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• [The Daily Herald] - International talent Doncic tops list of wings in NBA draft

  17-06-2018 23:54 via sportspyder.com
  ... art failure at 56 Hall of Famer and Olympic gold medalist Anne Donovan dies. Jazz to unveil farthest north community court Basketball "escort queen" arrested...
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - NBA hopeful Ryan Broekhoff on his journey, the rise of Australian basketball and more

  17-06-2018 23:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... n Broekhoff with Joe Ingles' last season in Europe before he signed with the Jazz. The stats don't lie. #AussieHoops #NBA pic.twitter.com/1D0KM5hMHV — The Pic ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz finish up ‘efficient’ workout season ‘with a bang’ as strong group impresses

  17-06-2018 23:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... 18 Whereas Friday’s penultimate workout was a bit of a disappointment to the Jazz when one participant was injured, Sunday’s workout had size and versatility...
  
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• Taliban leaders reject Afghan government’s proposed ceasefire extension

  17-06-2018 23:33
  Herat, Afghanistan • After two days of rising hopes across the country, Taliban leaders Sunday brusquely rejected the government’s proposal to extend a three-day ceasefire and said they were ordering all insurgent fighters to resume operations against “the foreign invaders and their internal supporters.”The insurgents’ terse announcement came as thousands of Taliban fighters continued swarming into cities and towns to celebrate the three-day Eid holiday, mingling cor
  
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• Jazz finish up ‘efficient’ workout season ‘with a bang’ as strong group impresses

  17-06-2018 23:30
  The Utah Jazz had to put off Father’s Day for a few hours on Sunday morning. There was work to be done.Fortunately for those who had to come to the team’s 11th and final predraft workout, it was worth it. A group featuring six players who have high chances of getting drafted, including as many as four who could land in the first round, had a strong finish to what vice president of player personnel Walt Perrin called an “efficient” series of workouts this year.“I tho
  
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• Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas

  17-06-2018 22:56
  McAllen, Texas • Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of children wait away from their parents in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.One teenager told an advocate who visited that she was helping care for a young child she didn’t know because the child’s aunt was somewhere else in the facility. She said she had to show othe
  
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• .@JacobEvans_1 — the 6'6" wing from @GoBearcatsMBB — also worked out today. "I feel like I've got a lot of potenti… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-06-2018 22:54 via twitter.com
  .@JacobEvans_1 — the 6'6" wing from @GoBearcatsMBB — also worked out today."I feel like I've got a lot of potenti… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• .@DeAnthonyMelton came into Sunday's working from @USC_Hoops. "It's probably not going to hit me until my name's c… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-06-2018 22:40 via twitter.com
  .@DeAnthonyMelton came into Sunday's working from @USC_Hoops."It's probably not going to hit me until my name's c… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• .@BIIIGD from @LouisvilleMBB worked out for the Jazz today. "There's a lot of guys from Louisville who can hoop."… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-06-2018 21:25 via twitter.com
  .@BIIIGD from @LouisvilleMBB worked out for the Jazz today."There's a lot of guys from Louisville who can hoop."… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• .@DzananM13 —the 6'8" wing out of Bosnia & Herzegovina — worked out with the Jazz today. "I already played three y… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-06-2018 21:10 via twitter.com
  .@DzananM13 —the 6'8" wing out of Bosnia & Herzegovina — worked out with the Jazz today."I already played three y… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz fill asst. coach vacancy, promote new lead assistant

  17-06-2018 20:10 via sportspyder.com
  ...Rudy Gobert, Thabo Sefolosha, Jonas Jerebko, Raul Neto and Ricky Rubio, the Jazz are easily one of the most diverse squads in the league. Interestingly enoug ...
  
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• Utah Jazz fill asst. coach vacancy, promote new lead assistant

  17-06-2018 20:00
  The Utah Jazz have rounded out their assistant coaching staff, promoting Alex Jensen to lead assistant and hiring Greek coach Fotis Katsikaris. Although it was sad to see the Utah Jazz lose assistant coach Igor Kokoskov, you can’t help but feel happy for him receiving a chance to coach at the highest level as the […]
  Utah Jazz fill asst. coach vacancy, promote new lead assistant - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Letter: Hatch’s first retirement drink is on me

  17-06-2018 19:53
  Sen. Orrin Hatch’s newly revealed acceptance of the LGBT community should be welcomed by all in our state and nation. As a soon-to-be regular member of the common community, unshackled from the pressure of political policy, we should all hope he uses his influence in the future for those whom society and history have treated differently. That includes but is not exclusive to race, sex, age, political affiliation, religion or spirituality, bad choices or poor luck, physical or mental disabi
  
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• Letter: Trump immigration policy should be unimaginable

  17-06-2018 19:48
  The Trump administration policy of separating parents and children who have crossed the border between the United States and Mexico between ports of entry, including those who have come seeking asylum, should be considered cruel and unusual punishment and prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.The administration’s justification for the policy is as a deterrent. I don’t know whether it will be effective in that regard, but for it to be, it would have to inflict sufficient misery as to dis
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - With draft looming, Utah Jazz in somewhat of a ‘panic’

  17-06-2018 18:44 via sportspyder.com
  ...those guys that they like will be picked off by other teams by the time the Jazz pick at No. 21, which could help the process of elimination somewhat as well ...
  
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• With draft looming, Utah Jazz in somewhat of a ‘panic’

  17-06-2018 18:35
  With the NBA Draft quickly approaching, the Utah Jazz are doing everything in their power to ensure they make the right selection out of a deep pool of prospects. The Utah Jazz recently held an important pre-draft workout that featured compelling prospects such as Landry Shamet, Josh Okogie and Jerome Robinson. In preparation for said […]
  With draft looming, Utah Jazz in somewhat of a ‘panic’ - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• How will we choose?! The Jazz's big win over the Warriors on they debuted their City Edition jerseys or Ricky's tr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-06-2018 18:35 via twitter.com
  How will we choose?!The Jazz's big win over the Warriors on they debuted their City Edition jerseys or Ricky's tr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Leonid Bershidsky: There’s a better answer than electric cars

  17-06-2018 17:19
  Erich Sixt, chairman and chief executive officer of the Pullach, Germany-based global car rental company that bears his family’s name, recently described electric cars as a “costly political error” given their still inferior range, long charging times and the huge investment necessary to expand the charging infrastructure. It may have been a self-serving statement (renters don’t like them), but he may also well be right: If a paper published on Thursday correctly estimate
  
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• Why many Americans aren’t benefiting from robust U.S. economy

  17-06-2018 17:00
  Washington • “The economy,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell declared this week, “is doing very well.”And it is. Steady hiring has shrunk unemployment to 3.8 percent — the lowest since the 1960′s. Consumers are spending. Taxes are down. Inflation is tame. Factories are busy. Demand for homes is strong. Household wealth is up.Yet the numbers that collectively sketch a picture of a vibrant economy don’t reflect reality for a range of Americans w
  
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• Inspectors find Quagga mussels on 3 boats in northern Utah

  17-06-2018 17:00
  Logan • The Division of Wildlife Resource says it discovered three boats in northern Utah that were infested with quagga mussels.The division’s Lieutenant Scott Dalebout says the recent discoveries illustrate the importance of cleaning, draining and drying boats after every boating trip.The Herald Journal reports technicians inspecting boats at Hyrum State Park near Logan found mussels on a common Bayliner boat. They were able to decontaminate the boat and released it.The other two in
  
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• Join us in wishing @GeorgesNiang20 a very happy birthday! https://t.co/q9L2ZxVUPX

  17-06-2018 16:50 via twitter.com
  
  Join us in wishing @GeorgesNiang20 a very happy birthday! https://t.co/q9L2ZxVUPX
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - 5 things Utah Jazz fans should know about 2018 NBA Draft

  17-06-2018 16:10 via sportspyder.com
  ... Robinson, Boise State's Chandler Hutchison and UCLA's Aaron Holiday. 4. Utah Jazz workouts In advance of the draft, the Jazz will have worked out 66 prospects ...
  
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• Tribune editorial: Why does Utah gamble on immunizations?

  17-06-2018 16:00
  Most parents in Utah and elsewhere dutifully keep their children’s immunizations current, and as a result many serious illnesses are no longer widespread. Because they are no longer widespread, it has given rise to a minority who for whatever reason don’t vaccinate their kids and generally don’t see them get pertussis, diphtheria or other once-common illnesses.Utah is one of 18 states where parents can legally opt out of immunizations and still send their kids to school. Not su
  
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• Kirby: If you had a good father, count yourself lucky. I do.

  17-06-2018 16:00
  Father’s Day brings back a lot of memories. On that special Sunday, the Old Man figured it was his day to do whatever he wanted. He pulled out all the stops.He would start drinking right after breakfast. Then he’d slap Mom around while his weeping kids readied for church. We would arrive there with his curses ringing in our ears and memories of him on the porch in his underwear, flinging a bottle of gin, as we left.Cool story, huh? If it were true, I could use it as an excuse for the
  
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• George Pyle: A Fathers Day story about doing the right thing

  17-06-2018 16:00
  For Father’s Day, another story about mine.As part of a Zonker Harris-like impulse to never graduate from college, my father, round about 1948, enrolled in law school.“That was a mistake,” he later wrote in his memoirs. “For many years I had planned to become a lawyer and that too was a mistake.”
  It was a mistake, he said, because he was quickly disillusioned of his idea that the law was a path to right the wrongs of the world. It was, he quickly realized, “a
  
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• Army resumes destroying obsolete chemical weapons in Colorado

  17-06-2018 16:00
  Denver • The U.S. Army resumed destroying obsolete chemical weapons at a Colorado depot after a nine-month shutdown for repairs, officials said Wednesday.The highly automated, $4.5 billion plant at the Pueblo Chemical Depot began a gradual restart this week. It could take 60 days to return to full operation, site manager Greg Mohrman said.“It’s going to be a very methodical process, like when we originally started the plant, to make sure both people and equipment are prepared to
  
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• 5 things Utah Jazz fans should know about 2018 NBA Draft

  17-06-2018 16:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — Decisions, decisions.The Utah Jazz will have a lot of those to make next week as the 2018 NBA Draft is set for Thursday, June 21.Utah holds the No. 21 and No. 52 picks, and of the 60 prospects that have participated in pre-draft workouts in Salt Lake City, the team is seriously considering a dozen of them. Six more players will cap off the workouts on Sunday morning."I would say all of them are a little developmental," Jazz vice president of player personnel Walt Perrin to
  
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• Stuart Reid: Let us end the culture wars. Before they end us.

  17-06-2018 15:00
  In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Masterpiece decision, both religious and LGBT advocates are pensively waiting to know which side the court will take in the conflicts between them. The court’s minimalist ruling did nothing much more than further the national unease. Some religious freedom advocates believe the court’s decision protects the religious community from state hostility on behalf of LGBT interests, while others see it as a rejection of the free speech and
  
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• Stan Penfold: Will air emissions cloud inland port’s success?

  17-06-2018 15:00
  Time will tell if the much-vaunted and controversial inland port lives up to its promise as the biggest economic bonanza in Utah’s history. If it does, let’s hope dramatically increased air emissions from countless additional trucks, trains and their cargoes don’t choke our ability to enjoy this newfound wealth.As a member of the Salt Lake City Council until last January, I served as council chair during 2017 and had a front-row seat to what sadly degraded into a bizarre cloak-
  
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• Rideshare diaries: How a bad tooth led to a six-month coma and other stories from a Utah drag queen

  17-06-2018 15:00
  I picked up two lifelong friends in downtown Salt Lake City. One was Patrick, the owner of an art gallery. The other was a drag queen who goes by the name Misha Rockafeller. In 1997, Misha won La Femme Magnifique, which apparently is the Olympics for drag queens. In that contest, a life-size version of a music box, complete with working parts, was rolled onstage; when the lid opened, Misha was the ballerina inside.Patrick bragged about his friend. No one before, or since, has attempted to be a m
  
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• Pierce: Sinclair is subverting FCC regulations with pending sale of Utah’s KMYU

  17-06-2018 15:00
  Utah television station KMYU is being sold. If the deal goes through, as expected, local viewers won’t notice any changes whatsoever.The station will continue to air Real Salt Lake games, KUTV-Channel 2 newscasts and weeknight versions of KUTV-produced “Talkin’ Sports.”The only change will come when the station’s broadcast license is transferred from the Sinclair Broadcast Group to conservative commentator Armstrong Williams, a longtime friend of Sinclair executive
  
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• Letters: Sessions and Pence must be lying about being Christian

  17-06-2018 15:00
  Jeff Sessions and Mike Pence cite the Bible to justify the inhumane treatment of immigrant children is nothing less the religious hypocrisy at its worst. If these bigoted politicians want to cite the Bible, maybe they should read it all and attempt to understand the teachings of Christ (and what it means to be a Christian).The two commandments of Jesus: 1. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with your entire mind.” 2. “Love your neighbor as yo
  
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• Letter: Utah teen’s anti sex-ed piece was a breath of fresh air

  17-06-2018 15:00
  Heather Ells’ response to the sex education op-ed was well thought-out and showed maturity well beyond her years as a sophomore in high school. She is a breath of fresh air and did a great job picking apart/refuting the biased surveys regarding sex education in Utah. The Tribune’s willingness to print her article renewed my faith in your editorial page. Rick Martin, Centerville
  
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• Letter: Hatch should understand religion is at the root of anti-LGBT politics

  17-06-2018 15:00
  To Orrin Hatch, regarding his newfound concerns for the LGBTQ community: It’s not the politics, Mr. Hatch. It’s the religion that’s driving the politics. Peter Orum, Salt Lake City
  
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• Letter: Before Utah can solve homelessness, we have to solve poverty

  17-06-2018 15:00
  The homeless problem in the state of Utah has grown out of control. The common misconception among most of the world is that the majority of the homeless population is comprised of single male or females that have some type of drug problem. Although there may be a severe opioid problem in the state of Utah, the annual report shows that 35 percent of the homeless population is full families. This should call for a good hard look at the shelter system the state of Utah has in place. With kids invo
  
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• Letter: American’s welcoming beacon has become a prison-camp spotlight

  17-06-2018 15:00
  As a church that holds, defends and believes in the sanctity of the family unit, I implore those in positions of power to stand up, step forward and speak up to what is going on at our southern border.What is happening is not unlike the atrocities of internment camps or concentration camps of the past which is an abomination in the eyes of our creator.Are we no longer the America of welcoming compassion or the beacon on the hill? Has that beacon just become another searchlight of a prison camp?I
  
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• Leonard Pitts: What if God were one of us?

  17-06-2018 15:00
  What if God were one of us?Singer Joan Osborne famously asked that question in 1995. In her Grammy-nominated hit, “One Of Us,” she envisions the author of all creation as “a slob like one of us, just a stranger on a bus trying to make his way home.”The idea of eternity contained in mortality was controversial. But it turns out that envisioning God as “one of us” is not at all uncommon. Indeed, our conceptions of God tend to be colored, perhaps inevitably, by o
  
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• George F. Will: Congress suffers arthritic knees from genuflecting to presidential power

  17-06-2018 15:00
  Washington • Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., wonders: “Is there any doubt that America would view a foreign nation firing missiles at targets on American soil as an act of war?”His question might be pertinent to why the Singapore summit happened, and what, if anything, was changed by it. The question certainly is relevant to constitutional government as it pertains — if it still does pertain — to war.Kaine was responding to a 22-page opinion the Justice Department’s Off
  
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• Dana Milbank: Donald Trump’s cult of barbarism

  17-06-2018 15:00
  Washington • “It’s becoming a cultish thing, isn’t it?” Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., mused this last week about his Republican Party under President Trump.As if to prove Corker’s point, the Trump administration the very next day claimed that it had the divine right to rip children from their parents’ arms at the border.Officials justified the unique form of barbarism — taking infants from parents and warehousing children in tent cities and an abandoned
  
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• Commentary: Time to end the self-appointment power of Utah politicians

  17-06-2018 15:00
  Elected office is a sacred trust, and few things are more destructive to that trust than the appearance of impropriety. Such impropriety can go a long way toward eroding public confidence in their leaders. This is the reason we find the recent decision of outgoing Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes to appoint himself to the inland port board to be profoundly troubling.This new board, which will regulate the recently approved inland port in Salt Lake City, will consist of 11 members appointed by vari
  
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• Commentary: The need for a cool-down in the gun rights debate

  17-06-2018 15:00
  Individuals cherish the right to possess guns for many reasons. As exemplified in my early years in a small Wyoming community, recreational use was paramount – hunting and target shooting. Guns were owned as a matter of course, people enjoyed them and the community at large did not feel threatened by them.Use by criminals, injuries and death from tragic accidents and suicides, although shocking and tragic, were dealt with tangentially as social problems resulting from careless or abusive u
  
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• Commentary: Most costs of wildfires fall to local communities

  17-06-2018 15:00
  Protecting homes and people from wildfires is expensive. Even more costly are the recovery efforts following the wildfire, which include road repairs, landscape rehabilitation, home and property restoration and infrastructure rebuilding. Many of these secondary impacts take months or years to fully manifest and add millions of dollars to the overall costs of a wildfire.Although the federal government pays for a bulk of immediate suppression costs, or money spent on firefighting, nearly half of a
  
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• Commentary: Know something about the candidates before you vote

  17-06-2018 15:00
  Do you really know who is on your ballot asking for your vote? Do you know what issues are important to this person and how he/she behaves toward others? I have spent many hours at the Utah Legislature in 2018 and I implore all voters to know something about the candidates for office, the bills they sponsor and their behaviors prior to casting your vote for them this season. In my opinion, legislators should be seeking what benefits a majority of citizens, not just adhering to a political ideolo
  
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• Commentary: Is Romney a free trader? Or Trump’s rubber stamp?

  17-06-2018 15:00
  In recent weeks President Trump has invoked his power to impose tariffs on national security grounds to launch a trade war with several U.S. allies. In response to the reckless abuse of this authority, a number of senators are attempting to apply a much-needed course correction by demanding that such tariffs be subject to congressional authority. The effort to pass such a bill, however, appears to face an uphill climb, underscoring the need for senators who grasp the importance of free trade.Whi
  
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• Commentary: Curtis is the right representative for Utah’s tech community

  17-06-2018 15:00
  Tech in Utah is a big deal. As an entrepreneur in the tech community, I’m biased. But the numbers back it up. Recent news reports show that Utah’s tech industry grew faster than any other state’s last year, and with over 135,000 tech employees state-wide, we make up nearly 9 percent of all Utah workers.Beyond the statistics, the stories from the world of Utah tech are inspiring. Pluralsight, once a scrappy Utah startup, recently went public to great acclaim. Silicon Slopes, an
  
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• Commentary: Clean air or inland port? We need both.

  17-06-2018 15:00
  Something big is happening in Utah, and that realization has led greed to run amok.For months we’ve seen stories about the development of an envisioned inland port. The media coverage has disclosed mostly finger-pointing, failed negotiations, demands, a lack of cooperation, and back-room deals with no transparency.No one seems to know the answer to the simple questions: What, exactly, is the plan? And what will be the consequences? When talks broke down, outside parties stepped in to the f
  
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• A job at former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson’s law office seemed like a dream, but two women say it was a sexist nightmare

  17-06-2018 15:00
  The two women say their male boss berated and screamed at them while sparing the only other man in the office from such harsh treatment. The boss says he spoke sternly but never yelled and that he demanded the same standard of competence from all his workers. They say they feared being alone with him. He says they never complained about anything amounting to a hostile workplace. They say his behavior crossed the line into gender discrimination and harassment. He says they are the sexists. They w
  
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• BYU study: Ubermasculine men don’t make the best dads

  17-06-2018 14:00
  Research by sociologists at Brigham Young University and Ball State University shows that fathers who buy into hypermasculine roles don’t make the best parents.Their work showed that men who “strongly … adhere to really traditional attitudes about masculinity” are far less likely to be nurturing fathers who spend a lot of time with their children, according to BYU sociology professor Kevin Shafer, a co-author of the study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.&
  
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• MLB roundup: Astros win 10th in row as Keuchel gets HR help to beat Kansas City 10-2

  17-06-2018 06:22
  Kansas City, Mo. • A.J. Hinch wiped the sweat from his brow after watching his Astros win their 10th straight game on Saturday, joking that he might get tossed early the next time out to avoid the Kansas City heat.The skipper hasn’t been sweating many outcomes lately.Houston’s latest solid start came from Dallas Keuchel, who allowed the Royals two unearned runs over six sharp innings. Its latest offense came from Max Stassi and Alex Bregman, who belted three-run homers at spacio
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Offseason calendar, key dates for draft and free agency

  17-06-2018 06:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... l guarantee for the ’18-19 season. July 2-5 Utah Jazz Summer League — Get the full Jazz summer league schedule HERE. July 6 Morato ...
  
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