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"It's OK to ask cars to slow down": Utah Transportation Commission launches SB195 review of SLC's street safety efforts.

"It's OK to ask cars to slow down": Utah Transportation Commission launches SB195 review of SLC's street safety efforts.

Pedal to the Metal
Natalie Gochner has seen firsthand the effect of multi-modal streets in Salt Lake City, she said Friday. She's used the buffered bike lanes added to Main Street through a road diet to ride to events at the Delta Center, and she has watched the transformation of communities along 900 South after construction of the 9-Line Trail.

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FLASHBACK 1997: Karen Denton clears the air about city planning to UDOT and Mike Leavitt.

Erroneous Concepts
We do have choices other than ribboning the valley with pavement. What we need is an integrated plan that delivers people efficiently from one place to another using a minimum of resources. It should encourage livable communities—ones in which motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists safely co-mingle, and green space is built into the designs.

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FLASHBACK 2002: Basketball genius, faithful son, media darling, insufferable jerk. Who is the real Rick Majerus?

BIG Man on Campus
It will always be his way or the hallways of Salt Lake Community College. In his words, he will always be driving the bus. The question is, how full will the bus be this year?

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FLASHBACK 2016: Mobile home park residents struggle with unexpected rent increases.

So It Goes
The turmoil at Majestic Meadows is not something Connie Hill, the president of the Utah Coalition of Manufactured Homeowners, sees as out of the ordinary. In fact, it happens all throughout the state.

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Salt Lake City adopts LGBTQ and Juneteeth flags, sidestepping Utah's new Pride ban.

Banner Yet Wave
The Salt Lake City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to formally adopt three variant designs of the city's flag, acting on a request by Mayor Erin Mendenhall to exploit a loophole in HB77, which otherwise bans the flying of Pride and other pro-diversity banners from government buildings.

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Salt Lake City's indie booksellers carry on the tradition of pioneer bibliophile James Dwyer.

One for the Books
Ken Sanders is not one to make a big fuss. Still, a golden anniversary is no small accomplishment in any profession.

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King? Pope? Donald Trump is America’s own Walter Mitty.

Taking a Gander
Don’t be surprised if you start seeing AI-generated photos of Donald Trump on the cross at Calvary, or if, at press conferences, he starts inviting Fox News reporters to inspect his scars. That would be Trump’s most blatant attempt to make himself appear important and relevant.

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