Human Interest

Plans Unveiled for Salt Lake Temple Renovation

How the 2018 wildfires and spring runoff in burn scar areas impact Utah’s wildlife and fisheries

SALT LAKE CITY — The wildfires that burned throughout Utah during 2018 made headlines due to the large amount of acres burned and several community evacuations.

IMan in the Window

Nurx Expands to Utah, Leveraging Telemedicine to Provide Affordable and Convenient Healthcare

Imagine you're a surgeon -- but terrible at your job.

Soon, your bad reputation will spread. Few patients will choose your practice. How can you boost business? You might offer local doctors a deal. If they send patients your way, you'll give them a 20 percent kickback.

Fortunately, that wouldn't just be unethical -- it'd be illegal. The federal government has long banned such kickbacks -- except in one area of health care: Prescription drugs.

Salt Lake City KidsOutAndAbout
Summer Camp Newsletter 
April 22, 2019

Dear KidsOutAndAbout readers:

3 things to know about the spring turkey hunts

SALT LAKE CITY — Your heart pounds as you sit crouched in a few short scrub oak trees. You break the still morning silence again with another repetition of your turkey call. Very slowly, you raise your shotgun and take aim at the magnificent strutting tom turkey making its way steadily toward where you are sitting.

It’s another incredible experience in nature that you’ll never forget.

President Trump wants to roll back unattainable Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards imposed by President Obama, and it wants those revised fuel efficiency ratings to apply nationwide, including California. But the Golden State and environmentalists are rejecting the change. They prefer to live the “impossible dream.”

The original CAFE standards, which regulate car and light truck fuel economy, were passed by Congress in 1975, following the Arab oil embargo. The embargo exposed the vulnerability of a United States too dependent on other countries for oil.