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OK, bad guys, this time the politicians mean business

7/31/2017

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OK, drug lords, you’ve been warned. This time, the politicians are serious. No more crimes in Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande neighborhood, or else.

The only people who know what “or else” means are the few who were allowed in a secret meeting Wednesday with Gov. Gary Herbert, House Speaker Greg Hughes and a few others, and they’re not saying.

You aren’t likely to find a bigger advocate of open 

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Don't overreact by removing the elected recorder's office

7/25/2017

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The Deseret News has been dogged in reporting on Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott, and for good reason. His apparent inability to perform the duties of his office because of possible dementia is important information. Voters have a right to know such things, just as we have a right to know whether his closest aides were trying to keep his condition from the public to protect their own jobs.
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But why compound that pain by reacting with a legislative sledgehammer? 

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Regular folks, not politicians, will solve our problems

7/12/2017

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Few news stories are as inspiring as the one that broke Tuesday about 80 or so strangers along the Florida coast who quickly organized a human chain to rescue an entire family caught in a dangerous riptide.

Now imagine this: What if, when that family began screaming for help, the only people on the beach had been members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats on a beach excursion?

Would they have formed a bipartisan human chain, or would whichever party thought of that solution have faced instant opposition from the other side?

I hope they would have acted much like the diverse group of beach-goers in Panama City, who didn’t bother to ask about each other’s views before acting. 

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Are we 'prime(d)' for changes in how we shop?

7/11/2017

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My shopping experience last Saturday, for good or ill, turned out to be a sign of how the world is changing in the early 21st century.

I wanted a new pair of shoes, so I did what people have done for more than a century. I went to a store — a large local mall, which shall remain nameless because it could have been any one of them.

I had a particular brand in mind. The first store I visited had a limited selection, and the sales staff 

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Why let people play with fire in the desert in July?

7/5/2017

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Firefighters called this year’s July 4 holiday a perfect storm for fire danger. If so, perfection is rarely so easy to predict.

A good portion of the state near Panguitch had been on fire for days. A wet spring had left plenty of growth everywhere that hot, dry days had transformed into kindling.
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And then the population, almost in unison, played with fire. What were we expecting?

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Why does Trump want your driver license number?

7/3/2017

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Only four years ago, Americans were outraged that the National Security Agency was secretly gathering information on American’s phone calls and emails, in a broad data sweep we were told would make anti-terrorism efforts more effective.

Ah, the good old days.

Now it is the White House that is looking for 

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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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