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• Utah advocates for the poor blast proposed rule that may make legal immigrants choose between assistance or deportation

  10-10-2018 23:50
  Eleven Utah groups that advocate for the poor — plus the mayors of Salt Lake City and county — are protesting a proposed change by the Trump administration that could order deportation of legal immigrants if they accept Food Stamps or Medicaid.That “may lead to increased poverty, hunger, unmet health care needs and trauma for communities across Utah,” said a joint statement by groups including Utahns Against Hunger, Catholic Community Services, Comunidades Unidas and Cros
  
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• Congress approves massive water-projects bill, with Sen. Mike Lee being only dissenting vote in Senate

  10-10-2018 23:45
  Washington • Congress has approved a sprawling bill to improve the nation’s ports, dams and harbors, protect against floods, restore shorelines and support other water-related projects.If signed by President Donald Trump, America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 would authorize more than $6 billion in spending over 10 years for projects nationwide, including one to stem coastal erosion in Galveston, Texas, and restore wetlands damaged by Hurricane Harvey last year.The bill also woul
  
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• An update on Isaac Haas’ injury » on.nba.com/2OOHGLF

  10-10-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
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• Utah Jazz rank ’18-19: Glue guy Thabo Sefolosha is No. 9

  10-10-2018 23:25
  Thabo Sefolosha will give the Utah Jazz great depth in the frontcourt if he can return to pre-injury form in 2018-19. For the hot-stove contingent of Utah Jazz fans, the 2018 free agency period wasn’t exactly must-see TV. When all was said and done, the team essentially returned its full lineup from last season. The […]
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• More than 100 pot shops set to open as Canada legalizes weed

  10-10-2018 22:51
  Delta, British Columbia • Mat Beren and his friends used to drive by the vast greenhouses of southern British Columbia and joke about how much weed they could grow there.Years later, it's no joke. The tomato and pepper plants that once filled some of those greenhouses have been replaced with a new cash crop: marijuana. Beren and other formerly illicit growers are helping cultivate it. The buyers no longer are unlawful dealers or dubious medical dispensaries; it's the Canadian government.On
  
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• UTA proposes a 12.7% budget increase — thanks in part to Salt Lake County sales tax hike

  10-10-2018 22:21
  Thanks in part to a sales tax increase just imposed by Salt Lake County, the Utah Transit Authority is proposing a big 12.7 percent increase in its operating budget next year — going from $403.1 million to $454.2 million. Fares will remain unchanged.More than a quarter of the total budget will go to pay interest on its $2 billion debt — incurred in recent decades essentially as a mortgage to accelerate building its TRAX and FrontRunner rail systems.Debt service is UTA’s single-
  
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• Ronald Reagan is waving to crowds again — as a hologram

  10-10-2018 22:07
  Simi Valley, Calif. • A smiling Ronald Reagan waves to a crowd from aboard a rail car during a 1984 campaign stop in a new hologram revealed Wednesday at the late president’s namesake library in Southern California."We think we made a good beginning, but you ain't seen nothin' yet!" the high-tech digital resurrection of the nation's 40th president exclaims in his steady voice, with a twinkle in his eye.Reagan, who died in 2004, also shows up in a suit and tie inside the Oval Office an
  
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• Neto (right hamstring injury) was reevaluated on Tuesday by the Utah Jazz medical staff and is showing progress to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-10-2018 21:48 via twitter.com
  Neto (right hamstring injury) was reevaluated on Tuesday by the Utah Jazz medical staff and is showing progress to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Injuries, rough starts and problems stopping the run have caused BYU to get more conservative on defense

  10-10-2018 21:27
  Provo • BYU’s underperforming offense and failure to score points in first quarters has some fans and media members calling for a change at quarterback.The early-game futility — BYU has scored just seven points in the opening quarter through six games — is also putting a strain on the Cougars’ defense, which has not had the opportunities to make as many disruptive plays as it would like.Falling behind early has caused the Cougars to play more conservatively on defens
  
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• Max Boot: The dark side of American conservatism has taken over

  10-10-2018 21:16
  You know how, after you watch a movie with a surprise ending, you sometimes replay the plot in your head to find the clues you missed the first time around? That’s what I’ve been doing lately with the history of conservatism — a movement I had been part of since my teenage days as a conservative columnist at the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1990s. In the decades since, I have written for numerous conservative publications and served as a foreign policy advi
  
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• Utah women’s basketball coach Lynne Roberts vows not to ‘get lost in pressure’ as Utes, once again, have dreams of NCAA postseason

  10-10-2018 21:09
  San Francisco • Nearly four hours after the preseason coaches poll was announced, Lynne Roberts still hadn’t seen it. During a brief break amid the madness of the annual Pac-12 Media Day festivities on Wednesday, Utah’s women’s basketball coach had to be informed by a reporter where her Utes stacked up compared to the rest of one of the best conference in college basketball.“You’re eighth,” she was told.Roberts didn’t flinch.“Someone asked me
  
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• Corey Jae Crowder, SF from Villa Rica, Georgia, is entering his 7th NBA season and first full season as a Jazzman.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-10-2018 21:03 via twitter.com
  Corey Jae Crowder, SF from Villa Rica, Georgia, is entering his 7th NBA season and first full season as a Jazzman.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Man who allegedly assaulted Starbucks clerk and was then shot by customer is charged

  10-10-2018 20:49
  A man has been charged with aggravated assault and criminal trespass after he allegedly assaulted an employee at a Millcreek Starbucks — and was shot by a customer at the coffee shop.Benjamin Scott Overall, 37, remains hospitalized after the Oct. 4 incident at the Starbucks at 3898 S. 900 East. According to the probable cause statement, he entered the coffee shop “and assaulted one of the workers ... punching her in the face, hitting her in the head with a metal basket, and then kick
  
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• A Utah man is suing Roosevelt police for $7.5 million, claiming a detective coerced him into writing a false confession

  10-10-2018 20:47
  A Uintah County man once accused of sexual abuse has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $7.5 million from the Roosevelt Police Department and the detectives who investigated him, arguing that his civil rights were violated.Jerahmia Hardman claims in his lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court, that now-retired Detective Pete Butcher and another Roosevelt officer coerced a false written confession from him during an interrogation and destroyed video proof of their actions.Hardman, 30, was charged
  
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• [USA Today] - Jazz pushing to join NBA elite with familiar faces in place

  10-10-2018 20:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... m. ET Oct. 10, 2018 Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder directs his team during the first half of an NBA bask ...
  
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• ‘Jane and Emma,’ a drama set in the early history of the LDS Church, takes an intimate look at a friendship under fire

  10-10-2018 20:20
  The drama “Jane and Emma” takes an intimate and intense approach to a historic event — the 1844 slaying of Joseph Smith, founder and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — through the eyes of two women close to the scene.One of the women is Emma Smith (played by Emily Goss), the first wife of the prophet, who watches over Joseph’s body in the family’s hotel in Nauvoo, Ill., pistol at the ready, in case an angry mob comes to cart him away.
  
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• Medieval reenactor dies after 7-foot-long lance spears his abdomen

  10-10-2018 20:09
  A Virginia man who was playing a Medieval knight impaled and killed himself with his 7-foot-long lance during a reenactment performance.Peter Barclay of Woodbridge, Virginia, who was a retired Army lieutenant colonel, died after he was impaled with his lance in a timed competition on Saturday in Williamstown, Kentucky. Barclay was a longtime and active member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, according to the group's president John Fulton.Fulton said Barclay was competing in a equestrian
  
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• Samson Nacua may have saved the season for Utah’s receivers

  10-10-2018 20:00
  Utah receiver Samson Nacua looked back long enough to know that quarterback Tyler Huntley was in trouble. Nacua kept running down the sideline and soon discovered that somehow, Huntley managed to deliver a pass in his direction.His next thought? “Oh, my goodness. I've got to make a play.”Nacua misjudged the ball, thinking he needed to slow down and catch an underthrown pass. And then he adjusted again, extending his arms to grab the ball and complete Utah’s longest and most imp
  
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• #WallpaperWednesday 📱 https://t.co/IHz1kWnu1w

  10-10-2018 19:39 via twitter.com
  
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• Navajo official convicted on handful of forgery charges

  10-10-2018 19:36
  Window Rock, Ariz. • A former official with the Navajo Nation’s Dilkon Chapter has been found guilty of forgery.Daryl Joe, the chapter's vice president, had pleaded not guilty in February to five counts of forgery. He was convicted in a bench trial last month on the Navajo Nation.Sentencing is scheduled Nov. 17. Joe faces up to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine.Tribal authorities say Joe submitted a handful of forged hotel receipts to the Dilkon Chapter to be reimbursed $640.The invest
  
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• Army Reserve unit from northern Utah deploying to Kuwait

  10-10-2018 19:35
  Logan • A U.S. Army Reserve unit based in Logan in northern Utah is deploying to Kuwait.The Herald Journal reports the 103-member 890th Inland Cargo Transfer Co. is leaving this week for a one-year deployment to support of ongoing military operations in the Middle East.Sgt. Liz Vargas says the unit will unload shipping containers from arriving ships for distribution to outlying locations and also transfer material from those locations to ports for outbound shipment.Spc. Lorraine Gonzalez sa
  
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• Utah man arrested in New Mexico for alleged officer assault

  10-10-2018 19:28
  Albuquerque, N.M. • The FBI has arrested a Utah man who allegedly assaulted a federal officer in Laguna, New Mexico.They say 20-year-old Brad Porter Halverson of Morgan was taken into custody Tuesday at a hospital in Albuquerque.FBI officials say federal officers confronted Halverson after he allegedly shot at a tractor-trailer on Interstate 40 and drove to Laguna Pueblo.They say Halverson allegedly pointed a rifle at officers and they fired shots at him.Halverson was taken to the Universit
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Jazz pushing to join NBA elite with familiar faces in place

  10-10-2018 19:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... 018 Updated 21 min ago 0 Facebook Twitter Email Print Save Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder directs his team during the first half of an NBA bask ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Fultz could be the key for 76ers to take step toward title

  10-10-2018 19:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... re after NCAA run Fultz could be the key for 76ers to take step toward title Jazz pushing to join NBA elite with familiar faces in place New Magic coach Steve ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Clemson, coach Brad Brownell looking for more after NCAA run

  10-10-2018 19:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... re after NCAA run Fultz could be the key for 76ers to take step toward title Jazz pushing to join NBA elite with familiar faces in place New Magic coach Steve ...
  
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• 115 arches were left out of the reduced Bears Ears and Grand Staircase national monuments. A University of Utah team is creating a digital archive to ‘preserve’ them.

  10-10-2018 19:13
  When President Donald Trump carved nearly 2 million acres out oftwo southern Utah national monuments last year, conservationists were quick to inventory which popular sites were stripped of federal protections.Cedar Mesa in what was formerly Bears Ears. Much of the Hole in the Rock trail from the previous boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante. Tens of thousands of archaeological spots between the two. And many digs where paleontologists have uncovered new dinosaur fossils.Now, after months of
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - NW Division Foes: The Portland Trail Blazers

  10-10-2018 19:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... ay in preseason. What to Watch The defensive scheme should be interesting to Jazz fans, because Portland is one of the handful of teams to run something simil ...
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump’s utter amorality has been exposed in case of Jamal Khashoggi

  10-10-2018 19:06
  Video: Turkish officials say Saudi journalist and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Global Opinions writer Jason Rezaian says that if true, this is a heinous crime by the Saudi government, and The Post will be relentless in finding out what happened. (Adriana Usero, Jon Gerberg/The Washington Post)Washington - President Trump seldom waits for the facts before rendering judgment. But when it comes to the disappearance of Washington Post con
  
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• ‘Oh, my goodness. I’ve got to make a play:’ Samson Nacua may have saved the season for Utah’s receivers

  10-10-2018 18:59
  Utah receiver Samson Nacua looked back long enough to know that quarterback Tyler Huntley was in trouble. Nacua kept running down the sideline and soon discovered that somehow, Huntley managed to deliver a pass in his direction.His next thought? “Oh, my goodness. I've got to make a play.”Nacua misjudged the ball, thinking he needed to slow down and catch an underthrown pass. And then he adjusted again, extending his arms to grab the ball and complete Utah’s longest and most imp
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Jazz pushing to join NBA elite with familiar faces in place

  10-10-2018 18:43 via sportspyder.com
  ... UBIO GROWING AS A SHOOTER It took some time for Ricky Rubio to adjust to the Jazz offense after coming over in a trade from Minnesota. Once Rubio did, he emer ...
  
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• 'You can’t walk away from these roles’: ‘Jane and Emma’ star knew little about black Latter-day Saint trailblazer, but she’ll never forget her

  10-10-2018 18:29
  Atlanta-based actor Danielle Deadwyler is not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and knew little about the faith’s past — especially its tortured racial history — before arriving at This Is the Place Heritage Park in March to star in a film that would highlight those tensions.So Deadwyler, who has had TV and movie roles — including in “A Cross to Bear” and “Gifted” — dug into all the background material she was given
  
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• Hurricane Michael hits Florida; brings 145-mph winds and rising sea levels

  10-10-2018 18:14
  Panama City, Fla. • Gaining frightening fury overnight, Hurricane Michael closed in Wednesday on the Florida Panhandle with potentially catastrophic winds of 145 mph, the most powerful storm on record ever to menace the stretch of fishing towns, military bases and spring-break beaches.With more than 375,000 people up and down the Gulf Coast warned to clear out, the hurricane's leading edge began lashing the white-sand shoreline with tropical storm-force winds, rain and rising seas before da
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - A capsule look at each team in the NBA's Western Conference

  10-10-2018 18:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... ded all expectations as he carved an identity as an electrifying scorer. The Jazz benefited from his scoring punch late in games. Mitchell finished the season ...
  
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• Review: ‘Jane and Emma,’ a drama set in the early history of the LDS Church, takes an intimate look at a friendship under fire

  10-10-2018 18:05
  The drama “Jane and Emma” takes an intimate and intense approach to a historic event — the 1844 slaying of Joseph Smith, founder and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — through the eyes of two women close to the scene.One of the women is Emma Smith (played by Emily Goss), the first wife of the prophet, who watches over Joseph’s body in the family’s hotel in Nauvoo, Ill., pistol at the ready, in case an angry mob comes to cart him away.
  
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• Commentary: Prosecutors righting old wrongs: Sim Gill’s bold experiment

  10-10-2018 17:23
  Our criminal justice system is flawed.Since 1989, DNA testing has exonerated more than 360 people who were convicted of crimes but later proven innocent through the magic bullet of science. Nearly 2,000 other wrongful convictions have also been overturned without the benefit of DNA technology during that period.A close look at these cases reveals what went wrong in the first place and informs efforts to prevent future miscarriages of justice. The key factors in documented wrongful convictions in
  
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• Political Cornflakes: ‘Lock her up’ chants are once again rocking Trump rallies — this time aimed at a new target

  10-10-2018 17:10
  “Lock her up!” is again the mantra of devotees at Trump rallies — but this time it’s not about Hillary Clinton. Mitt Romney distances himself from his denunciations of Trump as a “fraud” and “phony." 2018 is Utah’s driest year on record.Happy Wednesday. Chants of “Lock her up!” are once again reverberating through President Donald Trump’s rallies — but this time they’re aimed at Sen. Dianne Feinstein rather than Hillar
  
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• Defending champ Oregon picked to finish first in Pac-12 women’s basketball coaches' poll; Utah finishes eighth

  10-10-2018 16:50
  San Francisco • Defending Pac-12 regular-season and Pac-12 Tournament champion Oregon has been voted the preseason favorite to win the conference in 2018-19, in a poll of conference women’s basketball coaches released Wednesday morning.Utah was picked to finish eighth, just ahead of Colorado and below USC.The Ducks, who received 11 of 12 first-place votes, return four starters from last season’s championship team that also advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight for the second-consecut
  
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• Ricard "Ricky" Rubio i Vives—PG out of El Masnou, Catalonia, Spain—begins his 8th year in the NBA and 2nd as a Jazz… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-10-2018 16:29 via twitter.com
  Ricard "Ricky" Rubio i Vives—PG out of El Masnou, Catalonia, Spain—begins his 8th year in the NBA and 2nd as a Jazz… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Polygamists and other fundamentalists are happy to embrace and own the term ‘Mormon’

  10-10-2018 15:25
  When Benjamin Shaffer left The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to join a fundamentalist group, his old friends made jokes about how he wasn’t a real Mormon anymore.“I get to say all those jokes back to them now,” Shaffer said Tuesday, “and watch them squirm.”Latter-day Saint President Russell M. Nelson has told followers to stop using the word “Mormon” to refer to themselves and the church. Shaffer is glad “Brother Nelson” is tryi
  
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• Commentary: Bette Midler is right about how America treats women

  10-10-2018 15:22
  Bette Midler, the 72-year-old actor and singer, angry about the Brett Kavanaugh fiasco, tweeted, “Women are the n-word of the world. Raped, beaten, enslaved, married off, worked like dumb animals; denied education and inheritance; enduring the pain and danger of childbirth and life IN SILENCE for THOUSANDS of years They are the most disrespected creatures on earth.”USA Today reported, “Her post instantly sparked outrage, with many arguing it erases the struggle of black women a
  
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• Utah just experienced its driest year since scientists have kept records

  10-10-2018 15:20
  Since official weather records have been kept, Utah has never experienced a year with as little precipitation as it did in 2018 and only one previous year registered higher average temperatures.That’s according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which compiles climate data and presents it in state-by-state maps that ranks states’ years for temperatures and precipitation dating back to 1895.
  (Christopher Cherrington|The Salt Lake Tribune)For the water year
  
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• Gehrke: Dallin Oaks' hard-line comments about gender are not reflective of the many compassionate Latter-day Saints

  10-10-2018 15:15
  I was struck by something I read this week, something that seemed wise and compassionate.“Be kind to one another,” this person said. “Jesus taught us to love one another and to treat others as we want to be treated.”Those words were offered by Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, during the women’s session of General Conference.It’s solid advice, whether you’re religious or not. The world
  
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• 'You can’t walk away from these roles’: ‘Jane & Emma’ star knew little about black Latter-day Saint trailblazer, but she’ll never forget her

  10-10-2018 15:13
  Atlanta-based actor Danielle Deadwyler is not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and knew little about the faith’s past — especially its tortured racial history — before arriving at This Is the Place Heritage Park in March to star in a film that would highlight those tensions.So Deadwyler, who has had TV and movie roles — including in “A Cross to Bear” and “Gifted” — dug into all the background material she was given
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - ‘Trib Talk’: Voters will decide whether Medicaid should cover most, many or some low-income Utahns

  10-10-2018 15:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... jection of full Medicaid expansion is the main reason. Prominent Utahns like Jazz owner Gail Miller choose sides — and cut big checks — in fights over medical ...
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Voters will decide whether Medicaid should cover most, many or some low-income Utahns

  10-10-2018 15:00
  Since passage of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, Utah lawmakers have taken incremental steps toward expanding Medicaid and providing health-care coverage to low-income Utahns.The state’s newest plan requires approval from the federal government and imposes work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries. In the meantime, advocates for full expansion have succeeded in placing a Medicaid initiative on the November ballot, meaning Utah voters, not lawmakers, will decide how and whether to
  
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• Megan McArdle: It is anti-woman to judge Sen. Susan Collins solely as a woman

  10-10-2018 15:00
  Traitors have always been despised far more thoroughly than mere enemies. So perhaps it is unsurprising that after the Senate voted narrowly to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, became the focus of the opposition's ire."She is a disgrace [and] her legacy will be that she was a traitor to women and marginalized communities" tweeted Linda Sarsour, a board member of the Women's March organization, as Collins explained on Friday why she was supporting Kavanau
  
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