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John Stockton's entitled to his privacy and his COVID opinions, but not false facts.

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Stockton is certainly entitled to be left alone in his privacy and to share his time only with family and close friends.

Utah's Phil Lyman waves around his Trump pardon like it's an anti-woke flag.

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I understood that the new flag spoke more favorably about Utah than the old flag ever did or ever could.

The new Utah flag adds color to life in the hive.

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I don't make but perhaps two trips a year past our Utah State Capitol, having learned that—for me—it provides little else than heartburn wrought by decades of political malfeasance whenever I see it.

Questioning the age of America's elderly leaders is a tale as old as time

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If you want to trigger an old person, mention something about age.

Pour one out for the old-guard journalists whose stories tend not to be told by billionaire media owners.

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Last Friday night, a tidy group of local newspaper professionals gathered at Junior's Tavern in Salt Lake City to pay tribute to Lance Gudmundsen, an old-timey news veteran who recently passed away.

The characters may change names but 'the Utah Way' and the Utah Legislature stay the same

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For as long as I've lived in Utah, it's been verily documented that there exist two Utahs.

Utah still hasn't learned the Field of Dreams rule of highways: if you build it, they will come.

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There may never have been a truer line in all of cinema than the mysterious, whispered proclamation made to Ray Kinsella in the movie Field of Dreams.

My old ciggie habit, and how Utah's indoor-smoking ban changed everything

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The only New Year's resolution I ever made that mattered was quitting smoking.

Mike Lee was always a weasel, but @basedmikelee is on another level

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We know the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs are the only Major League Baseball teams worth rooting for, principally because both are so lovable.

Career politicians can only dream of the kind of support Mike Lee gets for Worst Utahn

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So, with Anderson not in the frame—and few viable Salt Lake City mayoral candidates on any hill or horizon—is it too early to proclaim Mendenhall as "mayor for life" of this fair city?

Jason Chaffetz shows his turkey brain blaming Biden for the cost of Thanksgiving groceries

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For years, our family gathered up whatever our mother cooked for the day, and we hauled it all the way to my grandparents' house about 100 feet away

Utah's MAGA farmers get a bad trade from shipping the state's water overseas

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Ute fans have traveled to Los Angeles for the Rose Bowl, where consecutive losses closed out each of those football seasons, leading to miserable winters of waiting till "next season."

The Utah Legislature will pick on Salt Lake City no matter who the mayor is

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All I remember about that era is that there wasn't much to downtown Salt Lake City at the time, lest we would not have been able to find a rentable space at around $300 per month.

America is a land of the free and a home of the blamed

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My grandmother was born in a log cabin in 1899 in Dry Fork, Utah. I was last there maybe 15 years ago or so, and the cabin was still standing.

My backyard birds have flown with my mom's passing

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People began taking up all kinds of diversions to pass the time between paranoiac coughs and sneezes and while avoiding other human beings.

Mine waste stacked precariously on Oquirrh Mountain ridges may slide into a neighborhood near you soon.

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The first thing I noticed were the hard-to-miss extraordinary fall colors we are experiencing this year. So, I took a ride up Butterfield Canyon this past weekend to take a look.

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