Recently added articles from Deseret News (Salt Lake City):
Canyons kicks off Day One of district
Jul 02, 2009; ... The new Canyons School District roared to a start Wednesday withHarley-Davidsons and school buses leading the way. Breaking down barriers and changing community attitudes is goingto require strength and unity, Canyons district superintendent DaveDoty told the Deseret ...
Fiction fuels Iranian unrest
Jul 02, 2009; ... Where's Baghdad Bob when you need him? Not since Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, the former Iraqi informationminister, who made public statements during the American invasion ofBaghdad in 2003 saying there were no U.S. troops in the Iraqicapital and that Americans were committing suicide ...
Quick judgments ignore the real, deeper stories
Jul 02, 2009; ... My husband is prone to handing a dollar or two to pretty muchanyone who offers him a hard-luck tale. It's one of the things Ilike most about him. Another is that he never makes the recipient feel like he needsto grovel before or after to show adequate gratitude for the littlebit ...
Tiger muskie stocked at Pineview Reservoir
Jul 02, 2009 ... Utah Division of Wildlife Resources personnel stocked about 4,000tiger muskie fish into the Pineview Reservoir Wednesday. The tigermuskies ...
Obituary: BARNES, KAREN
Jul 02, 2009 ... Karen Jean Cederlof Barnes 1946 ~ 2009 Karen Jean Cederlof Barnes, age 62, passed away June 30, 2009 inKaysville, following a year's battle with a very rare form ofcancer.She was born October 29, 1946 to Eugene Glen and MargaretLorine Duffin Cederlof in Salt Lake City. She ...
Sotomayor's longevity should not be confused with qualifications
Jul 02, 2009; ... For the fourth time in six cases, the Supreme Court of the UnitedStates has reversed a decision for which Judge Sonia Sotomayor votedon the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. If this nominee were a whitemale, would this not raise questions about whether he should beelevated to a court that ...
Obituary: HANSON, GENIEL
Jul 02, 2009 ... Geniel Kay Shepard Hanson "This Too Shall Pass" Geniel Kay Shepard Hanson passed away on June 30, 2009. Born onApril 22, 1917 in Mona, Utah, to Ernest and Flossie Kay. Married to:Melvin Shepard on July 3 1936 in the Manti Temple, divorced. Marriedto Ellsworth (Bud) ...
Read before you decide
Jul 02, 2009 ... What a bunch of idiots. I'm speaking, kindly, of course, of our representatives andsenators. Let me qualify and clarify that statement: What a bunch of idiots. They are for passing the stimulus package, the cap and trade billand probably a national ...
Families disenfranchised
Jul 02, 2009 ... What does it mean to support pro-family values, protect parentalrights and strengthen the role of the family? It is unclear how onecan strengthen the family by promoting policies that allow people tobe fired and prevented from being employed based on their identity.This is the same ...
Obituary: BENNION, ALFRED
Jul 02, 2009 ... President Alfred H. Bennion 1920 ~ 2009 Our dearest husband, Dad, grandpa, brother, and uncle passed awayMonday, June 29, 2009 at age 89 in the early morning hours at home.As the youngest son of six children from parents Earl Slade andNellie Hayball Bennion, ...
Afterthoughts
Jul 02, 2009; ... Sen. Al Franken. Get used to it. Or get over it, as the case maybe. Franken's opponent, Norm Coleman, gave a moving concessionspeech. He apologized to his family and told how his mistress washis soul mate, but that he would try to love his wife again and --whoops, wrong ...
Like 4-day workweek?
Jul 02, 2009 ... It happened again! I called a particular state office to get someinformation I needed right then, only to get a recorded messagesaying that the office was closed. Then I remembered. It was Friday! No one can get any informationfrom any state office on Friday. I'm just ...
Obituary: OLSON, LORNA
Jul 02, 2009 ... Lorna Ward Olson 1919 ~ 2009 Lorna Ward Olson slipped quietly away, Saturday, June 27, 2009.She was born Nov. 6, 1919 in Burley, Idaho to Moroni W. Ward andAlice McBride Ward. She married her sweetheart Neal R. Olson in theSalt Lake Temple, Feb. 25, 1938. Lorna and ...
Fame killed Jackson
Jul 02, 2009 ... The yawning maw of celebrity has claimed another victim, MichaelJackson. Among all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, is anyonereally wanting to know why or who? Here is a frail 6-foot male whois not eating or drinking but expending energy he doesn't have onhis "final show." Anorexia ...
Obituary: GUNNERSON, GARY
Jul 02, 2009 ... Gary Harold Gunnerson 1942 ~ 2009 Gary Harold Gunnerson passed away Sunday, June 28, 2009 at SaintLuke's Hospital surrounded by family after fighting complicationsfrom a MRSA infection.Gary was born February 21, 1942, the fourth ofeight children to Harold Ola and ...
Liberals too touchy
Jul 02, 2009 ... Luke Stewart (Readers' Forum, June 30) and the others accuse usof thinking Barack Obama is a child of Satan. Their thin skin bleedswhenever a substantive criticism is made of this extremely leftistadministration. These criticisms include disagreeing with acompletely inept financial ...
Obituary: BELL, BEATRICE
Jul 02, 2009 ... Beatrice Arva Taylor Bell 1936 ~ 2009 CLEARFIELD - Arva Taylor Bell, 72, passed away Tuesday, June 30,2009.She was born August 25, 1936 in Salt Lake City, Utah thedaughter of Thomas B. and Beatrice Videan Taylor. Arva married Leroy C. Bell on February 27, 1959 in ...
Green energy costly
Jul 02, 2009 ... On June 25, Hill Air Force Base announced to all the media it wasturning on 1,400 solar panels that produce 230 kilowatts of energy -- enough to power 25 homes. Only one television station mentionedthe cost of $7 million. Do ...
Obituary: SARGENT. MARY
Jul 02, 2009 ... Mary Maughan Sargent 1922 ~ 2009 Born May 29, 1922, in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, died June 29,2009, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Eldest child of Howard and HattieMaughan. Grew up in Logan and graduated from Utah State University,a proud Aggie: "Aggies Soar in Forty-Four." ...
Better health system needed
Jul 02, 2009 ... Why should businesses have to provide health-care benefits fortheir employees when the costs are passed on to those who use theirservices? The unemployed or uninsured are thus helping pay for thehealth-care benefits of the employed. Wouldn't it be more fair ifeverybody had to provide ...