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Letter: Clancy to be commended for passing China resolution

I’d like to thank State Representative Tyler Clancy for successfully shepherding House Resolution 5 through the Utah House of Representatives. Young Republicans like me have for several years been zeroing on two key challenges: the pollution that undergirds the climate challenge and the ...

Stiehm: A light in the House; farewell to a Senate friend

"Every single member (will) vote their conscience." Conscience, did you say? House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) words cut cleanly through the House of Representatives noise. Seldom are they told to rise above the partisan rabble. After months of darkness and delay, Johnson did the right ...

Robbins: Elitism, arrogance threaten a backlash against Democrats

"Trouble in River City" goes the famous line in "The Music Man," one of America's best-loved musicals, set in the fictional town of River City, Iowa, meant to represent the country's heartland. It is in America's heartland — not just geographic, but socio-political — that Democrats risk a ...

Zito: Postcards from the edge of cannibalism

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania — Several years ago the Smithsonian magazine ran an elegant story about the use of postcards in American culture as a way both to communicate to loved ones far away and to illustrate what the traveler wants you to see about where they have been. The key phrase is ...

Erickson: Must-see TV

You will have to forgive a piece that is not at all about politics and the current cultural contretemps of modern American society. Instead, I want to use these words to recommend as forcefully as possible a television show that you should be watching. But first, you must have a history ...