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(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Hot spots keep smoke in the air during a tour of Beaver Canyon along Highway 153, revealing what remains for one of the first areas to fall victim to the Cottonwood Fire in late June, Thursday, July 9, 2026.

Voices: I know how the Forest Service fights wildfire. It’s time to rethink the strategy.

By Brett Roper | For The Salt Lake Tribune | July 29, 2026, 12:05 p.m.

(Hilary Swift | The New York Times) Wooden versions of the American flag and Canadian flag decorate a sidewalk in Derby Line, Vt., April 30, 2025.

Opinion: ‘You aren’t going to like what comes after America’

By Chrystia Freeland | For The New York Times | July 29, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

Letter: It’s time to reform special water districts before Utah taxpayers decide they’ve had enough

Opinion: The good news and the bad news about the new housing law

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(Julia Demaree Nikhinson | AP) President Donald Trump hands a pen to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox after signing executive orders modifying the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and the Bears Ears National Monument in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, July 13, 2026, in Washington.

Letter: Whether or not a leader deserves respect comes down to character. Allow me to illustrate.

By Daniel Herbert-Voss | The Public Forum | July 29, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rio Grande Depot in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, July 8, 2026.

Voices: SLC can be one of America’s great cities — if we can finish what we started

It’s time to give this city its center back.

By Derek Kitchen | For The Salt Lake Tribune | July 28, 2026, 12:05 p.m.

(Reid Weisman | NASA) A view of Earth from aboard the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission, Thursday, April 2, 2026.

Letter: Will we choose population growth over stability and risk damaging the foundations for all life on Earth?

By David Hart | The Public Forum | July 28, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

An exterior view of the San Luis Regional Detention Center, San Luis, Ariz., on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (Jesse Rieser/The New York Times)

Opinion: Immigration detention has a transparency problem. Private companies will make it worse.

The Trump administration has a housing problem.

By Lauren-Brooke Eisen | For The New York Times | July 28, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

This Is the Way Out of Our Ultraprocessed Dystopia. (Andrew B. Myers/The New York Times)

Opinion: This is the way out of our ultraprocessed dystopia

A teenager’s lawsuit against the food industry shows us the path to a better food system.

By Julia Belluz | For The New York Times | July 28, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) A decorated float during the Days of '47 Parade in Salt Lake City on Friday, July 24, 2026.

Letter: The Pioneer Day drone show was something fireworks can never be

By Brenda Goodwin | The Public Forum | July 28, 2026, 2:05 p.m.

A crane unloads a container from a truck at an Inland Container Depot (ICD) terminal in Uiwang, South Korea, Friday, July 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Opinion: Trump’s tariff runaround defies the courts and common sense

The administration will keep trying to run around rulings against import fees.

| July 27, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

Lupita Nyong'o attends the premiere of "The Odyssey" at AMC Lincoln Square on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Opinion: No wonder Elon Musk hates ‘The Odyssey’

The movie is a rebuke to his ideology, with its video game-derived visions of grandeur and conviction that algorithms can make art.

By Michelle Goldberg | The New York Times | July 27, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A fisherman tries his luck in the receding waters near Bullfrog Marina at Lake Powell on Friday, Saturday, April 24, 2026.

Letter: While our climate burns to ash: A Utahn’s summer family vacation in verse

By Jared Lounsbury-Decker | The Public Forum | July 26, 2026, 12:03 p.m.

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Voices: I know how the Forest Service fights wildfire. It’s time to rethink the strategy.

By Brett Roper | For The Salt Lake Tribune | July 29, 2026, 12:05 p.m.
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Letter: It’s time to reform special water districts before Utah taxpayers decide they’ve had enough

By Ben Nielson | The Public Forum | July 29, 2026, 12:00 p.m.
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Tribune editorial: Why Utah’s Supreme Court justices and university presidents look suspiciously alike

By The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board | July 26, 2026, 3:43 a.m.
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