Opinion
Pioneer Days revisited
July 24 has come to Utah again. And the old stories will be told once more — the persecution in Illinois, the Prairie Schooners sailing across the Great Plains, Brigham Young declaring, "This is the right place," and thousands of Mormon pioneers filing into the Valley of the Great Salt Lake to build — from scratch — a new city, a new society, a new way of life.
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2 commentsMichael Gerson: Cindy McCain's humanitarianism would be asset as first lady
Cindy McCain's first visit to this country in 1994 was during the high season of roadblocks and machetes and shallow graves.
12:11 a.m. |3 commentsThomas Sowell: Political meddling could make economy worse
We don't look to arsonists to help put out fires, but we do look to politicians to help solve financial crises that they played a major role in creating.
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July 24, 2008
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Yesterday
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Ill truck drivers unacceptable
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A bad decency ruling
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John Hughes: USIA needs to be revived to fight anti-Americanism
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Douglass High's decline illustrates crisis in black education
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July 22, 2008
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Surviving property tax pains
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Gear up for outdoors
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Marjorie Cortez: In these tough times, banking system still sound
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Readers' forum: Float story has happy ending
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July 21, 2008
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Terror threat hasn't left
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BXVI wows the crowd
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We must keep government honest, accountable
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Dan K. Thomasson: Washington's Mall in critical need of maintenance
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July 20, 2008
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