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Tuesday on TV: Take a stroll down "Brigham Street" (that's South Temple in SLC)

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:19:02 MDT

Tuesday on TV: Take a stroll down "Brigham Street" (that's South Temple in SLC)

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 14, 2013 04:19PM MDT

I liked Brigham Street: Salt Lake City's Fine Boulevard (7 p.m. Ch. 7), but I didn't love it.It's about the history of the mansions on South Temple and the people who lived in them. There's a lot of fascinating information.But it felt like skimming a really good book. It isn't that often that a documentary feels too short, but this one does.Elsewhere on TV ...NCIS (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): Gibbs and his team go to unusual lengths to hunt down Eli David and Jackie Vance's killer. (Season finale)Wipeou...

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Kaplan: McCain don’t know much about history

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:37:02 MDT

Kaplan: McCain don’t know much about history

By Fred Kaplan Slate

Updated May 13, 2013 11:37AM MDT

WASHINGTON - In Dexter Filkins’ otherwise probing article in the May 13 New Yorker on the problem-from-hell that is Syria, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., fumes over the recent disclosure that all of President Barack Obama’s top advisers - Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, and CIA director David Petraeus - had advised him to arm the Syrian rebels. “There may be another time in history when a president’s entire national-se...

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Living History: Emigration railway an escape to vistas and fresh air

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:01:24 MDT

Living History: Emigration railway an escape to vistas and fresh air

By Eileen Hallet Stone Special to The Tribune

Updated May 12, 2013 12:01AM MDT

Last week, driving up Emigration Canyon’s mountainous defile to catch a breath of fresh air, I thought about turn-of-the-century canyon railways and rusticators. You know, the era when Emigration Canyon was rife with migratory birds, blooms, tall grasses, scrub oak, fir trees, and rich, black soil. Its creeks ran clean. Fish and wildlife were plentiful. And boundless landscapes — rising in elevations from 4,870 feet at the canyon bed to 8,954 feet at Lookout Peak on the north ridge crest — wer...

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Aussie gun control

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:01:05 MDT

Aussie gun control

Updated May 11, 2013 01:01AM MDT

America has a long history of individual freedom and personal responsibility. Its westward expansion by rugged individuals and the romanticizing of its gun history strengthen its gun culture in America, especially in the West. That almost everything about American society has changed since the 1800s seems irrelevant to gun fanatics. In 1999, the Columbine shooters killed 13 and wounded 24. Public outrage resulted in no major long-term gun control. Five years later, America allowed the assault ...

Rose Park blossomed after World War II

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:48:02 MDT

Rose Park blossomed after World War II

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 9, 2013 11:48AM MDT

Name • Rose Park Location • Northwest Salt Lake City History • As soldiers returned to Salt Lake City from World War II, married and began families, they needed inexpensive homes in new neighborhoods. That was a major reason that developer Alan E. Brockbank constructed about 150 homes in a previously undeveloped part of Salt Lake City centered at 800 N. 1200 West northwest of downtown in 1947. Most of the sturdy brick houses sold for less than $10,000. He called the place Rose Park, and eventua...