Opinion

  • Keep transit fares fair

    The Utah Transit Authority is experiencing the same pain any driver feels at the gas pump. Except that UTA has an entire fleet of buses and new commuter trains that require motor fuel. It needs to raise fares to keep up with these escalating costs.
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  • When is Armed Forces Day?

    Happy Armed Forces Day. Or did you forget? Back in 1949, President Harry S. Truman created the Department of Defense and — in 1950 — he created Armed Forces Day to go along with it.
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  • The winners and the losers

    Winner: Midvale Mayor JoAnn Seghini compared the start of construction on a new TRAX line through her town to Christmas.
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  • Thomas L. Friedman: Incompetent Team America lacks leverage in the Mideast

    The next American president will inherit many foreign policy challenges, but surely one of the biggest will be the Cold War. Yes, the next president is going to be a Cold War president — but this Cold War is with Iran.
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