Comments about ‘Utah's top 10 stories for 2007’

Reading this brought back VIVIDLY memories of what it is like to live in Utah. The article talked all around the subject of the Top 10 Stories without ever listing them in comprehensible order. Life is too short and most lives too busy to spend time mentally rearranging what should have been presented in a clear format.

I can think of 10 positive things that happened instead of 10 negative. I'm sure I'm wrong but may be only good things happen to me.

Either not well written or poorly headlined.

Riddle: When is 6 greater than 9? When it represents 6 people from the Wasatch Front as opposed to 9 people from rural Utah.

Hey... they do list the reader's choice top 10 in a whole other article. It only took me 15 mintues to find it.

Didn't the Deseret News take a poll on this? Surely, they must have.

The Deseret News never misses a chance to take a poll. They even take polls of polls!

"...a year filled with unsettling news." Since when DIDN'T we have a year filled with unsettling news? Every New Year's Eve it's the same thing: the news media tells us what an awful year it's been and how bad off we are.

This isn't news. It's a way of life.

Because a miner has an expectation - when going down under - that there IS always a possibility that he won't be comming back up. A shopper doesn't have that notion. I'm sorry that more people died down in the mine, but the shopping tragedy is the bigger story.

I thought it was a well-written article.

I agree that it's harder to choose which story is bigger. If you live in Carbon-Emery county, of course it's going to be our miners.

But Trolley Square tragedy was huge, also. (Although I do resent the "closer to home" reference. We're a part of Utah, too.)

I thought the article was sensitive to all issues. I liked it. Keep up the good work.

I think the mining story was the bigger story, not because of the number of lives lost, but because of the process, the problems, the political and social issues involved, just like the article said. Clear enough for me.

"Shopping and eating out aren't supposed to be life-threatening."
Now there's a soundbite that should haunt every person who reads it. Translation: It could've been me, it could've been you--any day, any place.

I have lived away from Utah for the last five years, and the mining story is what started me reading the Deseret News on a daily basis. It really is nice to stay connected, sadly for the mines, but I was happy that Warren Jeff's is now accounting for what he did.