Prep volleyball: Lone Peak gets better of Pleasant Grove in first battle...
Highland • If it seems like five days into September is a tad early to start region volleyball matches, you just might be right.And technically a matchup between Nos. 1 and 2 in Class 6A won’t count in...
View ArticlePleasant Grove girls’ soccer continues hot streak, beats Lone Peak
Storylines<br>• Senior midfielder Bry Carson scores a goal and adds an assist in Pleasant Grove’s 3-2 win over Lone Peak.<br>• Pleasant Grove scores more goals on Lone Peak than any team...
View ArticleVenus Williams edges Kvitova for 1st US Open semifinal since 2010
New York • When her work was done, her first trip to the U.S. Open semifinals since 2010 secured, if just barely, Venus Williams sat in her sideline chair and beamed.Williams reached her third major...
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Writer seeks Mormonism's Heavenly Mother — through poetry
People write poetry about God all the time, but by “God” they usually mean “Father.” What about poetry that explores our relationship with God as Mother?For Mormons, this shouldn’t be a “first,” but it...
View ArticleCreeping dread permeates this version of Stephen King’s ‘It’
Offering more slowly simmering menace and dread than haunted-house scares, “It” finds its shocks in the terrors of childhood and its heart in the way the seven kids here band together to face them.This...
View ArticleNews roundup: Trump still wants Congress to repeal Obamacare this fall
Happy Wednesday. President Donald Trump is working with some senators to try one last-gasp effort to repeal Obamacare this fall even after Congress failed to do so several times earlier this year....
View ArticleLetter: Betraying every American ideal
The early 20th-century novelist (“Babbitt,” “Main Street” and “Arrowsmith”) and social observer Sinclair Lewis reportedly predicted, “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and...
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A trip to NYC, a chance to hold on tight to my little boy who still likes...
New York City • On a muggy but cloud-covered day in July, my son Jack and I boarded a ferry and joined the mass of tourists crowding the decks and aiming for an unobstructed view of the Statue of...
View Article‘They're teaching us to cook their way:’ A Utah food truck is serving...
Kountze, Texas • Hundreds of people in this small town ate a staple Texas meal Tuesday night: stuffed green peppers, served with some sweet tea.It didn’t come from a restaurant. Many businesses in this...
View ArticleThe Road Home is spending $4,400 per night to keep Utah families out of its...
The Road Home estimates that the cost to spare families the environment of its downtown Salt Lake City homeless shelter has risen to nearly $4,400 per night — or more than twice what the state has...
View ArticleUtah forecast: Midweek hot and smoky, but storms on the way
Smoky skies and hot temperatures ruled northern Utah at the midweek, but incoming thunderstorms and rain could help clear the air on Thursday and Friday.The National Weather Service predicted high...
View ArticleLetter: Time for us to leave the ‘Graveyard of Empires’
The “Graveyard of Empires.” What have you given up for Afghanistan? Having served in Vietnam, 1966-1968, I have always been against our actions in Afghanistan. I believe most who have served during war...
View ArticleWithout Gary Ott to speak for himself, judge delays decision on future of...
West Jordan • A decision about who will be the permanent legal guardian of enfeebled former Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott has been delayed a month, along with a ruling over whether the news media...
View ArticleLetter: Stewart off-base going after leaks
Rep. Chris Stewart (The Tribune, Aug. 20) quotes the adage “loose lips sink ships” to justify legislation addressing deliberate leaks of classified information. He’s treating the symptoms, which are...
View Article7 movie clowns who provoked laughs, tears, screams and a flinch or two
Clowns are supposed to be makers of mirth, messengers of merriment, producers of pratfalls, fabricators of frivolity.And, yet, as Stephen King’s “It” (the adaptation of which hits theaters this Friday)...
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Zac Posen, the comeback kid in fashion, featured in new documentary
Boy wonder, tyrant, genius: Zac Posen has been called that and more.The fashion designer, at 36, has experienced more ups and downs than his years might indicate and all are laid bare in a new...
View ArticleLetter: Today's authoritarians do it differently
President Trump is destroying the GOP by openly displaying that party’s willingness to promote plutocratic interests by authoritarian and demagogic means.The pardoning of “Sheriff Joe” signals Trump’s...
View ArticleLetter: Trump is exacerbating everything
The news media, not the fake news, are reporting that President Trump exacerbated tensions in his big speech in Phoenix. Me-versus-you exacerbation. Poor little Donald, the put-upon victim.Trump...
View ArticleLetter: Piling on against President Trump
Every Sunday for some time now I buy a Salt Lake Tribune just to read the Opinion section. Living in Tooele, it’s a way for me to get a feeling on how Salt Lake City people see things.I read a letter,...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Can Ty Detmer make the BYU offense productive? We’ll see shortly
Provo • Long before LSU tormented BYU’s offense, Penn State’s defense stymied a Cougars quarterback who completed only 8 of 26 passes in a September game that BYU lost by four touchdowns.Owning a...
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