The winners and the losers

• Winner: Unlike sports stadiums, manufacturers really do bring jobs and money to a community. That makes the announcement this week that KraftMaid Cabinetry is moving to West Jordan a huge deal. The Board of Business and Economic Development approved a $2.5 million incentive to entice the company here, and that money will pay off several times over as the company expects to bring about 1,300 jobs and a new plant costing more than $106 million. Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. called this an example of "expanding the pie" so that Utah can meet its needs for public education and other services. We hope the pies keep coming.

• Loser: With spring somewhere beyond the horizon, the last thing a winter-weary nation needed to hear this week is that grilled meats are joining the list of things that cause cancer. But that's what the federal government decided to do. Also joining the list were certain viruses, X-rays and lead. In fact, the list now contains 246 things that either are known or suspected to cause cancer.

That's supposed to give us all something to think about, said the director of the National Toxicology Program. Frankly, when that blessed warm Saturday afternoon finally arrives and people begin pulling out their grills, that's the last thing we want to have on our minds.

• Winner: Utah House Speaker Greg Curtis isn't sure now whether he wants to push a bill that would shift a measure of the state's budgeting power from the governor's office to the Legislature. We think the reluctance is a good sign. This one needs to sit on the back burner for a while. It might even be nice if it fell behind the stove. Any shift in the power structure, even one as subtle as this, needs a lot of discussion and consideration.

• Loser: Two U. psychology professors have found that cell phone usage "ages" a driver's response time significantly. Suddenly, a 20-year-old on the phone begins to drive like a 70-year-old without a phone. We imaging eating hamburgers, doing makeup and finishing a crossword puzzle would have the same effect.

Now, if we could just find something that would mature those 20-year-old drivers instead of aging them.