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• Utah Jazz: T-Wolves loss was rough, but Rose’s 50 spot was one for the annals

  01-11-2018 23:53
  Cheering for an opponent in a difficult loss is about as unnatural an act as there is, but Utah Jazz fans should give it up for Derrick Rose. On the surface, the Utah Jazz’s Wednesday night loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves was a bitter pill to swallow for the Utah faithful. What had seemed a […]
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz vs. Memphis Grizzlies: Keys to getting revenge on the Grizz

  01-11-2018 23:43 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz: Ricky Rubio once again playing like early season last year, and that’s bad...
  
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• It’s time for the annual Starbucks cup controversy. Do the company’s new designs adequately embrace Christmas?

  01-11-2018 23:40
  Stars, stripes, flames and coffee cherries, all adorned in cheerful shades of red and green.These are the four designs included in Starbucks's latest batch of seasonally themed cups, which will debut Friday as the company kicks off the holiday season. This year, the coffee-making titan said it wanted to "look to the past" and draw inspiration from its signature Christmas blend.Straightforward enough, right? Well — for some reason — it isn’t.The cups seem harmless at first, gran
  
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• Utah Jazz vs. Memphis Grizzlies: Keys to getting revenge on the Grizz

  01-11-2018 23:25
  The Utah Jazz will look to bounce back against the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday after suffering an ugly loss to them earlier in the season. The Utah Jazz fell to the Memphis Grizzlies in the teams’ first meeting in one of the ugliest bouts of the year. Neither team could find their shot, which resulted […]
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• Zach Wilson spurned Boise State late in the recruiting process and signed with BYU. The Cougar QB has no regrets, but what about the Broncos?

  01-11-2018 23:18
  Provo • After several sleepless nights last December, 18-year-old quarterback Zach Wilson made the most important decision of his young life, and the most difficult telephone call.The senior at Draper’s Corner Canyon High who was set to graduate in the next few weeks called Boise State coach Bryan Harsin and decommitted to the program he had pledged to sign with six months ago.A little more than a week later, Wilson signed with BYU and said, “If you can play in front of your fam
  
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• Jazz go 3-1 on road trip, but still learn some lessons along the way

  01-11-2018 23:17
  Derrick Rose dropped 50 points on the Jazz on Wednesday night at the Target Center. They, in turn, dropped the finale of their road trip after winning the first three.It was decidedly not the way Utah wanted to finish its four-games-in-eight-days journey. Several players dressed quietly postgame, then slipped out of the locker room without uttering a word. Joe Ingles said he had nothing to say and stalked off.Still, at least a few were able to find some perspective after completing their first m
  
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  01-11-2018 22:58 via sportspyder.com
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• Salt Lake City completes $3 million roadway days before voters will consider an $87 million road bond

  01-11-2018 22:41
  Salt Lake City officials highlighted the completed $3 million Gladiola Street reconstruction project on Thursday, days before voters were set to weigh in on the $87 million road bond on their ballot.Construction began on the complete rebuild of the roadway between 500 South and 900 South back in June. The finished product includes wider lanes, and the addition of bike lanes and sidewalk enhancements, like new ramps. To celebrate its completion, Mayor Jackie Biskupski and Councilman Andrew Johnst
  
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  01-11-2018 22:32 via twitter.com
  
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• [Sporting News] - Here's what I know (and don't know) about Derrick Rose

  01-11-2018 21:29 via sportspyder.com
  ...easy to be a prisoner of the moment. I know I was glued to the Timberwolves-Jazz game as Rose kept hitting jumpers and flying toward the basket like he had c ...
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - NBA reacts to Derrick Rose's emotional career-high

  01-11-2018 21:28 via sportspyder.com
  ...The 29-year-old Butler will sit out Wednesday night’s game against the Utah Jazz, but he’s not injured. $7.99 Large 2 Topping Pizza, Online Only. Delivery mi ...
  
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• BYU, Arkansas schedule a home-and-home football series for 2022 in Provo, 2023 in Fayetteville

  01-11-2018 21:14
  Another Southeastern Conference football team is coming to Provo.BYU and Arkansas of the SEC announced a home-and-home football agreement on Thursday, with the Razorbacks playing at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Oct. 15, 2022, and BYU playing at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Ark., on Sept. 23, 2023.BYU last hosted an SEC foe on Oct. 14, 2016, when it defeated Mississippi State 28-21 in overtime at LES. The Cougars are scheduled to host the SEC’s Missouri in 2020.The 2022 game will mark th
  
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• U.S. Justice Department asks Catholic dioceses across the country to preserve abuse-related records

  01-11-2018 21:05
  The U.S. Justice Department, which last month launched a federal probe into clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church, has sent a sweeping call to Catholic dioceses across the country to preserve documents related to abuse.The Catholic news site whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com Friday posted an Oct. 9 letter to Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, noting that the Justice Department “is investigating possible violations of federal law.” It reque
  
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• Everybody laughed when Arizona State hired TV analyst Herm Edwards, but the Sun Devils are in the thick of the Pac-12 South race

  01-11-2018 20:43
  If an award existed for the Pac-12 South's football coach of the year, Saturday's meeting between Utah's Kyle Whittingham and Arizona State's Herm Edwards would decide the winner.Much more than a mythical trophy is at stake at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Ariz., where the Utes can move closer to clinching their first division title in eight seasons of Pac-12 membership. If the Sun Devils beat Utah (6-2, 4-2 Pac-12), they would own the tiebreaker with the Utes and be in position to qualify for the
  
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• Good luck to our guys at @realsaltlake 🦁 #TeamIsEverything | #BELIEVE https://t.co/3Cm6yaE5oP

  01-11-2018 20:18 via twitter.com
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Utah State’s Jordan Love, a father’s son, is living the dream his dad had for him

  01-11-2018 20:06 via sportspyder.com
  ...for the Jazz. Monson: God bless student-athlete Lauren McCluskey. God help the rest of us ...
  
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• Eye on the Y: Blaming lackluster play at home on ‘downer’ fans is not a good look for Cougar senior

  01-11-2018 19:56
  BYU defensive back Michael Shelton wasn’t supposed to talk to the media after the Cougars practiced on Tuesday night. No reporters asked for an interview with the fifth-year senior.But after a couple of players who were requested were not available, BYU’s sports information staff pulled Shelton out of the locker room to talk to some media members — myself not included — who were still there.My guess is BYU officials are probably wishing their people had found someone else
  
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• Monson: Utah State’s Jordan Love, a father’s son, is living the dream his dad had for him

  01-11-2018 19:53
  LoganWhen Jordan Love is on the field, he thinks about his many blessings. He thinks about his mom, Anna, and especially about his dad. Not all the time, but enough of it to remind him that if it hadn’t been for the influence of Orbin Love, he might not be playing football at all.First, Jordan has his father’s athleticism. Orbin was a running back and quarterback that made it to the JC level before moving on to other important pursuits, such as becoming a police officer, a sergeant i
  
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• Funeral director accused of luring young people for sex; Utah State University warns its students

  01-11-2018 19:50
  A Logan funeral director has agreed to stop performing services, at least until he resolves 11 criminal charges accusing him of enticing a boy into sex.Lonnie Kent Nyman faces up to 15 years in prison on each of the three most serious charges filed against him last week. Utah State University on Wednesday sent an alert to its students saying Nyman was free on bail and warning them about a “Potential Threat” posed by Nyman.“Do Not Approach Him,” the alert said before direc
  
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• Harry Potter’s ‘Wizarding World’ Christmas shop opens again in Sandy

  01-11-2018 19:44
  A bit of magic — of the variety created by J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” franchise — is returning for the holidays to a Sandy shopping center.The pop-up shop Christmas in the Wizarding World, with merchandise based on Rowling’s characters and settings, opened this week at The Shops at South Town, 10450 S. State St., Sandy.Local actors — chosen by audition and approved by Warner Bros. — run the shops, portraying clerks at the wand merchant Ollivande
  
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• Suspect in Moab homicide arrested after 100-mile chase in Arizona

  01-11-2018 19:43
  The suspect in a Moab murder was apprehended Wednesday after a 100-mile chase.Irving Martin Verduzco-Armenta is suspected of killing Edgar Najera early Sunday, according to a news release from the Moab Police Department. He was arrested with two other men suspected of helping him evade police.Officers from the Navajo Nation Police Department on Wednesday received a report of three suspicious men. The officers pursued the vehicle carrying Verduzco-Armenta and two other men, but lost the car on a
  
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• [NBA] - Why the Utah Jazz are bringing back their red-rock inspired City Edition jerseys this season

  01-11-2018 19:14 via sportspyder.com
  ... the first time was one of those moments that struck a chord with all of us.” Jazz officials wondered how fans would react to a look that veers so drastically...
  
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• “When Nike first presented Utah’s City Edition, I recall smiling, grinning ear to ear. I thought, ‘This is City Edi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-11-2018 19:07 via twitter.com
  “When Nike first presented Utah’s City Edition, I recall smiling, grinning ear to ear. I thought, ‘This is City Edi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ambassador Huntsman diagnosed with skin cancer, sought treatment at Huntsman Cancer Institute

  01-11-2018 19:05
  Washington • U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman has been diagnosed with early-stage skin cancer and has been treated at a cancer hospital in Salt Lake City founded by his family.Huntsman, a former Utah governor, flew to Utah a few weeks ago to seek treatment at the Huntsman Cancer Institute for Stage 1 melanoma. Huntsman is hopeful the doctors had removed all of the cancerous cells.Stage 1 skin cancer is diagnosed as “no larger than 2 millimeters thick and/or an ulceration,”
  
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• Mitt Romney calls the free press ‘essential’ in essay that critiques Trump’s attacks on the media

  01-11-2018 18:59
  America is “indebted” to the free press for its work reporting on the Vietnam War, Watergate, and sexual crimes committed by priests and other men in power, Senate candidate Mitt Romney wrote in an essay released Thursday.“The free press dispelled the false conspiracies about the 9/11 attacks, President Obama’s birth, and Joe McCarthy’s lurking communists,” Romney wrote. “The work of a free press is essential.”The former Massachusetts governor and
  
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• Don't mess with perfection. Back for another season ❤️🧡💛 #CityEdition | #TBT » on.nba.com/2RrlxAM https://t.co/ILFDz4k9hA

  01-11-2018 18:35 via twitter.com
  
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• Red All Over: No matter how this Utah football season ends, Kyle Whittingham has succeeded in saving it.

  01-11-2018 18:32
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here.The signature season of Kyle Whittingham’s head coaching tenure didn’t require any salvaging, as Utah went 13-0 in 2008. Yet a case could be made that Whittingham has done his best work in years when his football team recovered after struggling in the first half of the season, and 2018 is shaping up as another one of those examples.The media get three weekly snapshots of Whittingham — in h
  
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• [Deadspin] - Meet the Woman Who 'Went Viral' for Supposedly Breaking the NBA’s Locker-Room Reporting Barrier

  01-11-2018 18:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... ivers, and local baseball legend Vida Blue. This time it was the New Orleans Jazz’s colorful head coach Butch van Breda Kolff. He and the team had arrived in...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - 10 Things to Know for Today

  01-11-2018 17:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... ana Dallas As featured on +13 Rose scores career-high 50 as Timberwolves top Jazz 128-125 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As the final buzzer sounded and his teammates swa ...
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - NBA Players React To Derrick Rose’s Unbelievable Career 50-Point Performance

  01-11-2018 17:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... s and 4 rebounds, Rose had, perhaps, the best game of his career against the Jazz. He was emotional after the game and cited the pitfalls he’s faced throughou ...
  
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• Max Boot: Sick and tired of Trump? Here’s what to do.

  01-11-2018 17:14
  “I am sick and tired of this administration. I’m sick and tired of what’s going on. I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I hope you are, too.”— Joe BidenI'm sick and tired too.I’m sick and tired of a president who pretends that a caravan of impoverished refugees is an “invasion” by “unknown Middle Easterners” and “bad thugs” — and whose followers on Fox News pretend that the refugees are bringing lepro
  
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• E.J. Dionne: Tuesday’s choice: the polarizer versus the problem-solvers

  01-11-2018 17:14
  Glen Allen, Va. - Listening to the conversation at Robert Jones' Parkside Barber Shop and Grooming Lounge, you’d never know we live in a deeply divided country that seems incapable of discussing everyday challenges.Jones, a successful local entrepreneur, hosted a group of business leaders and educators here to ponder how to prepare the millennial workforce. They offered their ideas to Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Democratic congressional candidate Abigail Spanberger.Both are on the ballot No
  
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• George F. Will: Missouri’s Hawley is an actual, not a pretend, conservative

  01-11-2018 17:13
  Cape Girardeau, Mo. - Here in the state’s southeast, which calls itself the Bootheel and nurses a genial distrust of Missouri’s metropolitan fleshpots (St. Louis, Kansas City), the loudspeaker is blasting out John Mellencamp’s “Small Town” as Josh Hawley’s cowboy boots alight from his campaign bus at this stop on the “Stop Schumer Fire Claire Tour.” Before he became a Senate candidate, and before he became Missouri’s attorney general —
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: Readers take their turn as advice gurus

  01-11-2018 17:12
  Sometimes as an advice columnist, you receive e-mails offering a different take on a given situation. Here are a few recent examples.On burying pets in the backyardWe are the unhappy owners of a house where the previous owners had buried a pet in the backyard. They had double-bagged it in black garbage bags, and I can tell you that this is a terrible idea. After 18 years (we don’t know when it was buried — only how long we’ve owned the house), it had not decomposed fully and wa
  
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• Opening of T.F. Brewing adds a German vibe to Salt Lake City’s beer scene

  01-11-2018 16:55
  Salt Lake City’s newest brewery — T.F. Brewing — opened last week in the Granary District, adding a German vibe to the state’s expanding beer scene.The 8,500-square-foot structure at 936 S. 300 West has a 15-barrel brew house for beer production as well as a tavern for those 21 and older with large communal tables, velvet couches and a bar where guests can watch brewers at work.
  An on-site beer store, a spacious patio and a private Barrel Room for private events round out
  
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• CNN’s Don Lemon doubles down after saying white men are ‘the biggest terror threat in this country’

  01-11-2018 16:55
  During a recent segment about a supermarket shooting in Kentucky, CNN host Don Lemon said that "the biggest terror threat in this country is white men."Lemon was speaking on live television Monday about an incident in which a white man allegedly shot and killed two black people outside a Kroger grocery store in Jeffersontown, Ky., not far from Louisville.The incident, which is being investigated as a hate crime, occurred during the same week that 13 potential explosive devices were sent to promi
  
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• [Deadspin] - Give Derrick Rose The Comeback Treatment He Deserves

  01-11-2018 16:53 via sportspyder.com
  ... ukiest game of his career, scoring 50 points en route to a win over the Utah Jazz, after which he was immediately and widely praised for never giving up after ...
  
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• Trump says he ‘wouldn’t be surprised’ if Soros is funding caravan, offers no proof

  01-11-2018 16:44
  President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that there might be truth to an unfounded conspiracy theory that philanthropist and Democratic megadonor George Soros is funding a caravan of Central American migrants, telling reporters that he “wouldn’t be surprised” if that is the case.As he left the White House, Trump was asked whether he thinks somebody is funding the migrant caravan that is slowly making its way through Mexico toward the U.S. border."I wouldn't be surprised, yeah
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Derrick Rose sets a career-high with 50 points to help Timberwolves claw past Jazz - CBSSports.com

  01-11-2018 16:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... eight years ago. The youngest MVP in NBA history scored 50 points versus the Jazz, a career-high and his highest point total since he went off for 42 points i ...
  
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• Political Cornflakes: President Trump releases attack ad that rivals the notorious Willie Horton hit piece of 1988 for racial fearmongering

  01-11-2018 15:21
  Racial attack ad released in the runup to the midterm elections. Anti-marijuana initiative forces spent $250K on their opposition campaign just before a truce was announced. And practical advice on how to stop getting all those Love-McAdams robocalls.Happy Thursday. President Donald Trump’s campaign has produced and the president tweeted out the most racially charged political ad since the notorious Willie Horton attack ad of the 1988 election. The web video portrays the northward-bound ca
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Can the Jazz win without Donovan Mitchell?

  01-11-2018 15:20 via sportspyder.com
  ...Memphis game tomorrow night. Despite the loss last night to the Wolves, the Jazz finished a tough road trip 3-1, to put them at 4-3 overall on the season. Ob ...
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: The final season of ‘House of Cards’ is for fans only. And probably not for Trump.

  01-11-2018 15:12
  Frank Underwood used to be a role model for Donald Trump. The fictional man at the center of “House of Cards” did, after all, improbably rise to become president of the United States.In Season 5, President Underwood (Kevin Spacey) became wish fulfillment for anti-Trump viewers. With scandals closing in on him, Frank resigned in disgrace.Those fictional scandals turned out to be nothing compared with the real one that fundamentally changed the show. After “Star Trek: Discovery&r
  
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• ‘People are energized’: Utah’s Navajo set to undo legacy of gerrymandering

  01-11-2018 15:12
  The community gathering took place in the northern reaches of the Navajo Nation. Hundreds of people lined up in view of Monument Valley’s towering red mesas to enjoy traditional singing and dancing but also to register to vote — and end the legacy of racial gerrymandering that, for decades, has blocked Native Americans from power in this isolated corner of the American West.Here in southern Utah’s redrock country, as in other rural reaches of the U.S., Democrats are working har
  
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• Yet-to-be-discovered dinosaur fossils may be at risk after Trump slashed the size of Grand Staircase

  01-11-2018 15:11
  Southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument may have originally safeguarded untapped troves of ancient fossils, but the Trump administration’s unprecedented reduction of the monument has exposed vast deposits of these scientific treasures to potential energy development.Areas removed from the Staircase are nearly as rich in fossils as those that remain, according to an analysis by the Wilderness Society.“The fossil resources are throughout the original monument.
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Ricky Rubio once again playing like early season last year, and that’s bad news

  01-11-2018 15:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... d his overall streakiness and inconsistency are troubling attributes. If the Jazz want to be a truly elite team, they need to put together a solid season from ...
  
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• [USA Today] - Vintage Derrick Rose savors career-high 50 points in win

  01-11-2018 14:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... a career-high 50 points that lifted the Minnesota Timberwolves over the Utah Jazz 125-122. "I played my heart out," Rose said. "My teammates told me before th ...
  
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• [Basketball Insiders] - NBA Daily: Offense Seems To Be Clicking For Utah

  01-11-2018 14:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... nse on rebounds and really push the pace to get to the rim. As you watch the Jazz, you can tell they’ve really been working on propelling the ball down the fl ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Ricky Rubio once again playing like early season last year, and that’s bad news

  01-11-2018 14:48
  Starting point guard Ricky Rubio is off to a poor start that’s eerily similar to a year ago. And that’s extremely bad news for the Utah Jazz. Heading into the 2018-19 season, the Utah Jazz were banking on continuity being their best weapon. With no adjustment period needed for the likes of Ricky Rubio, Jae […]
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• Commentary: Prop 4 will make every voter’s voice heard

  01-11-2018 14:36
  By all accounts, Utah is on track to set a new record for voter turnout when Election Day rolls around on Nov. 6.County clerks statewide are reporting huge increases in the number of new voter registrations and early voting numbers are also up.It’s an encouraging sign in a community where voters have made a lackluster showing at the polls in recent years.In the 2014 mid-term elections, for example, only 30 percent of eligible voters cast ballots — a record low, according to a report
  
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• Letter: So, Romney is going to balance the budget? Now, that’s funny.

  01-11-2018 14:34
  Our oldest boy asked me why I was laughing at the campaign ad we were watching for Mitt Romney on the TV. I told him I thought it was funny that one of Romney’s claims is that he will balance the budget if elected to represent Utah in Congress. He didn’t understand the humor until I explained that the last time we had a balanced budget was during the Clinton administration and that the Republicans just blew the biggest hole in the budget to give the rich and corporations a bigger adv
  
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