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• Ex-Ute Kyle Kuzma is named in federal trial; Utah is ‘monitoring developments’

  05-10-2018 23:49
  Kyle Kuzma's name surfaced in federal court testimony Thursday, and the University of Utah is monitoring developments regarding alleged payments to a person associated with the former Ute basketball player, the school said.Utah “takes these allegations very seriously,” according to an athletic department news release.Kuzma, a second-year player for the Los Angeles Lakers, was named in testimony by a former financial adviser in federal court in New York during a criminal trial of thre
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah’s playoff appearance earns them new Nike jersey

  05-10-2018 23:45 via sportspyder.com
  ... window dressing beyond that whole meaningless preseason thing. In truth, the Jazz didn’t play very well in their first foray into true NBA competition — their ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz to take on Joe Ingles’ hometown Adelaide 36ers

  05-10-2018 23:45 via sportspyder.com
  ...does need as much time on the court as he can get to hone his game. Another Jazz player to watch is Tony Bradley. He, too, has the physical skills he needs t ...
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Is the Supreme Court salvageable?

  05-10-2018 23:34
  Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s frantic commentary in The Wall Street Journal insisting that he is a fair, impartial judge — and that we should disregard his partisan, unhinged diatribe and nonjudicial demeanor during last week’s Senate testimony — serves as some recognition that the partisan wars in which he has taken up arms now threaten the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. Other than denying a seat to an overt partisan such as Kavanaugh, what can be done to recapture at least
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Joe Ingles thinks he’s the best shooter in the NBA

  05-10-2018 23:31 via sportspyder.com
  ... tchPoints Jazz’s Joe Ingles thinks he’s the best shooter in the NBA by October 5, 2018 is o ...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Joe Ingles roasts Donovan Mitchell for not passing enough

  05-10-2018 23:31 via sportspyder.com
  ...us ClutchPoints Jazz’s Joe Ingles roasts Donovan Mitchell for not passing enough by October 5, 20 ...
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Joe Ingles Calls Himself Best Shooter in the League: 'They're All Gonna Go In'

  05-10-2018 23:25 via sportspyder.com
  ... ogo Twitter Logo Copy Link Icon Utah Jazz Joe Ingles Calls Himself Best Shooter in the League: 'They're All Gonna Go I ...
  
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• [NBA] - A taste of home: Ingles relishes chance to play against his hometown team

  05-10-2018 23:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... t’s a silly question.” Ingles’ development has been a point of pride for the Jazz. Even at age 31, Snyder and the Jazz are looking for more from the Aussie. ...
  
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• Interpol president reported missing during trip to China

  05-10-2018 23:16
  Paris • He left his home in Lyon, France, for a visit to his homeland, and then vanished — putting the International Criminal Police Organization, best known as Interpol, at the center of its own missing persons case.Meng Hongwei, Interpol's president, boarded a plane and arrived in China, according to a French judicial official. But then, nothing. His wife, who put out a call on Friday, said she hasn't heard from her 64-year-old husband since the end of September, the official said.T
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Thabo Factor: Sefolosha’s Defense and Smarts Elevate Teammates’ Play

  05-10-2018 23:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... tain tandems for the first time. For as much and the conversation around the Jazz , the Jazz actually get to unlock some new (or at least newish) combinations ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Big man Brook Lopez could give Bucks boost on perimeter

  05-10-2018 23:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... e photo, Los Angeles Lakers center Brook Lopez (11) lays the ball up as Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) defends during the first half of an NBA basketball g ...
  
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• On Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Mitt Romney says he’d vote ‘yes,’ Jenny Wilson says ‘we can do better’

  05-10-2018 22:39
  Mitt Romney, the GOP nominee and frontrunner in Utah’s U.S. Senate race, said Friday that had he been in office, he would have supported Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who appears poised to be confirmed Saturday.“I would vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh,” Romney said, “given his decades of admirable public service and his 12-year record as an accomplished justice on the second highest court of the land.”Romney’s statement was released shortl
  
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• Joao Plata’s 2018 funk has turned into a surge. Real Salt Lake has been the beneficiary.

  05-10-2018 22:19
  Herriman • Just a few months ago, Real Salt Lake forward Joao Plata’s season wasn’t going according to plan. His playing time was inconsistent. His body was ailing. Trade rumors swirled.It got to the point where forward Luis Silva, who has known Plata since their time playing together on Toronto FC, gave his best friend on the team some advice. He told Plata not to let his struggles get to his head or affect his game. That in soccer, one game can make all your misfortunes turn a
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz-Adelaide 36ers: Dante Exum to miss another game

  05-10-2018 22:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... . Adelaide 36ers: Jazz aim to stay perfect in preseason Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert off to riveting start in preseason Utah Jazz waive Trey Lewis,...
  
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• Senator Collins backs Kavanaugh, paving way for confirmation

  05-10-2018 22:00
  Washington • Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Friday she will vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, all but ensuring that a deeply riven Senate will elevate the conservative jurist to the nation’s highest court despite allegations that he sexually assaulted women decades ago.The dramatic Senate floor announcement by perhaps the chamber's most moderate Republican ended most of the suspense over a tortuous, election-season battle that had left Kava
  
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• “To be one of those 10 is special. I think all of us represent Australia very well. It’s kind of in the back of our… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-10-2018 21:53 via twitter.com
  “To be one of those 10 is special. I think all of us represent Australia very well. It’s kind of in the back of our… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Nobel Peace Prize awarded to two figures bringing attention to sexual assault in conflicts

  05-10-2018 21:42
  At a time of growing global awareness about injustices against women, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to two people who have brought attention to the most extreme forms of violence they can face: a Congolese surgeon who treats victims of wartime rape and an activist who was a former sexual slave of the Islamic State.In recognizing Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, the Norwegian Nobel Committee for the first time has devoted its award to the abuse of women in conflict zones — what som
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Winners and losers from this week’s big medical marijuana deal

  05-10-2018 21:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... rijuana agreement, no matter how Prop 2 vote turns out Prominent Utahns like Jazz owner Gail Miller choose sides — and cut big checks — in fights over medical ...
  
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• Winners and losers from this week’s big medical marijuana deal

  05-10-2018 21:18
  The long, hard-fought battle over Utah’s medical marijuana initiative, known as Proposition 2, took a huge left turn Thursday, with supporters and opponents standing side-by-side at the state Capitol to announce a consensus bill expected to be enacted during a November special session.“This is a pretty amazing day,” said Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy. “It is a miracle we’re all united as a group.”The deal, which arrived after weeks of rumored, b
  
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• Utah ski resorts report first snow of 2018-2019 season

  05-10-2018 21:16
  Now don’t stop until June. #GoProHero7 pic.twitter.com/wXyVipMyml— Snowbird (@Snowbird) October 5, 2018Ski resorts across Utah have received their first measurable snowfall — about six weeks before the slopes are scheduled to open.According to a news release from Ski Utah, the southern Utah resorts of Brian Head and Eagle Point recorded snow Thursday. Resorts on the Wasatch Front found snow Friday.Exact totals were not specified.
  
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• Jury convicts Chicago officer of 2nd-degree murder

  05-10-2018 21:07
  Chicago • A jury on Friday convicted white Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald.Van Dyke was charged with first degree-murder in the October 2014 killing, a charge that requires a finding that the shooting was unnecessary and unreasonable. The judge told jurors the second-degree charge was also available, requiring them to find Van Dyke believed his life was in danger but that the belief was unreasonable.Jurors
  
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• Richmond museum to return Nazi-looted painting to art dealer’s heir

  05-10-2018 20:53
  It may have taken 13 years, but another painting looted by the Nazis during World War II will be given back to the family of Jewish Dutch art dealer Jacques Goudstikker.The board of trustees of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts voted last week to return "Madonna and Child Enthroned With Saints Nicholas of Tolentino and Sebastian" to Marei von Saher, Goudstikker's sole heir. Goudstikker had a vast collection, some of which was looted by Adolf Hitler's deputy Hermann Göring.The painting, datin
  
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• Police: DNA links 3 deaths to serial killer who died in 1999

  05-10-2018 20:39
  St. Louis • An Arkansas man who killed himself during a 1999 police standoff at a Missouri motel was a serial killer and rapist who strangled a South Carolina woman in 1990 and gunned down a Missouri mother and daughter eight years later, authorities said Friday.Advancements in DNA testing enabled investigators to link the three killings and the 1997 rape of a 14-year-old girl in Memphis, Tennessee, to Robert Brashers, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. Brashers, a Paragould, Arkansas,
  
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• FLDS women — and one bad man — are the inspiration for singer Laura Gibson’s new music video

  05-10-2018 20:34
  When singer Laura Gibson set about making a video for her new single, “Domestication,” she thought of the women in the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.It’s not a compliment. Rather, it’s the latest example of the FLDS being used in media as a punchline or warning. In a news release promoting the video, Gibson refers to the church as “the FLDS cult.”The song, she explained, is a fable, of sorts, "the story of a wolf trying
  
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• Gehrke: Medical marijuana compromise shows the LDS Church still controls Utah politics — but not as firmly as it once did

  05-10-2018 20:29
  For all the happy platitudes that accompanied the unveiling of a medical marijuana “compromise” Thursday, what got us to that point was a mutual interest in averting a brutal and embarrassing political collision.When it comes to the medical marijuana initiative, the writing was on the wall. Both public polling and, I am told, internal polling conducted by both sides showed Utah residents wanted medical marijuana to be legal and nothing was going to stop that — not even oppositi
  
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• Utah Jazz-Adelaide 36ers: Dante Exum to miss another game

  05-10-2018 20:25
  Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum will be on the inactive list once again as his team squares off with the Adelaide 36ers of the Australian NBL. Given their team’s spotty record with injuries in recent seasons, Utah Jazz fans are understandably a bit sensitive about pre-game injury reports. Unfortunately, reports throughout the 2018 preseason have […]
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• Girlfriend of man accused of killing two Juab County teens pleads guilty to obstructing justice

  05-10-2018 20:13
  The girlfriend of a man accused of killing two Juab County teenagers and hiding their bodies in a mine shaft has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice.Morgan Henderson, 35, was accused of lying to police for months about the whereabouts of 17-year-old Brelynne “Breezy” Otteson and 18-year-old Riley Powell, who disappeared in late December. Police interviewed Henderson multiple times, but each time she said she did not know what happened to them, according to charging documents. Hende
  
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• Who has the best smile? 😆😁☺️😀 #WorldSmileDay Presented by: @Qualtrics | #QualtricsPoll

  05-10-2018 20:12 via twitter.com
  Who has the best smile? 😆😁☺️😀 #WorldSmileDay Presented by: @Qualtrics | #QualtricsPoll
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Duh, we need to see Trump’s tax returns. But that’s just the first step.

  05-10-2018 20:01
  Everyone is shocked, shocked to learn that President Trump amassed his fortune not by the sweat of his brow, but rather the old-fashioned way: choosing the right parents and dodging the Internal Revenue Service.That's certainly the lesson of The New York Times expose this week reporting that Trump received more than $400 million in today's dollars from his father's business empire, some of it through what the Times characterized as criminal tax fraud.What to do with this information? Beyond all
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz’s Joe Ingles feels he’s best shooter in NBA: ‘I honestly feel like they’re all going to go in’

  05-10-2018 20:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... yers who attempted at least 200 shots, according to NBA Advanced Statistics. Jazz coach Quin Snyder said the biggest difference in his output is having the co ...
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Joe Ingles feels he’s best shooter in the NBA: ‘I honestly feel like they’re all going to go in’

  05-10-2018 19:56
  SALT LAKE CITY — Immediately following Joe Ingles' masterful birthday performance on Tuesday, where he drained 24 points against the Toronto Raptors, he welcomed the media to his locker."After the first few (shots) didn't go in, was it hard to maintain that confidence to keep shooting?" a local reporter asked."No. I'm the best shooter in the league," the newly turned 31-year-old Ingles shot back. "That's a silly question."Although Ingles has been known for his snarky humor, the Jazz sharps
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Joe Ingles feels he’s best shooter in NBA: ‘I honestly feel like they’re all going to go in’

  05-10-2018 19:56
  SALT LAKE CITY — Immediately following Joe Ingles' masterful birthday performance on Tuesday, where he drained 24 points against the Toronto Raptors, he welcomed the media to his locker."After the first few (shots) didn't go in, was it hard to maintain that confidence to keep shooting?" a local reporter asked."No. I'm the best shooter in the league," the newly turned 31-year-old Ingles shot back. "That's a silly question."Although Ingles has been known for his snarky humor, the Jazz sharps
  
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• "I think (@Joeingles7) will take about 45 shots tonight" 🤣 -@spidadmitchell 🎥: on.nba.com/2E9LLGq https://t.co/Ab1WHcYlbg

  05-10-2018 19:49 via twitter.com
  
  "I think (@Joeingles7) will take about 45 shots tonight" 🤣 -@spidadmitchell 🎥: on.nba.com/2E9LLGq https://t.co/Ab1WHcYlbg
  
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• A 2-year-old shredded his parents’ Utah season ticket money. Is the Utes’ football season also in tatters? Not if they beat Stanford.

  05-10-2018 19:44
  Two-year-old Leo Belnap, apparently having seen enough in his third season as a Utah football fan, responded to last weekend's loss at Washington State by shredding his parents' season tickets.More accurately, he destroyed the $1,060 in cash set aside to pay for tickets already obtained from his grandmother. Yet the child’s act symbolized a season that is in danger of becoming tattered, unless the Utes recover quickly.Thanks to the “mutilated currency” provision of the U.S. Bur
  
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• Logan man charged with sending Ricin to Trump — and maybe Queen Elizabeth II and Putin — makes first court appearance

  05-10-2018 19:28
  The Logan man charged with mailing ricin to President Donald Trump, the FBI director and the Pentagon — who says he also mailed the poison to Queen Elizabeth II and Vladimir Putin, among others — made his his first court appearance on Friday.William Clyde Allen III was not asked to enter a plea to the five counts that the U.S. Attorney’s office entered against him.He's charged with threatening to use a biological toxin, ricin, and with with mailing threats in envelopes that tes
  
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• The Latest: Daines will leave daughter’s wedding for vote

  05-10-2018 19:23
  Washington • The Latest on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (all times Eastern):1 p.m.Sen. Steve Daines says he'll return to Washington D.C. by private jet on his daughter's wedding day if his vote is needed to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.The Montana Republican said in a statement to The Associated Press that his Republican colleague, Montana congressman Greg Gianforte, "has come to save the day" by offering him use of his private jet.Daines' daughter is getting marrie
  
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• After 2-year-old shreds his parents' Utah season ticket money, the question is whether the Utes’ football season is also in tatters. Answer: Not if they beat No. 14 Stanford

  05-10-2018 19:22
  Two-year-old Leo Belnap, apparently having seen enough in his third season as a Utah football fan, responded to last weekend's loss at Washington State by shredding his parents' season tickets.More accurately, he destroyed the $1,060 in cash set aside to pay for tickets already obtained from his grandmother. Yet the child’s act symbolized a season that is in danger of becoming tattered, unless the Utes recover quickly.Thanks to the “mutilated currency” provision of the U.S. Bur
  
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• Tonight's @UofUHealth report: Exum, Neto & Haas are out for #ADEatUTA

  05-10-2018 19:08 via twitter.com
  Tonight's @UofUHealth report:Exum, Neto & Haas are out for #ADEatUTA
  
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• "People used to say everyone knows someone who’s had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I’ve learned something e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  05-10-2018 18:55 via twitter.com
  "People used to say everyone knows someone who’s had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I’ve learned something e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir has a new name

  05-10-2018 18:29
  The famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir has performed for the last time.This weekend, as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gather to listen to sermons by their leaders and to be inspired by sacred hymns at the 188th Semiannual General Conference, the beloved musicians sitting beneath the gigantic organ in downtown Salt Lake City’s Conference Center will have a new name, simply: “The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.”The change comes in response to church Pre
  
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  05-10-2018 17:48 via twitter.com
  🏀: #ADEatUTA🎟: bit.ly/2pCoZwC📍: @vivintarena 📻: @1280sports 📱: on.nba.com/2DZwWpL ⏰: 7:00PM MT 🎽:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Utahns protest Kavanaugh nomination

  05-10-2018 17:14
  As Utah senators remained supportive of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Utahns protested on Thursday night in downtown Salt Lake City.A final vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination could occur over the weekend.
  
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• A Provo artist started Inktober to practice his skills. Now it’s an online art phenomenon.

  05-10-2018 16:52
  Like many artists, Cam Kendell creates a lot of his work digitally — but sometimes he misses the tactile feel of making a pen-and-ink drawing.When working with clients, “the importance is being able to turn a project around quickly, and being able to make adjustments quickly. Digital has that ability,“ Kendell said from his studio in Orem. “Working digitally, I can easily undo the line I just did and try again. When I’m working traditionally, I have to be a little m
  
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• Political Cornflakes: President Donald Trump calls anti-Kavanaugh protesters ‘paid professionals'

  05-10-2018 16:51
  Trump calls anti-Kavanaugh protesters ‘paid professionals.' Herbert calls special session to deal with medical marijuana issue. Utah now has five women heading colleges.Happy Friday. President Donald Trump this morning accused the protesters demonstrating against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of being “paid professionals” and part of a smear campaign funded by left-leaning donors. The protesters have swarmed the Capitol complex and are confronting senators, including Se
  
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• The number of college students in Utah is almost as large as Salt Lake City’s population

  05-10-2018 16:01
  Utah’s largest college saw even more — and faster — growth this year than it did in 2017.Utah Valley University, a sprawling campus tucked along the freeway in Orem, added 2,649 students this fall. That’s the biggest jump in head count numbers of any of the state’s eight public colleges, according to a “snapshot” enrollment report released Thursday by the Utah System of Higher Education about three weeks into the new semester.The data show UVU’s po
  
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• Details of a judge’s visit to disputed southern Utah routes are being kept quiet — except a plan to ride UTVs through land that’s closed to motorized vehicles

  05-10-2018 15:42
  A judge this fall will tour 15 disputed southern Utah routes crossing public land to help determine whether to cede these federal rights of way to Kane County, but details of that tour will remain under wraps in an apparent effort to ensure the safety of those on the site visits.Two of the routes, which weave in and out of streams within the original boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, are closed to motorized use. So the legal entourage could wind up violating federal
  
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• Gehrke: The medical marijuana compromise shows the LDS Church still controls Utah politics — but maybe not as firmly as it once did

  05-10-2018 15:29
  For all the happy platitudes that accompanied the unveiling of a medical marijuana “compromise” Thursday, what got us to that point was a mutual interest in averting a brutal and embarrassing political collision.When it comes to the medical marijuana initiative, the writing was on the wall. Both public polling and, I am told, internal polling conducted by both sides showed Utah residents wanted medical marijuana to be legal and nothing was going to stop that — not even oppositi
  
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• Tribune editorial: Funding national parks would help Utah, and the bill deserves Mike Lee’s support

  05-10-2018 15:28
  Sen. Mike Lee is willing to stand on principle. Utah’s soon-to-be senior senator is not one to act purely in the name of political expediency.So it’s not surprising that Lee has decided to oppose a bill that would spend billions in federal money because it would be spending money the government doesn’t have.Not surprising, but still disappointing. The bill in this case is a bipartisan effort to address the billions of dollars in maintenance work needed in the national parks, in
  
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