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• Paul Waldman: Trump's lie about Obama, fallen soldiers shows how he makes America dumber

  17-10-2017 23:57
  Every once in a while, a politician says something so outrageous that it produces not the feigned outrage that has become so familiar, but genuine outrage. That’s what President Donald Trump managed Monday, when in a press conference he was asked about his public silence on the four American soldiers who were killed in Niger, and claimed that while he calls the families of those killed in action to express his condolences, previous presidents, particularly Barack Obama, hadn’t done s
  
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• Video of Utah cheerleaders chanting racial slur being investigated by district

  17-10-2017 23:54
  An investigation is underway into a video circulated on social media Monday night showing a group of Weber High School students chanting racial slurs and vulgarities, a Weber School District spokesman said.District spokesman Lane Findlay said the girls in the video are juniors and seniors at Weber High, and three of them participate on the school’s cheerleading team.Findlay said that, based on interviews with the three of the girls, the video appears to have been filmed last year during th
  
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• SLC’s new police body cam policy: Footage to be public 2 weeks after a shooting episode

  17-10-2017 23:53
  A mayoral executive order signed Tuesday says that Salt Lake City will release police body camera footage 10 business days after an officer uses force that injures or kills someone.Mayor Jackie Biskupski announced the decision at a news conference Tuesday afternoon, which included Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill and Police Chief Mike Brown. Gill and Brown expressed support for the move and said they hope it will balance the need for public transparency with the due process of an inve
  
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• Exum, Lindsey talk about shoulder injury and what it means for point guard and Jazz

  17-10-2017 23:45
  SALT LAKE CITY – A day after it was revealed that Dante Exum would undergo sugery next week to repair his injured shoulder, the 22-year-old Australian spoke to the media about the injury along with Utah Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey.Exum was injured in an Oct. 5 preseason game against Phoenix when T.J. Warren fell on him after Exum went up for a shot on the baseline. After much consultation, Exum has opted to have surgery on Tuesday in Los Angeles to repair the AC joint in his right
  
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• We loved #JrNBAWeek! 🏀 To all of the @JazzYouth out there - keep believing in yourself! https://t.co/Ut60uVoqcO

  17-10-2017 23:44 via twitter.com
  
  We loved #JrNBAWeek! 🏀To all of the @JazzYouth out there - keep believing in yourself! https://t.co/Ut60uVoqcO
  
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• Utah State University student ordered to stand trial for allegedly raping classmate on campus lawn

  17-10-2017 23:26
  Logan • Alison Berg paused before describing what happened in the early morning hours after a fraternity party in September 2015.“Can we take a short break?” she asked, during her testimony at a preliminary hearing on Tuesday about how she had allegedly been sexually assaulted by a fellow student on the lawn at Utah State University in Logan.Berg, now 20, left the courtroom, followed by her father and boyfriend. When she returned a few minutes later, she resumed the stand and de
  
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• Pac-12 football: Washington schools share each other’s misery after falling out of top 10

  17-10-2017 23:26
  Stanford coach David Shaw likes to say there are no upsets in Pac-12 football, because of the conference’s depth.Yet more of an explanation is necessary for what happened last weekend, when each Washington school absorbed its first loss of the season and fell out of the top 10 in the polls. Washington and Washington State produced a total of 10 points in respective losses to Arizona State and California, which had struggled defensively in recent weeks.ASU allowed 301 rushing yards to Stanf
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’ — Former LDS bishop, stake president and temple architect discusses her transition to a transgender woman

  17-10-2017 23:22
  She served a mission. She designed Mormon temples. She led LDS congregations. And now she is on the outs with the faith she loves because she insists on living as a transgender woman.Hear Laurie Lee Hall discuss her incredible spiritual journey in the latest segment of “Mormon Land,” a podcast produced by The Salt Lake Tribune and hosted by senior religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack and managing editor David Noyce.Listen here:
  
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• Utes receiving corps must step up even more with Darren Carrington II hurt

  17-10-2017 23:17
  Plain and simple, wide receiver Darren Carrington II adds an explosive and dangerous element to the Utes offense. That’s no secret, particularly after he racked up 409 yards receiving and four touchdowns in the first three games.Now with Carrington hampered by ailments and defenses devoting extra attention to him, Utah’s depth at the wide receiving position will get tested. Carrington made two catches for 9 yards against USC. In the Utes’ two losses, Carrington has 108 yards re
  
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• Joe Marcus Johnson, from Little Rock, Arkansas, is a 7x All-Star and one of the most clutch players in NBA history.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-10-2017 23:13 via twitter.com
  Joe Marcus Johnson, from Little Rock, Arkansas, is a 7x All-Star and one of the most clutch players in NBA history.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Utes add former BYU recruit and all-Hawaii DE Mike Tafua

  17-10-2017 23:05
  Utah’s football program announced Tuesday via its Twitter account that Mike Tafua, a defensive end from Hawaii who originally signed with BYU, has joined the program and been placed on scholarship.The 6-foot-3, 228-pound Tafua went on an LDS church mission in 2015. He earned first-team all-state honors as well as Interscholastic Honolulu co-Defensive Player of the Year as a senior at Kamehameha High School before his LDS church mission.Tafua, a three-sport athlete who competed in basketbal
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: From the pen of an 18-year-old Harvey Weinstein: An aggressor who won't be refused

  17-10-2017 23:03
  As credible allegations emerged over the past few weeks of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assaults, some observers marveled: It had been going on since the early 1980s.Weinstein, now 65, was only 30 then. How on earth could this have been happening for so long?Well, make room, if you can stomach it, for “Denny the Hustler,” a character in a 1971 nightlife column in the University of Buffalo student newspaper, the Spectrum.The column (“Patchworks”) was wri
  
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• Restricted free agent: If you don't sign quickly, you're probably in trouble

  17-10-2017 23:02
  Over the past five offseasons, numerous contracts have been dolled out to restricted free agents. Per our research, 89 in total, to be exact.
  After taking a close look at each of those deals, and various variables – such as time waited until the contract was agreed upon, as well as average length and size of said deals – a few things stood out.
  For one, the players who waited longer than 10 days before signing their new contracts saw a massive drop in worth of their deals.
  From the 2
  
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• Provo Mayor John Curtis takes a big lead in newest poll

  17-10-2017 23:02
  Provo Mayor John Curtis bagged another big lead — by a commanding 27 point margin — in the newest poll for the special election to fill Utah’s vacant congressional seat.The Republican candidate captured 46 percent in the Salt Lake Tribune-Hinckley Institute of Politics survey that comes as ballots arrive in mailboxes this week.“It’s going to be very difficult for anyone to take the lead over him,” said pollster Dan Jones.Democrat and first-time candidate Kathi
  
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• Jazz open season Wednesday against a Nuggets team they'll have to beat to earn playoff spot

  17-10-2017 22:54
  Last season, the Jazz did something for which they received no trophy or banner — nor did they expect any spoils.It’s not that winning the Northwest Division of the NBA, edging the Oklahoma City Thunder by four games, wasn’t difficult. In today’s NBA, it just doesn’t mean all that much. It doesn’t affect seeding, nor does it give any sort of advantage in the playoffs. Coach Quin Snyder joked Monday that NBA divisions only matter to keep track in newspapers.And
  
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• For the first time ever, most Americans say a person can be good without God

  17-10-2017 22:50
  For the first time, a majority of Americans (56 percent) say it is possible to be a good person without a religious belief.So says new Pew Research Center data drawn from two polls conducted among about 5,000 American adults in June and July.“God is not a prerequisite for good values and morality,” Greg Smith, Pew’s associate director of research, said in a post about the findings. ” … [T]he public’s increased rejection of the idea that belief in God is neces
  
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• Garrison Keillor: I look around and see the people in the obits are pals of mine

  17-10-2017 22:45
  When I was 20, I dropped out of college and got a job with a morning newspaper whose city editor Mr. Walt Streightiff put me to work writing obituaries of ordinary men and women whose deaths were not considered newsworthy. Other reporters handled crime, natural disasters, City Hall, sports, fatal accidents, high finance, visiting celebrities, and what was called “human interest,” meaning heartwarming stories, usually involving children. I was in charge of ordinary cold death.Mr. Stre
  
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• Syracuse punches ticket to first girls' soccer state title game with win over Bingham

  17-10-2017 22:41
  Draper • The Syracuse Titans didn’t need to sift through the record books.When a postgame public address announcement rang out about them advancing to the state championship game, after a 4-1 win over Bingham on Tuesday, the Titans knew that this moment was history.“First time in school history, it’s incredible,” Syracuse coach Taylor Allen said.“This is our first season to ever win a playoff game. We’re doing it man, you know?” added Allen, whose t
  
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• Commentary: Mormons and the Boy Scouts, once joined at the hip, are now heading down different trails

  17-10-2017 22:41
  It is a common stereotype, though one not far from the truth, that the average Mormon boy is an Eagle Scout.There are certainly a lot of them. Recent statistics suggest that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints makes up about 20 percent of the Boy Scouts of America enrollment. This has been a long and interdependent relationship: The BSA provided a wholesome structure for Mormon boys, with typically half the LDS Church’s weekly activities nights dedicated to some Scouting initia
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz Rank: Rodney Hood ranks 3rd

  17-10-2017 22:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... r in preseason, so it would seem that he is ready to go on Wednesday. If the Jazz could get efficient scoring from him, and bump his total from 12 to 18+, it...
  
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• Thabo Sefolosha Practice Interview - 10.17.17 📽️: on.nba.com/2ywr82y https://t.co/F8x0o7fgF1

  17-10-2017 22:15 via twitter.com
  
  Thabo Sefolosha Practice Interview - 10.17.17📽️: on.nba.com/2ywr82y https://t.co/F8x0o7fgF1
  
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• Head Coach Quin Snyder Practice Interview - 10.17.17 📽️: on.nba.com/2yuCYtw https://t.co/bTXfbQ45NP

  17-10-2017 21:58 via twitter.com
  
  Head Coach Quin Snyder Practice Interview - 10.17.17📽️: on.nba.com/2yuCYtw https://t.co/bTXfbQ45NP
  
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• Ticket Giveaway! 🎟   -Take a selfie at your local KeyBank branch🤳 -Post with #JazzOpener in your caption 📲 We'll r… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-10-2017 21:47 via twitter.com
  Ticket Giveaway! 🎟   -Take a selfie at your local KeyBank branch🤳 -Post with #JazzOpener in your caption 📲We'll r… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Utah police officer accused of making fake 911 call involving his estranged wife

  17-10-2017 21:34
  A Unified Police Department officer has been placed on leave after allegedly making a fake 911 call to report a possible burglary at a South Jordan home while knowing his estranged wife was inside.Lt. Dan McConkey, 53, of Riverton, is charged in South Jordan City’s justice court with one count each of emergency reporting abuse and obstructing justice. Both are class B misdemeanors punishable by up to six months in jail.At about 7:50 a.m. on Sept. 3, an anonymous caller told police dispatch
  
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• Bomb kills investigative journalist in Malta who reported on Panama Papers

  17-10-2017 21:32
  Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist and blogger from Malta who was known for her reporting on governmental corruption, was killed in a bomb explosion near her home on Monday, officials say.Galizia, 53, who had published a story on her blog at about 2:35 p.m. local Malta time Monday, was driving away from the home where she lived with her husband in Bidnija, a rural area on the island, in a rented Peugeot 108 around 3 p.m. when the car went up in flames, according to local media r
  
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• Does new uptempo style fit Jazz? Early returns say yes

  17-10-2017 21:21
  The last team to commit 31 turnovers in an NBA game was the Golden State Warriors in 2000. The 2017 Phoenix Suns ought to be glad that preseason stats don’t count or else they’d eclipse them.It says a lot about the Suns, but it also says a bit about their opponent, the Utah Jazz, who had 18 steals in the 120-102 blowout at Talking Stick Resort Arena on Monday. The Jazz only had 10 or more steals in 10 games last season, and never more than 12.With Gordon Hayward and George Hill depar
  
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• The Tribune's NBA picks for 2017-18

  17-10-2017 21:20
  MVPIn Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals last May, the San Antonio Spurs led the Golden State Warriors by 20 points in the third quarter with Kawhi Leonard on the floor.Without him — he injured his ankle twice in that quarter and missed the remainder of the series — the Spurs lost that game, and were swept without a hint of being competitive for the rest of the series.There are many definitions to being the most valuable player, and the NBA is flush with enough stardom to make t
  
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• Trump mocked Pence, joked about him wanting to 'hang' gays in a New Yorker profile

  17-10-2017 21:15
  President Donald Trump and his administration are beset by controversies and scandals that refuse to go away. His list of critics is growing. Some of his allies are abandoning him. Others are calling for his impeachment. Even former White House chief strategist and Trump whisperer Steve Bannon has, according to Vanity Fair, told people he thinks Trump has a mere 30 percent chance of completing his term.With all that on the table, the New Yorker's Jane Mayer took a deep look at the political and
  
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• Monson: In hushed tones, BYU looks for life anywhere it can find it

  17-10-2017 21:10
  These are sad, gloomy days at BYU, dragging by under gray-blue October skies.Dark and morose times have descended, when people around the football program are wearing the darkest shades of blue, and even black, are marching in processionals to the sorrowful sounds of bagpipes playing in the distance, are reflecting in quiet, pained moments, searching for peace while pondering what’s happened here, questioning the meaning and very essence of life, wondering where the losing came from, why i
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Sally Yates needs to be heard more often on Trump's unfitness

  17-10-2017 21:05
  Former acting attorney general Sally Yates, who first alerted the White House to ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn’s lies and who was fired for refusing to defend the first travel ban (which was subsequently struck down, and then dropped by the administration), gave a recent interview to the National Law Journal. Her remarks should be taken to heart:“It is a long-standing tradition — and an essential one to the rule of law — that the Department of Justice operate
  
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• Royce Khalil O’Neale, from Killeen, TX, is about to start his rookie year in the NBA. Welcome to the Jazz, Royce!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-10-2017 20:27 via twitter.com
  Royce Khalil O’Neale, from Killeen, TX, is about to start his rookie year in the NBA. Welcome to the Jazz, Royce!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Carrie Fisher's gross but supremely satisfying warning to a Hollywood sexual harasser

  17-10-2017 20:23
  In the wake of Hollywood's Harvey Weinstein scandal, countless women across the world have stepped forward to share their stories of sexual abuse and harassment.Heather Ross, also known as Heather Robinson, is a television and movie industry vet who recently told a morning radio show in Tucson, Arizona, about an ugly run-in she had with an overly aggressive unnamed Oscar winner. Her story, however, took a surprise twist because of the actions of the late Carrie Fisher.Ross, a screenwriter and pr
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz Giveaway Rankings

  17-10-2017 20:20 via sportspyder.com
  ... itch to go. Do I think this will be a big, plush beanie that will make other Jazz fans swoon as I walk by? Probably not, although no one’s swooning as I walk...
  
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• Lebanese Catholic cardinal, at center of Muslim-Christian tensions, to visit Salt Lake City on Friday

  17-10-2017 20:18
  Cardinal Moran Mor Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, the sometimes-controversial patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church, will visit Utah on Friday.The 77-year-old Lebanese cleric is to meet with the Salt Lake Interfaith Council at 2:30 p.m. at the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City’s Pastoral Center, 27 C St.He also will celebrate a 6 p.m. Mass at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, 1385 Spring Lane, Holladay, said diocese spokeswoman Kristin Mason.Boutros al-Rahi was named patriarch of Antioch
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Wanna swap? Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell gets first action-packed trading card

  17-10-2017 20:13 via sportspyder.com
  ... big-time scoring ability, a tenacious defensive mindset and versatility to a Jazz squad that's ready to feature him from Day One." Mitchell, who turned 21 yea ...
  
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• Wanna swap? Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell gets first action-packed trading card

  17-10-2017 20:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — If Donovan Mitchell pans out like some people expect, an item that will hit the market on Tuesday might become a collector's item.Mitchell's first in-action trading card will be released by Panini America, an official partner of the NBA. The card features Mitchell wearing his No. 45 white Jazz jersey during one of the team's preseason games at the renovated Vivint Arena.Perceptive fans will even notice Jazz owner Gail Miller in the background of the photo.The back of Mitch
  
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• For Chaffetz and other Fox News hosts, Hillary Clinton’ ‘shadow presidency’ never ends

  17-10-2017 19:44
  Near the end of Monday's impromptu White House news conference, Fox News reporter John Roberts asked President Trump what he thought of a story that had little to do with his governing agenda: Hillary Clinton's opinion of NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem."In an interview earlier today, Hillary Clinton said that she did not believe that players taking a knee in the NFL was about disrespecting the flag; at complete odds with the way that you have portrayed this," said Roberts.
  
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• Flying out of Salt Lake City this week? Expect to be part of record crowds leaving for UEA weekend

  17-10-2017 19:32
  Salt Lake City International Airport expects a record number of passengers on Wednesday and Thursday — thanks to people escaping town during the school break for the annual Utah Education Association convention.The airport expects about 25,000 people a day, which may give new meaning to “UEA weekend” — perhaps “Utah Escapes to Anaheim” or “Utahns Explore Away.”Because of the crowds, the airport encourages travelers to arrive two hours before their
  
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• Letter: I can’t wait for the mining to start when Bears Ears and Grand Staircase monuments are reduced

  17-10-2017 19:27
  The Oct. 1 Tribune carried an article on Gordon Creek Energy, a company drilling for gas west of Price. The company buried some electrical cables without permission and without following basic safeguards, causing substantial erosion.The division of Oil, Gas and Mining has made numerous requests for Gordon Creek to rework or plug its nonproducing wells. The bond it has posted to ensure reclamation is about half of what is required.I have to believe that this situation is a microcosm of what we ca
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Analysis: Dante Exum's out ... so now what?

  17-10-2017 19:00 via sportspyder.com
  ...three-point shooters, Howard made the opponents pay in the paint. While the Jazz, don’t have as many three-point shooters as Orlando did in ’09, or a Dwight...
  
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• Video of Utah high school students chanting racial slur being investigated by district

  17-10-2017 18:59
  An investigation is underway into a video showing a group of Weber High School students chanting racial slurs and vulgarities that circulated on social media Monday night, according to Weber School District spokesman Lane Findlay.Findlay said the girls in the video are juniors and seniors at Weber High, and three of them participate on the school’s cheerleading team.The video appears to have been filmed inside a vehicle, and there’s no indication the girls were on campus or participa
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump’s Cabinet is the absolute best of all time. Ever.

  17-10-2017 18:55
  Washington • It’s about time somebody gives Donald Trump the credit he deserves. Even if that person is Donald Trump.“We’re doing a lot of great things,” the president said at the start of a Cabinet meeting Monday. Further, he said, “we are getting tremendous accolades for what we’re doing.” What’s more, “the Justice Department is doing a fantastic job,” while the economy is growing “phenomenally,” except for the drag f
  
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• Charges unlikely in West Valley City auto-pedestrian fatality

  17-10-2017 18:54
  Police are investigating a fatal auto-pedestrian accident in West Valley City, but it does not initially appear any charges will be filed.West Valley City police spokeswoman Roxeanne Vainuku confirmed Tuesday that 21-year-old Kaitlynn Wicker had died of “severe injuries” from the 7:10 a.m. incident near 4100 South and 5100 West.“Wicker was crossing 4100 from south to north to reach a bus stop on the north side of the road. There was no crosswalk at this spot,” Vainuku sai
  
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• Analysis: Dante Exum's out ... so now what?

  17-10-2017 18:49
  The NBA gods have broken a fundamental playground rule: Don’t kick a man when he’s down.The Jazz are down alright.George Hill and Gordon Hayward’s departures left a void of nearly 40 points per game.Then came the kick where it counts: Exum is going to miss significant time in the 2018 season with a shoulder injury. No two ways around it, that news stings. While the organization, players and fans have all expressed their heartbreak over the latest news, it doesn’t erase th
  
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• Letter: Address the causes of violence

  17-10-2017 18:40
  So, a horrific event transpires on the Las Vegas Strip. People die and are injured. The response from our local representatives is sketchy and creepy. Yes, our harmed residents and any others should be acknowledged, but I feel the media and government are missing the point. This white male had over 10 weapons, ammo and explosives in his room. He owned real estate in several states and planes to fly about. He flew to Alaska to hunt.I see this as an opportunity to address our idiotic firearm regul
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Trump's tax proposal won't actually help the middle class. Here's what would.

  17-10-2017 18:30
  President Trump campaigned on helping the little guy. His latest tax proposal, he says, is about helping the middle guy.“It’s a middle-class bill,” Trump promised an audience of truckers last week.Other administration officials and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., have also claimed that their primary objective in reconfiguring the tax code is to help the middle class, not the wealthy.Unfortunately, they seem to have gotten things backward.In a preliminary analysis, the nonparti
  
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• Sex, alcohol and attorneys’ fees: Brewvies seeks half a million dollars from Utah after ‘Deadpool’ citation

  17-10-2017 18:29
  Fighting against Deadpool could cost the state of Utah more than half a million dollars.A motion filed Monday by the lawyers for Brewvies Cinema Pub — which recently won a judge’s ruling overturning a state law after an attempt to fine the Salt Lake City bar and movie theater for showing the R-rated “Deadpool” while serving booze — totals the attorneys’ fees and court costs it’s asking the state to pay back. The figure: $534,431.05.In a 21-page motion, w
  
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• Short, nontechnical and free: Leprechaun Canyon is one of Utah’s accessible slot canyon hikes

  17-10-2017 18:26
  Utah’s slot canyons are iconic hiking experiences, but getting there can be overwhelming sometimes. They may require long, hot hikes through open desert or intimidating drives over questionable dirt roads.Leprechaun is unique in that it is adjacent to a paved highway. Canyon walls begin rising above the trail almost immediately, and stunning, towering narrows are less than a mile from the trailhead. I’ve seen dogs and toddlers negotiate the hike with little trouble.Getting there &bul
  
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• Letter: Time to rebuild America

  17-10-2017 18:20
  Every household understands that when a financial catastrophe occurs it means that some things have to be postponed, regardless of merit or want. You make do and you cut back in ways that really have a financial impact. This is what America has to do now.Hurricanes in the South, American Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and wildfires in California, Oregon and Montana have created a financial catastrophe. We can minimize the impact of that on our deficit and help rebuild by changing the following p
  
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• If you know what's good for ya... #TakeNote https://t.co/IJ47vaaQAd

  17-10-2017 18:15 via twitter.com
  
  If you know what's good for ya...#TakeNote https://t.co/IJ47vaaQAd
  
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