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• Raul "Raulzinho" Togni Neto—PG from Belo Horizonte, Brazil—is entering his 4th season in the NBA and as a member of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-10-2018 23:47 via twitter.com
  Raul "Raulzinho" Togni Neto—PG from Belo Horizonte, Brazil—is entering his 4th season in the NBA and as a member of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Pope Francis accepts Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s resignation amid scandal

  12-10-2018 23:36
  Norristown, Pa. • Amid unfolding sex-abuse scandals, Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl as archbishop of Washington. But the pope’s gentle words and lack of condemnation angered those who feel top Catholic leaders continue to shirk responsibility for the global crisis.Among those frustrated by the pope’s announcement Friday was Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who oversaw a grand jury report issued in August on rampant sex abuse in six
  
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• Utah Jazz rank 2018-19: Royce O’Neale checks in at No. 8

  12-10-2018 23:05
  The play of Royce O’Neale was one of the biggest surprises of the Utah Jazz’s 2017-18 season. He won’t be catching anyone off guard in year two. A lot can change in year — just ask Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale. Last October, he was a virtual unknown battling Joel Bolomboy for the 15th and final […]
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• Salt Lake City’s Project Homeless Connect provides more than 200 services for people experiencing homelessness

  12-10-2018 23:05
  Salt Lake City’s Project Homeless Connect, now in its second year, offers people experiencing homelessness in Utah access to a one-stop shop to a number of resources that may be challenging to access otherwise.At the event, held Friday at the Salt Palace Convention Center, 90 service providers offered a number of health resources, like vision screening, flu shots and dental assessments, as well as housing assistance, voter registration and haircuts.“There are a lot of services spread
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Kings notes: Harsh lessons learned in preseason blowout loss to Jazz

  12-10-2018 22:58 via sportspyder.com
  ... e and will go get it. The Kings had no answer for the alley-oop pass and the Jazz kept going to it. Gobert hit 7-of-8 from the field to score 18 points in 17...
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Perfect Preseason Provides Answers (and More Questions) About Rubio & the Bigs, Exum and More

  12-10-2018 22:42 via sportspyder.com
  ... ts scored 17.4 percent of their points off of Jazz turnovers, and 13.3 percent in transition.  Prediction #2: The Jazz will tap ...
  
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• Holly Richardson: Go and see ‘Jane and Emma’ this weekend

  12-10-2018 22:31
  It’s the story of two strong women, women who bucked societal norms and forged a powerful, if not unlikely friendship. A free black woman and the white wife of a preacher. Of course, not just any preacher, but Joseph Smith, prophet and founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.I’m talking, of course, about Jane Manning James and Emma Smith, subjects of the new film, “Jane and Emma.”In an era still a couple of decades away from the start of the Civil War,
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: First Ladies

  12-10-2018 22:30
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/10/11/bagley-cartoon-face/" target=_blank><u>The Face of the Supreme Court</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/10/07/bagley-cartoon-general/"><u>General Conference Closed Captioning&nbsp;</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.co
  
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• .@ToBrad1 in the "Power is Female" Kyrie 4s. #HerTimeToPlay https://t.co/JyuLv8Vxe1

  12-10-2018 21:57 via twitter.com
  
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• Safe to say we have a new favorite (favourite?) bar in the UK, @barstockton 🍸 twitter.com/munchies/statu…

  12-10-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  Safe to say we have a new favorite (favourite?) bar in the UK, @barstockton 🍸 twitter.com/munchies/statu…
  
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• Now that the Jazz’s preseason is over, here’s what we’ve learned

  12-10-2018 21:27
  With Thursday night’s 132-93 annihilation of the Sacramento Kings, the Utah Jazz completed their preseason slate a perfect 5-0 and showed plenty of encouraging signs heading into next Wednesday’s regular-season opener.Does it mean anything, though?After all, two of those victories came against the Perth Wildcats and the Adelaide 36ers of the Australian National Basketball League. Another, of course, came against the Kings, who have been among the NBA’s worst for years and, by T
  
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• Ben McAdams camp says internal poll shows him narrowly leading Rep. Mia Love in Utah’s hottest major race

  12-10-2018 21:21
  The congressional campaign of Ben McAdams is cheering the results of an internal poll showing the Democrat and Salt Lake County mayor with a 1-point lead against incumbent Republican Rep. Mia Love.The closely-watched race, among Utah’s most competitive in the current election cycle, has been narrowing in recent weeks and is currently rated as a “toss-up” by Cook Political Report, a respected national elections handicapper.“Voters appreciate Ben’s bipartisan message
  
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• Evictions: the dark side of Salt Lake City’s housing boom

  12-10-2018 21:19
  The following story was written and reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with West View Media.Preston Lange had just embarked on the pilgrimage many a plucky young 20s-something will make, heading out of his hometown to chase his dream and make a living on his own terms. But he had only been at the Sky Harbor Apartment complex on 1876 W. North Temple in Salt Lake City about six months when he found rent was suddenly approaching faster than money was coming in.Lang
  
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• Promoters of $1 billion railroad in Utah’s oil country want state help

  12-10-2018 21:12
  Vernal • Uinta Basin officials are pushing a project they say could quintuple oil production here, bring higher prices and create 27,000 jobs. The plan? Building a 150-mile railroad to allow transporting oil from the Basin to out-of-state markets.There’s one big hitch: it carries a price tag of $1.4 billion.Supporters say that’s a deal compared to the $6 billion estimated for previous rail proposals that were studied and rejected. The old idea was to go through mountain canyons
  
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  12-10-2018 21:02 via twitter.com
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• [Deseret Morning News] - National media projects the Utah Jazz to be among the best of the best

  12-10-2018 21:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... ng and then Crowder as a small ball five.” Things are even more rosy for the Jazz, according to The Action Network's projections. Utah is fourth-best in the N ...
  
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• National media projects the Utah Jazz to be among the best of the best

  12-10-2018 20:57
  SALT LAKE CITY — It won't come as a surprise to anyone who national media are picking to win the NBA championship this season.Yep. The Minnesota Timberwolves.Oh, wait.They're being picked to win the Most Dysfunctional Team award.It's the Golden State Warriors who are the popular pick to hoist the Larry O'Brien trophy yet again in June 2019."It's little surprise to see that the data projects the Warriors to take home the title," CBSSports.com reporter Jack Maloney wrote, referring to projec
  
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• Utah liquor stores are doing away with the helpful rating cards that many shoppers rely on to select wine

  12-10-2018 20:56
  For the wary wine buyer who has shopped at Utah’s state liquor stores — and been insecure about what to buy — the black-and-white cards posted on the racks are often a godsend.These 3.5-by-4-inch cards give brief reviews and scores from industry magazines such as Wine Spectator and Wine Enthusiast, and they can ease the anxiety of purchasing a bottle for dinner or a gift. They also may encourage shoppers to buy something they’ve never tried before.By year’s end, tho
  
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• Seven Utah cities rated below the national average on LGBTQ rights — only Salt Lake City fares well in this new analysis

  12-10-2018 20:52
  The Human Rights Campaign Foundation rated eight Utah cities for LGBTQ equality — and seven of them fell below the national average.The seventh annual Municipal Equality Index rated cities based on 49 different criteria, including non-discrimination laws, the municipality as an employer, municipal services, law enforcement and the city leadership’s public position on equality. The average score for 506 cities rated was 58; of the Utah cities rated, only Salt Lake City exceeded that w
  
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• Burning Man opening year-round office in Reno

  12-10-2018 20:49
  Reno, Nev. • The San Francisco-based Burning Man organization is opening a year-round, satellite office in Reno to better support operations in the northern Nevada desert that hosts the annual counterculture festival.The Reno Gazette Journal first reported this week Burning Man will begin a three-year lease later this year at the old downtown Post Office built on the banks of the Truckee River in 1933."We're enthusiastic about this new year-round office and look forward to deepening our lon
  
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• Very special #EkpesBookClub tonight—will you be there? https://t.co/Gbp7JAVry2

  12-10-2018 20:48 via twitter.com
  
  Very special #EkpesBookClub tonight—will you be there? https://t.co/Gbp7JAVry2
  
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• Matthew Shepard’s murder still haunts Wyoming 20 years later

  12-10-2018 20:46
  Laramie, Wyo. • When two roofing workers beat a young gay man to death in Wyoming in 1998, the gruesome crime quickly reverberated around the U.S. and turned the sandy-haired college student into a powerful symbol of the quest for acceptance and equal rights.But two decades after Matthew Shepard was bludgeoned, tied to a rail fence and left to die on the cold high prairie, the emotions stirred up by his slaying linger in Wyoming, which still struggles with its tarnished identity and resists
  
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• Search crews look for the dead and the living in Florida

  12-10-2018 20:37
  Mexico Beach, Fla. • Florida authorities fielded a barrage of calls about people missing in Hurricane Michael’s aftermath as search-and-rescue teams Friday made their way through ravaged neighborhoods, looking for victims dead or alive. The death toll stood at 13 across the South.The number of dead was expected to rise, but authorities scrapped plans for setting up a temporary morgue, indicating they had yet to see signs of mass casualties from the most powerful hurricane to hit the c
  
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• Jazz star Donovan Mitchell is determined to stay true to himself as fame, fortune and demands on his time envelop him

  12-10-2018 20:32
  The credit card didn’t go through on the first attempt. He kept swiping, though, hoping. Nothing. Next came the frustration, then the embarrassment. Again and again he tried, to no avail. It just so happened that in line behind him was someone who not only took notice, but again took it upon himself to do what he’s been known to do. Donovan Mitchell paid for this stranger’s groceries.He stepped in. He offered. Donovan Mitchell took care of it. It soon dawned on him that another
  
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• Playing BYU on Saturday in Provo is a ‘big, big deal’ for resurgent Hawaii, receiver Dylan Collie says of his former team

  12-10-2018 20:31
  Provo • Graduate transfer Dylan Collie hasn’t been more involved than usual in BYU’s game plan this week as the Cougars prepared to take on his former team, Hawaii, on Saturday night.But the 5-foot-10, 180-pound receiver has served as a consultant, of sorts, regarding what kind of fire the surprising Rainbow Warriors (6-1) will bring to LaVell Edwards Stadium for the 8:15 p.m. rematch of BYU’s 30-20 win last year in Oahu.“It means a lot [to Hawaii],” said Colli
  
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• A Utah Alzheimer’s center didn’t immediately tell police about a resident who allegedly assaulted another. The victim died days later; the accused man also has died.

  12-10-2018 20:16
  Police say a patient at a South Jordan Alzheimer’s care center died after an assault by another resident — and that care center employees did not immediately report the alleged attack.Administrators at Pheasant Run Alzheimer's Special Care Center say staff "appropriately notified law enforcement" after a 69-year-old patient was acting violently on Sept. 19.But South Jordan Police say staff did not alert them to the most serious attack, which led to an 88-year-old fellow patient being
  
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• Danté Exum—PG from Melbourne, Australia—is entering his 4th season in the NBA after being drafted by the Jazz in 20… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-10-2018 19:46 via twitter.com
  Danté Exum—PG from Melbourne, Australia—is entering his 4th season in the NBA after being drafted by the Jazz in 20… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Utah’s Haunted Hollow ups security after employee is groped

  12-10-2018 18:30
  A haunted house attraction in West Haven has upped security after one of its female employees was groped by a customer.Autumn Satterfield, who works in costume at Haunted Hollow, told FOX 13 that, over the years, she has been threatened, hit, spat on and most recently, groped.“He just came up, grabbed my breasts and started leaning on me,” Satterfield said. "I shoved him to the ground, told him not to touch me ... and then he was out of there in the blink of an eye, essentially.&rdqu
  
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• Police identify knife-wielding man killed by officer in West Jordan

  12-10-2018 18:09
  Police have identified the man shot and killed by a police officer called out on a domestic-violence incident on Thursday. Diamonte Riviore, 22, died at the scene.Three West Jordan police officers were dispatched to Liberty Landing Apartments, just off Center Park Drive near 7000 South, about 4:20 p.m. after a report of domestic violence involving a man armed with a knife, according to Sgt. J.C. Holt. When the officers arrived, the woman who lives there let them into the apartment.“Diamont
  
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• Environmentalists challenge court ruling over water from Rio Grande

  12-10-2018 18:01
  Albuquerque, N.M. • Environmentalists are challenging a court ruling over whether water from the Rio Grande is properly accounted for and being used in beneficial ways as it flows through New Mexico’s most populated region.They say the state's top water manager needs to do more to reduce use in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, but irrigation officials say they're already doing the best they can as years of drought have strained resources.The latest federal drought map shows the driest ar
  
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• Kid Rock, MercyMe and a Beach Boy show support for Sen. Orrin Hatch’s Music Modernization Act

  12-10-2018 17:47
  Washington • President Donald Trump welcomed musicians Kid Rock and country star John Rich to the White House on Thursday as he signed legislation overhauling the way music is licensed and songwriters compensated.Trump signed the Orrin B. Hatch Music Modernization Act on Thursday. The bill won wide bipartisan support in the House and Senate and is backed by the music industry. It’s named after the retiring Utah senator, who is also a musician.Also joining the president were Mike Love
  
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• Mitt Romney to stump for Senate hopeful Martha McSally

  12-10-2018 17:40
  Gilbert, Ariz. • Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is expected to be in Arizona to stump for GOP Senate candidate Martha McSally.The practicing Mormon is set to appear at a McSally rally on Friday afternoon in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert, which is a heavily Mormon area.McSally is in a tight race with Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. Both congresswomen are vacating their positions to run for Sen. Jeff Flake's seat.Flake opted not to run for re-election.The rally comes just days af
  
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• Robert Redford talks about retirement, the future of Sundance, and playing an ageless outlaw in ‘The Old Man & the Gun’

  12-10-2018 16:43
  Robert Redford says he went about this retirement thing all wrong.“I felt I made a mistake by even talking about retirement,” the actor, director, producer and founder of the Sundance Institute said in an interview this week. He was referring to his announcement in August that his new movie, the true-life heist comedy “The Old Man & the Gun,” would be his final movie role. (The movie opens widely, including in Utah theaters, on Friday.)“I should just slip quietl
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Conference recap, Oaks tweaks talk intro, leader makes environmental plea, Nelson plans South American tour

  12-10-2018 16:42
  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: The conference that wasWhat’s in a name? Will less church be more? And where were the women?Patrick Mason, head of Mormon studies at Claremont Graduate University, and Emily Jensen, a Latter-day
  
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• Think you know Utah? Test your knowledge of this week’s news here.

  12-10-2018 16:42
  Last week, 97 percent of you knew why a Navy veteran from Utah was arrested, but only 39 percent knew that Mitt Romney’s Senate run makes Utah’s government systems susceptible to hackers. Think you kept up with the news this week? Take our quiz to find out. A new quiz will post every Friday morning. You can find previous quizzes here. If you’re using The Salt Lake Tribune mobile app, click here.
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I kept a neighbor’s bowl. For 17 years.

  12-10-2018 16:42
  Dear Ann Cannon • Years ago I had an open house and a neighbor brought over a tasty treat in a nice bowl. I was planning on returning the bowl with some thank-you cookies in it, but I was awfully busy at the time and somehow it never got done. Well, now I’d really like to give the bowl back (including goodies, of course), but after 17 years, I can’t think of a graceful way to do it. Can you help?— Accidental Bowl ThiefDear Accidental Bowl Thief • Relax. My guess is th
  
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• ACLU: Some Utah county clerks need to step up their game to be ready for Election Day registration

  12-10-2018 16:41
  On Nov. 6, Utahns will be able to walk into polling places across the state and exercise a same-day registration option created earlier this year to clear away barriers to voting.But the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah is worried that not all elections officials are prepared for the new provision.The civil rights advocacy group Thursday called on Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and the state elections office to make sure that all county clerks offices are up to speed on the Election Day registr
  
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• A duck hunter fired in the direction of a police officer. Then the cop was charged with a crime in a case that has reached Utah’s supreme court.

  12-10-2018 16:40
  Three years ago, Unified Police Department officer Lance Bess was duck hunting at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge when another hunter shot in his direction.With his police-issued pistol in one hand and his hunting shotgun in the other, Bess — depending on one’s point of view — either investigated the errant shotgun blast or confronted the other hunters. A jury later convicted Bess of a misdemeanor count of threatening or using a weapon in a fight or quarrel.Police organiza
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Will Donovan Mitchell take the next step towards NBA Superstardom?

  12-10-2018 16:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... portunity for Mitchell, and I think he takes full advantage of it. This Utah Jazz franchise rides on his shoulders, and it’s going to be a heck of a time this ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah’s Derrick Favors is a traditional four in an untraditional NBA

  12-10-2018 16:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... We’ll see if that is a large enough sample size but I think the feeling with Jazz brass is that it is sustainable because of the chemistry and lack of ego tha ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz Rank: Royce O’Neale voted as 8th most valuable player

  12-10-2018 16:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... ped down on the at the end of a game, forcing a terrible shot and ensuring a Jazz win. Quin was pretty pumped about that, as you can see here: Quin is intense ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz and their embarrassment of riches on the bench

  12-10-2018 16:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... solation and hand-off play types would also give Utah’s offense a boost. The Jazz ranked 11th worst in the league in both categories, with a combined frequenc ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The rise of Rudy Gobert, the Stifle Tower

  12-10-2018 16:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... h his tweet the Utah Jazz would go on a 29-6 tear for their final 35 games. Regular season is just day ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Evolution of the Power Forward in Utah

  12-10-2018 16:27 via sportspyder.com
  ...the majority of his minutes at center. It can be argued that this year, the Jazz don’t have a designated power forward. Much like a running back by committee ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - For the Utah Jazz, continuity is not just a buzzword, it’s everything

  12-10-2018 16:27 via sportspyder.com
  ...ball to went from to to Karl Anthony-Towns in the blink of an eye. When the Jazz flipped the switch to go on their incredible run, you could argue the cataly ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Frank Jackson throws down impressive alley-oop; Utah Jazz teammates make trick shot

  12-10-2018 16:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... ayson Allen happy birthday, Joe Ingles responds hilariously Will this year's Jazz team be the best since the Stockton-to-Malone days? Where does Rudy Gobert r ...
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Republicans have made Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton the starring villains of attack ads that have aired 34,000 times so far

  12-10-2018 16:19
  Gender gap doesn’t cause GOP to pause in demonizing two of America’s most prominent women politicians. Utahns like Justice Brett Kavanaugh better than they do the president who nominated him. Want a quick $1,000? Adopt a wild horse.Happy Friday. Republicans are suffering from a gender gap, but that hasn’t dissuaded them from demonizing two of the most prominent women in politics in attack ads airing across the country. Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton are the villains in some 1
  
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• Morning links: Frank Jackson throws down impressive alley-oop; Utah Jazz teammates make trick shot

  12-10-2018 16:09
  Former Lone Peak star Frank Jackson was hurt all of last season, his first with the New Orleans Pelicans after getting drafted in 2017, but appears to be on track to contribute this season.Earlier this week during an open practice, the 6-foot-3 guard threw down an impressive alley-oop.Ok FRANK ???? @FWJackson15 @PelicansNBA pic.twitter.com/LBIcAGB5Ih— Karen Loftus (@kcloftus) October 7, 2018
  Jazz could be "a surprise top-two seed"The Utah Jazz are a trendy pick among national media to have
  
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• Gehrke: Lawmakers need to fix Utah’s 3.2 beer law before voters are asked to step in again

  12-10-2018 15:37
  Are you like Justice Kavanaugh? Do you like beer?If you do, you may soon notice fewer options when you try to buy a six-pack at a Utah grocery store, convenience store and possibly your favorite watering hole.That’s because, as of Oct. 1, Oklahoma got rid of its requirement that all beer in the state contain just 3.2 percent alcohol. Colorado will get rid of 3.2 beer in January and Kansas will follow suit in April.With the vast majority of 3.2 beer sales going away, so are a lot of the var
  
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• Pierce: A Utahn helped inspire new HBO version of ‘Pod Saves America’

  12-10-2018 15:36
  Former Obama White House staffers John Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor are bringing “Pod Saves America’s” progressive, anti-Trump stance to HBO on Friday. And, yes, it will resemble the wildly popular, twice-weekly podcast — particularly episodes that are taped on the road in front of thousands of fans.Including one that featured a Utahn.“I think one of the most rewarding experiences for all of us have been these live shows,” Favreau recentl
  
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