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University should relax and take after Mia Love
Mia Love’s 4th District Congressional candidacy and the University of Utah’s perpetual handwringing over its nickname have a similar underlying theme: race. That’s where the similarity ends. Love i...
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Cell phone ban is an idea whose time has past
At no time has the danger of texting while driving worried me more than when my oldest daughter turned 16 this past October. While she had a student permit, I could closely monitor that she wasn’t ...
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Conservatives, be wary of wolf in Obama clothing
You can be sure it’s been an odd election cycle when the republican presidential field narrows down to an amphibian or a baseball glove. Yet here we are, less than a month from the Iowa Caucus, wit...
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Freedom from religion should never replace freedom of religion
Imagine a world where we cannot openly express and display symbols of our religion. Oh, wait. That’s how it already is. On top of a mountain in Denver, for example, which has been a famous local ...
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Citizen journalism can be as good as paid journalism
It’s nothing new. Since the advent of the Internet, unpaid, non-credentialed citizen journalists have been posting news online at will, causing heartburn among crusty professionals. The career jour...
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Making a case for early Christmas music
It’s become somewhat of a joke in our family. As soon as Halloween creeps past, when I hear Christmas music on the radio, I turn it up and my usually laid-back husband turns into a veritable Mr. Gr...
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Teacher plus parental involvement equals math proficiency
by Jewel Punzalan Allen
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It’s disturbing that when only 40 percent of our nation’s fourth-graders test proficient in math, it’s considered progress. Meanwhile, the solution for the 60 percent left behind is a waiver from t...
Sant generates results at more than fair cost
by Roger Baker
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Recent criticisms of Tooele City’s economic development program and its economic development director, Randy Sant, demand a response. In the Oct. 18 article “Roberts campaigns on dropping Sant,” th...
Occupy Wall Street ‘protest’ is waste of time
by Jewel Punzalan Allen
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Oddly enough, Occupy Wall Street protesters tweet their discontent against the wealthy on their expensive iPhones. They have yet to come up with a coherent message, but meanwhile the irony of their...
Blended waste presents no risks to health
by Blaine Howard
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The blended waste EnergySolutions hopes to receive would be treated by Studsvik using a process called THOR (Thermal Organic Reduction), which reduces the volume and weight of the ion exchange resi...
Blended waste would cause big increase in radioactivity
by Matt Pacenza
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To talk about blended radioactive waste — the new stream of nuclear power plant debris that EnergySolutions wishes to begin bringing to Clive — one must go back to 2005. That’s when the state Legi...
Still waiting for America’s first woman president
by Jewel Punzalan Allen
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It has always amazed me that America, a country where females aren’t known to be shrinking violets, hasn’t yet elected a female president. After all, we are living in an era where a record-number o...
A college degree still worth it despite job shortage
by Jewel Punzalan Allen
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To try to return to the work force at 40 is a daunting prospect. To attempt it during this protracted economic slump feels near impossible. Over the last several years, I have had the privilege of...
Parents need to remember that it’s just a game for kids
by Jewel Punzalan Allen
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What is it about sports that turns fairly pleasant parents into obnoxious armchair quarterbacks? I was thinking this the other day at one of my kids’ soccer games. Next to me, a father from the ot...
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