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Show :1 4:104, k too ' OPINION ;14. Failure to Yield: How to avoid St. George traffic accidents , A' -r'- . " t 7 : , , r , , 4 0 fl. loNS BANN - - "- I - - 4 01,,r.:74 .4 ...,' .,ilL..1.---- ..7, 4 OP..- r tc. ',.... ;" i 4 ' 471), t l' 5 ; 7dor , m , K c,- Tribune's Jeremy Gomer and Annie Sweeney reported. In 2015, the ATF sent him a letter warning him not to sell more guns until he got a license. He agreed but didn't stop. In 2017, the agency traced another gun to Caldwell and found he was still posting hundreds of firearms for sale online. Undercover ATF agents arranged to go to his home, where they bought a pistol. He wasn't charged with a crime, though, until later after Bauer was shot. In the aftermath of that death, the ATF visited Caldwell's home and found he was still plying his trade without a license, ' Distracted driving is one of the leading causes of accidents on the road. Ignored turn signals and various other tions can help to stack the odds against drivers. ,........, 1s. 1 J 10 1 cent of Utah highway fatalities. d acThis spate of cidents is obviously a problem, but luckily, it's one that can be averted by avoiding negative driving habits and taking care to follow the rules of the road. Usually, these accidents take place at the city's busiest intersections, like Sunset Boulevard and Dixie Drive, or River Road and 100 South near Dixie State University, according to an article by The Spectrum. A key facet of the problem is aggressive driving, according to the Utah Driver Handbook. Whether it's not signalling when turning, ignoring stop and yield signs (you know who you are, people who blast into roundabouts, like excited rodents starting their runs on hamster wheels), or speeding, aggressive driving commonly leads to traffic accidents. Speeding and running red lights to save time is not worth the risk, nor is it worth it to turn left without properly yielding to oncoming traffic. Hoping to get to work before the last breakfast bagel is gone, making it to a movie before the previews end, yield-relate- (f zi fl i L 7, Ai ii be 1,....J BY LOGAN STOTT Stott Logan Everyone has to get somewhere, and to get there it's best to follow the rules of the road. Not y is yielding to the not a time saving measureit's a recipe for disaster. Utah drivers have a problem with yielding to the According to articles by The Spectrum and St. George News, failure to yield is the leading cause of traffic accidents in St. George. In fact, according to the Utah Driver Handbook, failure to y acyield to the right-of-wa- right-of-wa- y. right-of-wa- counted for 18 percent of Utah highway accidents and 11 per L- For a long time, Thomas Caldwell behaved like a man who wanted to go to prison and wouldn't stop until he got his way. In September, he pleaded guilty to selling guns without a federal license and now faces a prison sentence of up to five years. The question is why he wasn't locked up sooner. One of the firearms the Wisconsin man sold illegally was a 9 mm Glock pistol that wound up in the eventually four-time felon hands of a semi-automat- ic cz Send letters to the editor to DixieSun dixie.edu. Letters to the editor are accepted and may be published in right-of-way- ," well-writte- courages a lively discussion on its website among its readers. Dixie Sun News does not edit comments. However, an editor will not post any comments that are libelous or vulgar. ,-- k r -- ,- ' '1 1 ; ' , 'Idl l Erykah Badu and Jay-Most people wouldn't g call Clan a band of edutainers. Albums g like "Enter the (36 Chambers)" and g Forever" were perceived initially more as sources of gangstainflected club tracks than documentary renderings of urban distress. Track after track on these records, the band's primary producer, the RZA, g concocted grooves, using melodies plucked from old soul songs, sampled bits of kung fu movie dialogue and shuffling beats. On top of that, the lyrics delivered by Method Man , Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and company often came off as little more than pulpy stories about criminals viciously going after one another. But there is a thematic seriousness that seeps through the Wu that folks don't always detect. RZA and the others in the clan, that is, have never been averse to focusing on the manner in which Wu-Tan- ' , "Wu-Tan- BY STEPHEN B. Guest Columnist couch-lockin- Growing up outside Washington, D.C. in the p 1980s, I listened to a lot. However, it was y mostly the mainstream variety: RUNDMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J. By the time I got to college, though, political rap had my attention: acts like Ice-- and Public Enemy that dropped rhymes about serious social issues, especially called racism. KRS-On- e this strain of engaged hip hop "edutainment," and its influence persists today, showing up in the work of Kendrick Lamar, hip-ho- party-friendl- T ', kept selling, finally earning his date in federal court. Why didn't the ATF move sooner to get prosecutors to put this chronic, dangerous scofflaw behind bars? The agency "declined to comment," the Tribune reported. If Caldwell had been prosecuted when he first appeared on the ATF's radar, Paul Bauer might be alive today. That's a tragedy and a disgrace. The feds should take it as unforgettable proof of the urgent need for tougher enforcement. t , 5 i ': , -- ' P ,,,,.,,, " I 4, c 4 , lr , 7 -. , k ,,,..., , ... -- 1 1- -. , ' I , , ,. , ,t ' ' t , it. k 'iv firearms was like an addiction," as an assistant U.S. attorney said. Even then, he 40 . N,,,.., 3,-- . ' ) , .. , t 1, 1 , A t" i kz I - , 4 p U t i. 1 . , ; ii , t . , i , ' ', i '' A.-- , 1., I ! i 4. . I - ,.4 1 s i ji Grace Bauer, 13, and her mother, Erin Bauer, follow behind the casket of their father and husband, Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer, during the recessional of his funeral mass at Nativity of Our Lord Roman Catholic Church in Chicago on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2017. DI c3c-ulDL- thoughts at the same time as it makes you want to pop, lock and break. The best of the early g solo records be GZA's may "Liquid Swords," from 1995. A subdued, almost melancholy tone permeates the album's musical arrangements as GZA coolly weaves together hardboiled stories about life in the hardest parts of New York City, where guns seems to go off as frequently as taxi cab horns in traffic. Consider one of the album's darkest tracks, "Cold World," which has GZA mulling over the excruciating cost of gun violence and a guest performer on the track, who calls himself Life, singing: "Babies cryin' brothers dyin' and brothers getting knocked... We be runnin' from the cops, bustin' off shots... In this cold, cold world." These days, Kanye may wear the crown as the king of rap, and Wayne and Eminem dominate the charts with songs about their sex lives and their resentments. But it's the Wu, if you ask me, that keeps coming through. And it always will. Stephen B. Armstrong Wu-Tan- "Wu-Tan- Wu-Tan- . I 1 people of color struggle in a culture where systemic racism can eclipse personal potential. These solemn spaces in the Wu songbook, however, typically embrace optimistic themes, too, emphasizing the healing powers of love, mercy and kindness. As Papa Wu on the openg ing track of Forever" declares: "If you take one step, I will take one with you through the storm and pain, swim the deepest sea... I I know you got to be strong, gotta hold on." g The popularity of in Clan the 1990s, when its sound and style were still unsettlingly fresh, was really extraordinary. I remember how the band's W logo, which resembles a phoenix with its wings outstretched, was everywhere: shirts, stickers, jewelry. And tracks like "Protect Ya Neck," "C.R.E.A.M" and "Triumph," with their expletives bleeped out, p and indominated dependent radio stations. During this period, as . 1 , , t , , , users to prove identity and undergo background checks. That activity brought him to the attention of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the , telling agents "that selling 4 regular business of selling guns is supposed to obtain a federal firearms dealer license. Anyone buying from a licensed dealer has to submit to a background check that screens out those who are legally barred from gun ownership, such as felons. Caldwell, however, bought and sold dozens of guns a year without a license, and peddled them through a website that doesn't require hip-ho- i A t. I ' - J ro , i Wu-Tan- t ARMSTRONG Letters are subject to editing for length, style and grammar. Letters consisting of inaccurate, libelous or highly offensive content will not be published. Letters should be submitted to dixiesundixie.edu in the body of the email, not an attachment. Letters become property of Dixie Sun News and may be published in any format. Dixie Sun News en- ,e- I the ensuing struggle, authorities say, Legghette fired seven rounds, inflicting fatal wounds on the officer. Anyone who makes a CLLlsl' Z. n. major. ... 1 t Submissions should be no longer than 250 words and must be Writers must include name, phone number and email address. Students should also include year in school, hometown and named Shomari Legghette. In February, he was fleeing Chicago police on foot in the Loop when he was tackled by police Cmdr. Paul Bauer. In ro the newspaper andor dixiesunnews.com. The guidelines for letters are as follows: infrac- or arriving to class slightly less late than you otherwise would is never worth the risk of injury or death. Many local accidents caused by the failure to yield happen when drivers fail to take necessary precautions when turning left in an intersection, according to articles by The Spectrum and St. George News. It's understandable; Whether you're fictional male supermodel Derek Zoolander failing to turn left at the end of the runway, or an driver attempting to weave their way through the stressful bustle of small city traffic, no one likes to turn left. The Utah Driver Handbook instructs drivers to signal left for two seconds and yield to oncoming traffic when making a left turn. In other words, it's better to wait for traffic to clear than take unnecessary risks when turning left. No one likes to turn left, and no one likes to be cut off by others turning left carelessly. "Courtesy is the key when accordyielding ing to the Utah Driver kEJ -- I: Editorial: There is a deadly peril to not enforcing gun laws BYTHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE r 4i P4 - well, Method Man became a second-tie- r movie star thanks to the hit comedy "How High", and Quentin Tarantino hired RZA to score his "Kill Bill" movies. g As Clan's de facto leader, RZA also played a big role in furthering the solo careers of his band mates. He helped secure recording contracts for Method, Ghostface, Raekwon, ODB and GZA and served, as well, as producer on their maiden releases. Working long days and nights in a basement that he'd set up as recording space, he constructed dozens of dope percussive sequences that he built out with found sounds and passed on to his pals, who then wrote lyrics to fit the beats. I've been listening to these early solo records from the Wu guys since their first appearance in the They're all strong, all tough. Wu-Tan- mid-1990- s. 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