Letters

Letters: Federal encroachment

Recent actions by the Supreme Court, Congress and especially the presidency show that states and the people are losing more and more of their sovereign power to federal tyranny. Read more »

22 hours ago

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Letters: Act on Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's disease is becoming the most expensive malady in the country. Read more »

22 hours ago

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Letters: Ending debt

I recently read an article about curbing credit card debt ("Americans to rack up $47B in debt," June 11). One answer is to look for a new job. I would say a better answer would be to learn to curb... Read more »

22 hours ago

10 comments

Letters: Threats justified

Unfortunately, Michael Gerson's liberal attack on honest patriots is very suave and persuasive ("Issuing threats for political purposes only poisons patriotism," June 14). Read more »

yesterday

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Letters: 'Reform' needed?

I see the many agencies studying immigration reform measures and wonder what "reform" is needed. Is it how we process applications for citizenship? Read more »

yesterday

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Letters: Protect wolves

Don't strip wolves of their protections. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services declared victory and will remove wolves from the Endangered Species List. Many independent scientists have spoken... Read more »

yesterday

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Letters: Foreclosure checks

Why should irresponsible people get money back ("Utahns will receive nearly $10.5 million from National Mortgage Settlement this week," June 11)? The even bigger question is that people who lost... Read more »

June 17, 2013

4 comments

Letters: Leave Kearns alone

I have been a resident of Kearns, zip code 84118, for over 37 years. We voted on how we wanted to be designated years ago. The majority voted for township. We are not part of West Valley City and... Read more »

June 17, 2013

5 comments

Letters: Taylorsville tax increase

Recipe for a 31.5 percent property tax increase: 1. Propose 47 percent increase. 2. Hold public hearing. 3. Mayor reduces increase to 39.5 percent prior to public comments. 4. Don't listen to... Read more »

June 17, 2013

4 comments

Letters: Common Core problems

Society is fortunate to have a teacher with Christel Swasey's ability to identify and teach what's incredibly wrong in our educational system ("Common Core an assault on liberties," June 13). I... Read more »

June 17, 2013

15 comments

Letters: Stop the witch hunt

Republican hypocrisy constantly stuns me. NSA spying: PRISM began under Bush, who also brought us the Patriot Act, specifically to legalize such NSA actions, but only now the GOP hates Obama for... Read more »

June 17, 2013

35 comments

Letter: Media failure

Is it not obvious that President Barack Obama's appointment of Susan Rice as national security adviser proves that the voters made a terrible mistake in re-electing him? Rice is indeed Obama's... Read more »

June 16, 2013

25 comments

Letter: Tar Sands Triangle

Comparing the Tar Sands Triangle deposits to Canadian operations, the Utah Geological Survey, conducted in 2007 and updated in 2009, reveals: "The Utah and Canadian tar sands differ significantly... Read more »

June 16, 2013

10 comments

Letter: Let security continue

I'm afraid there are really some people around that believe security will always be there to protect us and that smart security people don't need to watch constantly and plan continually to keep us... Read more »

June 16, 2013

7 comments

Letter: Spraying harmful

If goats and sheep and even "the tiny flea beetle" have proved effective in controlling invasive plants, why does it appear that the state of Utah's "war" on such plants prioritizes herbicide... Read more »

June 16, 2013

4 comments

Letters: Common Core politicized

Common Core is a good thing. Good enough, at least, that many states have independently chosen to adopt it. A Utah educator, I find the core to be broad and scientific in its approach to student learning. Read more »

June 15, 2013

8 comments

Letters: Public schools, religion

Linda Johnson wrote that vouchers would lead to abandonment of underfunded public schools for others, apparently a very bad thing because all other schools are religious and might teach their religious biases, along with neglecting... Read more »

June 15, 2013

14 comments

Letters: Hatch and NSA

Sen. Mike Lee's website indicates he is opposed to the wholesale metadata mining by Internet and phone companies and views it as a violation of the Constitution and was unaware it was going on.... Read more »

June 14, 2013

24 comments

Letters: Extracurriculars cost

If you want your children to participate in extracurricular activities it will and should cost extra. It is unfortunate that schools have had to hire debt collectors ("Extracurricular activities,"... Read more »

June 14, 2013

10 comments

Letters: Keep right to privacy

I have great concerns over the approval by Congress of the covert collection of my private telephone numbers, emails and Facebook information by the NSA. It is amazing to me that anyone would think... Read more »

June 14, 2013

10 comments

Letters: Beware Camp Williams

In 1980 I remember helping the people of Utah choosing to stand against the federal government in opposing the MX missile in our state and I believe we should stand once again against allowing... Read more »

June 13, 2013

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Letters: D-Day remembrance

I was surprised and saddened to look at the "Today in History" space on June 6 and find no mention at all of the D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allied troops on that date in 1944. Read more »

June 13, 2013

4 comments

Letters: Immigration fiasco?

Just like the Obamacare fiasco that Congress passed, so will the immigration reform bill that the "gang of eight" produced become a fiasco if passed into law. Read more »

June 13, 2013

11 comments

Letters: Autism nuance needed

"Autism" is a vast diagnostic umbrella under which a variety of disorders are shoved, primarily because we don't know how else to label unusual behaviors. Read more »

June 12, 2013

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Letter: Spraying harmful

If goats and sheep and even "the tiny flea beetle" have proved effective in controlling invasive plants, why does it appear that the state of Utah's "war" on such plants prioritizes herbicide spraying (" Noxious weeds threaten... Read more »

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