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• Ramesh Ponnuru: How polls mislead on guns and immigration

  01-03-2018 23:59
  Americans tell pollsters that they want tougher gun laws and legal status for illegal immigrants who came here as minors — the so-called Dreamers. So why haven’t such laws been enacted?Catherine Rampell writes in The Washington Post that it’s a mistake to blame “Washington dysfunction.” The real culprits, she says, are Republican politicians who are out of step with public opinion, even among Republican voters.She stacks the deck a little in making her case. It&rsqu
  
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• Rep. Mike Noel proposes a Utah highway name change to honor President Donald Trump

  01-03-2018 23:35
  Make highways great again?Rep. Mike Noel is proposing to rename a route through southern Utah as the “Donald J. Trump National Parks Highway.”Noel, R-Kanab, famous for fighting the federal government over public lands, says it would help send the message that “contrary to some beliefs out there, Donald Trump really is a supporter of public lands. He’s a big supporter of national parks.”Part of his motive for introducing HB481, said Noel, is to send thanks for Trump
  
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• Salem Hills disrupts Dixie's flow to win state quarterfinal matchup

  01-03-2018 23:16
  Orem • Dixie waited for a good shot.And waited.With no shot clock in play, the Flyers held the basketball for almost two minutes. Salem Hills senior James Nelson had had enough. He leaped into a passing lane, stole the ball before blazing down the court and registering a rim-shaking dunk that deflated the Flyers. Salem Hills muscled out the 56-46 victory in Thursday’s Class 4A boys’ basketball state quarterfinal.“I thought our guys did an excellent job defensively, and we
  
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• Colorado takes down Utes in Pac-12 tournament opener

  01-03-2018 22:48
  Seattle • Utah’s hopes of advancing past the first round of the Pac-12 women’s basketball tournament for the first time in four years were dashed during a cold-shooting second period from which the Utes never recovered.Kennedy Leonard scored 15 points and Annika Jank added 12 to lift the ninth-seeded Buffaloes to a 66-56 victory over Utah in the opening game of the tournament Thursday.Tanaeya BoClair had 12 points and Tori Williams added 11 for the eighth-seeded Utes (17-13, 8-1
  
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• Wife of Mormon founder Joseph Smith speaks, as do other prominent LDS women, in new online volume

  01-03-2018 22:43
  Emma Hale Smith, first wife of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, died nearly 140 years ago, but she is speaking to Latter-day Saints today and reaching a wider audience than ever.Smith’s words and those of more than 50 other early and contemporary Mormon women are now available online for free.The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced in a news release Thursday that the talks compiled for the 2017 print volume of “At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter
  
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• Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell wins third straight Western Conference Rookie of the Month honors

  01-03-2018 22:30
  If garnering NBA Rookie of the Month honors is an indication of how voting for Rookie of the Year will go, Utah's Donovan Mitchell and Philadelphia's Ben Simmons are indeed the frontrunners for the award.The pair received the honors for the month of February on Thursday for the Western and Eastern Conferences, respectively. It is the third time each has won it this season, with it being the third straight month for Mitchell (Boston's Jayson Tatum won it for the East in December. Los Angeles forw
  
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• [NBA] - Donovan Mitchell Named Western Conference Rookie of the Month for February

  01-03-2018 22:13 via sportspyder.com
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• Former CEO of Utah multilevel marketing company sentenced to prison for tax evasion

  01-03-2018 22:11
  The former chief executive of the Salt Lake City-based multilevel marketing company Max International has been sentenced to a year in prison for tax evasion and ordered to pay nearly $355,000 in restitution.Peter Nordberg, 62, a resident of Alameda, Calif., who formerly lived in Draper, was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson. He had pleaded guilty in September to the tax evasion charge.According to court documents, Nordberg — who was CEO from 2007 to 2011 of Max Internat
  
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• Three months in a row? Three months in a row. #TakeNote >> on.nba.com/2oxqyfi https://t.co/aaBFfrUhOb

  01-03-2018 22:10 via twitter.com
  
  Three months in a row?Three months in a row.#TakeNote >> on.nba.com/2oxqyfi https://t.co/aaBFfrUhOb
  
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• Orem's Puka Nacua buries Desert Hills in playoffs ... again

  01-03-2018 22:07
  Orem • Orem High School had established itself as the clear favorite after the first quarter. They had banished pretty much any doubt that they would advance to the state semifinals by halftime.“Puka [Nacua] I think made his first eight shots,” Orem coach Golden Holt said. “And Puka can’t be guarded — whether he’ll make his shot or not is the question. So when he makes eight shots, good things are going to happen for us.”The Tigers grabbed a 30-poin
  
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• Utah women learn how to play instruments, form bands, write songs and perform live — all in three days

  01-03-2018 21:35
  The women pick up their guitars and drum sticks — some for the first time. Their instructor, also a woman, teaches them how to hold the guitars and move their hands into basic chords. A few begin strumming chord transitions — very slowly.Two and a half days later, these women will be rocking out original songs in front of a live audience. Welcome to Rock Camp for Womyn.“Making music is about being fearless, about being willing to jump off that ledge and say, ‘I don’
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jazz fans answer funny questions about Donovan Mitchell

  01-03-2018 21:07 via sportspyder.com
  ... How well do Utah Jazz fans know their star, Donovan Mitchell? In this video, Jazz fans speculate on Mitchell's likes and dislikes. ...
  
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• Billy Graham helped give white evangelicals a pass on civil rights, scholars say

  01-03-2018 21:04
  During the civil rights movement, Billy Graham said he was a preacher, not a prophet. And while he is remembered for speaking out against racism and segregation during his later revivals, some scholars argue that he gave white evangelicals a safe alternative to civil rights engagement.The Rev. William E. Pannell of the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., said Graham’s message of personal salvation helped give African-Americans the perception that whatever he “was talking
  
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• ‘It’s time to act right now’ — Utah House speaker bullish on passing gun and school safety laws as state launches new commission

  01-03-2018 20:58
  Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes said Thursday he expects lawmakers will address gun violence before they adjourn next week, then take up additional ideas for protecting school and public safety in the coming months.Despite what Hughes called the “record pace” on Utah’s Capitol Hill for moving legislation in the waning days of the 2018 session, the House speaker said the process for debating gun safety will be thorough and deliberative.“It’s not like the executive bra
  
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• Jazz fans answer funny questions about Donovan Mitchell

  01-03-2018 20:57
  How well do Utah Jazz fans know their star, Donovan Mitchell? In this video, Jazz fans speculate on Mitchell's likes and dislikes.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Quin Snyder calls for the Jazz to improve mindset and toughness

  01-03-2018 20:56 via sportspyder.com
  ...game on Monday, you could definitely see what Snyder was talking about. The Jazz must be tougher, and more mentally sharp if they are going to make it to the ...
  
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• Utah’s tough new drunken driving law likely will remain in place, as lawmakers kill bill to delay 0.05 DUI standard

  01-03-2018 20:18
  Utah’s tough new drunken driving law will likely go into effect as planned the day before New Year’s Eve, as a bill to push back the effective date by one year failed to get enough support during a legislative hearing Wednesday.The law — which lowers the state’s blood-alcohol content for driving under the influence from 0.08 to 0.05 — is the first of its kind in the country.House Bill 345, sponsored by Rep. Karen Kwan, D-Murray, would have given groups most affected
  
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• Raul Neto is out for tomorrow's game against Minnesota.

  01-03-2018 20:18 via twitter.com
  Raul Neto is out for tomorrow's game against Minnesota.
  
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• Gonzaga’s interest in bolting to MWC, San Diego’s coaching situation add intrigue to WCC tournament in Las Vegas

  01-03-2018 20:18
  Las Vegas • Just when it appeared the West Coast Conference men’s basketball tournament would be short on drama and intrigue again this year, some off-the-court happenings earlier this week could change everything. San Diego coach Lamont Smith was put on paid administrative leave Monday after being arrested Sunday on suspicion of domestic abuse and won’t be on the bench Saturday when the Toreros face BYU. How will the much-improved Toreros respond? Then the San Diego Union-Tribu
  
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• Alexandra Petri: Hope Hicks’ many opportunities

  01-03-2018 20:11
  After admitting to the House Intelligence Committee that she was occasionally called upon to tell “white lies” for the president, Hope Hicks has announced that she is leaving the White House. She says these things are not related. She stayed for many Scaramuccis longer than her predecessor. But in the end it got her, too. It always does. She was the Final Girl, hoping against Hope to make it through, but she should never have gone into that House in the first place.“Hope is out
  
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• Utah lawmakers made an abysmal video of themselves ‘rapping’ to the ‘Fresh Prince’ theme to explain how laws are made

  01-03-2018 20:07
  Our representatives have taken the time to explain how a law is made...with a surprise twist. Give it a listen and share so all your friends can know how laws are made! #utpol @GHughes51 @BradWilsonGOP @kimfcoleman @NormThurston @mikemckellutah @RepJimDunnigan @JohnKnotwellUT pic.twitter.com/KqaUSqOKtC— Utah House of Reps (@UtahReps) February 28, 2018Citizens may endlessly debate the efficacy of the lawmakers elected to represent them, but on this one point, there can be absolutely no disp
  
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• Evangeline Lilly, who plays Marvel’s The Wasp and was a castaway on ‘Lost,’ coming to FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention

  01-03-2018 20:05
  Evangeline Lilly, who is set to become Marvel’s next movie superhero, is the newest name on the roster of celebrities for FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention.Convention organizers announced Wednesday that Lilly, who will star this summer in Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” had signed on for the convention, set for Sept. 6-8 at the Salt Palace Convention Center.Lilly, 38, shot to stardom when she was cast as Kate Austen, one of the castaways on J.J. Abrams’ confounding s
  
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• Juan Diego claws past Hurricane to return to state semifinals

  01-03-2018 20:04
  Orem • Juan Diego’s Chinonso Opara leaped to grab a rebound and promptly jammed the basketball with authority against Hurricane.It was the game’s first points and signaled that the Soaring Eagle came to play. Jackson Last and the Tigers, however, had something to say about that.Hurricane battled back from 12 points down to close the gap to two with time dwindling in the fourth quarter. But Juan Diego, led by Jason Ricketts and point guard Matt Kitzman, escaped with a 59-54 victo
  
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• One lawmaker says he’s nervous ‘about empowering the citizenry,’ as committee pushes bill to delay effective date of voter initiatives

  01-03-2018 20:02
  A House committee advanced a bill Thursday to push the pause button on any of the ballot initiatives that may pass in November’s election as one lawmaker openly worried about giving citizens too much power to derail the Legislature’s “deliberative“decision-making.
  “I’m nervous about the concept of empowering the citizenry to intervene so swiftly and rapidly as to even derail the deliberative and systematic processes of the Legislature,” newly appointed R
  
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• Sim Gill announces bid for third term as Salt Lake County district attorney

  01-03-2018 19:49
  Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill is seeking a third four-year term as the county’s top prosecutor law enforcement official. The 56-year-old Democrat made the announcement Wednesday, joined by supporters including County Mayor Ben McAdams, former Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank and former Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder — who resigned last year to take the job as Moab police chief.“We run our office with justice, fairness and equality, and it is paramoun
  
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• CAUTION: Cuteness overload 😍 #KiaROY🕷️ twitter.com/nickfowers/sta…

  01-03-2018 19:44 via twitter.com
  CAUTION: Cuteness overload 😍#KiaROY🕷️ twitter.com/nickfowers/sta…
  
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• Someone shattered car windows in South Jordan by firing steel ball bearings into traffic, possibly with a slingshot

  01-03-2018 19:41
  Police are looking for someone who shot out the front passenger window of three cars by firing steel ball bearings into traffic on Wednesday night.South Jordan police think the person used a slingshot to shoot the ball bearings into the car windows from the west side of Bangerter Highway, just north of the 11400 South intersection. The intersection is currently under construction and there are no security cameras to pull footage from, so police are asking for the public’s help in identifyi
  
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• Senate gives final approval to allow more toll roads in Utah — perhaps beginning with Little Cottowood Canyon

  01-03-2018 19:40
  The Utah Senate gave the final green light Thursday to a bill that could lead to creating more toll roads throughout the state.It voted 26-0 to agree to House amendments to SB71, and sent it to Gov. Gary Herbert for his possible signature.The bill allows use of newer high-tech electronic tolling methods. That could include systems with cameras that read license plates, deduct toll amounts from online accounts set up by drivers, or send bills to car owners’ homes.Senate President Wayne Nied
  
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• Kroger joins other big retailers, tightens gun restrictions

  01-03-2018 19:36
  New York • Kroger will no longer sell guns to anyone under 21 at the stores it owns, becoming the third major retailer this week to put restrictions in place that are stronger than federal laws.The nation’s largest grocery chain sells guns from 44 of its Fred Meyer stores in the West, but said Thursday that it’s become clear that gun retail outlets must go beyond what current U.S. laws requires.In a company release, Kroger Co. said, “In response to the tragic events in Par
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Corporations are people with, sometimes, a conscience

  01-03-2018 19:14
  “Corporations are people, my friend.”— Mitt RomneyAnd there is occasionally evidence that some corporations, like some people, have a conscience. That there are some things they will not do, even for money.Or, perhaps, even if making money is still the most important thing to them, some corporate leaders are smart enough to read the market and determine that falling behind public expectations of social progress is just plain bad for business.We have seen it as corporate leaders
  
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• Derrick talks about how his only familiarity with Salt Lake City before coming to the Jazz was from a school report… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-03-2018 19:08 via twitter.com
  Derrick talks about how his only familiarity with Salt Lake City before coming to the Jazz was from a school report… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Indonesian-Malaysian street food comes to Sandy with many surprises, from curried goat to green jelly cubes on shaved ice

  01-03-2018 18:54
  Sandy • The 17,000 islands that make up Indonesia are home to the fourth-largest population in the world. But few of us in Utah know anything about Indonesia’s food.The owners of MakanMakan, an Indonesian-influenced restaurant found in a commercial center next to a diamond dealer and chain breakfast joint, hope to change that. With their unexpectedly delightful take on the street food of their youth and their travels to Southeast Asia, they may just do so. Being perhaps the Salt Lake
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - The Jazz Working to Correct a Turnover Problem

  01-03-2018 18:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... m .  From NBAMiner.com If you play around with the table, you’d see that the Jazz are one of the 10 teams with the most bad passes that lead to turnovers (5.5 ...
  
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• Two dead after head-on crash on Legacy Parkway

  01-03-2018 18:05
  Two people have died from severe injuries suffered in a head-on crash that involved a 91-year-old man driving the wrong way on Legacy Parkway.Donald Egginton, of Bountiful, was driving south on the northbound lanes of the highway at about 1:15 p.m. on Wednesday.Most of the oncoming traffic swerved out of the way, according to the Utah Highway Patrol. But the man’s car collided head-on with a car carrying two people near Glover Lane.UHP on Thursday announced that Egginton and the passenger
  
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• Monson: Lies, damn lies and statistics surrounding Utah’s Utes

  01-03-2018 17:57
  Statistics and factoids sometimes can be misleading and meaningless.Sometimes they mislead not at all and are full of meaning.And sometimes they can straight blow you away.All of that applies to S&F involving the Utah Utes.It was that famous basketball coach (and part-time author) Mark Twain who attributed the following quote to assistant coach (and part-time British prime minister) Benjamin Disraeli: “There are three kinds of lies — lies, damn lies and statistics.”Twain al
  
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• Letter: Per GOP reasoning, let’s put a high tax on everything gun-related

  01-03-2018 17:07
  Legislators in Utah say that they are looking for ideas regarding guns and school safety. Here’s one: Take a page from the Republican handbook regarding health insurance. They tell us that anyone can have health insurance as long as they can pay for it. It’s called “access.” They don’t tell us that some premiums have risen so high that the common person cannot afford them.The same thing can apply to guns. Why not put a high tax on guns, ammo clips and other gun-rela
  
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• In three years, a Salt Lake City student has gone from not being able to write his name to becoming a science geek and potential theater buff

  01-03-2018 17:05
  When he arrived at Salt Lake City’s Whittier Elementary School as a second-grader, Brandon Montes couldn’t spell his name or read three-letter words.Now, the 11-year-old fifth-grader not only has earned his way out of a full-time special-education program and into regular classes in most subjects, he finds enjoyment in a range of topics as diverse as times tables, chemical reactions and … musical theater? That’s a new one, actually.
  Montes’ effort and dedication in
  
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• Letter: America’s without peer in mass shootings, gun ownership and military might — maybe being No. 1 isn't the way to go

  01-03-2018 17:03
  The United States has the most mass shootings, the most school shootings and the most guns per person, but let’s not forget that the United States also has the strongest and most powerful military in the world.It’s time that we, as a nation, stop being No. 1. It’s time that the lives of these people and children stop being just numbers that keep adding up one by one.Gregoria Alegria, Salt Lake City
  
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• Trump says some lawmakers too fearful of NRA to act on guns

  01-03-2018 17:00
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Putting fellow Republicans in the hot seat, President Donald Trump is calling for quick and substantial changes to the nation’s gun laws even as he criticizes lawmakers for being too fearful of the National Rifle Association to act.Trump held a freewheeling, televised meeting with lawmakers at the White House that stretched for an hour Wednesday, and he rejected both his party’s incremental approach and its strategy that has stalled action on gun legislation.G
  
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• Vatican magazine denounces nuns’ servitude

  01-03-2018 16:58
  Vatican City • A Vatican magazine has denounced how nuns are often treated like indentured servants by cardinals and bishops, for whom they cook and clean for next to no pay.The March edition of “Women Church World,” the monthly women’s magazine of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, hit newsstands Thursday. Its exposé on the underpaid labor and unappreciated intellect of religious sisters confirmed that the magazine is increasingly becoming the imprin
  
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• Kragthorpe: Here's SLCC's Matt Lindsey, on JC basketball, Olympus memories and his father's Jazz job

  01-03-2018 16:56
  TaylorsvilleThis would have been a better story in the first half of February, when the Lindsey family couldn’t lose.Even so, February was a remarkable month for Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey and his basketball-playing sons — Jake, a Baylor University junior guard, and Matt, a Salt Lake Community College freshman guard. And this is a good week to check in with Matt Lindsey, with his former Olympus High School teammates playing for what he believes would be a third straight stat
  
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• Sherman Alexie apologizes amid sexual misconduct allegations

  01-03-2018 16:50
  Seattle • Sherman Alexie, one of the country’s most prominent authors, issued an apology Wednesday amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.“Over the years, I have done things that have harmed other people, including those I love most deeply,” Alexie said in a statement released to The Seattle Times late Wednesday. “To those whom I have hurt, I genuinely apologize. I am so sorry.”Allegations against Alexie have been vague, referring to unwanted advances a
  
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• Letter: Let people have guns, but prohibit them from touching them

  01-03-2018 16:10
  Finally, I get it. For decades, every time tighter gun controls were proposed, the NRA and other gun huggers would trot out the mantra ”Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” I dismissed the credo as so much propaganda until my epiphany yesterday.The NRA is absolutely correct. Guns don’t kill people. Guns don’t pull their own triggers. They innocently rest wherever they are placed.People with malicious, even murderous intent force guns to commit atrocities the
  
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• Letter: Political parties shouldn’t dictate how candidates feel about each issue

  01-03-2018 16:08
  Candidates and elected officials are responsible to their constituents, not to a party. Candidates are drawn to the party whose constitution and bylaws most closely (not necessarily entirely) mirror their own viewsPolitical parties have no business dictating to elected officials or to party candidates what they should stand for or whether or not they support the party constitution, bylaws and platform. It is redundant and confusing, as is, with parties having a national constitution/platform, a
  
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• Letter: Arming teachers isn’t going to eliminate the danger around us

  01-03-2018 16:06
  The most disturbing aspect to the call for arming schoolteachers is that it would establish as normal the idea that the way to make our lives safer is to protect ourselves from danger, instead of eliminating the danger in the first place. This is not normal. This is a defeatist attitude and a futile approach. If we accept we should tolerate danger in our world, we can never protect ourselves enough. This approach puts us on a path of never-ending escalation in which no one is ever safe.John Pace
  
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• For these family history buffs, DNA testing brought everything from shock to clarity, while creating connections and dispelling family legends

  01-03-2018 16:06
  No Cherokee line after allGenealogical research has been a multigenerational obsession for the family of Layton novelist Mette Ivie Harrison.She and her 10 siblings were named from ancestors on their extensive family tree. She, for instance, was named for her Danish great-grandmother, who had emigrated to America as a young woman after converting to Mormonism against her parents’ wishes.“Mom used to explain to me how I was related to Winston Churchill, [Pilgrims] John Alden and Prisc
  
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• Most Americans think Trump is racist, according to a new poll

  01-03-2018 16:04
  Washington • Most Americans think President Donald Trump is a racist, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.More than half of adults think his policies have worsened the lives of Muslims and Hispanics, while almost half believe the president has worsened the lives of African Americans. Of the 57 percent of adults who say the nation's leader is a racist, 8 in 10 are black, three-quarters are Hispanic and almost half are white.About 85 percent
  
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• Significant weekend snowfall expected to cover northwestern Utah starting Friday

  01-03-2018 16:01
  Gusty winds Thursday precede a cold front expected to cover northwestern Utah with snow as the weekend begins.Snow is expected to begin falling Friday — in time to affect the evening commute along the northern Wasatch Front — and will likely continue through Saturday night, according to the National Weather Service. The NWS also warns travelers in western Utah and along the Interstate 80 corridor to beware of strong crosswinds blowing up to 50 mph on Thursday night.“Heavy&rdquo
  
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• Forward Derrick Favors joins the Weekly Run podcast to talk Jazz and hip-hop

  01-03-2018 15:55
  Reporters can be close to the locker room, and they can know a lot about what goes on inside it. But there’s nothing like being inside it.Derrick Favors, the Jazz’s longest-tenured member, is inside the locker room, and for the first time on the Weekly Run podcast, he gives insight from a player perspective. We dive into a lot: life in Utah, dealing with injuries, blocking out trade rumors, and why he gets no love for his dunks. But for a piece de resistance, Favors talks about his e
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Russian President Putin warns he has nuclear missiles that can evade U.S. detection

  01-03-2018 15:53
  Russian President Putin warns he has nuclear missiles that can evade U.S. detection. Analysis: Lawmakers who got EnergySolutions money are more likely to vote in its favor.Happy Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country has nuclear weapons that can evade any U.S. defense systems. During his state-of-the-nation address last night, the Russian president’s speech was interspersed with video of his nation’s weaponry, including underwater drones, a hypersonic system that
  
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