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• How to forget UTA’s tarnished past? Senate votes to change its name — and raise car registration fees by 64%, or more, for transit

  28-02-2018 23:54
  To help erase memories of its scandal-tarred past and shift focus to coming changes, the Utah Transit Authority could soon have a new name: Transit District Utah.But that is not the biggest change in rewritten legislation to reorganize the agency and change how Utah will fund future transit and highways. SB136 now also would raise registration fees on each car in the state by at least $28 a year — and up to $78 for electric cars — to generate an extra $80 million a year for transit s
  
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• GOP hard-liners move to exclude candidates who gather signatures may end up forcing all Republicans to do just that

  28-02-2018 23:48
  A move by Utah Republican Party hard-liners to disqualify candidates who gather signatures to get on the ballot may have backfired.Because of a bylaw change last weekend, the only people who might appear as Republicans on the ballot this year are those who actually do collect signatures — and the traditional caucus-convention system may disappear as a path to the ballot for others.That’s according to Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, who wrote the 2014 state election law, called SB54, that
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Report: Utah Jazz interested in signing Corey Brewer?

  28-02-2018 23:43 via sportspyder.com
  ... y Stars this season, showcasing his deep range and playmaking abilities. The Jazz like him, but you would think they’d rather add a veteran to help with their ...
  
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• It’s looking likely that toll roads are in Utah’s future — starting with the crowded Wasatch canyons

  28-02-2018 23:32
  The Utah House has signed off on a Senate bill that would make it easier to expand toll roads on all roads in the state.The bill initially dealt only with using surveillance cameras to collect money from existing tolls. But an amendment on the Senate floor shortly before it passed took lawmakers out of the equation of signing off on tolling highways that have already been built.SB71 passed the House on Wednesday despite concerns from anti-tax Republicans and from some lawmakers who expressed con
  
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  28-02-2018 23:27 via twitter.com
  
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• Report: Utah Jazz interested in signing Corey Brewer?

  28-02-2018 23:25
  Earlier today, Corey Brewer and the Los Angeles Lakers agreed to a contract buyout. Multiple teams have already showed interest in the 31-year-old forward, including the Utah Jazz. According to NBA insider Sam Amick, the Oklahoma City Thunder, Utah Jazz, Minnesota Timberwolves, and New Orleans Pelicans are all targeting Corey Brewer who was recently bought […]
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• Worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles hold commitment ceremony

  28-02-2018 23:14
  Newfoundland, Pa. • Crown-wearing worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged or renewed wedding vows in a commitment ceremony at a Pennsylvania church Wednesday, prompting a nearby school to cancel classes.With state police and a smattering of protesters standing watch outside the church, brides clad in white and grooms in dark suits brought dozens of unloaded AR-15s into World Peace and Unification Sanctuary for a religious event that doubled as an advertisement for t
  
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• Housing advocates press lawmakers to pass $100 million bond to ‘jump-start’ affordable housing

  28-02-2018 23:09
  With six working days left in the legislative session, affordable-housing advocates Wednesday joined lawmakers in a Capitol Hill briefing to promote three housing-related bills, the weightiest of which would see the state borrow as much as $100 million to finance affordable-housing construction.The actual amount borrowed under HB464 would be determined by legislative leadership, said sponsor Rep. Joel Briscoe, D-Salt Lake City. But $100 million for housing, financed through the regular state bon
  
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• Senate resurrects, passes ban to prevent cities from charging fees on shopping bags

  28-02-2018 23:03
  After voting it down earlier in the day, the Senate resurrected and approved a bill Wednesday to ban cities and counties from imposing fees on shopping bags, bottles, cans, cups or other containers — or even regulating them by, for example, banning plastic bags, as Park City has done.The Senate passed SB218 on a 16-12 vote, and sent it to the the House. Senators had voted it down earlier in the day.
  It ran into trouble because it attacks local control. Sen. Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City,
  
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• .@EkpeUdoh and @NazzyJML came to Edison Elementary’s 5th Grade book club to talk about Black History Month and answ… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-02-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
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  28-02-2018 22:45 via twitter.com
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• Citing health problems, Scott Blackmun resigns as CEO of the USOC

  28-02-2018 22:42
  Colorado Springs, Colo. • Scott Blackmun is resigning as CEO of the US Olympic Committee, citing health problems as the reason he’ll depart after leading the federation for more than eight years.The 60-year-old CEO was diagnosed with prostate cancer earlier this winter, and did not attend the Pyeongchang Games.He announced his resignation Wednesday and Susanne Lyons, a member of the board, will serve as acting CEO.Blackmun leaves the federation amid calls for his departure, including
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz replay every single turnover from Houston Rockets game in attempt to fix problems

  28-02-2018 22:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... ch of consecutive possessions.” Since returning from the All-Star break, the Jazz are averaging the most turnovers in the league (18.0) over this 1-2, three-g ...
  
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• Thabo Sefolosha continues to lift Utah Jazz teammates during knee rehab

  28-02-2018 22:40
  SALT LAKE CITY — It’s highly unlikely that Utah Jazz forward Thabo Sefolosha will be returning to the lineup this season.The injured forward is technically listed as being out indefinitely, but after suffering a torn MCL in his right knee he’s very likely to sit for the remainder of the year.Sefolosha, 33, isn’t allowing himself to be defeated by the injury, though.The league veteran was spotted during Wednesday’s practice in a thick black knee brace, his customary
  
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• Trump says 'bump stocks' are gone, may use executive order to ban device

  28-02-2018 22:37
  Washington • President Donald Trump launched into a freewheeling, televised strategy session with lawmakers over the issue of guns by declaring that he will unilaterally bar so-called "bump stocks" and asking Congress to send him one "terrific" bill aimed at reducing gun violence."I'm going to write that out," Trump said of bump stocks - devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire like fully automatic weapons — while speaking to lawmakers gathered at the White House for a much-to
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Hog Heaven

  28-02-2018 22:28
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, March 1, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>Reason for Gun Violence<br>Big Talkers<br>No Chance of Being Contradicted<br>NRA School<br>This is the NRA<br>Echo Chamber Chumps<br>Russian Medal Scandal<br>Utah Priorities<br>Crazy Talk<br>GOP Goes Clubbing<br>Want more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Utah Jazz replay every single turnover from Houston Rockets game in attempt to fix problems

  28-02-2018 22:27
  SALT LAKE CITY — There was a difficult cross-court pass here.A bone-headed play there.Trying to split a tough hole on occasion, and so on and so forth.Members of the Utah Jazz relived all 22 turnovers from Monday’s 96-85 loss to the Houston Rockets ahead of Wednesday’s practice.As the team tries to make a playoff push this second half of the season, Jazz coach Quin Snyder wanted to drive this message home to his players.“We showed every turnover that we made against Houst
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz offense stuck in neutral as second unit tries to find its identity

  28-02-2018 22:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... ’s 96-85 loss to the Houston Rockets. And Crowder and O’Neale have given the Jazz a tough and gritty defensive duo on the wings. Article continues below Relat ...
  
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• Jazz offense stuck in neutral as second unit tries to find its identity

  28-02-2018 22:05
  A winning streak can mask an issue that needs to be solved.Perhaps that’s why not many cared much when Rodney Hood and Joe Johnson were dealt at the trade deadline a few weeks ago. The Utah Jazz went on to win four consecutive games without Hood and Johnson, who were dealt to Cleveland and Houston respectively. It was difficult to miss their presence in the midst of 11 consecutive victories.But here’s the reality: The Jazz do miss Hood and Johnson with a matchup against the Minnesota
  
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• Rock On: Krystkowiak uses his 'agency'

  28-02-2018 22:04
  AGENT ANGSTSports agents are people too.Just not the kind Larry Krystkowiak wants to know.“I don’t have an agent,” the Ute coach said. “Can’t stand them. No need for them.”How awesome is this?For once, a coach thinks there’s something less useful than the media.UP NEXT: DELTA FORCE
  
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• Shorthanded Utes go into Pac-12 women’s tournament looking for everyone to step up

  28-02-2018 22:01
  Perhaps somewhere in the depths of numerology there’s an all-encapsulating explanation of the significance of the number eight to the Utes women’s basketball postseason hopes. They finished the season with eight conference wins, earned the No. 8 seed in the Pac-12 Tournament and likely will go into the postseason with eight healthy players available.The number of players available plays most significantly into the plans of Utah coach Lynne Roberts, who has prepared as though the tea
  
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• Letter: Now’s not the time to impose a fee on electric vehicle owners

  28-02-2018 22:00
  The Utah Legislature wants to impose a $150 fee for electric vehicle owners. Seriously? Year after year, Utahns contend with terrible air quality. EVs are a great way to improve air quality, and putting a fee on EV owners right now is just a bad idea.I get the logic that EVs use the roads, thus need to help pay for them, but EVs make up less than 0.05 percent of the cars on Utah roads. With EV use this small, it’s not as if the transportation fund is losing a ton of money, certainly not en
  
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• Trib Caucus: Guns don’t kill people, reporters kill people

  28-02-2018 21:51
  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.Some of us are still waking up after yesterday’s late night vote-a-rama, but I guess that means things wil
  
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• Salt Lake City daycare worker admits to ‘slamming’ a baby onto the bathroom floor and breaking his legs

  28-02-2018 21:43
  A Salt Lake City daycare worker has been arrested on charges of child abuse for allegedly breaking a baby boy’s legs last week.The 66-year-old woman had been watching the boy — who is younger than a year old, according to Salt Lake City police Detective Greg Wilking — at a daycare she runs out of her Salt Lake City home.After her arrest on Monday, the woman admitted to “slamming the child down on the bathroom floor, feet first,” according to court documents. She als
  
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• Georgia teacher in custody after report of shots at school

  28-02-2018 21:30
  Dalton, Ga. • Police officers responded to reports of shots fired inside a Georgia high school on Wednesday, and a teacher who was apparently barricaded in a classroom was taken into custody, authorities said.Police in Dalton tweeted that no children were ever in danger. A student apparently suffered an ankle injury running inside the school as the building was evacuated.The incident happened two weeks after a Florida school shooting left 17 students and faculty dead, put the country on edg
  
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• Senate votes down attempt to ban cities from charging fees on shopping bags

  28-02-2018 21:29
  The Senate voted down Wednesday an attempt to ban cities and counties from imposing fees on shopping bags, bottles, cans, cups or other containers — or even regulating them by, for example, banning plastic bags, as Park City has done.Senators gave SB218 a 13-10 plurality — but it died because it failed to achieve the 15 votes required for bills to pass in the 29-member body.The defeat came as Sen. Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City, said it was ironic that conservative Republicans &mdas
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: BYU biologist explains why he believes in evolution and why all Latter-day Saints can do the same

  28-02-2018 21:24
  Steve Peck believes in evolution, studies evolution, teaches evolution.He also believes in Mormonism, studies it and no doubt preaches it.There need not be any conflict between the two, insists Peck, a writer and scientist who teaches evolutionary biology at LDS Church-owned Brigham Young University. In fact, in the latest edition of “Mormon Land,” he wonders why not all Latter-day Saints believe in both and discusses why they should.Listen here:
  
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• School district considers debt collectors for unpaid meals

  28-02-2018 21:21
  Reno, Nev. • Frustrated by growing debts, the Washoe County School District has discussed using debt collectors to recoup money from parents for unpaid school meals; something the district says has been done in Utah and elsewhere.Students have racked up nearly $90,000 in unpaid meals in the first seven months of the school year, up from a record $66,000 in unpaid meals for all of the previous school, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported .Attempts to stop the upward trend have been met with har
  
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• NBA academies to include top female players camps

  28-02-2018 21:19
  New York • The NBA is expanding its international academies to include developmental camps for top female prospects.The league announced Wednesday that the first camp will be held in Mexico City from March 9-11 and will bring in the top 20-25 players ages 17 and under from the Carribean, Mexico, Central America and South America.The camp will be overseen by Ruth Riley, Jennifer Azzi and former college coach Blair Hardiek. Besides playing basketball, the participants in the camp will also ta
  
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• Tribune movie critic knows what will probably win Oscars — but here's what he thinks should win

  28-02-2018 21:15
  There’s no room for sentimentality if you want to win the Oscar pool at your office or Academy Awards viewing party.“Keep your own personal views of the nominees out of things,” advises Tom O’Neil, editor and founder of GoldDerby.com, the show-biz awards prediction site. “You’re predicting what Academy members will think of contenders. No one cares what you think.”And in a wide-open year, picking the movie with the most nominations to win the top prize a
  
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• Navajo Nation cancels plans for wild horse hunt in Arizona

  28-02-2018 21:14
  Farmington, N.M. • The Navajo Nation has canceled a planned wild horse hunt aimed at thinning a herd in an Arizona area after opponents of the hunt organized a protest against it.The tribe’s Division of Natural Resources rescinded on Monday a proclamation declaring the 2018 feral horse management hunt designed to remove 60 horses from the Carrizo Mountains in northeastern Arizona, according to a notice on the Navajo Nation Department of Fish and Wildlife’s website.Navajo Nation
  
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  28-02-2018 21:02 via twitter.com
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• After a spike in deaths, bill advances to require jails to report how many inmates die every year

  28-02-2018 21:02
  Jails and prisons in Utah may be forced to start reporting how many inmates die in custody every year.The Senate voted 27-0 to pass SB205 on Wednesday and sent it to the House.It follows a spike in deaths in county jails.“I think we should be asking questions. Why are people dying in jail?” said Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, the bill’s sponsor.“Sometimes up to 80 percent of the population of county jails are filled with people who have not been convicted of a crime. Th
  
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• Water districts challenge judge in Navajo settlement

  28-02-2018 21:01
  Santa Fe, N.M. • Water districts in northern New Mexico sought to disqualify a state judge Tuesday and overturn a major settlement with the Navajo Nation in a simmering dispute about rights to water from the San Juan River.A motion filed with the New Mexico state Court of Appeals seeks to disqualify James Wechsler as the presiding judge in the San Juan Basin water rights adjudication for failing to disclose prior legal work on behalf of Navajos.The court challenge, now among related appeals
  
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• Conor Sen: Trump’s economic gamble might make sense

  28-02-2018 21:00
  President Donald Trump is conducting a risky experiment on the U.S. economy: He’s allowing the government to run large budget deficits — some of the largest ever outside wartime or recession — in the hopes that this will somehow put growth on a higher trajectory. Irresponsible as that might sound, it actually makes some sense.In the long run, economic growth is a function of two variables: population and productivity. For decades, America had plenty of both. Birth rates were am
  
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• Legislative committee endorses bill that would clear roadblock for Tesla to sell new cars in Utah

  28-02-2018 20:58
  Tesla may be one step closer to the legislative victory it needs to finally start selling cars in Utah. The House Business and Labor Committee on Wednesday voted 8-1 to advance HB369, which would allow Tesla to own and operate car dealerships in Utah. Tesla opened its first Utah dealership in 2015 but had to quickly downgrade its store to a service center after the Utah Attorney General’s Office ruled that the dealership was in violation of state law.Under the Motor Vehicle Franchise Act,
  
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• Winter storm warning at Lake Tahoe; 5 feet of snow possible

  28-02-2018 20:53
  Reno, Nev. • The National Weather Service has issued a series of winter storm warnings and advisories across most of northern Nevada the next three days as the biggest storm of the season moves into the region.A winter storm warning goes into effect at 10 p.m. Wednesday for the Lake Tahoe-area through 10 a.m. Saturday.The service says anywhere from 2 to 5 feet of snow is expected in the upper elevations, with 1 to 3 feet at lake level.A winter weather advisory runs from 4 p.m. Thursday to 1
  
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• Interior Department veterans: Proposed overhaul is flawed

  28-02-2018 20:48
  Denver • U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s plan for a major realignment to put more of his department’s decision-makers in the field has a fundamental flaw in the eyes of some who spent their careers making those decisions: They’re already out there.Eleven former Interior Department officials with decades of experience in both Washington and in local offices told The Associated Press the agency already has a well-established system for decentralized decision-making.&ldq
  
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• Need some fresh wallpaper for your phone? Of course you do. #WallpaperWednesday https://t.co/GD1ca3dDLk

  28-02-2018 20:39 via twitter.com
  
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• How to forget UTA’s tarnished past? Bill advances to change its name — and raise car registration fees by 64%, or more, for transit

  28-02-2018 20:35
  To help erase memories of its scandal-tarred past and shift focus to coming changes, the Utah Transit Authority could soon have a new name: Transit District Utah.But that is not the biggest change in rewritten legislation to reorganize the agency and change how Utah will fund future transit and highways. SB136 now also would raise registration fees on each car in the state by at least $28 a year — and up to $78 for electric cars — to generate an extra $80 million a year for transit s
  
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• Trump calls Sessions’ handling of Russia probe ‘disgraceful’

  28-02-2018 20:30
  Washington • President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on his attorney general Wednesday, describing as “disgraceful” his handling of Republican complaints that the FBI abused its surveillance power during the early stages of the Russia probe.Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that the Justice Department’s inspector general will evaluate whether prosecutors and agents wrongly obtained a warrant to monitor the communications of a Trump associate. This is in response to pressure fr
  
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• More than half of Utah teens who say they drink alcohol also use e-cigarettes, survey finds

  28-02-2018 20:16
  Three of every five young Utahns who reported recently drinking alcohol also said they had used electronic cigarettes or a vaping device, state health officials said Wednesday.Those findings, released jointly by the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) and the Utah Department of Human Services (DHS), were part of an annual youth survey that offers glimpses of how Utah youth might be combining usage of alcohol and tobacco products, including e-cigarettes.Students in grade 8 and high-school sophomores
  
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• Third-seeded BYU women face uphill climb in WCC tourney

  28-02-2018 20:09
  BYU’s men’s basketball team probably is going to have to defeat perennial nemesis San Diego, second-seeded Saint Mary’s and top-seeded Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference tournament to get the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Coincidentally, BYU’s women’s team faces a similar path to the Big Dance.The BYU women, like the men, placed third in the WCC race behind champion Gonzaga and runner-up Saint Mary’s and face a sixth-seeded San Diego t
  
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• Year in residence: Utah's Devante Doutrive a potential centerpiece for the future

  28-02-2018 20:04
  Utah guard Devante Doutrive has played basketball since the first grade, and he can’t ever remember ever going this long without taking part in a bonafide game. A freshman sitting this season out as a redshirt year, Doutrive spends game days on the sidelines in sweats or street clothes. During games, he’s sometimes relegated to a seat behind the bench because there are more bodies than sideline space. Often during pregame warm-ups, he’s shagging basketballs and throwing passes
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump isn’t hiring enough friends and family

  28-02-2018 20:00
  Washington • Once again, the dishonest haters in the fake news media are dishonestly and fakely hating on President Trump, this time by falsely claiming that nepotism and cronyism are bad.They say the president should not name his personal pilot, John Dunkin, to run the $16 billion, 47,000-person Federal Aviation Administration. And they are offended because Ivanka Trump, asked whether she believed her father’s denials of sexual misconduct, called this an “inappropriate question
  
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• Senate votes to ban ‘gag clauses’ that stop pharmacists from telling customers how a $90 drug could cost them only $25

  28-02-2018 19:31
  Utah lawmakers are moving to ban “gag clauses” that prohibit pharmacists from telling customers when they could save money by paying cash for prescriptions rather than using their health insurance.The Senate voted 25-0 on Wednesday to pass SB208, and sent it to the House.Sen. Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City, a pharmacist, is sponsoring the bill to try to stop what he says is an occasional abuse that he sees.Because of clauses in contracts with companies that manage drug benefits, “T
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run newsletter: The Jazz have had a turnover problem since the All-Star break

  28-02-2018 19:25 via sportspyder.com
  ... hat Mitchell has meant to a struggling Louisville fanbase. [ Trib] 4. Do the Jazz lack playoff toughness? That’s the conclusion Kurt Kragthorpe came to after...
  
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• [Real Ball Insiders] - Battle of the Greenhorns: Donovan Mitchell vs Ben Simmons

  28-02-2018 19:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... nty-one year old rookie shooting guard. That is Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz. Picked 13th overall in the 2017 NBA Draft, and immediately traded to the Ja ...
  
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• Feds approve uranium mine expansions in Utah’s San Juan County, one of them near Bears Ears

  28-02-2018 19:23
  The Bureau of Land Management has issued final approvals for two uranium mine expansions in southeast Utah, including one on the backdoor of what used to be Bears Ears National Monument.Bullseye Canyon, the site of uranium deposits tapped by the Daneros Mine, had been included within the boundaries of the monument proposed by five Indian tribes, but was left out by the Obama administration when it created the monument in December 2016.Although its Utah mines are idled in the face of stagnant ura
  
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• Weekly Run newsletter: The Jazz have had a turnover problem since the All-Star break

  28-02-2018 19:21
  Think you’ve had it up to here with Jazz turnovers? You’re likely nowhere near Quin Snyder levels.Asked a question about Utah’s 22 turnovers against the Rockets, Snyder offered the coaching tip he’d give his players.“Just don’t throw the pass, because there is a guy there,” he said. “You can’t throw the ball to the other team.”Straightforward.The Western Conference playoff picture is more muddy for the Jazz (31-30). And that’s bec
  
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