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• To combat drug shortages and high prices, a new Utah nonprofit will sell generic medications to hospitals

  06-09-2018 23:58
  A new Utah nonprofit says it’s ready to combat drug shortages and price gouging, now that hundreds of hospitals have joined forces to form their own drug company and ensure a steady supply of some needed medications.Civica Rx — introduced earlier this year as Project Rx — will begin selling 14 generic drugs to hospitals next year, according to the organization's CEO and administrators from Intermountain Healthcare, which helped launch the project."It only takes one generic comp
  
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• Spida spotted in the new @NBA2K trailer 🕷️👀 https://t.co/CwLVSONCyT

  06-09-2018 23:28 via twitter.com
  
  Spida spotted in the new @NBA2K trailer 🕷️👀 https://t.co/CwLVSONCyT
  
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• Some of Utah’s most successful tech firms are also ‘the most connected,’ according to a new artificial intelligence ranking

  06-09-2018 23:23
  Networking and building relationships are key to growing just about any business and now a Canadian company has deployed artificial intelligence to see how some Utah technology firms are doing.Nudge.ai, based in Toronto, has generated a list of the Salt Lake City area’s most connected and networked tech companies, drawn from a machine learning analysis of their communications through email and social media and other data.Applying what it calls “relationship intelligence,” Nudge
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Utah Senators Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee question Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during contentious confirmation hearings

  06-09-2018 23:11
  Senators Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee question Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during contentious confirmation hearings. The race for Utah’s Fourth Congressional District takes a negative turn, with Rep. Mia Love and Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams' recently launched campaign ads. And commercials attacking a medical marijuana ballot initiative are pulled from local airwaves following complaints that they were misleading.At 9 a.m. Friday, Salt Lake Tribune Washington bureau chief Thoma
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: A historic history book. Emailed mission calls. Is socialism satanic? Is the internet chasing away members?

  06-09-2018 23:04
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want Mormon Land in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: ‘Saints’ alive
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  Matthew J. Grow, director of publications for the LDS Church History Department, speaks at a news conference regarding the LDS Church p
  
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• We bet you could find better friends on twitter 🙃 twitter.com/steph_telesz/s…

  06-09-2018 22:54 via twitter.com
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Boris Diaw retires from the game of basketball

  06-09-2018 22:42 via sportspyder.com
  ... unique basketball players the NBA has ever seen. Jazz fans should be thankful the Frenchman suited up for the franchise, and helpe ...
  
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• Former LDS stake president charged with tricking fellow church members out of $1.5M

  06-09-2018 22:34
  A Kaysville man allegedly used his position in the LDS Church to bilk friends and fellow church members out of $1.5 million, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday.Robert Glen Mouritson, 71, has been charged with three counts of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering in a phony investment scheme, which he began in 2006, according to the indictment. It charges that Mourtison — who was a stake president in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kaysville
  
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• [NBA] - 2018-19 National Anthem Auditions

  06-09-2018 22:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... however, strongly suggested that you attend the live audition. Mail to: Utah Jazz National Anthem Auditions C/O Carly Robbins 301 W. South Temple Salt Lake Ci ...
  
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• Burt Reynolds, star of film, TV and tabloids, dead at 82

  06-09-2018 21:30
  New York • Burt Reynolds, whose credits included acclaimed films such as “Deliverance” and commercial hits like “Smokey and the Bandit,” has died.The handsome film and television star died at age 82, according to his agent Todd Eisner. No other details were immediately available Thursday.During a long, erratic career, Reynolds starred in the Oscar-winning film "Deliverance" in 1972 and the Oscar-nominated "Boogie Nights" in 1997. He also fronted such commercial favor
  
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• Red All Over: Kyle Whittingham wants more from his Ute receivers vs. Northern Illinois

  06-09-2018 21:29
  Red All Over is The Tribune’s weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. To receive it, subscribe here.Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham spoke approvingly of his receivers after last week’s win over Weber State, but the more he studied the group’s performance, the less he liked about it.“Too many drops, not crisp enough routes. … Some of the drops would have been tough catches, but those are drive-killers,” Whittingham said this week.That's t
  
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• Aggies lament close loss to Michigan State, but are focusing squarely on home opener vs. New Mexico State

  06-09-2018 21:29
  Logan • Utah State doesn’t believe in moral victories.So, when the aggies walked into Lansing and gave Big 10 power Michigan State all it could handle before falling 38-31last Friday, the Aggies in the immediate aftermath took little solace from a close defeat to a nationally recognized program.“The bottom line is we took a loss,” standout safety Jontrell Rocquemore said. “We have to take it, and we have to learn from it. We have to go back to the drawing boards and
  
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• Alexandra Petri: I am the real Resistance, the Resistance within the Trump administration

  06-09-2018 21:04
  When you think of the Resistance, you probably don't think of a group of senior Trump administration officials. But, you see, that is your mistake. That is exactly what I am, and I am resisting more than any of you, in your hats with your signs.You may ask: Is President Trump a threat to this country and all that it stands for?Absolutely. Yes.We are all continually traumatized. I don't know how we are going to get through each week.Trump is completely amoral. Furthermore, he has the memory of a
  
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• Utah Jazz: Boris Diaw retires from the game of basketball

  06-09-2018 20:49
  Former Utah Jazz big man Boris Diaw officially announced his retirement from the game of basketball today. Boris Diaw meant more to the Utah Jazz than what his 4.6 points per game average showed. Diaw was one of the truly unique basketball players the NBA has ever seen. Jazz fans should be thankful the Frenchman suited […]
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• ‘A horrific situation’: 4 dead in Cincinnati bank shooting

  06-09-2018 20:48
  Cincinnati • A gunman opened fire Thursday morning in a building in the heart of Cincinnati in an attack that left him and three other people dead, police said.The shooting sent people scrambling across the city's Fountain Square amid cries of "shooter!"It happened at a 30-story building, home to the corporate headquarters for regional banker Fifth Third Bancorp and other businesses, including popular ice cream, pastry and sandwich shops. The bank building was locked down for most of the mo
  
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• Coats, Pence, Pompeo deny authorship of anonymous New York Times op-ed on Trump

  06-09-2018 20:34
  Washington • A parade of denials began in Washington on Thursday, as Vice President Mike Pence and a growing number of other senior officials asserted they were not responsible for an explosive New York Times op-ed by someone claiming to be part of a “resistance” within the Trump administration.Amid frenzied speculation over who was hiding behind a cloak of anonymity, a spokesman for Pence forcefully denied Thursday morning that it was him. More than a half-dozen Cabinet officia
  
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• Félicitations, @theborisdiaw ❤️ https://t.co/DatB7b2Xdj

  06-09-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Man convicted of Utah murder arrested trying to cross Arizona border

  06-09-2018 20:23
  Yuma, Ariz. • Border Patrol agents in Yuma have arrested a Mexican man who was previously convicted of first-degree murder.Agents assigned to the Wellton Station's Interstate 8 immigration checkpoint took 50-year-old Andres Cevilla-Julio into custody Saturday night.They say he entered the U.S. illegally near San Luis near the Arizona-Mexico border.Records discovered during processing showed Cevilla-Julio was convicted of first-degree murder in Salt Lake City and served 20 years in prison.He
  
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• Las Vegas man with Utah criminal record gets 18 years for violent, armed carjackings

  06-09-2018 20:20
  Las Vegas • A 29-year-old Las Vegas man with a criminal record in Nevada and Utah has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for a pair of violent, armed carjackings.Uriah Crain pleaded guilty earlier to carjacking resulting in serious bodily injury, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and felon in possession of a firearm.Federal prosecutors who announced his sentencing in Las Vegas on Wednesday say Crain and a co-defendant struck up a conversation with a victim at a Las Vegas li
  
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• Whooping cough cases doubled from last year in Utah County

  06-09-2018 20:17
  Provo • Whooping cough cases have doubled in Utah County this year, and public health officials are concerned there could be more as the school year begins.KUTV-TV reports 70 whooping cough cases have been confirmed so far this year.It's twice as many cases as those reported during the same time period last year.Lisa Guerra with the Utah County Health Department is not sure exactly what contributed to the increase, but says it's likely some of the patients aren't immunized.Pertussis, also k
  
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• Ambassador Huntsman denies he wrote anonymous op-ed slamming Trump

  06-09-2018 20:07
  Washington • U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Jon Huntsman denies he was the anonymous author of a New York Times op-ed slamming President Donald Trump and saying administration officials are doing what they can to thwart Trump’s “erratic behavior.”Some news outlets have speculated that Huntsman, a former Utah governor who did not back Trump in the election but took a highly visible ambassadorship, could be the anonymous “senior official” in the Trump administration b
  
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• Eye on the Y: Jeff Grimes and his offensive staff borrowed from LSU, Boise State and even vintage BYU to craft the attack that overcame Arizona

  06-09-2018 20:00
  Like what you see? Subscribe to Eye on the Y, and any of our other Salt Lake Tribune newsletters here.After BYU’s second scrimmage of preseason football camp — a scrimmage that reporters were not allowed to watch — I asked quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator Aaron Roderick if there was a particular team’s offense that BYU’s was patterned after.Roderick gave me one of those “I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you” responses, but i
  
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• Northern Illinois defensive end Sutton Smith is the best college player you’ve never heard of. On Saturday, he’ll be Utah’s problem.

  06-09-2018 19:54
  Northern Illinois defensive end Sutton Smith is a former high school running back who wears the same number as his team's quarterback. No wonder opposing offensive coordinators figure they can just line up bigger blockers and run the ball right at him.The strategy may be logical, but not necessarily effective. Even with schemes designed to account for him, No. 15 for the Huskies is one of the most productive players in all of college football. Athlon Sports ranked him the No. 3 player among Grou
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - The 8th Best Player Performance of 2017-18

  06-09-2018 19:26 via sportspyder.com
  ... our from the field and five of five from the line in that span, hoisting the Jazz to a 65 – 60 lead they would not relinquish.  As he walked off the court at...
  
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• Saying a resolution is doubtful, Mormon church seeks 2020 jury trial in woman’s lawsuit alleging MTC president sexually assaulted her

  06-09-2018 18:52
  Attorneys are asking a federal judge to set a jury trial in the lawsuit filed by a former Mormon missionary who says she was sexually assaulted by a Missionary Training Center leader in 1984.McKenna Denson alleges that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints committed fraud by presenting MTC President Joseph L. Bishop as a safe and trustworthy leader, placing him in charge of the faith’s flagship training center in Provo despite “red flag sexual improprieties” years ear
  
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• Northern Illinois defensive end Sutton Smith is the best college player you’ve never heard of

  06-09-2018 18:06
  Northern Illinois defensive end Sutton Smith is a former high school running back who wears the same number as his team's quarterback. No wonder opposing offensive coordinators figure they can just line up bigger blockers and run the ball right at him.The strategy may be logical, but not necessarily effective. Even with schemes designed to account for him, No. 15 for the Huskies is one of the most productive players in all of college football. Athlon Sports ranked him the No. 3 player among Grou
  
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• Federal indictment charges former LDS stake president with bilking fellow church members

  06-09-2018 17:53
  A Kaysville man allegedly used his position in the LDS Church to bilk friends and fellow church members out of $1.5 million, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday.Robert Glen Mouritson, 71, has been charged with three counts of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering in a phony investment scheme, which he began in 2006, according to the indictment. It charges that Mourtison — who was a stake president in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kaysville
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz players starting to come “home”

  06-09-2018 17:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... but this is exciting news that everyone is back in town for team basketball. Jazz scrimmages are underway! — James Hansen (@hansenjames) The Jazz’s home court ...
  
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• Dana Milbank: America is still free, and the people will be heard

  06-09-2018 17:12
  “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”— First Amendment to the Constitution, ratified Dec. 15, 1791“I don’t know why they don’t take care of a situation like that. I think it’s embarrassing for the country to allow protesters.”— President Trump, Sept. 4, 2018Washington - On Wednesday, the morning after the president proclaimed that civil disobed
  
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• Tervels fire nears full containment; I-80 lane closure ends

  06-09-2018 17:10
  The Tervels fire northeast of Coalville — the largest of 13 related arson fires in Utah and Wyoming — has been secured on its north and south flanks and is expected to be fully contained on Thursday.A warning of possible evacuations in the Echo Creek Ranches area has been lifted, and the closure of one eastbound lane on I-80 between mile markers 169 and 171 will be lifted Thursday, according to fire officials.The #TervelsFire is now 48% contained. This is one of three 20 person handc
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: Publishing that anonymous New York Times article wasn’t ‘gutless,’ but writing it probably was

  06-09-2018 17:04
  Was the New York Times's decision to publish a mystery op-ed piece describing an organized resistance inside the Trump administration "gutless," as the president has angrily deemed it?Or was it a crucial public service, as the Times's top opinion editors see it?I'd call it neither. What it was, however, was a quagmire of weirdness: fraught with issues of journalistic ethics and possibly even legal concerns.And odd as it is, it could get weirder quickly, if New York Times reporters are the ones t
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Trump, aides play frantic guessing game to discern identity of anonymous White House official who portrayed him as a danger to the country in New York Times opinion piece

  06-09-2018 16:51
  In an unusual move, The New York Times published an anonymous opinion piece Wednesday written by a senior official in President Donald Trump’s administration. The person wrote in the piece, titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” that he or she was “working diligently from within to frustrate parts of [the president’s] agenda and his worst inclinations.” The op-ed portrayed Trump as a danger to the country and drew indignation fro
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Independent historian examines church’s new official history book, ‘Saints' — where it succeeds, falls short and how it could change members' views of their own religion

  06-09-2018 16:34
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made history this week — with its own history.For the first time since 1930, it released an authorized, in-depth book that explores the faith’s past. “Saints: The Standard of Truth" is part of a four-volume set that will explore Mormonism from its humble birth to its current global presence.On this week’s “Mormon Land” podcast, Benjamin Park, who is a Latter-day Saint and a history professor at Sam Houston State
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I survived sexual abuse, but I don’t understand some responses to the #MeToo movement

  06-09-2018 15:39
  Dear Ann Cannon • I’m a victim of 15 years of childhood sexual abuse, molestation and rape. It’s a fact few people know about me. While I appreciate that the #MeToo movement is exposing the kind of culture that makes this type of abuse possible, I’m conflicted by the range of accusations. I think appropriate boundaries are confusing to both genders and I’m especially baffled by women who seek attention as a victim. Do you have any suggestions for how to find peace wi
  
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• Utah’s best home brewer makes gold-medal ales and stouts in his garage, and his worst beer-making disaster has a silver lining

  06-09-2018 15:37
  Zachary Belles has a garage, but you won’t find his car inside.“It’s completely dedicated to beer brewing," said the 32-year-old Salt Lake City resident, who was named Utah’s best home brewer during the 2018 Beehive Brewoff last month. “I have a shed for all the garage stuff.”Filling the space that’s usually dedicated to a car in Belles’ garage are sinks, shelves, tables and three refrigerators — one for fermenting, one for lagering and anoth
  
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• Owner of South Jordan bakery competes with her 16-year-old granddaughter on the premiere of a new TV cooking show featuring Buddy Valastro of ‘Cake Boss’

  06-09-2018 15:25
  After her dinner date — but before the Herriman High School homecoming dance Saturday — Sage Jensen needs to stop at her grandmother’s house to watch the premiere of “Bake It Like Buddy.”No, this 16-year-old doesn’t have a teenage obsession.Sage and her grandmother Debi Jensen, the owner of Swirly Girls Gourmet Bakery in South Jordan, are competing on the first episode of the new show on the Discovery Family channel. Each week it features two teams from family
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Ekpe’s Book Club, the J-Notes edition

  06-09-2018 15:10 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz court will have slightly different look in 2018-19 by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz court will have slightly different look in 2018-19

  06-09-2018 15:10 via sportspyder.com
  ... uld be playing on an asphalt surface for all I care! Several Jazz fans chimed in on social media to hypothesize the reason for the removal of...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Ekpe’s Book Club, the J-Notes edition

  06-09-2018 15:00
  As many Utah Jazz fans know, center Ekpe Udoh is an avid reader. He even has his own book club, known as Ekpe’s Book Club. Rather than having Ekpe Udoh take charge of this particular ‘Book Club’, I’m going to take the reigns this time and suggest the second-year Jazzman reads this article about his […]
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• Letter: Stop meddling in Big and Little Cottonwood

  06-09-2018 15:00
  As a property owner in Big and Little Cottonwood canyons, I am upset with your editorial about the last excuse for denying owners the right to enjoy their land.First, it was Envision Utah, then it became Mountain Accord, which wasted $8 million for nothing but fat salaries for some environmentalists. And now it is the same old zombies with a different name, the Central Wasatch Commission.There is already 102,000 acres of wilderness, and that is way too much. It reminds me of the dumb dog that ke
  
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• Letter: So much for Chaffetz’s family — he’s still shilling for Trump

  06-09-2018 15:00
  Last night, I decided to switch over to Fox News to see how our president’s favorite “news” outlet was covering Team Trump’s escalating legal worries. Whom did I find in the anchor chair? None other than Utah’s own Jason Chaffetz.You may remember Jason as our former bulldog congressman who endlessly investigated Hillary Clinton and then-President Barack Obama for anything and everything (Benghazi! emails!) but up and quit when it looked like he might have to investi
  
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• Letter: Say anything? No, Romney’s strategy is to say nothing.

  06-09-2018 15:00
  Peter Harvey (Public Forum, Aug. 25) states, “Mitt Romney will say and do what he thinks it takes to get elected.”I am still waiting to hear anything from Romney on his political stand in the race for U.S. Senate. Romney said in his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination that he would “debate Jenny Wilson from time to time.” But he hasn’t debated Wilson even once. So I can only conclude that Romney thinks his best course in becoming a U.S. senator is to say
  
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• Letter: Mormons should lead the way in stewardship of our planet

  06-09-2018 15:00
  The LDS Church does much good in the world bringing light, community, support and goodness to many families and individuals across the globe, yet I have a hope and a prayer that it can do even more. In my reverie, I picture the church literally saving our natural world. Imagine President Russell M. Nelson calling from the mountaintops that creation is in jeopardy and humanity is primarily to blame and that we, as good stewards, must repent and change course.What happens next would be a modern mi
  
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• Letter: I hope Utah newspapers and letters to the editor survive

  06-09-2018 15:00
  I have been sadly watching the size of the daily newspapers gradually shrinking. I know that most of that is the result of competition with the digital world, and a publisher has to figure out what to cut out in such a way that enough people are willing to pay the increased costs for the smaller papers, and that the paper still makes a profit, or at least breaks even.The reality is that no matter what is cut, some subscribers will cancel their subscriptions, so it has to be hard to decide what t
  
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• Letter: Funny how Republicans are suddenly in favor of deficit spending

  06-09-2018 15:00
  Contrary to what conservative Republicans say, giving more wealth to the super rich and big businesses, as was done in President Donald Trump’s and the GOP Congress' “tax reform” bill, hasn’t shown any Increase in workers’ wages, when you factor in inflation. So much for the tea party Republicans’ “trickle down” economics.But this legislation will create a $139 billion increase in federal deficit spending in just this 2018 fiscal year, according to
  
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• Letter: Asian-Americans are often invisible in Utah

  06-09-2018 15:00
  Kudos to The Tribune for Cynthia Chen’s contribution to the Opinion section. It made me happy to see an Asian point of view in Utah. Being a Japanese-American in Utah, I have had very similar experiences in school and working at Salt Lake City police department for 40-plus years.My son graduated from the University of Utah’s ATP program in acting. Finding gigs for male Asians is tough. He had a leading role in a play and it was sad to not see his face on the program cover, but, inste
  
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• Gehrke: Moving a big piece of the Interior Department to Utah isn’t a terrible idea, but don’t expect it to change how the lands are managed

  06-09-2018 15:00
  Last week, Susan Combs, a top adviser to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, was in Utah to meet with state officials, including Gov. Gary Herbert and Rep. Rob Bishop about the department’s ongoing efforts to decentralize the agency, pushing people out of Washington and into the states.Zinke was unable to make it, since a journey on horseback, his preferred mode of travel, was impractical.The restructuring is music to the ears of people like Herbert and Bishop, who have long complained that dec
  
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• Utah Jazz court will have slightly different look in 2018-19

  06-09-2018 14:00
  There’s been a minor change to the Utah Jazz court that will make it appear somewhat distinct in the upcoming 2018-19 season. When the Utah Jazz announced that they’d be renovating Vivint Smart Home Arena, for the most part the changes were met with general approval. Sure, many fans felt that they would miss the […]
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• After Tommy John surgery is recommended, Angels’ Ohtani has big night at the plate

  06-09-2018 07:15
  Arlington, Texas • Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani has new damage in his pitching elbow and the team says Tommy John surgery has been recommended.A couple hours before Ohtani hit two home runs against Texas on Wednesday, the Angels said he had an MRI earlier in the day that revealed the problem in his right ulnar collateral ligament.“There’s more questions out there right now than answers. We’ll take it one step at a time,” manager Mike Scioscia said. &
  
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