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Ted McDonough
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- News, City Weekly REWIND February 17, 2025
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FLASHBACK 2006: Utah's unique meat-on-meat sandwiches please palates while arteries scream for mercy.
Greeks Bearing Burgers
- Nearly every well-known, independent burger restaurant in the state is owned and operated by Greeks. It’s almost as if some sort of ethnic cabal is cornering the market through liberal production of the best burgers in the country.
- News, Hits & Misses July 15, 2009
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Chaffetz's Constitution, Health Care Reform, Utah's Economy & Claire Geddes' Return
- Congressman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, is cosponsoring legislation that would deny citizenship to children born in the United States to noncitizen parents, reversing long-standing law that everyone born in America is a citizen.
- News, July 15, 2009
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Stimulated
If you don´t like the federal stimulus yet, wait a few months.
- If you have been less than overwhelmed with federally funded projects to stimulate the economy--like the new electronic signs near Salt Lake City freeway onramps indicating how long it will take to get to Draper...
- News, July 8, 2009
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Parting Shot
Liquor-license quotas may be the next to go.
- Online Exclusive: At Kathryn Balmforth’s final meeting as a Utah liquor commissioner, the commission approved new rules to formally start the open-club system passed by the Legislature ...
- News, Hits & Misses July 8, 2009
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Skinny Utahns, Camp Williams' Data Center & BCS Busters
- Utahns are the eighth skinniest people in the country, according to new statistics from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- News, July 1, 2009
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Tippling Through Time
You kids got it easy. Back in the day, wetting your whistle took a little extra effort.
- Utah's newest liquor "reform" still requires barkeeps to run patrons' IDs through a barcode scanner (if patrons appear younger than 35). That might seem odd, but it's par for the course in the Beehive State ...
- News, July 1, 2009
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Liquor Lore
Over the years, Utah’s quirky liquor laws have become larger than life.
- Utah has funny liquor laws. So goes the old saw. One wonders what tourists will talk about now that any Tom or Dick off the street can walk into a bar without a membership. (Probably having their IDs scanned.)
- News, Hits & Misses July 1, 2009
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Odd Fellow's Hall, Hunstman Stock, SLC HIV & Flunking Campaign Finance
- Maybe it could become a tourist attraction in the mold of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Salt Lake City's Odd Fellows Hall is stuck in limbo--and sitting on top of a huge, wheeled, metal contraption 8 feet off of the ground ...
- News, July 1, 2009
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July One Fun & The Club List
Time to check out which of your favorite clubs are making the switch. Bring your ID.
- Utah's new liquor laws, the state is no longer in the private-club business. At midnight July 1, as if the fairy godmother had waived her wand, Utah's "private clubs" automatically became public places.
- News, July 1, 2009
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More to Do
SLC barkeeps are champing at the bit for local liquor reform.
- When restaurateur Bob McCarthy decided to open an upscale private club inside an old beer bar on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, he began by asking City Hall for a zoning change. He was told not to bother...
Trending
Feature | Badgered: The cops’ union pressures Ralph Becker to go soft on police discipline
March 12, 2008
Feature | Illegally Blond: The wild party at Salt Lake County Attorney Lohra Miller’s house goes on. And on.
March 18, 2008
FLASHBACK 2006: Utah's unique meat-on-meat sandwiches please palates while arteries scream for mercy.
Greeks Bearing Burgers
February 17, 2025
