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• Carrie Underwood reveals she had 3 miscarriages in 2 years

  17-09-2018 23:45
  New York • Carrie Underwood says she turned to God after experiencing three miscarriages in two years.The 35-year-old country singer and former "American Idol" champion told "CBS Sunday Morning " she got pregnant in early 2017 and it "didn't work out." She had a second miscarriage later that year and a third in 2018.Underwood says she was afraid to be angry because she has an incredible husband, hockey player Mike Fisher, and an incredible son, 3-year-old Isaiah.She says she got mad when sh
  
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• “It’s something I’ve wanted to do for years. Just kind of stubbornness and nerves and all that played a part in why… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-09-2018 23:37 via twitter.com
  “It’s something I’ve wanted to do for years. Just kind of stubbornness and nerves and all that played a part in why… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Utah Valley University has thousands more students than the University of Utah. But the Orem school’s new president says it won’t start requiring higher test scores or grades: ‘Come as you are.’

  17-09-2018 23:31
  On her first day in office as Utah Valley University’s new president, Astrid Tuminez was already discussing how she plans to address the Orem campus’ biggest challenge: growth.The school has ballooned in recent years to a student population of more than 37,000 — making it the largest in Utah — beating the state’s flagship institution, the University of Utah, by about 4,000. Handling that explosive enrollment, Tuminez said, will define the success and future of UVU.
  
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• ‘Kind of a mystery’: Weber High evacuated after students report nausea, headaches and dizziness — though HAZMAT responders find no clear cause

  17-09-2018 23:22
  Weber High School was evacuated Monday morning and classes were canceled after five students reported feeling suddenly sick.The students were in an anatomy class when, district spokesman Lane Findlay said, they told their teacher they were experiencing extreme headaches, dizziness and nausea. Two were transported to a hospital around 11 a.m.The class left the room and school administrators then evacuated the entire building as a precaution. The fire department set up medical evaluation centers o
  
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• Is a philosophical shift coming? Utes’ offensive line ‘can dominate games,’ Kyle Whittingham says.

  17-09-2018 23:17
  Utah’s offense managed to dominate the country’s top-ranked defense Monday, according to the scoreboard of questions that coach Kyle Whittingham fielded during his weekly news conference.After his opening statement covered defense, special teams and offense (in that order), Whittingham engaged in 14 minutes of discussion. The subject of the Utes' No. 1 ranking in total defense in the FBS never came up during the session, reflecting how Utah’s offensive struggles have overshadow
  
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• Utah Jazz alums: D-Will was offered the chance to do WHAT?!

  17-09-2018 23:08
  Former Utah Jazz star Deron Williams could have entered the cage with NFL player turned mixed martial artist Greg Hardy. Ever since Deron Williams‘ run with the Cleveland Cavaliers came to an end in June of 2017, fans and pundits alike have wondered whether the former Utah Jazz star would make it back to the […]
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz rank 2018-19: Two-way signee Tyler Cavanaugh is No. 16

  17-09-2018 23:04 via sportspyder.com
  ...where he may spend the brunt of his time with the Salt Lake City Stars. The Jazz are loaded in the frontcourt and Georges Niang, who has a year in the Jazz s ...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Shouldn’t a Jazz fan be the Fan of the Year?

  17-09-2018 23:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... Hey Jazz fans, it’s time to throw our hat in the ring for FanSided’s Sports Fan of th ...
  
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• Utah Jazz 2018-19 NBA Season Preview

  17-09-2018 23:00 via basketballinsiders.com
  The Jazz have started to emerge as a legit contender in the West with a great balance of offense and defense. But are they deep enough to be anything more than a playoff team? Basketball Insiders digs into the Utah Jazz in this 2018-19 NBA Season Preview.
  
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• Police identify suspect in homicide at Salt Lake parking garage

  17-09-2018 22:57
  Salt Lake City Police are asking for the public’s help to locate a suspect wanted for a homicide at a downtown parking garage early Saturday morning.Francis Lee Ragsdale, 30, should be considered armed and dangerous, police said. He is 5 feet 9 inches, 200 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.According to police, a fight between two groups at the Wasted Space Bar at 342 S. Main carried over into a parking garage at 55 E. Exchange Place. On the lower level of the parking garage, several sh
  
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• LDS Church calls on Legislature to legalize medical pot this year — a move that some suspect is aimed at defeating ballot measure

  17-09-2018 22:50
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints still opposes Proposition 2, but is now asking the Utah Legislature to legalize medical marijuana this year — likely in special session after voters decide the ballot measure’s fate.Prop 2 supporters see the faith’s sudden sense of urgency as subterfuge to kill the initiative with promises for action — which could later be ignored or made overly burdensome by conservative lawmakers.“We would like to see this taken care
  
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• Sen. Hatch says Christine Blasey Ford is 'mistaken’ in accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of assault

  17-09-2018 22:48
  Washington • Sen. Orrin Hatch said Monday that the woman alleging Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her when they were in high school must be “mistaken” and that even if the claim is true, Kavanaugh is a “good man” and senators should judge who he is now.“I think she’s mistaken,” Hatch told CNN about Christine Blasey Ford, who has come forward to say Kavanuagh pinned her down and assaulted her nearly four decades ago. “I think sh
  
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• A Coast Guard officer on hurricane duty made a hand signal on TV. Some saw a white-power sign.

  17-09-2018 22:45
  In the background of a Coast Guard briefing on MSNBC on Friday evening, in a bustling aid center, a Coast Guard member flashed what some TV viewers claimed was a white power sign at the camera.@AngryBlackLady Just saw this on MSNBC during interview with Coast Guard. Check out white-power in background. @uscoastguard pic.twitter.com/G7HcgDb649— Eunice Burns (@TheEuniceBurns) September 14, 2018In the clip, as an official detailed the efforts underway as Hurricane Florence tore through the Ca
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Philadelphia 76ers have second interview with Utah Jazz assistant GM Justin Zanik

  17-09-2018 22:42 via sportspyder.com
  ...interview with Ownership. The ownership group had dinner last night w/ Utah Jazz assistant general manager Justin Zanik on Sunday for their vacant GM job and ...
  
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• Shouldn’t a Jazz fan be the Fan of the Year?

  17-09-2018 22:16
  Hey Jazz fans, it’s time to throw our hat in the ring for FanSided’s Sports Fan of the Year and prove who the best fans in football really are. That’s right, FanSided is searching for the most passionate sports fan in the country for our third annual Sports Fan of the Year contest. If you […]
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• BYU turns attention to dangerous FCS foe McNeese State after stunning upset of No. 6 Wisconsin

  17-09-2018 22:06
  Provo • Congratulatory phone calls and text messages poured in for BYU football coach Kalani Sitake after the Cougars upset No. 6-ranked Wisconsin on Saturday, including one from Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid.“Anybody that is connected with BYU or connected with me, they reached out,” Sitake said in Monday’s weekly news briefing as the Cougars turned their attention to McNeese State, an FCS opponent from Lake Charles, La. “So you can pretty much guess. There was
  
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• Report: Thousands in foster care receive psychiatric drugs without basic safeguards

  17-09-2018 21:45
  Washington • Thousands of children in foster care may be getting powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed to them without basic safeguards, according to a federal watchdog’s investigation that finds a failure to care for youngsters whose lives have already been disrupted.The report due Monday from the Health and Human Services inspector general's office found that about 1 in 3 foster kids from a sample of states were prescribed psychiatric drugs without treatment plans or follow-up, whic
  
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• Utah Jazz rank 2018-19: Two-way signee Tyler Cavanaugh is No. 16

  17-09-2018 21:20
  Utah Jazz forward Tyler Cavanaugh made an impact at the NBA level last season before incurring an ill-timed ankle injury. Although injuries are never a good thing for the players they happen to, there can be a silver lining when they occur. Specifically, when one player goes down, another is given the opportunity to step […]
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  17-09-2018 21:14 via twitter.com
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• Why is one of Elizabeth Smart’s kidnappers being released from a Utah prison? Here are answers to six big questions.

  17-09-2018 21:10
  Wanda Barzee, who with her husband, Brian David Mitchell, kidnapped Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home in 2002, will be freed from prison Wednesday.The release has angered Smart, who was 14 at the time of her abduction, and those supporting her. Salt Lake Tribune readers sent questions about her sentence, why she is being released, where she will go, and why the Smart family is upset. Here are answers:What did Barzee plead guilty to and what was her sentence? On Nov. 17, 2009, Barzee p
  
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• MS-13 is suspected of killing her daughter. Now she is dead in a dispute over the memorial.

  17-09-2018 20:45
  Almost exactly two years ago, mourners gathered at Brentwood High School on Long Island to remember teenagers Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens, who were allegedly killed by suspected MS-13 gang members. The night was pierced with hundreds of candle flames marshaled on the football field, though the two friends dreamed of playing professional basketball.Kayla's mother, Evelyn Rodriguez, organized another vigil for Friday to mark precisely the two years since Kayla's body was recovered from a wooded
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: Claim against Kavanaugh is not suspicious 11th-hour bombshell. We’re not in the 11th hour.

  17-09-2018 20:37
  Readers of the Los Angeles Times were furious in 2003 when — only five days before the California gubernatorial election — the paper published a stunning investigation in which 16 women accused candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping them.They canceled their subscriptions in droves and accused the paper of trying to help Democrat Gray Davis' campaign.The paper's revered editor, John Carroll, later explained the imperfect timing.Basically, he said, it came down to this: The story w
  
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• Pole Creek and Bald Mountain fires have slowed, but evacuations and worries remain

  17-09-2018 20:27
  Spanish Fork • Fire breaks — manmade and natural — are helping box in two wildfires burning in Utah County, though commanders warn conditions are still bad for combating the blazes.The Pole Creek Fire has burnt 71,873 acres and is considered 2 percent contained. The Bald Mountain Fire was measured at 14,866 acres on Monday with no containment.The fires are considered the Nos. 1 and 2 wildfire fighting priorities, respectively, nationally. About 1,000 firefighters are on the grou
  
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• Utah wants to seize more than $1 million in cash and items from pawnshops with polygamous ties

  17-09-2018 20:01
  The Utah attorney general’s office is asking a judge to let state authorities keep more than $1 million in cash and merchandise seized during a June raid of several pawnshops associated with a polygamous sect.Three civil asset forfeiture complaints were filed Monday against Xtreme Pawn, Sportsman’s Pawn and Sportsman’s Fast Cash. Officials with the attorney general’s office say the businesses were buying new-in-the-box items that clerks should have known was stolen.The in
  
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• Russian meddling abroad: Does Putin pull all the strings?

  17-09-2018 19:45
  Moscow • As alleged Russian plots, conspiracies and crimes unfold against the West, prosecutors and pundits routinely blame Vladimir Putin or a circle of Kremlin insiders said to be acting on direct orders from the president.Putin may indeed have involvement in some shadowy schemes, but is he micromanaging every suspected poisoning, computer hack and influence campaign?Experts say not necessarily. Instead, they say Putin and his entourage may be sending out signals about what he wants, and
  
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• Weekly Run podcast: Tony Jones on his departure and the top questions going into Jazz training camp

  17-09-2018 19:40
  Jazz beat writer Tony Jones has been at The Salt Lake Tribune for 10 years, covering high school sports, the Utah State Aggies and, of course, the Utah Jazz. Last Friday was his final day at the paper, though, as he leaves for other opportunities, so we’re giving him a fond farewell.Of course, we also talk about the Jazz. With just a week until training camp, there are some questions around the team we’d like answered. Who’s going to be playing the backup shooting guard role? W
  
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• Gun goes off inside Mormon meetinghouse in Provo; church leader is recorded urging teenage girls not to spread news on social media

  17-09-2018 19:17
  A 74-year-old man faces possible charges after his gun went off in a Mormon meetinghouse in Provo on Sunday, penetrating a wall into a room where church members were meeting.No one was struck; no one was injured.According to Lt. Brian Taylor, Provo police responded to a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ward house at 345 E. Foothill Drive about 2 p.m. on Sunday. The man “had a .22-caliber revolver in his backpack.” He was in the vestibule of a restroom when “the gun w
  
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• John Kerry criticized for saying Trump has ‘the insecurity of a teenage girl’

  17-09-2018 18:45
  Former Secretary of State John Kerry is being criticized for comparing President Donald Trump to a teenage girl during an appearance on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."Kerry visited the late-night talk show Friday to promote his new memoir, “Every Day is Extra.” Shortly after Kerry sat down, however, host Bill Maher brought up a Trump tweet from the day before, in which the president had accused the former secretary of state of having “illegal meetings” with the Iranian
  
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• One day closer 😁 @NazzyJML https://t.co/4vNWQMbsrr

  17-09-2018 18:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Man wanted for questioning after parking garage murder in Salt Lake City

  17-09-2018 18:16
  Salt Lake City Police are asking for the public's help to locate a man wanted for questioning in connection with a murder at a downtown parking garage on Saturday morning.Detectives want to talk to Thalwallkelah Lamar Washington, 38, who goes by his middle name. He drives a black, 2007 Mercedes Benz with California license plate 7XCP832.According to police, a fight between two groups at the Wasted Space Bar at 342 S. Main carried over into a parking garage at 55 E. Exchange Place. On the lower-l
  
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• LDS Church releases new memo warning of legal risks from medical marijuana initiative

  17-09-2018 18:08
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has once again released an analysis on the risks and ramification of Utah’s Proposition 2, which seeks to legalize medical marijuana in the state through a public vote.A 9-page memorandum, produced by the Salt Lake City law firm Kirton McConkie, was made available to the media on Monday. It is written in response to a rebuttal by Libertas Institute to an earlier medical marijuana analysis produced by the firm for the church.“Whether tho
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - A behind the scenes look at what Utah Jazz's Donovan Mitchell learned from Dwyane Wade this summer

  17-09-2018 17:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... ound the practice facility since the start of OTAs on the week of Sept. 3 as Jazz players gather on an optional basis to get ready ahead of training camp. So...
  
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• A behind the scenes look at what Utah Jazz's Donovan Mitchell learned from Dwyane Wade this summer

  17-09-2018 17:49
  SALT LAKE CITY — There was plenty of Wade Cellars wine and Casamigos tequila to go around for those who wanted it.Dwyane Wade and his wife Gabrielle Union's personal chef, Richard Ingraham, also prepared an amazing dinner for an extremely exclusive group of guests — handpicked by Wade — at a private beach house on behalf of the Stance Socks company.This is how Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell and a select group of his NBA peers were welcomed to San Clemente, California, for the
  
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• WikiLeaks docs show Julian Assange’s budding relationship with Russia

  17-09-2018 17:45
  London • Julian Assange had just pulled off one of the biggest scoops in journalistic history, splaying the innards of American diplomacy across the web. But technology firms were cutting ties to his website, WikiLeaks, cable news pundits were calling for his head and a Swedish sex crime case was threatening to put him behind bars.Caught in a vise, the silver-haired Australian wrote to the Russian Consulate in London."I, Julian Assange, hereby grant full authority to my friend, Israel Shami
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Waiting for Exum: Is this the year Dante Exum finally arrives?

  17-09-2018 17:17 via sportspyder.com
  ... st in the fray of all of this was the young wunderkind, Dante Exum. The Utah Jazz’s nitros infused playoff push for the season had a cost. While Joe Ingles sa ...
  
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• A woman’s daring escape from a Border Patrol agent helped reveal a ‘serial killer,’ police say

  17-09-2018 16:45
  The woman in the white pickup was feeling increasingly uneasy about the driver, whom she knew only as "David." Two fellow sex workers in Laredo, Texas, had been recently killed, and one of them was her friend Melissa.The man and the woman had already been at his house, where she had discussed Melissa. He had reacted strangely, she later told authorities, and the situation had grown so tense that she vomited in the front yard before they left for a gas station. The woman's mind lingered on Meliss
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Christine Blasey Ford and the #MeToo movement will now take center stage in the U.S. Senate

  17-09-2018 16:37
  The #MeToo movement will now stride into the intersection of politics and the nation’s high court.Happy Monday. It took just hours for the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas comparisons to percolate after Christine Blasey Ford came forward as the woman alleging sexual assault at the hands of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when the two were in high school. We know how that one ended. Have attitudes changed more than a quarter-century after Anita Hill? [Politico]Topping the news: Responding
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Kavanaugh’s accuser steps forward

  17-09-2018 16:20
  On Friday, after word surfaced that a letter from an anonymous source alleged that Judge Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted a teenage girl during a drunken episode in high school, I urged an expeditious investigation - with the following caveat: "On a matter as serious as a Supreme Court nomination, one should not allow an accuser to maintain anonymity. It's just not fair, and it's not how our legal system is supposed to function."Now we know the identity of the accuser, The Washington Post
  
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• Florence flooding spreads as storm heads northeast

  17-09-2018 15:45
  Wilmington, N.C. • With Wilmington cut off from the rest of North Carolina by still-rising floodwaters from Florence, officials plan to airlift food and water to the city of nearly 120,000 people as rescuers elsewhere pull inland residents from homes swamped by swollen rivers.The deadly storm was still dumping rain and had top winds around 30 mph early Monday, but forecasters said it was expected to gradually pick up forward speed and complete a big turn toward the Northeast.Flooding worrie
  
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• Fires may keep some Utah County residents out of their homes for weeks

  17-09-2018 15:42
  The Pole Creek and Bald Mountain fires kept highway closed and 6,000 Utah County residents out of their homes on Monday morning — and the evacuees may not get to return to their houses for days, if not weeks.That was the warning from the Utah County Sheriff's Office as firefighters continued to battle the blazes — and have prevented the fires from reaching any of the 2,000 threatened homes. The latest official updates put the size of the Pole Creek fire at 61,000 acres, and the Bald
  
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• Tribune editorial: Finally, a deal to upgrade our national parks

  17-09-2018 15:24
  The Republican committee chairman had some things he wanted done. The Democratic ranking member of that committee had some different, but not incompatible, things that he wanted done. So they talked it out, struck a deal, got a couple of bills through their committee and at least made it possible for something to get accomplished.How retro.How welcome.Utah’s Rep. Rob Bishop had been criticized for being just another congressional obstructionist when it looked as though the reauthorization
  
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• Letter: We still can mitigate the shock of climate change

  17-09-2018 15:00
  We are in the midst of a climate shock event.As an electrical engineer, I’ve been charged with designing equipment that can withstand lightning strikes. A competent engineer doesn’t just say, “Oh hey, you know, things change. Always have, always will.” Shock is a different animal of change, the difference between placing a mug on a table and a car crash. It’s all about the rate of change. Change is one thing. Rapid change equals shock.Humans really ought to know bet
  
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• Letter: Tribune almost lost me with Kirby suspension

  17-09-2018 15:00
  Regarding your suspension of Robert Kirby, if I didn’t love the Tribune so damn much I would quit my subscription for three months.Joe Watts, MurraySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Salt Lake City’s growth is boring and bland

  17-09-2018 15:00
  I just returned from a week in Portland. Like here, apartment construction is running rampant.The difference there is that they have a variety of interesting, creative architectural designs (not just boxes with notches and extended roofs) and a color palette that extends beyond ecru, bone, sand and ivory. It seems our new construction is in keeping with our generic blue-eyed-blond motif.Scott Perry, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Kirby should be fired

  17-09-2018 15:00
  I consider myself a liberal Mormon and have always enjoyed the diversity that the Tribune stood for … but now it is clearly just another left liberal rag that condones and supports the abusive dominant male misogynist in the workplace. What Robert Kirby did is reprehensible and he should be fired, period. Sidney Armstrong, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: If you must vote to keep Trump in office, at least vote for medical marijuana too

  17-09-2018 15:00
  We are a nation of Donald Trump junkies. But, for him or against him, he is nonetheless exhausting our usually endless capacity for amusement, embarrassment or outrage. So, this November, vote for anyone who will assist in having President Trump leave the presidency. If you abhor him but love his policies, you’ll still get the same policies with Vice President Mike Pence and we can all be done with Trump. However, if you just can’t vote for anyone but silent, complicit Republicans be
  
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• Letter: Don’t let Trump become a dictator — vote Democratic to check his power

  17-09-2018 15:00
  When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they wisely created three separate but equal branches of government — executive, legislative and judicial — so that no one branch could dominate.As far as I can see, the executive and judicial branches are the only functioning parts of our government. The legislative branch has been neutered and is ineffective through the efforts or non-efforts of the Republicans in Congress.Now the Republicans are pushing to seat another right-wing i
  
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• Gehrke: There’s so much wrong with Wanda Barzee’s release, but at the end of the day, she did her time

  17-09-2018 15:00
  Elizabeth Smart endured a horror most of us cannot even begin to comprehend.Her abduction as a teenager, the nine months held in captivity and the abuse and rape she suffered would have broken many, yet she has emerged from the ordeal strong and outspoken. Particularly laudable is her advocacy for removing the stigma on survivors of sexual assaults.And she spoke out again last week, imploring officials to find a way to keep Wanda Barzee, one of her two abductors and captors, behind bars after th
  
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• [Sports Illustrated] - Ricky Rubio: How the Jazz Guard Has Transformed Himself | SI.com

  17-09-2018 14:49 via sportspyder.com
  ... nd Utah’s nine-spot jump in points per game from 2016-17 to last season. The Jazz entered 2017-18 as an afterthought in the West, viewed as a fringe playoff t ...
  
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• Has the Unified Fire Authority cleaned up its act? Under the new chief, once exorbitant bonuses have dropped to zero.

  17-09-2018 14:32
  When Unified Fire Authority Chief Dan Peterson took over the agency he says there “wasn’t a soul” who wanted it to stay as it was.The State Auditor’s Office had published a scathing audit that month, January 2017, revealing the agency’s top administrators had received exorbitant bonuses, been reimbursed for personal vacations attached to official travel, purchased electronic equipment for personal use and hired close family members outside UFA rules.“I saw a b
  
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