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• Utah lawmakers turned down a tax cut for big families in March. Now they’re considering a $22M reduction during their one-day special session.

  18-07-2018 23:44
  During the lead-up to a special legislative session Wednesday afternoon, few details were known of a proposed $22 million tax cut for large families.The intended sponsor, Rep. Tim Quinn, R-Heber City, was traveling during morning committee hearings. His absence led to legislative leaders speaking in broad terms about a tax cut vote they expected later in the day.“That’s the floor of what we’re looking at,” Rep. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, said of the $22 million figure. &ldquo
  
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• Noah Smith: Trump’s tax cut hasn’t done anything for workers

  18-07-2018 23:32
  A few months ago, I cautioned that Americans should be patient before deciding what effect President Donald Trump's tax cuts have had on the economy. It takes a while for companies to make investment decisions, more time for those decisions to be implemented and even more time for the resulting changes in labor demand to bid up workers' wages. It therefore takes months or even years before the full impact of the tax bill will be known.But it's also important to evaluate policies like Trump's tax
  
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• Fred Hiatt: Coats and other adults shouldn’t quit the administration.

  18-07-2018 23:32
  No, Dan, don't quit. Please.On Tuesday, my Washington Post colleague Ruth Marcus wrote a column urging everyone who works for President Donald Trump to resign immediately. "Save your souls," she wrote. "Save your honor, such as it is. Save your reputation, such as it remains."She came to her conclusion more than a year after another colleague, Robert Kagan, wrote that Trump staffers "may want to start asking themselves how all this is working out. On balance, are they preventing bad decisions mo
  
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• Utah lawmaker hopes her proposal to let cops pull over drivers for using cellphones won’t get killed this year

  18-07-2018 23:24
  Bountiful Police Chief Tom Ross told legislators Wednesday he likes to look around at intersections because he nearly always sees them: “several [drivers] doing something on their cellphone.”He says the state’s police chiefs agree that “distracted driving is such a big problem on our roadways … we feel strongly there has got to be some action taken to reduce this.”The comments came as Rep. Carol Moss, D-Holladay, on Wednesday relaunched her effort to more cle
  
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• As judge decides whether to dismiss case against LDS Church and MTC president accused of sexual abuse, alleged victim remains ‘cautiously optimistic’

  18-07-2018 23:13
  A federal judge is now deciding whether to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former missionary who claims she was sexually assaulted by a Missionary Training Center leader in 1984.Attorneys for former MTC president Joseph Bishop and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have asked the judge to toss the suit filed in April, arguing McKenna Denson had missed a legal deadline to file her claims years ago. Attorneys for plaintiff McKenna Denson argued Wednesday in Utah’s U.S. District Cou
  
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• Court blocks measure asking voters to split California in 3

  18-07-2018 23:11
  Sacramento, Calif.• A measure that would divide California into three parts won’t appear on the ballot in November, the state Supreme Court decided Wednesday.The justices ordered the secretary of state not to put the ballot initiative before voters, saying significant questions have been raised about its validity. The court will now consider the merits of a challenge brought by an environmental group.The Planning and Conservation League argues that dividing the nation's most populous
  
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• [NBA] - Favors: 'This was the place that I wanted to be'

  18-07-2018 22:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... ns where I do stay in the corner, but it won’t be every possession.” WHY THE JAZZ DECIDED TO RE-SIGN FAVORS: Remember the first-round win over the Clippers tw ...
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Should BYU police have to follow the same rules as other local cops?

  18-07-2018 22:17
  Brigham Young University plans to appeal a court decision last week that found the university’s police department to be a government entity, subject to the state’s open-records laws.The ruling, in a lawsuit filed by The Salt Lake Tribune, relates to BYU’s handling of sexual assault and the role of law enforcement in campus disciplinary proceedings. If it stands, BYU Police would be required to comply with the Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) and be subject t
  
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• LGBTQ support group Mormons Building Bridges rejected — again — from Days of ‘47 Parade

  18-07-2018 22:15
  What’s good for Provo on the Fourth of July isn’t going to fly in Salt Lake City on Pioneer Day: The LGBTQ support group Mormons Building Bridges has been rejected once again for the Days of ’47 Parade.Erika Munson, the group’s co-founder, said Wednesday she received the rejection of Mormon Building Bridges’ application in May. It’s the fifth straight year the group has applied to be in the parade, which rolls through downtown Salt Lake City on Tuesday.“
  
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• "This was the place that I wanted to be." Derrick Favors looks back on his free agency, talks about his faith in t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  18-07-2018 22:14 via twitter.com
  "This was the place that I wanted to be."Derrick Favors looks back on his free agency, talks about his faith in t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Derrick Favors reflects on free agency

  18-07-2018 22:05 via sportspyder.com
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Do BYU police have to follow the same rules as other local cops?

  18-07-2018 22:03
  Brigham Young University plans to appeal a court decision last week that found the university’s police department to be a government entity, subject to the state’s open-records laws.The ruling, in a lawsuit filed by The Salt Lake Tribune, relates to BYU’s handling of sexual assault and the role of law enforcement in campus disciplinary proceedings. If it stands, BYU Police would be required to comply with the Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) and be subject t
  
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• Utah lawmakers debate requiring gun locks: lifesaver or infringement of rights?

  18-07-2018 21:55
  Amid growing concern over school shootings and youth suicide, Rep. Elizabeth Weight, D-West Valley City, is proposing what she considers commonsense legislation to require trigger locks or other secure storage of guns when not in use.The National Rifle Association attacked the proposal Wednesday, and the Legislature’s Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee held a long discussion about whether it would infringe too much on gun owners’ rights, and whether it would actua
  
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• A first for Days of ’47 Rodeo: a wine garden and beer vault. What would Mormon pioneers think?

  18-07-2018 21:48
  The Days of ’47 Cowboy Games and Rodeo will, for the first time, have a wine garden and beer vault — an unexpected pairing for a Mormon-linked event.“Our event is housed on state property,” explained Tommy Joe Lucia, the rodeo’s general manager, “and [under the concession contract] it has to have the same options that the arena offers to other public events.”The rodeo moved last year to its new $17.5 million, 10,000-seat arena inside the Utah State Fairp
  
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• Major League Soccer suspends Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke for two games, fines him $10,000 following last week’s postgame rant in Minnesota

  18-07-2018 21:47
  Major League Soccer has obliged Mike Petke.The league drained his bank account a bit.During an interview on ESPN 700 Wednesday morning, Real Salt Lake’s flagship radio station, RSL’s head coach revealed that MLS levied a two-game suspension and a $10,000 fine in the wake of his epic postgame rant following RSL’s 3-2 loss at Minnesota United on Saturday evening.Preach, @petkemike! pic.twitter.com/PmmJ2iz1Jt— Real Salt Lake (@RealSaltLake) July 15, 2018
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• Dave Rose says BYU upgraded its nonconference basketball schedule so it won’t be left out of the NCAA Tournament, like Saint Mary’s was last spring

  18-07-2018 21:46
  Provo • BYU coach Dave Rose is determined to not let what happened to Saint Mary’s coach Randy Bennett last March happen to him.The Gaels were ranked nationally most of last season and won 28 games, including a victory at Sweet 16 entrant Gonzaga, but were left out of the NCAA Tournament, presumably because they played a weak nonconference schedule.Rose, who has two years left on the five-year contract he signed in 2015, has upgraded his 2018 and 2019 nonconference schedules.“Ne
  
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• The NBA’s free agency period just ended. Summer league is over. The draft is in the rear view mirror. Who are the league’s winners and losers?

  18-07-2018 20:55
  For the NBA, July has been quite the month. And the month is barely half over.In 17 days, the league has watched its best player move to arguably its most high-profile market. It has witnessed one of its top five players demand — and receive — a trade from one of its most stable franchises. It has seen an already strong and competitive conference get stronger and more competitive. And it has glimpsed a free agency market so barren of money that many of the players accepted one year d
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee says Kavanaugh is the ’kind of originalist jurist we need on the court’

  18-07-2018 20:48
  Washington • Sen. Mike Lee signaled Wednesday that he would back Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after meeting with President Donald Trump’s pick for the high court.“It was a pleasure meeting Judge Kavanaugh today,” Lee said in a statement after the two chatted. “His insight into the current state of the law and the Constitution shows he is just the kind of originalist jurist we need on the court.”Lee, whom Trump had also considered for the Supreme Court
  
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• Reaction to the Jakob Poeltl — er, the Kawhi Leonard — blockbuster trade

  18-07-2018 20:44
  If you happened to miss the big NBA news from Wednesday morning, former University of Utah center Jakob Poeltl was traded from Toronto to San Antonio.In other news, Jimmer Fredette's old college nemesis was also traded.After months of dramatic build up the Alamo area hasn't experienced since PeeWee Herman discovered the old fort doesn't have a basement, San Antonio shipped disgruntled Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green to Toronto in exchange for Poeltl, DeMar DeRozan and a protected 2019 first-round
  
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• Utah and its cops are bracing for new 0.05 DUI law, which rolls out in five months

  18-07-2018 19:29
  Utah’s tough new DUI law takes effect in just over five months, and the Utah Highway Patrol is gearing up for the change.“We’ve put together a task force on how we are going to usher this in,” UHP Capt. Steve Winward told state lawmakers Wednesday.Before Dec. 30, Winward said all UHP officers will get four hours of training that will include a review of the state policy on portable Breathalyzer tests and how to look for impairment. Police agencies and prosecutors from aro
  
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• United Utah Party picks Mormon MTC director as a replacement congressional candidate

  18-07-2018 19:13
  Tim Zeidner, director of research and evaluation at the Mormon Missionary Training Center in Provo, has been selected as the United Utah Party candidate in the 3rd Congressional District.“I’m thrilled to be in this race and help move this party forward,” Zeidner said in a prepared statement. “The principles of the United Utah Party represent the majority of the people of Utah, and it’s only a matter of time before we reach critical mass.”The party was formed l
  
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• After an impressive run in the U.S. Open, Utah’s Tony Finau has momentum heading into British Open

  18-07-2018 19:00
  After last weekend’s Utah Championship in Farmington, Cameron Champ spoke of his friendship with with Salt Lake City native Tony Finau and how happy he was about winning the Web.com Tour event in “Tony’s territory.”That area is expanding rapidly. Finau is becoming one of the world's best golfers, as illustrated by his performance in major tournaments this year. Having tied for 10th place in the Masters and finished fifth in the U.S. Open, Finau will try to extend his cons
  
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  18-07-2018 18:55 via twitter.com
  
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• Provo man killed in go-kart crash at apartment complex

  18-07-2018 18:41
  Provo • A Utah man has died in a go-kart crash in Provo.Police say the 47-year-old Provo man was driving a go-kart style vehicle through an apartment complex Tuesday night when he apparently hit a speed bump at a high rate of speed and was ejected.He was transported to Utah Valley Hospital with critical injuries and later died.The man's name has not been released.The accident remains under investigation.
  
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• Today is... #WallpaperWednesday 📱 https://t.co/4UkU85qO3V

  18-07-2018 18:15 via twitter.com
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Affirmation leaders discuss LDS donation, diversity and whether their LGBTQ support group is getting too tight with the church

  18-07-2018 17:56
  The LDS Foundation recently made a historic contribution of $25,000 to Affirmation. That sum may not be a big amount, but symbolically it is huge.It marks the first significant collaboration between the Mormon church and the independent LGBTQ support group.President Carson Tueller and Executive Director John Gustav-Wrathall discuss that donation, the resulting fallout, their group’s diverse membership and whether Affirmation is getting too cozy with the LDS Church in the latest edition of
  
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• Spurs send Kawhi Leonard to Toronto for DeMar DeRozan

  18-07-2018 17:32
  The Kawhi Leonard saga has reached its conclusion.The San Antonio Spurs and Toronto Raptors have completed a deal that would send Leonard to the Raptors for All-Star guard DeMar DeRozan, league sources confirm.Guard Danny Green is also headed to Toronto, while center Jakob Poeltl and a protected first-round pick go to San Antonio with DeRozan.The trade culminates what has been a monthslong standoff between Leonard, his camp and San Antonio, one that has seen the typically drama-free Spurs become
  
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• Sandy’s interim police chief gets the job on a permanent basis

  18-07-2018 16:29
  The word “interim” has been dropped from the title of Sandy’s interim police chief — on the recommendation of Mayor Kurt Bradburn, the city council has approved William O’Neal to lead the city’s police department.The position has been open since former Police Chief Kevin Thacker was fired in April because of what Bradburn called “inappropriate touching” of other city employees. An investigation by an outside law firm determined that, while no laws
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Flag-hugging commander in chief orders Air Force One makeover in red, white and blue

  18-07-2018 16:23
  A planned Air Force One makeover will lose the baby blue that has marked the president’s plane since the days of JFK. And — closer to home — A special session of the Legislature today will work to pass a compromise inland port bill without any participation by SLC Mayor Jackie Biskupski.Happy Wednesday! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s ... a flying Stars and Stripes? President Donald Trump, who loves the flag so much he once hugged it on stage, now has ordered
  
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• Despite frightening fall, Utah trapeze artists advance on ‘America’s Got Talent’

  18-07-2018 16:17
  A Utah couple nearly crashed out of “America's Got Talent” in Tuesday's episode — literally.Nearly two-and-a-half minutes into what had been a stunning performance, things went horribly wrong for husband-and-wife trapeze team of Tyce Nielsen and Mary Ellen Wolfe. After he put on a blindfold, and she slipped through his hands and fell to the stage below, landing on a large padded.
  To all appearances uninjured, Wolfe said the couple — who perform as Duo Transcend — wa
  
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• Spurs deal Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green to Raptors for DeMar DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl, pick

  18-07-2018 16:03
  The Kawhi Leonard saga in San Antonio is on the cusp of ending, with the Spurs reaching an agreement in principle on Wednesday to send the 2014 NBA Finals MVP to the Toronto Raptors for All-Star guard DeMar DeRozan.Danny Green also will be going to Toronto as part of the deal, which was confirmed to The Associated Press by two people with direct knowledge of the negotiations. Both spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the trade is not expected to be finalized until NBA officials appr
  
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• Longtime director of Salt Lake City’s Downtown Alliance is leaving the state

  18-07-2018 16:00
  Jason Mathis, head of the community promoting Downtown Alliance of Salt Lake City for the past decade, has submitted his resignation, effective Aug. 13.Mathis is moving to Florida to take on the position of CEO of the Downtown Partnership in St. Petersburg.“I have given my heart to this community and worked as hard as I could to advance our shared goals,” Mathis said in his resignation letter. “I love this community and I am profoundly grateful to have helped to be part off our
  
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• In 1963, a boy killed his mother in apparent self-defense. Now, the Arizona state Senate candidate says he’s ‘living proof’ good guys with guns save lives.

  18-07-2018 16:00
  Phoenix • A Republican Arizona state Senate candidate has shocked gun control advocates by sharing details about shooting and killing his mother in apparent self-defense more than 50 years ago.Bobby Wilson, who is running to represent a southern Arizona district, told The Associated Press that he's not trying to hide anything. He says his mother was "insane" and shot at him with a rifle when he was in bed in their Oklahoma farmhouse one night in 1963. He then shot and killed her — Wil
  
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• Kirby: I’m all for policing the police, but the overseers need some cop smarts

  18-07-2018 15:35
  When I was a cop, I wasn’t always a good one. I was officially disciplined a grand total of … well, I can’t remember. This far down Nightmare Lane, it’s easier to recall particular incidents than specific numbers.For example, I was once written up for going to Utah Lake in the middle of graveyard shift and shooting carp because I was bored patrolling empty streets.Half a dozen .45-caliber muzzle flashes on a dark and lonely dirt road not only kills the fish, but it also
  
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• Affirmation veep resigns, calls acceptance of Mormon church donation for LGBTQ suicide prevention ‘morally reprehensible’

  18-07-2018 15:33
  For Kimberly Anderson, accepting the LDS Church’s $25,000 gift to support LGBTQ suicide prevention was like hiring arsonists to fight fires.After all, the Utah-based faith’s teachings and policies, in her view, are leading contributors to self-loathing and the desire for death among vulnerable LGBTQ Mormons.So the Affirmation vice president resigned her post in the support group this week to protest a donation she finds “morally reprehensible.”“To accept financial c
  
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• New UTA board nominees include members from old one that was criticized for lax oversight. Will that hamper effort to restore public trust?

  18-07-2018 15:32
  To rebuild trust in the scandal-tainted Utah Transit Authority, the Legislature this year created a new full-time, three-member commission to replace the agency’s part-time, 16-member board — often seen as a rubber stamp for agency executives.But that new board could have some very familiar faces.Two of the four people nominated for potential service so far by local counties are members of the criticized current board: Draper Mayor Troy Walker and Davis County Commissioner P. Bret Mi
  
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• When couples split, who gets the embryos? Whoever wants to make them into babies, new Arizona law says.

  18-07-2018 15:00
  When their marriage fell apart, the most contentious issue between Ruby Torres and John Joseph Terrell was the fate of their frozen embryos. There were seven in storage, created with her eggs and his sperm before Torres underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment for breast cancer.Torres, 37, wanted to use the embryos to have a baby. In divorce proceedings, she told the judge that the embryos probably represented her only chance to have biological children. Terrell protested that he had no in
  
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• Tribune editorial: Council, governor come up with a better Inland Port bill

  18-07-2018 15:00
  The sausage-making process that produced the Utah Legislature’s disastrous version of a Utah Inland Port Authority was a case study in how complex policy-making should not be done.The new version of the legislation, which could be approved as soon as Wednesday in a special session of the Legislature, is an example of how much better the product can be when the process involves people who actually know how to make sausage.The new version of the Port Authority statute and board is not perfec
  
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• Pat Shea: Ambassador Huntsman should stay the course in Russia

  18-07-2018 15:00
  Ambassador Huntsman, aka Governor,The first president to hire you, Ronald Reagan had a saying – Stay the course!I mention this because I must respectfully disagree with my friend Robert Gerhke in his recent column urging you to come home. From your experience of being a busboy at the Mikado Restaurant to being governor of the state of Utah and the American Ambassador to China, you understand the complex world of international politics/diplomacy. Given the perilous state we face at so many
  
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• Letter: We can’t afford to support all these illegal immigrants

  18-07-2018 15:00
  It's amazing how many people think we can open our doors to all peoples of the world without any regard for America's way of life. It may surprise most people to know that we are supporting those entering America illegally, and we will be supporting those people for the next three to five years. America cannot support the large number of people who are forcing themselves on us. The average American is not making enough money to support these people. According to the Associated Press, Americans a
  
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• Letter: Shrinking Tribune makes me wonder why I’m paying to read

  18-07-2018 15:00
  This paper is covering fewer and fewer local stories. To me, local stories are really the primary reason to pay for and read The Salt Lake Tribune. It is what has kept this paper relevant and important in our community. But recent events happening right in Salt Lake City are not being covered — stories like Salt Lake City giving Bird (the scooter rental company) 48 hours to accept its regulations and the recent fire near the JCC and Federal Heights. I am very regretfully beginning to quest
  
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• Letter: Holladay needs safe roads before it gets more housing

  18-07-2018 15:00
  In response to Mark Jensen’s letter (“Holladay needs more housing,” July 13), I agree that we need smart development currently and for our progeny. However, if you think suburban renewal is difficult, wait until we have to do urban renewal. Make sure the homes that will be built will stand the test of time — not just look good for the first 30 years. I asked at the Holladay City Hall if Ivory was going to be held to a high standard in construction and the answer was that
  
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• Letter: Carrying disposal bags is one way to deal with doggy dilemma

  18-07-2018 15:00
  Dear Ann Cannon,In response to your timely column (“My neighbor’s dog poops on my other neighbor’s lawn. Should I tell?”, July 8), I couldn't resist sharing my own experience on this subject. I think you did a great service to those who may not have thought about it.Years ago, when I first lived in Salt Lake City, I also walked my dog and got the first “eye opener” on walking one’s dog outside one’s own property. The owner of the property where my
  
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• Inside Mayor Biskupski’s strategy of silence as Salt Lake City Council members negotiated their own Inland Port deal

  18-07-2018 15:00
  Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski not only declined to take part in one of the most consequential — and controversial — policy debates this year, she forbade her staff from getting involved as well.Members of the City Council had begun working with top legislators and the governor’s office, trying to change a law that will guide development on thousands of acres of land on the far-west side.There’s already a law creating what they call an “inland port," but Gov.
  
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• Elizabeth Bruenig: The battered aspirations of the American working class

  18-07-2018 15:00
  Maybe there never will be any rest for them. Even in an exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., titled “The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers,” laborers of every kind — slaves and free people, clockmakers and Subway sandwich workers, sharecroppers and machinists — are frozen in artworks depicting their lives, landscapes and interior worlds. These are not portraits of workers at leisure or with tasks completed; these are portraits of wo
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - No move was the best move for the Utah Jazz

  18-07-2018 14:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... e-signing Favors almost assures the Jazz a top 5 defense, if not the best in the league. On top of that, Utah really...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Top 5 Players from the Jazz Summer League

  18-07-2018 14:18 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz ’18-19 Best/Worst Case Scenario Series: Royce O’Neale by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Top 5 Players from the Jazz Summer League

  18-07-2018 14:00
  The Utah Jazz Summer League is in the books, so it’s time to evaluate who were the best performers on the roster, and who may have a role with the Jazz in the future. The Summer League has always been one of my favorite times of the off-season because it gives us the first opportunity […]
  Utah Jazz: Top 5 Players from the Jazz Summer League - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Brewers All-Star Hader takes responsibility for racist, homophobic tweets

  18-07-2018 07:25
  Washington • Milwaukee Brewers reliever Josh Hader took responsibility for racist and homophobic tweets that resurfaced while he was pitching in the All-Star Game.Some of the tweets that surfaced before Hader locked his account were from 2011 and 2012, though at least one was from 2016 about the shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.The 24-year-old said Tuesday night after the All-Star Game that he was immature at age 17 when several of the tweets were posted. He says the tweets
  
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