Dalai Lama’s sister, ‘Mother of Tibet,’ coming to Utah
The sister of the Dalai Lama will be the keynote speaker Friday at a ceremony marking the completion of the Utah Tibetan Community Center.Ama Jetsun Pema, 77, revered by the Dalai Lama’s followers as...
View ArticleHatch pushes back at report his legislation hurt DEA's crackdown on opioids
Washington • Sen. Orrin Hatch strongly denied Monday that legislation he pushed into law had exacerbated the opioid crisis by taking away a key tool from the Drug Enforcement Administration to halt...
View ArticleUtah’s Troy Williams preparing to start Saturday, but Tyler Huntley expects...
If Utah senior quarterback Troy Williams made his last start in Saturday’s loss to USC, he went down with touchdowns passing, rushing and receiving about a half hour up the road from his hometown of...
View ArticleLetter: Trump should turn local elections to Democrats
I have run for office three times in the last 12 years, and probably the most common reaction from my fellow Utahns was some version of the following: “You seem like a nice guy, and I like your ideas,...
View ArticleFeds to drop 11 felonies filed in Utah developer Diehl’s bankruptcy case
Federal prosecutors plan to ask a grand jury to drop 11 of the 14 felony charges brought against developer and former Utah Transit Authority board member Terry Diehl, new court papers say.Diehl’s...
View ArticleCharges dropped in Utah eyedrops poisoning case
Prosecutors have dropped a misdemeanor charge against a Utah woman accused of using eyedrops to secretly poison her husband.Court records show Davis County prosecutors explained the dismissal by saying...
View ArticleLetter: Should I sit, kneel or stand?
As basketball season at Weber State approaches, I wonder what I’ll do when the national anthem is played: stand, sit or kneel. I consider myself a patriot – served in the Army as a flight surgeon,...
View ArticleTom Mathews, former Tribune staffer who helped start Peace Corps, Common...
Tom Mathews, a Salt Lake Tribune staff writer in the 1940s and ’50s who went on to help found or develop the Peace Corps, Common Cause and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, died Saturday. He...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: Who does the Attorney General really represent?
The Utah State Records Committee voted in favor of public disclosure when it ruled last week, unanimously, that the Utah Attorney General’s Office should release a legal opinion it prepared regarding...
View ArticleTrump, McConnell: No matter what people say, we're friends
Washington • Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell reaffirmed their alliance of necessity Monday in a raucous Rose Garden news conference that also underscored their sharp differences. The garrulous...
View ArticleLetter: Native Americans are forgotten. Again.
News has been full of reports of racial tension in the last couple of years. Police treat blacks more violently than they do other groups. Muslims and other refugees are no longer welcome in the U.S....
View ArticleNew film on Mark Twain highlights his religious doubts
Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens, didn’t have much of anything good to say about religion, at least the organized kind.“I have a religion — but you will call it blasphemy,” he wrote in a letter in 1865....
View ArticleCougars' issues run deep, and lack of depth is one of them
Provo • BYU football coach Kalani Sitake refuses to make excuses.Injuries have mounted throughout the Cougars’ six-game losing skid — the school’s longest since 1968 — but Sitake in almost every...
View ArticleLetter: White, rich, old men voted into office forever
The home of the good ole boys. White, rich, old men voted into office for life. Does that make you proud? They must keep them in office forever.Sen. Orrin Hatch is wanting another run at it. Why not?...
View ArticleLetter: Take Care Utah is still here
Who do you call with questions about health insurance?For years the answer has been Take Care Utah and its statewide team of navigators and brokers who provide free assistance to anyone who calls...
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Sex, alcohol and attorneys’ fees: Brewvies seeks half a million dollars from...
Fighting against Deadpool could cost the state of Utah more than half a million dollars.A motion filed Monday by the lawyers for Brewvies Cinema Pub — which recently won a judge’s ruling overturning...
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Commentary: Trump abandons efforts to clean up Utah's air
With all the scandals, in-fighting, threats, taunts, firings, bragging, tweeting and name calling, President Trump’s White House is certainly “The Greatest Show on Earth.” But behind this circus tent...
View ArticleTrump says predecessors didn't honor fallen; response heated
Washington • For U.S. presidents, meeting the families of military personnel killed in war is about as wrenching as the presidency gets. President Donald Trump’s suggestion Monday that his predecessors...
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Huge new Museum of the Bible includes lots of tech, but not a lot of Jesus
Washington • The Museum of the Bible, a massive new institution opening next month here just south of the National Mall, is just as notable for what it includes — vivid walk-through re-creations of the...
View ArticleLetter: Zinke's comments are beneath contempt
Re: “Interior Secretary Zinke says 30 percent of his employees are ‘not loyal’ to him, Trump or the flag.”I am literally stunned that Zinke would publicly express such a statement in the news world.As...
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