Opinion
De RUGY: Social Security and Medicare’s trustees have spoken. Will pols listen before the cuts hit?

Letter: Concerns about the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

Letter: Tax dollars shouldn’t be wasted on death-row prisoners
HARROP: ‘A lot of Americans are going to die’ courtesy of Bobby Kennedy

Guest opinion: Measles outbreak highlights consequences of vaccination choices
STIEHM: Campbell keeps Capitol history fires burning

Letter: Senator Mike Lee’s disgrace
CRIMMEL: To keep local arts thriving, make them accessible to every audience

The Homefront: Today is the day to start your life history
LLOYD: Celebrate Independence Day by finding some common ground
"Can we all get along?" It's been more than 32 years since the world heard those words from Rodney King during a press conference as riots brought violence and destruction to Los Angeles in 1991, but in many ways the question probably resonates just as much — if not more — today. Because ...
De RUGY: Social Security and Medicare’s trustees have spoken. Will pols listen before the cuts hit?
Considering recent news, you may have missed that the 2025 trustees reports for Social Security and Medicare are out. Once again, they confirm what we've known for decades: Both programs are barreling straight toward insolvency. The Social Security retirement trust fund and Medicare Hospital ...
HARROP: ‘A lot of Americans are going to die’ courtesy of Bobby Kennedy
Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican from Louisiana, is also a doctor. He put up resistance last February to Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "Bobby," as Trump likes to call him, has long cast doubts on the safety of vaccines that ...
Letter: Concerns about the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
My question is if this bill is all about spending and reduction, why did they hide in the bill Sections 70302 and 43201, and modify Hearing protection actin Section 112029? It is interesting that two members of the House of Representatives had no idea these sections were in the bill. I have ...
Letter: Tax dollars shouldn’t be wasted on death-row prisoners
Our taxpayer dollars are once again being squandered on prisoners in death-row stasis. Just recently, a judge once again declared an inmate was fit for execution (after 37 years) and competent to carry out his demise. For those of you who remember the "Hi-Fi Shop" killings and torture of many ...
Guest opinion: Measles outbreak highlights consequences of vaccination choices
Across the state, emergency room nurses like myself have simultaneously been preparing for and dreading this day: Utah has now confirmed its first three measles cases in the current outbreak. There is good reason why even one case of measles triggers a heightened response. Measles is one of ...