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• Federal agency over Utah’s public lands quietly 'streamlines' its environmental reviews

  06-09-2017 23:36
  In another nod to the needs of the oil and gas industry, the U.S. Department of Interior has instructed its agencies to “streamline” environment reviews and impose severe time and page limits on critical decision-making documents.With no fanfare, Secretarial Order 3355 was issued Thursday bearing the signature of David Bernhardt, an erstwhile industry lobbyist who was recently confirmed as deputy secretary, Ryan Zinke’s No. 2 at Interior.The stated purpose is to cut out “
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: The Vertical] - The Downbeat: Is Ricky Rubio the next star for the Utah Jazz?

  06-09-2017 23:32 via sportspyder.com
  ... asket behind brilliant play from Ricky Rubio. He’s been exceptional and Utah Jazz fans should be excited for him to bring that level of play back to the NBA n ...
  
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• Kragthorpe: Falcons will return to the Super Bowl, as losers never do lately

  06-09-2017 23:26
  This may look like the easy choice, picking the team that lost the previous Super Bowl to win a conference championship and get back to that stage, being more motivated by the defeat.Makes sense, right? Except nobody ever does it.Not since the Buffalo Bills of the early 1990s, who kept winning AFC championships and losing Super Bowls, has a Super Bowl runner-up successfully defended a conference title. That’s crazy when you think about it. In the latest example, Carolina went 6-10 last sea
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Get Rich Quick: Vegas Predicts Bad Season for Jazz

  06-09-2017 23:14 via sportspyder.com
  ... and , two defensive-minded vets who, even if they don’t score, will make the Jazz that much more difficult to score on. Will they eclipse the 50-win mark agai ...
  
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• Crews hold lines of Uintah Fire overnight, interstate reopens but evacuations remain

  06-09-2017 23:09
  Firefighters, having held flames at bay overnight, on Wednesday resumed their attack on the 619-acre Uintah Fire, which investigators now believe the blaze was human-caused.The wind-driven fire, which began early Tuesday morning in tinder-dry brush and grass at the mouth of Weber Canyon, forced evacuations of nearly 1,000 residents as it burned five homes and a garage. No injuries were reported.Fire Information Officer Kim Osborn said Wednesday that despite overnight gusts, the fire had not grow
  
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• Rains from monster Hurricane Irma begin hitting Puerto Rico

  06-09-2017 22:38
  San Juan, Puerto Rico • Heavy rain and historic, 185-mph winds lashed the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico’s northeast coast Wednesday as Hurricane Irma roared through Caribbean islands on its way to a possible devastating hit on Florida.The strongest Atlantic Ocean hurricane ever measured destroyed homes and flooded streets across a chain of small islands in the northern Caribbean, passing directly over Barbuda and leaving the island of some 1,700 people incommunicado.This is only the
  
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• George Clooney on ‘Suburbicon,’ fatherhood and Trump

  06-09-2017 22:15
  Most things have changed in George Clooney’s life since he and wife Amal welcomed twins in July. But as he prepares to unveil his latest directorial effort, “Suburbicon,” some rituals remain eerily familiar.“I just have to clean the barf off of my tux,” says Clooney. “It used to be my barf but now it’s the twins’ barf. So it all works out.”It’s a new chapter for Clooney, but one with some old moves. “Suburbicon,” which Param
  
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• Utah-BYU fans take their rivalry to social media

  06-09-2017 22:07
  The game, of course, will be played on the field at LaVell Edwards Stadium Saturday night. But the pregame festivities are well underway for Utah and BYU fans dissing, teasing and bragging all over social media over the last week leading up to the game.The Utah fans have rallied under the hashtag “#SevenIsComing” in anticipation of a seventh straight win over their Provo rivals. #HolyWar #GoUtes #7IsComing pic.twitter.com/So6A93p8OJ— overlooking 7 onto 8 (@UtahTouchdo
  
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• CoCo Vandeweghe 3rd American woman into US Open semifinals

  06-09-2017 22:06
  New York • CoCo Vandeweghe made it three Americans into the U.S. Open women’s semifinals, beating top-seeded Karolina Pliskova 7-6 (4), 6-3 on Wednesday.The 20th-seeded Vandeweghe matched her best result in a Grand Slam tournament, having also reached the semifinals of the Australian Open in January before falling to Venus Williams.Williams is also into the semifinals in Flushing Meadows along with Sloane Stephens, and No. 15 Madison Keys had a chance to make it an all-Ameri
  
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• Spanish league head chides PSG and Neymar with crude analogy

  06-09-2017 22:02
  Manchester, England • The head of the Spanish soccer league used a crude analogy Wednesday to intensify his criticism of spending by Qatari-owned Paris Saint-Germain.The French club broke soccer’s transfer record by buying Neymar from Barcelona for 222 million euros ($262 million), denying La Liga as one of the game’s hottest talents.Spanish league president Javier Tebas, who says he believes PSG could only avoid breaching UEFA Financial Fair Play rules by relying on inflated sp
  
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• NFL: Seahawks' Michael Bennett said he feared for his life after encounter with Las Vegas police

  06-09-2017 21:51
  Las Vegas • Seattle Seahawks player Michael Bennett accused Las Vegas police on Wednesday of racially motivated excessive force, saying he was threatened at gunpoint and handcuffed following a report of gunshots at an after-hours club at a casino-hotel.Bennett said on a Twitter messagetitled “Dear World,” that police “singled me out and pointed their gunsat me for doing nothing more than simply being a black man in the wrongplace at the wrong time.”Police later attri
  
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• Mayor Biskupski: Police officer who arrested nurse should immediately have been put on leave
  

  06-09-2017 21:50
  The police officer who arrested a University Hospital nurse during a July 26 dispute over getting a blood draw from a patient, should immediately have been placed on administrative leave, according to Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski.Instead, Salt Lake City police Detective Jeff Payne was not placed on leave until Sept. 1, a day after the nurse’s attorney publicly released police body cam footage of the arrest.Another officer — believed to be Payne’s watch commander, Lt. J
  
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• BYU football notes: Chaz Ah You’s father once coached Utes

  06-09-2017 21:17
  Provo • From making a splash to playing flash.That’s a good way to describe highly recruited Timpview High athlete Chaz Ah You’s first year at BYU.The four-star recruit made a splash on Signing Day last February when he arrived at LaVell Edwards Stadium via helicopter to announce he was joining the Cougars. Ah You started training camp in July as a safety but was moved three weeks ago to the position that BYU calls the “flash” linebacker.“I saw it coming when I
  
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• Report: Red Sox used Apple Watch to steal Yankees' signs

  06-09-2017 21:06
  Boston • Looking for any edge in an age-old rivalry, the Boston Red Sox got called out in a high-tech sign-stealing scheme they ran on the New York Yankees.The first-place Red Sox admitted to Major League Baseball that they used an Apple Watch to relay signals from opposing catchers to Boston players, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Sign stealing has long been a part of the game, but employing electronic gadgets to do it is against the rules.MLB is looking into allegations levied by th
  
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• Gehrke: It’s 2017, but people in Utah still put on ‘redface’ for an inaccurate re-creation of an American Indian vs. Mormon battle

  06-09-2017 21:03
  Wellsville • Because Utah was not exactly a flashpoint of the Civil War, we have been insulated from the debate about whether to tear down the monuments to Confederate generals who fought to defend slavery.That doesn’t mean we don’t have our own relics of a racially troubling history that we try to gloss over out of a misguided reverence for a past that didn’t really exist. And our’s aren't cast in bronze.Case in point, the “Sham Battle” held as part of t
  
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• Salvador Dali's exhumed DNA disproves paternity claim

  06-09-2017 20:49
  Madrid • A paternity test has disproved a Spanish woman’s claim that she is the daughter of surrealist artist Salvador Dali, the deceased painter’s foundation announced Wednesday.The Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation said in a written statement that the Madrid court that ordered the DNA test informed it that Pilar Abel, a 61-year-old tarot card reader, has no biological relationship with Dali.Abel has long alleged her mother had an affair with Dali and claimed she had the right to p
  
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• Leonard Pitts: America, a land of liberty and justice for some

  06-09-2017 20:48
  Steve Loomis is angry.Loomis, the head of Cleveland’s police union, is using words like “hypocritical,” “ignorant,” and “offensive,” and you might, for a wishful second, convince yourself he’s talking about that day in 2014 when two Cleveland police skidded to a stop in front of a 12-year-old black boy playing with a toy gun in a park and instantly shot him to death.Or about how they failed to render first aid and roughed up and handcuffed his teen
  
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• Kragthorpe: Atlanta Falcons will return to the Super Bowl, as losers never do lately

  06-09-2017 20:48
  This may look like the easy choice, picking the team that lost the previous Super Bowl to win a conference championship and get back to that stage, being more motivated by the defeat.Makes sense, right? Except nobody ever does it.Not since the Buffalo Bills of the early 1990s, who kept winning AFC championships and losing Super Bowls, has a Super Bowl runner-up successfully defended a conference title. That’s crazy when you think about it. In the latest example, Carolina went 6-10 last sea
  
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• Davis County No. 2 in nation for employment growth

  06-09-2017 20:29
  Among the nation’s 347 largest counties, Davis County had the second largest jump in employment between the first quarter of last year and this year.And Utah County was tied for No. 4, according to statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.The number of jobs in Davis County was up by 4.9 percent — three times higher than the national average gain of 1.6 percent.The only large county that saw bigger employment growth was York County, S.C.Utah County saw empl
  
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• Holly Richardson: Kicking out DREAMers hurts us all

  06-09-2017 20:28
  In the world of public relations, it’s common knowledge that if you want a story to get overlooked or buried, either release it on a Friday evening or when another news story is really heating up. President Trump often does both.He announced Joe Arpaio’s pardon the day Hurricane Harvey was making landfill and this past weekend – a holiday weekend and one in which the news cycle was still full of ark-building levels of rain, he rescinded the Deferred Action for Ch
  
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• Survey: ‘Christian America’ dwindling, including white evangelicals

  06-09-2017 20:27
  The future of religion in America is young, non-Christian and technicolor.Almost every Christian denomination in the U.S. shows signs of growing diversity as white Christians, once the majority in most mainline Protestant and Catholic denominations, give way to younger members, who tend to be of different races, according to a vast study released Wednesday by the Public Religion Research Institute.
  And American evangelicals — once seemingly immune to the decline experienced by their Cathol
  
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• Ex-Jazz player Derek Fisher and BYU grad Lindsey Stirling will be ‘Dancing With the Stars’

  06-09-2017 20:26
  ABC has announced the cast for the upcoming 25th season of “Dancing With the Stars,” and there is, once again, a bit of a Utah flavor.The collection of B-list celebrities includes a former member of the Utah Jazz and a former BYU student/LDS missionary. And two of the professional dancers are locals.Former Jazzman Derek Fisher — who played in Utah in 2006-07 before returning to the Los Angeles Lakers — will partner with professional dancer Sharna Burgess.Violinist/dancer/
  
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• Monson: There’s no avoiding it — the Evil Empire will win another Super Bowl

  06-09-2017 20:25
  Don’t do it. Don’t do it. Don’t do it.Gotta do it.The New England Patriots will win another Super Bowl at the tail end of the 2017 season.I get it. Ho-hum. It’s neither a risky, nor an original pick.But this annual preseason-projection exercise, selecting a Super Bowl winner so far in advance, ain’t easy. After having done it for decades now, and trying, at times, to get all fresh-and-funny with it, one year even letting my dog make the selection — he ended up
  
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• Alexandra Petri: President Trump's America is a nightmare. There can be no dreamers here.

  06-09-2017 20:15
  President Donald Trump has run to the door of Congress with yet another Obama-era policy that he has stabbed half to death, shouted “CONGRESS WILL BE TO BLAME IF THIS DIES,” and then run off.This time it is DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that has allowed 800,000 young immigrants brought to this country as children to serve in the military, seek higher education and hold jobs. Even the people who object to it object only on the grounds that they wish it were
  
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• Utah forecast: Midweek hot and smoky, but storms on the way

  06-09-2017 20:13
  Smoky skies and hot temperatures ruled northern Utah at the midweek, but incoming thunderstorms and rain could help clear the air on Thursday and Friday.
  The National Weather Service predicted high temperatures in the low-90s and isolated thunderstorms and rain showers along the Wasatch Front for Thursday, which could scour the skies of some of the smoke from Weber County and out-of-state wildfires. Friday promised more of the same, with highs in the upper-80s.
  Southern Utahns, too, will see per
  
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• Utah-BYU: Here are five underrated games in the football rivalry's history, with plenty of twists and turns

  06-09-2017 20:05
  Fourth-down conversions, game-ending touchdown passes, field-goal attempts that hit the uprights, overtime contests, LaVell Edwards’ last game and victories that sent Utah into major bowls are the moments everybody can cite from the Utah-BYU football rivalry.Yet there are many more games worth remembering, from Edwards’ first rivalry game as BYU’s coach to Ron McBride’s last appearance with Utah, plus Urban Meyer’s experience in the snow in Provo, BYU’s strugg
  
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• Following a financial scandal, the taxpayer-supported Utah League of Cities & Towns picks a new leader

  06-09-2017 19:33
  Nine months after its longtime executive director resigned amid scandal, the taxpayer-funded Utah League of Cities and Towns has named Cameron Diehl as its new chief.Diehl has been serving as the league’s director of governmental relations — essentially its top lobbyist — and staff attorney. He first started as an intern in 2006 with the league, a group that provides training and lobbying for the state’s cities and towns.Steve Hiatt, mayor of Kaysville and president of th
  
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• Greg Sargent: The big lie at the core of Trumpism

  06-09-2017 19:23
  It could not be more fitting that only 24 hours after scrapping protections for 800,000 young immigrants brought here illegally as children President Donald Trump is set to deliver a big speech extolling the need to cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations. The juxtaposition captures the massive lie at the very heart of Trumpism as perfectly as anyone could ask for.Two of Trump’s new tweets neatly bracket this big lie. In one tweet, Trump announced he will give a speech Wednesday in Nort
  
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• Bambara pastry chef makes finals for America‘s 2020 Culinary Olympic team

  06-09-2017 19:22
  Andrew Corrao, the banquet pastry chef at Salt Lake City’s Bambara restaurant, is a finalist for America’s 2020 Culinary Olympic team.
  The culinary Olympics occur every four years and in 2020 will take place in Stuttgart, Germany, with 50 countries represented. Team USA, sponsored by the American Culinary Federation, comprises five savory chefs and one pastry chef. Last month, Corrao participated in tryouts in Orlando, Fla., emerging as one of 10 contenders for the single pastry
  
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• Former Daggett County sheriff, two officers, plead guilty in inmate-abuse case

  06-09-2017 19:21
  Silver Summit • The former Daggett County sheriff and two of his officers pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges accusing them of mistreating inmates at the county jail, abuse that included the use of a stun gun.The pleas came a day before a preliminary hearing — where testimony and evidence of the alleged crimes was to be presented — was scheduled to begin in 3rd District Court.Former Sheriff Jerry Jorgensen, 64, pleaded guilty to class B misdemeanor official misconduct. T
  
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• House overwhelmingly passes $7.9 billion Harvey aid bill

  06-09-2017 19:17
  Washington • The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed $7.9 billion in Hurricane Harvey disaster relief as warring Republicans and Democrats united behind help for victims of that storm as an ever more powerful new hurricane bore down on Florida.The 419-3 vote sent the aid package — likely the first of several — to the Senate in hopes of sending the bill to President Donald Trump before dwindling federal disaster reserves run out at the end of this week.“Help is on the
  
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• Trump Jr. to speak privately Thursday to Senate staff

  06-09-2017 19:13
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s oldest son is expected to meet privately with a Senate committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, several senators said Wednesday.Donald Trump Jr.’s appearance Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee would probably focus on a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer and others during the final stretches of last year’s campaign. Emails released in July show that Trump Jr. was told the session at T
  
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• For Steve Tate and Reno Mahe, tragedy forged a powerful bond between a Ute and a Cougar

  06-09-2017 19:10
  For several days last November, Steve Tate did little else but watch his son die. The hospital room felt cold to him, and the outside world dim. He thinks he stayed in that room for five straight days before he decided to leave. And he doesn’t remember why he went downstairs, only how it changed him forever.In the lobby of Primary Children’s Medical Center, Tate, the former University of Utah safety, spotted a familiar face. Reno Mahe, the new running backs coach at BYU, was surround
  
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• Utah County: Man, stabbed by brother, in critical condition

  06-09-2017 19:07
  Utah County sheriff’s deputies took a 16-year-old Eagle Mountain boy into custody after he  stabbed his older brother, purportedly to stop him from assaulting their 14-year-old sister during an argument.
  Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon said deputies responded to a 911 call about 3:20 p.m. Tuesday at the teen’s home, near Parkers Place and Cattle Drive in Eagle Mountain. They found the 18-year-old victim in critical condition from five stab wounds to his arm, chest and upper
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz are showing faith in Rodney Hood ahead of the 2017-18 season

  06-09-2017 19:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... e entering negotiations and mold it into an expression of confidence. If the Jazz get the 2015-16 version of Rodney Hood, the offense will be fine – he has th ...
  
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• Utah schools receive record $64M in trust land funding

  06-09-2017 18:53
  Public schools got a lot more help than usual this year from the Permanent State School Fund, a more than $2.3 billion portfolio supported by trust lands. At a Wednesday morning event, State Superintendent Sydnee Dickson and Utah State Treasurer David Damschen announced an award of $64.25 million for the 2017-2018 school year, the largest distribution from the fund in state history.“Every dollar we earn through prudent investment of the Permanent State School Fund is a dollar in schoo
  
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• Golf: Layton's Ryan Reisbeck knocked out in World Long Drive Championship

  06-09-2017 18:47
  Layton’s Ryan Reisbeck reached the round of 16 in the Volvik World Long Drive Championship in Oklahoma before being eliminated Tuesday.Reisbeck, who entered the competition with a No. 2 ranking, was upset by Wes Patterson, a former minor league baseball player, in the match play format that began with 96 finalists. Patterson had beaten No. 1-ranked Maurice Allen in the round of 32,  then the drivers were reseeded.Reisbeck, 39, who pitched for Salt Lake Community College and the Univer
  
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• Woman critical after Salt Lake City auto-pedestrian collision

  06-09-2017 18:46
  A 34-year-old woman remained in critical condition Wednesday, the day after she was struck trying to cross a darkened State Street in Salt Lake City.Salt Lake City police Detective Keith Horrocks said the woman was not in a crosswalk when she attempted to walk across State Street near 1800 South about 9:05 p.m. Tuesday. She was hit by a Honda Civic.
  The car was northbound when the woman walked into the vehicle’s path about mid-block. The driver stopped and was cooperative with investigator
  
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• Francis Wilkinson: Trump dumps young immigrants on a hapless Congress

  06-09-2017 18:33
  The mixed signals and cowardice emanating from Trumpworld on the fate of almost 800,000 “Dreamers” will soon be complemented and echoed by mixed signals and cowardice emanating from Republican members of Congress and from Republican-aligned, nominally pro-immigrant business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.It turns out that President Donald Trump, who in the spring said Dreamers should “rest easy,” didn’t actually mean it. Trump issued a written statement
  
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• Celebrity chef tour returns to Riverhorse in Park City

  06-09-2017 18:33
  The James Beard Foundation’s Celebrity Chef Tour returns to Park City for a multicourse fundraising dinner prepared by six award-winning chefs.Seth Adams, co-owner and executive chef of Riverhorse on Main, and five guest chefs will each prepare a different course. Just as if they were dining at the historic James Beard House in New York City, diners will have the opportunity to interact with the chefs during the event.Tickets are $225 per person. Proceeds benefit the foundation, which supp
  
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• Utes podcast: Is seven straight an inevitability? Or can BYU surprise in Provo?

  06-09-2017 18:24
  Tyler Huntley’s escapability. Troy Taylor’s adaptability. And, like it or not, the inevitability of Saturday’s rivalry game in Provo. Reporters Chris Kamrani and Lynn Worthy discuss it all on this week’s episode.The podcast is available on iTunes.Or on SoundCloud:
  
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• Gehrke: Utah’s historically inaccurate and wildly offensive ‘sham battle’ between cowboys and Indians must end

  06-09-2017 17:57
  Wellsville • Because Utah was not exactly a flashpoint of the Civil War, we have been insulated from the debate about whether to tear down the monuments to Confederate generals who fought to defend slavery.That doesn’t mean we don’t have our own relics of a racially troubling history that we try to gloss over out of a misguided reverence for a past that didn’t really exist. And our’s aren't cast in bronze.Case in point, the “Sham Battle” held as part of t
  
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• Dana Milbank: Apparently, it's illegal to laugh at Jeff Sessions

  06-09-2017 17:46
  Washington - Did you hear the one about Jeff Sessions?I’d like to tell you, but I can’t. You see, it’s illegal to laugh at the attorney general, the man who on Tuesday morning announced that the 800,000 “dreamers” — immigrants brought here illegally as children — could soon be deported. If you were to find my Sessions jest funny, I would be an accessory to mirth.This is no joke, because liberal activist Desiree Fairooz is now being put on trial a se
  
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• Tiger muskie and 2 other fish species part of new plan to help curb chubs at Utah’s Scofield Reservoir

  06-09-2017 17:38
  Scofield Reservoir has been one of Utah’s best fishing waters over the years, except when Utah chubs take it over and outcompete game species such as trout and kokanee salmon for food.And, in recent years, chubs have been a major issue.In the past, the Division of Wildlife Resources would have simply killed off all the fish in the reservoir and started over. And that is still a possibility at Scofield.But, after a long public input process and much discussion, biologists have come up with
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning Links: Hayward is public enemy No. 1 in Utah; a look at the Utes' NFL talent

  06-09-2017 17:27 via sportspyder.com
  ...seven years. The Jazz wanted to go younger as Millsap was not getting older. Those type of breakup ...
  
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• Pope Francis’ Colombia agenda: peace, ecology and the way forward

  06-09-2017 17:19
  Vatican City • Pope Francis’ efforts to consolidate Colombia’s peace process with a five-day visit produced a result even before the trip began: a cease-fire between the government and the country’s last major rebel group.Francis is sure to hail the cease-fire with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, when he arrives in Bogota on Wednesday, seeing it as another major step forward in Colombia’s path of reconciliation after five decades of bloody conflict.Even before
  
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• Morning Links: Hayward is public enemy No. 1 in Utah; a look at the Utes' NFL talent

  06-09-2017 17:15
  When Gordon Hayward chose to sign with the Boston Celtics, Jazz fans lost respect for him, and now he's gone from being Utah's most loved to being the most despised after the way he handled his decision.Nobody wants a divorce after a long-time relationship. Yet, this is nothing new according to KSL. Paul Millsap started his career with the Jazz before both decided to go in a different direction after playing in Utah for seven years. The Jazz wanted to go younger as Millsap was not getting older.
  
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• Letter: Piling on against President Trump

  06-09-2017 17:15
  Every Sunday for some time now I buy a Salt Lake Tribune just to read the Opinion section. Living in Tooele, it’s a way for me to get a feeling on how Salt Lake City people see things.I read a letter, “Why no pro-Trump opinions?,” where another a subscriber has had enough of the overwhelming piling on against President Trump. Not just in the letters, but in the cartoons as well. I wholeheartedly agree.Trump ran on “draining the swamp.” What? You think that was going
  
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• Utah gymnastics: Coaches Farden, Marsden ink five-year contract extensions

  06-09-2017 17:10
  Utah is keeping the faces of the Red Rocks around for a while.Utah athletic director Chris Hill announced Wednesday morning that gymnastic co-coaches Tom Farden and Megan Marsden both have signed five-year contract extensions through 2022. Farden and Marsden, who enter their third season as co-coaches at Utah, won their first Pac-12 Championship last season. It was Utah’s third Pac-12 crown in the last four years.The Red Rocks finished 2017 fifth in the country after an NCAA Super Six appe
  
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• Kragthorpe: Can Ty Detmer make the BYU offense productive? We’ll see with the Utes and other Power Five opponents upcoming

  06-09-2017 17:05
  Provo • Long before LSU tormented BYU’s offense, Penn State’s defense stymied a Cougars quarterback who completed only 8 of 26 passes in a September game that BYU lost by four touchdowns.Owning a Heisman Trophy was not especially consoling to Ty Detmer in the early stages of his senior season. Same story now, in his job as BYU’s offensive coordinator. The Cougars are regrouping after registering 97 total yards against LSU and never crossing midfield.Detmer second-guessed h
  
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