• Feds settle with Salt Lake City apartment owner over parking stall dispute with disabled resident

    Federal housing authorities say they have reached a settlement over claims that managers of a Salt Lake City apartment complex refused a disabled resident's request for assigned parking.Officials at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said Wednesday the owner and managers of Jefferson School Apartments II at 1011 S. West Temple had wrongly refused the woman’s request to be assigned a parking space close to her apartment — a violation of the U.S. Fair Housing Ac
  • Hatch helps Supreme Court nominee cast himself as loyal to the Constitution, not the president

    Washington • Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh portrayed himself Wednesday as a devotee to the law and not swayed by politics in judicial decisions.And Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, was happy to help the nominee paint the picture.“What loyalty will you owe the president if confirmed?” Hatch asked Kavanaugh, referring to President Donald Trump, who nominated Kavanaugh.“I owe my loyalty to the Constitution,” the nominee replied.To underscore that point, Hatch noted tha
  • It’s taken almost five years, but BYU cornerback Michael Shelton is finally getting his chance as a full-time starter with the Cougars

    Provo • His father died of throat cancer when he was 8 years old. His favorite cousin died from an accidental shooting five years later. The coaches who recruited him to BYU from across the country left for Virginia two years into his career in Provo.Think senior defensive back Michael Shelton is going to get down on himself just because he hasn’t seen as much playing time as he expected when he signed with the Cougars out of Raleigh, N.C., way back in 2014?Think again.“With all
  • In the spirit of #EkpesBookClub, how much summer reading did you get done? Poll presented by @Qualtrics 📊

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  • Anonymous official cites Trump ‘amorality’ in NY Times op-ed

    Washington • A senior administration official is sounding an alarm about President Donald Trump’s “amorality” and “impetuous” leadership style in an unsigned opinion piece published in The New York Times.The newspaper describes the author of the unsigned column only as "a senior official in the Trump administration." The White House is not immediately responding to a request for comment.The writer says Trump aides are aware of the president's faults and "we are
  • [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Gobert has some advice for Kaepernick/Nike protesters

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  • Actor and Salt Lake City native Lindsay Pulsipher gets her first shot as a leading lady in ‘feel-good’ movie ‘God Bless the Broken Road’

    Lindsay Pulsipher has done some interesting things as an actor since she left her hometown of Salt Lake City for Hollywood.She has had recurring roles on the lawman drama “Justified,” the FBI series “The Beast” (which starred Patrick Swayze in his last role) and the conspiracy thriller series “Shooter.” In the miniseries “Hatfields & McCoys,” she played the daughter of the McCoy patriarch (Bill Paxton). She played an amnesiac in the 2011 Sundan
  • Rich Lowry: Neil Armstrong didn’t forget the flag

    History is usually airbrushed to remove a figure who has fallen out of favor with a dictatorship, or to hide away an episode of national shame. Leave it to Hollywood to erase from a national triumph its most iconic moment.The new movie “First Man,” a biopic about the Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, omits the planting of the American flag during his historic walk on the surface of the moon.Ryan Gosling, who plays Armstrong in the film, tried to explain the strange editing of his m
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  • Jennifer Rubin: Confirming Kavanaugh is too great a risk to the rule of law

    More than abortion or gun control or health care, what is at stake in the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh is the security of our constitutional system and the rule of law.We’ve not had such a Supreme Court battle in my lifetime because we have not had a president, even Richard Nixon, so dismissive of basic constitutional principles, coupled with a docile majority party in the Senate and a nominee who is another in the line of “sure thing” nomi
  • Utah Jazz: Gobert has some advice for Kaepernick/Nike protesters

    Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert has once again used social media to speak out on one of our nation’s (literally) hot topics; the Colin Kaepernick/Nike burning protests. If you’ve spent any amount of time following the comings and goings of Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, a couple of things become immediately clear to you. His […]
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  • Idaho reviews prison fire crews after inmate accused of rape

    Salt Lake City • Idaho is reviewing its program for temporarily releasing prison inmates to help fight wildfires after an inmate was charged with raping a woman working at a remote Utah firefighting base camp.Idaho prison officials are working with the state's lands department as they scrutinize which inmates are allowed to serve, the training they receive and how they are deployed, said Idaho Department of Correction spokesman Jeff Ray. Five crews of Idaho inmates were returned to prison a
  • Seahawks safety Earl Thomas appears set to end his holdout

    Renton, Wash. • Seahawks safety Earl Thomas appears set to end his lengthy holdout in time for the start of the regular season, even without a new contract.Thomas posted to Instagram on Wednesday morning, saying he's never let his "teammates, city or fans down as long as I have lived and don't plan to start this weekend."The post was a surprising conclusion to a long offseason of drama centered on whether Thomas would play out the final season of his contract, receive the extension he hoped
  • Major opioid maker to pay for overdose-antidote development

    A company whose prescription opioid marketing practices are being blamed for sparking the addiction and overdose crisis says it's helping to fund an effort to make a lower-cost overdose antidote.OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma announced Wednesday that it's making a $3.4 million grant to Harm Reduction Therapeutics, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit, to help develop a low-cost naloxone nasal spray.The announcement comes as lawsuits from local governments blaming Purdue, based in Stamford, Connecticut, a
  • [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: The Ingles has landed and hoops are on the horizon

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  • Utah’s ‘100 deadliest days’ on highways this summer were extra lethal — mostly from preventable crashes

    During the “100 deadliest days” of summer on Utah’s highways this year, 102 people died — up from 90 a year earlier. Mariana Sablan, 18, of Tooele, was almost No. 103.She was driving with her boyfriend on July 21 on State Route 73 in the desert between Tooele and Utah counties. She became distracted while talking, veered and found the car rolling — at least three times. She cried out “I’m sorry” repeatedly as the car’s front and rear took tur
  • Yellowstone Park traffic will be subject of $50,000 federally funded study

    WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) — The increasing number of tourists entering Yellowstone National Park's west gate has prompted a study of traffic congestion in West Yellowstone, Montana.The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that Northern Rocky Mountain Economic Development District in Gallatin County recently received a $50,000 federal grant for the study.Northern Rocky Executive Director Rob Gilmore says traffic trying to get into the park on its west end, which sometimes cuts the town in hal
  • Utah Jazz: The Ingles has landed and hoops are on the horizon

    If you had any doubt that the return of Utah Jazz basketball is right around the corner, take note: the Ingles has landed! If you’re like me — obsessed with hoops, an obsessive-compulsive person in life or some combination thereof — your calendar is no doubt marked with dates/events that are constantly mulled over and […]
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  • Commentary: Why every Mormon should read ‘Saints’

    After my daughter was born, I could always tell which of my fellow Mormons had read “The Work and the Glory” novels by the way they a) immediately associated the first name Jerusha with Hyrum Smith’s first wife and b) assumed (wrongly, as it happened) that reading that nine-book series was how I fell in love with the name.“The Work and the Glory” made for terrible history: sanitizing, hagiographic, undocumented. It wasn’t especially strong fiction either, for
  • Opportunity has knocked for Utah freshman receiver Solomon Enis, and the freshman has taken advantage of it

    Stand in the shadow of his 6-foot-4 frame for a few minutes and listen to him oppose the star-system — not to mention much of what comes along with being a top recruit — and it’s not hard to see how he has consistently caught the eye of Kyle Whittingham since his arrival on campus this summer. It’s not hard to see why Solomon Enis is viewed as the now and what lies ahead.“Honestly, stars and stuff don’t really matter to me,” Enis said. “I feel like
  • Actor and Salt Lake City native Lindsay Pulsipher gets her first shot as a leading lady in ‘feel-good’ movie ‘God Bless the Open Road’

    Lindsay Pulsipher has done some interesting things as an actor since she left her hometown of Salt Lake City for Hollywood.She has had recurring roles on the lawman drama “Justified,” the FBI series “The Beast” (which starred Patrick Swayze in his last role) and the conspiracy thriller series “Shooter.” In the miniseries “Hatfields & McCoys,” she played the daughter of the McCoy patriarch (Bill Paxton). She played an amnesiac in the 2011 Sundan
  • ‘Trib Talk’: Fixing Salt Lake City’s terrible flag

    Without looking it up, can you describe the flag of your city? For most people, the answer is probably “no;” and if you live in Salt Lake City, it probably should be “no.”Adopted in 2006 by the Salt Lake City Council, the flag features a central logo of a black city skyline in front of green, snow-topped mountains and a blue sky, with the words “Salt Lake City” printed in white. Two wide bars of a darker green and blue split the background in half horizontally
  • United Utah Party candidate qualifies for official Utah election debate; poll indicates wider gap in Love-McAdams race

    The United Utah Party’s Eric Eliason will join his Republican and Democratic opponents on stage for the Utah Debate Commission’s 1st Congressional District debate Oct. 17.A poll by the debate commission found Eliason had the support of 6.6 percent of the district’s voters, within the 4 percentage-point margin of error for the commission’s cutoff point of 10 percentage points for election candidates to qualify for debates. Incumbent Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, was supported b
  • Ogden officials consider extending MLK, Cesar Chavez streets

    Ogden • Ogden officials are considering extending portions of two city streets named after civil rights leaders after recent and renewed public interest.The Standard-Examiner reported Wednesday that Ogden officials renamed a portion of 24th Street after black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1995 and renamed a part of 30th Street after labor leader and Latino civil rights activist Cesar Chavez in 2003.The city council is now considering extending those honorary designations by
  • Radio station pulls anti-medical marijuana ad after complaints

    At least one Salt Lake-area radio station has stopped airing an advertisement opposing Utah’s Proposition 2 after complaints that the ad included false and misleading statements about medical marijuana.Kayvon Motiee, president of Broadway Media, said the advertisement by the Drug Safe Utah coalition is no longer airing on 101.5 The Eagle (KEGA), the only Broadway station that had been running the opposition message.“We want to pull the ad until we can substantiate the truthfulness,&r
  • Dana Milbank: Trump is quite literally choosing his judge and jury

    Washington - Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing is scheduled to last all week. Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley lost control after just 13 words."Good morning," he said. "I welcome everyone to this confirmation hearing on the nomination of —""Mr. Chairman?" interrupted Sen. Kamala D. Harris (Calif.), a junior Democrat on the committee and prospective presidential candidate.She protested that the administration had dumped 42,000 pages of Kavanaugh'
  • Monson: Can a house divided against itself stand? Or kneel? Will Nike’s exploitation of a protest move us to buy sneakers? We the people will decide.

    If you are reading this, you are falling victim to what I already have — giving attention and consideration to an advertising campaign meant to take up space in our brains.And, at some point at least, open up our wallets.Nike’s ad featuring Colin Kaepernick and the believe-in-something-even-if-it-means-sacrificing-everything hook is controversial for all kinds of reasons.First, it targets — and exploits — the ongoing anthem issue in pro sports, started when Kaepernick dec
  • Kavanaugh stresses independence: ‘No one is above the law’

    Washington • Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly stressed the importance of judicial independence as he faced questioning at his confirmation hearing Wednesday from senators, including Democrats who fear he would be President Donald Trump’s man on the high court.Pressed by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican, on whether he would be independent from the president who nominated him, Kavanaugh responded, "No one is above the law."The second day of Kavan
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  • Tesla struck other car while in ‘autopilot mode,’ Utah woman says in lawsuit

    A Utah woman is suing Tesla, saying her Model S crashed into another car while it was in Autopilot mode earlier this year in South Jordan.The Tesla Model S, which the woman bought in 2016, is advertised to have “enhanced Autopilot,” including 360 degrees of visibility and 250 meters of “forward protection,” the woman’s attorney’s wrote in a news release. At some point, an auto repair shop replaced a sensor in hers, according to the lawsuit.In May, the woman wa
  • LDS Church will start sending missionary assignments via email, ending the tradition of the ‘white envelope’

    The big white envelope soon will be history. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is moving to email to inform its full-time missionaries where they’ll be serving.The church’s Missionary Department announced Wednesday it has been testing the new process, of sending mission calls via email, and is expanding the system to all its missionaries in Utah and Idaho. By year’s end, officials say nearly all missionaries worldwide with reliable internet access will get their c
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  • Utes go from one ex-QB to another on their radio broadcast team

    The Utah Utes have switched quarterbacks in the broadcast booth.Scott Mitchell, who completed his Utah football career just before Frank Dolce arrived on campus in 1990, has replaced Dolce as the radio analyst. Former Ute punter Tom Hackett is now the sideline reporter.Mitchell and Hackett made their first appearances on the broadcast of last week's season opener vs. Weber State, working with Bill Riley, the Utes' play-by-play announcer for 10 years on ESPN 700.The personnel moves reflect the in
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  • United Utah Party candidate qualifies for official Utah election debate

    The United Utah Party’s Eric Eliason will join his Republican and Democratic opponents on stage for the Utah Debate Commission’s 1st Congressional District debate Oct. 17.A poll by the debate commission found Eliason had the support of 6.6 percent of the district’s voters, within the 4 percentage-point margin of error for the commission’s cutoff point of 10 percentage points for election candidates to qualify for debates. Incumbent Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, was supported b
  • Peter Orszag: A savings model for health care still has promise

    Important new research published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that a promising experiment aimed at reducing health care costs through changes to the payment system delivered underwhelming early results. But there's more to the story, and the research is exactly what should be happening as we transition away from fee-for-service payments.First, some context. As noted previously, improving value in health care is not primarily about loading more responsibility
  • Tribune editorial: What is the half-life of a Utah environmental report on depleted uranium?

    Should Utah allow Energy Solutions to store depleted uranium at its Tooele County radioactive-waste facility?It’s been a good question for about 10 years now.Energy Solutions has been trying for a decade to take depleted uranium (also called DU), which is a byproduct of producing fissionable material for nuclear power plants and weapons.Utah regulators have held off, so now the company is asking for an exemption to take just some old DU-containing munitions currently stored at Tooele Army
  • Max Boot: President Trump is unfit for office. Bob Woodward’s ‘Fear’ confirms it

    If you take seriously the revelations in Bob Woodward’s book “Fear” — and how can you not, given Woodward’s nearly half-century of scoops about Washington’s elite? — then it’s time for President Donald Trump to be removed from office via the 25th Amendment because he is clearly “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”That will never happen, because the Cabinet is packed with Trump toadies who compete with each other to
  • George Pyle: There are reasons to be upset with Nike. Colin Kaepernick isn’t one of them.

    Mildred: “What are you rebelling against, Johnny?”Johnny: “Whaddaya got?”— The Wild One, 1953There are reasons to be upset with Nike.The shoes and other athletic apparel made by the multi-national giant cost way too freaking much. Which is even more infuriating when one of the occasional reports come out of how they are made super-cheap in Third World sweatshops.The company has swung back and forth over the years on drafting, imposing and being transparent about how
  • Leonard Pitts: A corporation takes a risk to support a man who gave up his career for justice

    Colin Kaepernick is staring at you.It's a black-and-white image, a portrait taken from a distance that feels painfully close, even intimate. Kaepernick, the reviled and revered NFL quarterback who has been unemployed and unemployable since he sparked a movement of athletes and others kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality against African-Americans, watches you with clear eyes and a serious mien.The text running across his face reads as follows: “Believe in somethin
  • Political Cornflakes: Who will win in 2018? News organizations are already making predictions and expect Democrats to take the House while Republicans hold the Senate.

    With 62 days until the midterm elections, news organizations are already starting to make predictions for who will win and by how much. Among them, POLITICO has analyzed every race for House, Senate and governor, using historical trends, polling data and evaluations of campaign strategies to determine expected winners. The news organization is predicting the House of Representatives will lean to the Democrats, while the Senate will likely go to the Republicans. Check out the tool to search by st
  • Monica Hess: What do we still want from Monica Lewinsky?

    There's a line between needing to hear women's painful stories and forcing women to relive them, and on Monday evening the line got blurry with Monica Lewinsky.On stage at an event in Jerusalem, ostensibly there to talk about the anti-bullying advocacy she's make a career of, Lewinsky was asked by Israeli news anchor Yonit Levi whether she still expected a personal apology from Bill Clinton.In response, Lewinsky offered her own apology — “I’m so sorry, I’m not going to be
  • Most American fraternities will have to start banning hard liquor

    Indianapolis • A ban intending to clamp down on hard liquor at frat house parties following pledge deaths last year has been ordered for most fraternities in the United States and Canada, unless the drinks are served by someone with a liquor license.All international and national fraternities of the North-American Interfraternity Conference have a year to prohibit drinks with an alcohol content of 15 percent or more from fraternity chapters and events, unless it is served by licensed third-
  • Ted Koppel: Trump has the media is hurtling down the track

    My journalistic colleagues and I are hurtling down a long, steep highway. There's no longer any resistance on the brake pedal and we realize, to our dismay, that we are unable to figure out what replaced the hand brake on this late-model vehicle. There has to be an emergency off-ramp; some media analogue to the gravel or sand-filled inclines designed to rescue runaway 18-wheelers; but for the moment there is none in sight, merely a horrifying sense of acceleration.There's only so much mileage to
  • Authorities suspect that arson is to blame for chain of fires in Utah and Wyoming

    Fire investigators believe arsonists are behind six wildfires that broke out Monday along Interstate 80 in Utah, from Tooele County to Summit County — including one that has burned through nearly 600 acres — and extending into Wyoming.“They’ve found significant evidence … at the fires, witness information and other factors,” said Leann Fox, spokeswoman for fire crews, in an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune. “There is a strong correlation between thi
  • Kirby: As the year winds down, it’s best to just grin and ‘ber’ it

    We are officially in the “Bers” now — September, October, November, December. The Bers are the long bell tolling for a year that is rapidly drawing to a close. Four more months and 2018 will be a memory.The signs are all there — animals digging winter burrows, cooling air, political haranguing and the changing colors of the few leaves that aren’t already black from wildfires.For some, 2018 will be the best year of their lives — the year they got married/divorc
  • Mr. Smith goes to Washington: Former Ute quarterback Alex Smith is already making his presence felt in nation’s capital

    Alex Smith doesn’t believe in assigned seats.As he tried to get to know his new Washington teammates, Smith sat in a different seat for each meeting.Defensive line coach Jim Tomsula knew that from his time with Smith in San Francisco, and running back Chris Thompson beamed, "That's a trait from your quarterback that you like to see."It’s a concerted effort by Smith to fit in with the guys, something he did quickly after taking over as Washington’s franchise quarterback.Be it hi
  • She wanted to start a gun reform club at her Utah high school. After the adviser initially said it would be 'too political,’ she formed a community group instead.

    Liz Romrell approached the microphone at the Utah town hall held by Parkland students who had survived a mass shooting at their Florida high school. Nervously, she read the question she had typed out on her phone.“My high school,” she said, “has resisted the idea of creating a club in support of gun reform because it’s ‘too blatantly political.’ Because of this, how can I have the most effective impact on my fellow students?”Romrell, 17, explained that s
  • Letter: Why didn’t The Tribune challenge Chaffetz’s conspiracy theory?

    Good letter in the Tribune Aug. 31 from Blair Bateman about “conspiracy nut Chaffetz.” Too bad Bateman’s letter appears on the Editorial page, while Chaffetz’s “conspiracy nut theories” appeared on Page 1 as a major “news” story.How many people reading that so-called news story, a recirculation of Trump’s and others’ fear-mongering conspiracy theories, accepted them as fact because they appeared on the front page of The Tribune? I looke
  • Letter: Where’s the lobbying organization for the First Amendment?

    The Second Amendment has the NRA. ls there a corresponding national group that fights for First Amendment rights? If not, can one be formed?I would gladly be a paying member. I would prefer to make contributions to an organization dedicated to protecting investigative journalism rather than donate to political parties.Nancy Walker, SandySubmit a letter to the editor
  • Letter: Utah canyons are very unwelcoming to dogs

    I had to write this even though it’s only my opinion.Having just recently moved to Utah, we recently took a trip up Little Cottonwood Canyon. What beauty and such majestic rocky mountainous terrain. Absolutely beautiful.I am only wondering, since I saw your cartoon on Aug. 24 with the big “NO!” in large letters, if perhaps it was uttering the words I saw all the way up into the canyon: “No dogs allowed,” then “No stopping or parking,” then “No drin

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