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(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) A small group of people protest the expiration of the housing eviction moratorium Aug. 2, 2021 at the Utah Capitol.

Francisca Blanc: Utah must come together to improve housing laws

By Francisca Blanc | For The Salt Lake Tribune | June 24, 2023, 8:53 p.m.

(Briana Scroggins | Special to The Tribune) Kael Weston and a Weston team volunteer, Gina Timmerman, talk with Democratic delegate Tom Lewis at Cottonwood High School in Murray, Utah on Saturday, April 23, 2022.

Kael Weston: Utah Democrats need to stand together and reach across the divide

By Kael Weston | For The Salt Lake Tribune | June 24, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Little Cottonwood Canyon on Wednesday, May 17, 2023.

Carl Fisher: Utah environmentalists need a seat at the table

By Carl Fisher | For The Salt Lake Tribune | June 23, 2023, 8:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. John Johnson, R-Ogden, comments on a bill in the Senate, on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021.

Cathy Lanigan: Books should be the least of Utah lawmakers’ worries

By Cathy Lanigan | For The Salt Lake Tribune | June 23, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Lennie Mahler | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sunlight peeks into the narrows of Buckskin Gulch on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016.

Molly Absolon: Backcountry heroes always try to bring us back

By Molly Absolon | Writers on the Range | June 22, 2023, 8:00 p.m.

Decals of various birds are stuck to a window overlooking a wetland at the Audubon National Wildlife Refuge in Coleharbor, N.D., on Wednesday, June 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Margaret Renkl: Only one state in America includes the study of climate change for all grades

By Margaret Renkl | The New York Times | June 22, 2023, 2:56 p.m.

(Evan Agostini via AP) Author Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of “The Road” in New York on Nov. 16, 2009.

Dan Sinykin: Cormac McCarthy had a remarkable literary career. It could never happen now.

By Dan Sinykin | The Public Forum | June 22, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sara Weber

More perspectives, less polarization: What you can expect from the Voices section

By Sara Weber | June 22, 2023, 11:56 a.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Skyline coal mine on Saturday, June 4, 2022.

April Abate-Adams: Permitting reform is the key to clean energy

By April Abate-Adams | For The Salt Lake Tribune | June 21, 2023, 8:00 p.m.

FILE — A banner of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Waco, Texas, March 25, 2023. It is stunning to read the grand jury’s 37-count indictment, with its depictions of a former president treating the law with the contemptuous disdain of a mafia don — but with none of a don’s concern for covering his tracks, writes New York Times columnist Bret Stephens. (Mark Peterson/The New York Times)

Bret Stephens: Lock him up

By Bret Stephens | The New York Times | June 21, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

BC-OPINION-SWARNS-CHURCH-SLAVE-TRADE-ART-NYTSF— My Church Was Part of the Slave Trade. This Has Not Shaken My Faith. (Xia Gordon for The New York Times) — ONLY FOR USE WITH ARTICLE SLUGGED —BC-OPINION-SWARNS-CHURCH-SLAVE-TRADE-ART-NYTSF— OTHER USE PROHIBITED.

Rachel L. Swarns: My church was part of the slave trade. This has not shaken my faith.

By Rachel L. Swarns | For The New York Times | June 21, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) A voter casts a ballot at the Salt Lake County Government Center, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021.

Kelleen Potter: Utah should be using ranked choice voting in the special election

By Kelleen Potter | For The Salt Lake Tribune | June 21, 2023, 1:53 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ken Sanders is opening a new Children's Reading Room in his space at the Leonardo in Salt Lake City. on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Banned books in Utah

Utah Library Association and PEN Utah: We need common sense solutions to book challenges

By Peter Bromberg, Rebekah Cummings, and Paisley Rekdal | For The Salt Lake Tribune | June 20, 2023, 5:19 p.m.

FILE — Laura Ingraham, a Fox News host, speaks at an event in Scottsdale, Ariz., Oct. 17, 2017. Ingraham has praised Muslim parents opposed to their children reading books with L.G.B.T.Q. themes. (Laura Segall/The New York Times)

Michelle Goldberg: How conservatives went from demonizing Muslims to wooing them

By Michelle Goldberg | The New York Times | June 20, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

BC-OPINION-PEARLSTEIN-TRUMP-FLORIDA-ART-NYTSF — The Genius of Leaving Trump’s Fate Up to 12 Ordinary Floridians (Damon Winter/The New York Times) — ONLY FOR USE WITH ARTICLE SLUGGED — BC-OPINION-PEARLSTEIN-TRUMP-FLORIDA-ART-NYTSF — OTHER USE PROHIBITED.

Deborah Pearlstein: The genius of leaving Trump’s fate up to 12 ordinary Floridians

By Deborah Pearlstein | For The New York Times | June 20, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(The Children's Collaborative) The Sharing Place in Salt Lake City provides grief support to children ages 3 through 18 and their parents.

Gov. Spencer Cox and John Bridgeland: How Utah is helping children who lose a parent or caregiver

By Gov. Spencer Cox and John Bridgeland | For The Salt Lake Tribune | June 20, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Harpers Weekly) This drawing from a Harpers Weekly edition in 1863 depicts the Battle of Island Mound on Oct. 29, 1862 in Missouri during the American Civil War.

Andre’ M. Boyd: Fort Africa’s battle at Island Mound and the foundation of Juneteenth

By Andre’ M. Boyd | For The Salt Lake Tribune | June 19, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

FILE - In this March 28, 2012 file photo, supporters of health care reform rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Aaron E. Carroll: I studied five countries’ health care systems. We need to get more creative with ours.

By Aaron E. Carroll | For The New York Times | June 18, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The shore of the Great Salt Lake on Stansbury Island on Saturday, March 26, 2022.

Andrew Chin: We owe it to Utahns in the past, present and future to create a Great Salt Lake National Park

By Andrew Chin | For The Salt Lake Tribune | June 17, 2023, 8:00 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The area in Parleys Canyon where Granite Construction is proposing to excavate a limestone quarry, Wednesday, July 27, 2022.

Brian Moench: Gov. Cox, protect your legacy by protecting Parleys

By Brian Moench | For The Salt Lake Tribune | June 17, 2023, 12:00 p.m.