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FLASHBACK 1998: A majority of Utahns have been led to believe that you can't be a "good" Mormon and a Democrat, too

If balance isn't restored in Utah, democracy is over, whether you're a Mormon or not.

In commemoration of City Weekly's 40th anniversary, we are digging into our archives to celebrate. Each week, we FLASHBACK to a story or column from our past in honor of four decades of local alt-journalism. Whether the names and issues are familiar or new, we are grateful to have this unique newspaper to contain them all.

Title: One-Party Disaster Author: John Harrington Date: April 9, 1998 Without a balanced adversarial political system watched carefully by a vigorous independent press—things we do not have in Utah today—we arguably live in the equivalent of a dictatorship, even though our…

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