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• Army using drug waivers, bonuses to fill ranks

  01-08-2018 23:42
  Washington • Under the gun to increase the size of the force, the Army is issuing more waivers for past drug use or bad conduct by recruits, and pouring an extra $200 million into bonuses this year to attract and retain soldiers.According to data obtained by The Associated Press, nearly one-third of all the waivers granted by the Army in the first six months of this fiscal year were for conduct and drug problems, mainly involving marijuana use. That number is significantly higher than the o
  
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• Park City teen who spoke on YouTube about addiction — and is tied to overdose deaths — is charged with drug crimes

  01-08-2018 23:38
  A 17-year-old Park City girl has been charged with drug crimes in the latest chapter of a teenage substance abuse saga that has played out for two years in the Utah resort town.The teen previously gave a TEDx Talk in Park City about drug addiction. A video of that speech has recently been removed from YouTube.The defendant is already connected to the overdose deaths of two Park City boys in 2016, and her parents are defendants in a lawsuit over one of those boy’s deaths. The criminal charg
  
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• Orrin Hatch, A.G. Jeff Sessions point to the deaths of Utah teens found in a mine shaft as a reason to ‘fix’ the law that let their alleged killer free

  01-08-2018 23:26
  Hours after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions joined Utah’s top federal prosecutor in calling on Congress to repair a law meant to keep violent career criminals locked up — pointing to the recent deaths of two teens in Utah County as evidence — one of Utah’s senators introduced a bill to do just that.Sessions, speaking in Little Rock on Wednesday, said a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that cut part of the Armed Career Criminal Act for being too vague has been “d
  
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• First phase of new $3.6 billion Salt Lake City International Airport reaching halfway mark

  01-08-2018 23:17
  Salt Lake City International Airport Director Bill Wyatt says most Utahns don’t seem to realize that an entirely new airport is rising next door to the existing one — which will be torn down in a few years.“It’s sort of a well-kept secret,” he says. “People know something’s going on because when you drive out here, you see the cranes and the weird roadways” around construction, but many think it is just remodeling or renovation.“This is the l
  
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• Report: Ohio State coach Urban Meyer’s wife was told of abuse by ex-Buckeyes assistant

  01-08-2018 23:13
  The ex-wife of former Ohio State assistant coach Zach Smith says she told Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer’s wife in 2015 that her husband had assaulted her, an incident Meyer said last week he was unaware of.Courtney Smith gave an interview to Stadium and provided text messages to former ESPN reporter Brett McMurphy between her and Shelley Meyer and with the wives of other Buckeyes coaches. Courtney Smith also provided threatening texts she claims came from her ex-husband."Shelley said she was
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: LoveLoud is being called a resounding success by some, but unsafe by others. Can it learn from its mistakes?

  01-08-2018 22:44
  In its second year, the LoveLoud Festival saw a larger crowd packed into a larger venue for its event celebrating and supporting LGBTQ youth.But LoveLoud’s growth also came with growing pains. Some LGBTQ support organizations left the event early, or issued critical statements, over the festival’s treatment of transgender individuals.The disappointment felt by many stood in stark contrast to LoveLoud’s celebratory and inclusive theme. But will the controversy damage the reach o
  
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• Brad Rock: If Paul George can skip the lights, so can Donovan Mitchell

  01-08-2018 22:35
  During the July USA Basketball mini-camp, recently reclaimed Oklahoma City star Paul George said he didn't require the lights, clubs or movie star buddies.He didn't need L.A., despite being from Southern California."I'm a family man now," George said in an article by Ben Golliverof Sports Illustrated. "I don't need no distractions, I don't need no big cities, no big lights, at this point in my career. For as beautiful as Oklahoma is, it doesn't have big lights and none of that. But that's fine.
  
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  01-08-2018 22:33 via twitter.com
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Bringing Copiers to a Gunfight

  01-08-2018 22:31
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/07/31/bagley-cartoon-smoke-gets/" target=_blank>Smoke Gets in Your Eyes</a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/07/31/bagley-cartoon-wilderness/">Wilderness Trafficking</a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/07/27/bagley-cartoon-physics/">Ph
  
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• Why fewer Americans are attending religious services

  01-08-2018 22:00
  Fewer adults are attending religious services in the United States but not necessarily because they don’t believe.Many cite practical or personal reasons for skipping weekly services, according to new Pew Research Center data released Wednesday.Most notably, nearly 4 in 10 say they simply practice their faith in other ways and remain “fairly religious by a number of measures,” according to Pew Associate Director of Research Gregory A. Smith.For nearly 3 in 10 Americans, the rea
  
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• White House slams Justice over 3D-printed guns

  01-08-2018 21:55
  Washington • The White House is slamming the Department of Justice for dropping litigation that would have prevented the posting of instructions on how to make 3D-printed guns.Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that DOJ "made a deal without the president's approval."She said the president was "glad this efforts was delayed" so he can review the material. Sanders added that the administration supports the longstanding law against owning plastic guns.The Justice Department'
  
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• Rich Lowry: The battle over socialism is joined

  01-08-2018 21:52
  It's begun. We are having a debate over socialism.Not over whether it's fair to call Democrats socialists. Not over whether socialism has been good for Venezuela or some other faraway, unfortunate country. But no-kidding socialist policies right here in the United States.The press attention to a new study of the costs of "Medicare-for-all," or universal health coverage paid for by the government that goes much further than Obamacare, is a sign that it is a live issue.Popularized by the socialist
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Trump is a president whose words are weightless

  01-08-2018 21:51
  Maybe you remember when Mexico was going to pay for the wall.You should. It was as recently as May. Donald Trump went to Nashville for one of those creepy rallies of his and renewed the vow he made ceaselessly during the 2016 campaign. Mexico, he promised, is "going to pay for the wall" along the U.S. southern border, "and they're going to enjoy it." The crowd cheered.It is probably useless to wonder what those cheering people might make of recent tweets wherein the selfsame Donald Trump threate
  
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• BYU is relishing its underdog status as preseason camp opens Thursday, but the Cougars have plenty of issues to address in Kalani Sitake’s third season

  01-08-2018 21:04
  Provo • Expectations for the BYU football team are as low as they have been since the latter half of the Gary Crowton era. A 4-9 season — the worst in nearly 50 years — will do that to a program.Gone are the days when Bronco Mendenhall crowed about contending for national championships, made “Quest for Perfection” T-shirts and trotted out other such nonsense. The most immediate goal now is getting to six wins, which would qualify the Cougars for a bowl game after the
  
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• More than a half-million Utah acres will be auctioned off by feds for oil and gas development

  01-08-2018 21:01
  The Trump administration’s vision of American “energy dominance” is taking shape across the West, and, for Utah, that means a return to oil and gas leasing in places valued for wildlife habitat, recreation and artifacts — along with new limits on public participation in decision making in the name of “streamlining” the approval process.Later this year, the Bureau of Land Management’s Utah office intends to embark on two of its largest lease offerings in
  
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• Park City teen who spoke on YouTube about addiction — and is tied to overdose deaths — charged with drug crimes

  01-08-2018 20:34
  A 17-year-old Park City girl has been charged with drug crimes in the latest chapter of a teenage substance abuse saga that has played out for two years in the Utah resort town.The teen previously gave a TEDx Talk in Park City about drug addiction. A video of that speech has recently been removed from YouTube.The defendant is already connected to the overdose deaths of two Park City boys in 2016, and her parents are defendants in a lawsuit over one of those boy’s deaths. The criminal charg
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: One bold prediction for every player on the roster

  01-08-2018 20:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz Best/Worst Case Series: Georges Niang, diamond in the rough by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• Deadly Northern California fire destroys more than 1K homes

  01-08-2018 20:09
  Upper Lake, Calif. • A massive wildfire in Northern California has torched more than 1,000 homes in and around the city of Redding, authorities said Wednesday as some evacuees were allowed to return home.The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said another 440 buildings, including barns and warehouses, have also been destroyed by the fire, which is now the sixth most destructive in California history.The huge Redding-area blaze, which started July 23, forced 38,000 people
  
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• Amazon starting to find workers for Salt Lake City facility

  01-08-2018 20:02
  Salt Lake City • Amazon has started the hiring process for its new distribution center in Salt Lake City expected to open later this year.Amazon spokeswoman Lauren Lynch said in an email that Amazon has already begun accepting applications online and has in-person hiring events scheduled for Wednesday and throughout the month.The company is looking to hire about 1,500 full-time employees for the distribution center.Most of the positions open come with a starting wage of $12.50.Lynch says th
  
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• Utah Jazz: One bold prediction for every player on the roster

  01-08-2018 20:00
  As the 2018-19 NBA season slowly draws nearer, here’s a look at bold predictions for each player on the Utah Jazz roster. As we fight our way through the dog days of summer where about the only basketball to be found is Hardwood Classics on NBATV (yes, I tuned in this week), pretty much all […]
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• Utes' linebacking looks strong, even before Francis Bernard’s expected arrival

  01-08-2018 19:40
  Utah's primary defensive scheme requires only two linebackers. That's just one of the reasons the linebacking group is among the Utes' strongest position areas in 2018.Chase Hansen’s move from safety to rover and Cody Barton’s improvement at the other linebacker spot give the Utes a strong foundation. Hansen brings good credentials as a playmaker and tackler and Barton was among the stars of Utah’s offseason program, as identified by senior center Lo Falemaka.Donavan Thompson a
  
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• Monica Hesse: Nearly a year into #MeToo, it is time to discuss bad guys who think they are good guys

  01-08-2018 19:32
  One of the stranger educational experiences this past year has been learning about the diverse arsenal of abuses available to men in power. Luring women into hotel rooms and rubbing against their terrified bodies, a la the allegations facing screenwriter James Toback? Forcing them to ask permission before using the bathroom, as R. Kelly's accusers have alleged? Every time new accusations land, I've wondered, with foot-dragging curiosity, what specific, surprising fetish would horrify us this tim
  
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• Eugene Robinson: Does the administration not view Central American immigrants as fully human?

  01-08-2018 19:30
  Washington • As of Monday, 711 children who were effectively kidnapped and held hostage by the Trump administration remain in government custody, supposedly “ineligible” to be reunited with their families. What happens to them now? The government won’t say, apparently doesn’t know and evidently doesn’t care.U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw, who had ordered that those children and nearly 2,000 others be returned to their loved ones by last week, summed up the adm
  
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• Myron Walker, once Utah’s first gentleman, dies

  01-08-2018 19:26
  Myron Walker, husband of the late Gov. Olene Walker, died Monday. He was 90.Myron Walker, a successful business executive, stood by his wife’s side as she made history twice on the political stage — first as Utah’s first female lieutenant governor in 1993 and then as governor in 2003.Walker friends and family took to calling him Utah’s “first lad,” apparently deciding first gentleman sounded a bit stuffy.The president of Country Crisp Foods, which he ran with
  
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• Update those phones! 📱📞 #WallpaperWednesday | #TakeNote https://t.co/RPd3M17oDi

  01-08-2018 19:09 via twitter.com
  
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• Weekly Run podcast: Breaking down the Jazz guard rotation, the Tristan Thompson-Draymond Green kerfuffle and much, much more

  01-08-2018 19:00
  In 2017-18, the Utah Jazz debuted a new starting backcourt, with Ricky Rubio and Donovan Mitchell leading the squad. In 2018-19, what’s reasonable to expect?In this week’s edition of the Weekly Run podcast, Tribune Jazz beat writers Tony Jones and Andy Larsen break down the Jazz’s guard rotation. Where do Dante Exum and Royce O’Neale fit in, and how can they improve next season? Can Donovan Mitchell become a top-5 player in the league, and how can he do it? Can Ricky Rubi
  
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• A Democrat tried to ban publishing plans for 3D printed guns. Utah Sen. Mike Lee blocked it on First Amendment grounds.

  01-08-2018 18:53
  Washington • Sen. Mike Lee of Utah cited free speech concerns in objecting Tuesday to legislation that would prohibit publishing blueprints to make 3D plastic guns.Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., attempted to pass a bill Tuesday by unanimous consent – meaning the measure would be approved unless any senator disagreed – that would ban anyone from posting online plans to use a 3D plastic printer to build a working firearm.The move came as a deadline approached that night that would over
  
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• Jimmer is back in the headlines thanks to The Basketball Tournament, which recycles this question: Can he make a return to the NBA?

  01-08-2018 17:54
  Those audacious signature pull-ups from 30-plus feet have returned to ESPN airwaves and with them a familiar question, one that will always percolate across social media platforms when a shot of his touches the twine of the net.Can he? Can he still do it?If the answer is yes, then there is a more pertinent question, which is: should he? The debate over Jimmer Fredette’s game has been seemingly waged forever, because he represents something spectacular that should work, but up to this point
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s Tampa circus proves you can’t reason with his base

  01-08-2018 17:39
  For once, the most memorable thing about one of the president's rallies was not his baldfaced lies nor his attacks on reality. Rather, President Donald Trump's Tampa rally will be remembered for the reporting of CNN's Jim Acosta. He revealed more accurately than most what the Trump base, or at least part of it, looks and sounds like and what Trump must do to hold its attention. He tweeted:"Just a sample of the sad scene we faced at the Trump rally in Tampa. I'm very worried that the hostility wh
  
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• Dana Milbank: Linda Tripp, #MeToo icon and champion of good government

  01-08-2018 17:33
  Washington • Of all the second acts being performed in American life (remember when Donald Trump supported abortion rights?), there are few as bold as the show Linda Tripp is starring in right now.Twenty years ago, Tripp’s surreptitious recordings of Monica Lewinsky led to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment. A former White House official, Tripp befriended the young Lewinsky, won her confidence, coaxed from her details about her tryst with the president and then betrayed her &m
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: The best cure for an undemocratic ruler? More democracy.

  01-08-2018 17:27
  In contrast to every predecessor, President Donald Trump has demonstrated abject hostility toward democratic norms and constitutional governance — from attacks on the courts and free speech, to attempts to interfere with an ongoing Justice Department investigation, to overt expressions of racism. He might have expected the constant turmoil and chaos, the incessant lies, to wear down voters, and indeed, Americans to some extent do suffer from Trump-driven angst, exhaustion and disgust. Neve
  
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• Hugh Hewitt: Even if you loathe Trump, vote Republican

  01-08-2018 17:21
  We are just under 100 days from the Nov. 6 midterms, and Republicans are in much better shape than most prognosticators would have imagined even six months ago, much less than at the 100-day mark of President Donald Trump's tenure.The traditional post-Reagan GOP is not what it usually is. Currently it is the minority partner in a coalition government with the president — a “party of one” with a fervent following in the tens of millions. But that “party of one” has a
  
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• Catherine Rampell: A winning theme for Democrats? Kids.

  01-08-2018 17:17
  Democrats have been casting about for a winning theme this November. Here’s one suggestion: kids.After all, despite once declaring themselves the party of family values, Republican politicians have more recently ceded this territory. The GOP is now the party of state-sanctioned child abuse, of taking health care away from poor children, of leaving young immigrant “Dreamers” in legal limbo.It is GOP policy, and GOP policy alone, that has ripped thousands of immigrant children fr
  
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• I-80 closures extended 1 day for construction of wildlife bridge

  01-08-2018 17:11
  Saving the lives of wildlife will take a bit longer than expected, extending closures on Interstate 80 at Parleys Summit.The plan was to close westbound lanes on Tuesday night and eastbound lanes on Wednesday between mileposts 137 and 141 from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. But UDOT announced that westbound lanes will close again on Wednesday night and eastbound lanes will now be closed Thursday, also from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m.Drivers will need to detour on Interstate 84 through Morgan Canyon, or U.S. 189 throu
  
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• Lone Peak Police take a dummy into custody

  01-08-2018 17:09
  Lone Peak Police have taken a dummy into custody — and they're interested in finding out who left him in the middle of the road.According to the department’s Facebook page, police were dispatched to Alpine on a report of a dummy in the middle of the road. “No, I’m not being mean by calling someone a ‘dummy,’ it was an actually [sic] dummy.”Dubbed Fred — “No offense to any Freds out there” — the dummy was left in the middle of the
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Trump says Americans need photo ID to shop for groceries, so why shouldn’t they need it to vote?

  01-08-2018 17:06
  At a rally in Tampa, Fla., President Donald Trump continued pushing for tougher voter ID laws, suggesting voter fraud is rampant (it isn’t) and saying people need photo ID to shop for groceries. Meanwhile, sales at Utah liquor stores — where you do need ID — are booming.Happy Wednesday! Trump is continuing to beat the drum for tougher voter ID laws, falsely claiming people need photo ID for everything else — including grocery shopping. A White House spokesman did not imme
  
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• Happy #SwissNationalDay to all of our fans in Switzerland 🇨🇭 https://t.co/DmfzKKkExf

  01-08-2018 16:24 via twitter.com
  
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  01-08-2018 16:07 via twitter.com
  
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• Megan McArdle: Here’s a good corporate tax rate: Zero

  01-08-2018 15:42
  The history of taxation is the history of people concocting ingenious schemes to avoid their taxes. In ancient Rome, the owners of large estates would bribe the tax collector to delay payment and then lobby the government for a tax holiday that would forgive the taxes they hadn’t paid. In the 18th century, not long after American colonists broke from Britain partly over “taxation without representation,” Swiss banks offered anonymity — for a price — to French nobles
  
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• Utahn is competing on ‘The Marijuana Show’ — and, yes, she backs the initiative

  01-08-2018 15:30
  It’s probably not a surprise that the Utahn competing on the new season of “The Marijuana Show” supports the ballot initiative that would legalize medical marijuana.“I cannot tell you how excited I am,” said Heather Lawrence, co-founder of Restored Balance. She said her brother, who has multiple sclerosis, left Utah “to use cannabis in Las Vegas to improve his quality of life.”
  “He had to move away from his family. And you hear stories like that al
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz offseason has been a lot of fun

  01-08-2018 15:27 via sportspyder.com
  ...to do this for the kids. I just hope they have fun and enjoy it." >> — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) from What was life like before ? Not as good, I can tell you tha ...
  
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• Kirby: Mental health and family vacation — are the two compatible?

  01-08-2018 15:26
  Few words strike fear into the hearts of longtime married couples like the phrase “family vacation.” In terms of terrors, it ranks right up there with “my mother is coming to live with us.”It’s not that family vacations are in and of themselves bad; it’s that they’re perfect opportunities for disaster.Families are a biological fact. Two people get together and produce children — anywhere from one to a hundred. Not all of these unions end well, but,
  
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• George Pyle: Coverage of immigration policy isn’t ‘negative.’ It’s just the truth.

  01-08-2018 15:18
  “I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”— Harry TrumanA “conservative” media watchdog group has come out with the breathless discovery that 92 percent of the television coverage of the Current Occupant’s immigration policy is negative.The question that arises from that, of course, is how did anyone find enough good things to say about the administration’s border policy to add up to 8 percent that was positive?The
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz Best/Worst Case Series: Georges Niang, diamond in the rough

  01-08-2018 15:17 via sportspyder.com
  ... nas Jerebko played last year. Jerebko suited up in almost every game for the Jazz (74 of 82) and averaged just over 15 minutes per contest. While his playing...
  
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• Utah Jazz Best/Worst Case Series: Georges Niang, diamond in the rough

  01-08-2018 15:00
  It won’t be an easy path, but Georges Niang has the chance to rise from a relative unknown to an impact player for the Utah Jazz in 2018-19. Prior to the start of last season, perhaps one of the biggest surprises regarding the Utah Jazz roster was that undrafted rookie Royce O’Neale qualified for the […]
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• Letter: Salt Lake County taxes actually aren’t that bad

  01-08-2018 15:00
  Being also a Salt Lake County resident, I read Barbara Person’s opinion letter with some interest. And while I agree that it doesn’t “feel” good to pay increasing property taxes with no visible service improvements, a cursory review of the data suggests things are working as they should.I derived Barbara’s current annual property tax amount from my own and computed the annual growth rate based on her stated $600 increase. This works out to be 2.9 percent — whi
  
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• Letter: Mystery breastfeeding woman should have covered up at church

  01-08-2018 15:00
  The front-page story about an unknown woman who has accused the LDS Church of denying her a temple recommend because she refused to cover herself while breastfeeding her baby begs a response.Not only has the mystery woman failed to identify herself, but she also leaves unnamed the stake president who she alleges maligned her, the name of her ward or even the city where she lives, telling us only that the incident occurred somewhere in northern Utah, thus leaving us incapable of verifying her all
  
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• Letter: Mormon policies cause real suffering

  01-08-2018 15:00
  James Oshust recently wrote a letter condemning Kimberly Anderson for resigning when the LDS Church donated money to Affirmation for suicide prevention.It is easy to sit in an ivory tower and condemn Anderson's action, but I would have to say that Oshust has never sat beside a young mother who sobbed as she talked about her suicide attempt — an attempt that was triggered because she cannot baptize her daughter unless she gave up custody to her ex-husband. He has never talked to a young man
  
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• Letter: Mia Love’s actions show that she’s far from pro-life

  01-08-2018 15:00
  Mia Love’s campaign was quoted stating, “Mia will always fight to protect life. Her pro-life principles and votes in Congress are non-negotiable.”Let’s look at what she has done in Congress to protect life. In 2017, she voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which, if successful, would have ended affordable health care for many Utahns. A study in 2009 (before the ACA) found that 45,000 Americans die each year due to a lack of health care. Love said she was “excite
  
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• Letter: Love runs on abortion because she has nothing else to run on

  01-08-2018 15:00
  The July 27 article is very telling as to Mia Love’s dilemma. Rep. Mia Love cannot run by boasting of the accomplishments of this Congress, she can't run on the merits of the Cabinet appointments made by her party leader, she can't run on trade issues, she can't run on the quality of environmental policy, she can't run on the idea of seeking truth about the Russian intervention in our elections, she can't run on the merits of the Republican health care plan (there is none), she can't run o
  
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