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Moe Hickey: The American Rescue Plan is good for children Utah’s economic recovery has not been the same for everyone. Opinion Placeholder 2   | April 29, 2021, 6:30 p.m. The recently passed American Rescue Plan provides the nation and the state of Utah with the financial resources to address the unmet needs of our children. The revenue and support for areas such as education, childcare and health care offer a once in a lifetime opportunity to focus on the needs of our youngest. Utah has emerged from the depths of the pandemic with one of the strongest economies in the country as measured...

Derek Miller: Building an immigration consensus for America The Utah Compact sets out principles for fixing our immigration system. Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City business and civic leaders gathered Thursday to reaffirm the principles of The Utah Compact, initially adopted in 2010. The compact emphasizes humane treatment of immigrants, keeping families together and focusing deportation on serious criminals. By Derek Miller | Special to The Tribune   | April 20, 2021, 7:00 p.m. You have likely heard the phrase that our immigration system is broken. This understates th...

Tribune editorial: Rep. Burgess Owens' recent statements about immigrants "coming to your neighborhood" were fearmongering contrary to Utah's kinder history with immigrants.

Resolution that would declare racism a ‘public health crisis’ in Utah advances in Legislature Bethany Rodgers © Rick Egan (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Sandra Hollins, D-Salt Lake City, speaks on HCR013, a resolution that would declare racism to be a public health crisis, in the House Health and Human Services Committee, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. A panel of Utah lawmakers voiced support Tuesday for declaring racism a “moral and public health crisis” and for promising to promote policies that would make meaningful change. The committee’s endorsement for...

Feeling alarm towards Black bodies is entrenched in America’s psyche. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Protesters black traffic on North Temple and State Street from the State Capitol, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. By Olivia Juarez | Special to The Tribune   | Feb. 22, 2021, 3:00 p.m. Utah state Sen. David Hinkins’ Violence, Disorder, and Looting Enforcement Protection Act (Senate Bill 138) is headed for its final legislative debate. This bill would increase the penalty for people criminally charged as rioters. In an alarming decree, the bill uses language proposed by Rep. Jon Hawk...