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• Why the new GOP tax law is setting off a dash for cash at many major college sports programs

  22-12-2017 23:58
  The letter made a plea for donations, and urged those receiving it to consider stepping up giving before the end of the year, through a new "Pay It Forward" program.Sent earlier this month, the letter came from a nonprofit with a few traits that distinguish it from the soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and other charities trying to capitalize on the holiday season. This nonprofit is not quite cash-poor — several of its top employees make $1 million or more, and it's about to be featured on
  
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• Utah Jazz vs. OKC Thunder 12/23: Keys to redemption

  22-12-2017 23:03
  Just three days after losing to the Oklahoma City Thunder in blowout fashion, the Utah Jazz look to even the score in their season series finale. In Thursday’s victory over the San Antonio Spurs, the Utah Jazz trotted out a starting lineup of Ricky Rubio, Rodney Hood, Joe Ingles, Jonas Jerebko and Derrick Favors. With the exception […]
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - With a touch of luck, Utah Jazz could be nearing something special

  22-12-2017 22:56 via sportspyder.com
  ... particularly in a clutch fourth quarter. He almost singlehandedly willed the Jazz to victory in a game where he finally resembled the go-to guy that Jazz fans ...
  
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• Let's pack the house for this one!! 👊 🎟️🎟️: bit.ly/2ph6Abq #CLEatUTA https://t.co/bNh2hvNlRm

  22-12-2017 22:49 via twitter.com
  
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• UHP urges drivers to slow down, move over for emergency vehicles after trooper's car is hit by motorist going too fast for conditions

  22-12-2017 22:19
  A Utah Highway Patrol trooper suffered minor injuries Thursday afternoon when his cruiser was hit by a car that lost control on Interstate 15 in Millard County.UHP used the incident to “remind motorists to slow down and move over for emergency vehicles.”“Please help us keep our troopers safe,” said UHP spokesman Lt Todd Royce in a news release.Trooper Jeff Rowell was hit at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday after stopping on the side of the freeway, with his lights activated, to a
  
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• Under the radar, Rodney Hood has been delivering for the Jazz

  22-12-2017 22:11
  A good bit of Gregg Popovich praise is a worthwhile keepsake, no matter how modest it may seem.The San Antonio Spurs coach doled out some for Rodney Hood late Thursday night after the 6-foot-8 forward diced up Popovich’s team for 29 points in a 100-89 Jazz victory. The Spurs coach’s crusty exterior cracked for a precious few moments.“You noticed he was pretty good, huh? Oh yeah, it hurt,” he said about Hood. “That was nice to watch, in a weird sort of way.”It
  
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• We refuse to stop fighting! #5ForTheFight ✋ https://t.co/HhefiL4wfZ

  22-12-2017 21:55 via twitter.com
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Hood’s Hot Fourth Quarter Spurs Jazz Past San Antonio

  22-12-2017 21:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... arter and then Jinglin’ Joe Ingles hit his first points of the game, another Jazz three, to give the Jazz a 78-70 cushion two minutes into the finale. NOTHING ...
  
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• Marc Thiessen: Trump should make vulnerable Democrats who opposed his tax cuts pay the price in 2018

  22-12-2017 21:23
  President Donald Trump raised eyebrows when he invited Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp to fly with him aboard Air Force One for a tax-reform rally in her home state of North Dakota earlier this year. For a vulnerable Democrat running for re-election in a deep-red state that Trump won by 36 points, appearing with the president was a political gift. Trump called Heitkamp up on stage, shook her hand and heaped praise on her, describing her as a “good woman” — the perfect visuals fo
  
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• San Juan County readies for political shift following federal court ruling on voting districts

  22-12-2017 21:17
  A federal court judge in Utah has adopted new voting district boundaries in San Juan County which could reverse the historic political domination by whites over Navajos there.U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby on Thursday evening issued a ruling that gives Navajos a significant majority of voters in two of three commission districts and three of five school board districts.Shelby ordered the new boundaries be used in special elections for all commission and school board seats in November.
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• Utes are trying to build a recruiting legacy in Texas, so playing a bowl game in Dallas is a big deal

  22-12-2017 21:14
  You’re not likely to spot Utah coach Kyle Whittingham traipsing around Utah’s football complex sporting a 10-gallon hat or in cowboy boots with spurs, but he does hold a great appreciation for the state of Texas.The Utes will play West Virginia in the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl on Tuesday in the Cotton Bowl, approximately 1,240 miles from Salt Lake City, but the Lone Star State is hardly unfamiliar territory.“When I became the head coach, I knew how fertile that area wa
  
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• With a touch of luck, Utah Jazz could be nearing something special

  22-12-2017 21:12
  The Utah Jazz are in a good spot for the future, and with a little luck they could really turn into something special much sooner than expected. The Utah Jazz had just lost seven of their last eight games. They had barely concluded a six-game road trip, their longest such stint of the season. And […]
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• Red-hot BYU will be wary of winless Texas Southern on Saturday for good reason

  22-12-2017 21:12
  Provo • On paper, the BYU basketball team’s nonconference finale Saturday night against winless Texas Southern looks like one of those games in which the visitors get a nice paycheck and the home team gets something to feel good about heading into the holidays.BYU coach Dave Rose said nothing could be further from the truth after the Cougars rolled past Idaho State 85-71 on Thursday night. Sure, Texas Southern is 0-12 and has lost those dozen games — all played away from home &m
  
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• Utah grandmas and world travelers make the once-banned Kinder chocolate egg the ‘surprise’ candy of Christmas

  22-12-2017 21:08
  One of the most distinctive and sought-after Christmas candies along the Wasatch Front this month has been a chocolate-toy hybrid from Europe that for nearly 80 years has been banned in the U.S.
  Kinder Joy — an egg-shaped treat made by Ferrero International, the Italian company that makes Nutella — started selling at Walmart stores in the U.S. on Black Friday. Since then, its availability has expanded to other retailers, including specialty shops like Dutch Store in Salt Lake City an
  
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• Here's a little Holiday treat for ya 🍬🎅 @AFCU https://t.co/Liq9JWeoSp

  22-12-2017 21:00 via twitter.com
  
  Here's a little Holiday treat for ya 🍬🎅@AFCU https://t.co/Liq9JWeoSp
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The evolving identity of the Utah Jazz

  22-12-2017 20:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... ever, was a buzzsaw. With fewer units featuring two traditional big men, the Jazz rained 3-pointers over opponents. That was the biggest reason why Utah score ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Christmas Miracle: Jazz beat Spurs on national tv!

  22-12-2017 20:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... was nearly 1:1. (He finished with 6 TOs) The Spanish Samurai delivers — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) Also, stop trying to make “Spanish Samurai” happen. It’s not goi ...
  
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• Camaraderie 😂😂😂 https://t.co/PtjCYNysVF

  22-12-2017 20:05 via twitter.com
  
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• Jessica Chastain holds all the cards in ‘Molly‘s Game,‘ a talky but lively story of poker and power

  22-12-2017 20:04
  In charge of a movie for the first time, Aaron Sorkin shows in the hard-driving legal thriller/personality profile “Molly’s Game” that, as a director, he’s a great screenwriter.Sorkin tells the true story of Molly Bloom, played with incisive wit and fierce power by Jessica Chastain. Bloom had a promising career as a pro skier, an Olympic berth in her grasp, when she was injured in a freak accident on the moguls. She worked office jobs in Los Angeles after that, until one
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz-San Antonio Spurs: Hood is good, the win is better

  22-12-2017 19:58 via sportspyder.com
  ...after Gregg Popovich’s team outscored the Jazz by 10 in the third quarter and looked to be wresting control of the contest. ...
  
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• Kirby: Keep your Christmas traditions to yourself, but don’t be offended if others push theirs onto you

  22-12-2017 19:21
  Christmas traditions are important. In fact, that’s all Christmas is — tradition. Lots and lots of tradition. Tradition to the point of mindlessness.Shopping, church, credit cards, crowds, parking, cursing, caroling, drinking, lights, gift-wrapping, trees, relatives — and those are only a few of the less-onerous ones.Yes, it’s a tradition even if you just lock the door until well into January, or yell snotty responses at people who casually wish you “merry Christmas
  
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• Meet the 2017 All-Tribune football team's offense

  22-12-2017 19:12
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• Meet the 2017 All-Tribune football team’s defense

  22-12-2017 19:09
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• Levelheaded Lehi QB Cammon Cooper rewrote state record book in season worthy of Tribune Player of the Year honor

  22-12-2017 19:02
  As Cammon Cooper’s teammates raced across the field to thank their fans, the Lehi High School quarterback was swarmed by reporters.As one scrum disintegrated, another formed. It wasn’t until he stepped on the bus that Cooper was able to soak in the Class 5A state championship victory with his teammates.“That was really special,” he said. “We had a police escort through like all of Lehi, and people were coming out of their houses and stuff, waving at us, and honking
  
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• Letter: It is up to us to verify what our ‘representatives’ are saying

  22-12-2017 19:02
  Recently a “representative” was in town taking away some land from us purportedly to create jobs and help our economy. He had joined another “representative” recently to take away tax breaks from students and others who are not corporations, presumably to create jobs and help our economy.What I would like to point out here is just because a “representative” says something doesn’t mean it is necessarily true, and that it is up to us, the people, to verify
  
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• Poll: Most say sex misconduct victims are underprotected

  22-12-2017 19:00
  Washington • Most Americans say sexual misconduct is a major problem and that too little is being done to protect victims, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. But some — particularly Republican men — are concerned about the rights of the accused.The sheer speed with which an accusation of sexual misconduct can sink a career rattles some men, and not just Republicans. Bart Cassida, a 40-year-old Democrat from Indiana, said he t
  
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• 2017 prep football all-state teams

  22-12-2017 19:00
  The Class 1A and Class 2A football coaches provided their all-state lists to The Tribune. The TribPreps staff invited all the football coaches in Class 3A, Class 4A, Class 5A and Class 6A to vote for players in their team’s classification. Those teams are the results of that balloting.Class 6AFirst teamQB • Bronson Barron, Sr., American ForkRB • Sese Felila, Sr., KearnsRB • Mosese Sonasi, Jr., GrangerWR • Brayden Cosper, Sr., BinghamWR • Chase Roberts, Jr., America
  
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• Utes have tried to build a legacy in the Lone Star State under Kyle Whittingham

  22-12-2017 18:59
  You’re not likely to spot Utah coach Kyle Whittingham traipsing around Utah’s football complex sporting a 10-gallon hat or in cowboy boots with spurs, but he does hold a great appreciation for the state of Texas.The Utes will play West Virginia in the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl on Tuesday in the Cotton Bowl, approximately 1,240 miles from Salt Lake City, but the Lone Star State is hardly unfamiliar territory.“When I became the head coach, I knew how fertile that area wa
  
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• Letter: Monument reductions an affront to all Americans

  22-12-2017 18:59
  President Trump has reduced Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments (BENM and GSENM) by 85 percent and 50 percent, respectively, disregarding the opinion of the majority of American people, including Utahns and Native Americans, who believe these monuments should be preserved as originally established.There is nothing more uniquely American or democratic than our public lands, which are open for all people’s enjoyment. To ensure our spectacular cultural and natural reso
  
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• Letter: Trump brings fearmongering, irony to Alabama election

  22-12-2017 18:57
  Donald Trump’s recent inflammatory, untrue tweets use appeals of fear to rouse Roy Moore voters in Alabama and to disparage Doug Jones. Ironies abound.Trump says Jones wants to raise taxes to the sky. In reality, Trump supports the tax reform bill that would raise taxes for middle tax families in a few years but give massive permanent tax breaks to corporations. The resulting deficit increase would trigger cuts to most domestic programs — including defense and vets — which Trum
  
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• 🗣️REMINDER: Our next two home games will start at 6PM MT ⏰ @okcthunder | 12/23/17 @cavs | 12/30/17 Doors open at… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-12-2017 18:57 via twitter.com
  🗣️REMINDER: Our next two home games will start at 6PM MT ⏰@okcthunder | 12/23/17 @cavs | 12/30/17Doors open at… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Utah Jazz-San Antonio Spurs: Hood is good, the win is better

  22-12-2017 18:26
  Rodney Hood and the Utah Jazz righted the ship in their return to Vivint Arena, outlasting the San Antonio Spurs at home. When the Utah Jazz and San Antonio Spurs battled on Thursday, it was a war of attrition on the hardwood. The Jazz were on the wrong end of a back-to-back and playing in […]
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• Federal judge adopts new voting district boundaries in San Juan County

  22-12-2017 18:06
  A federal court judge has adopted new voting district boundaries in San Juan County which reverse the historic political domination by whites over Navajos there.U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby on Thursday issued a ruling that gives Navajos a significant majority of voters in two of three commission districts and three of five school board districts.According to the new boundaries, County Commission District 1 will have an American Indian population of 11.1 percent; District 2 will have an Amer
  
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• [NBA] - The Roundup—Jazz 100, Spurs 89

  22-12-2017 17:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... r-2), Burks (2-for-3) and Ingles (2-for-3) each made multiple threes for the Jazz. Coach's Quote of the Night "Fatigue is something that everybody deals with. ...
  
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• The Roundup—Jazz 100, Spurs 89 🙌 👉: on.nba.com/2l1Mrkm #SASatUTA https://t.co/pkfn30TzW3

  22-12-2017 17:31 via twitter.com
  
  The Roundup—Jazz 100, Spurs 89 🙌👉: on.nba.com/2l1Mrkm#SASatUTA https://t.co/pkfn30TzW3
  
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• Trump signs sweeping tax bill into law

  22-12-2017 17:19
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Friday signed the most significant overhaul of the U.S. tax code in 30 years, delivering on a pledge to finish work on the long-standing Republican priority by Christmas.Trump signed the $1.5 trillion measure in the Oval Office shortly before he was scheduled to head to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for the holidays.The measure is the most significant legislative accomplishment for Trump in his first tumultuous year in office. Passed with only Repub
  
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• Corner Canyon star QB Zach Wilson signs with BYU

  22-12-2017 17:18
  Draper • It seemed like a solid plan for Corner Canyon quarterback Zach Wilson when his senior season started.With a verbal commitment to Boise State, Wilson would graduate early from high school in December, then enroll at the university in January and get a head start on his Broncos career.But the plan showed signs of cracking when more offers started arriving, and it was the interest of BYU that tilted the scales. Wilson decommitted from Boise State last week, reopened the recruiting pro
  
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• Deadline coming up for Utah's limited-entry wild turkey hunt

  22-12-2017 17:15
  The deadline for applying for the limited-entry wild turkey hunt in Utah this spring is 11 p.m. on Dec. 27 . Hunters can apply at wildlife.utah.gov.There are 550 permits in northern Utah, 400 in central Utah, 325 in the northeastern part of the state, 450 in southeastern Utah and 1,980 in southern Utah available for the April hunt.“I think we’ll have a good turkey hunt in Utah next spring,” says Jason Robinson, upland game coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources. &ld
  
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• Man dies in Taylorsville house fire

  22-12-2017 17:11
  A man died early Friday in a fire that destroyed a home in Taylorsville.Crews were called to the home, near 3700 West and Valley Heights Drive (about 5000 South), about 2:15 a.m., Unified Fire Authority spokesman Eric Holmes said. When they arrived, firefighters saw the house and a vehicle were on fire.Medics treated a man who was found injured in the fire, but he died, Holmes said. His name has not been released.Investigators aren’t sure how the fire began or if it started in the home and
  
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• George Pyle: Yes, Virginia. The gift that keeps on giving

  22-12-2017 17:06
  It is the gift that many newspaper editors give themselves, and some of their writers, just about every year.We need one less thing to worry about during a season of staff days off, moved-up deadlines and readers who are are in no mood to read serious commentary on weighty matters of public affairs — if they are interested in reading anything at all. So it has become a ritual at this and many other American newspapers to reprint, on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, an editorial in praise of
  
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• Catherine Rampell: You own this tax bill, Republicans. Good luck.

  22-12-2017 16:58
  Washington • If a tax falls in a forest and no one notices, does it make a sound?That’s no idle existential musing. The answer may determine whether President Trump’s tax plan ever becomes non-toxic to the Republican Party.Right now the public hates, hates, hates the tax bill. It’s less popular than any major piece of legislation of the past several decades, less popular even than tax hikes passed under Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. Only about a third of Am
  
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• Bronco Mendenhall horses around with recruits; fun footage of ’64 Utah-West Virginia game; goalie goal!

  22-12-2017 16:22
  No horsing around, Bronco Mendenhall has a unique way to try to corral recruits.Truth be told, there literally is some horsing around.For the second year in a row at Virginia, the football coach showed his relationship with horses goes deeper than simply having an equestrian-friendly first name.Mendenhall took recruits on a horse ride during their recruiting trip to Charlottesville.https://twitter.com/UVa_Football/status/943624100047499264During his first go-around with the Cavaliers, Mendenhall
  
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• Kragthorpe: After beating the Spurs, how much more can the Jazz salvage from December?

  22-12-2017 16:07
  San Antonio was surging again and, after the Jazz led for most of Thursday night’s game, everyone in Vivint Smart Home Arena expected them to keep fading in the fourth quarter.Well, I did, anyway. Tony Parker hit a jump shot to cut the Jazz’s lead to 82-81 with 7:20 remaining, and I was prepared to deliver the next update: “Spurs’ first lead since it was 14-13.”You know what they say: The best tweets are the ones you never send.The Spurs never did retake the lead, t
  
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• Letter: Stop labeling and consider alternative explanations

  22-12-2017 16:03
  It seems that the Public Forum and life in general are currently filled with “I’m right, you’re wrong.”This behavior cements an us/them, argumentative environment.When we realize if we were raised like the other person with a different view and had their same life experiences, we would be doing/saying the very thing that is causing us so much consternation.Stop labeling people liberal or conservative.Labels set up expectations and conjure solid images without providing th
  
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• Letter: So, what's a gay baker to do?

  22-12-2017 16:02
  I am so confused: If it’s OK or not OK for a straight baker to make or not to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, is it OK or not OK for a gay baker to make or not to make a wedding cake for a straight couple?Darlene Alley, Bountiful
  
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• Keeping up with the Kims: The Utah blogger who watches North Korea's elite

  22-12-2017 15:48
  North Korea's leadership might just be the toughest intelligence nut to crack.Kim Jong Un hasn't traveled outside the country since becoming its leader at the end of 2011. In those six years, he's met only a handful of outsiders. They include the usual cast of communist-linked characters — Chinese, Cubans, Syrians — as well as the less-expected delegations led by American former basketball star Dennis Rodman.Otherwise, there's no human intelligence on Kim and his cronies. Just state
  
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• Six acquitted in inaugural-day protest

  22-12-2017 15:32
  Washington • The first six people to face trial in Inauguration Day protests that turned destructive in the nation’s capital were acquitted of all charges, a victory not only for the defendants but also for advocates who argued the government overreached in its effort to prosecute more than 200 people arrested as they marched through the city.Following a nearly four-week trial and two full days of deliberations, a District of Columbia Superior Court jury delivered not-guilty verdicts
  
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• Obamacare enrollment for 2018 stays strong in Utah, despite shortened enrollment period

  22-12-2017 15:25
  Some 195,000 Utahns signed up for health insurance under Obamacare for 2018 — nearly matching last year’s number, when the enrollment period was twice as long, the Trump administration reported Thursday.About 130,000 people were expected to be covered in 2018 by Intermountain Healthcare SelectHealth, while University of Utah Health Plans signed up 25,000 in the six-week open enrollment period that ended Dec. 15, the insurers told The Salt Lake Tribune.It was unclear Thursday why the
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: How can we say no to the many people who want to see us while we’re in town for the holidays?

  22-12-2017 15:25
  Dear Ann Cannon • My little family and I are returning to Salt Lake for a visit this Christmas and wow! It suddenly seems like we are celebrities, because everyone wants us at their event. This makes for an exhausting holiday season. How do we graciously decline the many overlapping invitations? Also, everyone starts their event at 7 p.m. Do they forget that kids have to go to bed?— Home for the HolidaysDear Home for the Holidays • First thing — WELCOME BACK!Second thing &m
  
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• [Jazz Fanatical] - Utah Jazz vs. San Antonio Spurs: Opponent Game Thread Highlights

  22-12-2017 14:13 via sportspyder.com
  ... albullshit Are the Jazz shooting 99% from the 3 point line? joserizal1 Is it me or these Jazz dancer ...
  
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