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• Poll: Support for school choice growing among Republicans

  21-08-2018 23:54
  Washington • Support for charter schools and private school voucher programs has gone up over the past year, with Republicans accounting for much of the increase, according to a survey published Tuesday.The findings by Education Next, a journal published by Harvard's Kennedy School and Stanford University, come as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos promotes alternatives to traditional public schools.Forty-four percent of respondents in the poll conducted in May said they support the expansion
  
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• Trump to crisscross America to help GOP candidates, but Utah isn’t on his campaign map

  21-08-2018 23:38
  Washington • President Donald Trump will spend more than a month on the campaign trail this fall with events in 16 states to help Republicans keep the House and boost its hold on the Senate.So far not on the travel list: Utah.Trump’s approval rating hovers around 50 percent in the Beehive State and he fares even worse in the 4th Congressional District where GOP Rep. Mia Love is in a tight battle with Democrat Ben McAdams. The president’s presence in Love’s race may not be
  
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• Bryce Love, Ed Oliver, Will Grier lead AP Preseason All-America team

  21-08-2018 23:34
  Heisman Trophy runner-up Bryce Love of Stanford and Outland Trophy winner Ed Oliver of Houston highlight The Associated Press preseason All-America team.Chosen by AP poll voters, the team announced Tuesday also features West Virginia quarterback Will Grier and his teammate, receiver David Sills V.Love, along with Clemson defensive end Clelin Ferrell, Wisconsin linebacker T.J. Edwards and Utah kicker Matt Gay, were the only players who made first team All-American after last season and first team
  
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• ‘It’s kind of addicting’: People compete each night for the chance to charge the e-scooters in Salt Lake City. Meet one of them.

  21-08-2018 23:29
  “I think we’re on a goose chase here,” Jenn Hein says with a smile as she looks down at her phone, which was supposed to lead her to three electric scooters that are just not there.It’s the last stop of the night, and darkness blankets an apartment complex in Salt Lake City’s Rose Park neighborhood as Hein’s 14-year-old twins clamber out of her silver SUV and run off to search, their voices and laughter filling the quiet.A few minutes later, they exclaim, &ldq
  
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• [NBA] - Donovan Mitchell surprises Utah high school students with another charitable act

  21-08-2018 23:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... ies about people doing a good deed and it’s not for any sort of credit,” the Jazz fan said. “He’s a high-character guy. He’s in this situation and he acts exa ...
  
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• In his guilty plea, Michael Cohen says hush money payments to women were made ‘at the direction’ of Trump

  21-08-2018 23:27
  New York • Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and “fixer,” pleaded guilty Tuesday to campaign-finance violations and other charges, saying he and Trump arranged the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and a former Playboy model to influence the election.The guilty plea came almost at the same moment former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted in Alexandria, Virginia, of eight financial crimes in the first trial to co
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell urges kids to take advantage of education

  21-08-2018 23:25 via sportspyder.com
  ... h us ClutchPoints Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell urges kids to take advantage of education by August 21, 2 ...
  
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• Utes' Matt Gay, Mitch Wishnowsky named AP preseason All-Americans

  21-08-2018 23:22
  Utah’s kicking duo of placekicker Matt Gay and punter Mitch Wishnowsky on Tuesday were named first-team preseason All-Americans by the Associated Press today — the latest in a list of preseason honors for the Ute specialists. Both are returning consensus All-Americans — Wishnowsky in 2016 and Gay in 2017 — and both have won the top award at their position. Wishnowsky won the Ray Guy Award in 2016 and Gay won the Lou Groza Award in 2017. Utah is the only school in NCAA his
  
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• Rich Lowry: John Brennan shows how to lose to Trump in one easy step

  21-08-2018 23:16
  John Brennan may not know it, but he is acting in a drama scripted and produced by Donald J. Trump.As Eli Lake of Bloomberg perceptively observed, President Trump isn't trying to silence Brennan by revoking his security clearance, as the former CIA director's defenders insist, but elevate him as a foil.Trump couldn't hope for a better poster boy for the so-called deep state than a former CIA director who immediately began to sound like a commentator for MSNBC upon leaving government — and,
  
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• “I just wanted to give back to you guys for your hard work. I’m really proud of you guys.” >>… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-08-2018 23:16 via twitter.com
  “I just wanted to give back to you guys for your hard work. I’m really proud of you guys.”>>… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Our politicians have no idea how the internet works

  21-08-2018 23:15
  Here's the bad news: We can't trust Silicon Valley to police itself. That has become abundantly clear from the many scandals involving Russian disinformation campaigns, Cambridge Analytica, Twitter bots, secret data breaches, Google geo-tracking and the like.Here’s the other bad news: We can’t trust Washington politicians to police it, either.The expansive Luddite Caucus has no idea how 21st-century technology actually works, nor any apparent motivation to learn.President Trump and o
  
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• Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of 8 charges

  21-08-2018 23:06
  Alexandria, Va. • Paul Manafort, the longtime political operative who for months led Donald Trump’s winning presidential campaign, was found guilty of eight financial crimes Tuesday in the first trial victory of the special counsel investigation into the president’s associates. A judge declared a mistrial on 10 other counts the jury could not agree on.The verdict was part of a stunning one-two punch of bad news for the White House, coming as the president's former lawyer, Michae
  
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• Us after 106 days without Jazz Basketball: 💀 https://t.co/BMXdHISUTw

  21-08-2018 22:34 via twitter.com
  
  Us after 106 days without Jazz Basketball: 💀 https://t.co/BMXdHISUTw
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Trump is less lucid than normal

  21-08-2018 21:00
  President Donald Trump declared Sunday he had "nothing to hide" from the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and denied that his top lawyer had turned on him by cooperating with the probe.His former campaign chief Paul Manafort's case is in front of a jury. The White House counsel spent 30 hours with the special counsel. His former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is purportedly going to be charged with tax and bank fraud, among other things. The most respected fac
  
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• Dana Milbank: There’s one easy trick for Melania Trump to reduce cyberbullying

  21-08-2018 21:00
  Washington • It was as though Nancy Reagan had given a “Just Say No” speech while her husband honored the occasion back at the White House by snorting cocaine during a live news conference.But this actually happened Monday: Melania Trump participated in the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention's Summit on Cyberbullying while her husband was home at the White House — cyberbullying.At the summit, a Twitter official spoke about attempts to make Twitter "a more positive and
  
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• Alexandra Petri: Rudy Giuliani does not exist

  21-08-2018 21:00
  Rudy Giuliani: When you tell me that [Trump] should testify because he’s going to tell the truth and he shouldn’t worry, that’s so silly, because it’s somebody’s version of the truth. Not the truth.Chuck Todd: Truth is truth.Giuliani: No, it isn’t truth. Truth isn’t truth.The thing you have to understand is that there is nothing to testify about. Certainly, objective reality does not exist. None of my actions have consequences because there is no world o
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz's Donovan Mitchell surprises Kearns High students, sets goals of NBA Finals, MVP

  21-08-2018 20:40 via sportspyder.com
  ...Kearns on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. Taylor Miller shoots the photo. The young Jazz fan had to explain to his friend Alondra Delgadillo who Mitchell was, but sh ...
  
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• Utah Jazz's Donovan Mitchell surprises Kearns High students, sets goals of NBA Finals, MVP

  21-08-2018 20:28
  KEARNS — Donovan Mitchell stood in front of 300 high school students Tuesday morning and joked that he was trying to help them get out of class.They laughed and cheered — while he admitted he was just playing — but these Kearns High teenagers were actually in this invitation-only assembly because of the extra efforts they made in class last school year.They were also there because, once again, the generous, community-oriented Utah Jazz player showed he's as big of a star off th
  
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• Gehrke: Sure, David Cross' joke was lazy, but Mormons should get used to jabs from comedians

  21-08-2018 20:17
  Comedian David Cross went for a cheap joke over the weekend — using social media to poke fun at the special long two-piece underwear worn by members of the religion formerly known as Mormons — to promote his upcoming show in Salt Lake City.He drew a major social media backlash from members of the faith, outraged that he would profane something they held sacred, and drew demands that the University of Utah cancel the show.I’m not suggesting that Latter-day Saints shouldn’t
  
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• Pac-12 preview: Washington’s opener vs. Auburn is monumental for the conference

  21-08-2018 20:02
  The Pac-12's 2018 football season starts Aug. 30, when Utah hosts Weber State. It may end two days later, after Washington meets Auburn in Atlanta.That’s an extreme, yet not uncommon, view of where the conference currently fits into the college football landscape. The Huskies are seen as the conference’s only hope of qualifying for the College Football Playoffs. So what happens if they lose to Auburn and look bad in the process?And is that kind of opening-day pressure fair to Washing
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - How the Utah Jazz stack up against all 29 other NBA teams

  21-08-2018 19:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz: Royce O’Neale 2K rating revealed (and mocked by Joe Ingles) by Jared Woodco ...
  
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• Embattled Cardinal Mahony cancels speech at Utah Catholic event in wake of sex abuse report

  21-08-2018 18:58
  Cardinal Roger Mahony, retired archbishop of Los Angeles, withdrew Monday as the keynote speaker at next month’s annual fundraising dinner for Utah’s Catholic diocese after hearing of potential protests about his alleged role in covering up priest sex abuse in Southern California in the 1980s.Mahony decided to decline the invitation after recent reports of abuse — including the explosive grand jury finding that more than 300 priests in six Pennsylvania dioceses had abused at le
  
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• How the Utah Jazz stack up against all 29 other NBA teams

  21-08-2018 18:44
  The 2018-19 season is suddenly fast approaching, so it’s time to see how the Utah Jazz match-up with the rest of the league. Slow news days, no basketball games to watch, just simply counting down the days until NBA basketball is back. Welcome to the dog days of the NBA off-season. The regular season feels […]
  How the Utah Jazz stack up against all 29 other NBA teams - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Jury in Manafort’s case said it is split on at least one count

  21-08-2018 18:43
  Alexandria, Va. • The jury in the trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort indicated Tuesday it is split on at least one count — sending a note asking the judge for instructions on how to proceed.Around 11 a.m. of the panel's fourth day of deliberations, a note with a question came from the jury foreman, asking how jurors should fill out the verdict form "if we cannot come to a consensus on a single count," said U.S. District Judge T. S. Ellis. Th
  
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• Utah gets $4.1M in grant money to fortify election systems

  21-08-2018 18:41
  The state of Utah will use $4.1 million in federal grant money to help buy new voting equipment, replace the state’s voter registration database and to train county and state officials on new voter security measures.A report released Tuesday shows states around the country are moving quickly to tap their shares of the $380 million program to strengthen voting systems.The largest chunk will go toward improving cybersecurity in 41 states and territories.In Utah, improving security is high on
  
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• Search and rescue operation underway in Zion National Park

  21-08-2018 18:41
  Zion National Park • Zion National Park officials say a canyon in the park is closed due to a search and rescue operation in progress Tuesday morning.Park officials did not release additional information on the operation in Hidden Canyon but said in a separate Twitter post that a flash flood watch has been issued for Zion until 10:00 p.m.The post says showers and thunderstorms are expected to produce heavy rain and that flooding is expected in some canyons.
  
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• 🚨 Mini plans are on sale NOW! 🚨 See games on the weekends, watch the top draft picks when they come to town, or be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-08-2018 18:11 via twitter.com
  🚨 Mini plans are on sale NOW! 🚨See games on the weekends, watch the top draft picks when they come to town, or be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Asia Argento denies sexual relationship with accuser

  21-08-2018 17:58
  New York • The Italian actress and filmmaker Asia Argento says she never had a sexual relationship with the young actor whom she paid $380,000 after he accused her of sexual assault.In a statement Tuesday, Argento said reports were “absolutely false” and that she was linked “in friendship only” to Jimmy Bennett, a now 22-year-old Los Angeles actor who filed a legal notice of intent to sue Argento. As detailed in a New York Times story published Sunday, Bennett claime
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Shoe companies pursue Gordon Hayward while Donovan Mitchell shows off his sweet swing

  21-08-2018 17:43 via sportspyder.com
  ...Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey, will miss the next basketball season with Ba ...
  
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• Morning links: Shoe companies pursue Gordon Hayward while Donovan Mitchell shows off his sweet swing

  21-08-2018 17:35
  Despite playing just a few minutes of basketball last season, Gordon Hayward is being pursued by several shoe manufacturers looking for his endorsement.Hayward, who is recovering from a leg injury he suffered in the first game of 2017-18 NBA season, is fielding offers from New Balance and Chinese sneaker company Anta, according to a report by Uproxx. Hayward has a good chance to make the finals with the Celtics and would make an attractive client for these companies.Nike is also looking to re-si
  
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• [KSL] - Donovan Mitchell surprises Kearns High students at assembly

  21-08-2018 17:31 via sportspyder.com
  ...he grew up, why he used two backboards at the dunk contests and whether the Jazz would make it to the Western Conference Finals — before giving away two pair ...
  
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• .@spidadmitchell stopped by @KearnsHS this morning to drop off some backpacks for the new school year 🎒 #TakeNote https://t.co/KVtlpIhhxJ

  21-08-2018 17:30 via twitter.com
  
  .@spidadmitchell stopped by @KearnsHS this morning to drop off some backpacks for the new school year 🎒 #TakeNote https://t.co/KVtlpIhhxJ
  
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• Pac-12: Oregon State begins its long climb out the Pac-12 basement under new management

  21-08-2018 17:01
  Oregon State is trying to turn back the clock to the turn of the century, an era when the Beavers were Fiesta Bowl champions behind quarterback Jonathan Smith.He's the new OSU coach, trying to rebuild a program that was more than respectable as of 2013, when the Beavers had claimed the third-most victories in Pac-12 play over the past 10 seasons. Everything has crumbled since then, with the Beavers' program becoming a distant 12th in any Pac-12 overall rankings.Other than a 2016 victory over Ore
  
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• Microsoft says it has found a Russian operation targeting U.S. political institutions

  21-08-2018 16:11
  San Francisco • A group affiliated with the Russian government created phony versions of six websites — including some related to public policy and to the U.S. Senate — with the apparent goal of hacking into the computers of people who were tricked into visiting, according to Microsoft, which said Monday night that it discovered and disabled the fake sites.The effort by the notorious APT28 hacking group, which has been publicly linked to a Russian intelligence agency and activel
  
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• U.S. deports former Nazi camp guard, 95, to Germany

  21-08-2018 15:52
  Berlin • The last Nazi war crimes suspect facing deportation from the U.S. was taken from his New York City home and spirited early Tuesday morning to Germany, following years of efforts to remove him from the United States.The deportation of the 95-year-old former Nazi camp guard, Jakiw Palij, came 25 years after investigators first confronted him about his World War II past and he admitted lying to get into the U.S., claiming he spent the war as a farmer and factory worker.Palij lived qui
  
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• Officials believe body of missing Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts found

  21-08-2018 15:52
  Iowa City, Iowa • Investigators have recovered a body believed to be that of a 20-year-old Iowa college student who vanished from a small town one month ago, a spokesman for a reward fund said Tuesday.Greg Willey of Crime Stoppers of Central Iowa said he learned of the discovery from a close family friend of Mollie Tibbetts on Tuesday morning. Willey says he has no other details about the discovery, but called it a "tough" ending to the search for the University of Iowa student.The Iowa Div
  
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• EPA waits to release comments on Colorado mine cleanup plan

  21-08-2018 15:50
  Durango, Colo. • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it won’t release public comments on its interim cleanup plan for southwestern Colorado mines until it has reached a final decision on the plan.The Durango Herald reported the EPA's position Sunday.Last June, the EPA outlined the next steps it plans to take to protect rivers from toxic metals flowing out of the Gold King Mine and other sites while it comes up with a longer-term solution.EPA spokeswoman Cynthia Peterson said
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - The Top 10 Player Performances of 2017-18

  21-08-2018 15:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... ing rookie Dennis Smith Jr. in the process.  Honorable Mention: Joe Ingles, Jazz 94 Orlando 80 in SLC, March 5, 2018  18 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 ste ...
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Columnist: America is sliding toward autocracy

  21-08-2018 15:41
  Columnist: America is sliding toward autocracy. Medical marijuana opponents sought Herbert’s help in fighting the initiative; he said no. Federal judge says UTA wrongfully fired whistleblower.Happy Tuesday. Is America sliding toward autocracy? Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne Jr. thinks so. He argues that President Donald Trump’s actions and rhetoric as president -- and the lack of a check and balance from Congress -- is hurting the very underpinnings of a democracy. “This i
  
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• Daniel W. Drezner: An open letter to incoming college freshmen from one of your parents

  21-08-2018 15:28
  Dear new college students,Greetings and salutations! I am not an entering college student, but the proud parent of one. First off, congratulations! Going to college is a big life transition, and I am sure that you are eager to be on your way to making new friends, learning new things and living semi-independently. Which is a polite way of saying that you cannot wait until the rest of your family is not up in your grill 24/7.After at a year plus of parents nagging prodding you about the importanc
  
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• Noah Feldman: Democracy needs the press as the ‘opposition party’

  21-08-2018 15:00
  What’s the main value in a free press? To hear the press tell it — as in many of the 350-plus editorials published in coordination last week in response to the president’s anti-press rhetoric — the answer is factual, objective coverage of events.But that's not what the framers of the Constitution thought, or what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes had in mind when he crafted modern free-press jurisprudence during World War I. It also doesn't match how most newspaper writers th
  
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• Letter: The Tribune and other news organizations take a brave stand

  21-08-2018 15:00
  The Aug. 16 Tribune editorial joins with 200-plus other news organizations to remind us that independent news media are the eyes and ears of the people. Without their reporting, we the people would have little knowledge of what our governments and businesses are doing for us — or doing to us. We need that unbiased reporting to inform us if we are to preserve a system of governing of, by and for the people.The metaphor of a sports contest is often used to describe political fights for power
  
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• Letter: Orrin Hatch’s new center should include tributes to his corporate contributors

  21-08-2018 15:00
  Suggested first exhibit for the “Hatch Center”: Devote an entire room to pile facsimiles of the billions of dollars Sen. Orrin Hatch has taken from the pockets of Utahns to line the coffers of the pharmaceutical industry. He was almost single-handedly responsible for the provision that Medicare could not negotiate drug prices. The entire medical industry should be building a shrine to worship him. The second room could be devoted to years of examples of, frankly, the art of hypocrisy
  
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• Letter: Newspapers picked a funny way to show they aren’t colluding

  21-08-2018 15:00
  Did anyone else find it ironic that hundreds of newspapers in this country chose the same day to editorially criticize Donald Trump’s claim of “media collusion”?Ray Astin, GraniteSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Mormon church should focus on good deeds, not nomenclature

  21-08-2018 15:00
  Wanting to be recognized as THE church of Jesus Christ, the Mormon church has disavowed use of the names “Mormon” and “LDS.” This is the sort of thing a marketer does to claim its brand. But the problem the Mormon church faces isn’t the brand but the behavior.Jesus was a nonconformist. If the church wanted to be like Jesus, it would welcome heretics. Jesus was an advocate for the poor. If the Mormon church wanted to be like Jesus, it would spend its billions not on
  
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• Letter: Americans want big cars

  21-08-2018 15:00
  It is nice to see that someone elected by voters is listening to the makers of the cars and trucks the public chooses to buy. The flying cars are not here. The electric ones will not be here tomorrow. The governor of California got his waiver and enjoyed his day in the sun. Enough! I want a new Dodge Charger! Or a big Chrysler. I want the U.S. car companies to make money! I drive a Lincoln Town Car and I put 6,000 miles on it last year. $3-a-gallon gas is just fine! American engineering will sol
  
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• Helaine Olen: A Florida teacher’s good fortune is a symptom of a sick system

  21-08-2018 15:00
  When news organizations covered how Florida educators flooded Robert Goodman, a teacher fighting colon cancer, with donated sick and vacation days so Goodman could take time off to complete treatment after he posted a plea for help on Facebook, the story was framed as a heartwarming tale. "Today's #PositivePost is about this teacher who got the news he has cancer," tweeted a news anchor in Indianapolis. "This is a wonderful story," said Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.Au contraire. Yes, the donors were
  
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• Commentary: Stall tactics, tomfoolery and fear-mongering in opposition to Prop 2

  21-08-2018 15:00
  In the months since Utahns learned that they would get to vote on Proposition 2, the legalization of medical cannabis, in November, much has been written by those on both sides of the issue. But with each op-ed, ad campaign, commentary, letter to the editor, article and, most recently, the lawsuit filed by Walter J. Plumb, one thing has become startlingly clear: Those who are publicly opposed to Prop 2 are glaringly and hopelessly outmatched by proponents of the measure and, indeed, by anyone wh
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Joe Ingles roasts teammate Royce O’Neale for NBA 2K19 look

  21-08-2018 14:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... bert continued to be one of the premier defensive big men in the league. The Jazz were exciting as they come, and Ingles and O’Neale were a vital part of that ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Analyzing Utah Jazz summer workouts

  21-08-2018 14:12 via sportspyder.com
  ... rreactions to summer videos By Aug 21, 2018, 6:00am MDT Share Analyzing Utah Jazz summer workouts SLC Punks is an NBA podcast brought to you by SLC Dunk the U ...
  
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