• Topic of the day Apple tax hearings

  Yesterday Apple Inc. CEO was called before a congressional hearing as to why Apple failed to pay $30 billion in taxes last year. But did they do anything wrong? Legaly, no, most opinions from around the web ...

• Do not exploit gay rights issue to stop immigration reform

  The U.S. Senate is on the verge of debating comprehensive immigration reform, and there are signs Republicans and Democrats are cooperating to finally pass a substantial bill. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s 13-5 decision Monday to send the measure to the floor is a big deal, and though I support equal rights for same-sex couples (and this ...

• Banks still want big bailouts

  The nation’s biggest banks are waging an outrageous fight against a bipartisan Senate bill seeking to protect taxpayers from bailing them out. Renewed interest in curtailing reckless financial practices was sparked by Attorney General Eric Holder’s admission earlier this year that he is afraid to prosecute the banks that brought about the worst downturn since the Great Depression. ...

• My view UDOT listened made a good choice

  I am glad the Utah Department of Transportation made a thorough decision and listened to the many people behind the huge public outcry supporting the Glover's Lane option over the Shepard Lane option for the West Davis Corridor. The current decision ensures that homes are saved from unnecessary destruction when an alternative through unpopulated areas is ...

• Graduate in four years Yeah right.

  For the college students who will be paying for a four-year bachelor’s degree long after graduation day, here’s some consolation: At least it didn’t take you six or eight years. College is expensive, yet unpredictably so. Some students pay little for degrees from elite private institutions, after tuition discounts and financial aid. Many of their peers, however, will pay far ...

• Cannes Diary Delusions Of Gatsby

  which writer Raj Ranade says has set a high bar for other contenders at this year's Cannes Film Festival. It's true enough that ...

• Huntsman calls for crackdown on intellectual property theft says Washington Post

  Intellectual property theft is a growing problem that the government needs to crack down on for the good of American companies, says Huntsman and ...

• The war on journalism

  The continuing examples of the Obama administration’s targeting of journalists is advancing a new front in the war on journalism, according to Jonathan S. Tobin ...

• Chinas Artist Provocateur Explores New Medium Heavy Metal

  The video for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's newly released song starts by re-creating the conditions of his captivity during the 81 days he was held in police detention in 2011, later dissolving into a dystopian ...

• Arrested Development Leads The Charge For Old Brands In New Media

  returning via Netflix? Just another old-media brand reviving itself on new media. The TV show, which originally ran on Fox from 2003 to 2006 and unveils new episodes on Netflix next weekend, finds itself in splendid company. Radiohead, Louis ...

• Lets Get Creative And Redefine The Meaning Of Religion

  Must religion be embodied in a god or gods, such as Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture? We all know how the battle lines shake out: evangelical vs. scientist, believer vs. atheist. The culture war defined as science vs. religion is so overheated that it seems to be more of a caricature than a coherent, useful discussion. Unless, that is, someone is trying to stretch beyond the ...

• Letters Internet sales tax the consumers last word

  In the war of businessmen against the people, the businessmen seem to have won the battle for collecting sales tax on products purchased from out-of-state ...

• Inmate given death sentence for murdering guard

  Lisa Hamm, sister of slain Monroe Corrections Officer Jayme Biendl, reacts after a Snohomish County jury recommended the death penalty for Biendl’s killer, Byron Scherf. At left is Biendl’s father, James Hamm. Lisa’s husband, Paul Crosby, is at right, and Biendl’s brother James. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times) The person who killed the guard at the Washington State ...

• Soderberghs Liberace Behind The Candelabra

  Director Steven Soderbergh had been looking for a way to frame a film about the extravagant entertainer Liberace for years when a friend recommended the ...

• Budget cuts in education

  As a senior, I am due to finish my high-school career in a number of weeks. After 12 years of schooling, I am on to a university. I was blessed with great teachers every year, but there is something I wish to address. There have been such significant budget cuts recently, and while the whole state is feeling the stress of the country's deficit, I am curious as to why it is the education ...

• Tom Stritikus Susan Enfield on overcoming poverty and educating South King County kids

  new Brookings Institute study that concludes a lack of affordable housing has led low-income households to move outside Seattle city limits. In particular, the last line in the article caught my attention: "We should create and re-create economic opportunities for people in South King County, but we should also be working to give them access to homes and jobs in higher-opportunity parts of ...

• Punchlines IRS scandal gets closer to the White House

  The scandals seem to be getting closer to the White House. Who knew about the IRS scandal? The comics have a few thoughts about that. Vote for your favorite punchline at ...

• Graham President Obama twisted up over Benghazi

  What’s the difference between keeping President Obama "updated throughout the night" on a deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi and keeping him "updated throughout the night" on a deadly tornado in Oklahoma?The president could have actually done something about Benghazi.Have you been watching the president the past 36 hours or so? Lots of photos of him calling officials ...

• Wests need for air tankers trumps contract concerns

  An air tanker drops slurry on the Waldo Canyon fire near Colorado Springs in June 2012. (RJ Sangosti, Denver Post file) With ample spring snowfall and recent rains, it's easy to forget about wildfire season. But soon enough the days will heat up, fuel sources will dry out and Colorado - and other Western states - will once again be faced with serious wildfire threats. To that end, it's ...

• Teachers showed courage in the face of Oklahoma tornado

  Lily Raymond, 17, rushes to embrace her brother Ethan Raymond, 11, as a teacher escorts him away from Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City on Monday. (Paul Hellstern, The Oklahoman) ( | ) As we grieve for those who lost so much in the monster tornado that struck Oklahoma on Monday, we also find ourselves buoyed by emerging stories of heroism. We ...

• IRS AP Libya scandals A trifecta with little payout

  Folks, deep breath time. This is not the end of the Obama presidency. It's a bad stretch with an unfortunate confluence of unfortunate events. None of which will make the first paragraph -- not even the first page -- of the account of the Obama administration in the history books.Let's tick through the trifecta of scandals and what they tell us -- about the foibles of this ...

• Richard Davis Abortion laws should keep up with advances

  The illegal abortion trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell horrified the nation. Gosnell was found guilty of delivering late-term live babies in abortion attempts and then killing them by snipping their spines. A co-worker said that, after aborting a 30 week fetus, Gosnell joked that the child was so big it could "walk to the ...

• Letters Consumers last word

  In the war of businessmen against the people, the businessmen seem to have won the battle for collecting sales tax on products purchased from out-of-state sellers. A federal law sponsored by state business interests will require the appropriate state sales tax to be collected on Internet purchases. The state governments see this as a windfall because the voluntary sales tax doesn't seem to ...

• Letters Move to the center

  Dan Liljenquist's gleeful recounting of adversity in the Obama presidency is unfortunate ("Chaffetz's search for truth in Benghazi paid off," May 16). Extremism on the left and on the right is much the same. Salient in both are fear and hate of an "other" and detachment of reality. Where extremism errs is in its rigid dichotomy of paired opposites, like friend and ...

• Letters Disaster vs. disease

  Everyone expects the government to step in and help the victims of this most recent tornado as it has in the other recent natural disasters. I applaud the quick response of our government — the purpose of government is to protect its citizens. But according to the ranting and raving of a few, that does not include protecting them when illness occurs. Please explain to me the difference ...

• What others say India and China

  India and China together account for about 38 percent of the world's 7-billion-plus population. Because these Asian giants share a border, the whole planet holds its breath if they are at each other's throats, as they were again earlier this ...

• In our opinion Scouting success will come from devotion to ideals

  For a century, the Boy Scouts of America has provided the young men of Utah an unparalleled program of character development through outdoor adventure, leadership training and service. The state's communities have benefited enormously — not just from the untold hours of service — but from the values of the Scout Oath and Law that have been instilled into the hearts of so many. ...

• Labor Voices GOPs agenda sells Michiganians short

  It is time for Michiganians to have a real conversation about both value and values. Do we want to protect corrections officers or produce fatter CEO paychecks? Are we trying to give our kids the cheapest possible education or the best? Do our veterans and the health care workers who care for them deserve more than empty promises? Sometimes you get what you pay for. Unfortunately, it looks like ...

• May 22 Letters To the Editor

  Brittany Loring is certainly one tough Bostonian, after dealing with a skull fracture and two leg wounds ("Marathon bombing victim looks forward to MBA," May 20). She’s a major success already, as she gets her business degree and finishes recovering from her injuries. And now she has her whole life ahead of her. I am just so sorry that she and others had to go through such pain.- ...

• Scandals reveal King O the Redeemer as the Idiot

  Although there’s still a great deal to be learned about the scandals and controversies swirling around the White House like so many ominous dorsal fins in the surf, the nature of President Obama’s bind is becoming clear. The best defenses of his administration require undermining the rationale for his presidency."We’re portrayed by Republicans as either being liars or ...

• Backing Becks Dont Knock The Soccer Stars Talents

  David Beckham spent six years in the U.S. with the LA Galaxy before returning to Europe earlier this year. The most unforgiving criticism in sport is directed at any athlete who fans believe is celebrated too excessively above his true talent level -- especially those stars who are gloried because they're such pretty people. To wit: As David Beckham retires, so much attention is ...

• Minnesota adoptees lack equal access to personal history

  Two seemingly unrelated stories in the news - marriage equality and Angelina Jolie’s preventive mastectomies - have a connection for some Minnesotans. Many members of state’s adoption community have sought for decades to regain the right of adult adoptees to have access to their original birth certificates. Our attempts to restore this right, which was taken away in the 1940s under ...

• Angelina Jolie and knowing our genetic risks

  Last week, I decided I wanted a Reuben sandwich, and I was missing sauerkraut. For my Reubens, not just any sauerkraut will do. So I got in my car, strapped myself in, drove to the co-op that carries it and paid an ungodly amount for The Best Sauerkraut In The World. I got home, laid out my ingredients, and started drooling at the prospect of my delicious, most-craved Reuben. And then I ...

• Minnesota Legislatures 2013 legacy Why

  Mark Dayton and DFL leaders are wasting little time to extol their "accomplishments" of this year’s legislative session. We, not surprisingly, have a different take and a lot of questions. Why did legislators raise permanent taxes by more than $2 billion to resolve a $627 million short-term deficit? They could have adopted a balanced approach by going through the budget line by ...

• After tornado whats next for Moore Okla. Our view

  Monday's tornado wasn't even the strongest to hit this same suburban community. The pictures make you wonder how anyone lived through the monster tornado that devastated an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday. Neighborhoods scraped to the foundations. ...

• Twister leaves tragedies miracles Other views

  "Every Okie accepts that atmospheric instability is a part of our legacy." The Oklahoman,Oklahoma City, editorial: "Now come the sad stories, the heartrending deaths of young and old, the miracles and the survivals, as the black funnel wraps itself in grief. Now come the recovery, the selfless deeds, the sacrificial giving and the comforting words. This is a time when patience is ...

• Minneapolis police chiefs troubling lack transparency

  Minneapolis police chief, she told the Star Tribune Editorial Board that her priorities for the department included transparency. In fact, the motto "Commitment, Integrity, Transparency" appears on most correspondence from her office. Earlier this month, she faced one of her first big tests in community relations. Two Minneapolis police officers were shot and two young men died ...

• Editorial Aaron Reardon should make resignation official

  SNOHOMISH County Executive Aaron Reardon’s voluntary departure from his elected post should be acknowledged by more than a startling paragraph in a routine speech. Two months ago in a State of the County address, Reardon announced he would step down May 31. That was pretty much it. He owes county residents a more formal, and pragmatic departure. Reardon should not compound a string of ...

• Education reform is only part of answer to student achievement

  A few weeks ago I received this email from a frustrated teacher: "I retired several years ago from teaching high school. I still sub. On Monday I was supposed to supervise peer editing of a research paper on the Industrial Revolution. The students had two weeks to write. I had five classes and about half the students did not have their papers. ‘I don’t like to write’ or ...

• Guest Say no to a U.S.-Canada border-crossing fee

  THE U.S. government has expressed interest in possibly instituting a new border-crossing fee at land borders. At this stage, the proposal is just a request by President Obama’s administration to study the effect of collecting a crossing fee for pedestrians and passenger vehicles along the Canadian and Mexican land borders. A fee would help recover the costs of upgrades on the northern and ...

• Hospital prices baffle patients Your Say

  Hospital charges vary widely from one part of the country to another. The Affordable Care Act requires hospitals to tell patients how much a procedure will ...

• Wickham Republicans relish role as Party of No

  But blocking tactics aren't the same thing as providing proof of supposed administration abuses. Never lacking chutzpah, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the Chief Obstructionist of the Party of No, turned up on Meet the Press Sunday to denounce the Obama administration for creating ...

• Allow prayer at government meetings tellusatoday

  On Monday, the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case about whether prayer should be allowed at government meetings. We asked our readers how they would rule. Comments are from Twitter and Facebook:Should prayer be allowed at government meetings? Absolutely! Politicians need all the help they can get. -- @VILLARREAL_14Pray at home or church. Not everyone is a Bible-thumping Christian. ...

• Boy Scouts admit gay members and move on Column

  James Oliver, left, hugs his brother and fellow Eagle Scout, Will Oliver, who is gay. In February, Will and other supporters carried boxes filled with a petition to end the ban on gay Scouts and leaders to the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in ...

• Eliminate IRS discretion by returning to social-welfare groups original purpose Editorial

  It's clear by this point that the Internal Revenue Service should not be in the business of figuring out what constitutes political activity and just how much of it is engaged in by any particular group claiming tax-exempt status. The easy solution to the scandal embroiling Washington is to revoke the 1959 IRS regulation that says social-welfare groups can engage in political activity, so ...

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