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France's riots could be a preview of the U.S. in 2032

3/22/2023

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Take a good look at the riots in cities across France right now. They could be a preview of what’s coming to the United States in less than a decade.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Politicians on both sides of the aisle could get serious about Social Security reforms and head off a depletion of the program’s trust fund. Unfortunately, so far many of them, and the president, seem to have decided instead to retreat inside political bunkers and lob verbal grenades.
That’s a shame, because studies have shown there is common ground between voters on both sides of the political spectrum. 

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Bank bailouts should remind us of the first FDIC recipient

3/15/2023

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Press accounts described 66-year-old Lydia Lobsiger as wearing a “freshly laundered gingham dress” with a black straw hat on her head on July 5, 1934. What they didn’t describe was the stern matter-of-fact expression on her face as she looked at the camera, her left hand loosely holding one end of a check that also was held by a balding man in a suit, his face expressionless. In her right arm, she carried her 3-year-old granddaughter.


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Utah kicks the beehive with its new state flag

3/2/2023

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Utah Sen. Dan McCay may have said it best in a Senate hearing. When people hear the Legislature is changing the state flag, he said, they often say it’s a waste of time, and that no one cares. 
But that’s not true.
“What I’ve quickly learned is that everyone cares about flags,” he said.
McCay, a Republican from Riverton, was the Senate sponsor of SB31, which created a new Utah flag he hopes will soon begin to adorn ballcaps, T-shirts, mugs and anything else suitable for a symbol that invokes pride. He seemed genuinely surprised by what he had wrought.
“Flag bills are hard,” he said. “Really hard!”

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    Jay Evensen is the Senior Editorial Columnist of the Deseret News. He has nearly 40 years experience as a reporter, editor and editorial writer in Oklahoma, New York City, Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. He also has been an adjunct journalism professor at Brigham Young and Weber State universities.

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