Downtown grocery » Luring people to live downtown is what the LDS Church has in mind with its investment in high-rise condos surrounding the retail City Creek Center. The opening of Harmons City Creek this week will do a lot to help. Salt Lake City could experience a resurgent downtown residential community, with Harmons at its heart. It’s been decades since the downtown had a real grocery store, and this one offers much more than just groceries. Sited just outside the giant shopping complex with an open green space along State Street, Harmons, known for its locally grown food, will give urban dwellers a well-stocked produce department, a section of organic food, custom meat and seafood counters. They can even sign up for classes in cooking and wine- and cheese-tasting. We’re getting hungry just thinking about it.

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Gotta have a PAC » President Barack Obama, who was highly critical of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that paved the way for super PACs to infuse billions of corporate dollars into political campaigns, has admitted he has to have one. The donation aggregators are so much a part of this year’s elections that, if he’s going to compete against whomever the Republican Party nominates, his supporters must form a super PAC of their own. The deep-pocketed Democrats are calling it Priorities USA Action. While we understand the political necessity, we also hope Obama and other powerful Democrats will go further to promote a constitutional amendment or legislation to negate the Citizens United court decision that undermines the remaining influence real American citizens have in politics.

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