• Bagley Cartoon: Fowl Play

    This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/09/19/bagley-cartoon-climate" target=_blank><u>Climate Meltdown</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/09/18/bagley-cartoon-drug-lords/"><u>Drug Lords</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/09/17/bagley-cartoon-
  • [Salt Lake Tribune] - NBA teams approve stiffer penalties for tampering

    The NBA’s board of governors was unanimous Friday in its approval of a plan to stiffen potential penalties for tampering with players and employees under contract with other clubs, hoping for increased compliance in existing league rules.
  • Patriots release Antonio Brown after another accusation

    Foxborough, Mass. • Antonio Brown was released by the Patriots on Friday after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct. New England is the third team in seven months to have tired of the receiver’s conduct.The defending Super Bowl champions announced the move in a statement emailed to reporters, three minutes after Brown posted on Twitter: "Thank you for the opportunity @Patriots #GoWinIt."Thank you for the opportunity @Patriots #GoWinIt— AB (@AB84) September 20, 2019 Br
  • NBA teams approve stiffer penalties for tampering

    The NBA’s board of governors was unanimous Friday in its approval of a plan to stiffen potential penalties for tampering with players and employees under contract with other clubs, hoping for increased compliance in existing league rules.Fines of up to $10 million are now possible in the most egregious situations, along with forfeiture of draft picks, suspensions of executives and voiding of contracts when rule breaking is found — significant enough threats, the league hopes, to end
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  • At least 4 Chinese-speaking tourists dead in tour bus crash near Bryce Canyon National Park

    A tour bus carrying Chinese-speaking tourists crashed Friday morning near Bryce Canyon National Park, killing at least four people and critically injuring at least a dozen others.According to a spokesman for Intermountain Healthcare, Lance Madigan, as of 1:45 p.m. Garfield Memorial Hospital in Panguitch and Intermountain Hospital in Murray had received 12 victims of this accident — “three in critical condition, six in serious condition and three in fair condition.”Bryce Canyon
  • Noted Latter-day Saint playwright and LGBT ally Eric Samuelsen dies

    Playwright Eric Samuelsen, who ran Brigham Young University’s playwriting program for a dozen years, died Friday at age 63. A noted playwright and three-time winner of the Association for Mormon Letters drama award, he saw more than two dozen of his plays produced across the United States.Samuelsen, who graduated from BYU in 1983, returned as a member of the faculty in 1992. From 1999 to 2011, he headed up the university’s playwriting program. Diagnosed with polymyositis — a ra
  • Intermountain Healthcare launches mobile mammogram unit, extends clinic hours to boost Utah screening rate

    Taylorsville • Pat Drehobl had gone 7 years without a breast cancer screening when she noticed a bright pink-and-white trailer parked outside of the Intermountain Healthcare clinic in Taylorsville.“I was afraid to do it,” Drehobl said Friday, “because I had a breast reduction and I still have pain and I didn’t want anybody messing around.”Intrigued by the trailer — which looks and feels like a cozy doctor’s office on wheels — Drehobl booked an
  • After complaints from Utah and elsewhere, two do-it-yourself rape kits are off the market

    The creators of two do-it-yourself rape test kits have stopped sales and advertising after an outpouring of concern from lawyers and victim advocates, including a Brigham Young University professor who emailed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.Jane Mason, the co-founder of the PRESERVEkit, posted a letter Sunday on the company’s website announcing the business was halting sales.“Because of cease and desist letters,” Mason wrote, “untruths all over the media and in press conferences,
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  • Utah’s Trevor Lewis and the NHL come back to town on Saturday, as the Kings and Canucks square off at Vivint Arena

    Twice in this decade, Los Angeles Kings forward Trevor Lewis has brought the Stanley Cup home to the Salt Lake Valley. The team that will play Saturday night at Vivint Smart Home Arena posted the NHL’s second-worst record last season.Lewis has experienced both extremes of pro hockey, as he enters his 10th full season with the Kings, who will meet Vancouver in a preseason game. When he cites “a lot of young energy” in the Kings' dressing room these days, he's speaking from the p
  • RSL hits the road for New England sitting fourth in the Western Conference. Points will be necessary to stay there.

    From Real Salt Lake’s perspective, every game from here on out will feel like a playoff game.There are just four games left in RSL’s regular season, and the team sits in fourth place in the Western Conference playoff picture. Just three points separates Salt Lake from the Portland Timbers, who are in eighth place. If the playoffs started today, RSL would have a home game in the first round.But with less and less bites of the apple available, RSL knows how vital each of the next four
  • Former University of Utah athlete pleads guilty to threatening to kill 17-year-old girl

    She stood at the front of the courtroom, trying to read the statement she had written — but her hands were shaking so much that the words on the white paper became a blur.“I was 17,” she said, looking up at the judge. “He was 20.”Holding back tears, the girl said that the man she was dating took advantage of that. He was a student-athlete at the University of Utah. She was in high school. He asked her for money for groceries and textbooks. She gave it to him. He yel
  • At least 500 Utahns — young and old — join climate change protest, begin march to Capitol

    Hundreds of young Utahs — joined by a fair share of older ones — ditched school on a cloudy and soggy Friday to speak out against official indifference to climate change, joining a global protest to demand elected leaders wake up to the potentially catastrophic consequences of planetary warming.“Political leaders in Utah and around the world have failed to prioritize — and in some cases even acknowledge — climate change,” organizers of the Utah Youth Climate S
  • BYU got hammered last year at Washington. The Cougars have not forgotten it going into the Provo rematch.

    Provo • BYU was 3-1 and rolling last year — its best start since going 4-0 in 2014 — when it paid the Washington Huskies a visit. And though the Cougars were brimming with confidence, the result was a 35-7 Washington beatdown that sent them back home with their tail between their legs.For the BYU players who were on the sideline that day in Seattle, that loss still stings, and the Cougars are determined to get a different outcome when BYU hosts the No. 22 Huskies on Saturday aft
  • Trump denounces ‘partisan’ whistleblower but says ID unknown

    Washington • President Donald Trump irritably defended himself Friday against an intelligence whistleblower’s potentially explosive complaint, including an allegation of wrongdoing in a reported private conversation Trump had with a foreign leader.The complaint, which the administration has refused to let Congress see, remains shrouded in mystery but is "serious" and "urgent," the government's intelligence watchdog said. But Trump dismissed the matter, insisting he did nothing wrong.H
  • Catherine Rampell: The far left is taking a page from its opponents’ playbook

    The leftward drift of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates seems to reflect a common frustration within the party’s base: Democrats have simply never dreamed big enough.Perhaps, lefties suspect, Democratic politicians have been cowed by bad-faith accusations of socialism. Or — worse — they’ve been captured by big-money special interests.Implicitly or explicitly, a slate of recent books and essays suggests that this was a core failing of the Obama administration, Hi
  • [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Update: Donovan Mitchell commits to USA Men’s Basketball for 2020 Olympics

    Donovan Mitchell is among four to verbally commit to play in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
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  • Commentary: People of faith know what must be done on climate change

    As America’s young people march in the climate strike this week and United Nations leaders discuss climate change at their summit in New York, the climate crisis is already here. Storms are becoming more powerful and desertification is threatening our food supplies. Some areas face rising sea levels while others face drought. Poor and vulnerable people are at greater risk of losing their lives and livelihoods. Those who have contributed the least to climate change are already facing the br
  • Laura Nelson and Scott Baird: Utah celebrates successes for Clean Energy Week

    Across more than a century of statehood, Utah’s pioneering spirit has forged trailblazing pathways to achieve its remarkable destiny - defying expectations to meet new challenges that come with positive economic growth, a changing climate and an unparalleled energy demand. As we join the nation in celebrating Clean Energy Week, Utah’s leadership continues to be nationally unmatched in driving outcomes across policy, development and innovation to increasingly satisfy consumers’
  • About 75 people gather at Area 51 gate, 2 people detained

    Hiko, Nev. • About 75 people arrived early Friday at a gate at the once-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada — at the time appointed by an internet hoaxster to "storm" the facility to see space aliens — and one person was arrested, authorities said.The "Storm Area 51" invitation spawned festivals in the tiny Nevada towns of Rachel and Hiko nearest the military site, and a more than two-hour drive from Las Vegas.Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee estimated late Thursday that abou
  • George Pyle: They are people and they are here

    “They are people, and they are here. If there’s any other requirement, I haven’t heard it.”— John AdamsThe pugnacious Founding Father was explaining how slaves living in the 18th century colonies were properly described as Americans. But the sentiment applies as well to today’s controversy over how we treat people who are living in our country without the required permission and paperwork.(If, that is, Adams ever really said this. It’s from the play and
  • Utah State’s Mountain West opener at San Diego State will be a good gauge of where Aggies are at

    So far in the nascent stages of the 2019 season, the Utah State Aggies have been on both sides of a wrecking football. They experienced a gut punch of a loss against Wake Forest, and followed that up by exorcizing those demons with a blowout win over Stony Brook the next week.And now that the Mountain West Conference schedule starts this weekend — the games that really matter, several Aggies say — Utah State has an opportunity early in the season to prove what it’s made of. To
  • David Brooks: A brief history of the Warren presidency

    From 2050, a look back at our political evolution:A crisis of legitimacy swept across American politics in the second decade of the 21st century. Many people had the general conviction that the old order was corrupt and incompetent. There was an inchoate desire for some radical transformation. This mood swept the Republican Party in 2016 as Donald Trump eviscerated the GOP establishment and it swept through the Democratic Party in 2020.In the 2020 primary race Joe Biden stood as the candidate fo
  • Commentary: Momentum is building to fix our legal system. Let’s seize it.

    We like to say we are all equal under the law. And in terms of our rights, that may be true. But it’s just wrong when it comes to access to justice.Every day, Americans face a legal world of confusing privacy policies and employment contracts, painful family disputes, struggles with insurers, evictions and foreclosures, and more. What unites them is that the vast majority muddle through it all without any legal help.Why in a world with so much law do so few have access to affordable legal
  • Missing kayakers found safe after getting lost on the Great Salt Lake

    Two kayakers stranded by rough weather on the Great Salt Lake for 9-10 hours were rescued early Friday.The two were part of a trio that set out Thursday afternoon with plans to visit Stansbury Island and two other islands and then finish at Antelope Island, according to the Davis County Sheriff’s Office.But the weather turned bad and the kayakers found themselves battling “increasingly dangerous water conditions” with 20 mph winds and waves as high as 7 feet, according to Utah
  • Rachel Madley: Does anyone really ‘love’ their private health insurance

    Twenty minutes after I learned I had Type 1 diabetes — after narrowly avoiding a diabetic coma — a nurse pulled my parents away from my bedside and urged them to call our insurance company immediately. If they didn’t call right away, she warned, insurance would not cover the stay. At that moment — now 10 years ago — my parents had to choose whether to comfort their sick and frightened 14-year-old daughter, or spend hours on the phone with our insurer. Of course, the
  • Paul Krugman: Trump declares war on California

    I’m on a number of right-wing mailing lists, and I try to at least skim what they’re going on about in any given week; this often gives me advance warning about the next wave of manufactured outrage. Lately I’ve been seeing dire warnings that if Democrats win next year they’ll try to turn America into (cue scary background music) California, which the writers portray as a socialist hellhole.Sure enough, this week Donald Trump effectively declared war on California on two
  • Major League Soccer fans, including RSL’s, are bringing their politics to games now. Here’s how the league and its teams dealing with it.

    A flag with the Iron Front symbol. A Betsy Ross flag. Major League Soccer’s updated fan code of conduct.Those three items together point to a new trend that has emerged in MLS stadiums across the country this season: politics have made their way into American soccer, and fans are making their voices heard — one way or the other. Whether it be rebelling against what are seen as constraints on free expression or driving out a problematic symbol from the stands, fan behavior at MLS matc
  • [Fansided: The J-Notes] - NBA Predictions: How will the Utah Jazz do in the playoffs?

    It’s no secret the Utah Jazz got better this summer, but how will they fare in the NBA playoffs against the elite Western Conference? This offseason has ...
  • Political Cornflakes: Meet the ‘Three Musketeers,’ the Republican trio running against Trump in 2020

    President Donald Trump faces three Republican opponents in the 2020 race, a trio supporters have labeled the “Three Musketeers” and argue could add up to enough of a nuisance to whittle away support for a vulnerable incumbent — however long their long-shot bids are. The president, on the other hand, has given them a more demeaning nickname: “the Three Stooges.” [NYTimes]Happy Friday!Topping the news: Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson took a trip to the U.S.-Mexico
  • NBA Predictions: How will the Utah Jazz do in the playoffs?

    It’s no secret the Utah Jazz got better this summer, but how will they fare in the NBA playoffs against the elite Western Conference? This offseason has been a wild one. We have seen a huge power shift in the Western Conference. What used to be Golden State’s iron grip on the West is now […]
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  • Mary O’Brien: Monument plan could be kiss of death for Death Hollow

    My son Josh was 16 in 1989 when we hiked as a family 18 miles down Death Hollow in southern Utah. We started out from Hell’s Backbone and worked our way down through Bureau of Land Management land, eventually reaching the Escalante River.This took five days, while the land around us morphed from a dry, shallow channel to a progressively deeper, wetter and narrower canyon. We saw almost no other people. The shocker was arriving, on the last day, at the confluence with the Escalante River.It
  • Former Overstock CEO sells his stock, invests in gold, cryptocurrency

    The founder and former CEO of Utah-based Overstock.com has sold his remaining $90 million stake in the company, saying he intended to invest the proceeds in gold and other holdings to protect his fortune from the “Deep State.”Patrick Byrne, 56, resigned abruptly from the online discount retailer Aug. 21 after disclosing he’d had an affair with alleged Russian agent Maria Butina while acting as a confidential informant for the FBI. He said at the time he sought to shield the fir
  • California balks at considering casino license for men with ties to Utah polygamous sect, wants to know more about their finances

    California’s gambling regulators are again asking for more information about the finances of two men operating a casino there, including who else with ties to a Utah polygamous group might have financial interests in the business.The order made public Tuesday by the California Gambling Control Commission is a setback for the owners of Lake Elsinore Casino, which has been in a dispute with the commission for 20 years and been operating on a string of temporary gambling licenses. The casino
  • Robert Kirby: The right answer about student testing — it never ends

    Three weeks ago, my 5-year-old granddaughter entered the public school system and was subjected to what I consider a dehumanizing examination.She was tested.You heard me, tested. Like she was some kind of bug or lab rat. It brought back memories of my own scholastic evaluations.Ada’s mother took her to elementary school and introduced her to her kindergarten teacher, Mrs. R.After 10 minutes of questions, Mrs. R said, “You’ve got a smart one there.”Smart one? A lot school
  • An island no more? State to put up fences to keep Antelope Island bison, sheep from reaching the mainland

    The trouble begins with this: Antelope Island — isn’t.An island, that is.The Great Salt Lake’s largest island has long served as a big-game sanctuary as well as one of Utah’s most popular state parks. Chronic low lake levels, however, have turned Antelope — and other islands in the lake — into mere peninsulas, allowing bison and, potentially, bighorn sheep to reach the mainland.Some also fear the reverse: that the big game’s domestic disease-carrying cou
  • Utah’s rate of vaping-related illness is among the worst in the nation. Here’s what you need to know.

    Utah health officials have confirmed 42 cases of serious, vaping-related illnesses — a per-capita rate that no other state has come close to matching, according to a Salt Lake Tribune review of government health announcements and news reports from the other states.Meanwhile, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday drastically increased its estimated number of confirmed cases nationwide, from 380 to 530.Here’s what we know about the outbreak so far.Do I n
  • Urban Arts Festival celebrates the ‘nontraditional’ in Salt Lake City — from music to murals to lowrider cars to basketball

    Cassandra Houston started playing violin in elementary school, began cello in junior high and sang choir at East Hollywood High in West Valley City. While her brother was making hip-hop music, she wanted to perform, too — but hesitated.“If you think about women in the hip-hop industry, they have always been sexualized,” she said. “I don’t want that.”Houston, who today performs as The Pho3nix Child, now wants to use her voice to change perceptions of women in h
  • Scott D. Pierce: TV is inundated with reboots. But ‘Saved by the Bell’? ‘Hogan’s Heroes’? No way!

    Do we need a sequel to “Saved by the Bell”? A reboot of “Battlestar Galactica”? A reimagining of “Hogan’s Heroes” — a 1960s sitcom set in a Nazi prison-of-war camp? No, no and no.And yet the first two are a go, and the third is reportedly under consideration. Because, apparently, the hottest idea in TV is old ideas.Also on the upcoming remakes/reboots/revivals list are “Amazing Stories” (Apple Plus), “Animaniacs” (Hulu), &ld
  • Letter: The obscenely rich get obscenely richer

    Most people are marginal participants in the American economy, while a relatively miniscule number of individuals reap spectacular benefits from it. Because mass participation is critical to sustained economic growth, many Western democracies, such as the United States, suffer from suboptimal economic performance. This dysfunction can be partially summed up by the age-old axiom, “The rich get richer while the poor get poorer.” But, more accurately, it’s the obscenely rich who g
  • Letter: Much has changed in 156 years

    Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is one of the greatest political speeches ever. Its key phrase was “Government of the people, by the people, for the people.”In the intervening 156 years, much has changed.“By the people” has become “by the candidate who spends the most money” — 89% of representatives and 83% of senators in 2018.“Of the people” and “for the people” then meant for the good of the majority. Both now mean &l
  • Letter: If Trump had told the truth about his wall

    “I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me — and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our solution border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”— Donald Trump (fake news & alternative fact spreader, non-apologetic liar)Thank goodness we marked his words.Can you imagine for a minute if Donald Trump had told the truth? I know that’s a silly question, but indulge
  • Letter: Blindsided by Solitude’s parking fee

    As a current Ikon season pass holder, I was dismayed at Solitude ski resort’s decision to levy resort parking fees subsequent to the sale of 2019-2020 season passes.It seems questionable and unethical that they would promote and accept payment for their Ikon season ski pass without divulging their intentions to charge for parking. This action should have been made known before season passes went on sale, as many people have already purchased their season passes.The Cottonwood Canyons need
  • 7 people quit in a day. This is how understaffed Salt Lake City School District’s after-school programs are.

    The Salt Lake City School District’s after-school programs are already dramatically understaffed, to the point that more kids than ever are on the waiting list and fewer than ever have been able to enroll.Then, on Tuesday, seven employees walked out.Before that, the programs had 17 fewer staff members than last year. Now, the deficit is 24. And the problem is still growing.“We don’t have the volume needed to cover what our gaps are,” said Sandra Buendia, the district&rsqu
  • [Last Word On Sports: Last Word On Pro Basketball] - Top Five Players 23 and Under in the Western Conference

    The Western Conference continues to supply elite teams, many of which with young talent, so who are the top five players 23 and under in the West?
  • No. 7 BYU women’s soccer team blanks No. 14 Kansas 2-0

    The No. 7 BYU women’s soccer team rallied in the second half to take a 2-0 victory over No. 14 Kansas on Thursday night at Rock Chalk Park in Lawrence, Kansas.“This was a fantastic women’s college soccer game and we were really challenged,” BYU coach Jennifer Rockwood said. “I am impressed with our team and how we started off and how we had to fight through at the end to hold off a surge that Kansas had. It was a great game tonight.”Statistically, the Cougars
  • Two kayakers missing on the Great Salt Lake

    Authorities are searching for two kayakers who went missing on the Great Salt Lake on Thursday.The two kayakers were part of a trio that set out Thursday afternoon with plans to visit Stansbury Island and two other islands and then finish at Antelope Island, according to the Davis County Sheriff’s Office.1/1 | Search and Rescue for missing kayakers is currently taking place in partnership with @UtahDNR.
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  • Woman dies from injuries suffered in wreck that killed her daughter

    A Utah woman has died from injuries suffered in an Aug. 17 crash that killed her 16-year-old daughter.Police say 44-year-old Brandilee Kussee Chacon died Tuesday, one month after Sierra Rosalina Chacon was fatally injured in the wreck in Big Cottonwood Canyon in the mountains east of metro Salt Lake City.The mother and daughter were sleeping in the covered bed of their pickup while on a camping trip when a car went off the road and slammed into their vehicle around 3 a.m.Police say the men in th
  • No. 12 BYU tops No. 18 Utah in women’s volleyball, 3-1

    No. 18 Utah made No. 12 BYU agonize more than last year, but the Cougars still extended their in-state dominance in women's volleyball Thursday night.BYU won 25-22, 25-21, 12-25, 25-18. McKenna Miller led the Cougars with 22 kills.In two matches against BYU last season, including an NCAA Tournament second-round contest, Utah scored more than 18 points only twice in six total sets.The Utes were far more competitive Thursday, with Dani Drews posting 21 kills.BYU (8-2) will conclude nonconference p
  • Orem mayor won’t face charges for unauthorized withdrawals from city retirement account

    Utah County prosecutors have ended their investigation into Orem Mayor Richard Brunst for making unauthorized withdrawals from his city retirement account, deciding he never intended to defraud anyone.The decision comes about a month and a half after the city council discovered the withdrawals and launched an investigation.The city council discovered that Brunst had changed dates on forms, submitted the same signed forms for multiple reimbursement requests and had requested reimbursements more o

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