In '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 they learned of his...
Did former Utahn Gerald Michael Bullinger kill his wife, as well 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...
View ArticleAfter 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: No. 10 Cougars hoping to learn from last year’s...
Provo • It was one of the most gut-wrenching ways imaginable to see a spectacular season come to an end.BYU’s women’s volleyball team battled back from a 2-0 deficit at No. 4 Texas in an NCAA...
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 seeks to convert U.S. 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...
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