Salt Lake Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 11:40 A national report on states' performance in higher education graded Utah above average in a range of categories. But the yawning gap between the number of whites and Hispanics who attend college in Utah, and the declining affordability of higher education are alarming to education
Salt Lake Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 11:20 As a surgery intern, Brent James worked 90 to 120 hours a week and would take calls in the middle of the night that he wouldn't remember the next day. Today, as one of two Utahns elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, he welcomes its new report calling for changes in medical residents'
Salt Lake Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 11:18 Eastern Utah's Nine Mile Canyon, resting place to thousands of ancient Anasazi relics and rock-art panels, will escape -- at least for now -- a federal plan to vastly expand oil and gas drilling.
Salt Lake Tribune - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 23:28 Philadelphia » In a quickly planned summit, President-elect Barack Obama asked the nation's governors for their input on a new economic stimulus plan that will seek to create jobs and ease the suffering of those hit hardest by the recession.
Salt Lake Tribune - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 01:28 Provo » Even with a three-month reprieve on repaying excess sales tax to the state, Utah County's unincorporated residents will still have to pay more property taxes in 2009.
Salt Lake Tribune - Mon, 12/01/2008 - 09:55 If you're conversing behind the wheel, you'll drive more safely if your partner is sitting next to you rather than speaking from the other end of a cell phone.
Salt Lake Tribune - Sun, 11/30/2008 - 09:37 West Valley City has cut crime in one apartment-heavy neighborhood by 63 percent. South Salt Lake has helped landlords buff up their skills in dealing with tenants.
Salt Lake Tribune - Sat, 11/29/2008 - 17:10 The economic downturn means organizations that provide services to the poor are more in need of help than ever this holiday season. Below are some organizations collecting donations of time, food, goods and money:
The Bingham High School boys' lacrosse club seeks coats and blankets for the Youth
Salt Lake Tribune - Sat, 11/29/2008 - 15:31 Cottonwood Heights » After 54 years of friends, fun and firing, Dave Winburn will soon have nowhere to go. The 82-year-old has been making his almost daily drive up Gun Club Road to visit with his buddies and pull the trigger a few times at the Holladay Gun Club since it opened in 1954.
Salt Lake Tribune - Sat, 11/29/2008 - 09:49 The drought gripping Utah, Southern California and the rest of the Southwest this century shows no sign of ending. Scientists see it as a permanent condition that, despite year-to-year weather variations, will deepen as temperatures rise, snows dwindle, soils bake and fires burn.
Salt Lake Tribune - Sat, 11/29/2008 - 09:46 With retailers in Utah and nationally discounting merchandise 70 percent or more, Black Friday shoppers hesitant about the economy found the bargains they were looking for, though many said they would continue to be more cautious in the days ahead than in years past.
