Letters

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

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

"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 »