Past stories lay the foundation for new ones in Park City.
by Scott Renshaw and David Riedel
Current tenants evicted, the future of fabled SLC community is now in the hands of probate court.
by David Hampshire
Will Winter Games redux be a boon for SLC, or is the state headed toward a total Olympocalypse?
by Kelan Lyons
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A look at the people, protests and moments that shaped 2018.
Featuring photos by Sarah Arnoff, Rachel Barnes, Steve Conlin, Dylan Woolf Harris, Ray Howze, Enrique Limón, Kelan Lyons and Steven Vargo.
By Enrique Limón and City Weekly Staff
December 26, 2018
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State plans threaten some of the country's last wild places.
"The current roadless rule puts no limits on the use of prescribed fires," Biskupski wrote in a letter that recommended the state leave the federal roadless rule intact.
By Tara Lohan
December 19, 2018
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Roast some chestnuts and fire up the remote control. The holidays are here!
The Hallmark Channel alone is responsible for 78 percent of Christmas movies, and all of them star Candace Cameron-Bure (I made that up, but I'm probably not far off).
By David Riedel
December 12, 2018
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A new report attempts to document the number of Indigenous women missing or murdered in 71 cities across the U.S. According to its data, Salt Lake City ranks in the top 10.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, murder is the third-leading cause of death among Native American women between ages 10 and 24.
By Kelan Lyons
December 5, 2018
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Officials in Utah’s fastest-growing county are obscuring details of what a high-stakes project will cost taxpayers.
While proponents argued that the project was necessary to stave off water shortages, Lozada warned that it might trigger an economic crisis.
By Emma Penrod
November 28, 2018
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A new Facebook page has been getting a lot of attention by people who want to share their often-horrific church stories.
How many do you think just wanted to block those experiences out? But now they have a way to tell their story to people.
By Rich Kane
November 21, 2018
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Reduced to an empty lot picked at by developers, Granite High’s historic specter still haunts South Salt Lake.
Piles of soil lay beside partially- and fully-finished houses. A large green-and-white sign sits beside the homes, advertising the community's new name: Granite Legacy.
By Kelan Lyons
November 14, 2018
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Inmate deaths plague Salt Lake County jail.
Utah is one of 20 states that does not require jail inspections or independent oversight.
By Christopher Smart
November 7, 2018
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PLUS: Prop 2 madness, awful political ads, an ode to Orrin and more!
In this special midterm election issue, we say goodbye to Sen. Orrin Hatch and help you figure out how to vote on each ballot initiative, in a fun, gently mocking, alt-weekly way.
By Ray Howze and Kelan Lyons
October 31, 2018
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Amid a desolate mess in a Grand County ghost town, a young woman resurrects a home.
The La Sal Mountains rise up south of Eileen's home, and Cisco stands in the Cisco Desert, in an exposed, waterless low spot that one book describes without irony as "a hole."
By Sarah Gilman
October 24, 2018
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Inside the real fight against #FakeNews.
That narrative about widespread panic is actually a more long-term form of fake news, as Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow have documented in a series of articles over the past decade.
By Paul Rosenberg
October 17, 2018
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Thanks to video-teleconferencing, Salt Lake City immigration court judges can decide the fates of immigrants held in a detention center 856 miles away.
An Executive Office for Immigration Review fact sheet states that VTC saves immigration judges travel time, helps them to hear more cases and allows them to help out their counterparts stationed in other courts with more sizable backlogs.
By Kelan Lyons
October 10, 2018
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How one group is shifting the male-dominated world of skateboarding.
"I believe the women's skateboarding scene right now is thriving,"
By Jordan Floyd
October 3, 2018
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Death is a topic most avoid talking or thinking about. But some locals are trying to change that.
When she was diagnosed with terminal cancer at age 84, she decided against chemotherapy, which could have extended her life but would have left her feeling miserable—a cure perhaps worse than the disease.
By Rich Kane
September 26, 2018
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For more than 50 years, the Land and Water Conservation Fund has been a public lands windfall. A victim of a slashed budget, it could become a ghost of its former self by month's end.
It’s unlikely that a stand-alone piece of legislation would be passed at this point, but it could be slipped into another big legislative item that also needs to be passed.
By Tara Lohan
September 19, 2018
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