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• The Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell will face off against Ben Simmons for an ESPY

  20-06-2018 23:55
  While the rivalry between Donovan Mitchell and Ben Simmons has prompted a war over the definition of “rookie” for the last eight months, it’s hard to deny that both had breakthrough efforts in the NBA this season.Who had the bigger breakthrough? Why not add a little fuel to the debate with an award?Both Mitchell and Simmons have been nominated for “Best Breakthrough Athlete” in this year’s ESPYs, which will be presented July 18 in Los Angeles on ABC. It’
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Guest commentary: Why the Utah Jazz should select Grayson Allen

  20-06-2018 23:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... ter the workout and said, “It sure seemed like Allen impressed the assembled Jazz staff that watched Monday's workout. When asked what the coaches saw from Al ...
  
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• Guest commentary: Why the Utah Jazz should select Grayson Allen

  20-06-2018 23:48
  The Utah Jazz have had numerous draft prospects this summer come in for workouts, but no other name that has visited Zions Bank Basketball Campus has more people divided than Duke's Grayson Allen. During his four years in college he played with an edge that sometimes got out of control, leading him to be suspended three times. This concerns some scouts that he can't control his emotions, but others love it the same way they love the edge Draymond Green plays with. Allen is the newer version of C
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: A new hymnal is coming, so which songs should stay, which should go, and which should be added? Writer Kristine Haglund discusses the music of Zion.

  20-06-2018 23:41
  For years, a standard Mormon refrain has been “give us a new hymnbook.” Well, the pleadings from that chorus have been answered.The LDS Church has announced that it is developing a new hymnal for use by Mormons across the globe along with a new songbook for children.So which hymns should stay? Which should go? And which new ones should be added?Writer Kristine Haglund, a former editor of Dialogue and a self-professed “serious amateur” singer and musician, discusses those
  
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• UTA says just-approved tax hike will improve bus service, but more money is needed for envisioned major projects

  20-06-2018 23:37
  A sales tax hike just passed by Salt Lake and Tooele counties will help improve bus service, but it’s far from enough to build future hoped-for rail expansions and other major projects, Utah Transit Authority officials told state lawmakers Wednesday.In short, they say they still need more money for the sort of system envisioned in long-term plans with more TRAX lines, double-tracked and electrified FrontRunner trains and 200 more miles of so-far-unfunded bus rapid transit.UTA promised legi
  
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• Diego Costa scores again, Spain beats Iran 1-0 at World Cup

  20-06-2018 23:37
  Kazan, Russia • Diego Costa scored on a deflection to lead Spain to a 1-0 win over Iran on Wednesday at the World Cup.Costa broke the deadlock in the 54th minute after being set up by Andres Iniesta. The powerful striker turned in the area and took a shot but the ball deflected off Ramin Rezeian before bouncing back onto Costa’s knee and into the net.Costa, who also scored two goals in the opening match, has three goals at this year’s World Cup, trailing Cristiano Ronaldo by one
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - How it will play out: The Tribune’s NBA Mock Draft with Phoenix at No. 1 picking ...

  20-06-2018 23:30 via sportspyder.com
  ...to play right away, but he has significant upside at 18 years old. 21. Utah Jazz: Chandler Hutchinson, guard, Boise State The Jazz sorely need a third scorer ...
  
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• Let teens know what you’re going to ask before you interview them, Mormon church instructs bishops in revised guidelines

  20-06-2018 23:20
  No Mormon teens should be surprised by questions posed during one-on-one “worthiness” interviews with their bishops.And it’s the bishops’ job to make sure of that by telling the youths and their parents — before the first interview takes place — the prescribed questions that will be asked and the topics that will be covered.The faith’s governing First Presidency made that clear Wednesday in a letter sent to all general authorities, local lay clergy and y
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Babies in warehouses: This is what the GOP has come to

  20-06-2018 22:35
  The blood of decent Americans was already boiling because of the pictures and audio of children being separated from their parents at the border. Then came the Associated Press article Tuesday evening:“Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three ‘tender age’ shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.“Lawyers and medical providers who have
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - What the Utah Jazz can learn from No. 21 NBA Draft picks of the last decade

  20-06-2018 22:31 via sportspyder.com
  ... ideration. “My job is twofold, one, to bring the best possible talent to the Jazz and work them out and two to build a team, which you guys know could be in d ...
  
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• What the Utah Jazz can learn from No. 21 NBA Draft picks of the last decade

  20-06-2018 22:22
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz war room will be intense on Thursday, June 21.Members of the front office will be watching, observing, communicating with other teams around the league to bring in the best possible prospect to help the playoff contenders.Utah currently holds the No. 21 (first round) and No. 52 (second round) overall selections in the upcoming draft, but as many know, that could change with general manager Dennis Lindsey and his staff who have developed a reputation for smart
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Already a pro, Doncic set to join college stars in NBA draft

  20-06-2018 22:15 via sportspyder.com
  ...Spurs Basketball Hall of Famer Anne Donovan has died of heart failure at 56 Jazz to unveil farthest north community court TV host Jimmy Kimmel beat by Sen. T ...
  
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• Your friendly neighborhood @spidadmitchell is up for Best Breakthrough Athlete at this year's @ESPYS 🚨🚨🚨 You know… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-06-2018 22:13 via twitter.com
  Your friendly neighborhood @spidadmitchell is up for Best Breakthrough Athlete at this year's @ESPYS 🚨🚨🚨You know… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Idaho parents sue federal government after cyanide trap injured their teen son, poisoned family dog

  20-06-2018 21:37
  Boise • An Idaho couple have sued the U.S. government, saying their teenage son still suffers headaches after a predator-killing trap that federal workers mistakenly placed near their home doused him with cyanide.Mark and Theresa Mansfield of Pocatello filed the lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Idaho seeking more than $75,000 in economic damages and more than $75,000 for pain and suffering.Their son, Canyon Mansfield, then 14, was playing with his dog last year when he triggered the
  
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• Salt Lake County residents will pay more taxes this fall; Sandy mayor still opposed but says he won’t veto

  20-06-2018 21:35
  Sandy City Mayor Kurt Bradburn remains opposed to a $58 million countywide sales tax hike for roads and transit but won’t veto the City Council’s approval, his deputy said Wednesday.After a close 4-3 council vote Tuesday night, Bradburn huddled with legal advisers and concluded he probably doesn’t have veto power on the resolution, said Evelyn Everton, deputy mayor.“After doing some due diligence with our attorneys, we’re not convinced that a veto on a resolution wo
  
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• [Fanrag Sports] - Keita Bates-Diop NBA Draft Breakdown

  20-06-2018 21:29 via sportspyder.com
  ... cs NBA NBA Draft NBA Today Utah Jazz David Locke David Locke enters his ninth year as the radio play-by-play voic ...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: The J-Notes’ 2018 composite NBA mock draft

  20-06-2018 21:24 via sportspyder.com
  ... NBA Draft 2018: Could the Utah Jazz make a trade on draft day? by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell will face off against Ben Simmons again — this time for an ESPY

  20-06-2018 21:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... ragthorpe: He’s not quite Donovan Mitchell, but Kevin Huerter would help the Jazz Monson: Jazz management is brawling over what to do and who to take in the N ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: The J-Notes’ 2018 composite NBA mock draft

  20-06-2018 20:58
  Business is picking up in the Association; the 2018 NBA Draft is finally upon us. To see who the Utah Jazz and the rest of the league’s teams might pick, we’ve pooled our respective mock drafts here into our second annual composite mock. The 2018 NBA Draft is finally upon us and questions abound ahead […]
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Is it time to forgive Deron Williams?

  20-06-2018 20:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... hy yesterday when I saw this Instagram story from Deron Williams at the Utah Jazz practice facility, I was fine with it. Maybe even happy. I’m done booing. I’ ...
  
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• Tribune editorial: Ending this border disaster will take more than a letter. Even one from Orrin Hatch.

  20-06-2018 20:20
  A letter.Orrin Hatch, president pro tem of the United States Senate, chairman of the Finance Committee, the man who told Utahns that if we elected, and re-elected, and re-elected him again, he would amass the power and influence to actually get things done, is sending a letter.To the attorney general.Like nearly everyone else who doesn’t work directly for the president of the United States, Hatch says he is greatly upset by what is happening at our southern border. He is bothered by the kn
  
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  20-06-2018 20:19 via twitter.com
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• Get those phone backgrounds upgraded, kids! #WallpaperWednesday https://t.co/2GHarMYnDL

  20-06-2018 19:58 via twitter.com
  
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• Rescues are up 68 percent in Utah’s national parks — and men in their 20s are the ones most likely to need help

  20-06-2018 19:51
  If you find yourself hoisted in a helicopter, strapped to a stretcher or leaning on a ranger in a national park, there’s a good chance you are — or were — a hiker. You’re probably also a man in his 20s. But whatever you are — woman or man, old or young — if you got lost, hurt or otherwise endangered in a national park or recreation area in the Beehive State, you aren’t alone. National Park Service staffers at sites in or straddling Utah recorded 324 sear
  
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• Fearing Utah could lose millions in school revenue, attorney general wants state to step in on Ute Tribe’s land lawsuits

  20-06-2018 19:45
  Seeing a huge threat to Utah’s interests, the state’s top legal officials intend to intervene in lawsuits the Ute Indian Tribe recently filed against the federal government seeking compensation for water rights and mineral riches that the tribe contends belong to it.The suits alleged these natural resources were unjustly transferred to ranchers, drillers and others who have profited from tapping the historic 1.8 million-acre Uncompahgre Reservation, the sparsely populated hydrocarbon
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - NBA Draft 2018: Could the Utah Jazz make a trade on draft day?

  20-06-2018 19:29 via sportspyder.com
  ... n attach an expiring contract to it. The most intriguing such option for the Jazz here would be Markieff Morris, who has just one year remaining on his contra ...
  
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• NBA Draft 2018: Could the Utah Jazz make a trade on draft day?

  20-06-2018 19:00
  There will be no shortage of intriguing trade opportunities for the Utah Jazz  to consider during the 2018 NBA Draft this Thursday. We’ve spent weeks upon weeks analyzing several of the top prospects that could be available when the Utah Jazz select at No. 21 overall in the 2018 NBA Draft. In many ways, it’s […]
  NBA Draft 2018: Could the Utah Jazz make a trade on draft day? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Time for ROUND 3 🗣🗣🗣 Clinching a playoff series or Ricky refusing to get shut down? VOTE >>… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-06-2018 18:42 via twitter.com
  Time for ROUND 3 🗣🗣🗣Clinching a playoff series or Ricky refusing to get shut down?VOTE >>… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Former Utah man suspected in Idaho triple killing is probably dead, sheriff says

  20-06-2018 18:22
  Caldwell, Idaho • The only suspect in the killing of two women and a 14-year-old girl last year in Idaho will likely never be brought to justice because he’s probably dead, a sheriff said.Gerald Michael “Mike” Bullinger, 60, likely killed himself, died from exposure to the elements or was killed by an animal attack in a remote area of Wyoming, Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue said. “The case is solved,” Donahue told KBOI-TV. “One hundred percent solve
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz 2018 NBA Draft Profile: UCLA’s Aaron Holiday

  20-06-2018 17:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... t his career as a quality backup on a good team such as potentially the Utah Jazz who own the 21st pick overall. Learning under a starting point guard should...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz 2018 NBA Draft Profile: Chandler Hutchison

  20-06-2018 17:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... e: Jacob Evans Should the Utah Jazz consider Kostas Antetokounmpo with the No. 52 pick? Utah Jazz 2018 NBA Draft ...
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Democratic congressional candidates distancing themselves from Pelosi

  20-06-2018 17:19
  Democratic congressional candidates distancing themselves from Nancy Pelosi. Orrin Hatch, 12 other senators urge Jeff Sessions to end family separations. Mitt Romney says Donald Trump isn’t above the law.Happy Wednesday. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is not winning the hearts and minds of some Democratic congressional candidates this year. At least 20 House Democratic challengers — including Utah’s Ben McAdams — have publicly rejected the minority leader on the campa
  
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• Rockmonster Unplugged: More power to the superteams

  20-06-2018 17:18
  A friend was complaining to me this week that the Golden State Warriors make him weary. He said he disliked knowing in October which team will win the championship.Not me. I'm fine watching one of history's greatest teams prove its point. Neither do I begrudge what I consider smart moves that have made the Warriors basketball's preeminent team.As for claims they bought themselves a superteam, that doesn't fit the facts. Of their top four players, three were drafted by the Warriors. They did sign
  
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• Utah Jazz 2018 NBA Draft Profile: Chandler Hutchison

  20-06-2018 17:15
  The Utah Jazz currently own the 21st overall pick in the upcoming 2018 NBA Draft and may look to select stat-stuffing wing Chandler Hutchison. The offseason is nearing its most exciting point for many basketball fans – the 2018 NBA Draft. And although the Utah Jazz don’t own a lottery pick, there is plenty of […]
  Utah Jazz 2018 NBA Draft Profile: Chandler Hutchison - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• More and more ‘Mormon soda’ shops are bringing flavorful carbonated concoctions — and fun — to eastern Idaho

  20-06-2018 17:09
  Idaho Falls, Idaho • Nearly 50 bottles of flavoring line the walls of Lael Andersen’s 10-foot-by-20-foot shack on Northgate Mile, featuring common choices such as raspberry and cherry, to more off-the-wall additives such as cupcake.These flavors help make carbonated concoctions that in the past few years have taken eastern Idaho by storm.“Everybody loves soda, and everyone that drinks these flavored sodas now say to me ‘I can’t drink a Dr Pepper without all of the fl
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Immigrant children are real children

  20-06-2018 17:04
  “Illegals” have faces.This is what Republicans are learning to their chagrin amid mounting international outrage over the new policy of separating immigrant children from their families at our southern border. For years, the party has pretended otherwise. It has denied undocumented immigrants their personhood, casting them instead as an abstract threat — rape! gangs! murder! — against anyone who makes the mistake of compassion.Now reality is blasting through that xenophob
  
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• Alexandra Petri: How to sleep at night when families are being separated at the border

  20-06-2018 16:37
  The trick is forgetting they are children.If you remember that they are children, you will not be able to go on with any of this. If you remember when you were a child, and frightened, and everything seemed impossibly big and loud and sharp and hard except a certain pair of familiar arms, this will have to stop.The trick is forgetting that there is such a word as “child.” To remember words like “bad hombre” and “thug” instead. You do not have to say “ani
  
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• Letter: Mormon church should be more than ‘deeply troubled’ by what’s happening at America’s border

  20-06-2018 16:23
  By calling the forced separation of children at the border cruel, unlawful and immoral, Pastor Steve Klemz aptly described the horror of what America is inflicting upon immigrant families. In contrast, the LDS Church was merely "deeply troubled.”I for one am “deeply troubled” that a religious organization that states that “strengthening families is our sacred duty” failed to condemn this inhumane practice and did not urge each of its members to do the same.The act o
  
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• Letter: Former SLC Mayor Rocky Anderson is difficult — but not discriminatory

  20-06-2018 16:20
  No one who lived in Salt Lake City during Rocky Anderson’s two terms as mayor would put “stellar manager” at the top of his skill set. Warm and fuzzy he is not. However, he is brighter than most, usually way ahead of others when seeking solutions to city problems, and suffers fools not at all.He is also a champion of the downtrodden and those victimized by our government, which, when dealing with the disadvantaged, can be indifferent at best and downright cruel at worst. So, wa
  
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• Letter: Don’t we remember Sophie’s Choice?

  20-06-2018 16:14
  As I continue to follow the tragedy on the Mexican border, motivated by Republican politicians, I find myself reminded of the novel by William Styron wherein, in World War II, a Polish woman is interned in a Nazi concentration camp with her two young children and has to decide which child would be gassed while the other would be able to live in the camp.This analogy may seem extreme to some, but try to imagine, if you will, regardless of the situation, a family that is torn apart, with children
  
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• Commentary: Children taken from parents suffer permanent damage

  20-06-2018 16:09
  Families seeking asylum from violence, abuse and tyranny at our nation’s southern border are being torn apart, with young children suffering unnecessary and forcible separations from their parents. Some of these children are so young that they are still nursing.I’ll be honest: As a physician who devotes my career to the well-being of children, and as a parent myself, witnessing the federal government’s sanctioned abuse of vulnerable children has been difficult to comprehend. Be
  
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• Letter: Romney is just using Utahns to get a long-desired government job

  20-06-2018 16:00
  Utah voters, I hope you’re not going to let Mitt Romney treat you as if you’re stupid.He runs in the presidential election twice and loses. When Donald Trump was elected, Romney had some of the most vicious words to say about Trump and the American people who voted for Trump. But when Romney was called to the White House to interview for the secretary of state position, he couldn’t have had a bigger smile on his face going into the interview and coming out of it. Romney did not
  
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• Letter: Hatch better beware before going against Trump on immigration

  20-06-2018 15:36
  After reading Tuesday’s article that our Sen. Orrin Hatch was going to draft a letter to stop President Trump’s policy of separating migrant families at the border, my heart sank to the bottom of my stomach. With retirement coming up so soon, how could you risk tainting your stellar career by going against the wishes of the greatest president you have ever served? I hope you’re reading this, because if you ruffle this president’s feathers, he’ll come back on you ten
  
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• Letter: Utah should pass a law banning Mormons from using marijuana

  20-06-2018 15:32
  In regards to the possible issues with writing rules on the medical pot initiative, I have a suggestion that will make life a lot easier for the state officials and those against the initiative as a whole.Make it against the law for any tithe-paying member of the LDS Church to get a medical marijuana prescription (unless of course they are terminally ill, as suggested by the Mormon church and the LDS legislature). This way there will be no religious or moral challenges for them to overcome. They
  
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• This University of Utah athlete once spent more than $200 a day for drugs like heroin. Now, he hopes his story will prevent youths from addiction.

  20-06-2018 15:27
  Spanish Fork • A once-promising baseball player at the University of Utah who became addicted to heroin after an injury is now sober, and he’s sharing his story with youth groups to help prevent others from getting sucked in as he did.Derek Larsen, who had a scholarship to play baseball, spent more than a decade addicted to heroin after his friends suggested he take opioids to deal with the pain of tearing his rotator cuff when he was 16, the Daily Herald reported."I love the feeling
  
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• Kirby: At graduation ceremonies, how much flair is fair?

  20-06-2018 15:16
  Thanks to former Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson, who was on the graduation committee, I made it out of high school (Skyline) in 1971.The last day of school — which I didn’t attend — was a huge stepping-off point in my life. I was free of “the system” that had imprisoned me for 12 years.Never again would I permit myself to be at the mercy of such dull masters. From that moment on, my life would be lived on my terms. Freedom would be savored every minute.I know, I kn
  
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• Because VW tried to dodge pollution laws, Utah will get $35M to spend on low-emission vehicles

  20-06-2018 15:15
  Utah’s state-owned vehicle fleet will become cleaner, thanks to its share of a settlement Volkswagen paid for selling cars it had rigged to evade emission limits.“We’re thrilled to put $35 million into cleaner trucks, buses and electrical charging material throughout the state,” Utah Gov. Gary Herbert announced Tuesday. “While VW’s violation of the Clean Air Act was disappointing, we look forward to investing these funds in vehicles and resources that will red
  
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• Letter: Tribune article on lei bans included a disturbing, unverified claim about Polynesians

  20-06-2018 15:00
  Thank you for publishing Courtney Tanner’s story about students who were not allowed to wear cultural attire to graduation. More awareness, I’m sure, will help schools and facilities avoid these conflicts in the future. My district may not allow leis in the venue, but cultural attire is accepted. I’m puzzled, though, by this claim buried in the June 18, 2018, story: “Some schools and venues have argued ... that fights break out over the money and candy versions of the nec
  
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• Maximum Salary Cap Space Projections for 2018-19

  20-06-2018 13:43 via basketballinsiders.com
  With July rapidly approaching, several teams will have significant spending power for the 2018-19 season but on a smaller scale than the past two summers. The NBA’s current salary cap projection for the coming year is $101 million with luxury tax threshold of $123 million. The exact figures should be released late on June 30, […]
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The most underrated prospects in the NBA draft

  20-06-2018 08:45 via sportspyder.com
  ... llin Sexton and Miles Bridges - SLC Dunk clock menu more-arrow no yes a Utah Jazz community ✕ The most underrated prospects in the NBA draft How are these pla ...
  
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