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  • Power to the people

    Voter initiatives present a unique set of challenges and problems. However, their underlying premise, that the people can be a check on government, is a noble one.
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  • The winners and the losers

    Winner: Twenty years ago, when the word "terrorist" was synonymous with Libya, it would have been hard to imagine a day when Moammar Gadhafi started making regular payments into a fund to compensate the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 or the bombing of a German disco. And yet, that day arrived this week.
    12:00 a.m. |4 comments

  • Joseph Cramer: Mental-health coverage comes in nick of time

    Historical textbooks in the future will dedicate a lot of pages to the past couple of weeks. The stock market has gyrated like a drunk knowing not where to stumble.
    12:00 a.m. |1 comment

  • Readers' forum: Crosswalk busts are scam

    I witnessed a pretty despicable display yesterday. A couple of co-workers and I ate lunch on some benches in front of the Sandy City Building.
    12:00 a.m. |15 comments

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