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Letter: There will be squealing but budget cuts are essential

Is there a single person out there that doesn't believe our government doesn't have FAT that can be trimmed from the budget? Decades of irresponsible spending have slashed the value of our dollar. That devaluation causes our prices to skyrocket, and we ignore that it will be even worse for ...

Letter: Utah GOP should reconsider attack on public workers

It is hard to understand why the Utah Republican Party has declared war against Utah's public workers. Police, firefighters, teachers and other public workers are being threatened for speaking out about the needs of their professions. A member of the State School Board who is a career educator ...

Letter: Letter didn’t tell the truth about California wildfires

Russ Larsen seems to be in error on a key point of his letter about who is responsible for the current fires in the LA area of California. Contrary to what Russ provided as fact, indeed California does not prohibit controlled burns. Half truths are harmful in this dire situation. All that I ...

The Homefront: Certainties amid the chaos offer calm and peace

All right, everyone who’s really, really tired of listening to the political wrangling droning on, raise your hand. Yeah, me too. Sometimes, the only reason we tune into the chaotic confusion is because we humans harbor a morbid fascination for watching things like slow-motion train wrecks ...

Harrop: Democrats need to pick and choose: Start with drug prices

Donald Trump is executing a shock and awe strategy, burying the public in a smoky cloud of flamboyant proposals. Some, like ending birthright citizenship, are quickly slapped down in the courts. Some, like threatening to invade Greenland, are dismissed as moronic. But all are radical enough to ...

Shapiro: The Chinese Sputnik

This week, China shocked the West with its announcement of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence network capable of competing with OpenAI, Meta and Google. The fact that China was able to develop DeepSeek without a heavy supply of sophisticated microchips from Nvidia sent Nvidia stock spiraling, ...