View ArticleAaron Butler, killed in Afghanistan, gets a hero’s welcome in his small Utah...
Monticello • It seemed nearly every resident of this small southern Utah city was standing on Main Street early Thursday afternoon.They came to welcome home Staff Sgt. Aaron Butler, the Utah National...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake signs Monarchs captain Nick Besler
Real Salt Lake has signed Monarchs captain Nick Besler, the team announced Thursday.“I’m very excited,” Besler said in a team release. “It was a goal when I signed with the Monarchs to make it to the...
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Judge won’t give Lyle Jeffs a separate trial on fleeing count
A federal judge on Thursday denied a motion by former polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs for a separate trial on the charge of failing to appear in court. U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart ruled that the...
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George F. Will: Laws that subvert the rule of law
Washington • When John Adams wrote into Massachusetts’ Constitution a commitment to a “government of laws and not of men,” he probably assumed that the rule of law meant the rule of laws, no matter how...
View ArticleUtah couple sue newspaper and Weber County for $40M, say posting son’s mug...
A Utah couple have filed a defamation suit seeking millions of dollars from the Standard-Examiner and Weber County, asserting the newspaper published their 16-year-old son’s mug shot from a juvenile...
View ArticleI-80 closure this weekend to cause heavy delays
Major delays are expected this weekend as eastbound Interstate 80 will close near the mouth of Parleys Canyon for construction.The Utah Department of Transportation says the closure is expected from 9...
View ArticleHostage situation ends in Charleston after gunman shot
Charleston, S.C. — A fired dishwasher shot and killed a chef and held a “small number” of people hostage for about three hours before he was shot by police at a crowded restaurant in a tourist-heavy...
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Noah Feldman: Arpaio pardon would show contempt for Constitution
If President Donald Trump pardons Joe Arpaio, as he broadly hinted at during a rally Tuesday in Arizona, it would not be an ordinary exercise of the power -- it would be an impeachable offense. Arpaio,...
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