It must now be obvious that, economically speaking, we're in another country. Things we once took for granted no longer apply; things we never imagined occur all the time. We've entered a...

Lawmakers in the past have avoided the urge to insert political messaging into Michigan's lineup of specialized vehicle license plates, but it looks like that could change during this...

Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It prefigured the...

"Patent pending" has a whole new meaning for Michigan.The recent announcement by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that it will open a satellite office in downtown Detroit is the latest...

The death of Don Cornelius, creator and host of "Soul Train," brought two conflicting memories to mind: the weekly joy of that iconic program as a defining feature of black American pop...

Really, you'd think with all their money, vaunted organization skills and control-freak machinery, Mitt Romney's people could get someone to translate for us when he talks off the cuff.We...

In the Feb. 2 editorial, "Let auto insurers compete on repair choice," consumers were led to believe that policyholder choice isn't honored by our company. Safelite Solutions...

Trading dependencies Mark Perry got it right in his article advocating stopping the electric car subsidies ("Unplug electric car subsidies," Jan. 19). Every one of his points was sound....

Obama's re-election than Chrysler's "It's Halftime in America" Super Bowl spot featuring Clint Eastwood. There is every reason to believe that the pro-Obama theme was...

There's little doubt how Syria's autocratic government manages to endure in a region remade by the Arab Spring push for change. Its brutal leader, Bashar Assad, leans on Russia and China to...

Sales should exceed $36 million, up "at least 6 percent" from the same quarter of 2010, when Salt Lake City-based Black Diamond raked in $34 million, the company said...

I have no sympathy for Robert Jones and others who are fighting red-light cameras ("Steep fines spur anger at cameras," Feb. 5). As a pedestrian, I must be constantly vigilant when...

"We are beginning to see ... companies creating controversy, whether intentional or not, through the ad content, either by generating buzz before, or even submitting ads they know may not get...

Oakland police form a perimiter on Broadway and 23rd and begin making arrests of protesters with Occupy Oakland as they continued their march into the evening through the streets of downtown in...

I t’s unusual when a reporter sympathetic to a politician writes a story that makes his subject look bad. But Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker has now done this twice. The first time was in an...

R eligious freedom is a core American principle, one that our Founding Fathers enshrined in the Constitution and called on future generations of leaders to preserve and protect. Despite our deeply...

H owie Carr is being dishonest in citing Elizabeth Warren’s supposed claim that she is not rich ("Moonbat logic explains how millionaire isn’t rich," Feb. 3). What Professor...

Questions are being raised as to why the Catholic Cemetery in Trinidad is not being well kept and where money for the cemetery is disappearing to. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post) Run-down...

The opinions, often expressed in tweets, came fast and furious after Twitter revealed its revised censorship policy late last month. Social-media users, who had just pushed back against...

As we enter the 2012 election season, should American Muslims be bracing for another round of Islamophobia? Certainly the 2010 elections were rife with attacks on American Muslims, seeking to deny...

In the most recent Gallup poll on abortion, as many Americans described themselves as prolife as called themselves pro-choice. A combined 58 percent of Americans stated that abortion should either...

Citizens United decision , and it doesn't work. Oh, yes, it works nicely for the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country, especially if they want to shroud their efforts to influence...

From the archive Profound changes to the global economy contributed to today's crisis and make it harder to resolve. Bergsten — director of the influential Peterson Institute for...

Facebook's IPO, or initial public offering, will lead to shareholder pressure on the firm to squeeze profits out of users' personal data. Google, too, faces more scrutiny as it mines user...

President Obama errs in pushing nuclear negotiation, writes this ex-CIA spy in Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Four US presidents tried and failed. The problem lies in Iran's fanatic ideology....

(Steve Griffin | Tribune File Photo) The Huka girls at the Huka Bar and Grill. Owner Nathan Porter said a bill that would have included hookahs under the Indoor Clean Air Act would have put him out...

The federal government has swooped down on 105 people in 23 states as part of a nationwide crackdown on identity theft and tax-refund fraud that was timed to warn cheats and potential victims to...

Associated Press file photo Under the deal, the mortgage principal for about 1 million homeowners would be written down by an average of $20,000. An additional 750,000 Americans -- about half the...

Boise, Idaho o The new CEO of Micron Technology Inc. had been planning to retire at an early age in August, before his company called on him to replace Steve Appleton, who died last week in a plane...

Delta Air Lines Inc. began reporting a key monthly revenue figure for the first time Monday, and it showed a 14.5 percent jump from a year...

Challenging Netflix, Verizon said Monday it will start a video streaming service later this year in cooperation with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks. (AP Photo/Isaac...

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University and the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah each will receive $1.75 million, FJ Management Inc. said...

Huntsman Corp., the worldwide chemicals conglomerate based out of Salt Lake City and The Woodlands, Texas, said it has appointed Jon Huntsman Jr. to its board of...

Utah Valley University's new Business Resource Center has named Utah Valley business leader Roger Andrus as director. In his position, he will help entrepreneurs and small businesses use the...

FROM Penn State to Miramonte Elementary School, there's a pattern to the recent child molestation stories: Revelation of charges. Further revelation that the suspicions aren't new. Public...

Here's one thing both might agree on: More candidates should follow Ronald Reagan and have Madison Avenue -- not the Beltway -- create their campaign...

Editor, The Times: In Seattle, we teachers and the district have set in place a progressive teacher-evaluation system [';A lack of courage on education reform,'; Opinion, Feb. 5]. It...

When I was growing up, pornography was illegal — we didn’t stop it, but it was kept it out of the public eye [';Library’s right call on porn ban,'; Opinion, Feb. 5]....

I was disturbed to read the article in the Tuesday Jan. 31 edition of The Seattle Times about proposed differential-tuition rates, and the effect that it will have on families who use the GET program...

Thank you for the excellent coverage of the Komen foundation controversy. In the article ';Komen does about-face on funding cuts,'; [page one, Feb. 4], I quote Carrie Gordon Earll of Focus...

Despite worries over Iran's nuclear efforts, there is a success story to be told about the global initiative to turn megatons into megawatts, says nuclear-program consultant Edgar...

The Republican Party should not misread the broader public's quiet on abortion rights as lack of interest, writes Froma Harrop. When backers of reproductive rights think something real is...

WASHINGTON — Two of the top news stories this past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman's right to contraception or...

Last week's jobs report was much better than expected and made many people more optimistic about the economy, writes Paul Krugman. But there's a real danger that this optimism will empower...

Yet no one has figured how to fix the mess. The Obama administration and several states have been working on a multibillion dollar settlement with banks that abused the foreclosure process; the deal...

Although the president still hasn't presented details of his latest plan, judging by his speech last week it's going to be more of the same. He means well, but his new plan will do nothing to help...