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Scientists: Nuke panel owes Utahns an apology

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - By Judy Fahys - Nov. 09 (News Report) - Three scientists say federal nuclear regulators owe Utahns an apology -- and a policy change -- for allowing shallow burial of depleted uranium, including the 49,000 tons already at EnergySolutions Inc.'s landfill in Tooele County.

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Consumer prices jump, industrial production falls

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Jul. 15 (News Report) - Consumer prices shot up in June by the largest amount in 11 months, reflecting the biggest jump in gasoline prices in nearly five years.

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Public option

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Jun. 29 (Editorial) - The health insurance companies claim that the world will end if Congress includes a government option in the comprehensive health reform bill. We do not share the insurers' apocalyptic vision, and judging by the polls, neither do the American people. What might end is the insurance companies' ability to game the system in the name of unlimited profits. That's their real fear.

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Pitts: What does a homosexual demon look like?

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - By Leonard Pitts Jr. - Jun. 29 (Opinion) - To Manifested Glory Ministries of Bridgeport, Conn.: Perhaps you wouldn't mind telling me what a "homosexual demon" looks like. I will confess that until last week, I had no idea demons even had sexual orientations. Or, for that matter, sex. Then I happened upon a video that is making the rounds online. It depicts members of your congregation conducting what can only be described as the "gay exorcism" of a 16-year-old boy.

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Bennett: U.S. needs 100 more nuclear power plants

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Jun. 23 (News Report) - To propose 100 new nuclear reactors and ignore the waste issue is the height of irresponsibility," said Vanessa Pierce, executive director of the Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah. Nuclear waste is "dangerous, it's a terrorist target and it's an unsolved problem

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After Yucca: America's homeless nuclear waste

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - By Thomas Burr, Judy Fahys - Mar. 22 (News Report) - Capstick hopes work continues on Yucca Mountain even as the Obama administration explores other options. "It doesn't make sense to eliminate Plan A," Capstick says, "and not have a Plan B."

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Depleted uranium

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Mar. 20 (Editorial) - Trouble is, Class A waste is supposed to be safe after 100 years. But, while relatively harmless at first, depleted uranium just keeps getting more and more radioactive as U-238 decays into thorium-230 and radium-226, and remains dangerous for thousands of years. Simply put, it doesn't belong in a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility.

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Lawmaker wants to change kindergarten age - Salt Lake Tribune

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - By Lisa Schenker, Kirsten Stewart - Jan. 30 (News Report) - Before his teacher finished explaining a reading lesson Tuesday, kindergartner Jaydon Arslanian read the word "fox" aloud. "Jaydon, you read it before I put it up!" Christina Stout, a student teacher in the kindergarten class, said with a smile. Jaydon, who turned 6 in November, is one of the older students in his class at Hayden Peak Elementary School. Freshman Rep. Laura Black, D-Sandy, believes older students such as Jaydon enjoy developmental advantages over their younger peers. That's why Black is sponsoring a bill this session that would require children to be older before starting kindergarten. Now, Utah children must be 5 years old before Sept. 2 to start kindergarten. Black's bill would move the deadline to July 1. If the bill passes, the new dates would go into effect July 1, 2010.

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A Salt Lake Tribune Special Report - American imports, Chinese deaths

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - By Loretta Tofani - Dec. 30 (Investigative Report) - “Chen and colleagues from the workshop were hospitalized for chronic anemia and myelodysplastic anemia, beginning in 2002, a result of brushing toxic glues for years onto the soles of New Balance and other sport shoes sold in the U.S. photo The shoes were made by 30,000 workers in the Yue Yuen industrial park in the city of Dongguan.”

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Obama's Cabinet may be short on reformers

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - By Alec MacGillis - Dec. 21 (News Analysis) - President-elect Barack Obama wrapped up his Cabinet appointments Friday, meeting his ambitious holiday deadline by assembling a team full of outsize personalities with overlapping jurisdictions and nominees who are known more for pragmatism than for strong leanings on the issues they will oversee. In Chicago, the president-elect announced his picks to lead the Departments of Labor and Transportation, the Small Business Administration and the office of trade representative. The announcement of the labor nominee, Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Calif., the daughter of a union family who has a strongly pro-labor voting record, came as a relief to some liberals who had grown slightly anxious about Obama's commitment to organized labor's agenda.

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Navajo water a wild card in river's future

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - Nov. 29 (News Report) - The commission that created the 1922 Colorado River Compact knew that Mexico, the Navajo and other tribes had rights to the river, but when it divvied up the presumed 15 million acre-feet annual flow, it didn't define the claims....Still no mention of Indian tribes, even though an 1850 treaty with the Navajo Nation, reinforced by a 1908 Supreme Court ruling, guaranteed water rights necessary for a permanent homeland

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U. psychologist says group distorting her same-sex research

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - By Brian Maffly - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Lisa Diamond, a University of Utah psychologist whose sexual-identity studies suggest a degree of "fluidity" in the sexual preferences of women, said in an interview Tuesday that the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, or NARTH, misrepresents her findings. Position papers, some penned by NARTH President A. Dean Byrd, an adjunct professor in the U.'s Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, point to Diamond's research evidence that gays' sexual orientation can be straightened out through treatment - much to Diamond's dismay. NARTH is based in Nicolosi's California office but maintains an office in the same downtown Salt Lake City building as Evergreen International, a Mormon faith-based group that encourages gays to abandon same-sex attraction. While the two groups do not advertise their association, NARTH's sole paid staffer last year was Evergreen's executive director, David Pruden, according to tax documents.

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Taxpayers group warns oil shale could cost billions

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - By Thomas Burr - Sep. 23 (News Report) - Fast-tracking oil shale leases in the West could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars in lost royalties and leave them with a big tab for restoring thousands of acres of land, the Washington-based Taxpayers for Common Sense charged today

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Fannie, Freddie donate big to Utah senator

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - By Matt Canham - Sep. 12 (News Report) - When the government took over failed mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae this week, it not only dismissed the companies' CEOs, it also fired an army of lobbyists and shut down a pair of political action committees that had contributed millions to members of Congress.

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Afghanistan now deadlier than Iraq, and Utah G.I.s arrive as violence surges

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - By Matthew D. LaPlante - Jun. 27 (News Report) - The mobilization alert came as U.S. service members in Iraq were reeling from the deadliest three-month period since the invasion. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, coalition casualties were on a much slower rise - and a much-anticipated spring offensive by Taliban rebels had failed to emerge in the violent ways that had been predicted. Now, as the soldiers of the 142nd settle into their new mission in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan, the situation hardly could be more starkly changed.

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How Kennecott concealed warnings of a possible disaster from the people of Magna

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - By Judy Fahys - Mar. 23 (Special Report) - n 1988, the company found out its billion-ton tailings pond would breach in a strong quake, burying nearby homes in a deluge of mud. Instead of warning people, the copper giant decided secrecy was the best policy.

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Murray's Illinois mine has 2,787 violations since 2005

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:05:52 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - By Robert Gehrke - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Murray's Galatia mine in southern Illinois racked up at least 2,787 violations and more than $2.4 million in proposed fines from the Mine Safety and Health Administration over a two-year span, according to government records. That includes more than $1.4 million in proposed fines already this year.

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