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Letter to the Editor: Is health care reform a good thing?
To the Editor: What is the buzz across the country? It’s Obama’s health care plan. Many people are asking: “What does it do?” and “Is it a good thing?” No, it is not.  I agree that everyone needs ...
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Letter to the Editor: Craft store vital to community
To the Editor: I have heard that the Cedar City Roberts Crafts will soon close permanently. Apparently, their lease will expire in April and the company is looking to consolidate. Cedar City can’t...
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Creating national monuments without input, consent an abuse of power
Here we go again. Fourteen years ago, President Bill Clinton created the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument without Utahns’ input or consent. Now we have the Obama administration poised ...
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Survey results announced: Rep. Vickers collects local opinions on issues
This year’s session of the Utah State Legislature is in full swing and nearing the halfway mark.  Thus far, the most significant issues have been the budget, the retirement system, health care ref...
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A need for spring
It’s only February, I can’t plant my garden for three more months, and I’m way beyond ready for the end of winter and the beginning of spring. The beautiful, warm weather we’ve been having is only...
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Cyclops: Utah’s legislators hurting the economy
When a state senator was charged last month with an alcohol-related DUI , a television news reporter said the incident proved once again that liquor was “no small matter.” That’s right. And neith...
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To the Editor: Regulating Rights
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To the Editor: According to a story in the Cedar City Daily News Jan. 29 “Parowan City Attorney Justin Wayment said Thursday he is working to change a city ordinance that allows the killing of a d...
Why Not? Open the Hatch
by Luke Perry
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Sen. Orrin Hatch explained why he voted against increasing the debt limit in the Feb. 4 issue of Iron County Today. Hatch acknowledged the anger felt by the American people, stated that America’s f...
Why I will vote against increasing the debt limit
by Orrin Hatch
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Working hard and living within our means is something that, as a father, I tried very hard to instill in my children. But as a parent, I can’t think of a worse role model than the federal governmen...
From the Commission: TRCC Tax funds may be reduced
by Alma Adams, Lois Bulloch, Wayne Smith
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This year, because of the many questions received from the public, the Iron County Commissioners will be submitting a “Commissioners’ Column” the fourth week of every month. The purpose of the col...
Why Not? Unregulated capitalism: Reliving America’s past
by Luke Perry
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This is the time for New Year’s resolutions. I would like to present my suggestion for a national resolution: We Americans are resolved to finally acknowledge the significant and far-reaching negat...
Cyclops: State requiring added math may be unrealistic
by Bryan Gray
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Albert Einstein once said he didn’t believe in mathematics. Some Utah educational leaders beg to differ. There’s a movement in our state to boost a student’s college readiness by requiring high sc...
National News

U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, May 21, 2009.   REUTERS/Larry Downing/FilesAP - Days away from a make-or-break vote on his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama is turning up the pressure as only presidents can, as Democratic leaders make a desperate scramble for votes.


Tue Mar 16 02:26:59 -0500 2010

An unidentified Thai Buddhist monk shows his blood after making a blood donation Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at an anti-government rally in Bangkok, Thailand. Protest leaders say they will collect '1 million cubic centimeters' of protestors' blood or about 264 gallons (1,000 liters), to spill at Government House in the Thai capital by Tuesday evening. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)AP - Anti-government protesters who donated their own blood Tuesday prepared to splatter gallons of it at the Thai government headquarters in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections.


Tue Mar 16 04:12:47 -0500 2010

FILE - In this March 11, 2010 file photo, Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, right, welcomes Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai for bilateral talks at the prime minister's official residence and office, in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)AP - The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, according to one of Karzai's advisers.


Tue Mar 16 02:13:47 -0500 2010