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U.S. must stay committed to racing towards space
cosmic ray "hits" on the International Space Station and the landing the Curiosity rover perfectly on Mars are just the latest achievements space exploration has produced. But to be successful, America must fully utilize the ISS and prepare to explore new regions of the universe. This balance is essential to maximize our investment ...
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Laws for medical and recreational marijuana
I agree that for Initiative 502 to succeed, there must ultimately be one system ["Reconcile marijuana laws," Opinion, May 14]. The opponents of I-502 (most of them in the medical-pot community) need to understand that while they advanced the ball 10 steps, it was 15 steps that was needed for the war on drugs to end. And that while they are enjoying their members-only club, the rest of ...
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Legislature considers tougher DUI laws
Olympia should say yes to implement tougher DUI laws. Lately the number of car crashes due to drunken driving has significantly increased. We are not just going to sit back and look at this situation worsening every day. Something must be done, and now is the moment. I agree with Jerry Large when he says the new legislation should increase sentences for DUI convictions, make the offense a ...
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Approaching bipartisan solutions for nation’s housing woes
Little has been done to revamp America’s housing-finance policy since rampant speculation and malleable regulations triggered the Great Recession. Now, writes Neal Peirce, a bipartisan commission has a plan to tackle this important ...
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Guest When Jason Collins and my father coming out will no longer matter
AFTER one of my readings last week for Seattle Reads, at Seattle Central Community College, a young man came up to me in the book-signing line and said, "It just happened on Monday." I waited a moment, and then asked, "What happened?" He was quiet for a while. Then he told me that his father had come out of the closet only three days before. It was hard to talk about. He was ...
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When a government nudge becomes a shove
Most government workers are dedicated and talented, writes David Brooks. But the IRS scandal and Justice Department intrusion at The Associated Press are just the most recent examples of what happens when government worker ...
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Tough love for Coppin
Our view: A report to the university system regents makes clear that Coppin State needs to overhaul its academics, admissions and administration if it is to fulfill its ...
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Ghost Ships Murders Bird Attacks Stories To Keep You Awake
The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories. I'd seen the movies before reading the stories -- Nicolas Roeg's masterful version of "Don't Look Now" featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie; and Alfred Hitchcock's strangely flat-footed and clunky version of "The Birds" -- so I thought I knew what to expect from Daphne du Maurier's fiction. I was, in ...
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CU gives fundraising the old college try
You'd think a school that recently set a record for private fundraising would pause to congratulate itself before launching the next annual campaign using the same successful methods. But the University of Colorado, coming off a record $228.6 million in private donations in 2011-12, has instead decided to revamp its fundraising apparatus from top to bottom. Good for CU. The decision ...
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Editorial With push from technology civilian drones taking flight
Everyone knows how quickly mobile phones have evolved in the past decade. Well, get ready for a similarly rapid evolution in "unmanned aerial systems" - or UASs. And if you don't like the acronym UAS, you can always call them drones. Chris Anderson, the longtime former editor of Wired magazine, said recently "we're starting to see the same effects kick in [with civilian ...
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Article was distasteful in airing dirty laundry
I thought the article that appeared in the Daily Herald on May 4th about David Gardner passing away was very inappropriate. Airing his "dirty ...
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Supporting Medicaid in the ACA
When people think of Medicaid, many assume it's for unemployed people who look to the government for health care coverage. But that's far ...
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Boarders and bikers should use bells or horns
Boarders and bikers should use bells or hornsIn response to the article 'Longboard issue in Provo Canyon heating up again', there's a simple solution to this problem that can accommodate everyone who uses the trail. Require bikers and boarders to have a bell or a horn and use it. Further, when it's not clear pedestrians have registered the presence of bikers or boarders, the ...
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Orrin Porter Rockwell was proven innocent
A letter to the editor in the Herald of Sunday, May 5th, strongly implies that "Joseph Smith Rough Stone Rolling" states that Porter Rockwell tried to kill Governor Boggs. On the contrary, the book states (p. 468), "Not until Rockwell was arrested, tried, and acquitted a year later would his innocence be proven."o Jim Reynolds, ...
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Recent scandals prove gov’t best when limited
It has been troubling to learn the details of the recent scandal involving the IRS. This is yet another telling indication of just how dangerous big government and large federal entities can be. In addition to being unethical and illegal, these abuses by the IRS very well may have also affected the results of multiple elections to include our most recent presidential election. I fear these ...
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Homosexuals in scouting is not about equality
Contrary to the headline and story line of Tuesday's front page article, the issue of allowing homosexuals in scouting is not really about equality. If it were, then gays should be willing and desirous of becoming equal to the traditional high values and standards that scouting currently requires and encourages. It should not be about changing and lowering the traditional standards to their ...
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UTA bus stop move doesn’t consider the riders
I read with personal interest the front page article in the Daily Herald of May 9 entitled "UTA to move proposed bus stop." The supposed solution is to have the present temporary bus stop location at 900 North and 850 East, with minor modifications, become the permanent solution as this was acceptable to citizens of Provo, UTA and Brigham Young University.I saw no reference to UTA ...
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Local congressman should reconsider actions
So Jason Chaffetz thinks impeachment is appropriate for the President when it comes to the Benghazi attacks (May 14, 2013).Does he think George W. Bush should have been impeached for these attacks on U.S. missions in foreign countries that resulted in the loss of American lives while he was president?2002 Karachi, Pakistan 122004 Tashkent, Uzbekistan 22006 Damascus, Syria 42008 Belgrade, Serbia ...
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Letter Death camp contrast Why the silence on Soviet Union camps
Nazi Germany ended in military defeat in 1945. The Soviet Union ended in political collapse in 1991. Both nations used concentration camps that resulted in the deaths of millions. Few camps in the USSR were designed to be actual death camps, but the same millions died from 1918 to about 1960. They were victims of cold, hunger, disease and also bullets. Both camp systems required staffing in the ...
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Letter Investigate all levels from Swallow to the Obama administration
It's not often I agree with columnist Richard Davis, but I concur with the BYU professor regarding the need for Utah Attorney General John Swallow to be the subject of a special investigation or even impeached ("Cloud over Swallow needs to be resolved soon," May 15). There is enough smoke swirling around the embattled official to reasonably believe there is also some fire that ...
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Letter Labeling all exotic animals as dangerous is extreme
Thomas Cobb's unique collection of 29 snakes, which is kept in a special room in his Cottonwood Heights basement, is in jeopardy. He has been cited for failing to have an exotic pet permit and given one week to get rid of all but one snake. He has spent more than two decades amassing his private collection and prides himself in being a good snake owner. Each snake costs about ...
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Robin Abcarian Military sexual assaults were supposed to end
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, gestures as he speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Friday, May 17, 2013, to discuss sexual assaults in the military and the promotion of Lt. Gen. Curtis "Mike" Scaparrotti to command U.S. troops in South Korea, among other ...
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George F. Will President Obamas new second-term agenda Building trust
President Barack Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday May 15, 2013. Obama announced the resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, the top official at the ...
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Charles Krauthammer Americans deserve the facts not conditional truth
WASHINGTON — Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-Contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don't know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn't meet presidency-breaking standards. Third, focusing on the political effects simply plays into the hands of Democrats desperately ...
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Matthew Spalding Patriotic Americans should redouble their efforts
Across this great land, patriotic Americans are behaving subversively. We're quoting from our pocket Constitutions, starting reading groups to discuss our founding documents, even gathering together to "petition the government for a redress of grievances." Uncle Sam is not ...
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