NewsTrust - Most Recent Stories

Perry the Poacher

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Jun. 05 (Opinion) - What you are now hearing across the land is a collective whine. Blue-state Democrats are upset that Texas Gov. Rick Perry dares come and play in their sandboxes, and worse, threatens to “poach” jobs from their states.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Social media help make conclave a historic one

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - Mar. 10 () - by Rachel Zoll The Associated Press Published Mar 9, 2013 09:54PM MDT Vatican City • A pastor in Ontario wondered about behind-the-scenes politicking ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope. He could have read news reports or listened to briefings by the Vatican spokesman. Instead, he asked a cardinal. Less than an hour later, the response arrived. “What I see is a real desire to know, and so evaluate, the papabili against criteria of qualities demanded by situations,” wrote Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, South Africa, using the term “papabili” for cardin... ...

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Brooks: Hagel’s job to wind down military spending

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - By David Brooks - Jan. 09 (Opinion) - Americans don’t particularly like government, but they do want government to subsidize their health care. They believe that health care spending improves their lives more than any other public good. In a Quinnipiac poll, typical of many others, Americans opposed any cuts to Medicare by a margin of 70 percent to 25 percent. In a democracy, voters get what they want, so the line tracing federal health care spending looks like the slope of a jet taking off from LaGuardia. Medicare spending is set ... ...

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Romney’s bluster

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Oct. 20 - Published Oct 20, 2012 01:01AM MDT The second debate between Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama was troubling for several reasons, but what bothered me most was Romney’s discussion of oil drilling and energy development in North America. As much as he hemmed-and-hawed about how he will open up oil drilling on an unprecedented scale, Romney did not once mention our responsibility to the environment. But Obama did. He understands that sustainable, long-term energy policy and our commitment to the environment are crucial ... ...

NewsTrust Rating: 2.4 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Too many Mitts

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Oct. 19 (Opinion) - Published Oct 19, 2012 12:13PM MDT Nowhere has Mitt Romney’s pursuit of the presidency been more warmly welcomed or closely followed than here in Utah. The Republican nominee’s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan governorship of a Democratic state, and his head for business and the bottom line all inspire admiration and hope in our largely Mormon, Republican, business-friendly state. But it was Romney’s singular role in rescuing Utah’s organization of the 2002 Olympics from a cesspool of scandal, and his ov... ...

NewsTrust Rating: 3.1 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

First since ‘52: No talk of war in GOP speeches

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Aug. 31 (Opinion) -

NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Romney’s BB energy plan

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Aug. 25 (Opinion) -

NewsTrust Rating: 4.1 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

U.S .sees Israel, tight Mideast ally, as spy threat

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Jul. 29 (News) - By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO The Associated Press Published Jul 28, 2012 05:59PM MDT Washington • The CIA station chief opened the locked box containing the sensitive equipment he used from his home in Tel Aviv, Israel, to communicate with CIA headquarters in Virginia, only to find that someone had tampered with it. He sent word to his superiors about the break-in. The incident, described by three former senior U.S. intelligence officials, might have been dismissed as just another cloak-and-dagger incident in the world of international espionage, except that the same thing had h... ...

NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Orrin Hatch, fossilized

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Mar. 17 - By david folland Published Mar 17, 2012 01:01AM MDT When I read Sen. Orrin Hatch’s op-ed (“Boost U.S. oil production,” Opinion, March 4), it evoked the picture of a man speeding down the freeway with head turned backwards, checking to be sure no one was coming up from behind. Indeed, looking to the past, it would appear that expanding oil exploration, as Hatch asserted, would be the best way to lower gas prices. However, ahead of us lies a serious pileup, and we are going to join the crash if we don’t turn our heads and look forward. That accide... ...

NewsTrust Rating: 4.1 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Fed-up customers taking action against big banks

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Oct. 20 - By paul beebe The Salt Lake Tribune Published Oct 19, 2011 07:41PM MDT Public anger that sparked the Occupy Wall Street protest is spilling over into direct action against Utah and U.S. banks, especially ones that took federal bailout money and charge high bank fees to make up for lost income while cutting back on lending and paying big bonuses. The fury is showing up in calls for customers to move their deposits to other banks or credit unions as a way to strike back at financial institutions that activists say have too much power in Washington. The latest moveme... ...

NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Poll: Obama faces trouble with key voters

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Aug. 28 - By KEN THOMAS and JENNIFER AGIESTA The Associated Press Published Aug 27, 2011 05:13PM MDT Washington • Whites and women are a re-election problem for President Barack Obama. Younger voters and liberals, too, but to a lesser extent. All are important Democratic constituencies that helped him win the White House in 2008 and whose support he’ll need to keep it next year. An analysis of Associated Press-GfK polls, including the latest survey released last week, shows that Obama has lost ground among all those groups since he took office. The review points to his vulnerabilities and prob... ...

NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Wendover’s nuclear secrets revealed

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Aug. 28 - By Scott D. Pierce The Salt Lake Tribune Published Aug 27, 2011 04:59PM MDT Wendover • For the first time in decades, Historic Wendover Airfield revealed its nuclear secrets to a small group of guests who got a look at what’s on the south side of the still-operational runway. And a peek at pieces of American history. Wendover is where flight crews trained to drop the atomic bombs that ended World War II and where those bombs, Fat Man and Little Boy, were developed and assembled (with the exception of the atomic warheads). “It’s awesome,” said Faye Sanders, of Salt Lake ... ...

NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Huntsman hits Perry on climate change, Fed

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Aug. 21 - The Associated Press Published Aug 20, 2011 06:07PM MDT Washington • Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is pounding away at rival Rick Perry’s skepticism of manmade global warming and criticism of the nation’s central banker, saying those stands hurt the GOP and make the Texas governor come off as a not-so-serious national figure. Huntsman, a former Utah governor who was President Barack Obama’s first ambassador to China, has trailed in early polls nationally and in early voting states, leading his campaign to pledge more aggressive attacks on the t... ...

NewsTrust Rating: 2.3 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Fear of the tea party

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Aug. 08 - Published Aug 7, 2011 09:20PM MDT Shame on the Utah Republican members of Congress who voted against the bill to raise the nation’s debt limit. Contrast that to Rep. Jim Matheson and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who put their country first above petty politics. Giffords, recovering from an assassin’s bullet, said she voted for the measure because “I could not take the chance that my absence could crash our economy.” Conservative-loving Utahns have been sold out by their so-called leaders in Washington who would not support ... ...

NewsTrust Rating: 1.2 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Global warming disease

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - By Sherman Bloom - Jul. 12 (Opinion) - If your granddaughter has a fever of 105, is comatose, and has symptoms of meningococcal meningitis, do you wait for still more proof of the disease, or do you start treatment immediately? If you wait one day, the child may be dead. You want treatment now! How about a planet undergoing scientifically diagnosed global warming ...

NewsTrust Rating: 3.1 average - 4 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Why the Southwest is burning

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Jul. 09 - By william debuys Writers on the Range Published Jul 8, 2011 04:25PM MDT No big thing happens for just one reason. This season’s fires, cutting broad swaths across the Southwest, result from the convergence of three powerful forces: climatic drought, institutional tunnel vision, and old-fashioned human frailty. On the face of it, the drought is simple: There hasn’t been much rain or snow across much of the region, and the forests are tinder dry. Many people ask if climate change might be a factor. A definite answer is both impossible and obvious to give — impossible ... ...

NewsTrust Rating: 3.9 average - 4 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Campbell: Time for sun to shine on legislative caucuses

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Jun. 04 (Opinion) - By Joel Campbell Special to The Tribune Published Jun 3, 2011 07:16PM MDT In a state where a supermajority of Republicans controls both chambers of the Legislature, it is time for citizens to demand that legislators hold open caucuses. Years ago, legislators exempted political caucus meetings from the open meetings law. Senate minority leader Ross Romero hoped to push SB254 during the 2011 session, but the bill never got beyond its title. Romero wants political caucuses subject to the same sunshine-in-government rules that govern meetings of everything from the local... ...

NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Taliban attack US vehicles in Pakistan

Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - By Riaz Khan, Nahal Toosi - May. 20 (News) - A Taliban car bomb struck an armored vehicle taking American government employees to the U.S consulate in northwest Pakistan on Friday, officials said, in a strike the militants said was in revenge for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.9 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Student deaths spark suicide prevention campaign

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - By Rosemary WInters - Apr. 02 (News) - Extra counselors have been dispatched to the school of 850 students to offer one-on-one and small-group counseling throughout the day. The school also plans to launch a program called “Tell Someone” that will encourage youths to speak to an adult when they are feeling depressed or struggling with other problems.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Interior: Drillers sitting on millions of leased acres

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - By Thomas Burr - Mar. 29 (News Report) - A new Interior Department report says more than half the public lands leased to oil and gas companies are sitting idle while the industry and congressional critics are clamoring to open more federal swaths for exploration. But Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, who heads a House subcommittee over public lands, says those numbers are bunk and blasted Interior for playing politics with America’s energy sector.

NewsTrust Rating: 2.4 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

‘Grandparent economy’ helps drive the financial system

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - By Anita Creamer - Dec. 25 (Special Report) - America’s 70 million grandparents divvied up the $52 billion they spent on their grandkids in 2009, according to a study that was commissioned by Grandparents.com. With that kind of spending power, even in the recession grandparents are clearly a key force driving the broader economy.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Don’t let your turkey make you sick

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - By Heather May - Nov. 23 (News) - The Salt Lake Valley Health Department is reminding people to properly store their Thanksgiving leftovers so they don’t become one of the estimated 400,000 Americans sickened by turkey-related food poisoning each year.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Voters have interest in politicians’ loyalty to religion

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - By Ross A. Collier - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - Personally, I want to know when religious beliefs influence the policy preferences of government officials and candidates. My justification for the appropriateness of this line of inquiry from the public and the press is as follows.

NewsTrust Rating: 2.1 average - 3 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Recession’s over

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Sep. 25 - Updated Sep 25, 2010 12:07AM MDT A clutch of egghead economists has declared that the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009. If you’re out of a job, that’s small comfort. Ditto if you are upside down in your mortgage and facing foreclosure. Nevertheless, it’s good news that the U.S. economy stopped shrinking 15 months ago and has been growing ever since. The trouble is that it is growing at a painfully slow pace, not fast enough to generate the new jobs that many Americans desperately need. The Wall Street Journal pu... ...

NewsTrust Rating: 3.3 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

The DREAM can wait no longer - Salt Lake Tribune

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Sep. 18 (Opinion) - Boston GlobeThe DREAM can wait no longerSalt Lake TribuneOver the past few months, the topic of immigration has continued to fuel debate among legislators, the media and the American public. ...Obama, Reid support encourages Dream Act watchersRedlands Daily FactsSenate Democrats hope to score points with DREAM Act debateMiamiHerald.comWhy We Need The DREAM Act NowILW.comSan Gabriel Valley Tribune?-CounterPunch?-1888 Press Release (press release)all 460 news articles??

NewsTrust Rating: 2.0 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer