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• Giant Ogden walnut tree is largest in Utah

  29-06-2018 23:50
  Ogden • A little more than 100 years ago, the owners of a new white brick bungalow with a welcoming porch planted an English walnut tree in their backyard.The home and the neighborhood are gone, but the tree is still growing. State officials confirmed recently that it holds the record for the largest English walnut in Utah. Turns out, it’s remarkably old, too.Utah State University Professor Mike Kuhns, who first noticed the tree earlier this year, took a corer to it last week, but the
  
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• Salt Lake County supports launch of new employment program for people with substance-use disorders

  29-06-2018 23:32
  Austin Davis was luckier than most. He had a good family, an education and a steady work history prior to his addiction. But despite those resources, he still struggled to find employment after treatment.“I pretty much took the first job I could get,” he said. “I was moving vending machines for just above minimum wage — and I had a college degree.”First Step House, an addiction-recovery center in Salt Lake City, launched a new employment program Friday in conjunctio
  
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• Jazz’s Thabo Sefolosha closing in on return to court following MCL surgery

  29-06-2018 23:26
  One of the Jazz’s best defenders could be returning to the court soon. Thabo Sefolosha, who was a valuable combination forward for the Jazz last season, expects to be fully cleared for basketball activities within six weeks, league sources told The Salt Lake Tribune.Sefolosha missed the second half of the season with an MCL injury that required surgery. Currently, Sefolosha is home in Switzerland, working out and awaiting free agency, where the Jazz will have to make a decision to guarante
  
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• From Jimmer to former Jazzmen, what Utahns need to know about 2018’s The Basketball Tournament

  29-06-2018 23:26
  Yes, Jimmer Fredette will be playing in this year's The Basketball Tournament.But there are plenty of interesting storylines beyond the former BYU basketball star in the 5-on-5 basketball tournament where teams are fighting to win the $2 million prize, with $200,000 set aside for fans of the winning team who can vote (and network) their way to a share of the money.Here's why Utahns should be paying attention to TBT 2018.Tournament size: This year's field will include 72 teams, with 18 in each of
  
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• Six decades after being told her mother was dead, she found her — 80 minutes away and 100 years old

  29-06-2018 23:25
  Joanne Loewenstern didn’t want to believe her mother was dead. But it was what she had always been told.She was 16 when she found out she was adopted. Her real mother died after giving birth to her in a Bronx hospital in 1938, she was told, but “I had a feeling she was alive somehow,” Loewenstern told The Washington Post. “I just felt that I didn’t believe it for some reason.”The only thing she knew about her mother was her name: Lillian Feinsilver. She knew w
  
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• Utah Royals-Sky Blue match preview

  29-06-2018 23:14
  SKY BLUE FC AT UTAH ROYALS FC<br>At Rio Tinto Stadium<br>Kickoff • Saturday, 8 p.m. MDT<br>TV • KMYU<br>Radio • 700 AM<br>Records • Royals 4-3-6, Sky Blue 0-9-3<br>Last meeting • Royals 2-1 win at Sky Blue (June 2)<br>About Sky Blue FC • The lone winless team left in NWSL, Sky Blue is the lowest-scoring team in the league with nine goals in 12 matches. ... Sky Blue is 0-4-2 away from home in New Jersey. ... Sky Blue is comin
  
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• The Jazz begin Summer League practices with plenty of eyes on Grayson Allen

  29-06-2018 23:02
  Back in a gym, back in a jersey. No autographs. No posterboard of his own smiling face.This, Grayson Allen said Friday, is more like it.“It feels real now that I’m out there,” Allen said, “wearing the jersey.”Grayson Allen just finished his first summer league minicamp session. pic.twitter.com/WrnIdHoUmh— Kyle Goon (@kylegoon) June 29, 2018The first-round draft pick of the Utah Jazz looked a little relieved to be getting to work as the team began its practices
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Brad Rock: A Derrick Favors departure would have a far different vibe than Gordon Hayward's

  29-06-2018 22:53 via sportspyder.com
  ... ’s future. While Favors remains a valued component, after eight seasons in a Jazz uniform, a departure wouldn’t come close to triggering the same backlash as...
  
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• Brad Rock: A Derrick Favors departure would have a far different vibe than Gordon Hayward's

  29-06-2018 22:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — Three hundred and sixty-one days ago, Gordon Hayward left Utah like a bandit on the lam. He took the money and ran. Though actually a pure business decision, it made him one of the most reviled former Jazz players of all time.The damage he did to Utah's psyche lasted, well, not particularly long. People can thank Donovan Mitchell for that. Still, Hayward will get enthusiastically booed each time he returns for a game at Vivint Arena, having left as a free agent. The thing
  
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• A Utah woman says a nurse gave her hepatitis C — and now she’s suing the Davis County hospital where she was treated

  29-06-2018 22:39
  She went to a Davis County emergency room in October 2011 with chest pain, concerned she may have pneumonia.After being admitted, Karen Samulski was given a mix of painkillers, sedatives and anti-nausea medication through an IV.What Samulski didn’t know then was that her nurse, Elet Neilson, had likely injected herself with some of the medication before giving the rest to her patient.Four years would pass before Samulski received a letter from Davis Hospital and Medical Center saying the n
  
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• Trump isn’t telling the truth about illegal immigrants and crime. The public knows it.

  29-06-2018 22:29
  In his push for stricter immigration laws President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that undocumented immigrants are a threat to public safety because of what he alleges is their propensity to commit crime.This claim is false. The best available research shows that immigrants, legal or otherwise, are significantly less likely to commit crime than native-born citizens.The latest survey from the Pew Research Center shows that an overwhelming majority understand this: By more than a 2-to-1 rati
  
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• You are strong! #5ForTheFight ✋ https://t.co/oNA2rbtgFW

  29-06-2018 22:28 via twitter.com
  
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• Capital Gazette shooting suspect held without bond on five counts of murder

  29-06-2018 22:20
  The man accused of killing five Capital Gazette staff had threatened the newspaper in 2013 but then “went dark,” police said. Until Thursday.Shortly before Jarrod Ramos blasted out the glass doors of the newsroom near Annapolis, Maryland, at about 3 p.m., he sent another threat on social media, police said, and then unleashed his rampage, shooting with a legally purchased 12-gauge pump-action shotgun until he finally laid it down and hid under a desk as police arrived.The news organi
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - FA Rumors: Jazz, Bertans, G. Green, Caupain

  29-06-2018 22:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... ones that the Jazz will do their due diligence on top free agents, but the club likely won’t ha ...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Report: Utah Jazz ‘in the mix’ for RFA Davis Bertans

  29-06-2018 21:56 via sportspyder.com
  ... ut you also have to hope the Spurs don’t match a solid offer. Along with the Jazz, Schultz reports that the Nets have shown interest in Bertans. The Nets are...
  
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• Colorado man held in death of girlfriend whose body was found in Utah

  29-06-2018 21:46
  Delta, Colo. • A 24-year-old Colorado man is being held in the death of his girlfriend whose body was found in neighboring Utah.The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports Delta County Judge Jin Ho Pack on Thursday set a $10 million cash or surety bond for Edgar Macias-Moreno, of Hotchkiss.Prosecutors asked that Macias-Moreno be held without bond, but the judge granted the request of Deputy State Public Defender Shandea Sergent for a cash or surety bond.Police say Macias-Moreno turned himself
  
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• Utahns would pay millions less in utility bills if PacifiCorp used wind and solar instead of coal-fired power, environmentalists say

  29-06-2018 21:39
  PacifiCorp could save its ratepayers hundreds of millions of dollars if the utility replaces some coal-fired units earlier than planned with renewable sources, according to an analysis commissioned by the Sierra Club, an environmental group that has pushed for the power industry to move away from fossil fuels.With the cost of operating and maintaining old coal plants, such as Utah’s Hunter and Huntington, climbing, a switch to renewable sources makes financial sense for many of the utility
  
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• Report: Utah Jazz ‘in the mix’ for RFA Davis Bertans

  29-06-2018 21:39
  The latest rumors on Utah Jazz front suggest that the team could be interested in Spurs restricted free agent Davis Bertans. With all the drama going on in San Antonio regarding Kawhi Leonard, it’s like you sort of forgot that they had some other important decisions to make this offseason. One decision will be what to […]
  Report: Utah Jazz ‘in the mix’ for RFA Davis Bertans - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• As the Jazz peruse the NBA’s free agent menu this weekend, they’ll be sticking with familiar fare — but will have interest in some new appetizers

  29-06-2018 21:37
  Free agency around the NBA will officially commence on Sunday morning, and league-wide, the questions on everybody’s minds will be about the fate of LeBron James, Paul George and DeMarcus Cousins, three of the brightest stars in the association. The feeding frenzy will almost certainly skip Salt Lake City.The Jazz will have the full mid-level exception at their disposal, about $8.6 million dollars to spend. And with that, the Jazz feel they have the chance to extract a good player from a m
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - REPORT: Sixers, Kings, Jazz among potential Jabari Parker suitors

  29-06-2018 21:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... ixers, Kings, Jazz among potential Jabari Parker suitors by June 29, 2018 This year’s class of...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Summer league roster news; Stockton, Team USA stunned

  29-06-2018 20:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... — Utah Jazz PR (@UtahJazzPR) June 29, 2018 Stockton, Team USA stunned by Mexico One play ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Summer league roster news; Stockton, Team USA stunned

  29-06-2018 20:23
  The Utah Jazz have revealed their roster for summer league play, which tips off next week. Also — David Stockton and USA Basketball lose in shocking fashion. While the pro hoops world is about to go topsy-turvy thanks to the Association’s free agent frenzy, NBA Summer League action is also fast-approaching. On Thursday, the Utah […]
  Utah Jazz: Summer league roster news; Stockton, Team USA stunned - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and Mor
  
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• Liberal billionaire brings national drive to impeach President Donald Trump to Utah

  29-06-2018 19:53
  If you were a billionaire, how would you spend all that money? Tom Steyer has decided to use millions to try to impeach fellow billionaire President Donald Trump.Steyer brought his 30-city tour of town hall meetings to Salt Lake City on Friday — as he also continues nationwide TV ads and donating to groups that offer legal aid to immigrants whose families were separated.He laughs when asked why a billionaire would spend his time pushing to impeach the president.“The same reason that
  
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• RSL center back David Horst suffers torn Achilles, out for the remainder of 2018 season

  29-06-2018 19:42
  Real Salt Lake’s depth took another hit this week. Back-up center back David Horst suffered a fully torn right Achilles tendon while playing with RSL’s USL franchise, Real Monarchs, on Tuesday in Herriman. The 32-year-old veteran MLS defender underwent surgery Thursday, but will miss the remainder of the 2018 MLS season.In an Instagram post updating fans on his injury, Horst wrote: “The next few months will be difficult but I am so grateful to have the best support team around
  
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• Lone Peak boys’ basketball coach leaves for Wasatch Academy

  29-06-2018 19:23
  Powerhouse Lone Peak boys’ basketball is looking for a new coach after a seismac change among two of the most well-known programs in the state of Utah.Dave Evans has resigned as coach at Lone Peak, the school announced on Friday, to take the head coaching job at Wasatch Academy, the independent powerhouse that plays a national prep schedule and has placed several recruits in Power Five programs.Evans led Lone Peak to the 2018 Class 6A state championship one year after finishing runner-up i
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz will push to keep free agents Derrick Favors, Dante Exum and Raul Neto

  29-06-2018 19:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... l is to go through the process to see what situation is best for him and the Jazz can only respect that. “The exit interviews went really well,” said Jazz gen ...
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Finally, a family separation story with a happy ending

  29-06-2018 19:05
  Guadalajara, Mexico and Los Angeles • Finally, a family separation story with a happy ending.It’s not the sort of family separation that has been in the headlines lately. But it’s illustrative of the many other injustices that the Trump administration has been inflicting upon those navigating our legal immigration system. Absent media attention and congressional intervention — both of which this case happened to receive — they usually go unrectified.This tale feature
  
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• Utah Jazz will push to keep free agents Derrick Favors, Dante Exum and Raul Neto

  29-06-2018 19:02
  SALT LAKE CITY — Derrick Favors didn't appear to be stressed.His bald fade haircut was fresh, along with his white Rudy's Kids Foundation T-shirt, in support of his Utah Jazz teammate Rudy Gobert.Less than 24 hours after falling to Houston in the second round of the playoffs, the longest-tenured Jazzman addressed the media at the practice facility on May 9 with a smile on his face.Even while being bombarded with questions about his pivotal offseason during his exit interview, Favors kept a
  
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• Eugene Robinson: Democrats must channel anti-Trump fervor into winning midterms

  29-06-2018 18:59
  Washington • Let me get this straight. President Trump and his associates treat politics like a back-alley knife fight, but his critics are supposed to pretend it’s a garden party? I don’t think so.Those who see the Trump administration as an abomination have many things to spend their time worrying about — most urgently, turning out a massive anti-Trump vote in the November election that gives Democrats control of one or both houses of Congress. Whether the resistance beh
  
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• Alexandra Petri: Some rules of civility for the Trump era

  29-06-2018 18:57
  “Now, it is well-known,” Sir Walter Scott observed, “that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.”Below, with apologies to Emily Post, are a few rules of civility to help carry us through these difficult and often awkward moments in this brave new era. Restaurant etiquette, I believe, has been thoroughly covered in recent days, but the
  
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• Most Utahns want an independent commission to redraw political boundaries, poll shows

  29-06-2018 18:54
  While support is shrinking from last year, a new poll shows that Utahns still favor by nearly a 2-1 margin creating an independent commission to redraw the state’s political boundaries during its once-every-decade redistricting.The Better Boundaries initiative, which allows voters to create such a commission, will appear on the Nov. 6 general election ballot.A new Salt Lake Tribune-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll shows that 50 percent of Utahns favor the initiative, 28 percent oppose i
  
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• Utah State demoted her after finding little had been done to combat ‘a pervasive culture of sexism.’ She resigned — and got a severance package.

  29-06-2018 18:53
  Utah State University’s former Title IX director, who resigned voluntarily in mid-May, is receiving a severance package from the school that includes almost half a year’s pay and benefits, according to a copy of the document obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune.Stacy Sturgeon, who was working as an affirmative action/equal opportunity specialist at the time of her resignation, was removed from her Title IX director position in April — two weeks after investigators found the depart
  
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• Ishaan Tharoor: Does the West actually face a migration crisis?

  29-06-2018 18:53
  On Thursday, European leaders will convene in Brussels for a showdown over migration. The question of how the European Union will handle the migrants and asylum seekers in its midst has shadowed continental politics since an influx of Syrian refugees dominated global headlines in 2015. While the numbers of arrivals steadily dropped in the years since, the right-wing backlash in Europe has only escalated. Now, even the political future of German Chancellor Angela Merkel hangs in the balance, with
  
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• What's your favorite part of @UtahJazzSL? Poll presented by @Qualtrics 📊 🎟 on.nba.com/2yRlw4N

  29-06-2018 18:50 via twitter.com
  What's your favorite part of @UtahJazzSL?Poll presented by @Qualtrics 📊🎟 on.nba.com/2yRlw4N
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell still talking with Paul George

  29-06-2018 18:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... y be suicide for his legacy whereas staying in Cleveland would help it). The Jazz showed up on the radar of teams that would be a good selection and they even ...
  
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• Firefighters gain on blaze burning on polygamous group’s ranch; fires grow in southern Utah

  29-06-2018 18:27
  There’s one wildfire in Utah burning entirely on private land. It’s the Rough Canyon Fire in Box Elder County. It’s burning on the Washakie ranch owned by the polygamous Kingston Group between the towns of Plymouth and Portage. Thursday, the weather there cooperated with firefighters.“The temperatures went down drastically,” said Leann Fox, a spokeswoman for the firefighting team, “and we got some humidity with clouds in the air and it really helped.”The
  
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• Despite growth and increased quality league-wide, RSL, like all MLS clubs, must fly commercially to away games. But why?

  29-06-2018 18:18
  If you’re a Real Salt Lake follower and happen to track the day-to-day lives of players on social media, you’ll more than likely stumble upon updates on the team’s travel days as you’re scrolling down on your phone. But you couldn’t find a thing Thursday morning.Like any other traveler, RSL’s contingent of roughly 30 players, coaches and staffers were at Salt Lake City International Airport around 7 a.m., like everyone else a bit bleary-eyed, but staring a sev
  
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• Utah State football player charged with rape

  29-06-2018 18:13
  A Utah State University football player has been charged with rape and sodomy after a party in Logan.A police affidavit says the suspect, Jamaal A. Evans, 19, described the encounter as consensual. He denied he saw signs that the alleged victim was intoxicated, though multiple witnesses described the woman as drunk. Evans was charged Thursday in Utah’s 1st District Court. Both counts, rape and forcible sodomy, are first-degree felonies that carry the possibility of up to life in prison. Ba
  
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• Petula Dvorak: I’m feeling like a kid in America after the shootings of my fellow journalists

  29-06-2018 18:07
  Today I got to feel like a kid again.Not a kid like in my carefree days of Pop Rocks and cartoon tag. But like a kid in America today.When I heard about the shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, I thought this is what it feels like to know that at any moment you can be a hashtag. This is what it feels like to know that someone can come in at any moment and open fire -- while you’re sitting at your desk, while you’re doing your work, while anything.By Thursday evenin
  
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• George Pyle: Moving Sen. Mike Lee to the Supreme Court could be a good thing for Utah in the long run

  29-06-2018 18:04
  OK. This may seem kind of weird. Go with me a little.Among the previously shortlisted candidates the sitting president says he will consider for a vacancy on the Supreme Court of the United States is the soon-to-be senior senator from Utah, Mike Lee.It could happen. Lee would tick some of the boxes on the Republican list: He’d be against a woman’s right to control her own reproductive system. He’d see “religious freedom” as anything that gives conservative Christian
  
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• AP sources: LeBron James declines option, becomes prize free agent

  29-06-2018 17:16
  CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James made the first move. Now what?Cleveland? Los Angeles? Philadelphia? A surprise?Stay tuned. Decision III is this summer's blockbuster, and it's coming soon.James told the Cavaliers that he is not exercising his $35.6 million contract option for next season and will become an unrestricted free agent, two people familiar with the decision told the Associated Press on Friday.The decision to decline the option for 2018-19 was expected by James because it gives him
  
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• AP sources: LeBron declines option, becomes free agent

  29-06-2018 17:16
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Two people familiar with the decision say LeBron James has told the Cleveland Cavaliers he is declining his $35.6 million contract option for next season and is a free agent.James' representatives told the Cavs on Friday, said the people who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team is not publicly commenting on moves ahead of free agency opening Sunday.The move was expected by the three-time champion, who played in his eighth straight NBA Fi
  
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• Morning links: Dear LeBron James, I'm breaking up with you (+MUSS's newest fan and weekend planner)

  29-06-2018 16:39
  SALT LAKE CITY — While NBA teams covet him, LeBron James got dumped on social media.Former Utah Jazz forward Richard Jefferson posted a break-up letter to his Cleveland teammate on his Snapchat account earlier this week."It is with great remorse that I am writing this," Jefferson wrote. "After many years as a peer and many years as (a) friend and teammate I have decided to end my friendship with LeBron James."Jefferson had a legit reason — even if presented in a tongue-in-cheek manne
  
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• Warped Tour’s final visit to Utah will give punk rock fans young and old one last chance to get bent

  29-06-2018 16:00
  There are a ton of names associated with the Warped Tour over its two-decade-plus history that either already were or went on to become really big.Green Day. Katy Perry. Fall Out Boy. Social Distortion. The Black Eyed Peas. Bad Religion. No Doubt. Blink-182. Kid Rock. My Chemical Romance. The Offspring. Avenged Sevenfold.“People forget just how many [notable] bands have played on Warped Tour — from all different genres,” said Trent Falcone, director of marketing for Live Nation
  
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• Bees fall to Reno Aces 8-1 for their third straight loss

  29-06-2018 15:04
  The Salt Lake Bees suffered their third straight loss in Reno, dropping an 8-1 decision to the Aces late Thursday night.Reno jumped in front with a solo homer in the first inning by Socrates Brito, but the Bees tied the game in the fifth. Matt Thaiss drove a 1-2 pitch over the wall in left field for his seventh homer in a Salt Lake uniform to make it a 1-1 game.Reno broke the tie in the bottom of the fifth, as Bees’ starter Ivan Pineyro was touched for two runs on an RBI double by Yasmany
  
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• Report commissioned by environmentalists argues for PacifiCorp to dump coal-fired power for wind and solar

  29-06-2018 15:00
  PacifiCorp could save its ratepayers hundreds of millions of dollars if the utility replaces some coal-fired units earlier than planned with renewable sources, according to an analysis commissioned by the Sierra Club, an environmental group that has pushed for the power industry to move away from fossil fuels.With the cost of operating and maintaining old coal plants, such as Utah’s Hunter and Huntington, climbing, a switch to renewable sources makes financial sense for many of the utility
  
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• Letter: Trump is not virtuous or praiseworthy

  29-06-2018 15:00
  The most confounding thing to many of us is how this religious society that is supposed to seek after those things that are "virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy” can embrace Donald J. Trump.What can be the reason they are so willing to accept his vulgarity and constant lying?Is it because their anticipated portion of his debt-bursting tax break is so huge? Is it because they like polluted air and water, or his denial of science and climate change? Or is it because he so bra
  
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• Letter: There’s other news besides St. Mitt

  29-06-2018 15:00
  The Tribune’s coverage of St. Mitt is getting tiresome and irksome. Before he even announced his candidacy, Romney was a preordained front-page headline and has been ever since. I am yet to see any mention of Jenny Wilson, unless it is buried back by The Jumble and Cryptoquote.And while I’m at it, does the NBA draft warrant weeks’ worth of full-page (and more) coverage?Either there is not much else going on in our state, or your lack of resources has limited your reporters&rsqu
  
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• Letter: Right to refuse service goes both ways

  29-06-2018 15:00
  Now that his daughter has been refused service at a restaurant because of moral reasons, Mike Huckabee suddenly just wants everyone to be treated fairly. I would bet my bottom dollar that he didn’t feel that way when a same-sex couple was denied a wedding cake because of the same reason.Be careful what you wish for. Allowing people who are in business to serve the public the right to refuse service to someone they don’t agree with is a slippery slope. It will surely come back to bite
  
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• Letter: Opportunistic Romney is not the candidate Utah needs

  29-06-2018 15:00
  While Mitt Romney seems like a decent enough fellow, he is ill-suited to be a U.S. senator for Utah (or is it Massachusetts?). Mr. Romney has stated that he supports many of Donald Trump’s policies, and that alone should disqualify him. Tax cuts are great, but Trump’s tax cuts for 99 percent of Americans (Utahns included) are temporary for two years, and the tax cut percentage was far less than for the 1 percent of Americans whose tax cuts are permanent. Of course Mr. Romney supports
  
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