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Peaceful Uprising calls for agents of change

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Group has initiated a training program with the objective to educate and create a new batch of powerful, peaceful activists.
Woman carrying Christmas presents wrapped in red paper

6 holiday markets for last-minute shoppers

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Waiting to buy your holiday gifts? Check out these local markets open the weekend before Christmas.

Wasting away the environment

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Each day, you waste on average 4.5 lbs of municipal solid waste (MSW). That amounts to approximately 245 million tons of waste each year...

Utah Co-op makes fresh affordable

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Fresh, locally grown produce can be found in Murray every Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Volunteer teachers needed at the English Skills Learning Center

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Awarded the Volunteer Non-Profit of the Year Award by Lieutenant Governor Greg Bell for 2011-2012, the English Skills Learning Center (ESLC) is one of...
UTA bus free fare zone sign

UTA eliminating free fare zone for buses

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UTA proposes plan to eliminate free fare zone for buses.
Crafted bird and fish on a wooden sign that reads "Help our sea, elev 70m"

Like Utah, California has had pipeline dreams to save its drying Salton Sea

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Californians discuss the possibility of building a canal or pipeline from the Sea of Cortez in Mexico to their own ailing terminal salt lake, the Salton Sea.
The Utah Pride Festival featured all groups from the SLC community including groups like the Youth Activity Center.

Utah Pride Festival builds bridges across the community

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The Utah Pride Center held its annual celebration of awareness and diversity.
Bag of Publik Coffee

Publik Coffee: The perfect blend of passion and community

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Publik Coffee manager Josh Edgar explains how the company embraces the community it serves.

Bishop, Castillo headline Utah’s 1st Congressional District election

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GOP Rep. Rob Bishop and Democrat Lee Castillo are the top two candidates in the race for Utah’s 1st Congressional District.
People visit Great Salt Lake, with Saltair and Wasatch Mountains in the horizon

History lessons: Are Utahns ‘waking up’ to the Great Salt Lake’s peril?

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Bonnie Baxter, a biology professor and the head of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College, sees signs of a groundswell of support for saving the Great Salt Lake.
Three people standing on a rock inlet near Great Salt Lake

The way to save the Great Salt Lake? Limit new development of all types,...

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A majority of respondents to a recent Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics survey remain concerned about the Great Salt Lake but do not necessarily agree on how to restore it.