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• Bagley Cartoon: Gunning for Abortion

  09-04-2018 23:56
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, April 10, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>Champagne Swamp<br>Voter Suppression Goal <br>A Lawyering Man of Briefs <br>Attention Must Be Paid <br>Orwellian News Broadcast<br>The Wrecking Crew <br>MAGA Magritte<br>Family History<br>Getting to the Bottom of It <br>Warmonger <br> Want more Bagley? Become a fan on Faceb
  
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• Woman struck, killed while chasing her dog on Virginia interstate

  09-04-2018 23:49
  Stafford, Va. • Authorities say a woman who was chasing her dog on Interstate 95 in Virginia after she wrecked her car has been killed. Her dog also was struck and died.Virginia State Police say 28-year-old Katie M. Mason was driving Saturday night near Stafford when her car ran off the road and struck a guardrail.Mason's dog escaped. She chased after it in the southbound lanes and was struck by another car. Mason died at the scene, and her dog also was hit.Charles Chao told The Associated
  
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• Karen Attiah: Let’s pay Trump to leave office

  09-04-2018 23:38
  President Donald Trump says that in many ways, the United States’ infrastructure is like “a Third World country” and is an “embarrassment.” I don’t often agree with our Twitter warrior in chief, but the guy’s got a point. America’s roads are crumbling. Our airports are retrograde: Only four are in the global top 50, and Denver’s takes the top U.S. spot at No. 29. Sad!This gives me an idea. If Trump thinks that the United States is truly like
  
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• Free agent-to-be Derrick Favors finds his role with the Jazz, says ‘I would love to come back and be a part of this team’ while leaving open his options

  09-04-2018 23:21
  Free agency is still a faraway endeavor for Derrick Favors. And the Utah Jazz power forward wants his focus to be on his teammates and making the most of a playoff run the Jazz earned the right to be a part of with Sunday’s win over the Los Angeles Lakers.At the same time, he can’t help but think about his future. The general consensus for much of this season has been that Favors would go elsewhere, either by the NBA’s trade deadline or in July, when he’s free to sign wit
  
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• Letter: DUI change will have many detrimental consequences; it should be repealed

  09-04-2018 23:00
  Fishing with a big net brings in unexpected species, turtles and porpoises to name a few.The Utah Legislature passed bill HB155, which lowers the alcohol level for DUI arrests. This will target women, who typically weigh less than men, and women who do not have the means to pay fines that vary between $1,700 and $10,000. Many women will be jailed, leaving children to be placed in foster homes or with relatives. In addition, jail time may mean losing a job or making it harder to find work in the
  
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• Letter: Building an immigrant detention center in Evanston would wrontly isolate the detainees

  09-04-2018 23:00
  I am deeply concerned about the proposed building of an immigration detention center near Evanston, Wyo. I think building such a center far away from population centers, away from legal counsel, family members, clergy and other support systems, feels like an act of intentional isolation.The men, women and children who will be detained in this proposed center generally have strong ties to the communities they have been living in prior to detention. They should have access to their family members,
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - What NBA playoff seed will the Utah Jazz get? Here's what could happen

  09-04-2018 22:42 via sportspyder.com
  ...is pretty insane if you think back to January when this team was 19-28. The Jazz could also finish No. 3 if they go 1-1 and the Blazers lose to Denver and Ut ...
  
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• Attorney: Federal agents seize documents from Trump lawyer

  09-04-2018 22:38
  Washington • Federal agents armed with search warrants have seized documents from President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, a defense lawyer said Monday.The raid on Cohen’s office was done by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan and was based, in part, on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, according to Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen Ryan.“The decision by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York to conduct their investigation using s
  
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• MLS week in review: Atlanta forward Josef Martinez sets scoring record in first 25 MLS matches

  09-04-2018 22:35
  Atlanta United forward Josef Martinez took four explosive steps and headed Julian Gressel’s cross in at the far post.The ball stretched the netting and rolled back out. With one fluid motion, Martinez scooped it up with his right hand and walked slowly and stoically over to embrace Gressel. An understated celebration for a man who just had made history.Martinez scored his 24th MLS goal in a 5-0 win over LAFC on Saturday, more than any other player has scored in his first 25 matches in the
  
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• What NBA playoff seed will the Utah Jazz get? Here's what could happen

  09-04-2018 22:30
  SALT LAKE CITY — To sum up everything we know for certain about the Utah Jazz and the 2018 postseason ... they’re in.Actually, we also know they can’t finish in the top two of the Western Conference — Houston (64-16) and Golden State (58-23) are locked in there — and the Jazz's 47-33 record and tiebreakers with two games remaining assures that they won’t end up with the dreaded No. 8 seed and first-round matchup against the Rockets, either.Other than that?Good
  
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• Updated playoff positioning: How Utah Jazz could end up from No. 3 to No. 7

  09-04-2018 22:30
  SALT LAKE CITY — To sum up everything we know for certain about the Utah Jazz and the 2018 postseason ... they’re in.Actually, we also know they can’t finish in the top two of the Western Conference — Houston (64-16) and Golden State (58-23) are locked in there — and the Jazz's 47-33 record and tiebreakers with two games remaining assures that they won’t end up with the dreaded No. 8 seed and first-round matchup against the Rockets, either.Other than that?Good
  
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• Power mostly restored after outage left more than 57,000 people in Salt Lake County without electricity

  09-04-2018 22:25
  About 57,600 people were without power for about two hours Monday afternoon during a major outage in Salt Lake County, according to Rocky Mountain Power.Spokeswoman Tiffany Erickson said that at about 12:15 p.m., an equipment failure caused a power interruption on a transmission line, which feeds into “a number” of substations.Shortly after 2 p.m., the outage map on the website showed that power had been restored to all but about 100 people.Due to the outage, TRAX service was tempora
  
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• The Utes to enjoy favorable rotation at NCAA championships

  09-04-2018 22:19
  Members of Utah’s gymnastics team have been consistent in goal setting by saying they just want to do their best. But now there is no denying the Utes have a very clear goal as they prepare for the 2018 NCAA Gymnastics Championships April 20 and 21.The Utes, who finished fifth last year, are clear in stating their mission is to reach the Super Six. The Utes have been among the top four teams all season, so anything less than a Super Six appearance would be heartbreaking.“It’s a
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz clinch playoff berth, media takes note

  09-04-2018 22:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... un fact to round all of this out: Fun fact: The Jazz have never missed the playoffs with a Stockton on the roster.— Biggest Helpe ...
  
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• Francis Wilkinson: The American optimism of a Kansas Muslim

  09-04-2018 22:00
  Austin’s Bar and Grill on 151st Street in Olathe, Kan., would look familiar to many suburbanites. The walls are cluttered with television sets featuring basketball, baseball, tennis — even football out of season. The two-dimensional athletes loom over the weekend-warrior variety — an almost entirely white, mostly male crowd congregating after work.I met Moussa Elbayoumy there for dinner recently because I thought the place might be haunted. It’s the bar where a bigot with
  
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• Free agent-to-be Derrick Favors finds his role with the Jazz, says ‘I would love to come back and be a part of this team’ while leaving up his options

  09-04-2018 21:53
  Free agency is still a faraway endeavor for Derrick Favors. And the Utah Jazz power forward wants his focus to be on his teammates and making the most of a playoff run the Jazz earned the right to be a part of with Sunday’s win over the Los Angeles Lakers.At the same time, he can’t help but think about his future. The general consensus for much of this season has been that Favors would go elsewhere, either by the NBA’s trade deadline or in July, when he’s free to sign wit
  
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• Utah parole agent charged with aggravated assault after he shot a parolee three times while stopped at Murray traffic light

  09-04-2018 21:33
  A parole agent who fired five shots at a man under his supervision — hitting and wounding him three times — while stopped at a Murray traffic light last May is facing charges after the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office found his use of force not justified.The agent, Andrew Reed O’Gwin, who works for state Adult Probations & Parole, was stopped for a red light on 4500 South at Main Street about 12:50 a.m. May 13, when the car in which a parolee, whom he did n
  
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• Commentary: Sexual violence and harassment are men’s issues. And they’re leadership issues.

  09-04-2018 21:23
  Hollywood, USA Gymnastics, Penn State football and the Roman Catholic Church are a few examples, among others, where sexual harassment, assault and violence left their ugly marks.Over the past few years, we’ve seen institutions where men have failed at their leadership and a culture of sexual misconduct — to put it mildly — became pervasive. The perpetrators are men and the people who could have stopped it are, by and large, men in positions of leadership.But they didn’t
  
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• We have 4️⃣ plays make the list 💅 twitter.com/NBA/status/983…

  09-04-2018 21:08 via twitter.com
  We have 4️⃣ plays make the list 💅 twitter.com/NBA/status/983…
  
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• Kirby: I believe in a ‘flat’ tax — either you pay or we flatten you

  09-04-2018 21:00
  My entire understanding of taxes can be spelled out in a single sentence: Either I pay or I go to jail.Sounds overly simplistic, but I think it makes me something of an expert on the matter — or at least it should.Taxes ought to be simple enough for all Americans (or someone in their family) to figure out on their own without having to hire someone else to do it.I believe in what many refer to as a “flat tax.” If you’re unfamiliar with the term, let me simplify it for you
  
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• Sen. Duckworth delivers baby girl, becomes first senator to give birth while in office

  09-04-2018 20:50
  Washington • Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., gave birth Monday to a baby girl, the first time a sitting senator has delivered a child and one of just 10 female lawmakers to bear a child while serving in Congress.Duckworth, 50, and her husband, Bryan Bowlsbey, named their daughter Maile Pearl Bowlsbey after Bowlsbey’s great aunt, who was an Army nurse during World War II. Duckworth is a double amputee from her service in the Iraq War as an Army helicopter pilot, getting shot down in 2006
  
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• That first one has our attention. twitter.com/NBA/status/983…

  09-04-2018 20:40 via twitter.com
  That first one has our attention. twitter.com/NBA/status/983…
  
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• Arizona sends 225 troops to Mexico border, more heading soon

  09-04-2018 20:30
  Phoenix • Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says 225 members of the state’s National Guard are heading to the U.S.-Mexico to support President Donald Trump’s call for troops to fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration.The Republican Ducey in a tweet Monday said more of the state’s Guard members will be deployed on Tuesday.No details were immediately announced on what the Arizona troops would do at the border.Trump said last week he wants to send 2,000 to 4,000 National Guard m
  
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• [NBA] - Utah Jazz Clinch Spot in 2018 NBA Playoffs

  09-04-2018 20:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... nationsPlayer Ticket Donations Doing GoodDoing Good STEM Excellence Wheelin' Jazz STEM Excellence Wheelin' Jazz STEM ExcellenceSTEM Excellence Wheelin' JazzWh ...
  
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• Single tickets on sale. right. now. 👀 #2018Playoffs @ZionsBank >> on.nba.com/2GOtaMZ https://t.co/khZLXFkoHT

  09-04-2018 20:15 via twitter.com
  
  Single tickets on sale. right. now. 👀#2018Playoffs @ZionsBank>> on.nba.com/2GOtaMZ https://t.co/khZLXFkoHT
  
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• Jail time ordered for ex-University of Utah football player who disappeared before his sentencing date more than four years ago in assault case

  09-04-2018 20:09
  A former University of Utah defensive lineman who skipped his sentencing date more than four years ago for abusing his wife was sentenced Monday to jail time.In February 2013, Koliniasi “Niasi” Leota, then 24, was accused of physically abusing his wife in front of their 2-year-old child. He pleaded guilty to third-degree felony aggravated assault.But Leota missed his sentencing in July 2013, according to prosecutors, and a judge issued a warrant for his arrest at that time.In Februar
  
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• Trump says US to decide on response to ‘atrocious’ Syria chemical attack in 24 to 48 hours

  09-04-2018 20:00
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Monday that his administration would be making “major decisions” about its response to a suspected chemical attack in Syria within the next 24 to 48 hours, decrying the action as “atrocious” and “horrible.”“We are very concerned when a thing like that can happen,” Trump said at the outset of a Cabinet meeting while reporters were present. “This is about humanity, and it can’t be allowed to h
  
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• Letter: The case against the death penalty is solid; remember that when voting

  09-04-2018 20:00
  Vengeance is mine … saith the Lord, or is it? The state of Utah, meaning you and me, extracts the ultimate vengeance. We kill people, legally. We can poison them or shoot them. We kill them with all deliberation and forethought. We don’t always kill the guilty.“Blood atonement” has been repudiated by the LDS Church. Yet, the church remains silent on the application of capital punishment — it shouldn’t. Aside from being morally unjustified, it is expensive, se
  
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• Letter: Speak up for our public lands — they are irreplaceable

  09-04-2018 20:00
  Kane County Commissioner Lamont Smith misunderstands the nature of Grand Staircase-Escalante when he thinks “people can’t get to or see” (The Tribune, March 31) the 1.9 million acres of the original national monument. Nearly a million annual visitors, of course, prove him wrong.Grand Staircase is a BLM-managed national monument, not a unit of the National Park Service. In both its original extent and in President Trump’s misguided downsized versions, the monument remains
  
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• Letter: Hyperbole undermines credibility of important environmental organizations

  09-04-2018 20:00
  Headline, San Juan County Record (March 27): “Two months after ‘rush,’ still few mineral filings.”The tally, according to the report? Three filings, two of which were publicity stunts.Hyperbole generated by dozens of “environmental” nonprofits and recreation-oriented corporations parroted by hundreds of mainstream news outlets, their liberal, politically oriented counterparts and aggregators will shred the credibility of similar organizations trying in good fa
  
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• Why does Utah have a high suicide rate? A researcher is starting a years-long search for answers.

  09-04-2018 19:54
  When you visit a mother to learn about her child’s suicide, expect to stay awhile. Expect to be asked if you want to visit his room. Or flip through his book of baby pictures. Or see his soccer trophy, which you notice looks identical to your son’s soccer trophy.“She starts crying, and you start crying,” said University of Utah psychiatrist Doug Gray, recalling his interviews with families whose children have died by suicide.The conversations were part of Gray’s res
  
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• As police continue looking for their remains, a memorial service is planned for a young Utah mother and son missing since 2015

  09-04-2018 19:43
  A May memorial service is planned for a young Utah mother and son who authorities say were killed by the woman’s boyfriend.Emily Quijano, 23, and her 3-year-old son, Gabriel Almiron, of Orem, have been missing since September 2015.Despite not yet finding their bodies, police and prosecutors say the mother and son are likely dead — and in October they charged the woman’s boyfriend, 29-year-old Christopher Richard Poulson, with two counts of aggravated murder and obstructing just
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - According to Ben Simmons, Ben Simmons is 100% the Rookie of the Year

  09-04-2018 19:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... not even a Northwest Division title. Here’s the thing, though: it’s fun. The Jazz have a player who is relevant. He’s a star, and he’s been in the national ne ...
  
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• "Well, can we welcome them to the playoffs though? 'Cause the Jazz have clinched." #ThreesoftheWeek… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-04-2018 19:39 via twitter.com
  "Well, can we welcome them to the playoffs though? 'Cause the Jazz have clinched."#ThreesoftheWeek… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Utah parole agent charged with aggravated assault after he shot a man three times while stopped at Murray traffic light

  09-04-2018 19:36
  A parole agent who fired five shots at a man — hitting and wounding him three times — while stopped at a Murray traffic light last May is facing charges after the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office found his use of force not justified.The agent, Andrew Reed O’Gwin, who works for state Adult Probations & Parole, was stopped for a red light on 4500 South at Main Street about 12:50 a.m. May 13, when the car in which a parolee, Joe Alvin Gomez, was riding pulled
  
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• Joe’s about that Dunk Life 😂😂 https://t.co/cabSIamGYR

  09-04-2018 19:21 via twitter.com
  
  Joe’s about that Dunk Life 😂😂 https://t.co/cabSIamGYR
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell is a 4th Quarter Superstar

  09-04-2018 19:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... up big numbers on a bad team. Kyrie’s Cavs won 21 games and AI’s won 22. The Jazz have already won 47 and have 2 games left. Rookies just don’t lead their tea ...
  
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• ‘To hell with it’: Trump increasingly weary of staff advice

  09-04-2018 19:00
  Washington • The speech was written. A cast of relatable Americans with emotional stories was standing by to reinforce the message. But President Donald Trump was in no mood to play along.“The hell with it,” Trump said, recounting the scene with his aides to a West Virginia crowd last week. Trump tossed the staff-prepared remarks on tax cuts in the air and ducked as the paper fluttered to the floor. “I said, ‘This is boring, come on.’ Tell it like it is.”
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Donovan Mitchell dissed? Ben Simmons says he's '100 percent' rookie of the year

  09-04-2018 18:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... uck on your dunk." That dunk: Receipts: pic.twitter.com/HsdTBombyA— x - Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) April 8, 2018 "Make sure u see my t shirt today when I come in," ...
  
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• Donovan Mitchell dissed? Ben Simmons says he's '100 percent' rookie of the year

  09-04-2018 18:55
  SALT LAKE CITY — There is no debate for rookie of the year, if you ask Philadelphia 76ers forward Ben Simmons.Simmons was asked by ESPN who would receive his NBA ROY vote, and the second-year NBA player — who was unable to play in 2016-17 because of an injury — reiterated that he believes he's the only one worthy of the award."Who would I pick? Me, 100 percent," Simmons told ESPN.com's Chris Haynes. "I think I have been playing solid all year. If you look at the numbers, you wi
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s weakness on Syria opens the door for more chemical attacks

  09-04-2018 18:48
  Syrian President Bashar Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons was the predictable result of President Donald Trump’s declaration that he wanted to pull out U.S. troops “very soon” (his advisers persuaded him to at least give them a few more months) and to “let the other people take care of [Syria] now.” And other people did — the Syrian regime with the full support of Russia understands that the United States has no stomach to improve anti-Assad forces
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Poll: Who Is 2017/18 NBA Rookie Of The Year?

  09-04-2018 18:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... ng, don’t count Simmons among those who will admit to being impressed by the Jazz guard. Asked by which rookies around the NBA have caught his attention this...
  
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• Playoffs, here we come! >> on.nba.com/2qgrRzX https://t.co/3XPBe95uvN

  09-04-2018 17:42 via twitter.com
  
  Playoffs, here we come!>> on.nba.com/2qgrRzX https://t.co/3XPBe95uvN
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Josh Hart compares Donovan Mitchell to LeBron James, James Harden

  09-04-2018 17:12 via sportspyder.com
  ... res Donovan Mitchell to LeBron James, James Harden by April 9, 2018 The Utah Jazz have clinched the playoffs and done so with a rookie leading them in scoring ...
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Republicans argue that Democrats would try to impeach Trump if the party takes over the House majority in midterms

  09-04-2018 16:26
  Republicans argue that Democrats would try to impeach President Donald Trump if the party takes over the House majority in midterms. State legislators have started fundraising just weeks after the session ended. San Juan County Republicans say new voting districts have disenfranchised their voice. Happy Monday. Republicans campaigning in midterm elections are trying to stop a potential blue wave in November. And they’ve developed an interesting argument to convince voters: If they lose the
  
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• Kragthorpe: The Jazz have done a lot, and now there’s more to do

  09-04-2018 16:22
  Ordinarily, after everything they’ve gone gone through, this would be a sufficiently big story: The Jazz have qualified for the NBA playoffs. That’s not crazy enough, though. The real issue is what else remains in play for this team: the opportunity to open the playoffs at home for the first time since 2001. That’s astounding. Yet here we are, with the Jazz (47-33) having made an epic comeback to salvage a season that might be just getting started. The Jazz have become the team
  
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• Self-driving cars in Salt Lake City? Downtown chosen to be lab for ‘smart city’ wireless technology

  09-04-2018 16:21
  The next generation of wireless technology is coming, promising everything from faster data to self-driving cars — and Salt Lake City is one of the first stops.A section of downtown Salt Lake City is one of two sites nationwide chosen to host a city-scale advanced wireless testbed, in a program devised by the National Science Foundation and a consortium of 28 networking companies and associations. The choice was announced Monday morning.“We want to make sure researchers here in the U
  
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• Utahns with large families could be paying a lot more in state taxes next year

  09-04-2018 16:19
  You could call it the 2018 Utah Child Tax — a new levy imposed not by an act of the Legislature, but the lack of one. And it could cost most Utah families hundreds more next year, even as overall tax burdens decline under federal tax reform.The 2018 Legislature approved a small income tax cut equal to a nickel on every $100 of income. That gave state lawmakers tax-cutting bragging rights heading into an election year even as it delivered only token tax relief to all but the state’s h
  
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• Facebook users to learn if they were part of privacy scandal

  09-04-2018 16:00
  New York • Get ready to find out if your Facebook data has been swept up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.Starting Monday, the 87 million users who might have had their data shared with Cambridge Analytica will get a detailed message on their news feeds. Facebook says most of the affected users (more than 70 million) are in the U.S., though there are over a million each in the Philippines, Indonesia and the U.K.In addition, all 2.2 billion Facebook users will receive a notice titled &ldqu
  
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• Young women trafficked for sex need a sanctuary, Salt Lake City advocates say

  09-04-2018 15:56
  Trafficking of young women and girls as young as 12 for sex is almost invisible to the public, but it is prevalent across the country and in Utah, where some are now planning to create a safe haven for victims of this slave trade.Young women who escape prostitution, experts say, are emotionally, psychologically and physically broken. “My identity was impaired. I had no knowledge that I was any good to anyone,” trafficking survivor Kimberli Kocherhans said recently at a symposium on s
  
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