John Saltas

Find Your Sexy Dream Lover and Lose Weight at the Same Time Just by Reading This Column About Dumb Headlines

• By John Saltas
He was spot on. Clickbait is not only the starting point for a community of suckers to commiserate about topics they don't need to, but clickbait has also changed the nature of how newspapers, especially, write and construct their own headlines.
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Ask Burgess

• By John Saltas
Last week, I asked readers to submit any questions they had for U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens, so we can print them for him. The reason, ostensibly, is because Owens hasn't been forthcoming when it comes to issues that Utahns want to know.
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Ask Burgess

• By John Saltas
No one I know has ever seen him in downtown, and yet, he's my rep. He will be on the government dole long after he denies Utahns the similar privilege of having any social dividends provided by Dyadya Sem, I mean, Uncle Sam.
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On Your Mark

I grew up in in Bingham Canyon, one of the manliest of man places around.

• By John Saltas
It really was. Nearly all of the men worked hard at dangerous jobs in the Kennecott copper mine.
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Us vs Us

• By John Saltas
One of the damning nuances of print publications is that in this era of fast-release news on the internet and over social media, by the time someone reads what is written, it will be, as they say, yesterday's news.
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Sliced and Diced

• By John Saltas
I've never been one to exalt when good things happen. It's been many years since even my youngest child was born, so I barely remember the celebration after each arrived.
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History Fail

Painkillers and opioid drugs

• By John Saltas
Over the past couple of weeks, I've written about the cervical-disk fusion surgery I've recently undergone and naturally used the space to segue into the mysterious world of painkillers and opioid drugs.
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Fool Me Twice

• By John Saltas
My newly educated self reads directions much better than my old self, so those meds are heading to a take-back disposal center. Sorry, illicit opioid supply chain.
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Pill Popping

• By John Saltas
Other times I have to read something over and over to get even the most basic salient points—like wondering recently, "Gary Herbert. Gary Herbert. Hmmm. Why does that name ring a bell?"
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Herd Mentality

• By John Saltas
Not that long ago, half the people in Utah balked at taking any precautions against COVID-19. They didn't like masks. They wanted their "freedoms."
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