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U. of Utah research increasingly runs on corporate dollars • It can be precarious, Randall Olson learned last year, to yoke university research to a corporation. In February, the chief executive of the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah gushed at a news conference that a new partnership with Allergan Inc. could be a "historic breakthrough" for alliances between academia and industry. Within two months, the deal looked doomed. Allergan was being targeted for a hostile takeover by a Canadian company intent on gutting its $1 billion-per-year research program.
Utah insists wolf-coyote confusion won't be a problem • Utah wildlife managers and state attorneys insist Utah's controversial coyote bounty program does not conflict with the Endangered Species Act. But at least one other state was forced to change its coyote-culling hunt after too many endangered wolves were killed.
Lawsuit claims Saratoga Springs mayor involved in shady real estate sale • A new lawsuit alleges that the mayor of Saratoga Springs, while he was a bank loan officer, conspired with others to create false paperwork that led to a sale of a subdivision lot that had no water and was not eligible for building permits.
Two years later, what have we learned from the Swallow-Shurtleff scandal? • The bunting and stage where Utah's top elected officials had taken their oaths had been packed away for less than a week when news broke that would shake the state's political landscape: Newly inaugurated Attorney General John Swallow was being accused of malfeasance on a scale never before seen in Utah.
At Utah showing, 'Selma' film transports civil-rights activist back to her freedom fights • Joan Trumpauer Mulholland wasn't on the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge nearly 50 years ago when Alabama troopers brutally attacked, gassed, chased and bludgeoned 600 marchers advocating black voting rights.
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