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• She pulls out books during social gatherings. When other teens did it at this Utah writing camp, she realized, ‘My gosh, there’s more of us.’

  21-06-2018 23:55
  When 14-year-old Ellie Seegmiller walked into a room at Southern Utah University for writing camp last summer, it was full of what seemed like hundreds of kids. Her heart sank.“Oh, crap, I’m going to have to make friends and stuff,” she remembers thinking.Seegmiller, who’s written a book a year since she was in sixth grade, was excited about the chance to work with famous authors during the first-ever WriteOut camp. But she’d been picturing a classroom setting, spar
  
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• Governor orders probe of abuse claims by immigrant children

  21-06-2018 23:49
  Washington • Virginia’s governor ordered state officials Thursday to investigate abuse claims by children at an immigration detention facility who said they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells.Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, announced the probe in a tweet hours after The Associated Press reported the allegations. They were included in a federal civil rights lawsuit with a half-dozen sworn statem
  
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• Man in Spider-Man costume running through the streets of Brooklyn has got to be a good omen for #NBADraft night, right?? 🕷

  21-06-2018 23:39 via twitter.com
  Man in Spider-Man costume running through the streets of Brooklyn has got to be a good omen for #NBADraft night, right?? 🕷
  
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• Chinese Olympic figure skating judges banned for bias; Nathan Chen could have finished fourth if not for the judges

  21-06-2018 23:27
  While the overhaul of figure skating’s international judging system in 2004 has gone a long way toward bringing integrity to a largely subjective process, it is not perfect.Four months after the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, two Chinese judges have been suspended by the International Skating Union for giving “preferential marking” to skaters from their country.The sanctions and rationale behind the them were explicated in detail in an ISU report issued earlier this week, and they
  
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• Live on NBA Draft day: Deandre Ayton to go No. 1; Dwight Howard to become free agent

  21-06-2018 23:01
  Thursday is draft day for the NBA, with some moves already being made this week with an eye toward free agency in July. For the latest around the league as the draft starts at 5 p.m. MDT in New York City, follow here with contributions from The Tribune’s Tony Jones and Kyle Goon.A Twitter List by matttraub
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump says trade wars are ‘easy.’ Here come the first American casualties.

  21-06-2018 23:00
  Washington • President Trump believes that “trade wars are good, and easy to win.” So he started one.Now the casualties are beginning to return home from the battlefield, and on Capitol Hill Wednesday, the people’s representatives presented some of them to Wilbur Ross, the president’s billionaire commerce secretary.“Corn, wheat, beef and pork are all suffering market price declines … due to current trade policies,” complained Sen. John Thune (S.D.)
  
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• Rep. Mia Love cast Utah’s only no vote on the House’s hardline immigration bill, which failed to pass

  21-06-2018 22:57
  Washington • Rep. Mia Love was the only House member from Utah to vote against a hardline immigration bill on Thursday and after the legislation failed, GOP leaders said they would postpone a vote on a compromise bill to give Republicans time to regroup.Love joined 40 fellow Republicans in voting against the bill by House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte that didn’t allow a path to legal residency for immigrants brought to America as children. It also contained several controversial e
  
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• Messi, Argentina on verge of elimination after 3-0 loss to Croatia at World Cup

  21-06-2018 22:57
  Nizhny Novgorod, Russia • Lionel Messi and his Argentina teammates are on the verge of World Cup elimination. Croatia is moving on.Argentina was handily beaten by Croatia 3-0, a loss that makes advancement very difficult with only one group match remaining. It was Argentina’s worst loss in group play in 60 years.Messi, who turns 31 on Sunday, failed to get even one shot off against Croatia on Thursday, five days after he missed a penalty in the team’s opening 1-1 draw against Ic
  
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• As Utah’s housing crisis worsens, business leaders launch a campaign to change public sentiment

  21-06-2018 22:54
  Amid widening evidence that Utah’s affordable housing crunch is worsening, business and community leaders met Thursday in Salt Lake City for the first of several “big tent” meetings to address the problem.The Salt Lake Chamber is launching a major public-awareness campaign meant to highlight dramatically rising home prices, shrinking affordability and a historic gap in Utah between the number of households and available housing units. That deficit is now estimated at about 250,
  
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• Melania Trump dons ‘I really don’t care, do u?’ jacket

  21-06-2018 22:22
  Washington • First lady Melania Trump wore a jacket that read “I really don’t care, do u?” as she boarded a flight Thursday to a facility housing migrant children separated from their parents.The green, hooded military jacket had the words written graffiti-style on the back.When asked what message the first lady’s jacket intends to send, spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said: “It’s a jacket. There was no hidden message. After today’s important visit to
  
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• Hosting your own draft night party? You can feed the fam and get half off your online Papa John's order by using y… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-06-2018 22:20 via twitter.com
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Chandler Hutchison believes he would be good fit with Utah Jazz

  21-06-2018 22:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... ferent teams that are pretty good fits and, you know, the way they (the Utah Jazz) run, I’ve been told multiple times that I would fit in that situation at Ut ...
  
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• She was used to being the only teen pulling out a book during social gatherings. When everyone did it at this Utah writing camp, she realized, ‘My gosh, there’s more of us.’

  21-06-2018 22:06
  When 14-year-old Ellie Seegmiller walked into a room at Southern Utah University for writing camp last summer, it was full of what seemed like hundreds of kids. Her heart sank.“Oh, crap, I’m going to have to make friends and stuff,” she remembers thinking.Seegmiller, who’s written a book a year since she was in sixth grade, was excited about the chance to work with famous authors during the first-ever WriteOut camp. But she’d been picturing a classroom setting, spar
  
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• Upset Holladay residents want to stop the development of the old Cottonwood Mall site, says plan calls for too many apartments

  21-06-2018 22:03
  A group of Holladay residents are trying to put the brakes on a major development on the site of the old Cottonwood Mall — a plan these residents say will concentrate too many people in not enough space without boosting the city’s economy.“We think it would be great if Holladay residents have a voice in the matter,” said Brett Stohlton, one of the organizers of Unite for Holladay, a group collecting signatures for a referendum that could stop a development plan approved l
  
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• Chandler Hutchison believes he would be good fit with Utah Jazz

  21-06-2018 21:16
  NBA Draft prospect Chandler Hutchison recently stated that he believes he would be a good fit with the Utah Jazz. With draft night quickly approaching, speculation about who the Utah Jazz may select at No. 21 is at an all-time high. The list of promising prospects that could be had with a late first-round pick […]
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• The Supreme Court cleared the way for Utah to collect sales taxes from all online sales. Here’s what it means for consumers and businesses

  21-06-2018 21:11
  Utahns will soon start paying the taxes they already owed but almost never paid after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of states that require online businesses to collect sales taxes on Thursday.That means that about $285 million in sales taxes that the state expected would be owed but not paid will soon be collected at checkout while shopping online — if lawmakers act to do so.The court overturned its 1992 ruling and opened the door for states to pass laws that require businesses mak
  
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• ‘He was just walking by’: Daughter promises to seek justice for her father, killed by security guard outside Utah state government offices

  21-06-2018 21:10
  A security guard patrolling the plaza between two Utah state government offices early Wednesday morning argued with a trespasser and shot him twice in the back as he was walking away, Salt Lake City police say.Timothy Lutes, 26, an employee of Citadel Security USA, is now being held at the Salt Lake County jail on suspicion of homicide.Lutes encountered the trespasser after 5 a.m. and asked him to leave the property, which is closed to the public at that time every day. The security guard shined
  
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• Whom are the Jazz taking at 21? Here are the best guesses from around the NBA.

  21-06-2018 21:03
  No one yet knows whom the Utah Jazz will be taking in the first round of the NBA Draft, but many people have opinions.The Tribune released its own mock draft with the Jazz taking Chandler Hutchison from Boise State 21st overall. Around the country, others are weighing in with how they see the Jazz using the No. 21 pick (assuming the Jazz don’t trade up or down).There’s a clubhouse favorite — by now, you’ve probably heard his name once or twice:USA Today: Kevin Huerter, SG
  
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• Food and fun at the Park City Latino Arts Festival

  21-06-2018 20:33
  Despite thunderstorms and a brief power outage, attendees seemed to have a good time at the Park City Latino Arts Festival on Sunday, June 17, 2018.Look through the gallery below to see photos from the event.
  
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• UTA offers extra service, discounts to Hill Air Force Base air show this weekend

  21-06-2018 20:18
  The Utah Transit Authority is offering extra service and discounted fares for travelers to Hill Air Force Base’s Warriors Over the Wasatch Air and Space show on Saturday and Sunday.The FrontRunner commuter train normally does not operate on Sundays, but will for the air show — operating from 6:55 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. It will also offer extra FrontRunner service on Saturday.Buses will run every 15 minutes to the base from the Clearfield FrontRunner station, 1250 S. State Street, from 8 a
  
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• BYU’s basketball schedule makes Nick Emery available vs. Utah State and Utah

  21-06-2018 20:14
  BYU guard Nick Emery will be available for in-state games vs. Utah State and Utah, after missing the first nine contests of the 2018-19 season due to NCAA sanctions. That’s the most significant finding in the Cougars’ non-conference basketball schedule of 15 games, announced Thursday. Several opponents and dates had been reported previously, so the question became where Game 10 would fall on the schedule, enabling Emery to play in his return to basketball after withdrawing from the s
  
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• Chow Truck, the original restaurant on wheels that got Utah’s roving diners rolling, shuts down

  21-06-2018 20:09
  The food truck that launched Salt Lake City’s mobile eating scene eight years ago has closed. The Chow Truck’s demise was announced June 16 on Facebook by co-owners J. and Megan Looney. They attributed the closure to some “unforeseen mechanical problems” with the bright yellow truck with the fire-breathing dragon logo.“It’s a bittersweet thing,” J. Looney said. “We were going to sell the business at the end of the summer season. We wanted the name
  
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• Poll: Romney up 42 points over Kennedy ahead of Tuesday’s primary

  21-06-2018 20:02
  Washington • Mitt Romney holds a sizable lead over state Rep. Mike Kennedy in their primary battle for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate, a new Salt Lake Tribune-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll shows.Romney garnered nearly 65 percent of registered Republicans compared to Kennedy’s 23 percent, the poll found ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Romney also carried every category of political leanings among Republicans surveyed, including nearly 46 percent of those who described thems
  
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• #NeverTrump to #OKTrump: Romney’s evolution mirrors party

  21-06-2018 19:56
  Park City, Utah • Mitt Romney did not ride a donkey.But the one-time presidential nominee and now candidate for Senate did cheer enthusiastically at a donkey basketball game, campaigning on the ground in Utah like a homegrown hero — even though he grew up somewhere else. What he isn’t doing much is talking about President Trump.Romney was once a leading figure in the “Never Trump” movement, but now he says he wants to work with the president. What does his evolution
  
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  21-06-2018 19:50 via twitter.com
  
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• High Court: Online shoppers can be forced to pay sales tax

  21-06-2018 19:41
  Washington • States will be able to force shoppers to pay sales tax when they make online purchases under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big win for states.More than 40 states had asked the high court to overrule two, decades-old Supreme Court decisions that they said cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue annually. The decisions made it more difficult for states to collect sales tax on certain online purchases.On Thursday, th
  
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• Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, dies at 46

  21-06-2018 19:33
  Woodside, Calif. • Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, raised kittens and once playfully tried on the glasses of the late actor Robin Williams, has died. She was 46.The Gorilla Foundation says the western lowland gorilla died in her sleep at the foundation’s preserve in California’s Santa Cruz mountains on Tuesday.Koko’s capacity for language and empathy opened the minds and hearts of millions of people, the foundation said. She appeared in many documentaries and
  
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• First lady visits migrant children at Texas detention center

  21-06-2018 19:31
  McAllen, Texas • Melania Trump made an unannounced visit to a Texas facility Thursday to get a first-hand look at some of the migrant children sent there by the U.S. government after their families entered the country illegally.The first lady’s stop at Upbring New Hope Children’s Center in McAllen came the morning after President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting the practice of separating these families. She may also visit a second facility later in the day where c
  
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• Riverton City is eliminating its $200 business license fee

  21-06-2018 19:26
  Riverton City approved a budget that eliminates its annual $200 license fee for all businesses except those that sell alcohol or fireworks, making it the first city in Salt Lake County to go fee free.“We understand the value our local businesses provide to our city and our residents,” Mayor Trent Staggs said in a prepared statement Thursday. “By eliminating the business licensing fee, we want to send a clear message that Riverton is open for business.”Staggs proposed elim
  
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• Utah to pay $450K to the widow of an inmate killed in prison, settling a lawsuit

  21-06-2018 19:14
  State officials have agreed to pay nearly half a million dollars to the widow of an inmate who was beaten and stabbed to death at the Utah State Prison in 2016.A lawsuit filed in federal court claims corrections officers knew it would be dangerous to move 24-year-old Jeffrey Ray Vigil to a unit where rival gang members were housed — but placed Vigil there anyway on March 14, 2016.Just hours after he was moved to the Oquirrh 1, Section 2 housing unit, the Ogden Trece gang member was stabbed
  
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• A Canadian firm wants to start mining on Utah lands that used to be part of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

  21-06-2018 19:06
  A Canadian firm has announced its intention to mine copper and cobalt on public lands in Utah’s scenic Circle Cliffs east of Boulder, telling potential investors it has acquired what appear to be the first mining claims filed on lands removed from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.The move set off alarms among environmental groups seeking the monument’s restoration, but it remains unlikely that Glacier Lake Resources’ plans will be realized anytime soon. The Bureau of
  
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• Holly Richardson: If you’ve been silent on what’s happening to immigrant children, you can’t call yourself pro-life or pro-family

  21-06-2018 18:58
  In Romania in the early 1990s, the world saw children warehoused in orphanages, crowded in spaces that were too small, without enough people to care for them. Some even had cages.The world was outraged, and rightly so. No child should be warehoused. No child should be in a cage. But the federal government has created orphanages — complete with cages. The world should be outraged.I have not been able to sleep for days. I’ve cried buckets of tears over the immoral situation on our sout
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz 2018 NBA Draft Profile: Jalen Brunson

  21-06-2018 18:57 via sportspyder.com
  ... cent KSL SportsBeat segment, Jazz VP of Player Personnel Walt Perrin showered Brunson with praise as you can s ...
  
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• Who are the Jazz taking at 21? Here’s the best guesses from around the NBA

  21-06-2018 18:56
  No one yet knows who the Utah Jazz will be taking in the first round of the NBA Draft, but many people have opinions.The Tribune released its own mock draft with the Jazz taking Chandler Hutchison from Boise State 21st overall. Around the country, others are weighing in with how they see the Jazz using the No. 21 pick (assuming the Jazz don’t trade up or down).There’s a clubhouse favorite — by now, you’ve probably heard his name once or twice:USA Today: Kevin Huerter, SG/
  
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• The all-time NBA draft — the best pick from every slot, including one Jazz legend

  21-06-2018 18:56
  There’s a definitive answer every year to the question of who is No. 1 in the NBA draft.But who is the No. 1 pick of all No. 1 draft picks ever? Or No. 1 among the list of No. 2 draft picks? Those are questions that have no definitive answer, except perhaps in a handful of rare cases.Here’s a look at The Best of The Best — the top all-time NBA picks in each of the top 30 draft spots. The best No. 1 overall pick, the best No. 2 overall pick ... and so on.One note: This doesn&rsq
  
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• How it will happen: The Tribune’s NBA mock draft with the Jazz at No. 21 picking ...

  21-06-2018 18:56
  Here’s how The Tribune’s Tony Jones sees the NBA Draft going on Thursday night in New York.1. Phoenix Suns: Deandre Ayton, center, ArizonaYou can make the argument for Luka Doncic, or even Mo Bamba. But Ayton is dynamic for a center in all parts of the game. He represents a significant need for the Suns and new head coach Igor Kokoskov.2. Sacramento Kings: Marvin Bagley III, forward, DukeBagley is a safe pick, which is what the Kings need. He’s going to average 20 points and 10
  
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• Two iconic Donovan moments from this season: A shocking postseason dunk and a scoring showcase. Vote for your favo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-06-2018 18:44 via twitter.com
  Two iconic Donovan moments from this season: A shocking postseason dunk and a scoring showcase.Vote for your favo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: ‘Believing Christ’ author Stephen Robinson, who preached the beauty of grace, dies; church speaks out on border separations; bishops’ interviews amplified

  21-06-2018 17:51
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want Mormon Land in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: Songs for the saintsFor years, this has been a standard Mormon refrain: When will a new hymnbook come out?Well, ring out, wild bells, that blessed day is approaching.The LDS Church announced that it is
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The NBA Draft is Utah Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey’s playground

  21-06-2018 17:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... ’s going to look at Utah’s run and assume—and assume correctly—that the Utah Jazz are not a 60 win team as their post-All Star record might suggest. They’re a ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Draft day has arrived

  21-06-2018 17:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... t. -GIVONY The big guys seem to like Aaron Holiday and Kevin Huerter for the Jazz. Both seem like solid players that would fit well within the Jazz system. Bu ...
  
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• Utah school safety panel recommends confiscating guns in cases of ‘extreme risk’

  21-06-2018 17:32
  A group of Utahns convened to review school and student safety recommended Wednesday that lawmakers approve a so-called “red flag” bill, allowing weapons to be seized through court order.Rep. Ray Ward, R-Bountiful, said current law allows for confiscation of weapons if a specific threat is made against specific people. But the law falls short in situations where a gun owner is believed to be a danger to the general public. “We have a gap if a person is making general threats ag
  
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• Resurrected Twilight Concert Series will include Snoop Dogg, Diplo in 2018 lineup

  21-06-2018 17:23
  Last October, Salt Lake City officials announced that the popular Twilight Concert Series was going on hiatus due to years of ballooning budgets and requests for emergency funding.Then, this past February, the nonprofit Salt Lake City Arts Council said the long-running downtown music festival was getting a reprieve, thanks to its new partnership with Broadway Media.And on Thursday morning, the Arts Council and Broadway Media revealed the payoff of their four-month crunch to make it happen.The fi
  
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• With the Pacific Northwest bumblebee in trouble, citizen-staffed study could be a test case for conservation efforts

  21-06-2018 17:00
  Boise, Idaho • Hundreds of citizen scientists have begun buzzing through locations across the Pacific Northwest seeking a better understanding about nearly 30 bumblebee species.Bumblebees, experts say, are important pollinators for wild and agricultural plants, but some species have disappeared from places where they were once common, possibly because of the same factors that have been killing honeybees.“It’s really important for us as humans to study these species systems for a
  
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• House Speaker Greg Hughes’ property holdings appear to disqualify him from the inland port board that he appointed himself to

  21-06-2018 16:53
  House Speaker Greg Hughes is affiliated with companies that own land within 5 miles of the newly created inland port authority boundaries — a tie that, under current law, would automatically disqualify him from the board he appointed himself to.That’s no problem, says Hughes, who is pushing to change the law to shrink that restriction and rid it of what he says is other ambiguous language.Hughes is listed on state business records as the manager of Wilkeshire Homes LLC, an expired li
  
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• Post Office Place is a new Salt Lake City bar that finally gives Takashi diners a place to get a pre-dinner cocktail

  21-06-2018 16:37
  Takashi has, after three years, opened Post Office Place, a new bar next to the popular sushi restaurant in downtown Salt Lake City.This is good news for anyone who has waited, and waited, and waited for a table at Takashi — and subsequently cursed Utah liquor laws, which prevent restaurant guests from ordering a cocktail before being seated at a table.”We opened it because we wanted it to be a place where people can wait while they are waiting [for a seat] at Takashi,” explain
  
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• Utah’s minority populations are growing rapidly — adding 130K people in seven years

  21-06-2018 16:35
  It’s one sign of how growing minorities are changing Utah. Archie Archuleta, 87, recalls driving as a youth from his hometown of Pocatello, Idaho, to Salt Lake City to shop at what he remembers as the only Latino store for hundreds of miles.“Now they are everywhere here,” he says. “There are even several chains.”Eli Madrigal started one of them, Rancho Markets, in 2006 and now has 10 stores. But as a sign of even more change, she says that “only 50 percent of
  
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• Utah Jazz 2018 NBA Draft Profile: Jalen Brunson

  21-06-2018 16:33
  Despite some concerns about his physical limitations, Jalen Brunson brings plenty of skills that the Utah Jazz could utilize if they wound up selecting him in the 2018 NBA Draft. The long wait is over as the day of the 2018 NBA Draft is upon us! The Utah Jazz have no shortage of intriguing options […]
  Utah Jazz 2018 NBA Draft Profile: Jalen Brunson - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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