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• Former state Rep. Carl Duckworth — husband of current Rep. Sue Duckworth — dies after long battle with cancer

  01-05-2018 23:57
  Former state Rep. Carl Duckworth — the husband of current Rep. Sue Duckworth, D-Magna — died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer.He served 10 years in the House from 1999 to 2008, and retired after being diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a blood cancer. His wife then ran for his seat and won — where she has now also served for 10 years. Utah House Democrats said in a Tweet on Tuesday that Carl Duckworth “was always kind and friendly to all, and an advocate for hardwork
  
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• Trying to stem the skyrocketing price of Utah housing is goal of new Salt Lake Chamber coalition

  01-05-2018 23:31
  Utah Jazz executive Steve Starks doesn’t want his daughters to grow up and find they can’t afford a decent place to live around here because housing prices are steadily escalating faster than incomes.So Starks is serving as chairman of a Salt Lake Chamber initiative, dubbed the Housing Gap Coalition, whose intent is to work with local governments to lower regulatory fees and to revise zoning policies to encourage more high-density housing amid single-family homes, small apartments an
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: The Mudslinging Begins

  01-05-2018 23:31
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, May 2, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>Butchering the Truth <br>Road to the Peace Prize <br>Teacher’s Pest <br> The Dr. Seuss Reboot <br>Good Guy Without a Gun<br>The Right Stuff<br>Enfant Terrible<br>Serving Cats and Dogs<br>Congressional Obstruction<br>The Rent Is Too Damn High!<br>Want more Bagley? Becom
  
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• Most Mormons remain against gay marriage, new poll shows, but that opposition is fading fast; younger LDS support it

  01-05-2018 23:22
  While most Mormons and other conservative Christian groups still eschew same-sex marriage, a new study shows dramatic erosion in that opposition.Public Religion Research Institute researchers reported this week that LDS opposition to same-sex marriage, legalized in all 50 states in 2015, had dropped by 15 percentage points — from 68 percent in 2013 to 53 percent in 2017. And among younger Mormons, ages 18 to 29, most (52 percent) support allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed.“This
  
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• Two people injured in Ogden apartment fire, others displaced

  01-05-2018 23:17
  Two people were taken to hospitals for treatment of injuries suffered in connection with a Tuesday afternoon fire at an Ogden apartment building, officials reported.Crews from Ogden and Roy fire departments were dispatched at 1:18 p.m. to 2638 Adams Ave., the Ogden Fire Department tweeted.The blaze — which affected six of the three story building’s 18 units — was out by 1:50 p.m.Deputy Ogden Fire Chief Eric Bauman said a fire that started in one unit affected five other units.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Houston Rockets' Joe Johnson not surprised to meet former Utah Jazz team in postseason series

  01-05-2018 23:16 via sportspyder.com
  ... in the season. He’s not surprised to see how things have played out with the Jazz now facing the Rockets. “For whatever strange reason, I kind of figured it w ...
  
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• Houston Rockets' Joe Johnson not surprised to meet former Utah Jazz team in postseason series

  01-05-2018 23:10
  HOUSTON — Ahead of the Houston Rockets' practice at the Toyota Center on Tuesday morning, Chris Paul rebounded for a 36-year-old Joe Johnson before a brief film session.Just three months ago, Johnson was in Salt Lake City going through similar routines with Jazz assistant Johnnie Bryant.“Iso Joe” is now in a completely different situation in H-Town with a legitimate shot to win the title, but sacrificing a lesser role than in Utah.Although Johnson has logged 25 total minutes th
  
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• Charles Lane: Are restrictions on opioids a threat to human rights?

  01-05-2018 23:10
  Fatal overdoses of prescription opioids were rare before 1999. Then doctors, influenced by pharmaceutical industry marketing, began prescribing them for chronic non-cancer pain. By the end of 2016, prescription opioids — not illicit heroin or fentanyl — had claimed 200,000 lives.Now, at last, the opioid wave has crested. Per capita usage declined for the sixth straight year in 2017, according to IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, a health-care consulting group. Changes in public
  
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• Do you need some #DunksOfTheWeek to hold you over until tomorrow? 🏀 Yes, yes you do. 😏 https://t.co/lXFcNxB8qJ

  01-05-2018 22:59 via twitter.com
  
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• Kragthorpe: Jazz’s playoff run reflects Dennis Lindsey’s ability to recover and regroup

  01-05-2018 22:55
  Houston Dennis Lindsey remembers how Mehmet Okur ruined his last game as a Houston Rockets staff member. The Jazz’s first meeting with Houston in a playoff series since that unforgettable Game 7 in 2007 at the Toyota Center is another career checkpoint for Lindsey, the Jazz’s general manager. He discovered reminders of a big chunk of his professional life everywhere he looked during Sunday’s Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals — from a courtside meeting with Houst
  
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• Facing pressure by retailers, Utah-based Vista Outdoor will stop manufacturing firearms

  01-05-2018 22:39
  Washington • Another company, this one among the largest ammunition makers in America, is distancing itself from firearms following the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in February.Vista Outdoor Inc. has been pressured for months by retailers that sell its other goods like Bell bicycle helmets and CamelBak water carriers, to stop manufacturing firearms.The Utah company said Tuesday that it will be seeking buyers for its firearms manufacturing business, and will focus on products fo
  
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• [Fansided: Sir Charles In Charge] - Why the Utah Jazz have already won the NBA Playoffs

  01-05-2018 22:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... dding star. The Utah Jazz were officially headed back to the playoffs. Not with Hayward, but with a re ...
  
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• One person injured in Ogden apartment fire

  01-05-2018 22:03
  One person was taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries suffered during a Tuesday afternoon fire at an Ogden apartment building, officials reported.Crews from Ogden and Roy fire departments were dispatched at 1:18 p.m. to 2638 Adams Ave., the Ogden Fire Department tweeted.The blaze — which affected six units — was out by 1:50 p.m.The Red Cross was responding to provide assistance to the displaced occupants.— This story will be updated.
  
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• Utah animal rescues denounce practice of purchasing puppies at auction

  01-05-2018 22:01
  After an investigation by the Washington Post exposed that some animal shelters spend thousands of donated dollars to purchase puppies from breeders, then claim that they’re rescues, Utah animal groups are denouncing the practice.Even if the groups’ goal is to “take the animals out of that situation,” their method “doesn’t make sense,” said Deann Shepard with the Humane Society of Utah.“It’s not like they’re helping to shut down the bre
  
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• Rolly: Southern Utah county’s targeting of Navajo candidate revives shades of Jim Crow

  01-05-2018 22:01
  My last column tied a malicious felony prosecution of a conservation advocate and her husband to an anti-environmentalist culture in San Juan County.Another case currently being pushed by county officials suggests a Jim Crow atmosphere in rural southeastern Utah as well.The County Commission has accused commission candidate Willie Grayeyes, a Democrat and a Navajo, of illegally filing to run for office because he is a resident of Arizona, even though he has been registered to vote in San Juan Co
  
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• Now a Rocket, former Jazzman Joe Johnson savors his best shot at a title

  01-05-2018 22:00
  Houston • Basketball life is a bit different for Joe Johnson now.His days of being a lethal scorer in the post and on the perimeter are over, with his last stand probably coming a season ago with the Jazz. He’s now with the Houston Rockets, with the best chance in a long and successful career at winning an elusive title, but no longer in the rotation for perhaps the first time in his career.His dry sense of humor, however, remains.“Of course I’m going to be happy to see my
  
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• Commentary: Almost half of pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned. There’s a surprisingly easy way to change that.

  01-05-2018 22:00
  When a group of Yale seniors was given information about the dangers of tetanus, nearly all of them indicated that they wanted to get a tetanus shot, yet only 3 percent actually did so. But when a second group of Yale seniors was given the same lecture — along with a campus map with the infirmary circled, a list of available appointments and a prompt to think about a convenient appointment time — the rate at which students went to get a shot was more than nine times higher. Simply ma
  
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• Spring practice is over for Pac-12 football teams. How will offseason of coaching turnover translate into this fall?

  01-05-2018 21:56
  Name tags may not be required at Pac-12 Football Media Days; however, there certainly will be a period of orientation for the conference this fall as new coaches take the reins at five programs.The highest-profile additions all reside in the South Division along with Utah as UCLA hired Chip Kelly, former Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin took over at Arizona and Arizona State hired Herm Edwards out of the television studio.Utes coach Kyle Whittingham, who is entering his 14th season, described th
  
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• San Diego State is back as a BYU men’s basketball opponent. Cougars, Aztecs will play twice in next two years.

  01-05-2018 21:48
  Provo • San Diego State’s student section for men’s basketball is notoriously obnoxious and rowdy. Or is it just juvenile, trashy and boorish? Whatever the case, The Show — as it calls itself — will get another chance to heckle BYU players and mock their faith after the Cougars silenced them in their last visit to Viejas Arena in 2011, Jimmer Fredette’s senior season. BYU and San Diego State announced Tuesday they have agreed to a home-and-home basketball serie
  
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  01-05-2018 21:37 via twitter.com
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• Jennifer Rubin: Six takeaways from the Mueller questions

  01-05-2018 21:34
  Compare the clownish, wholly unmeritorious efforts by House Republicans to draft articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (for signing off on FISA warrant applications that were approved multiple times by multiple judges?) with the four dozen or so questions special counsel Robert Mueller has prepared for President Donald Trump, as first reported by the New York Times.The farcical impeachment scheme to rid themselves of Rosenstein demonstrates once more that House R
  
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• [USA Today] - A complete rundown of everyone who is mad at each other in the NBA

  01-05-2018 21:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... BAonTNT) 10. Mitt Romney and Russell Westbrook Eh, is anyone rooting for the Jazz was fun while it lasted — Madison Hartman (@madhartman) MORE: Read or Share...
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Colin Cowherd details why the 2018 OKC Thunder – Utah Jazz playoff series forever changed Russell Westbrook

  01-05-2018 21:32 via sportspyder.com
  ... 1 and FOX Sports Radio Colin Cowherd details why the 2018 OKC Thunder – Utah Jazz playoff series forever changed Russell Westbrook Video Details May 1, 2018 a ...
  
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• His deputy called a pro-fracking letter ‘political, plain and simple.’ Why Utah AG Sean Reyes signed it anyway.

  01-05-2018 21:28
  Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes had a choice to make: Should he join then-Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt in fighting an investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency into fracking’s effect on water quality in the Sooner State or not?It was May 2014 and signing on would put the then-new Utah AG at odds with heads of two of the agencies he was supposed to represent, the Utah Division of Water Quality and Department of Environmental Quality, who saw no value in wading into the
  
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• Feds give Utah three years to bring ozone pollution down to acceptable levels

  01-05-2018 21:28
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given Utah three years to reverse a trend of rising ozone pollution in some of its most populated counties.The EPA on Tuesday formally declared portions of seven Utah counties to be in violation of national standards for ozone, an airborne pollutant that is particularly harmful to children. The long-anticipated determination creates “nonattainment areas” — geographically defined regions with potentially harmful pollution levels &mdas
  
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• 🎥| We're live with @Joeingles7 NOW ⤵️ facebook.com/utahjazz/video…

  01-05-2018 21:28 via twitter.com
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• Utah woman who suffered fatal injuries in ‘brutal’ beating believed attackers took photos or video of the assault, documents say

  01-05-2018 21:14
  A Roosevelt woman who was too injured to speak clearly to investigators wrote down details about the attack that led to her death, according to search warrant affidavits made public in the last week.Sherry Lynn Melo, 51, also told investigators that during the beating, she had noticed a flash that made her believe someone was either recording or taking photos of the April 6 attack on a cellphone, the documents said.Five people are charged in 8th District Court with aggravated murder in connectio
  
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• [USA Today: For The Win] - A complete rundown of everyone who is mad at each other in the NBA

  01-05-2018 21:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... and Russell Westbrook Eh, is anyone actually mad about this? rooting for the Jazz was fun while it lasted pic.twitter.com/iC6OYOeBbt — Madison Hartman (@madha ...
  
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• ‘I think that’s hazardous for kids’: A Utah district will relocate its elementary school on a desert fairground after its first pick was too close to an ancient burial ground

  01-05-2018 21:06
  The soil below Bluff Elementary is saturated with septic effluent. The classrooms don’t have enough space for the growing student body. And ceiling tiles sometimes come crashing down onto desks in the middle of lessons. This small southern Utah school, built in the 1950s, is now too old and too run-down for many improvements. But finding a suitable spot to relocate before it becomes entirely unusable has been difficult.San Juan County School District’s first choice, a small lot near
  
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• Gov. Gary Herbert nominates Paul Garver — with 25 years’ experience in human resources — to head Utah department

  01-05-2018 21:01
  Gov. Gary Herbert on Tuesday nominated a new executive director of the Department of Human Resource Management: Paul Garver — who directed human resources at Smiths Detection in Maryland and many divisions of Honeywell International.The position, which is part of the governor’s Cabinet, is subject to confirmation by the state Senate.“It’s a significantly important job,” Herbert said. “Government doesn’t function well unless the employees function well,&r
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - ESPN's Stephen A. Smith backs away from claim that Mormons aren't Christian

  01-05-2018 21:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... ith some players." Smith specifically mentioned Stephen Jackson's claim that Jazz fans shouted racist remarks when he played for the Warriors. Smith also accu ...
  
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• ESPN's Stephen A. Smith backs away from claim that Mormons aren't Christian

  01-05-2018 20:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — A day after inaccurately portraying LDS beliefs while addressing Utah Jazz fans' behavior, controversial sports commentator Stephen A. Smith said he didn't mean what he said about Mormons not being Christian."Not aware I said that," Smith wrote to a fan who informed him on Twitter that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are 100 percent Christian. "But if I did I’m definitely sorry because I misspoke. I’m completely aware they are Christi
  
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• Utah man accused of breaking a teenager’s elbow after the teen knocked his son down during a broom hockey game

  01-05-2018 20:37
  A 37-year-old man was charged with child abuse on Tuesday after knocking a teenager down and breaking his elbow during a broom hockey game at a Woods Cross church building. The 13-year-old told North Salt Lake police that he’d been playing broom hockey at the church on March 6 when he ran into another boy. The second boy’s father lowered his shoulder and knocked the 13-year-old down, according to court documents. “The boy disclosed that the defendant said something like, &lsquo
  
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• Man killed at an Ogden dog food factory

  01-05-2018 20:20
  A 33-year-old man was killed Tuesday morning at an Ogden factory that makes dog food. Raul Ortiz, a packaging line associate, was fatally injured at the American Nutrition factory while trying to restart one of the machines about 3 a.m., according to a news release from the company. The accident is under investigation by police.
  Eric Olsen, spokesman for the Utah Occupational Safety and Health Division, said state investigators are also on-site.
  
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• Letter: Commentary failed to address role of addiction in crime

  01-05-2018 20:00
  Regarding the April 29 commentary, “Words that paint a thousand pictures of crime,” by Robert C. Wadman, Ph.D., professor emeritus, Criminal Justice Department, Weber State University. Sir, your stated title implies knowledge and experience in the criminal justice field. Why then, I have to ask, is your article void of any mention of addictions’ role in crime? You ask your “six questions,” all of which, at best, skirt this topic, have been, in my humble view, overly
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Six questions about Trump’s economy you were too embarrassed to ask

  01-05-2018 20:00
  Over the past few months, President Donald Trump has painted a portrait of a resurgence: After tanking under President Barack Obama, the economy has finally been Made Great Again.Based on recent polls and my own reader email, much of the public believes this narrative. The word “booming” gets thrown around a lot.But how has the economy actually performed under Trump? There is plenty of data to help us answer this question. So I bring you: Six questions about Trump and the economy you
  
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• An NFL running back says he needs one thing to continue his football career: weed

  01-05-2018 19:59
  Running back Mike James hurts all over. He experiences chronic pain every day, a natural byproduct of his chosen profession. Still, he is not yet ready to walk away from his NFL career and says he knows the key to continuing: marijuana.James, an NFL free agent, applied for a marijuana therapeutic-use exemption (TUE) from the league this offseason, which he hoped would allow him to treat his pain without fear of violating the league’s substance-abuse policy. The league denied his request la
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Jazz somewhere between contender and pretender

  01-05-2018 19:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... f of dominance. Even the Pelicans, who appear to be on similar ground to the Jazz, must face their own difficult question this summer: do they re-sign Demarcu ...
  
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• ‘Boba smoothie machine soiled with old food and debris’ and 33 other problems force closure of South Jordan restaurant

  01-05-2018 19:10
  Food and debris left on the boba smoothie machine and raw chicken touching fresh cabbage in the cooler were among the reported citations forcing the closure of a fast-casual restaurant in South Jordan on Monday.Riced, 11428 S. Parkway Plaza Drive, was closed by Salt Lake County Health Department for presenting “an imminent health hazard,” according to a notice posted on the department website.In all, the restaurant, which uses the slogan “Fast Fresh Chinese,” had 34 healt
  
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• Letter: Deceptive ads should have no place in The Tribune

  01-05-2018 19:00
  Does “truth in advertising” still apply to The Tribune? A big exception to this appeared on page A5 of the April 29 paper. There was an ad for a dental company (Grandpa’s Family Dental) showing supposed “Before and After” pictures of a woman who got dentures or implants (they didn’t specify which).The “after” picture is so obviously deceptively altered. She apparently not only had her teeth fixed for the “after” picture, but somehow her
  
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• Dana Milbank: Time for journalists to fight back, not play party hosts

  01-05-2018 18:59
  Washington • How do we square these two scenes from the weekend?On Saturday night, Washington journalists hobnobbed with politicians and celebrities at the black-tie White House Correspondents’ Association dinner — and then spent Sunday arguing about whether comedian Michelle Wolf was too harsh toward President Donald Trump, who uses his presidential pulpit to mock the journalists.Late Sunday night, Washington time, nine journalists in Kabul were among at least 29 people killed
  
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• On ‘Fox & Friends,’ Utah veteran who took photos of dirty hospital room says he’d like more choices in health care

  01-05-2018 18:53
  Watch the latest video at foxnews.comThe Utah Army veteran whose photos of a dirty treatment room spurred an apology from the Salt Lake City VA medical center told Fox News on Tuesday that he has to wait until 2019 for another appointment.Christopher Wilson said he is supposed to have a six-month follow-up appointment for his feet and ankle issues at the clinic he has been attending, but he has been told the next available appointment is Feb. 7.“It’s supposed to be a six-month follow
  
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• ‘It’s just a dress’: Utah teen’s Chinese prom attire starts cultural appropriation debate

  01-05-2018 18:53
  It’s that time of year in high school, the season of the highly anticipated, stress-inducing rite of passage called prom.Like many other teenagers preparing for prom, Utah senior Keziah Daum wanted to find a dress that would stand out, “something that would be more unique and bold and had some sort of meaning to it,” she said in an interview with The Washington Post.Daum decided to browse a vintage store in downtown Salt Lake City, where she came across a red cheongsam, also kn
  
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• Gehrke: Why it makes sense for Rep. Mia Love to go on the attack against Democrat Ben McAdams

  01-05-2018 18:16
  At the recent Republican state convention, Rep. Mia Love teed off on her opponent, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, even before he had won his party’s nomination.She slammed McAdams for, as she put it, supporting unrestricted abortion, for wanting to undo President Donald Trump’s tax reform, and for being a cog in the Bill and Hillary Clinton machine. Love told of a conversation she had with her daughter, who said, “If we’re a country that decides we’re going to
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Ben Simmons a rookie? Boston Celtics fans sure don't think so

  01-05-2018 18:10 via sportspyder.com
  ... ation (@JazzNationNews) April 28, 2018 Donovan Mitchell’s shoe company, Utah Jazz fans and national pundits who believe the athletic 21-year-old from Louisvil ...
  
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• Ben Simmons a rookie? Boston Celtics fans sure don't think so

  01-05-2018 18:05
  Adidas has recently paid for billboards around Salt Lake City poking fun at the ongoing controversy about whether Sixers guard Ben Simmons should be eligible for Rookie of the Year consideration.The billboards simply read: “Rookie?”https://twitter.com/E_Woodyard/status/989971880588148737T-shirts with that message are also available.https://twitter.com/JazzNationNews/status/990284583554842625Donovan Mitchell’s shoe company, Utah Jazz fans and national pundits who believe the ath
  
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• Letter: Congress must take bold steps to neutralize Trump’s erratic behavior

  01-05-2018 18:00
  Last December, when Dr. Bandy Lee, world renowned forensic psychiatrist, testified before Congress, she warned that as pressure builds (e.g., Cohen and Mueller investigations), President Trump’s psychosis would lead to ever-increasing irrational, incoherent and dangerous behavior. This is exactly what’s occurring as evidenced by Trump’s recent deranged rant on Fox News.Our nation is now at great risk. In addition to the threat of a constitutional crisis with the possible firing
  
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• Graham Kerr celebrates the cookbook that led to his gallop

  01-05-2018 17:36
  Graham Kerr is having a group of guests over to his home, so he’s decided to whip up a batch of his Farmhouse Vegetable Soup.It calls for a medley of carrots, onions, garlic, parsnips, sweet potato and onion. The recipe is from his groundbreaking “The Graham Kerr Cookbook,” and it’s tried-and-true — he’s been making it for more than 50 years, for royalty and commoner alike.The dish is also a way to chart the remarkable life of Kerr, who began as an energetic T
  
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• Nicole Kidman becomes Keith Urban’s muse on new album, ‘Graffiti U’

  01-05-2018 17:35
  On Keith Urban’s new record, “Graffiti U,” female collaborators are featured on many of the tracks as songwriters and duet partners. But it’s his wife, Nicole Kidman, who steals the show.The television and movie star added backing vocals to Urban’s first single, “Female,” a song that was inspired by the #MeToo movement, and Urban says she was the inspiration for at least two other songs on the album that came out in late April.On the final track, “
  
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• [Sports Illustrated] - Can You Build a Team Around Russell Westbrook? | SI.com

  01-05-2018 17:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... beat a lot of teams out there. It just so happens not work against this Utah Jazz team—which was well crafted to slow him down.  Sharp: I agree with you. I th ...
  
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