A legislative meeting that looked at recommendations of the Quality Growth Commission on the issue of Salt Lake City's control of the watershed grew heated Thursday, leading to questions over the role of the commission and what lawmakers will do now.
With a pair of desperate, one-win teams meeting at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium Saturday, the BYU-East Carolina game may resemble two one-armed men punching at the wind.
GOP legislative leaders pledged Thursday the state will come up with the nearly $40 million needed to ready Utah's Olympic venues for another bid, money that may not be repaid to taxpayers if Salt Lake gets another Winter Games.
Four years after he was diagnosed with a progressive form of dementia, former Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott died at 4 a.m. Thursday, his brother told the Deseret News.
