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• At it again 🤣 #NBAVote https://t.co/pKMRn0v4WE

  28-12-2017 23:41 via twitter.com
  
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• Charity donations likely to drop next year due to tax law

  28-12-2017 23:32
  Washington • In this season of giving, charity seems to be getting an extra jolt because next year the popular tax deduction for donations will lose a lot of its punch.Traditionally generous Americans may have less incentive to give to charitable causes next year because of the newly minted tax law. The changes that will make it less advantageous for many people to donate to charity in 2018 may be sparking a year-end stream of fattened contributions in anticipation, charity executives and e
  
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• A family is suing Utah funeral home over mother’s missing remains

  28-12-2017 23:28
  On a January day last year, Chris Razmic went to a Provo funeral home to pick up her deceased mother’s cremated remains.It had been 18 days since Darla Razmic had passed away, and more than two weeks since the woman’s body had been taken to Walker Sanderson Funeral Home to be cremated.But when her daughter went to the funeral home, she was told her mother’s remains weren’t there.She was told someone else — maybe another family member — had picked them up, but
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Guidelines for news-watching while staying sane in 2018

  28-12-2017 23:06
  For political-watchers, news media, political operatives, candidates and officials, 2017 was — let’s be honest — exhausting.The constant churn of news, the unending assaults on our sense of decency and expectations for government officials, the carousel of White House advisers (“according to Kathryn Dunn-Tenpas, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has tracked White House turnover rates over three decades, the Trump administration’s 34% turnover rate &md
  
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• The Jazz have given Donovan Mitchell freedom to make mistakes, and he’s rewarded them

  28-12-2017 22:58
  Nobody in Utah needed DeMarcus Cousins to say the Jazz had a star on their hands.Fans knew before LeBron James had an aside with him postgame, and they knew before Carmelo Anthony said that “something special” was happening in Utah.Donovan Mitchell, the center of their attention, has a way of announcing his own potential, from his highlight-reel dunks, which happen at least once a game, to flexing his scoring muscle for 41 points against the Pelicans earlier this season. No one needs
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Jazz have given Donovan Mitchell freedom to make mistakes, and he’s rewarded them

  28-12-2017 22:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... and he always appreciates seeing him sitting with Bryant reviewing film. The Jazz give him things to look at. It’s his job to improve. “There’s a lot still I...
  
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• Teenagers take out street signs, fire hydrant and garage in Midvale crash

  28-12-2017 22:39
  A 17-year-old is in custody and police are looking for a 14-year-old after a late-night crash wrecked a Midvale garage on Wednesday. The two teenage boys were driving separate cars north on Monroe Street when they lost control near Columbia Street, according to Unified Police Detective Ken Hansen. One of the vehicles hit a fire hydrant, and the other took out a couple of street signs, he said. The car the 14-year-old was driving crashed into a garage at the corner of Columbia and Monroe Street,
  
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• Gehrke: Without question, Orrin Hatch was 2017's most significant Utahn, but here are four choices for the best Utahn of the year

  28-12-2017 22:15
  On behalf of The Tribune, I apologize if we ruined your holidays.To be fair, who really thought so many people’s heads would explode when top editors picked Sen. Orrin Hatch to be “Utahn of the Year.” But sure enough, they did, and scraping brains off the ceiling is no way to spend Christmas.It’s kind of appropriate though, because choosing Hatch was a no-brainer (see what I did there?).The guy was key to rescinding protections for about 2 million acres of Utah’s pr
  
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• Once on the hot seat, Matt Wells has steered Utah State back into a bowl game

  28-12-2017 22:02
  Logan • If his seat wasn’t hot this time last year, it certainly was getting warmer.Matt Wells was coming off his worst season as coach of Utah State University’s football team. The Aggies went 3-9 and missed out on a bowl game for the first time since 2010. And plenty wondered if Wells’ time in Logan was nearing its end.A year later, with USU back in the postseason, Wells is the one providing the heat.“Are we there? No. Are we closer? Yes. Am I pretty fired up going
  
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• Rolly: Two historic Salt Lake City churches fear new alcohol law puts them in development crosshairs

  28-12-2017 21:52
  One irony from the 2017 legislative session is that the mostly teetotaling, Mormon lawmakers made it easier for restaurants to sell liquor near churches, which is having a direct impact on two houses of worship in downtown Salt Lake City.The Legislature typically leans toward restricting the sale and consumption of alcohol (note the 0.05 legal blood alcohol limit) rather than easing requirements.But because of HB442, the Japanese Church of Christ and the Salt Lake Buddhist Temple west of the Sal
  
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• Universities face #MeToo movement over sexual harassment

  28-12-2017 21:51
  Washington • When Celeste Kidd was a graduate student of neuroscience at the University of Rochester she says a professor supervising her made her life unbearable by stalking her, making demeaning comments about her weight and talking about sex.Ten years on and now a professor of neuroscience at the university, Kidd is taking legal action. She has filed a federal lawsuit against the school alleging that it mishandled its sexual harassment investigation into the professor’s actions and
  
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• Does bill push self-reliance and prevent creeping socialism, or is it an attack on Utah’s new legal immigrants?

  28-12-2017 21:41
  State Sen. Allen Christensen, R-North Ogden, says he’s just trying to encourage self-reliance and curb creeping “socialism.” Critics say he’s attempting a mean-spirited attack against new legal immigrants, who are mostly Latino.Christensen, the Senate chairman of the Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee, is proposing to reinstate a longtime requirement that new legal immigrants wait five years before they could qualify for Medicaid or the Children’s Health In
  
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• Indiana legislator pushes bill requiring Colts to refund money to fans offended by national anthem protests

  28-12-2017 21:26
  As national anthem demonstrations swept across NFL stadiums this fall, Indianapolis became the scene of one of the highest-profile responses when Vice President Mike Pence and his wife walked out at the direction of President Donald Trump after San Francisco 49ers players staged their protest.Now an Indiana lawmaker wants to make sure that any Colts fans who were offended by the demonstrations, which began in the summer of 2016 when Colin Kaepernick took a knee to raise awareness of social injus
  
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• Kathy Griffin’s punishment didn't fit her ‘crime’ — and CNN should have rehired her for New Year’s Eve show

  28-12-2017 21:05
  For a decade, TV’s most watchable show on Dec. 31 has been “New Year’s Eve Live” on CNN — because of Kathy Griffin.Funny, bawdy and over-the-top, Griffin bedeviled Anderson Cooper, with whom she formed an unlikely comedy team. She would do goofy, off-color things to embarrass him, and his embarrassment was highly entertaining.But that’s not going to happen this year. CNN fired Griffin because of an ill-considered, unfunny sight gag. The infamous image, staged
  
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• Secret deal leads to dismissal of criminal charges for former South Weber City councilman accused of embezzlement

  28-12-2017 21:01
  More than three years ago, then-South Weber City councilman William Michael Poff was charged with embezzling more than $200,000 from a Bountiful assisted living facility.But Poff resolved the case this month by entering into an unusual secret diversion agreement — an agreement that is not public, but which led to the dismissal of three charges of second-degree felony communications fraud, each count punishable by up to 15 years in prison.Poff, now 44, was accused of stealing money from Wel
  
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• Utes will be short-handed as they open Pac-12 men's basketball play in the Northwest

  28-12-2017 20:26
  The Utes head to Oregon this weekend with intentions of breaking the trend they’ve seen develop during their nonconference road games. It also wouldn’t hurt if they got a few more healthy bodies in uniform.The script for Utah in enemy territory has gone like this: At some point during a competitive, tightly contested game the Utes help fuel a game-changing run by their hosts by committing a succession of ill-timed turnovers and falling victim to momentary lapses in defense and/or reb
  
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• Democrat Jones officially declared winner over Roy Moore

  28-12-2017 20:20
  Montgomery, Ala. • Democrat Doug Jones’ historic victory over Republican Roy Moore was declared official Thursday as Alabama election officials certified him the winner of the special Senate election earlier this month, despite claims of voter irregularities from his opponent.Jones defeated Moore on Dec. 12 by about 22,000 votes in a stunning victory in a deeply red state. It was the first Democratic Senate victory in a quarter-century in Alabama. Moore was dogged by accusations of se
  
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• If you’re in need of New Year’s Eve plans, SLC band SuperBubble is ‘very serious about fun’

  28-12-2017 20:00
  In the event you haven’t yet settled on something to do for New Year’s Eve, Brandon Barker has a humble-if-slightly-biased suggestion.Salt Lake City-based band SuperBubble is headlining the “Happy Funkn’ New Years” show on Sunday night at The Royal in Salt Lake City.“We all just wanna play hard, and make it stinky, and make people dance, and throw a party,” said Barker, the group’s bassist, vocalist and co-founder.If a funky, hard, stinky dance par
  
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• Judge rejects Roy Moore’s suit in Alabama Senate race

  28-12-2017 19:55
  Montgomery, Ala. • Alabama Democrat Doug Jones on Thursday will be officially declared the winner of a U.S. Senate race after a judge rejected Republican Roy Moore’s last-ditch effort to stop the certification of Jones’ historic upset in a deep-red state.Montgomery Circuit Judge Johnny Hardwick denied Moore’s request for a restraining order to stop Alabama’s canvassing board from certifying Jones’ victory on Thursday.Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill said
  
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• Kragthorpe: One-year absence makes the Aggies appreciate being back in a bowl

  28-12-2017 19:53
  Tucson, Ariz.New Mexico State broke college football’s longest postseason drought by winning six games and qualifying for the Arizona Bowl, 57 years after meeting Merlin Olsen’s Utah State team.One year away seemed long enough for USU.Both groups of Aggies appreciate Friday’s opportunity — even the team that played in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl only two years ago. The bowl game is “a privilege that we take seriously,” USU running back LaJuan Hunt said.USU is
  
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• ‘Game of Thrones’ detractors are wrong — it’s the best show on TV

  28-12-2017 19:24
  I have two words for everyone and anyone who has expended energy criticizing Season 7 of “Game of Thrones.”Shut up.There is no show like it anywhere on TV. The size, the scope and the sheer epic nature of it are nothing short of amazing.It remains the best show on TV. The show with which I am completely obsessed. The one show where I can’t wait to see what happens next.Like the George R.R. Martin novels on which it is based, “Game of Thrones” is one giant narrative
  
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• Christmas liquor sales in Utah break records, with brisk business expected as New Year’s holiday nears

  28-12-2017 18:45
  Utah had its best sales day ever on the Friday before Christmas, selling $3.78 million in wine, heavy beer and spirits, numbers from the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control show.That single-day sales figure beat the previous record set Dec. 23, 2016. On that day, $3.73 million in liquor was sold in the state.Sales actually lagged behind earlier in the week, DABC spokesman Terry Wood said. “But when the snow came, sales picked up at the Park City stores and the store in Cottonwood
  
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• Life is finally looking a little brighter for the Utah mother and her daughters evicted last year from homeless housing program

  28-12-2017 18:38
  The new year looks a little brighter for Kimberly Gross and her two daughters.Last year at this time they were being evicted from a Taylorsville duplex — a rental they found through Rapid Rehousing, a federal program administered here by The Road Home. It offers a deposit and three months’ rent.Now, Kimberly, 47, Petrina, 15, and Destiny Westman, 11, are living in an apartment at Palmer Court in Salt Lake City in what is called permanent supportive housing. They can stay as long as t
  
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• Man suspected of Utah freeway shootout believed God would help him kill a police officer

  28-12-2017 18:18
  A man who shot at Utah County police while driving on Interstate 15 last week later told police that had he gotten the opportunity, he would have killed a police officer.He also told police he believed “God would have put that police officer in [his] path to kill him,” according to newly released court documents.Arturo Ray Gallemore-Jimenez, 37, had made a mental list of 13 people he was going to kill and was prepared to shoot police officers to avoid going to jail, he said in an int
  
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• "We're jammin', we're jammin' and I hope you like jammin' too!" 🎶 https://t.co/wNylt4MFY8

  28-12-2017 18:17 via twitter.com
  
  "We're jammin', we're jammin' and I hope you like jammin' too!" 🎶 https://t.co/wNylt4MFY8
  
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• The top 10 movies of 2017: Wonder Woman’s triumph, one man’s nightmare and more

  28-12-2017 18:16
  Sometimes 2017 felt like something out of “The Twilight Zone,” where one couldn’t believe the weird thing that was happening next.“The Twilight Zone,” as the show’s creator and narrator Rod Serling intoned, was “the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.” Sounds like 2017 in a nutshell.Sometimes it took a trip to the movies to make s
  
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• Man suspected of Utah freeway shootout believed God would have made possible his attempt to kill a police officer

  28-12-2017 17:18
  A man who shot at Utah County police while driving on Interstate 15 last week later told police that had he gotten the opportunity, he would have killed a police officer.He also told police he believed “God would have put that police officer in [his] path to kill him,” according to newly released court documents.Arturo Ray Gallemore-Jimenez, 37, had made a mental list of 13 people he was going to kill and was prepared to shoot police officers to avoid going to jail, he said in an int
  
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• Letter: A national park within Grand-Staircase is an ill-advised idea

  28-12-2017 17:17
  Rep. Chris Stewart’s two recent proposals deserve our attention. In the first, he suggests that half the royalties from natural resource extraction be funneled to the National Park Service to help cover infrastructure improvements. This elegant solution, land used for practical purposes supporting land used for enjoyment, deserves our support.But Stewart’s second idea, to create a national park within one area of Grand Staircase-Escalante, is worrisome and confusing. Monument propone
  
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• Letter: Two pictures contrast the effect of the stroke of a rich man’s pen

  28-12-2017 17:10
  The photos greeting us on Dec. 5, under the bold headline “Monuments Men,” presented a sad and extraordinarily accurate image of our beloved state’s moral political decline.Above the fold, we got the smiling Utah delegation, including a worshipful, fawning Orrin Hatch, bowing before the foul-mouthed, dishonest, immoral, racist Donald Trump, who cares for nothing but his riches and himself.Below, in tears, was Renie Medina, a Puebloan Laguna tribe member, whose rights had just b
  
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• Letter: An apple's only an apple until the liberals say it isn't

  28-12-2017 17:06
  I am certain that many people have seen the ad on CNN. The one that initially shows an apple sitting there harmlessly. The sullen melodic voice comes on and tells you that this is an apple. It further confirms that it was always an apple and will always be an apple. They also tell you that there are others that may tell you that it is a banana, but it will always be an apple. The ad then morphs into one with chattering teeth that is supposed to infer that there are those that are trying to chang
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: 'Kuzmania' continues to grow; Donovan Mitchell featured by more national publications

  28-12-2017 16:55 via sportspyder.com
  ...exact same time. In the past few days, two such instances have been part of Jazz games. First, San Antonio Spurs veterans Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili had a ...
  
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• Morning links: 'Kuzmania' continues to grow; Donovan Mitchell featured by more national publications

  28-12-2017 16:50
  Former University of Utah forward Kyle Kuzma's star has continued to rise in his rookie season for the Los Angeles Lakers, as evidenced by the attention he is receiving from a variety of notable sources.Here are some of the people and publications that have heaped praise on him over the past few days, leading to what has been officially dubbed on T-shirts as "Kuzmania."Kobe Bryant tweets about Kuzma, who then tweeted a letter to Bryant to honor him for getting jerseys retired. Golden State Warri
  
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• Washington’s new Bible museum talks a lot about Jews. So why are some Jews so skeptical?

  28-12-2017 16:28
  Funded and founded by evangelicals, the new Museum of the Bible sticks out for something its leaders clearly wanted to emphasize: Jews.The eight-story, cutting-edge $500 million institution, which opened last month and is already one of the world’s largest Bible museums, devotes more space to stories of the Hebrew Bible (Jewish texts) than to the New Testament (the part of the Christian canon featuring Jesus and his teachings), highlights a special permanent exhibit on Israeli antiquities,
  
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• Letter: Tax bill puts lie to GOP's states' rights rhetoric

  28-12-2017 16:08
  Our federal government has never taxed its citizens on the earnings they have already paid to their state governments as taxes. This allows each state to be an independent laboratory of democracy. Each state can decide for itself how much to tax and spend on such things as police, roads, schools and social services.The Republican Party has long claimed to be a supporter of states’ rights. Why, then, does the proposed tax bill eliminate the deduction for state and local taxes? How can a par
  
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• Letter: Leave national monuments be — it's the only respectful course of action

  28-12-2017 16:05
  How do you think Sen. Orrin Hatch, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, or Rep. Rob Bishop would feel if someone running heavy equipment ripped their ancestors’ remains from the ground for the minerals that may or may not be beneath them or because a collector would pay for the items buried with them?How about if the disinterment occurred on a piece of land located in a church yard or a location many view as a sacred place and that land had been taken from their ancestors by threat of force and
  
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• Letter: Looking for honest, moral individuals? Skip the politicians

  28-12-2017 16:02
  I would suggest to Diogenes in his quest to find and honest and moral individual, that he skip politicians. As a group, politicians are an amoral bunch dedicated to campaign money and holding their jobs regardless of morality and truthfulness.Richard Muranaka, Murray
  
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• An Amazon’s triumph, one man’s nightmare and more: The top 10 movies of 2017

  28-12-2017 15:47
  Sometimes 2017 felt like something out of “The Twilight Zone,” where one couldn’t believe the weird thing that was happening next.“The Twilight Zone,” as the show’s creator and narrator Rod Serling intoned, was “the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.” Sounds like 2017 in a nutshell.Sometimes it took a trip to the movies to make s
  
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• Feds optimistic Utah's history of failing to meet air quality rules is coming to an end, new EPA boss says

  28-12-2017 15:46
  Air quality remains far and away the most worrying environmental issue Utah faces, says a newly appointed administrator with the Environmental Protection Agency. But he is voicing optimism those pollution problems can be fixed.
  “When you talk about Utah, the issue you need to focus on immediately is air,” said Doug Benevento, who will oversee the EPA’s Region 8 operations in the Beehive State, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas.
  Utah, of course, has a long, sordid histo
  
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• Could you manage with only 33 items in your closet? A Utah blogger says you’ll have a healthier bank account and happier life if you do

  28-12-2017 15:45
  After paring down her wardrobe to just 33 pieces of clothing, Salt Lake City resident and well-known minimalist Courtney Carver had a revelation.“I realized nobody cares what I’m wearing,” she said. “I got more compliments when I dressed with fewer items.”It was an unexpected bonus of Project 333, her minimalist fashion challenge where she dressed with just 33 items for three months. The 33 items include all clothing, accessories, jewelry, outerwear and shoes. Weddi
  
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• Kirby: What the hell is Boxing Day and how do you celebrate it?

  28-12-2017 15:44
  Tuesday, the day after Christmas, is Boxing Day. My Canadian wife lamented that it was not a holiday observed in the United States. It’s a perfect day to recover from Christmas.Boxing Day is celebrated in the United Kingdom and Ireland, two countries with old traditions, not the least of which includes chopping the heads off important but tiresome people, or the still-celebrated Guy Fawkes Day.On Nov. 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes and some others were foiled in their attempt to set off an enormous l
  
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• Life looks a little brighter for Kimberly Gross and her daughters

  28-12-2017 15:43
  The new year looks a little brighter for Kimberly Gross and her two daughters.Last year at this time they were being evicted from a Taylorsville duplex — a rental they found through Rapid Rehousing, a federal program administered here by The Road Home. It offers a deposit and three months’ rent.Now, Kimberly, 47, Petrina, 15, and Destiny Westman, 11, are living in an apartment at Palmer Court in Salt Lake City in what is called permanent supportive housing. They can stay as long as t
  
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• Monson: For Utah’s Kyle Whittingham, bowl season is the most wonderful time of the year

  28-12-2017 15:42
  Advocates can blow it up bigger than it is. Critics can pick at it, making it smaller than it should be.When it comes to Kyle Whittingham’s bowl record, it’s easier to edge toward the former, not the latter. Plainly put, in the college football postseason, the man knows how to grab victory by the throat with his bare hands and thrash it around to complete acquiescence. No matter how rough the going gets for his team in October or November, everything smooths out in December.If Whitti
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: How to make GOP candidates squirm in 2018

  28-12-2017 15:38
  By early March, we will already be in the midst of midterm primary races. Republican incumbents who tried to minimize their public interactions with large groups of constituents for fear of being verbally mauled by voters irate over their positions on health care or taxes or over their cheerleading for President Donald Trump will have no choice but to come out of hiding. Sen. Susan Collins, for instance, is not even on the ballot in 2018, but if the protests at her Maine offices are any indicati
  
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• Utah in 2017: Trump shrinks monuments, shelter cops clamp down, BYU loosens up, Chaffetz quits, Swallow is cleared, ‘Zion Curtain’ falls, nurse Wubbels rises and more

  28-12-2017 14:34
  The year began with Donald Trump taking up the presidency and ended with him whittling down two national monuments.In between, law enforcers tightened their grip around Salt Lake City’s homeless shelter and Honor Code enforcers loosened theirs at Brigham Young University. A media-savvy congressman left, and a dynamic Catholic bishop arrived. Jurors cleared a former attorney general in a monthlong trial, while flames cleared tens of thousands of acres in a four-week fire. The “Zion Cu
  
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• [KSL] - The Triple Team: Warriors' 3rd quarter run ends Jazz hopes

  28-12-2017 09:26 via sportspyder.com
  ... d his contract for the same amount next year is actually not guaranteed. The Jazz can waive him before July 1 if they choose to. Obviously, given his good pla ...
  
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• [Jazz Fanatical] - Utah Jazz at Golden State Warriors: Opponent Game Thread Highlights

  28-12-2017 09:24 via sportspyder.com
  ... ata510 since when did the Jazz start playing fast? Jabbajaw Damn. Ricky Rubio looks like Happy Gilmore’s Ca ...
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Warriors’s Huge Second Half Downs Utah 101 -126

  28-12-2017 09:13 via sportspyder.com
  ... utes with five points, three rebounds, and two assists. That he was the only Jazz player with a positive plus-minus at plus-eight means little though. Stats o ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz put up a fight but fall to Warriors in 2nd half

  28-12-2017 08:26 via sportspyder.com
  ...even fair, and they didn’t even have Steph Curry. For much of the game, the Jazz were relegated to isolation basketball. It’s hard to be disappointed by this ...
  
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• [ESPN] - Warriors continue winning ways even without Steph

  28-12-2017 08:26 via sportspyder.com
  ... ut Jordan Bell recovers and sets up Patrick McCaw for a one-handed slam. The Jazz paid too much attention to Durant and often fell asleep on the role players. ...
  
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• [Standard-Examiner] - Warriors bury Jazz with big third quarter, win 126-101

  28-12-2017 08:14 via sportspyder.com
  ... se career record with his 20th triple-double. Patrick McCaw added 18 points. Jazz coach Quin Snyder wasn’t surprised by the way Golden State came out after ha ...
  
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