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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Opinion: We surveyed 50,674 Americans. This is what brings them together.

<p>A landmark study tracked smartphone locations of 10 million Americans over Thanksgiving 2016, soon after President Trump’s election victory. When people shared a meal with family members who voted for the opposing party, they cut their visits short by 30 to 50 minutes.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Letter: Without naming the injustices that compromise is meant to remedy, LDS president’s words ring hollow

<p>Dallin Oaks, president of the LDS Church, recently told an audience at the Washington National Cathedral that the Constitution “compels” a divided people to form coalitions. It is an elegant line, but it explains a process without addressing substance. Compromise is a method, not a policy: it specifies no terms, parties, or price, and it can advance justice or injustice alike.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Salt Lake City firefighter identified as BASE jumper killed in Cache County accident

<p>The 27-year-old man killed in a BASE jumping accident Sunday morning in Cache County has been identified as a Salt Lake City firefighter.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Opinion: JD Vance, here’s a Catholic politician you should get to know

<p>Andy Burnham, Britain’s new prime minister, is exactly the kind of Catholic that America needs.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Rout to nowhere: Real Salt Lake’s winless streak reaches 12 games

<p>Real Salt Lake’s winless streak in Major League Soccer reached 12 games on Saturday night in Sandy with its most lopsided loss during the slump.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Opinion: We are suffering the consequences of the conservative revolution that began in the 1980s

<p>Somewhere right now, someone is streaming “Stranger Things,” queuing up a Eurythmics synth-pop playlist, or buying a pair of the high-waisted jeans and leg warmers her mother once wore unironically. In the White House, President Trump celebrates the decade that brought him to prominence with his retrogressive policies and his bawdy, gaudy aesthetics.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Opinion: Civil libertarians knew this would happen. We should have listened.

<p>Six weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress passed the Patriot Act. The vote was 357-66 in the House, and 98-1 in the Senate. Sen. Russ Feingold (D., Wis.), the chamber’s lone dissenter, said later that many of his colleagues hadn’t bothered to read it.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Letter: Here are some critical issues to consider before casting your vote in the midterms

<p>As the 2026 election approaches, it is time to reflect on the direction of our state and country and consider who should represent us moving forward.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Opinion: Trump’s anti-immigrant coalition is cracking. Here’s what could come next.

<p>This spring, the prominent white nationalist Nick Fuentes decided that the war on immigrants is a lost cause. “Country’s over,” he <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/white-nationalism/nick-fuentes-declares-we-live-n-hell-while-claiming-hes-repping-james-fishbacks" rel="" target="_blank">said</a> on his Rumble show. “We’re already a nonwhite country.” Earlier this year, he declared immigration <a href="https://x.com/captive_dreamer/status/2031975488189874361?s=20" rel="" target="_blank">a “dead </a><a href="https://x.com/captive_dreamer/status/2031975488189874361?s=20" rel="" target="_blank">issue</a>,” arguing that President Trump “blew it” by linking arms with oligarchs and waging war on Iran.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Letter: Trump doesn’t care about protecting our forests. Speak up to protect the Roadless Rule before it’s too late.

<p>The Trump administration is attacking the policies that have kept our environment healthier and safer. Now, while fires ravage acres of forests, he wants to rescind the Roadless Rule, under the falsehood it will allow better management. Their argument is convincing, but not based on science and opens some of our oldest forests to mining and logging. </p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Letter: I used to vote for Republican candidates. Here’s why that’s no longer the case.

<p>The first time I ever voted, I chose all Republican candidates. Growing up, I was deeply influenced by my conservative (and loving) grandfather. However, the Republican Party in those years was very different from the party it is today.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Letter: Of course cameras can help solve crimes. But that shouldn’t trump Utahns’ right to privacy.

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Real Salt Lake’s winless streak in Major League Soccer reaches eight games

<p>Real Salt Lake ended its tough run through August with a thud.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Former Utah Jazz player Enes Kanter Freedom ejected from WNBA game after confrontation

<p><b>Chicago •</b> Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom was escorted out of Wintrust Arena on Sunday evening after Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud confronted him at his courtside baseline seat.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Opinion: Natalie Harp’s magnificent obsession: A perfect (taxpayer-funded) relationship.

<p><b>Washington •</b> I’ve spent my career watching officials maneuver and scheme, often in absurd ways, to get closer to presidents. But I’d never seen anything like the photo of Natalie Harp dashing after President Donald Trump’s golf cart in Scotland three years ago. I’d also never heard of a staffer jumping into the trunk of an SUV, as Harp did, when she was denied a seat in the motorcade.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Letter: A hunger strike at an ICE detention center hunger must be taken for what it is

<p>Many of the people ICE disappears from Utah end up in Tacoma, Washington, at the Northwest Detention Center. The facility is operated by a publicly traded company CEO Group.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Opinion: These protesters were charged with terrorism. Who’s next?

<p>Earlier this summer, a federal judge sentenced a group of eight anti-ICE activists to a collective 450 years in prison after what has become the first <a href="https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/antifa-prairieland-ice-protest-prison-sentences-b3001526.html" rel="" target="_blank">“test case”</a> for the Trump administration’s crackdown on left-wing activism.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Letter: Thanks to Lt. Gov. Henderson for her commitment to free and fair elections in Utah

<p>As a Republican woman, public servant, member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wife, and mother, I know that holding fast to laws and principles of good governance is essential. It is vital to feel you can trust elected officials to do their best to meet their obligations, and to feel your best interests are being considered in decision-making and actions.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Opinion: This is one of the most important policy decisions of our lifetime

<p>Major technological change produces major social change. Thanks to artificial intelligence, we are arguably on the brink of a productivity miracle capable of radically improving people’s lives — but only if we act now to prevent A.I.’s worst impacts.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Letter: The GOP’s red scare-mongering is deeply ironic given how much it resembles communist regimes

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Letter: If we want a better, healthier, more affordable world, we must stand for the environment and vote for those who protect it

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Letter: How do Utah leaders justify welcoming water-guzzling projects while asking Utahns to be waterwise?

<p>Utah legislators and the governor are demanding that the people of Utah cut back on their outdoor water use, restricting us to two days a week. Our lawns and trees are suffering, sometimes dying, all while the state authorities are passing out licenses to data centers to use hundreds of thousands of gallons of water a day. </p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Letter: Free and fair elections: A message of gratitude to Lt. Gov. Henderson

<p>In a primetime<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k9wvv5wyo" rel="" target="_blank"> address</a> given in July — and after another round of unfounded claims about election interference — President Trump again called on Congress to pass the SAVE America Act. </p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Letter: From Iran to the Epstein files to self-dealing, Trump’s defined by corruption, failures and lies. At least Nixon resigned.

<p>In May of 2017, The Tribune published my op-ed letter in which I concluded, <a href="https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5276601&itype=CMSID" rel="" target="_blank">“Trump will make Nixon look like a choir boy.”</a> After five months of Trump 1.0, I had heard enough of Trump’s lies to calculate that he would tell over 30,000 of them over his first term as president. The Washington Post reported over 33,000 in his four years in the White House.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Letter: Don’t let Trump get away with large-scale theft of public lands

<p>On July 13, Donald Trump stole three million acres of land from the American public.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Letter: Reading to children is crucial. But four other points need to be addressed if we hope to raise good readers.

<p>Your recent editorial and op-ed about kids’ reading are timely and important, but you’ve missed a few key points.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Letter: As the world burns, America’s top climate-change deniers are hurtling us toward an era of devastation

<p>A long-time resident of Salt Lake Valley, I sometimes refer to “back in the days when it used to snow.” </p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Letter: This is what it took for truth to come pouring out of the White House at last

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Letter: Blanche is demonstrably unqualified to be attorney general. And only two GOP senators agree?

<p>In 1973, at the height of the Watergate scandal, Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox demanded that President Nixon turn over the now infamous “Watergate tapes.” President Nixon ordered then Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson refused, and was promptly fired, as were several others in what came to be known as the “Saturday night massacre.” </p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Letter: We have spent billions to become more water efficient in Utah and the Great Salt Lake is dying. There is a better way.

<p>Agricultural surface irrigation (aka flood irrigation) could save the Great Salt Lake. </p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

With Colorado River ruling just days away, Joel Ferry set to leave Cox’s Cabinet

<p>Joel Ferry is stepping down as commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, just ahead of an anticipated announcement on Utah’s future share of Colorado River water and as the state grapples with plunging water levels in both the Great Salt Lake and Lake Powell. </p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Letter: While our climate burns to ash: A Utahn’s summer family vacation in verse

<p>We hit the highway seeking cool fun and found a fierce Wyoming sun,</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Letter: Why are simple kindness, courtesy and respect so absent during these turbulent times?

<p>The Argentinian’s loss to Spain in the World Cup surprised many, but it was truly shocking that the losers initiated a fist fight with the winners and later turned their backs toward the Spanish team during the trophy ceremony.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Utah Royals score a season-high four goals in victory over North Carolina Courage

<p>The Utah Royals got off to a fast start and went on to beat the host North Carolina Courage 4-1 in an NWSL game Saturday in Cary, N.C.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Opinion: I’m a scholar of genocide. We’re entering a terrifying new era.

<p>How do genocides end? In most cases, there are two options. Either the perpetrators accomplish their goal, or a military force stops them and accountability ensues.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Letter: With Trump’s move to shrink our monuments, Utah’s delegation again showed their true colors. Enough of that.

<p>Most of Utah’s political delegation was on hand at the White House as Trump signed the declarations reducing Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Bears Ears National Monument. Surely, Mike Lee, John Curtis, Celeste Maloy, Mike Kennedy, Blake Moore and Gov. Cox were aware of recent polling showing that over 70% of Utahns support acreages determined by years of planning by multi-stakeholder groups. This did not deter them from their giddiness and laughter during the “ceremony” as they celebrated the evisceration of protection for these landscapes many consider sacred, or the lies they told during interviews to justify their actions.</p>

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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah News, Sports, Religion & Entertain… @sltrib.com.web.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Letter: The disability community is the latest target of the Trump administration’s attack on civil liberties

<p>On the 250th anniversary of our country, all Americans should be included.</p>

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