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• Letter: Why aren't they citizens already?

  20-09-2017 23:31
  My heart goes out to all illegal immigrants affected by DACA. I only question why, as brought to the U.S. illegally as children, the Dreamers, some now middle-aged, never attempted to become U.S. citizens?Marilyn L. HuberSandy
  
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• PBS president, visiting Utah’s KUED, warns federal funding fight isn’t over yet

  20-09-2017 23:21
  Six months after the Trump administration released a budget that would eliminate funding for public television, PBS president Paula Kerger is “cautiously optimistic” that isn’t going to happen.“But weird stuff happens,” she said in an interview with The Tribune. “I wouldn’t want anyone to think, ‘Oh, OK. Fine. We’re good.’ I think there’s still a big danger.”Kerger was in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, visiting KUED-Channel 7
  
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• Bonjour! 🇫🇷 Here at the French Immersion Assembly at Foxboro Elementary with @rudygobert27 https://t.co/DBkjH2sGXT

  20-09-2017 23:16 via twitter.com
  
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• Looking REAL GOOD!! 👍👍 twitter.com/saltlakechambe…

  20-09-2017 23:02 via twitter.com
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• Marc Thiessen: Trump's UN speech promoted classic conservative ideas.

  20-09-2017 23:00
  When Donald Trump ran for president, he criticized the interventionist policies of his Republican and Democratic predecessors, sparking fears that he would usher in a new era of American isolationism. But at the U.N. this week, Trump laid out a clear conservative vision for vigorous American global leadership based on the principle of state sovereignty.Judging from their hysterical reaction, critics on the left now seem to fear he’s the second coming of George W. Bush. Sen. Dianne Feinstei
  
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• PBS president, visiting Utah’s KUED, warns federal funding fight isn't over yet

  20-09-2017 22:53
  Six months after the Trump administration released a budget that would eliminate funding for public television, PBS president Paula Kerger is “cautiously optimistic” that isn’t going to happen.“But weird stuff happens,” she said in an interview with The Tribune. “I wouldn’t want anyone to think, ‘Oh, OK. Fine. We’re good.’ I think there’s still a big danger.”Kerger was in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, visiting KUED-Chanel 7 a
  
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• Utah lawmakers take another stab at bill to force removal of an elected leader for mental disability in wake of Gary Ott saga

  20-09-2017 22:50
  A Utah legislative committee on Wednesday gave its initial support to the latest, scaled-back draft of a bill to allow just a handful of counties to remove elected officials who were deemed mentally unfit for office.The bill grew out of the drama involving former Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott, who remained entrenched in office while it appeared he suffered an undisclosed but permanent mental incapacity following his re-election in 2014.While evidence emerged showing Ott was likely suffering
  
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• Family confirms body in Big Cottonwood Creek is missing Murray man

  20-09-2017 22:49
  The body of Nick Kapos, an 82-year-old Murray man with dementia missing since Thursday, was recovered Wednesday from a stream in Millcreek. The Unified Police Department said they were still working to identify the body Wednesday afternoon. However, family members confirmed it was Kapos.The body was spotted in Big Cottonwood Creek, near 145 W. Central Ave., about 10:30 a.m., by several people working on a nearby TRAX line, UPD Lt. Brian Lohrke said. The body was transported to the medical e
  
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• Holly Richardson: Have we lost our humanity?

  20-09-2017 22:39
  I’m used to dealing with trolls and vitriolic posts. After all, I write for the Salt Lake Tribune and I’ve been involved with politics for more than 15 years. I mean, have you seen the comment boards??This week, though, even I was taken aback when some really ugly biases showed up on a social media post I made.In the midst of news about earthquakes and hurricanes, another disaster is taking place, this one definitely man-made. Over the last three weeks, over 400,000 Rohingya Muslims
  
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• Letter: The supreme court is a monarchy of lawyers

  20-09-2017 22:34
  Considering recent years, and long before “Law Day” rolls around again and lawyers (remember that judges in America are lawyers) revive propagandized worship of the legal system, poisoning of the constitutional well should be considered.The infamous Marbury v. Madison decision of “Calamity John” Marshall’s 1803 Supreme Court profoundly arrogated “judicial review,” anointing and declaring the judiciary as final arbiters of all things constitutional. To th
  
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• 'I have decided,' Trump says of Iran deal _ before big talks

  20-09-2017 22:31
  New York • “I have decided,” President Donald Trump declared Wednesday, announcing he’d reached a verdict on the Iran nuclear deal’s future even as top U.S. and Iranian officials headed into their highest-level talks of his presidency. Iran’s leader, meanwhile, lashed out at “ignorant, absurd and hateful rhetoric” in response to Trump’s blistering attack at the U.N.The jabbing between Trump and Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani set the sta
  
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• Letter: More 'fake news' attacking regulations

  20-09-2017 21:54
  In his op-ed on Sept. 3., William Shughart demonizes the 1970 Clean Air Act and the EPA for setting limitations on the amount of ozone in our air and thereby, in his words, severely impacting our economy in various ways. And he further states, “When it comes to air-quality regulations, one size does not fit all.”Does that mean that some people can tolerate more ozone than others?The theme of Shughart’s op-ed centers on the cost of compliance that would be imposed on the various
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Do you know which 16 Utah pro sports teams have won championships?

  20-09-2017 21:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... and Logan Collegians. BASKETBALL American Basketball Association: Before the Jazz were a twinkle in New Orleans’ eyes — and eight years before the NBA franchi ...
  
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• The University of Utah first Mormon Studies professor is a historian researching early black converts

  20-09-2017 21:36
  University of Utah History Professor W. Paul Reeve has been appointed as the school’s first Mormon Studies professor.
  Reeve has taught and written widely on the Utah-based faith, most recently authoring “Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness.” The book earned the Mormon History Association’s Best Book Award, as well as the John Whitmer Historical Association’s Smith-Pettit Best Book Award, and the Utah State Historical Society&rsq
  
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• Letter: Don’t let the Dreamers down

  20-09-2017 21:33
  Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, Reps. Mia Love, Chris Stewart and Rob Bishop, rescinding DACA threatens the lives of 894,000 immigrant children brought to this country.They put their trust in our government and willingly provided personal information at great personal risk to register with this program, and pay significant fees to obtain renewable work and education permits (95 percent are working or going to school). Their economic impact nationally has been measured in the billions of dollars.
  
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• Utah’s Sunia Tauteoli, one of the oldest players in college football at 26, isn't slowed down one bit

  20-09-2017 21:12
  Sunia Tauteoli jokingly flexes both of his arms while telling the story of how last year, after suffering a fracture in his back, he was suited up and hollering out the defensive play-calls in a week or so.He said his healing factor isn’t slowed by the years at 26 — the oldest player on Utah’s roster and one of the oldest in college football in 2017.Not one bit.“I feel like my body is just like that,” he said.Yes, he’s older. And yes, he’s now commanding
  
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• Do you know which 16 Utah pro sports teams have won championships?

  20-09-2017 21:05
  Over the weekend, the Ogden Raptors accomplished something most professional teams that currently or previously called Utah home have failed to do.Yep, win it all.Though on a different stage and in a different sport, the Ogden organization’s Pioneer League championship is one more title than the St. George Roadrunners, the Saints (Salt Lake City and Utah versions), the majority of the double-z teams — sorry, Starzz, Buzz, Catzz, Freezz and, oh yeah, Jazz — and the majority of o
  
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• Ballet West hires a new executive director

  20-09-2017 21:03
  Ballet West has hired a new executive director. Michael Scolamiero, former longtime executive director of Pennsylvania Ballet and more recently executive director of Miami City Ballet, will take over the Utah job in October.“I know, having been in this business for quite some time, that Ballet West is a company with a very strong artistic reputation and interesting repertoire,” Scolamiero said Wednesday during a short trip to Salt Lake City to meet with company board members and staf
  
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• Government seeks prison time for Weiner in sexting case

  20-09-2017 20:52
  New York • Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner deserves about two years in prison for engaging in sexting with a 15-year-old girl despite his claims that he has been reformed, prosecutors said Wednesday.A Manhattan judge is scheduled to sentence the New York Democrat on Monday for transferring obscene material to a minor. The government urged the judge to put Weiner’s claims of a therapeutic awakening in a context of a man who made similar claims after embarrassing, widely publicized inte
  
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• Salt Lake Airport Board likes street-level TRAX plan to save $50M-plus

  20-09-2017 20:28
  Salt Lake City Airport Advisory Board members voiced support Wednesday for a street-level extension of TRAX light-rail service to a new airport terminal — which would shave tens of millions from a long-proposed elevated-track option.The board was told that refinements to the new proposal will give passengers an experience that is almost as good as the expensive elevated track and station, and would cost just $15 million instead of about $68 million.“I was hellbent for leather that we
  
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• Kragthorpe: Heisman? QB records? Those things haven't helped coaches succeed at BYU or Utah

  20-09-2017 20:27
  In my next job running a search firm that places offensive coordinators in college football programs, I will remind myself not to recommend anyone with any of these credentials: Heisman Trophy winner ... Most quarterbacking victories in school history ... Key figure in two epic, winning drives in annual rivalry games.Ty Detmer’s achievements as a college QB at BYU are not translating into coaching success at his old school, in the recent tradition of Utah’s Brian Johnson and BYU&rsqu
  
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• Erin Alberty: Mountain biking does not make sense to me, but here I go

  20-09-2017 20:26
  It’s fall, the air is finally becoming crisp, and loads of helmeted recreationists are taking to the mountains for an activity that makes no sense to me: Riding bicycles up steep, rocky hills, and then riding back down steep, rocky hills.Don’t get me wrong, I like rocks. I like boulders. I like walking and climbing over them.I do not look at rocks and think, “I know the best way to get over those: wheels.”The thrill of other outdoor travel sports is mostly comprehensible
  
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• Boxer Jake LaMotta, immortalized in 'Raging Bull,' dies at 95

  20-09-2017 20:26
  Miami • Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight champion whose life in and out of the ring was depicted in the film “Raging Bull,” for which Robert DeNiro won an Academy Award, has died, his fiancee said Wednesday. He was 95.LaMotta died Tuesday at a Miami-area hospital from complications of pneumonia, according to fiancee Denise Baker.The Bronx Bull, as he was known in his fighting days, compiled an 83-19-4 record with 30 knockouts, in a career that began in 1941 and ended in 195
  
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• Mexicans dig through collapsed buildings as quake kills 225

  20-09-2017 20:17
  Mexico City • Rescuers found a surviving child on Wednesday in the ruins of a school that collapsed in Mexico’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake, one of many efforts across the city to try to save people trapped in debris under schools, homes and businesses toppled by the quake that killed at least 225 people.Helmeted workers labored throughout the morning, sometimes calling for silence to listen for any voices from the wreckage as they tried to reach the girl at the Enrique Rebsamen school i
  
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• Polygamist Lyle Jeffs pleads guilty in food stamp fraud, absconding case

  20-09-2017 20:05
  Lyle Jeffs, the lead defendant in what prosecutors have called a conspiracy by the polygamous FLDS church to defraud the food stamp program, pleaded guilty to two charges Wednesday. Jeffs pleaded guilty to one count of defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and one count of failure to appear in court. A money laundering count was dismissed as part of a plea deal. Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 13. As part of the plea agreement, U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart
  
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• Murray City Council picks one of its own to serve as interim mayor

  20-09-2017 19:56
  Even if he only gets three and a half months in the position, Murray City’s newly-appointed interim mayor thinks he can provide the stability the city needs needs after the death of former Mayor Ted Eyre left the position vacant.City Council members on Tuesday interviewed one of their own, Councilman Douglas Blair Camp, then voted unanimously to appoint him to fill the rest of Eyre’s term until Jan. 2, 2018. He was immediately sworn in.“Having worked very closely with Mayor Eyr
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz to sell 'JP Strong' T-shirts to benefit 'former Jazzman' battling cancer

  20-09-2017 19:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... with the words "JP Strong" on them will be sold online through Fanzz, at the Jazz team store and during the team's Oct. 6 preseason game at Vivint Arena to be ...
  
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• Utah Jazz to sell 'JP Strong' T-shirts to benefit 'former Jazzman' battling cancer

  20-09-2017 19:49
  The Utah Jazz are set to do their part to help "former player" JP Gibson in his latest battle with cancer.The team announced Monday that shirts designed by Steven Diaz with the words "JP Strong" on them will be sold online through Fanzz, at the Jazz team store and during the team's Oct. 6 preseason game at Vivint Arena to benefit the 8-year-old who is receiving treatment for cancer for the second time in less than three years.The navy shirts feature a gold J-Note with a "P" tucked inside, with t
  
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• Making our statement with #JazzGold. #MACUMoment https://t.co/I8FFtbtXZz

  20-09-2017 19:19 via twitter.com
  
  Making our statement with #JazzGold.#MACUMoment https://t.co/I8FFtbtXZz
  
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• Gehrke: Call me a curmudgeon, but why are we obsessed with tearing down SLC history to build shiny things without soul?

  20-09-2017 19:06
  The old Granite High School stood for 110 years, but it didn’t take long for the big backhoe to bring the main building down Monday.In its lifetime, thousands of teachers shaped the minds of many thousands of young people in hopes they would help shape the world. Some of them did. Noted Granite Farmer alum Ed Catmull, for example, is now president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios. Not bad.Then there are those like me, a graduate of the Class of 1991.I wasn’t what you would
  
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• News roundup: After months of sliding downward, Trump rebounds in the polls

  20-09-2017 18:27
  After months of sliding downward, Trump rebounds in the polls. Huntsman says ‘no question’ Russia meddled in the election. SL County to be hit with $30m tab for Operation Rio Grande.Happy Wednesday. After months of declining poll numbers, President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have stabilized — and even ticked up slightly — over the past month. While other polls have shown differently, in this survey, the president is doing better with voters. [Politico]Topp
  
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• Four University of Utah students charged with criminal mischief after BYU's Cougar statue is vandalized

  20-09-2017 18:17
  Provo • Four University of Utah students who were literally caught red-handed 15 minutes after allegedly spray-painting two red “U” logos and a white smiling face on the cougar statue at Brigham Young University’s football stadium almost got away with the rivalry-inspired act of vandalism, according to a report filed by BYU police.However, the students — two males, 18 and 20, and two females, 18 and 19 — returned to the scene of the crime to get selfies and oth
  
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• [NBA] - Proceeds from JP Strong to Benefit Gibsons

  20-09-2017 18:14 via sportspyder.com
  ... an opportunity to rally behind JP,” said Steve Starks, president of the Utah Jazz. In October 2014, JP captured the hearts of Jazz fans after he signed a one- ...
  
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• The Weekly Run: Are there shades of Hayward in the Rodney Hood extension talks?

  20-09-2017 18:07
  Their top scoring option on the perimeter is both promising and, in some ways, unproven.He also is eligible for a contract extension.Sound familiar, Jazz fans?In our first “Weekly Run” podcast of the season, Tribune reporters Tony Jones and Kyle Goon take a look at Rodney Hood’s upcoming season, his expanded role and the similarities and differences between his contract situation and the one the Jazz faced when Gordon Hayward was negotiating an extension in 2013-14.Other topics
  
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• It's our honor to help support JP Gibson in his battle with cancer with this #JPStrong t-shirt. Get yours NOW: 👉… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-09-2017 18:00 via twitter.com
  It's our honor to help support JP Gibson in his battle with cancer with this #JPStrong t-shirt.Get yours NOW: 👉… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 7 reasons fall is one of the best times to go fishing in Utah

  20-09-2017 18:00
  The temperatures dropped this week and autumn officially began. That means hungrier and more active fish, crisp beautiful weather and wonderful fall colors.The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is telling anglers that this is one of the best times of the year to go fishing.“If you want to enjoy great fishing in less-crowded conditions, fall is the time to do it,” said Randy Oplinger, DWR‘s sport fisheries coordinator. “Recreational boating and fishing pressure drop off
  
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• Boxer LaMotta, immortalized in 'Raging Bull,' dies at 95

  20-09-2017 17:43
  Miami • Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight champion whose life in and out of the ring was depicted in the film “Raging Bull,” for which Robert DeNiro won an Academy Award, has died, his fiancee said Wednesday. He was 95.LaMotta died Tuesday at a Miami-area hospital from complications of pneumonia, according to fiancee Denise Baker.The Bronx Bull, as he was known in his fighting days, compiled an 83-19-4 record with 30 knockouts, in a career that began in 1941 and ended in 195
  
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• Speed, alcohol investigated in fatal Legacy Highway crash

  20-09-2017 17:32
  The Utah Highway Patrol is investigating excessive speed and alcohol as possible factors in a fatal rollover crash early Wednesday morning on Legacy Highway in Centerville.A man in his 20s died in the 1 a.m. crash, having been ejected from his car. Troopers believe the victim was not wearing a seatbelt.
  Further details, including the victim’s name, were not immediately available.
  The Tribune will update this story when more information develops.
  
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• Park City will try to reclaim the world Shot Ski record

  20-09-2017 17:24
  Wasatch Brew Pub in Park City hopes to reclaim the world “Shot Ski” crown on Saturday, Oct. 14.The Park City brewery needs 1,250 people to line up on Main Street and raise one long ski — actually 440 skis bolted together — for a shot of ale.The ski, with glasses attached, will be hoisted at 2 p.m. in an attempt to break the record of 1,234 participants set in January by Breckenrige, Colo. The year earlier, Park City stole the title from the Colorado ski town by gathering
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: President Freeman makes better use of the bully pulpit

  20-09-2017 17:24
  Once upon a time (like Sunday after the Emmys) conservatives used to grouse that Hollywood was filled with liberals who disdained America and fancied themselves internationalists.Well, on Tuesday we learned that Hollywood is more patriotic, responsible and tough when it comes to Russia than is President Donald Trump, who fails to this day to acknowledge conclusive evidence that Russia interfered with the election on his behalf.Rob Reiner has put together a group called the Committee to Investiga
  
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• Dana Milbank: No one listens to women when they speak around here

  20-09-2017 17:23
  Washington - Over the weekend, the president of the United States retweeted to his 38 million Twitter followers a video clip doctored to show him driving a golf ball off the tee and between the shoulder blades of Hillary Clinton — “CrookedHillary” in the tweet — knocking the former secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee to the ground.Eighty-four thousand people “liked” this violent takedown of Trump’s former opponent.Donald Trump's amazi
  
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• Milo Ventimiglia loves being the good dad in ‘This Is Us’

  20-09-2017 17:14
  Beverly Hills, Calif. • Milo Ventimiglia starred as bad-boy boyfriends in “The Gilmore Girls” and “American Dreams”; a guy with superpowers in “Heroes”; an Air Force pilot kidnapped by aliens in “The Whispers.” But it’s his role as good guy/husband/father Jack Pearson in “This Is Us” that has made him a somewhat difficult-to-pronounce household name — and given him the most pleasure. “It’s nice to play a go
  
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• Salt Lake City theater ignites First Amendment debate after signaling it will only allow kid-friendly plays

  20-09-2017 17:12
  Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s office was unaware a west-side community center was moving toward booting out a local theater company because its slate of plays includes material at odds with the city facility’s new “family friendly” mission.Utah Repertory Theater Company, which strives to bring “adventuresome” shows to Utah audiences, has rented the Sorenson Unity Center’s theater space since 2015.The company was informed on Monday by Sean
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Downbeat: Did the Utah Jazz change NBA Officiating?

  20-09-2017 17:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... aid, “Anything is possible!” Kristen Kenney, courtside reporter for the Utah Jazz, has been doing interviews for the upcoming season. This little tidbit from...
  
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• [NBA] - J-Note Unveil & Public Open House

  20-09-2017 16:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... ours of the arena, featuring the 12,000-square-foot atrium with an exclusive Jazz Team Store, redesigned lower and upper bowl concourses with new fully cushio ...
  
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• Locked on Jazz - @Lockedonsports talks all things Jazz and has an awesome chat with @EkpeUdoh. 🎙 Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-09-2017 16:35 via twitter.com
  Locked on Jazz - @Lockedonsports talks all things Jazz and has an awesome chat with @EkpeUdoh.🎙 Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Jonathan Johnson: States continue straw-grasping internet tax gambit

  20-09-2017 16:23
  This week, the South Dakota Supreme Court dealt a blow to states’ winner-take-all, bet-the-house gambit to get the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to regulate interstate commerce by imposing tax collection obligations on out-of-state retailers.States have long sought to shift their burden to collect state sales tax to out-of-state retailers. Fortunately, Supreme Court precedent stands in the way. 25 years ago, the Supreme Court foresaw the evils that could and would result if states had
  
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• Polygamist Lyle Jeffs expected to plead guilty in food stamp fraud, absconding case

  20-09-2017 15:58
  Lyle Jeffs, the lead defendant in what prosecutors have called a conspiracy by the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to defraud what’s known as the food stamp program, is expected to change his plea to guilty today. A 10:00 a.m. change of plea hearing for Jeffs appeared on the court docket less than three hours earlier. Jeffs has previously pleaded not guilty to a count of attempt to defraud the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a c
  
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• Gehrke: In the pursuit of progress, we risk losing the touchstones of our past

  20-09-2017 15:50
  The old Granite High School stood for 110 years, but it didn’t take long for the big backhoe to bring the main building down Monday.In its lifetime, thousands of teachers shaped the minds of many thousands of young people in hopes they would help shape the world. Some of them did. Noted Granite Farmer alum Ed Catmull, for example, is now president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios. Not bad.Then there are those like me, a graduate of the Class of 1991.I wasn’t what you would
  
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