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Mar
12
2010

Woman: Garn lying about 'no contact' in hottub when she was 15

Jesse Fruhwirth

Cheryl Maher, the New Hampshire woman who says she had an affair with Layton Rep. Kevin Garn in 1985 and was paid $150,000 to keep her secret, says Garn is lying about a naked hot tub encounter between them when she was 15 and he was 30.

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News Blog -
Mar
11
2010

Chaffetz talks pull out, votes for more war

Jesse Fruhwirth

Nov. 30, 2009, Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz spoke against the war in Afghanistan. He said, "Mr. President, it is time to bring our troops home." So why did Chaffetz yesterday vote against a resolution that would direct the president to end the war?

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News Blog -
Mar
09
2010

Scooped by Mormon Media?

Jerre Wroble

Seldom does the LDS Church return City Weekly's phone calls. But our intrepid freelancer Katharine Biele managed to charm a few answers out of church representatives for her forthcoming cover feature "This Is the Place"

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News Blog -
Mar
09
2010

Little Mermaid Stolen!

Eric Peterson

Disney enthusiasts and/or nostalgic tweakers have apparently stolen a statue of the Little Mermaid, worth an estimated $28,000, from the International Peace Gardens in Jordan Park (1000 W. 900 South).

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News Blog -
Mar
09
2010

Practice Safe Commerce

Eric Peterson

Consumer Protection Week kicks off today with state and federal consumer protection watchdogs urging the public to beware of fraudulent hucksters and their “free” weight loss sample products and duplicitous work-at-home kits. Some call it fraud--most in Utah government call it “market forces”—po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to.

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News Blog -
Mar
09
2010

College Republican causes stir for exposing his gun

Jesse Fruhwirth

Some guy is walking around campus with his gun hanging out. Nothing else seems amiss. Would you call the cops?

Nicholas Moyes, the president of the Utah Valley University College Republicans, carries a Sig Sauer P 226 9 mm on his hip, and he doesn't want to conceal it--at least not all the time. Many argue he's well within his rights outlined in state law and the 2nd Amendment, but when he made that argument to some Utah Valley University campus police (and secretly recorded it on his iPhone, see below), after a half-hour of debate, he hadn't gotten very far.

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News Blog -
Mar
09
2010

Dead Port: Week 57

Bill Frost

The hole where Port O' Call used to be in Downtown Salt Lake City, 400 S. West Temple, closed since February 2009 ...

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News Blog -
Mar
09
2010

Dead Goat: Week 166

Bill Frost

The Dead Goat Saloon in Downtown Salt Lake City, 165 S. West Temple, closed since December 2006 (as the Crazy Goat Saloon) ...

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News Blog -
Mar
09
2010

Dead Zephyr: Week 330

Bill Frost

The Zephyr Club in Downtown Salt Lake City, 301 S. West Temple, closed since October 2003 ...

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News Blog -
Mar
08
2010

Spare Change

Josh Loftin

A good cause proves, again, the inability of Democrats to get anything passed.

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