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LDS Church gives $4 million for new University of Utah law school building
A new building for the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law received a $4 million gift from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the university announced Friday. "The church's involvement with the university goes back to its founding. The new, state-of-the-art law school...
Former presiding bishop H. David Burton appointed to UTA board
Gov. Gary Herbert on Thursday appointed H. David Burton to serve on the board of directors of the Utah Transit Authority. Burton was recently released as the presiding bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a position he held for 16...
Utah Democrats to Mormon voters: Give us a chance
Utah Democrats have been looking to expand their voter share in the state by offering moderate Mormons a political home. And party leaders and pollsters say the strategy appears to be working. Utah Democratic Party chairman Jim Dabakis said two full-time organizers have been hired to reach out...
BYU, University of Utah business schools on News and World Report's 'most popular' list
Two business schools in Utah, Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business and the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, have joined the ranks of Harvard and Stanford on U.S. News & World Report’s Most Popular Business Schools list. The rankings were based on the...
Utah tops nation in traditional family categories
An analysis released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that as Americans move more to a "Modern Family" model, Utah is sticking closer to the traditional "Ozzie and Harriet" lifestyle. Utah has the nation’s highest percentage of households headed by married couples and the highest...
BYU Cougars in Congress seek to preserve Y on mountain
A handful of BYU alumni in Congress want to make sure the large block Y on the mountainside east of their alma mater and the trails that access it are preserved and protected for years to come. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, on Tuesday introduced the Y Mountain Access Enhancement Act, which would...
Provo vacates street for Mormon Temple
The street south of the burned out Provo Tabernacle is no longer a public street. The Municipal Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to vacate a one-block stretch of 100 South between University Avenue and 100 West. The vacation is the first step toward selling the street to The Church of Jesus...
One of Utah's oldest Mormon chapels to be demolished
One of the oldest Mormon chapels in Utah will soon be demolished to make way for a new church. The 133-year-old Paradise 2nd and 3rd Ward church in Cache County will be leveled next month. Church historians say the chapel, located in the heart of Paradise, was completed in 1877 and features...
Census: Share of Utah's Mormon residents holds steady
For nearly two decades, Utah’s population continued to rise while the percentage of its people who are Mormon slowly and steadily declined. Then the recession hit, jobs dried up and people hunkered down. Utah’s population is 62.2 percent LDS and that percentage hasn’t moved much in the past...
New vision for Utah: ‘safest place for families’ in nation
For Peg Coleman, it was like nothing she had ever experienced before. It was March 31, Coleman’s first day in Salt Lake City, and she’d spent it exploring the city on foot. As she walked near Temple Square, Coleman suddenly found herself in a tide of men making their way toward the LDS...
Elder Dallin H. Oaks dedicates new home of Utah's largest law firm
Elder Dallin H. Oaks was among friends Thursday afternoon, surrounded by legal professionals at the new home of Utah's largest law firm. Elder Oaks, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Quorum of the Twelve, officially welcomed Kirton McConkie to City Creek Center and...
LDS Church to reuse the rubble from the old downtown malls
With all the attention paid to the new City Creek Center development, a lot of Utahns may be starting to forget what was there before. But a reminder of the ZCMI Center and Crossroads Plaza is seen by drivers every day. Alongside an I-80 frontage road at 7200 West, there's a sizable pile of...
Billboard: Why did LDS leader say Mormons are warlike?
MR says: Have you seen this? Since Friday, drivers on southbound Interstate 15 have been confronted by an LDS Church leader’s claim that "we are a warlike people." The billboard, paid for by a group of libertarians and constitutionalists, asks "Why did [LDS Church President] Spencer W. Kimball say: ‘We...
Private LDS school to become Utah’s first iSchool
Hundreds of parents and students packed Thanksgiving Point's Show Barn on Friday night for the announcement that Liahona Preparatory Academy, a private LDS-based K-12 school in Pleasant Grove, will become Utah's first iSchool next month. All students, beginning in kindergarten, will be using...
Photos of life in Utah in 1940
MR says: In celebration of the 1940 U.S. Census records being released today, enjoy this spectacular photo gallery of the 1940s. These photos from the Utah State Historical Society show life in Utah in the...
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