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• Former Jazz man Quincy Lewis will be joining us for a Twitter Q&A tonight at 6:45 pm. Get us your questions with t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-01-2018 23:44 via twitter.com
  Former Jazz man Quincy Lewis will be joining us for a Twitter Q&A tonight at 6:45 pm.Get us your questions with t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Utah women leave Tempe with 'signature win' over Arizona State

  19-01-2018 23:38
  Tempe, Ariz. • Lynne Roberts called it a signature win for her program.Whatever you want to call it, Roberts’ Utah women’s basketball team turned the tables on No. 22 Arizona State and left town with a 58-56 win over the Sun Devils.Utah improved to 13-5 overall and 4-3 in Pac-12 play with the victory.
  Utah trailed by 11 late in the third quarter, but after outscoring the Sun Devils 26-13 in the fourth, the Utes walked away with a top-25 win on the road.Five different Utes contri
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Former Utah Jazz point guard George Hill drawing interest from the Cavs

  19-01-2018 23:35 via sportspyder.com
  ...salary requests and injuries, and Hill suddenly fell out of graces with the Jazz and was all but cut loose when Dennis Lindsey and Co. opted to trade for Ric ...
  
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• Former Utah Jazz point guard George Hill drawing interest from the Cavs

  19-01-2018 23:13
  Yahoo Sports’ Shams Charania reported that the Cleveland Cavaliers have expressed interest in former Utah Jazz point guard George Hill. In an extremely odd turn of events, if we’re honest with ourselves, George Hill has managed to become one of the more polarizing figures among Utah Jazz fans. To start out his time in Utah, […]
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• Bagley Cartoon: Party of Personal Responsibility

  19-01-2018 23:13
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>Government Shutdown Showdown<br>Diversity Not for the Birds<br>Trump and the Religious Right<br>Trump Tower<br>Walmart Severance<br>It’s a Hard Knock Life<br>The Never Ending Story<br>Trump Trolls America<br>Alt-Slavery<br>Orrin’s Old Job<br>Want more Bagley? Beco
  
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• Mia Love blasts Trump for striking Haiti, Samoa and Belize from guest worker list

  19-01-2018 23:08
  Just days after she called on the president to apologize for a vulgarity, Utah Rep. Mia Love is criticizing a Trump administration directive this week to remove Haiti, Belize and Samoa from the list of countries eligible for seasonal worker visas.Thursday’s statement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that labels those countries as problematic comes one week after President Donald Trump reportedly referred to Haiti and some nations in Africa as “s---hole countries.&r
  
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• BYU guard Elijah Bryant’s recovery from injury and impressive improvement has made him one of WCC’s best

  19-01-2018 23:05
  Provo • BYU guard Elijah Bryant seriously considered giving up basketball a few times last season. A balky knee that was supposed to have been repaired in the offseason wasn’t responding well to treatment and the transfer from Elon University was having trouble regaining the form that earned him Rookie of the Year honors in the Colonial Athletic Conference. “People don’t realize how difficult that year was on Eli,” coach Dave Rose said. The season ended for Bryant wh
  
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• ‘It was him or me,’ Utah man told police after fatally shooting his friend, according to court testimony

  19-01-2018 23:04
  Layton • In the hours leading up to a fatal shooting, a group of friends had been playing cards and drinking games in a basement apartment. But a fight broke out that ended in a man shooting his friend, believing his, his girlfriend and his baby’s lives were threatened. Robin William Lundin, 29, is accused of shooting 30-year-old Colby Scott Barney in the chest after Lundin’s face was cut with a razor blade during the fight in the early hours of Nov. 5.At a preliminary hearing F
  
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• Why won’t Mitt Romney announce a Senate bid now? He mentions new Mormon prophet and the fuel-tanker fire on I-15

  19-01-2018 22:49
  During his second public appearance this week, Mitt Romney again avoided any mention of a campaign, though he is widely expected to run for the seat held by retiring Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch.But this time, Romney did it with a bit of humor. “You know enough about politics to know that you would never make a critical announcement on the week that the Mormon church just named the new president, when it’s a Friday — of course you only put out bad news on a Friday — and No. 3, w
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - SC7: A 38-Game Season, Trade Season Looms, Mitchell for ROY & More

  19-01-2018 22:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... ert back. It might take more than those two factors to magically convert the Jazz into a 25-13 team, though, so at this point Utah is more likely to watch the ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Return of Gobert?

  19-01-2018 22:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... culture and lifestyle preferences. This or That with Thabo Sefolosha! — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) Seems like he fits the mold of a Jazzman. A simple man with simp ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - NBA Trade Rumor: Could the Utah Jazz land Charlotte Hornets’ Kemba Walker?

  19-01-2018 22:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... theticals outlined above. Which is similar to the first one we pitched. Utah Jazz Hornets get: Guards Rodney Hood and Ricky Rubio, forward Derrick Favors, 201 ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - BREAKING: Rudy Gobert Available for Tonight’s Game

  19-01-2018 22:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... ! More From SLC Dunk Trending Find Tickets Fri Jan 19 New York Knicks @ Utah Jazz 8:30 PM - Vivint Smart Home Arena - Salt Lake City, UT Sat Jan 20 Los Angele ...
  
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• BYU hires Weber State assistant Preston Hadley; longtime defensive coach Steve Kaufusi steps down

  19-01-2018 22:22
  Provo • BYU football coach Kalani Sitake continues to shuffle his coaching staff after last year’s disappointing 4-9 record left the Cougars out of a bowl game for the first time since 2004. Sitake announced Friday that longtime defensive coach Steve Kaufusi is stepping down “to pursue other interests” and will be replaced by Weber State assistant Preston Hadley on the defensive staff. Kaufusi was at BYU for 16 years and most recently coached the linebackers. Hadley, a for
  
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• The NBA's All-Star starters are out. Here's who should be the reserves (Donovan Mitchell not included)

  19-01-2018 22:04
  The NBA announced its All-Star starters Thursday night, as well as the two players — LeBron James and Stephen Curry — who will be the captains tasked with selecting who will be playing on each team. Each of their first four picks will come from the other eight starters announced Thursday night — James Harden, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins, Kyrie Irving, DeMar DeRozan, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Joel Embiid.Seven more players from each conference will be selected
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Jimbo’s Mailbag: An Award for Snyder, Plus DWill and LeBron to Utah

  19-01-2018 21:57 via sportspyder.com
  ...If you were to ask me before the season started, I would’ve said no way the Jazz do this. He didn’t leave on great terms and the fans are still bitter about...
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Jazz C Gobert (leg) returning against Knicks

  19-01-2018 21:55 via sportspyder.com
  ...rolled into the leg. Gobert was upgraded to probable on Thursday before the Jazz made his return official on Friday. (SOCIAL) .@rudygobert27 (https://twitter ...
  
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• Olympian Aly Raisman tells abuser she wishes him to have “a life of suffering”

  19-01-2018 21:33
  Lansing, Mich. • Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman on Friday confronted her former doctor who has pleaded guilty to multiple sexual assaults, warning him that the testimony of the "powerful army" of 140 survivors at his sentencing will haunt him in prison.Roughly 80 of the women and girls whom Larry Nassar abused under the guise of medical treatment have stood before the court during a marathon sentencing hearing that began Tuesday, describing with eloquence and sometimes tears the harm Nas
  
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• Kim and Kanye choose Chicago for their new baby's name

  19-01-2018 21:20
  It's Chicago — where Kanye West was raised — as the name of baby No. 3 with Kim Kardashian West.Mom made the announcement Friday on her app without explanation. Chicago was born Monday, weighing in at 7 pounds, 6 ounces. She joins big sister North and middle brother Saint.Chicago was born Monday via gestational carrier, meaning Kardashian West's fertilized egg was implanted into a surrogate.The rapper and the reality star chose to use a gestational carrier after Kim suffered pregnanc
  
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• Teens in southern Utah posted a racist photo to Instagram on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, sparking outrage across the Internet

  19-01-2018 21:12
  Police investigated after a teenage girl from Hurricane High School appeared in a photo posted Monday to the social media site Instagram that included a racial epithet. The girl, according to a description from KUTV-Channel 2, had X’s over her eyes and had pretended to hang herself. The caption read “Happy national n----- day.”A second teenage girl has since been implicated in the post, though a Hurricane police spokesman hasn’t confirmed what her role was. The post, made
  
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• Can BYU’s Elijah Bryant join the elite 50-40-90 shooting club? Much-improved junior is on the right track

  19-01-2018 21:12
  Provo • BYU basketball fans reveled in delight when former Cougar Kyle Collinsworth set the NCAA record for triple-doubles a few years ago, but current BYU star Elijah Bryant quietly is getting close to an even more rare statistical feat for a basketball player at any level. Bryant, a junior from Gwinett, Ga., who almost gave up basketball last year due to a bothersome knee injury, is on the verge of joining the 50-40-90 club, which also sometimes is called the 180 Shooters Club.It includes
  
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• [KSL] - Rudy Gobert will play Friday against New York

  19-01-2018 21:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... league over the course of a full season. Bringing Gobert back now allows the Jazz to evaluate a number of different rotation questions. Derrick Favors' minute ...
  
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• Crews work to repair damage to I-15 after tanker carrying 10,000 gallons of fuel explodes

  19-01-2018 21:02
  After a tanker hauling 10,000 gallons of fuel exploded on Interstate 15 on Thursday night, crews worked to repair the most heavily travelled freeway in the state in time for the Friday evening commute.Two lanes of southbound I-15 were closed at 7200 South in Midvale on Friday morning and were expected to open up in the afternoon.It’s “nothing short of amazing,” Gleason said, that the road was repaired and reopened so quickly.At midnight Thursday, officials thought it could take
  
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• Fireworks ignite in Mia Love vs. Ben McAdams race over Children’s Health Insurance Program funding fight

  19-01-2018 21:01
  Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams on Friday called on Rep. Mia Love to do more to negotiate in Washington as gridlock moved the country the closest it’s been to a federal government shutdown in more than four years.With Congress at loggerheads over a short-term spending bill that would keep the government open past Friday’s deadline and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in the crossfire, McAdams, a Democrat, said Republican Love isn’t doing enough to find co
  
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• Rich Lowry: Comparing Trump to Stalin is just over-the-top

  19-01-2018 21:00
  It hasn’t been easy recently to make an attack against President Donald Trump that is over-the-top enough to stand out from the run-of-the-mill hysteria, but outgoing Republican Sen. Jeff Flake managed it.In a Senate speech hitting Trump for his broadsides against the press, Flake excoriated the president for using the phrase “enemy of the people.” Per the Arizona senator: “It is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously sp
  
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• Rudy Gobert to return to the floor for the Jazz Friday night against the Knicks

  19-01-2018 20:50
  For the first time in more than a month, Rudy Gobert won’t be wearing one of his custom suits on the Jazz bench. The 7-foot-1 center has been cleared to play Friday night against the New York Knicks, tipping off at 8:30 p.m. And Gobert couldn’t be happier to make his return to the Jazz (18-26) lineup.“Very happy,” he said with a wide smile after Friday morning shootaround. “It’s been tough.”Rudy Gobert talks about his return to action tonight against the
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jazz center Rudy Gobert to return from knee injury against New York Knicks

  19-01-2018 20:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... d we’ve been playing without him for a while so it’s good to have him back,” Jazz coach Quin Snyder said. ...
  
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• Teen driver tried to lose a vehicle pursuing him before he and a dog were shot and killed on Utah's Bangerter Highway, police said

  19-01-2018 20:40
  A teenage driver was shot and killed Thursday night as he drove a van full of his friends around West Valley City.The 15-year-old boy, whose family requested that police not release his identity, was driving south on Bangerter Highway at about 9:45 p.m., when he and his friends were “confronted” by another group traveling in a vehicle near 3500 South, a news release from West Valley City police said.The driver indicated to his friends — all of whom are also in their mid-teens &
  
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• Real Salt Lake trades first-round draft pick to Chicago for allocation cash

  19-01-2018 20:40
  Real Salt Lake left the first two rounds of the 2018 MLS SuperDraft in Philadelphia Friday with $85,000 in general allocation money and Creighton forward Ricky Lopez-Espin.Real Salt Lake, which has relied on its academy to produce young talent, freed up cash for future negotiations by trading the No. 10 overall pick to the Chicago Fire for $85,000 in GAM. “We feel that we got our No. 1 and No. 2 pick already,” RSL coach Mike Petke told MLSsoccer.com. “Aaron Herrera, who we got
  
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• Jazz center Rudy Gobert to return from knee injury against New York Knicks

  19-01-2018 20:34
  SALT LAKE CITY — After Monday’s loss to Indiana, Utah Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell addressed the media while sitting in his locker room next to injured center Rudy Gobert.One of the questions asked was, “What is missing from this team defensively?”“This guy for starters,” Mitchell said, pointing to Gobert.But that’s about to change as the 7-foot-1, Frenchman is set to make his return in front of a national ESPN audience at 8:30 p.m. tonight against the N
  
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• Joe Ingles Shootaround Interview - 1.19.18 🎙️📽️: on.nba.com/2riX7kK #NYKatUTA https://t.co/L3ohlDJCxc

  19-01-2018 20:31 via twitter.com
  
  Joe Ingles Shootaround Interview - 1.19.18🎙️📽️: on.nba.com/2riX7kK#NYKatUTA https://t.co/L3ohlDJCxc
  
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• Head Coach Quin Snyder Shootaround Interview - 1.19.18 🎙️📽️: on.nba.com/2mULpHQ #NYKatUTA https://t.co/Gzxgl2b7Pt

  19-01-2018 20:24 via twitter.com
  
  Head Coach Quin Snyder Shootaround Interview - 1.19.18🎙️📽️: on.nba.com/2mULpHQ#NYKatUTA https://t.co/Gzxgl2b7Pt
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Historian discusses the new LDS leadership and the question everyone is buzzing about: ‘What about women?’

  19-01-2018 20:23
  “What about women?”That question, posed to new Mormon church President Russell M. Nelson, reverberated long after this week’s news conference introducing the new LDS leadership.In the latest edition of “Mormon Land,” we examine the new First Presidency’s answers — which set off a debate inside and outside of the faith that continues to this day — with LDS historian Ardis Parshall.Listen here:
  
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• Sexual abuse case against Mormon church begins in West Virginia

  19-01-2018 20:08
  Michael Jensen preyed on children in the close-knit Mormon community around Martinsburg, West Virginia. At least, that's how law enforcement officials and at least half a dozen families see it now.But for years, Jensen was a trusted member of the local church community, a young man whom Mormon leaders praised as a role model for youths — and recommended as a babysitter for one child after another, even as reports allegedly came back to some church volunteers that Jensen was sexually abusin
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Rudy Gobert to Be Activated vs. Knicks After Knee Injury

  19-01-2018 20:07 via sportspyder.com
  ... was putting up 11.6 points, 9.6 rebounds and 2.3 rejections per contest. The Jazz have struggled mightily during Gobert's absence, posting a record of 4-11. U ...
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Rudy Gobert, D’Angelo Russell Set To Return Friday

  19-01-2018 20:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... ce December 15 due to a knee injury, having missed Utah’s last 15 games. The Jazz have been using some smaller lineups in Gobert’s absence, with spending more ...
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Could the Utah Jazz pull off a trade for Kemba Walker?

  19-01-2018 20:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... ction. One player that the Jazz would have to unload if they wanted to bring Walker to Salt Lake City would...
  
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• Rolly: This Utah lawman slows down speeders around the clock without ever pulling them over or ticketing them

  19-01-2018 20:01
  Parker Doolittle may one of the busiest and most effective law enforcement officers in Utah.For the past 15 years, he’s been on duty seven days a week, 24 hours a day without a break. He pops up in different locations throughout Wayne County without warning, causing drivers speeding along Highway 24 to slow down as they enter the 30 mph zones in the small towns dotting the county.He even works for free and never complains.But, alas, like Oz’s scarecrow, he doesn’t have a brain.
  
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• Locking panties and man-repelling bracelets: Is this what the women of 2018 need?

  19-01-2018 19:58
  In the promised reckoning over sexual assault, harassment and rape culture, a bracelet probably wasn't the solution the women of 2018 were hoping for.But here it is. Last week, a Dutch start-up announced the sale of the Invi bracelet, the latest in a long line of odd implements designed for fending off would-be rapists. When the wearer gives it a tug, the Invi releases a pungent stench that Invi's founder, Roel van der Kamp, likens to a skunk's perfume.The tagline for the Invi, priced at about $
  
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• As year mark of disappearance approaches, Utah police are asking for information on a missing man

  19-01-2018 19:37
  Unified police and members of Dustin Lynn Bird’s family are asking the public for any information they may have about the man, who hasn’t been seen or heard from since February.Police say that Bird, then-38, left his Taylorsville home on Feb. 17 to meet up with a friend, but never returned.Bird is described as Latino with medium to light skin. He stands about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed about 160 pounds. Bird has brown eyes and, when last seen, sported a shaved or buzzed hairsty
  
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• .@rudygobert27 is ready to play tonight 💪 #takenote https://t.co/ikOCP4zpjb

  19-01-2018 19:33 via twitter.com
  
  .@rudygobert27 is ready to play tonight 💪 #takenote https://t.co/ikOCP4zpjb
  
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• Zion, Bryce Canyon parks report record number of visitors

  19-01-2018 19:31
  St. George • Both Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks have reported a record number of visitors for 2017.The Spectrum reported Thursday that Zion National Park saw more than 4.5 million visitors last year, which is up 5 percent from 2016. While Bryce Canyon National Park recorded 2.6 million visitors — a 9-percent increase.The figures come just as park service officials are considering a controversial fee hike and a potential online reservation system for Zion.The National Park Servi
  
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• 100 years and counting: Logan man has stories to tell

  19-01-2018 19:27
  Logan • Lloyd Clement of Logan, a retired Utah State University professor, said in 1998 he believed his lifetime was approaching its end, so he wrote in his journal and made sure all of his affairs were settled.Twenty years later, Clement is celebrating 100 years of living that has taken him everywhere from an isolated farmtown in central Utah to the Mariana Islands, Bolivia, West Africa and ultimately Cache Valley.Clement was born in Fairview on January 12, 1918, at the beginning of what h
  
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• Trib Caucus: Is the nation’s Democratic wave strong enough to make an impact in Utah?

  19-01-2018 19:22
  Every week during Utah’s legislative session, The Salt Lake Tribune’s political reporters and columnists will chat about the hottest topics of the week. The following is a lightly edited transcript of their conversation. Benjamin Wood (education reporter): Welcome to this week’s Trib Caucus slack chat, which will be convening weekly during the 2018 legislative session. But since that’s still days away, let’s talk about November’s election.A Wisconsin State Sen
  
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• Why won’t Mitt Romney announce a Senate bid now? He mentions new Mormon prophet and the semi on fire on I-15

  19-01-2018 18:37
  During his second public appearance this week, Mitt Romney again steered clear of making any campaign announcements, though he is widely expected to run for the seat held by Sen. Orrin Hatch, who plans to retire. But this time, Romney did it with a bit of humor. “You know enough about politics to know that you would never make a critical announcement on the week that the Mormon church just named the new president, when it’s a Friday — of course you only put out bad news on a Fr
  
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• [KSL] - Decision should be made now on Rodney Hood's Jazz future

  19-01-2018 18:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... management. Door No. 2 could be damaging as well. The hope would be that the Jazz could escape by signing Hood to a reasonable long-term deal, somewhere in th ...
  
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• RuPaul dishes on Utah, Sundance, ‘Drag Race’ and people who just won’t stop at stop signs

  19-01-2018 18:32
  The phone rings. It’s RuPaul calling.And immediately, the world’s most famous drag queen starts throwing shade.“That was a very long intro, what was happening?” he asks, as you explain that your phone is Bluetoothed to your MacBook, and there was this delay that prompted you to choose which device you wanted to converse on, and you couldn’t act quickly enough because it just did an update, and …“Uh-huh, I didn’t really need your life story, buuut
  
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• Marc Thiessen: Democrats need to do their job and make a deal

  19-01-2018 18:31
  It’s been more than a week since word leaked of President’s Donald Trump’s “s---hole countries” comment, but instead of moving past it and returning to the negotiating table, Democrats continue to milk Trump’s comments — posturing for the cameras to condemn his “ignorance and bigotry,” while threating to shut down the government if Trump does not immediately codify Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals as part of a short-term government fund
  
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• Catherine Rampell: The GOP tax law doesn't just hurt blue states. It hurts everyone.

  19-01-2018 18:29
  There’s a perception out there that the new GOP tax law screws over only blue states.That’s wrong.It creates huge political problems for almost every state. With relatively little fanfare, Congress effectively sent ticking time bombs to statehouses across the country, which are scrambling to assess and contain the damage.Yes, it’s true that the federal law’s new limits on state and local tax deductions disproportionately hurt high-tax, mostly Democratic states.New York, N
  
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• George Pyle: Meet the new driver. Same as the old driver?

  19-01-2018 18:24
  Everyone else was gazing in wonder at the night sky. The pure night sky, unchanged by any human light pollution. The way it looks over, say, the Grand Canyon or, as it was that night, near Arches National Park.There were so many more stars than there were supposed to be that some part of me was convinced that something was really, really wrong. That the universe was collapsing on itself or, maybe worse, that we had suddenly been transported to an alien planet.Maybe one closer to the center of th
  
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