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Letter: A healthy argument for stopping animal meat trade

Congratulations to South Korea for finally joining Western civilization in banning dog meat trade. When will we be taking the next civilized step of banning all animal meat trade? What ever makes dogs more deserving of life and liberty than cows and pigs? But there is more. According to the ...

Letter: Protect Utah businesses’ access to critical digital tools

Small businesses in Utah have proven their resiliency over the last few years. Many of us have thrived despite the pandemic-era challenges thrown our way. This success is partly due to the ability to access free, easy-to-use digital tools that allow business owners to grow their business and ...

Robbins: On America’s right and left, a certain madness

"Things fall apart, the center cannot hold," wrote Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919 as he contemplated the post-war world with dread. For anyone on the lookout for evidence that America's political center has disintegrated, 2023 was a banner year, with a bumper crop of proof that a ...

Zito: The silent death by a thousand cuts in manufacturing

WILMERDING, Pa. — By July of this year, the last man on the job here at the Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation will, in all likelihood, turn around as he reaches the threshold of the same front door hundreds of thousands of workers have passed through since the 1890s. For the ...

Hollis: Standards can – and must – be applied to everyone

Dr. Claudine Gay has resigned as president of Harvard University. A tepid nonresponse to congressional questioning about opposing antisemitism and calls for genocide of Jewish people on college campuses was enough to doom Liz Magill, former president of the University of Pennsylvania. But Dr. ...

Garvey: I’m on the bridge to nowhere, and loving it

I've been playing a lot of bridge lately — the card game, that is — on my tablet in bed at night. It's a good way to wind down, and it's also less depressing than Twitter, which is basically the pit of Sarlacc at this point: You get thrown into it and you're digested alive for 1,000 ...