POSTED // Sep 12,2012 - On Sept. 1, The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board weighed in on the 1st Congressional District race with glowing praise of Democratic candidate Donna McAleer’s unique qualifications, ranging from military experience to the private sector—and then endorsed decade-long incumbent Rep. Rob Bishop. In McAleer’s view, the editorial’s support of Bishop’s experience in Congress is representative of the political inertia that gels Utah incumbents safely into their D.C. seats for decades.

POSTED // Sep 5,2012 - According to the settlement, the Utah Attorney General’s Office says the ability of bars to change the price of drinks from one day to the next was never prohibited by the law in the first place.

POSTED // Aug 29,2012 - On July 8, Robin Putnam’s train was ahead of schedule and stopped over in Salt Lake City for a few hours. At 3 a.m., Putnam stepped off the train, leaving behind his laptop, bags, wallet and I.D., and disappeared.

POSTED // Aug 22,2012 - While police continue to investigate the flare attack, the culprits have so far evaded capture. It remains a mystery as to whether their act was purely random or motivated by hate against the popular gay club. Had the suspects been arrested, however, their motive would not have made a difference, since Utah law treats such incidents the same, whether juvenile pranks or acts of hate against people for being gay.

POSTED // Aug 15,2012 - The gavel has always come down hard on child pornographers, giving lengthy jail sentences to those who produce and profit from the exploitation of children.

POSTED // Aug 8,2012 - Tourist boards in big cities have been known to draw attention to their famous footpaths with live camera feeds showcasing big-draw locales like Times Square in New York City or New Orleans’ raucous Bourbon Street. Now, Salt Lake City’s nonprofit Downtown Alliance is experimenting with its own street cam, viewable 24 hours a day on the DA website, to highlight what’s happening on a block of Main Street that, in years past, has generally been home to for-lease signs and loitering panhandlers.

POSTED // Aug 1,2012 - Four years after the 2008 recession paralyzed the country, more and more holes are showing up in a battered social safety net.

POSTED // Jul 25,2012 - An apple a day keeps the doctor away—but unfortunately for apple-eating Americans, U.S. health care has made its money not on keeping people away from the doctor, but on the costly emergency-room visits, scans

POSTED // Jul 18,2012 - The Central Utah Art Center, which focuses on contemporary art, has drawn thousands of visitors to Ephraim every year. Officials say the city can no longer afford to support CUAC

POSTED // Jul 11,2012 - In a state dominated by Republican politics, the minority party may be the Democrats, but the runner up in ideology has to be Libertarianism, whose followers take Republicans’ distrust of big government and apply it to all scenarios.