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  25-01-2018 23:56 via twitter.com
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• Utah House votes to do away with state ‘porn czar’ office

  25-01-2018 23:48
  Utah’s “porn czar” office — once the butt of national jokes — appears about to be erased.The House voted unanimously Thursday to pass HB50, which formally removes from state code the “obscenity and pornography complaints ombudsman.” The measure now goes to the Senate.The Legislature created the position in 2000, saying it would provide resources for residents to curb pornography in their neighborhoods and online. Attorney Paula Houston was hired and give
  
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• Utah lawmakers vote to prevent blood-draw showdowns like the one that led to the infamous arrest of a nurse

  25-01-2018 23:47
  The Utah House passed a bill Thursday aimed at preventing future confrontations like the arrest last year of University of Utah nurse Alex Wubbels for refusing to allow police to have blood drawn from an unconscious patient — which caused an international uproar.HB43 outlines when law enforcement may legally obtain blood draws. It passed on a 72-0 vote, and was sent to the Senate.
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• With nearly 3 years until 2020 election, deep-red Utah gets its first visit from a presidential candidate — a little-known Democrat

  25-01-2018 23:46
  Maryland Congressman John Delaney isn’t one to leave much to chance.That’s why the Democrat declared his candidacy for the 2020 presidential race just six months after President Donald Trump took office and why he’s already done “100 events on the ground in Iowa and New Hampshire” — both in an effort to build his name recognition early on.That’s likely also part of the reason Delaney came this week to visit Utah, a red state he probably won’t win,
  
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• Third time is apparently not the charm for two suspects attempting to blow up ATMs to steal cash

  25-01-2018 23:46
  The two bandits attempting to blow up ATMs for cash struck again recently, though they have yet to be successful.The most recent attempt came Jan. 18 in West Jordan at the Chartway Federal Credit Union at 2089 W 9000 South, West Jordan police Sgt. J.C. Holt said. The suspects have been using propane as an accelerant. “They are essentially failed attempts,” Holt said.Here is some video of our latest ATM bomber attempt. Check out our FB page for still shots. Please share away. These gu
  
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• Raptors just keep contending out of the NBA’s spotlight and away from the drama

  25-01-2018 23:43
  Toronto • It was little interactions that told C.J. Miles about the intensity of Raptors fans. He occasionally would run into fans in the street who would tell him — respectfully, because this is Canada — they expected him to lose when he came into town as an opposing player.Then he just had flown into town and was preparing for his physical when he signed with Toronto this offseason. This time fans “screamed” his name out loud in excitement when he walked down the s
  
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• A majority of Western voters oppose Trump’s energy-focused public lands agenda, poll finds

  25-01-2018 23:43
  New bipartisan polling finds widespread disapproval among Western voters of the Trump administration’s public land policies, including recent reductions to two Utah national monuments and the expansion of lands being made available for energy extraction.Colorado College’s Conservation in the West poll documented enthusiasm for the outdoors and the economic importance of outdoor recreation, as well as support for public lands policies that promote access and conservation, according to
  
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• New ski pass links Alta and Snowbird with Deer Valley and 20 other North American resorts

  25-01-2018 23:40
  The company that bought Deer Valley Resort has unveiled its highly anticipated challenger to Vail Resort’s Epic Pass — dubbing its creation the Ikon Pass and extending its skiing privileges to 11 other prominent resorts, including Alta and Snowbird.Starting next winter, the Ikon Pass will be accepted at 23 resorts in 12 states and three Canadian provinces. Details about pricing and the conditions that will apply at individual resorts are still being worked out by Alterra Mountain Co.
  
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• Utah’s Intermountain Healthcare is shedding thousands of workers in scheduling and billing, saying it will save $70 million

  25-01-2018 23:38
  Nearly 2,300 Intermountain Healthcare workers who handle patient claims and payments will have a new employer as of April 8.Intermountain is transferring those employees to R1 RCM, a company it has collaborated with for a half dozen years to improve its “revenue cycle management.” That’s the industry term for the process, using medical-billing software, of tracking patient care from registration through final payments.Intermountain officials believe the transfer will save their
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Most Americans say: Yup, President Trump's a racist

  25-01-2018 23:30
  The Post-ABC News poll released on Wednesday had a remarkably finding regarding President Donald Trump:”[In November, 2017] 50 percent of Americans said that Trump held a racial bias against black people. In our new poll, that has risen to 52 percent, more than half, with the percentage saying that they strongly believe Trump to be biased rising from 36 percent to 40 percent.“Unsurprisingly, there’s a strong split by party in those numbers, with Democrats viewing Trump as biase
  
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• Audit: Despite a steady decline of youths in Utah’s juvenile justice system, spending has increased in recent years

  25-01-2018 23:30
  The number of youth offenders in the state’s custody have been steadily declining for years, but a new legislative audit released Thursday found that Juvenile Justice Services spending has not mirrored the decreasing population in its care.Despite a 35 percent decrease of youths served since 2011, JJS operating expenses has increased — its appropriated funding rising more than $5 million from 2012 to 2017.In an 81-page audit, the state’s legislative auditor expressed concern th
  
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• Other states’ voter rolls swelled with automatic registration. Now a Republican senator wants to see the same happen in Utah

  25-01-2018 23:28
  For years, it’s been up to eligible voters to register to vote ahead of elections. Two Republicans are hoping Utah will make a seemingly small change that has had a massive impact on swelling the ranks of registered voters in other states.Two bills this year — SB112 and HB67 — would require the state to register a person to vote automatically when they interact with the Department of Motor Vehicles. After the interaction, the person would be registered to vote unless they chose
  
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• Utah can help women and the poor by eliminating food tax, voting to cover birth control, religious leaders and lawmakers say

  25-01-2018 23:18
  Utah could help its businesses, poor residents, women and working families if lawmakers passed a slate of bills lauded by legislators and religious groups on Thursday.This session there are bills to expand Medicaid to cover long-term birth control, require state agencies to offer paid parental leave for employees and remove the sales tax on food, among others. Some of the bills came out of the work of the Women in the Economy Commission, which focused on helping working Utah women.Together, a pa
  
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• #tbt: January 17, 2006 vs. The Toronto Raptors Andrei Kirilenko messed around and got a triple-double putting up 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-01-2018 23:15 via twitter.com
  #tbt: January 17, 2006 vs. The Toronto RaptorsAndrei Kirilenko messed around and got a triple-double putting up 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Image problem

  25-01-2018 23:03
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>How laws are made<br>For the children<br>Who’s a good legislature?<br>Party of personal responsibility<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&g
  
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• Trump says he'll cut off Palestinian money without talks

  25-01-2018 23:00
  President Donald Trump said in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would cut off funding to the Palestinians unless they agree to resume peace talks.Trump said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the Palestinians "disrespected us a few weeks ago by not allowing our great vice president" to meet with them. Hundreds of millions of dollars "is not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace."He made a similar threat on Twitter earlier this
  
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• Dana Milbank: Inside the secret, sinister and very illegal cabal trying to destroy Trump

  25-01-2018 22:30
  The voluble congressman, who speaks as if he is arguing the trial of the century even if he is ordering breakfast, went on Fox News on Tuesday to divulge a secret.“There’s a text exchange between these two FBI agents” — Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who had originally been on Robert Mueller’s Russia probe — “saying that perhaps this is the first meeting of the ‘secret society,‘” Gowdy announced. “I’m going to want to know what
  
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• I-15 to close three consecutive nights this weekend in Layton

  25-01-2018 22:23
  Interstate 15 will close in Layton for three consecutive nights this weekend for construction of a new overpass.The freeway will be closed in both directions between Hill Field Road (Exit 331) and Antelope Drive (Exit 331) on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.The hours for the closure each night will vary.On Friday night, the closure is scheduled to begin at 11 p.m. and last until 8 a.m. Saturday.On Saturday night, the closure is scheduled from 11 p.m. to 9 a.m. Sunday.On Sunday night, the clos
  
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  25-01-2018 22:17 via twitter.com
  
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• Trump says he's open to pathway to citizenship for Dreamers

  25-01-2018 22:00
  Washington • President Donald Trump says he’s open to an immigration plan that would provide a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to the country as children and are now here illegally.“We’re going to morph into it,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “It’s going to happen, at some point in the future, over a period of 10 to 12 years.”Trump’s pronouncements came as the White House announced it would u
  
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• Utah man who lived a lavish lifestyle while embezzling nearly $1M from his employer is headed to prison

  25-01-2018 21:54
  For years, Sonic Plastics struggled to turn a profit but the financial situation of the Lindon business improved with the 2013 firing of general manager Bruce McKean Strong.The reason, according to federal prosecutors, was that Strong had embezzled approximately $1 million by creating a company called Grand Design that purportedly supplied raw materials to Sonic at a discounted rate.However, no one at Sonic ever saw plastic resin from Grand Design being delivered, and all efforts to find “
  
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• TUESDAY January 30 🔥 There's still some tix left >> bit.ly/2rANaPK twitter.com/freddyfromutah…

  25-01-2018 21:45 via twitter.com
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• Elizabeth Smart is nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award

  25-01-2018 21:42
  Elizabeth Smart is an Emmy nominee — the Daytime Emmy Awards, that is. The Utahn has been nominated for her work as a special correspondent on the syndicated series “Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen.” “Can’t believe this just happened!!!” Smart posted on Instagram along with a picture of the certificate from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Smart has appeared on the show several times, recounting her 2002 kidnapping ordeal and relating
  
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• At least 14 Utahns have called poison control because of exposure to laundry detergent pods, some related to Tide Pod challenge

  25-01-2018 21:38
  Three weeks into 2018, at least 14 people in Utah have called poison control for help after ingesting or being otherwise exposed to toxic laundry detergent pods.In a normal year, the Utah Poison Control Center will receive about 200 calls for possible laundry detergent pod toxicity. The vast majority of those cases involve children under 6 years old, the center’s outreach educator Sherrie Pace said.“They’re very, very colorful. They’re very attractive,” Pace said of
  
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• Legislators propose radical changes for transportation, transit — including a tax hike

  25-01-2018 21:30
  The scandal-scarred Utah Transit Authority could be radically reorganized, a sales-tax increase rejected by voters could be mandated, some highway funds may be diverted to mass transit, and registration fees for electric cars could quintuple.
  All those game-changing proposals are included in a 114-page bill proposed Thursday by a legislative task force created to look at how to fund transportation as gasoline tax revenues shrink and public trust in UTA erodes.It “will better our state&rdqu
  
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• Utah man sues police who he says shocked him with a stun gun and caused his brain damage

  25-01-2018 21:11
  When Tabeththa Coronado called police in 2016, she wanted officers to help her mentally unstable husband, who was threatening suicide.But after police tried for two hours to coax him toward them, they shocked Fernando Coronado with a stun gun. He fell and hit his head on a stucco wall and a concrete floor, causing brain damage that significantly altered his life, according to a lawsuit the Coronados filed in U.S. District Court in Utah on Wednesday.West Valley City police Officers K. Olsen and J
  
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• Greg Sargent: Trump and the great GOP abdication

  25-01-2018 21:00
  Something remarkable is happening in our politics right now. On multiple fronts, it has fallen to Democratic elected officials to step up and defend the integrity and basic functionings of our government — against Republican efforts to pervert and manipulate them in service of the goal of shielding President Donald Trump from accountability.At the same time, in some cases Democrats have escalated their tactics in a kind of guerrilla operation designed to smuggle as much basic information a
  
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• Utah House votes to do away with state 'porn czar' office that has been vacant for years

  25-01-2018 20:56
  Utah’s “porn czar” office — once the butt of national jokes — appears about to be erased.The House voted unanimously Thursday to pass HB50, which formally removes from state code the “obscenity and pornography complaints ombudsman.” The measure now goes to the Senate.The Legislature created the position in 2000, saying it would provide resources for residents to curb pornography in their neighborhoods and online. Attorney Paula Houston was hired and give
  
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• Nearly 40 Utah companies are in attendance at Las Vegas gun show — just miles away from where the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history took place

  25-01-2018 20:47
  Las Vegas • Nearly 40 Utah companies selling everything from rifles to bullets to safes are here for the gun industry’s massive SHOT trade show, gathering more attention than usual because it’s taking place just a couple miles from where a lone gunman killed 58 concert-goers in October. There was little — if any talk — among exhibitors on Tuesday’s opening day of the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show about the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. histo
  
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• Illinois lawmaker wants to ban pre-teen tackle football to reduce risk of concussions

  25-01-2018 20:42
  Chicago • Organized tackle football would be banned for Illinois children younger than 12 years old under a bill unveiled Thursday.The Dave Duerson Act to Prevent CTE is named for the Chicago Bears defensive back who was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy after he killed himself at the age of 50. Duerson shot himself in the chest so his brain could be studied for signs of the disease that has been linked to concussions or repeated head trauma."When my father tragically took his
  
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• Remember infamous arrest of Nurse Wubbels? House passes bill designed to stop repeats

  25-01-2018 20:37
  The Utah House passed a bill Thursday aimed at preventing future confrontations like the arrest last year of University of Utah nurse Alex Wubbels for refusing to allow police to have blood drawn from an unconscious patient — which caused an international uproar.HB43 outlines when law enforcement may legally obtain blood draws. It passed on a 72-0 vote, and was sent to the Senate.
  “I don’t think anyone here believes that what happened that day was acceptable,” the bill&rs
  
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• Utah women's basketball team poised for a breakthrough weekend vs. Oregon State, Oregon

  25-01-2018 20:32
  For better or worse, the Pac-12 Conference presents multiple chances to test yourself against — and potentially upset — top 25-caliber opponents.Utah women’s basketball coach Lynne Roberts this season saw her team come up just short in the final minutes at home against nationally-ranked UCLA, but she also celebrated a road win against a ranked Arizona State squad last week.The Utes (14-5, 5-3) get two chances this weekend to serve notice to the rest of the conference and cement
  
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• Suspect who allegedly shot Riverton man, opened fire on police said he’d commit ‘suicide by cop’ to avoid jail

  25-01-2018 20:26
  A man who allegedly shot a Riverton man and fired shots at police officers told people he would commit “suicide by cop” before going to jail. Unified Police arrested 33-year-old Justin Gary Llewelyn Wednesday afternoon in Spanish Fork after a five-day manhunt. Llewelyn told “numerous people that he was not going to go to jail and he would do ‘suicide by cop,’ ” according to jail records released Thursday.He is being held in Salt Lake County jail on suspicion o
  
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• New ski pass links Alta and Snowbird with Deer Valley, 20 other North American resorts

  25-01-2018 20:25
  The company that bought Deer Valley Resort has unveiled its highly anticipated challenger to Vail Resort’s Epic Pass — dubbing its creation the Ikon Pass and extending its skiing privileges to 11 other prominent resorts, including Alta and Snowbird.Starting next winter, the Ikon Pass will be accepted at 23 resorts in 12 states and three Canadian provinces. Details about pricing and the conditions that will apply at individual resorts are still being worked out by Alterra Mountain Co.
  
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• Red Rocks feed off each other’s floor success to become nation’s top-ranked floor team

  25-01-2018 20:10
  Coming up with the right floor routines can be challenging for college teams. They want to have routines that have enough difficulty to start with 10.0 value and perhaps a little more to separate themselves from other teams. But consistency is important, too, and risky routines can lead to inconsistent results.The third-ranked Utah Utes seem to have found their balance between the two desirable traits just three meets into the season.The Utes rank first nationally on the floor, averaging 49.458.
  
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• Serena Williams to return to WTA Tour after giving birth in March

  25-01-2018 20:02
  Indian Wells, Calif. • Serena Williams is returning to tournament play for the first time since giving birth in September.Williams was among the entries released Wednesday for the BNP Paribas Open, which runs March 5-18 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.It will be the two-time champion's first tournament in 14 months, since winning the 2017 Australian Open. She lost an exhibition to Jelena Ostapenko in United Arab Emirates on Dec. 30.Williams reached the Australian Open semifinals in 2015 a
  
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• 'Brilliant, but cruel': This insanely difficult video game will make you want to smash your phone

  25-01-2018 20:00
  When developer Hiroyoshi Oshiba released the video game "Trap Adventure 2," he included a strongly-worded warning for potential players: try it at your own peril."Caution!! This may be the most hardest, irritating, frustrating game EVER," his message read. "If you tend to exasperate often, I recommend you not play this game. It will literally drive you insane. I PROMISE. As written above, this game is VERY STRESSFUL."That may have been an understatement."Trap Adventure 2″ is so over-the-to
  
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• The vegan comfort food at Seasons Plant Based Bistro in Salt Lake City will have you singing the praises of the mighty cashew

  25-01-2018 19:56
  You’ve probably heard of Dryuary — or not drinking alcohol in January after too many spiked eggnogs over the holidays. Now there’s Veganuary, a campaign to get people to go without animal products as part of their New Year’s resolutions.But even if you aren’t ready to give up eggs, dairy and meat long term, I can’t think of a better place to indulge the inclination than at Seasons Plant Based Bistro in Salt Lake City.You won’t feel deprived. In fact, you
  
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• Buddha shrine damaged in Salt Lake City — owner is disappointed but ‘rather serene about it all now’

  25-01-2018 19:46
  Ben Dieterle’s heart sank when he first saw the scene: Someone had thrown a large rock into his Sugar House shrine, destroying a large terra cotta statue of Buddha.Dieterle, with dozens of friends and well-wishers attending, had dedicated the neighborhood sacred space on his front lawn, at 1917 S. 900 East in Salt Lake City, just six weeks ago.He was initially stunned, bewildered and hurt, but credits his Zen Buddhism for helping him cope. “Oh, I’m still disappointed this happe
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell doesn’t need your dunk contest

  25-01-2018 19:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... f the Utah Jazz. — HoopsHype (@hoopshype) Jazz Interested In Willy Hernangomez — Anthony DiMoro (@AnthonyDiMoro) are still...
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Dominique Wilkins discusses what could have been with Stockton, Malone

  25-01-2018 19:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... e start of the 1982-83 season, Wilkins wanted out of Utah, which sparked the Jazz to trade him to the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for Freeman Williams, John Dre ...
  
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• UN official says not safe yet for Rohingya return to Myanmar

  25-01-2018 19:00
  Dhaka, Bangladesh • It is not yet safe for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in refugee camps in Bangladesh to begin returning to Myanmar, a senior United Nations official said Thursday.While many Rohingya want to eventually return to their villages, UNICEF deputy executive director Justin Forsyth said that no one he met during visits to Bangladesh’s refugee camps said they would go back now.“This moment is not safe to go back,” he said. “We have t
  
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• Here’s how to still see stories from The Tribune after Facebook’s new update

  25-01-2018 19:00
  There’s a reason why we call them “Facebook friends.”They’re the people you enjoy following/lovingly stalking, share photos of, and message back and forth. And now, with an updated policy, the social media giant says it’s placing them front and center in your news feed — and limiting other types of posts.In a Jan. 11 announcement, Facebook said it is updating how it ranks posts so users can interact more with the people they care about, prioritizing friends an
  
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• Another Utah state park earns distinction as a top place to see the stars

  25-01-2018 18:58
  Another Utah state park has earned an International Dark Sky Association designation.Steinaker Reservoir near Vernal received the honor and will celebrate that status sometime this spring.It joins Antelope Island, Goblin Valley and Dead Horse Point state parks with a Dark Sky designation. Utah State Park officials said there are a dozen more parks in various stages of the application process.Steinaker park staff took measurements of the quality of the night sky over the course of a year. Rangers
  
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• At Denver’s first Outdoor Retailer show, conservationists say leaving Utah’s ‘all-out assault on public lands’ behind is ‘emancipating’

  25-01-2018 18:56
  Denver • As Outdoor Retailer begins its first trade show here after 20 years in Salt Lake City, conservationists are celebrating a sense of relief to be out of Utah and in a state where protections for public lands enjoy broad political support.Also: “The beer is stronger, the peaks are taller and the recreation is higher,” proclaimed Maria Handley, of Conservation Colorado, to a cheering crowd Wednesday night at a party welcoming the massive trade show to Denver. Utah’s c
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Kidd firing likely lessens already slim chances at landing Jabari

  25-01-2018 18:45 via sportspyder.com
  ... d if he stayed healthy), he could be a great playmaking stretch-four for the Jazz that would fit nicely alongside Rudy Gobert, so the logic is certainly there ...
  
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• The secret history of America's ailing presidents and the doctors who covered up for them

  25-01-2018 18:42
  Let's talk about the presidents' health — not only the one we've got now but all of them. Their aches and pains and bumps, and how they've tried to hide them, and how the nation spent 12 years looking at photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and never knew the man could barely walk.Driven in part by a desire to never be hoodwinked again, America now keeps a much closer eye on the chief executive's corporeal being, with the concern we usually reserve for our own children.Is he sleeping enough
  
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• Utah Jazz: Kidd firing likely lessens already slim chances at landing Jabari

  25-01-2018 18:26
  With Jason Kidd, who apparently had a bad relationship with Jabari Parker, out as head coach in Milwaukee, the Utah Jazz’s chances of landing Parker in a trade likely got even slimmer. As the Utah Jazz struggle through a year wrought with injury, inconsistency, disappointment and ever-swirling trade rumors, it’s become overwhelmingly clear that the […]
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• Kirby: What do you do when a shooter is loose in your neighborhood? Get the cannon, set the traps, sharpen the dog’s teeth ...

  25-01-2018 18:23
  I woke Saturday morning to texts from several Unified Police Department officers I know. They had a word of warning for me. I’ll summarize:“Kirb. Active shooter in your neighbor. White, male, with facial hair. Stay home. We don’t want to shoot your fat a-- by accident.”I appreciated the warning. Logging onto Facebook, I noticed a query from friend and former Salt Lake Tribune co-worker Lori Buttars, who knows I live in Herriman.Lori • “You’re the first pe
  
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• Letter: Our chief draft dodger has no right to politicize the military or lecture anyone about its needs

  25-01-2018 18:00
  After 26 years of service, I retired from the military in 2003. During my time in uniform, my assignments took me to Normandy for the 40th anniversary of D-Day, road building in Central America, the Army War College, peacekeeping in Bosnia, and many other places across our great country and around the world.Not a day goes by when I’m not reminded of how good we Americans have it, and how much we take for granted, like our quality of life and individual liberties.Thus, I find it ironic that
  
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