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• Salt Lake City winter market kicks off season with tasty bounty, weekly schedule

  11-11-2017 23:56
  On the opening day of the annual winter farmer’s market, fruit grower Kent Pyne was handing out slices of delicious Utah County apples and a bit of advice.Kari Dunn’s lone apple tree had been loaded with a promising apple harvest in August until the bulk of the still-green fruit dropped all at once; she wondered if Pyne could tell her why.His diagnosis: Worms.“When you get a worm hole in the apple, essentially it ripens up a lot quicker and they’ll just fall,” said
  
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• South Summit takes down Beaver for state crown to cap perfect season

  11-11-2017 23:53
  Cedar City • South Summit knew defense would be the key to help them avoid another disappointment in Saturday’s Class 2A state title game.Jared Dansie scored after his defensive teammates made a fourth-down stop, which allowed the Wildcats to finally hold the big trophy and deny the Beaver a third straight crown.Dansie scored two touchdowns on the ground, and Keegan Stracher caught two touchdown passes from Kael Atkinson as South Summit rolled to a 38-10 victory over the Beavers at Ec
  
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• Live: Washington State recovers fumble in Utes territory early in first quarter

  11-11-2017 23:47
  The Utah Utes, off a victory against UCLA, host Logan native Luke Falk and nationally-ranked Washington State at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Follow the action live with The Tribune’s Lynn Worthy, Christopher Kamrani and Kurt Kragthorpea class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/BrennanJSmith/lists/utah-washington-state?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">A Twitter List by BrennanJSmith
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz look to avoid 5 straight losses with win tonight against Brooklyn Nets

  11-11-2017 23:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... his season. Between him and the emergence of Hollis-Jefferson this year, the Jazz could have a long night. He also averages 5 free throw attempts a game. He’s ...
  
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• No. 11 Ohio State rebounds, routs No. 13 Michigan St 48-3

  11-11-2017 23:24
  Columbus, Ohio • No. 11 Ohio State put to rest any notion that it wouldn't be motivated to finish strong after a surprising loss last week dropped the Buckeyes out of national championship contention.The Buckeyes came out fast, scoring on five of their first six possessions on the way to a 48-3 rout of No. 13 Michigan State, a team that has given them headaches in recent years.The blowout in front of the home fans helped Ohio State (8-2, 6-1 Big Ten, CFP No. 13) bury last week's mystifying
  
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• Lewis Hamilton crashes in qualifying after team is robbed in Brazil

  11-11-2017 23:13
  Sao Paulo • Valtteri Bottas claimed pole position for the Brazilian Grand Prix from a qualifying session in which Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton crashed on the first lap on Saturday.Hamilton, who won his fourth Formula One championship two weeks ago in Mexico, walked away from the car without injury and will start at the back of the grid on Sunday.It's been a tough weekend in Brazil for Mercedes.Several team members — Hamilton was not present — were held up at gun point on Fri
  
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• Three UCLA players to stay in China while rest of team returns to U.S.

  11-11-2017 23:12
  Los Angeles • The UCLA basketball team is heading back to Los Angeles without three players arrested on shoplifting charges in China, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Saturday.The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.Freshmen LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley were to remain in Hangzhou, China, while the rest of the team was due back Saturday night. Ball is the brother of Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ba
  
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• Commentary: Congress should follow Utah’s principles of sound tax reform

  11-11-2017 23:11
  As the Republican Congress and President Trump take up the daunting issue of tax reform, we encourage our federal colleagues to follow Utah’s lead and create a system that is simple, equitable, and stable for American taxpayers.Ten years ago, we were the sponsors of Utah’s last major tax reform. This reform helped position the state not only to weather tough economic times, but attract outside businesses and retain homegrown businesses.The results are clear: Utah is the leading state
  
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• Harassment case puts U.S. Senate candidate under spotlight

  11-11-2017 22:58
  Sacramento, Calif. • News that a sitting California senator is being investigated for sexual harassment against a young female employee has put a fresh spotlight on a legislative leader this week as he begins a bid against the state’s first female U.S. senator.Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, the Democratic leader of the state Senate, heads the committee in charge of human resources employees who handle workplace complaints. De Leon also rents a room in the Sacramento home of D
  
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• Child-bride-related charges dropped against polygamist; details of Mexico ranch murders emerge

  11-11-2017 22:44
  Arizona prosecutors eight months ago dropped charges against a polygamist who married underage girls on the Utah line, said a woman who has been working for 14 years to bring the polygamist back from Mexico.Following the murder of three of his family members in Mexico, Orson William Black, 56, finally returned to the United States on Thursday and is being held at a detention center in El Paso, Texas. But the woman who has been pursuing him, Pennie Petersen, on Saturday said he’ll be free
  
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• Pope Francis reaffirms conscience as heresy debate divides church

  11-11-2017 22:42
  Vatican City • Pope Francis on Saturday reaffirmed the “primacy” of using one’s conscience to navigate tough moral questions in his first comments since he was publicly accused of spreading heresy by emphasizing conscience over hard and fast Catholic rules.Francis issued a video message to a conference organized by Italian bishops on his controversial 2016 document on family life, “The Joy of Love.” The document has badly divided the Catholic Church, with some
  
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• Pope Francis warns nuclear deterrence only a false sense of security

  11-11-2017 22:39
  Vatican City • Pope Francis warned Friday that international relations can no longer be “held captive” by fear-based nuclear deterrence policies and urged government leaders to instead pursue an admittedly utopian future of a world free of atomic weapons.Francis welcomed Nobel laureates, United Nations officials, NATO representatives and diplomats from countries with the bomb to a Vatican conference aimed at galvanizing global support for complete nuclear disarmament.The pope ac
  
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• Commentary: The only man in Utah we want touching our birth control is Rep. Ray Ward

  11-11-2017 22:00
  As two student women’s health nurse practitioners at The University of Utah, we are outraged and exhausted to witness our male political leaders launch nearly constant attacks on safe and cost-effective women’s health care. Most recently, this was exhibited by President Trump’s swift, reckless end to the rule requiring employer-sponsored health insurance policies to cover birth control without co-pays or additional costs.In this time of unease we have found an unexpected ally i
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: The Vertical] - Rudy Gobert Says Dion Waiters Deliberately Targeted His Knees

  11-11-2017 21:25 via sportspyder.com
  ... pm Filed to: Dion waiters Filed to: Dion waiters rudy gobert Miami Heat Utah Jazz Injuries NBA Basketball 6 2 Edit Send to Editors Promote Share to Kinja Togg ...
  
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• Monson: BYU guard Nick Emery's statement is easy to root for, hard to believe

  11-11-2017 21:20
  It’s a natural inclination when an athlete issues a statement regarding personal problems to want to believe him. Not just to want to believe him, but to root for him to face down those problems, conquer those problems and move on with his life inside and outside of sports.It’s a little more complicated than that In the case of Nick Emery at BYU.His statement released Friday evening about withdrawing from school and the basketball team seemed as though it might have some elements of
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jazz center Rudy Gobert questionable vs. Brooklyn Nets with knee contusion

  11-11-2017 21:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... uestionable as the Jazz prepare to host the Brooklyn Nets at 7 p.m. Gobert suffered a right knee con ...
  
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• Jim Dabakis: The Utah Medicaid expansion deserves only scorn

  11-11-2017 21:02
  State Republican leaders were gleeful recently after receiving a federal waiver on Medicaid expansion.This waiver deserves only scorn. While it may have been a victory for a few politicians, it was a crushing defeat for tens of thousands of low-income families in Utah. These working families have no insurance because they cannot afford healthcare at market prices, are not qualified for Medicaid, or are unable to pay for coverage under the Affordable Care Act.Common sense would require the ruling
  
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• Commentary: We must deprive mass murderers of their weapons of choice

  11-11-2017 21:02
  The Las Vegas massacre reminds us again that semi-automatic and automatic firearms are capable of killing scores of people before outside intervention can stop the slaughter. Because we cannot identify mass killers in advance, we must deprive them of their weapons of choice: automatic and semi-automatic firearms.(The difference is the former weapon will keep firing rounds until the magazine is empty, so long as the trigger is depressed; the latter will fire one round each time the trigger is pul
  
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• Jazz center Rudy Gobert questionable vs. Brooklyn Nets with knee contusion

  11-11-2017 21:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz may be without their best big man tonight.Center Rudy Gobert is listed as questionable as the Jazz prepare to host the Brooklyn Nets at 7 p.m.Gobert suffered a right knee contusion in the third quarter of last night’s 84-74 loss to the Miami Heat. He clashed with Heat guard Dion Waiters in what he suggested was a “dirty play.”“It feels better than it looked on the video,” Gobert said after the loss. “I think it was a dirty
  
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• Commentary: Family planning coverage is good for taxpayers and families

  11-11-2017 20:45
  Often an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.Utah state Rep. Ray Ward, R-Bountiful, has spent this summer discussing legislation that would offer low-income Utah women access to long-term contraception under Medicaid. The results? Preventing thousands of unintended pregnancies in Utah each year. What’s more, 90 percent of the costs would be picked up by the Federal government. Utah would pay the remaining 10 percent.The long-term consequences of this bill are huge. In exchange for
  
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• BYU not looking back, but 31-21 win over UNLV causes some to wonder what might have been

  11-11-2017 20:42
  Provo • After rushing for a career-high 213 wins, praising God, referencing Bible stories and giving a shoutout to his family and BYU’s offensive line, running back Squally Canada also had time Friday night to deliver a “life lesson” to any youngsters who may have watched the Cougars defeat UNLV 31-21 in Las Vegas.“Never look back,” Canada said. “Always look forward.”That has become the 3-8 Cougars’ mantra as they play out this disappointing s
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Ranking the Top 5 moments of the 2017-18 season so far

  11-11-2017 20:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz-Brooklyn Nets key matchup: Ricky Rubio seeks redemption by Ryan Aston ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Tony Jones: Thunder's 'Big 3' experiment is a big dud, so far

  11-11-2017 20:15 via sportspyder.com
  ...now. How long does it continue? 13. Philadelphia 76ers (6-5) • Defeated the Jazz on the road for the first time since 2005. 14. Portland Trail Blazers (6-5)...
  
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• .@UofUHealth // Injury Update Rudy Gobert (right knee contusion) is QUESTIONABLE tonight. #BKNatUTA

  11-11-2017 20:13 via twitter.com
  .@UofUHealth // Injury Update Rudy Gobert (right knee contusion) is QUESTIONABLE tonight.#BKNatUTA
  
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• Big changes coming to NCAA gymnastics championships

  11-11-2017 20:04
  Goodbye byes. For college gymnastics fans who have trouble following scoring because of byes or sitting through a day’s worth of gymnastics at the NCAA regional and national events, take heart: things are about to change. Beginning with the 2018-19 season, the formats for the regional and national NCAA events will be streamlined to hopefully make the postseason easier to follow and more TV-friendly. In the model recently approved by the Division I Competition Oversight Committee in Indiana
  
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• Utah Jazz: Ranking the Top 5 moments of the 2017-18 season so far

  11-11-2017 20:03
  The 2017-18 NBA season is just three weeks old and the Utah Jazz have had their ups and downs, but the young campaign has yielded some great moments. Let’s face it — it’s been hard times of late for Utah Jazz fans. Entering Saturday’s game against the Brooklyn Nets, the boys in blue, green and […]
  Utah Jazz: Ranking the Top 5 moments of the 2017-18 season so far - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Tony Jones: Thunder's 'Big 3' experiment is a big dud, so far

  11-11-2017 20:03
  The past decade in the NBA is littered with teams who looked great on paper, but weren’t great on the floor early in the regular season.In 2011, the LeBron James-Dwayne Wade-Chris Bosh-led Miami Heat started 9-8. That team got its act together, won 58 games and advanced to the NBA Finals.Four years later, James went home to Cleveland to lead the Cavaliers for a second time, this time with Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love. The Cavs started 19-20, but rebounded and found a way to advance to the N
  
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• Utah author David Kranes finds noir magic in mystery, with Las Vegas style

  11-11-2017 20:00
  For David Kranes, who described himself as painfully shy as a kid, learning a few magic tricks was a gateway to studying theater and, eventually, transforming himself into an English professor and writer.Oh, yes, and his close literary attention to the dramaturgy of space led the retired University of Utah professor into a side hustle as a casino consultant.Kranes’ eighth novel, the noir Las Vegas mystery “Abracadabra,” draws upon the writer’s longtime themes. “Davi
  
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• Roy Moore: Alabama voters will 'see through this charade' of sexual misconduct claims

  11-11-2017 19:38
  Vesttavia Hills, Ala. • GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore spoke defiantly Saturday morning at a political gathering in Alabama that allegations against him amounted to "fake news" perpetrated by The Washington Post and political opponents engaged "in a desperate attempt to stop my campaign."The Post reported earlier this week that four women said Moore had pursued sexual or romantic relations with them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s."These campaign attacks are false and complet
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz-Brooklyn Nets key matchup: Ricky Rubio seeks redemption

  11-11-2017 19:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz have first-group problems 22h ago Utah Jazz-Miami Heat key matchup: Rudy Gobert battles Hassan Whiteside 23h ago Utah Ja ...
  
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• U.S. sage grouse policy heading back to square one

  11-11-2017 19:33
  Sparks, Nev. • Federal scientists and land managers who’ve been crafting strategies to protect a ground-dwelling bird’s habitat across the American West for nearly two decades are going back to the drawing board under a new Trump administration edict to reassess existing plans condemned by ranchers, miners and energy developers.Federal officials are wrapping up a series of public meetings with three sessions starting Tuesday in Utah ahead of a Nov. 27 cutoff for comment on Inter
  
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• [Larry Brown Sports] - Rudy Gobert hints Dion Waiters intentionally dove at his knee

  11-11-2017 19:31 via sportspyder.com
  ... bert thinks that Dion Waiters got away with a dirty play on Friday. The Utah Jazz center suffered a right knee contusion in the third quarter of an 84-74 loss ...
  
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• This is a public service announcement sponsored by the Utah Jazz and the good folks at the @BrooklynNets. #BKNatUTA https://t.co/OTmrbQA9kB

  11-11-2017 19:27 via twitter.com
  
  This is a public service announcement sponsored by the Utah Jazz and the good folks at the @BrooklynNets.#BKNatUTA https://t.co/OTmrbQA9kB
  
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• Utah Jazz-Brooklyn Nets key matchup: Ricky Rubio seeks redemption

  11-11-2017 19:17
  After hitting rock bottom against the Miami Heat, Utah Jazz point guard Ricky Rubio looks to rebound against the Brooklyn Nets. Self-help gurus will tell you that today is the first day of the rest of your life. What happened yesterday is immaterial; your new path begins now, etc. Utah Jazz point guard Ricky Rubio […]
  Utah Jazz-Brooklyn Nets key matchup: Ricky Rubio seeks redemption - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Deadspin] - Rudy Gobert Says Dion Waiters Deliberately Targeted His Knees

  11-11-2017 18:40 via sportspyder.com
  ... ed Filed to: Dion waiters Filed to: Dion waiters rudy gobert Miami Heat Utah Jazz Injuries NBA Basketball rudy gobert Miami Heat Utah Jazz Injuries NBA Basket ...
  
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• Letter: Make a case to keep PBS programming on KBYU

  11-11-2017 18:38
  KBYU has announced upcoming changes with its programing, including dropping PBS. I urge everyone who enjoys the wholesome and entertaining programs offered by PBS to contact KBYU to let it know of your displeasure with its planned changes. Contact through e-mail: [email protected] or by phone: 1-866-662-9888 (M-F 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.). Each voice can make a difference.Lynn Price, Salt Lake City
  
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• [Uproxx: Dime Magazine] - Rudy Gobert Called Out Dion Waiters For A ‘Dirty Play’ Diving Into His Knee

  11-11-2017 18:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... t with an 84-74 victory. It was a defensive struggle for both teams, but the Jazz had the biggest issues in the third quarter as they were held to only eight...
  
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• Rudy Gobert Says Dion Waiters Deliberately Targeted His Knees

  11-11-2017 18:23 via deadspin.com
  Heat guard Dion Waiters made kind of a dumb and reckless play going for a loose ball Friday night against the Utah Jazz. His effort sent him crashing into the infinitely long legs of Jazz center Rudy Gobert, the right one of which bent inwards at a terrifying angle:Read more...
  
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• [The Score] - Jazz shoot 4-33 on field goals in 2nd half during loss to Heat

  11-11-2017 18:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... goals on 33 attempts in the second half of their loss to the . Nobody on the Jazz managed more than one basket after halftime. - who was initially billed as t ...
  
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• Letter: Economic health is complex; dog whistling doesn't illuminate it

  11-11-2017 18:11
  We need to avoid using “dog whistle” terminology to oversimplify issues. Phrases like “deregulation” and “free enterprise” get folks salivating about job growth, higher wages and increased cash flow. Our president’s explanation for bowing out of the Paris Accord: to lift regulations off our oil and coal companies.In the real world, economic health is not so simple. Do the jobs in fossil fuel industries somehow contribute more to the economy than jobs in
  
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• George Takei accused of groping struggling model in 1980s

  11-11-2017 17:40
  New York — "Star Trek" actor George Takei has denied he groped a struggling model in 1981.Takei said Saturday in a series of tweets that events described in an interview with Scott R. Brunton "simply did not occur." He says he didn't know "why he has claimed them now."Brunton told The Hollywood Reporter he was living in Hollywood when he met Takei at a bar. They exchanged numbers, he said, and then Takei invited him out and back to his condo after Brunton broke up with a boyfriend.Brunton
  
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• Trump: Putin is 'insulted' by and denies meddling accusation

  11-11-2017 17:34
  Hanoi, Vietnam • President Donald Trump said Russia’s Vladimir Putin once again vehemently denied interfering in the 2016 U.S. elections during their discussions on the sidelines of an economic summit Saturday. Trump declined to say whether he believed Putin, but made clear he’s not interested in dwelling on the issue.“He said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what they are saying he did,” Trump said of Putin, speaking with reporters aboard
  
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• Sandy police searching for missing, endangered 15-year-old

  11-11-2017 17:34
  Police are looking for a 15-year-old boy with autism who went missing Friday morning from his home in Sandy.Surveillance footage from the Pepperwood gated community, near 10900 S. 2000 East, shows Andrew Cook leaving the neighborhood just after 10 a.m., Sgt. Jason Nielsen said in a news release. Footage doesn’t show he returns.About 9 p.m. that evening, police began searching for him.Officers checked all open businesses in the area and Cook’s school, Bluffdale Summit Academy, and cal
  
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• To the brave men and women who have served our country - THANK YOU! 🇺🇸 #VeteransDay https://t.co/MMYVYYSjWb

  11-11-2017 17:30 via twitter.com
  
  To the brave men and women who have served our country - THANK YOU! 🇺🇸#VeteransDay https://t.co/MMYVYYSjWb
  
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• Utah World War I veteran’s letters and mementos tell the stories he never could

  11-11-2017 17:06
  Like many veterans, Sgt. Lawrence E. Leea kept quiet about his time spent overseas once he returned to Utah after World War I.When he came home in 1919, after a year and a half in France, instead of talking, he started drinking. He hit a rough patch through the Great Depression, when he didn’t have a steady job or much hope. Though he straightened out later in life, much of what he saw and did during his time in the war remained a mystery to his family for decades.“He didn’t t
  
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• United Concerts’ sale to Live Nation means ‘there’ll be a lot more going on in Salt Lake’

  11-11-2017 17:06
  During its 50-year history, United Concerts became arguably the premier live-music promoter in Utah, having built up to staging about 170 shows annually.But within the past month, United Concerts suddenly ceased to exist.The building the business operated out of is still standing, and employees are still showing up there, working to bring concerts to the Salt Lake Valley. But United Concerts is technically gone.After founder and CEO Jim McNeil finalized an early October sale, it’s now part
  
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• Utah’s Pando aspen grove is the most massive living thing known on Earth. It may die soon.

  11-11-2017 17:05
  Fishlake National Forest • The leaves of the Pando aspen grove glow in the low sunshine of an October afternoon. The straight, vertical trunks repeat into the distance like a house of mirrors, and under a backlit canopy of foliage, Pando feels at once infinite and enclosed.For 106 acres on the southwest bank of Fish Lake in Sevier County, a single root system unites this forest. Pando is the biggest aspen “clone” ever identified, the single most massive living organism known on
  
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• Letter: Act on prescription drug bills, Sen. Hatch

  11-11-2017 17:03
  Sen. Hatch, as one of your Utah constituents, I am writing to urge you to call for votes on bills in the Senate Finance Committee that would address the high prices that Americans are paying for prescription drugs.The National Retiree Legislative Network (NRLN) has informed me there are at least three bills in your committee worthy of having a vote. These are:S. 41, Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2017, to allow Medicare to negotiate the best possible price of prescription dr
  
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• 🏀 #BKNatUTA 🎟 bit.ly/2zvqVxv 📺 @ATTSportsNetRM 📍 @vivintarena 📻 @1280sports https://t.co/keXta7Eru2

  11-11-2017 17:03 via twitter.com
  
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• Letter: Thanks to UDOT for improvements around Layton, Clearfield

  11-11-2017 17:02
  I want to thank Region One of the Utah Department of Transportation, its designers, engineers and contractors for the big improvements around Layton and Clearfield. Even as some of the ideas I had were the same, the ultimate street design and turn signals at the west gate of Hill Air Force Base were something I’d never have imagined. Even though the new street designs and signals take some getting used to along Antelope Drive and Hill Field Road along I-15 and elsewhere, the traffic conges
  
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