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• Louisville must vacate basketball title, NCAA denies appeal

  20-02-2018 23:47
  Louisville, Ky. • Louisville officials are not happy with the NCAA's decision that mandates the school vacate its 2013 men's basketball championship in the wake of an embarrassing sex scandal and interim President Greg Postel did not hide his disappointment.While acknowledging the scandal was unacceptable, Postel believes the school's cooperation should have counted for more than it did. But Tuesday, Louisville announced that an NCAA appeals panel had upheld sanctions against the men's prog
  
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• Utah's MyKayla Skinner captures another Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week honor

  20-02-2018 23:01
  Utah gymnast MyKayla Skinner was recognized for her effort in the Utes’ win over UCLA on Sunday with yet another Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week award.Skinner won the all-around with a 39.625 and tied or won the vault (9.95), beam (9.925) and floor (9.975).Her balance beam effort clinched the win for Utah.It is the fourth time and second week in a row that Skinner has won the league honors. She has 11 such honors in her career.
  
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  20-02-2018 22:29 via twitter.com
  
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• With youth suicides at ‘epidemic proportions,’ panel formed by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert calls for expanding mental-health support, outreach and encouraging use of gun locks

  20-02-2018 22:15
  Utah needs to expand programs to identify and help young people exhibiting mental health issue that could lead to suicide, a panel convened by Gov. Gary Herbert said Tuesday — including wider use of a mobile app that lets youths report suicidal feelings.“We know it’s at epidemic proportions for our young people,” Herbert said Tuesday of youth suicide, at a news conference at the Utah Capitol. “And the challenges we face is: what can we do to make it better?”Fo
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Donovan Mitchell weighs in on Louisville 'losing' national championship

  20-02-2018 22:09 via sportspyder.com
  ... ouisville team will always be Donovan Mitchell's national champion. The Utah Jazz player weighed in the decision made by the NCAA to vacate the Cardinals' **** ...
  
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• Will Utah legislators abolish the death penalty in 2018? These conservative lawmakers think so.

  20-02-2018 22:08
  When lawmakers considered abolishing Utah’s death penalty system in 2016, Rep. Gage Froerer was against the legislation.Two years later, the Republican lawmaker from Huntsville has changed his position — and is now sponsoring a bill that could eliminate capital punishment in Utah.“I think it’s very clear that this, as it exists today, is not good public policy,” Froerer said during a Tuesday news conference at the state Capitol.Utah’s current death penalty sys
  
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• Fremont clamps down defensively on Hunter to roll into state quarterfinals

  20-02-2018 22:07
  Taylorsville • It was quite a drought.More than a 17-minute drought.Fremont held Hunter scoreless for the entire second quarter, part of a stretch of more than 17 minutes where the Wolverines went without a point. The Silver Wolves used that stretch to cruise to a 58-20 win in Tuesday’s first round of the Class 6A girls’ basketball state tournament.“I didn’t even realize that until I was over on the bench,” said Abby Broadbent, who scored 10 points for the vict
  
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• Hotel bookings are down at Utah, Western ski resorts; will recent snows help reverse that slide?

  20-02-2018 22:03
  All of this snow the last couple of days has to be good for lodge owner at mountain resorts across the West, including Park City, where business is lagging due to too much unseasonably pleasant weather.“Meager snowfall at most Western ski resorts during January has led to a drop in bookings for the remainder of the ski season as lodging properties maintain a tenuous hold on revenue,” said Tom Foley, vice president of business intelligence for Inntopia, which tracks lodging performanc
  
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• West Valley City appoints department veteran as new police chief

  20-02-2018 21:56
  Pending city council approval, West Valley City has its next police chief.Interim Chief Colleen Jacobs will go before the council for ratification Tuesday night, the city announced in a news release. She has filled in as head of the department since Sept. 8, when former chief Lee Russo retired.Jacobs has spent her entire 21-year career with West Valley City police, serving in a variety of roles ranging from patrol officer to deputy chief.The Utah native attended Tooele High School before graduat
  
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• Donovan Mitchell weighs in on Louisville 'losing' national championship

  20-02-2018 21:55
  Regardless of what the NCAA says, the 2013 Louisville team will always be Donovan Mitchell's national champion.The Utah Jazz player weighed in the decision made by the NCAA to vacate the Cardinals' title after an appeals panel upheld sanctions against the program in a sex-scandal case.Mitchell tweeted out this strong message of support to his college on Tuesday morning:"You can take away the banner but you can’t take away the long hours in the gym the incredible wins the passion that this
  
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• Even with a busted lip, Morgan Kane helps Riverton oust defending state champ American Fork

  20-02-2018 21:42
  Taylorsville • Riverton forward Morgan Kane put her hand to her face and felt something wet. Red smudged across half of her upper lip as she turned to the referee.“I’m bleeding,” she said, a hint of surprise in her voice, as her team pushed forward on offense.Kane played with a bandaged lip for the rest of the game, over three-quarters of it. She led the team in points and rebounds on Riverton’s way to a 68-52 win over American Fork in the first round of the Class 6A
  
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• Logan High School teacher told police he thought teen girl was an adult, had a sexual relationship with her, charges state

  20-02-2018 21:36
  A teacher at Logan High School has been charged with having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl.Joseph Scott Harris, 57, was arrested after Weber County sheriff’s deputies caught him with the teen girl in a parked car in West Haven on Friday, according to a probable cause statement.“The two occupants were in various states of undress,” the document said.At the sheriff’s office, the teen told police she and Harris had engaged in sex acts multiple times since Jan.
  
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• Scenic, sacred and now sexy! Fashion designer makes a bold statement for protecting Bears Ears and Grand Staircase monuments

  20-02-2018 21:22
  Utah’s national monuments are scenic, sacred and now sexy enough to take a turn on the catwalk.Hoping to “make a statement” in support of wilderness, designer Chris Leba featured everyday Utahns and their fight to protect the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments on several pieces in his new line of clothing.
  Leba, owner of R13 Denim, unveiled these rugged, futuristic — think Mad Max with khaki and camouflage — pieces during New York Fashion Week, held
  
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• Bundy to speak to Independent American Party of Nevada

  20-02-2018 21:15
  Sparks, Nev. • Southern Nevada rancher and states’ rights activist Cliven Bundy has agreed to give the keynote speech on Friday at the Independent American Party of Nevada’s state convention in Sparks.Party officials announced Tuesday Bundy’s wife, Carol, and son Ryan also plan to attend the convention Friday and Saturday at the Nugget Casino and Resort.A federal judge in Las Vegas dismissed a criminal case last month against Bundy and his two sons stemming from an armed s
  
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• Jeff Flake: Congress has failed on DACA. Here’s what must happen now.

  20-02-2018 21:00
  Having spent the better part of two decades trying to tackle the challenges we face as a country, I sometimes feel a little defensive when I hear someone say Congress is incapable of solving big problems.But that’s a hard point to argue after watching the Senate squander its best opportunity to pass legislation both to protect young immigrants affected by the uncertain future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and to strengthen security along the border.Somehow, d
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Don’t blame ‘Washington.’ Blame the GOP.

  20-02-2018 20:53
  Video: The Washington Post’s David Nakamura explains what the collapse of several immigration bills on Feb. 15 means for young undocumented immigrants known as “Dreamers.” (Video: Bastien Inzaurralde/Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post)(Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)Dysfunctional Washington refuses to work out its differences to solve problems that matter to Americans.So say pundits and policy activists, perhaps hoping that diffuse criticism, rather than finger-poi
  
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• 2 dead in western Wyoming plane crash

  20-02-2018 20:51
  Evanston, Wyo. • Two people have died in a plane crash in western Wyoming.KUTV in Salt Lake City, Utah, reports the plane crashed around 3 p.m. Sunday a mile north of Evanston. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says the single-engine plane was a Socata TBM-700.Unita County sheriff’s officials said Monday the plane is registered to William and Michelle Patterson and they are believed to have died in the crash.Nobody else was on board.The airplane left out of Tulsa, O
  
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• Man who died in Yellowstone in 2017 was looking for treasure

  20-02-2018 20:49
  Billings, Mont. • A 53-year-old Illinois man who fell to his death in Yellowstone National Park last year was looking for a supposed hidden cache of gold and jewels.KULR-TV reports that Jeff Murphy of Batavia, Illinois, was looking for the treasurer that antiquities dealer Forrest Fenn says he stashed somewhere in the Rocky Mountains several years ago.The investigation by Yellowstone officials into Murphy’s death was kept private, but KULR obtained it through a Freedom of Information
  
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• Salt Lake City Sen. Jim Dabakis to retire from Legislature at end of term

  20-02-2018 20:14
  The Republican-dominated Utah Legislature’s most outspoken Democratic foil announced on Tuesday he wouldn’t seek re-election.Sen. Jim Dabakis won’t run for re-election to his safely Democratic Salt Lake City seat in November. He said the decision is in line with his opinion that state lawmakers shouldn’t stay in their seats for too long.“In a Citizen Legislature, I firmly believe people should be elected, serve with all their heart and soul, then make way for other
  
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• Monson: Playoff opportunity now awaits the Jazz with wide open arms

  20-02-2018 20:12
  Twenty-four.That’s the number of games the Jazz are looking at now, after the All-Star break, as they prepare to make a proper run at what so many thought was outside their reach before the season began — the playoffs.The prospects are remarkable, really, considering the physical and psychological adversities the team has faced. You know the individual items on the list, but taken together, overcoming it remains impressive:Rejection • Gordon Hayward and George Hill want out and
  
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• ICYMI – Your Friendly Neighborhood Dunk Contest Champ 🏆 Check out all of @spidadmitchell's winning dunks 💥⬇️… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-02-2018 20:10 via twitter.com
  ICYMI – Your Friendly Neighborhood Dunk Contest Champ 🏆Check out all of @spidadmitchell's winning dunks 💥⬇️… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• West Valley City appoints interim chief as head of police

  20-02-2018 20:05
  Pending city council approval, West Valley City has its next police chief.Interim Chief Colleen Jacobs will go before the council for ratification Tuesday night, the city announced in a news release. She has filled in as head of the department since Sept. 8, when former chief Lee Russo retired.Jacobs has spent her entire 21-year career with West Valley City police, serving in a variety of roles ranging from patrol to deputy chief.The Utah native attended Tooele High School before graduating with
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Donovan Mitchell’s quest for stardom isn’t a question of if, but when

  20-02-2018 20:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... scoring during such a stretch. Mitchell’s next obstacles will be to land the Jazz in the Western Conference playoffs before the season is through, where the J ...
  
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• Winter storm puts drivers through another nightmare commute, but is a boon for ski resorts

  20-02-2018 19:56
  In what this winter has been a rare occurrence, the state of Utah was carpet-bombed with record-breaking snow over Presidents Day weekend. The inclement weather slowed traffic to a crawl and caused hundreds of crashes, overwhelming law enforcement.But there’s a silver lining: The storms provided a much-needed boon to the snow coffers of area resorts, which had worked hard to make do with the piddling offerings received from the sky in a prolonged dry spell.Since Friday, Alta Ski Resort has
  
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• Gehrke: Utah needs to act if it wants to keep the Greatest Snow on Earth

  20-02-2018 19:48
  Here’s a little secret: I’m kind of an Olympics geek.When the Closing Ceremony ends next week, there will be a hole that all those hours of short-track speedskating and curling and biathlon and slopestyle once filled.It’s been fascinating to watch the downhill, as skiers tear across the iced slopes, or the cross-country skiers slogging through miles of snow, then the camera pulls back a little and you can see the mud and brush just a few yards off the course.Ninety-eight percen
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Utahns were worst at watching the Super Bowl; we‘re still first in Olympic viewing

  20-02-2018 19:31
  Utahns trailed the rest of the nation in Super Bowl viewing; we’re leading America in Olympics viewing.I don’t altogether get it. Neither does NBC.On Feb. 4, we were last among 56 metered markets for the Eagles’ win over the Patriots. The Salt Lake TV market averaged a 37.7 rating for Super Bowl LII, 20 percent behind the national averaged (47.4).The Olympics started four days later, and we’re No. 1.It’s worth pointing out that, through the first 12 days of the Pyeo
  
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• Pioneer Theatre’s mysterious world premiere about love and memory needs more heart

  20-02-2018 19:27
  “The view may change,” Jake Bellamy tells Sarah Cooper in “i,” as he takes her on a date to a tree-shaded bench facing the back of a parking garage.As in every love story, of course, the view changes over the course of playwright Jeff Talbott’s mystery-centered love story, which plays through March 3 in a world-premiere production at Pioneer Theatre Company.And when the central mystery between the couple — played by Todd Gearhart as Jake and Kathleen McElfresh
  
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• [The Sports Quotient] - Joe Ingles: The Most Underrated Player In The NBA

  20-02-2018 18:48 via sportspyder.com
  ... kyrocketed from a -1.6 to 14.6. 🎛 #TakeNote pic.twitter.com/XsJLFWe3UC— Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) February 15, 2018 While much of the Jazz’s recent success can be ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz are trending to finish THIRD IN THE WEST?

  20-02-2018 18:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... ringing a lot of attention to the Utah Jazz and . Spida has truly been a hero. But I wanted to take a second to remind e ...
  
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• Meet the woman who drives Salt Lake Olympian Nathan Chen to excel

  20-02-2018 18:41
  Gangneung, South Korea • Hetty Wang will make sure her son rolls out of bed. The goal remains to head out by 8 a.m. Traffic in Southern California is hell no matter what the clock reads. She still will drive her youngest of five children, Nathan Chen, to his home rink in Lakewood, Calif., nearly every day. If he needs a power nap, that’s why she will be behind the wheel. If he needs a snack to fuel up properly, that’s why she’ll be behind the wheel.The last thing she wants
  
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• Special interests find that the best way to Utah lawmakers’ hearts — or at least their calendars — is through their stomachs

  20-02-2018 18:18
  As key votes come up on what to include in final budgets, special interests have packed Utah legislators’ social calendars with a long string of free activities — usually with a complimentary dinner — to help lawmakers’ families have some fun.Places hosting such events included the Utah Natural History Museum, the Living Planet Aquarium, Clark Planetarium, the Discovery Gateway children’s museum, the Hale Centre Theatre, Thanksgiving Point’s Museum of Natural
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: How the Rodney Hood-Jae Crowder trade almost didn't happen; a deep look at the Jazz's win streak

  20-02-2018 17:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... raft pick swap rights with the Cavaliers. Zach Lowe takes a deep look at the Jazz's win streak The Jazz are the hottest team in the NBA, riding an 11-game win ...
  
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• Morning links: How the Rodney Hood-Jae Crowder trade almost didn't happen; a deep look at the Jazz's win streak

  20-02-2018 17:45
  The biggest storyline of the NBA's Feb. 8 trade deadline was the transformation of the Cleveland Cavaliers' roster through all the moves that general manager Koby Altman made.ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski wrote a lengthy piece about how Altman pulled off multiple trades, with the deal sending Rodney Hood from the Utah Jazz to the Cavaliers and the Jazz getting Jae Crowder from Cleveland being one of them.Certainly the most interesting piece of the report locally is that at one point in the negotiati
  
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• [Uproxx: Dime Magazine] - NBA Power Rankings Week 18: The Jazz Are Suddenly Unbeatable

  20-02-2018 17:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... eatness. Big man Rudy Gobert suddenly resembles the All-Star center that the Jazz need, dominating defensively and providing sneakily effective offensive prod ...
  
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• Another day of winter weather, another nightmare commute

  20-02-2018 17:03
  A snowstorm that pounded the state Monday continued overnight and turned the Tuesday morning commute into a crawl, continuing the “cycle” of storms forecast to come over the next week or so.Many travelers headed to work at half-speed or slower on ice- and slush-covered highways Tuesday morning, thanks to lake-enhanced snow along the Wasatch Front. The day before, Utah Highway Patrol troopers responded to hundreds of crashes in the morning and the National Weather Service recorded rec
  
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• Trump accuser keeps telling her story, hoping someone will finally listen

  20-02-2018 16:59
  She believed her best chance to be heard was through sheer repetition, so Rachel Crooks took her seat at the dining table and prepared to tell the story again. She was used to difficult audiences, to skeptics and Internet trolls who flooded her Facebook page with threats, but this was a generous crowd: a dozen women, all friends of her aunt, gathered for a casual dinner party on a Friday night. The hostess turned off the music, clanked a fork against her wineglass and gestured to Crooks. "Would
  
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• ‘Too drunk to drive, but sober enough to carry a .45?’ Alcohol lobby says gun-related tweak is hypocritical

  20-02-2018 16:43
  Is House Bill 328 helpful or hypocritical?The proposal making its way through the Utah Legislature would allow someone who is legally intoxicated to use a weapon in self-defense while in their home.
  Rep. Norm Thurston, R-Provo, said he sponsored the legislation at the request of Utah defense attorneys. It addresses one of the “unintended consequences” that arose last year when the Legislature approved HB155, Thurston’s bill lowering the state’s blood alcohol content (BAC)
  
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• Letter: Excellence concert series chucked for Twilight? That’s a shoddy move.

  20-02-2018 16:43
  Wow, talk about trading down! Salt Lake’s City Council pre-empted the fine, long-running Excellence in the Community concert series at Gallivan Center on Thursday nights — to revive the pitiful Twilight series formerly at Pioneer Park.Excellence showcases world-class Utah artists, many of whom have performed at the premier jazz festivals, the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, as well as playing with the country’s top recording stars. And it’s all free, supported by local
  
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• Crash and burn: Going fast can win an Olympic medal or send you to the hospital

  20-02-2018 16:32
  Pyeongchang, South Korea • The giant slalom is one of the more technical, and therefore one of the lowest-speed ski races in the Olympic Games. Even so, American Tricia Mangan probably was cruising in excess of 20 mph this week when she lost control and crashed into a group of photographers, sending bodies and equipment flying through the air. Ouch. Mangan was able to ski away from the wreckage and, from the sound of things, she would be willing to do it all again.“Skiing-wise, I&rsq
  
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• Letter: Rep. Fawson, is your concern for public safety real, or just politics?

  20-02-2018 16:25
  This is concerning that HB64 bill that died in the House Transportation Committee. My representative, Justin Fawson, R-North Ogden, a vociferous proponent of lowering the BAC from 0.08 to 0.05, cited the need to enhance public safety.Interestingly, he stated his opposition to HB64 this way: “It’s a difficult balance to strike between public safety and personal rights and liberties.”Studies clearly show a near-equivalent impact on public safety regarding drunk driving and operat
  
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• Letter: Are we as corrupt and immoral as any terrorist on the planet?

  20-02-2018 16:23
  I am really weary of the Second Amendment argument, and I grew up in a family of hunters. Since 2006, this country has had at least 271 incidences where four-plus people have died in a mass killing. That’s one massacre every 16 days — and we still have legislators pushing for a “mental-health focus” over gun control.What on Earth is the matter with you people? Why not both? For what purpose would someone need to own an AR-15? You don’t hunt elk and deer with automat
  
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• Trump endorses Romney’s Senate run in Utah, the latest chapter in their complicated relationship

  20-02-2018 16:21
  President Donald Trump gave his blessing to Mitt Romney’s Senate run Monday night. .@MittRomney has announced he is running for the Senate from the wonderful State of Utah. He will make a great Senator and worthy successor to @OrrinHatch, and has my full support and endorsement!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2018Shortly after the president’s endorsement, Romney tweeted his gratitude for the nod. Thank you Mr. President for the support. I hope that over the co
  
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• Scenic, sacred and now sexy! Utah wilderness takes a turn on the catwalk during Fashion Week

  20-02-2018 16:21
  Utah’s national monuments are scenic, sacred and now sexy enough to take a turn on the catwalk.Hoping to “make a statement” in support of wilderness, designer Chris Leba featured everyday Utahns and their fight to protect the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante monuments on several pieces in his new line of clothing.
  Leba, owner of R13 Denim, unveiled these rugged, futuristic — think Mad Max with khaki and camouflage — pieces during New York Fashion Week, held
  
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• Letter: Romney should have been disfellowshipped — Utah can do better

  20-02-2018 16:18
  Just like Hillary Clinton, who thought that those who did not support her were deplorable, irredeemable, etc., Mitt Romney did not care about “that 47 percent” of the electorate who did not support him.Quite a statement from someone called as a bishop and stake president in the LDS Church, who is bishop and president to all in his geographical calling, members or not. He should have been disfellowshipped. This cost him in 2012, like his father’s statement about being “bra
  
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• Letter: Trump and GOP are aiding America‘s major adversary — that‘s treasonous

  20-02-2018 16:16
  Russia is at war with us, but instead of battlefield combat it is cyber warfare. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictments of Russian nationals confirm the overwhelming evidence that Russia interfered with the last election and is continuing to undermine our democratic system of government. Russia’s attacks threaten all of us, regardless of our political preferences. Our government should be taking immediate retaliatory action, such as strong economic sanctions, and installing eff
  
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• Letter: We have all the facts we need to deal with those merchants of death, the NRA, this instant

  20-02-2018 16:15
  I have a news flash for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, who believes that lawmakers should not make a “knee-jerk reaction before having all the facts,” and therefore should refrain from any efforts related to the recent Florida shooting.Through almost no research, I discovered the following facts: In 1989, five people were killed and 32 wounded when they were shot in Stockton, Calif., at the Cleveland school with a semi-automatic AK-47. In 1991, at Luby’s cafeteria in Killeen,
  
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• Rolly: When narcissist Noel puts self-interest before the public interest, even rural Utahns sometimes lose

  20-02-2018 16:13
  I’ve written more than I wish I had to about the narcissism of Rep. Mike Noel. But somebody has to do it.The Kanab Republican has sponsored a number of bills designed to give more control over public policy to rural Utah counties — including his own Kane County — and cramming their preferred policies down the throats of the state’s more populous urban centers.Now he has a bill, HB367, that would increase the amount of money rural communities can spend from hotel and motel
  
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• Salt Lake Olympic Exploratory Committee members at Games in South Korea spreading Utah’s plan to host again

  20-02-2018 16:10
  Gangneung, South Korea • The first time a Utah contingent went abroad hoping to bring the Olympic Games to Salt Lake City, it was a homespun effort by a handful of the state’s businessmen and politicians. The entire budget, all $35,000 of it, was raised by selling pins for a buck apiece. And in the end, they were all but laughed out of Rome and shut out of their bid for the 1972 Games.The Utahns know they are being seen as a much more serious contender for another Olympic bid this tim
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Most Americans say Congress, Trump not doing enough to prevent mass shootings

  20-02-2018 16:07
  Most Americans say Congress, Trump not doing enough to prevent mass shootings. Trump endorses Romney’s Senate bid. Students organizing rally at Utah Capitol for gun control.Happy Tuesday. Most Americans say Congress and President Donald Trump are not doing enough to prevent mass shootings, but they lay the blame for the killings on identifying and addressing mental-health issues rather than a lack of gun laws, a new poll shows. [WaPost]Topping the news: President Donald Trump endorsed Mitt
  
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• Pioneer Theatre’s story about love and memory needs more heart

  20-02-2018 16:02
  “The view may change,” Jake Bellamy tells Sarah Cooper in “i,” as he takes her on a date to a tree-shaded bench facing the back of a parking garage.As in every love story, of course, the view changes over the course of playwright Jeff Talbott’s mystery-centered love story, which plays through March 3 in a world-premiere production at Pioneer Theatre Company.And when the central mystery between the couple — played by Todd Gearhart as Jake and Kathleen McElfresh
  
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