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Trump's order on monuments won't solve anything

4/26/2017

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Earlier this month, I drove my family through the Colorado National Monument, just outside Grand Junction. We marveled at the sheer cliffs, the tall monolithic rock structures and the colors that seemed to dance in the sunlight. We hiked some trails and admired the vistas.
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I couldn’t help wonder whether the 20,500-acre site could have been designated today without protests and controversy. 

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Does flying have to be such a hassle?

4/25/2017

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Last week I stood in line for TSA screening at Salt Lake International when people in front of me began buzzing.
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At the head of the line was a young woman, likely in her 20s, who wore a protective boot for a foot injury. TSA agents had forced her to remove the boot, which they were examining, and she was hobbling into a machine where she could stand, 

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Why Jason Chaffetz' decision is hard to understand

4/19/2017

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So, what gives, Jason Chaffetz?

Did the Secret Service finally clean up its act and name an impenetrable and un-jumpable White House fence after you?

Did you land a job with a cell phone company that offers free health insurance with each two-year contract?

Or, as I read again and again on social media, did 

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Where does the buck stop with SLC's homeless problem?

4/19/2017

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Where does the buck stop when it comes to homelessness around Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande neighborhood?

You might think that is a simple question. You would be wrong.

Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski told the combined editorial boards of the Deseret News and KSL on Monday that it stops “with all of us — the state, the county the city elected officials. We’re all 

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As UTA (and United) knows, reputation can be hard to regain

4/11/2017

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“A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.” — Joseph Hall, author
 
The Utah Transit Authority is all too aware of what United Airlines seems to be newly discovering. A lifetime of correct choices can’t make up for a few bad ones that get a lot of publicity.

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Where is the plan for Salt Lake's Rio Grande area?

4/10/2017

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When it comes to the homeless, all the oxygen lately has been consumed by people trying to keep the mayor of Salt Lake County from building a shelter. It’s easy to forget that much of the west side of downtown remains under siege.

Thank you, Sheriff Jim Winder, for reminding everyone of that. It may be important to design a new and better house, but if the one you’ve got right now is on fire, you don’t want the 911 dispatcher to tell you she’d like to send help, but everyone right 

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What is it I don' t 'get' about public hearings?

4/4/2017

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After enduring three hours of verbal abuse, calls for his ouster and interruptions when he tried to explain, Draper mayor Troy Walker said “I get it now” as he pulled back his offer to house a homeless shelter within city limits.

But what, exactly, did he get?
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That, while sports fans in Philadelphia may be infamous for once booing Santa Claus, people in Draper will boo a homeless person off the stage?

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Is Utah a better place to retire than Arizona?

4/3/2017

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Move over Sun City. A better retirement community is Provo, or maybe Saratoga Springs, or perhaps St. George.

I’m betting on Southern Utah.

It’s hard to tell, because the folks at bankrate.com didn’t go into that kind of detail. But they did rank Utah just head of Arizona on a list of the best states in which to retire. Utah just missed the top-10, finishing 11th, right behind Idaho. Arizona came in 12th.
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The best retirement state? New Hampshire. No, seriously.

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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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