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Planning commission gave hope in denying RMP power line project
It’s been said that defeat comes not when your opponent actually beats you, but when you mentally surrender to the idea of losing as inevitable. That was a mistake reportedly made by several of th...
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It’s OK to question Sant’s contract with Tooele City
Tooele City recently extended its contract with economic development adviser Randy Sant for four years. The new deal raises Sant’s base pay 27 percent from $110 an hour to $140 an hour for economi...
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War on obesity can start with battle against soda
A new report has confirmed what visual evidence has suggested for some time now: Tooele County is the fattest county in Utah. Last week, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wi...
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Public salaries cannot be hidden from public
For the last two weeks, the Transcript-Bulletin has been publishing the salaries of the 10 highest-paid public employees at various levels of local government. We do this periodically in order t...
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Tooele Valley’s air quality deserves more scrutiny
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The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to include the Tooele Valley as a nonattainment area for fine-particle pollution has galvanized local leaders to challenge the EPA via legal channels....
Mitigation fees: Is this any way to plan a budget?
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Mitigation fees paid by hazardous waste businesses and a landfill facility in Tooele County were up this year by 18 percent. Among county government department heads that would be cause for celebra...
High school coaches must set right example
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Last week, Stansbury High School principal Kendall Topham suspended Ryan Harris, the school’s boys basketball coach, for using inappropriate language in the locker room following SHS’s 62-48 loss t...
Snake Valley aquifer battle is worth fighting
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The Snake Valley aquifer feels far away from the Tooele Valley. After all, we’re talking about an unseen body of water deep below the earth’s surface in an area along the Utah-Nevada border where f...