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• Salt Lake County GOP punishes Julie Dole, saying her conduct in recorder’s office was 'tantamount to a coup'

  22-09-2017 23:52
  Last month, Julie Dole lost her job with Salt Lake County. On Thursday, she lost support from her political party.Salt Lake County Republicans moved Thursday night to bar Dole from running for public office as a member of the GOP or hold a position in the party for five years, and removed her from her position as Senate precinct chairwoman. The sanctions followed a party investigation and report alleging she misled the public during the years of her boss’ declining mental health and effect
  
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• George Pyle: Controversial U. speaker should be criticized for what he says, not what others imagine

  22-09-2017 23:47
  I had a birthday a couple of weeks ago. It was cause to look around and take note of the fact that there are only a couple of people in this newsroom who are older than I am -- and none, so far as I can tell, who make that particularly annoying grunting noise when they get up out of their chair.Old enough to know better, they say. And not too old, I hope, to learn something. And to try again when something didn’t quite work.Last week in this space I thought I was defending the whole idea o
  
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• Fall Into Fishing event takes place Saturday

  22-09-2017 23:44
  Want to enjoy some fun fishing events?The Division of Wildlife Resources and South Jordan City are hosting a Fall Into Fishing event Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the South Jordan Fishing Ponds at 11200 S. Riverfront Parkway.The event is part of the Get Into the River Festival to celebrate the Jordan River. It will include free fishing, games and hot dogs.For more information about this event or Get Into the River, log on to https://www.getintotheriver.org.
  
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• Junior midfielder Paola van der Veen is playing it forward this season

  22-09-2017 23:40
  The first free kick she scuffs wide with her left foot.The second, an attempt to curl it over a would-be wall of opponents, is skied high beyond the far post.There is one shot left as Paola van der Veen is the last Ute off the practice field on a damp, dreary midweek afternoon. This time, she takes a few seconds extra, locates her target, approaches and swings her left foot through the ball from about 20 yards away. This time, she drills the back of the net.Utah’s junior Dutch midfielder,
  
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• .@RudyGobert27 paid a visit to Foxboro Elementary in North Salt Lake to lead a French immersion assembly. It was aw… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-09-2017 22:50 via twitter.com
  .@RudyGobert27 paid a visit to Foxboro Elementary in North Salt Lake to lead a French immersion assembly. It was aw… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Poll: Utah Jazz’s 2017/18 Win Total

  22-09-2017 22:30 via sportspyder.com
  ...much a pass-first player. Besides Hayward, Gobert, and Hill, the only other Jazz player to average double-digit points last season was , and he’ll have to im ...
  
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• $3 billion Salt Lake airport rebuild hits midway mark of Phase 1 and future begins to take shape

  22-09-2017 22:25
  The first phase of rebuilding the Salt Lake City International Airport is at a midpoint: construction began three years ago, and opening is scheduled in another three.So airport officials took the news media on a tour Friday of construction of what eventually will be a $3 billion project, scheduled to have all phases fully completed in 2025.“It’s getting exciting now,” said Mike Williams, airport redevelopment program director, as he looked over vast fields of new foundations,
  
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• Feds arrest ‘Double Hat Bandit,’ who allegedly robbed Utah banks

  22-09-2017 21:57
  The FBI arrested a 54-year-old man who was wanted on suspicion of more than a dozen bank robberies, the bureau announced Friday. Agents and local police arrested Shayne Carson — suspected of being the “Double Hat Bandit,” a reference to wearing a baseball cap and beanie at the same time — Thursday in a motel parking lot in Whiteland, Ind., according to a news release from the FBI. An FBI analyst working in Albuquerque figured out Carson’s identity after reading abou
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Examining the Utah Jazz's strengths and weaknesses heading into the 2017-2018 season

  22-09-2017 21:43 via sportspyder.com
  ... s good secondary defenders alongside Gobert, the Jazz's aim last season defensively was to funnel the opposing offenses to the Sti ...
  
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• Examining the Utah Jazz's strengths and weaknesses heading into the 2017-2018 season

  22-09-2017 21:36
  There’s no doubt that the 2017-2018 iteration of the Utah Jazz will look different from the 2016-2017 version that made it to the Western Conference semifinals.Gordon Hayward’s departure to the Boston Celtics left a huge hole in the Jazz's roster, and Utah management went all-in on building a defensive identity with the players they signed after Hayward left.As the Jazz get set to open training camp next week, what will all the offseason moves mean in the win-loss column this season?
  
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• GOP health bill all but dead; McCain again deals the blow

  22-09-2017 21:22
  Washington • Sen. John McCain declared his opposition Friday to the GOP’s last-ditch effort to repeal and replace “Obamacare,” dealing a likely death blow to the legislation and, perhaps, to the Republican Party’s years of vows to kill the program.“I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal,” McCain said in a statement, referring to the bill by Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. His opposition likel
  
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• Utah soccer: Junior midfielder Paola van der Veen is playing it forward this season

  22-09-2017 21:13
  The first free kick she scuffs wide with her left foot.The second, an attempt to curl it over a would-be wall of opponents, is skied high beyond the far post.There is one shot left as Paola van der Veen is the last Ute off the practice field on a damp, dreary midweek afternoon. This time, she takes a few seconds extra, locates her target, approaches and swings her left foot through the ball from about 20 yards away. This time, she drills the back of the net.Utah’s junior Dutch midfielder,
  
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• Burst pipe sprays water and mud across I-215 in Salt Lake City

  22-09-2017 21:10
  A section of Interstate 215 near Wasatch Boulevard turned into a muddy pool Friday after a pipe burst and geysered water onto the road.At 11:10 a.m., water sloughed off a “significant amount of mud” down the hillside at 2900 South, said UDOT spokesman John Gleason. “Water was shooting out with considerable pressure,” he said.Salt Lake City Public Utilities shut off the water and a UDOT plow worked Friday afternoon to push the water and debris off the road.Gleason hadn&rsq
  
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• Holly Richardson: Do we quit just before the harvest?

  22-09-2017 21:03
  Like many families, we planted a garden this year. Our 16-year-old daughter wanted to be in charge. No one argued with her.She spent hours weeding and watering. She labored through the heat of the summer. The garden looks great. But there is one thing she does not want to do. She does not want to harvest the “fruits of her labor.”She hates picking the beans, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, cantaloupe and watermelon. There is not one thing she wants to harvest. She would rather see the f
  
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• Utah Jazz raising money for cancer patient and superfan J.P. Gibson with “J.P. Strong” T-shirts

  22-09-2017 20:24
  Of all the basketball players who have signed a contract with the Utah Jazz over four decades, J.P. Gibson is the only one who ever used a purple crayon.Back in 2014, the then-5-year-old leukemia patient captured the hearts of the organization and its fans when he signed a one-day contract with the Jazz. In the years since, he’s developed relationships with players and team officials who celebrated his gradual recovery and apparent remission earlier this year.Then in July, a tough blow to
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I’m not in love with my friends’ new romance

  22-09-2017 20:14
  Dear Ann Cannon • I have two longtime friends who recently started dating each other, and it’s freaking me out.Some backstory: I’ve seen several friends-dating-friends situations go poorly before, with me stuck in the middle when the relationship goes south — including an instance that also ended a friendship for me.Though I love to hear all the gory relationship details — and my curiosity about these two seeming opposites is off the charts — my instinct is to
  
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• Ririe-Woodbury’s ‘Parallax’ is an evening of exploration

  22-09-2017 20:13
  It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. — Andy WarholRirie-Woodbury Dance Company presents “Parallax” next weekend at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, opening its 2017-18 season with three distinctive works: “Unstruck” by minimalist choreographer Kate Weare, “Pantheon” by m
  
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• Gehrke: The four things you should know about the once-secret Bears Ears recommendations

  22-09-2017 20:13
  We’re finally starting to get an idea of what might be in store for the Bears Ears National Monument, and it isn’t pretty.First, The Salt Lake Tribune used documents obtained through open records requests to reveal the state’s behind-the-scenes recommendation to wipe out more than 90 percent of the current monument, protecting a peanut-shaped 120,000 acres around the Bears Ears Buttes.Then, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s secretive report to President Donald Trump finally
  
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• Cliven Bundy firing lawyer with trial approaching in Vegas

  22-09-2017 20:06
  Las Vegas • Cliven Bundy’s defense attorney says the Nevada cattleman and state’s rights figure is firing him, less than three weeks before trial stemming from a 2014 armed standoff with federal agents.Attorney Bret Whipple filed documents Thursday asking Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro for a hearing as soon as possible about withdrawing from the case.Whipple says the decision is Bundy’s. He says he doesn’t know if Bundy has another lawyer or intends to repr
  
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• Alleged victims can testify in one another’s sexual assault trials, judge rules in Torrey Green case

  22-09-2017 19:51
  A judge has ruled that six of the seven women who have accused former Utah State University football star Torrey Green of sexual assault will be allowed to testify at one another’s trials.Green is charged in 1st District Court with 11 felonies in connection with the testimony of seven women who say the athlete sexually assaulted them when he was a student in Logan.Each case has been filed in court separately, and prosecutors have said each case will go to trial individually. But they have
  
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• J.P. Gibson, a 7-year-old who signed a 1-day contract with the Utah Jazz in 2014, has experienced a recurrence of leukemia.

  22-09-2017 19:30
  Of all the basketball players who have signed a contract with the Utah Jazz over four decades, J.P. Gibson is the only one who ever used a purple crayon.Back in 2014, the then-5-year-old leukemia patient captured the hearts of the organization and its fans when he signed a one-day contract with the Jazz. In the years since, he’s developed relationships with players and team officials who celebrated his gradual recovery and apparent remission earlier this year.Then in July, a tough blow to
  
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• United Utah hopeful Jim Bennett qualifies for 3rd District debate in race to fill seat vacated by Jason Chaffetz

  22-09-2017 19:27
  After concerns that the first poll deviated from its “prescribed approach,” the Utah Debate Commission ran a second survey — and this time the new United Utah Party’s Jim Bennett has narrowly qualified to spar against the Republican and Democratic candidates looking to replace former Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz.This is the first time a third-party candidate will participate in the debate, scheduled Oct. 18 at 6 p.m. at Brigham Young University in Provo.
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• Nerd seeking nerd: Speed dating at Salt Lake Comic Con is a chance for fans to make cosplay love connections

  22-09-2017 19:04
  If Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Harry Potter, Harley Quinn, Wolverine and several Jedis were all gathered in a room, the phrase “nervous sexual tension” might not be the first thing that comes to mind.But that’s what happened Thursday on opening night of Sci-Fi Speed Dating at Salt Lake Comic Con, where about 100, mostly costumed, pop-culture fans came together in the hopes of making a nerdy love connection.Or at least land a date for the new Thor movie.This was the first of 10 ho
  
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• It's all here: Your Utah vs. Arizona game guide

  22-09-2017 19:04
  Time, Place and Airwaves • The Utes second road game of the season and Pac-12 Conference opener at Arizona Stadium gets going at 8:30 p.m. Friday. You can watch on FS1 or listen on ESPN 700 AM, Sirius 84/XM 84.Line • Utah was a 3.5-point favorite as of Thursday.Opposing coach • Rich Rodriguez is in his sixth season as Arizona’s coach. He has gone 38-30 since taking over in November 2011. He won the 2014 Pac-12 Conference Coach of the Year award. His overall record as a head
  
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• Rich Lowry: Sovereignty is not a dirty word

  22-09-2017 18:53
  To listen to the commentary, Donald Trump used an inappropriate term at the U.N. — not just “Rocket Man,” but “sovereignty.”It wasn’t surprising that liberal analysts freaked out over his nickname for Kim Jong Un and his warning that we’d “totally destroy” Kim’s country should it become necessary. These lines were calculated to get a reaction, and they did. More interesting was the allergy to Trump’s defense of sovereign nations.B
  
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• Cops: 8-year-old girl helps drive drunken Pennsylvania man

  22-09-2017 18:51
  Darlington, Pa. • Police say a drunken Pennsylvania man had an 8-year-old girl drive him around until someone saw the car moving recklessly and called 911.WPXI-TV reports the bizarre incident involving 24-year-old Kevin Cook happened on Sept. 3 in Darlington Township, Beaver County.That’s where township police say in a criminal complaint that someone reported seeing the child driving and almost wrecking the car twice about 7:30 p.m.Police say the girl stopped the car when another moto
  
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• The blacksmith, the taxidermist and the violin-maker: These Utahns are keeping traditional professions alive

  22-09-2017 18:50
  They work with their hands, heating and shaping metal into tools, fashioning wood into beautiful acoustic instruments, or tinkering with tiny cogs to restore an antique timepiece to working order.Their professions might harken back to another era, but the Utahns who make their living via timeworn skills say they offer more life and energy than any office job could. Here are their stories: The Luthier As the son of Peter Prier — the late founder of the Violin Making School of America in dow
  
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• News roundup: Some Trump aides are already looking for the exit

  22-09-2017 18:41
  Some Trump aides are already looking for the exit. Michelle Obama tells SLC crowd she cringes at the culture of fear under Trump. Audit: WGU should repay $700m in financial aid.Happy Friday. A fast-growing number of White House staffers are starting to look for the exits, even though the one-year mark of President Donald Trump’s first term is still months away. The aides had planned to stay longer but are now talking to headhunters given the multiple investigations and turmoil that has eng
  
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• Together we're fighting to change those numbers. #5ForTheFight ✋ https://t.co/ZV3eBrGUDa

  22-09-2017 18:35 via twitter.com
  
  Together we're fighting to change those numbers. #5ForTheFight ✋ https://t.co/ZV3eBrGUDa
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz annual open scrimmage to be held at Hill AFB

  22-09-2017 18:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... ountry.” Following the game, the Jazz will present Hill AFB with a team-signed ball and a donation to Operation Wa ...
  
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• [KSL] - 5 different Utah Jazz lineups to watch for this season

  22-09-2017 18:32 via sportspyder.com
  ... interton, KSL) The Five-Out Lineup: Mitchell-Ingles-Hood-Johnson-Jerebko The Jazz addressed a long-standing need for stretch shooting this offseason by signin ...
  
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• Utah writer lyrically explores the trauma of the Vietnam War

  22-09-2017 18:15
  Paisley Rekdal kept obsessing over the twisted sculpture made from wrecked plane parts, spoils of war stacked as high as a house.The Salt Lake City poet, temporarily living in Hanoi on a writing fellowship, was consciously working to avoid “trauma tourism” while in a country that, disorientingly, referred to the conflict as The American War.But Rekdal found she couldn’t look away from the metal tower erected in the courtyard of the Vietnam Military History Museum. She kept tryi
  
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• Utah Jazz annual open scrimmage to be held at Hill AFB

  22-09-2017 18:14
  The Utah Jazz intrasquad scrimmage — one of the team’s training camp traditions — is set to take place at Northern Utah’s Hill Air Force base. Thursday was a key date on the yearly calendar for, well, just about everybody walking the planet. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it marked the autumnal […]
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• No freedom or hope for migrants in Hungary transit camps

  22-09-2017 17:56
  Belgrade, Serbia • When they set off from violence-plagued Afghanistan nearly two years ago, 17-year-old Hamad Ahmadi and his family believed Europe would give them a chance for a new life. They didn’t expect to be penned in a Hungarian migrant center sealed with razor wire, where security was so tight that police felt the need to escort Ahmadi’s sister-in-law to the hospital to give birth.Ahmadi’s family is among the hundreds of migrants this year whose hopes of a new lif
  
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• Obama-era campus assault guidance scrapped, DeVos says rules were ‘unfairly skewed’

  22-09-2017 17:53
  Washington • The Trump administration on Friday scrapped Obama-era guidance on investigating campus sexual assault, replacing it with new interim instructions allowing universities to decide which standard of evidence to use when handling complaints.Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has said the Obama rules were unfairly skewed against the students accused of assault.“This interim guidance will help schools as they work to combat sexual misconduct and will treat all students fairly,&rdq
  
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• Scorpions still pack a sting more than 50 years later

  22-09-2017 17:11
  Mention the Scorpions to casual music fans, and their mental inventory likely will have the German hard-rockers filed away as just another ’80s band.The thing is, the Scorpions were churning out anthemic riffs before that decade, and — as their headlining appearance at Usana Amphitheatre in West Valley City this coming Tuesday illustrates — they have remained a popular force in the rock world longer after it.In fact, a few years ago, the Scorpions marked their 50-year anniversa
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Downbeat: Vivint finishes latest renovations

  22-09-2017 17:07 via sportspyder.com
  ... ntion even farther from the Jazz. So this happened... Opening night for the renovated and it's amazing! Thank ...
  
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• [Deadspin] - This **** Heiress Kicked Her Horse!

  22-09-2017 17:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... cking heiresses horse sports bad horse people **** heiresses horse sports Jazz Johnson-Merton, a 36-year-old heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, comp ...
  
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• Prosecutors chime in on ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio's pardon

  22-09-2017 16:51
  Phoenix • Prosecutors in former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s criminal case say past court decisions back up their claim that President Donald Trump’s pardon nullifies the lawman’s conviction.But the U.S. Justice Department lawyers also said in a court filing Thursday that the pardon doesn’t require Judge Susan Bolton to alter, destroy or erase records in Arpaio’s criminal case.Arpaio’s attorneys are seeking to formally dismiss Arpaio’s criminal case and thr
  
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• Utah forecast: Valley rain and mountain snow

  22-09-2017 16:35
  Valley rain — and yes, mountain snow — is expected to continue Friday into the weekend in northern Utah.The National Weather Service predicts light rain will continue in the Salt Lake valley through the weekend, and snow accumulation can be expected above 6,000 feet.By Sunday, “significant” amounts of snow could fall across portions of the central Utah mountains, Uintas and possible higher passes across Wyoming.The high temperatures around Salt Lake City will remain in th
  
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• Historian: At $35M, original printer's manuscript of Book of Mormon a bargain

  22-09-2017 16:26
  The original printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon now belongs to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and at $35 million, acquiring it was a bargain.At least, that’s what historian John Hajicek, of the mormonism.com website contends, saying the church’s purchase of the manuscript from the Community of Christ fellowship finally gives the Utah-based faith its “founding document.”The Independence, Mo.-based Community of Christ, formerly known as the R
  
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• Holy Brigham Young (University)! Caffeinated sodas allowed on Mormon church school’s campus

  22-09-2017 16:19
  Don’t cue the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and no, Brigham Young University is not on a slippery slope to tapping kegs of light beer in its cafeteria.But, yes, the LDS Church-owned school has decided to end its more than half-century ”caffeine-free” policy on the Provo campus, at least when it comes to soda.Linked sometimes to a long-running misunderstanding of Mormonism’s “Word of Wisdom,” BYU had banned caffeinated beverages — coffee, tea and other
  
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• Prep football: Pick 6 — Six games to watch in Week 6

  22-09-2017 16:13
  American Fork at Lone Peak, 7 p.m.
  The Cavemen get a chance at revenge for their 66-19 loss to the Knights in the Class 5A state semifinals last year at Rice-Eccles Stadium. And it’s all about the passing game with the Cavemen. Senior QB Bronson Barron runs the offense, averaging 338.6 yards passing per game. He’s thrown 22 TDs and only seven INTs while completing 65 percent of his attempts. Chase Roberts leads the Cavemen with 37 catches for 652 yards and seven TDs. Farrell Dean is
  
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• Kim Jong Un fires off insults at Trump and hints at weapons test

  22-09-2017 15:54
  Seoul, South Korea • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un lobbed a string of insults at President Donald Trump on Friday, calling him a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard” and hinting at a frightening new weapon test.It was the first time for a North Korean leader to issue such a direct statement against a U.S. president, dramatically escalating the war of words between the former wartime foes and raising the international nuclear standoff to a new level.Trump responded by tweeting that
  
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• Kragthorpe: Ute basketball recruiting is riding momentum, creating a good outlook for Larry Krystkowiak's program

  22-09-2017 15:49
  In the past six months, my analysis of the University of Utah’s basketball recruiting has revolved around the players the Ute staff barely missed signing and those who came to the school and subsequently left.I may have given coach Larry Krystkowiak and his staff too much credit for coming close to landing the likes of Arizona’s Lauri Markannen and Gonzaga’s Zach Collins and Killian Tillie. I may have overly criticized them for failing to retain the nine players who have transf
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Republicans' brave new strategy for fixing health care: Make somebody else do it

  22-09-2017 15:41
  Republicans have unveiled their brave new strategy for fixing the U.S. health care system: Make someone else deal with it.Of all the god-awful Obamacare-repeal-and-replace plans that Republicans have proposed, Cassidy-Graham might be the god-awfulest. It’s definitely the most cowardly. Republicans spent nine months fighting over how to repeal Obamacare without shafting the poor and enraging voters, and they failed.So instead they’re passing the buck.Here’s how the bill, named f
  
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• .@vivintarena & @LevyRestaurants are holding a hiring event TODAY! 👇👇 twitter.com/vivintarena/st…

  22-09-2017 15:37 via twitter.com
  .@vivintarena & @LevyRestaurants are holding a hiring event TODAY! 👇👇 twitter.com/vivintarena/st…
  
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• Utah documentary tells intimate, gritty story of opiate crisis

  22-09-2017 15:14
  In a dark bedroom, Maddy is tying off her arm, getting ready to shoot heroin with her girlfriend, Page. Through the camera’s eye, we watch these intimate, gritty scenes in Jenny Mackenzie’s new documentary “Dying in Vein: The Opiate Generation.”During the year the Utah filmmaker was following Maddy and Page, the 20-something women were under the care of counselors in “harm reduction” drug treatment programs and had agreed to not increase the amount of drugs th
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Oh no! Maybe CBS’ new ‘Star Trek’ stinks

  22-09-2017 15:10
  Well, fellow Trekkers, I was planning a big cover story about “Star Trek: Discovery” this weekend, along with a review of the new series.That’s not going to happen. Because CBS won’t screen the show for critics.There are two possible explanations for this. The first is that “Star Trek: Discovery” sucks.I really hope that’s not true, because I’ve been looking forward to this since it was announced. For that matter, pretty much since the most recent
  
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• Howard Stephenson: Protecting taxpayers from out-of-control medication costs

  22-09-2017 07:55
  As the debate over repeal and replace of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, winds its way through the halls of Congress, one thing is clear: Health care costs are out of control and something must be done to rein them in.  While untangling the regulations of the ACA and freeing up market competition among health plans will go a long way towards reducing the cost burden of health care for Americans, doing so is merely one part of the health care system in need of incre
  
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