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• [The Daily Herald] - The Latest: Fire's smoke delays 200 flights in San Francisco

  16-11-2018 23:04 via sportspyder.com
  The Golden Gate Bridge is obscured by smoke and haze from wildfires Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, in this view from Fort Baker near Sausalito, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
  
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• Change will allow more Latter-day Saints to go on missions by bolstering service opportunities

  16-11-2018 22:58
  Latter-day Saint children sing of their hopes to be called on a mission to “teach and preach and work as missionaries do.”And those hopes may be realized for even more members now that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is changing the recommendation process for young people seeking to go on missions.Starting Jan. 2, 2019, all young men and women in the United States and Canada will use the same online process. After undergoing the required spiritual interviews and medic
  
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• Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch honored with nation’s highest civilian medal as Trump says, ‘He liked me right from the beginning and therefore I like him’

  16-11-2018 22:31
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Friday bestowed the nation’s highest civilian honor on Sen. Orrin Hatch, gushing about the Utah Republican’s contributions to America during his 42 years in office.Trump gave Hatch the Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony, calling him a “great friend of mine.”“He liked me right from the beginning and therefore I like him,” Trump said, going off script as the audience laughed. “That's the way it is. I'm no
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Spirit Awards heap noms on ‘Eighth Grade,’ ‘First Reformed’

  16-11-2018 22:22 via sportspyder.com
  New York • The 34th Film Independent Spirit Awards showered nominations on Bo Burnham’s coming-of-age tale “Eighth Grade,” Lynne Ramsay’s existentialist thriller “You Were Never Really Here” and Paul Schrader’s religious drama “First Reformed” in...
  
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• Puka Nacua sets new state TD reception record as Orem wins second consecutive 4A title in overwhelming fashion

  16-11-2018 22:20
  Orem High School senior wide receiver Puka Nacua broke the state record for receiving touchdowns in a single season, lifting the Tigers to their second consecutive Class 4A championship with a 60-13 rout of the Dixie Flyers on Friday at Rice-Eccles Stadium.Nacua caught his record-breaking 26th TD of the season midway through the fourth quarter. Senior quarterback Cooper Legas threw to him on second down and he leapt to catch the pass. Once he came down, he ran the few extra yards into the end zo
  
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• Spirit Awards heap noms on ‘Eighth Grade,’ ‘First Reformed’

  16-11-2018 22:15
  New York • The 34th Film Independent Spirit Awards showered nominations on Bo Burnham’s coming-of-age tale “Eighth Grade,” Lynne Ramsay’s existentialist thriller “You Were Never Really Here” and Paul Schrader’s religious drama “First Reformed” in nominees announced Friday .Each scored four nods including best picture. Also nominated for best picture: Barry Jenkins' James Baldwin adaptation "If Beale Street Could Talk" and Debra Granik's
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Odyssey Dance apologizes to anyone offended by racist TV appearance — but then denies it was racist

  16-11-2018 22:11
  Under criticism for a blatantly racist TV appearance by members of his company, Odyssey Dance Theatre’s artistic director responded Friday that the company is “very sorry for the reaction to their appearance” but adamantly and repeatedly denied that the incident was in any way racist.It’s one of those non-apology apologies. And others disagree. Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski tweeted that the segment, seen on KSL-Channel 5 on Thursday morning, “was incredibly
  
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• William Goldman, Oscar winner for ‘Butch Cassidy,’ has died

  16-11-2018 22:02
  New York • William Goldman, the screenwriter and Hollywood wise man who won Academy Awards for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men” and summed up the mystery of making a box office hit by declaring “Nobody knows anything,” has died. He was 87.Goldman's daughter, Jenny, said her father died early Friday in New York due to complications from colon cancer and pneumonia. "So much of what's he's written can express who he wa
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz G-League update: Stars bid adieu to Stone, acquire Washpun’s rights

  16-11-2018 21:58 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz may have stagnated in Dallas, but their G-League affiliate squad has made moves on and off the court this week. Given the fact that the Utah ...
  
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• Utah trooper intercepts wrong-way driver on freeway

  16-11-2018 21:55
  The Utah Highway Patrol says a trooper successfully intercepted a wrong-way driver on a Salt Lake City-area freeway early Friday morning.The Highway Patrol says the trooper had a minor injury and that using the interception technique disabled his patrol car while stopping the other vehicle and that the other driver is a DUI suspect who wasn't injured.According to the agency, the suspect was arrested and had a breath alcohol concentration of 0.148, nearly three times the state’s DUI thresho
  
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• House passes bill to drop legal protections for gray wolves

  16-11-2018 21:52
  Washington • The Republican-controlled House passed a bill Friday to drop legal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states, reopening a lengthy battle over the predator species.Long despised by farmers and ranchers, wolves were shot, trapped and poisoned out of existence in most of the U.S. by the mid-20th century. Since securing protection in the 1970s, wolves have bounced back in the western Great Lakes states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, as well as in the Northern Ro
  
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• Utah Jazz G-League update: Stars bid adieu to Stone, acquire Washpun’s rights

  16-11-2018 21:42
  The Utah Jazz may have stagnated in Dallas, but their G-League affiliate squad has made moves on and off the court this week. Given the fact that the Utah Jazz just logged their second-worst loss in franchise history, a 50-point loss to the Dallas Mavericks, now seems like an ideal time to step aside and […]
  Utah Jazz G-League update: Stars bid adieu to Stone, acquire Washpun’s rights - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Jazz in Philly: 'We'll mentally be ready'

  16-11-2018 21:24 via sportspyder.com
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• BYU can signal modest progress, and probably get to a bowl game, with a win over New Mexico State in home finale Saturday

  16-11-2018 21:06
  Provo • Let’s face it. The bar was pretty low.It hasn’t been all that difficult for the 2018 BYU football team to surpass last year’s win total, which it did last week with a 35-16 win at UMass to get to a 5-5 record with two regular-season games to play.The program has seemingly improved after going 4-9 in 2017 and revamping its offensive coaching staff in the offseason. The Cougars have also had fewer injuries after they were decimated by them a year ago. Injuries have h
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Sixers vs. Jazz: 3 storylines to watch in Jimmy Butler's home debut

  16-11-2018 21:04 via sportspyder.com
  The Wells Fargo Center will be rockin' tonight. Serena Winters looks at three top storylines for Jimmy Butler's home debut.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Can Utah bounce back from the worst loss of the year tonight in Philadelphia?

  16-11-2018 21:00 via sportspyder.com
  It’s been a solemn 48 hours for the Utah Jazz. Fresh off one of the worst losses in franchise history on Wednesday night, the Jazz will be looking to pick up the pieces tonight in Philadelphia as...
  
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• George Pyle: Utah has its own brand of Orwellian Doublethink

  16-11-2018 20:30
  In “1984,” George Orwell defines “Doublethink” — a technique used to control the thoughts of the masses in his, the most dystopian of all dystopian societies — as, “The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”Perhaps Orwell was familiar with the 1895 Constitution of the state of Utah.That document leads off with a promise familiar to those who know the founding documents of the Unit
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - No. 16 Virginia Tech tops Northeastern in Charleston Classic

  16-11-2018 20:03 via sportspyder.com
  Virginia Tech's Justin Robinson, center, drives between Northeastern's Jeremy Miller, at left, and Shaquille Walters in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game at the Charleston Classic at
  
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• Will it all come together for Utah? The Utes can win the Pac-12 South title Saturday, if everything goes right in two venues.

  16-11-2018 19:41
  Pac-12 football teams will fill 12 hours of television programming Saturday, with traditional rivalries and meaningful games throughout the schedule.Utah’s Pac-12 era might be redefined and the program’s theme of November disappointment may be permanently altered by what happens in those 12 hours between 11:30 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. MST. Amid the forecasted daytime snow showers at Colorado’s Folsom Field and the nighttime clear skies at Oregon’s Autzen Stadium, everything fi
  
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• As No. 14 Utah State remains zeroed in on the present and eager for the future, it refuses to forget the struggles of recent years

  16-11-2018 19:40
  When the 2016 season mercifully reached its end, Matt Wells and his staff went in search of answers. Any 3-9 season demands such a reaction. So Utah State uncovered each stone in its program, to see what it could fix and what it could change. The Aggies went through it all, Wells said this week. Through recruiting approach, through program culture, through player development, through how they ran practices.“You go through dips,” Wells said.He knows. Two seasons later, the Aggies are
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Judge tosses Rep. Mia Love’s lawsuit against Salt Lake County clerk

  16-11-2018 19:38 via sportspyder.com
  A judge has dismissed U.S. Rep. Mia Love’s legal challenge to the ballot-counting process in vote-rich Salt Lake County, where the congresswoman’s Democratic rival holds a slight advantage.
  
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• Judge tosses Rep. Mia Love’s lawsuit against Salt Lake County clerk

  16-11-2018 19:35
  A judge has dismissed U.S. Rep. Mia Love’s legal challenge to the ballot-counting process in vote-rich Salt Lake County, where the congresswoman’s Democratic rival holds a slight advantage.The Republican incumbent — who’s trailing Democrat Ben McAdams in the 4th Congressional District race — earlier this week filed her lawsuit calling for the Salt Lake County clerk to stop opening mail-in ballots until her campaign won the right to challenge the validity of certain
  
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• Bryant Middle School students attempt walkout over firing of teacher’s aide

  16-11-2018 19:29
  Students at Bryant Middle School appeared to try to stage a walkout Friday to protest the recent firing of a teacher’s aide.According to the Salt Lake City Brown Berets, the students want aide Antonio Fierro reinstated, want to learn more about Chicano and Tongan history, and want the opportunity to evaluate the school’s teachers.Two or three students came out of the school just before 10 a.m. and held signs provided by the Salt Lake City Brown Berets. They told The Salt Lake Tribune
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah rare coin dealer accused of defrauding investors in a $170 million Ponzi scheme involving silver

  16-11-2018 19:26 via sportspyder.com
  A federal judge has frozen the assets of a Utah rare coin dealer after state officials accused the business of defrauding hundreds of people in a precious metals Ponzi scheme.
  
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• Utah rare coin dealer accused of defrauding investors in a $170 million Ponzi scheme involving silver

  16-11-2018 19:15
  A federal judge has frozen the assets of a Utah rare coin dealer after state officials accused the business of defrauding hundreds of people in a precious metals Ponzi scheme.A civil complaint was filed Thursday by the Securities and Exchange Commission against Gaylen Dean Rust and his company, Rust Rare Coin, Inc.The Utah Department of Commerce said in a Friday news release that Rust had fraudulently obtained more than $170 million from people in Utah and 16 other states in a scheme involving s
  
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  16-11-2018 18:39 via twitter.com
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• Bryant Middle School students walk out over teacher’s firing

  16-11-2018 18:21
  Students at Bryant Middle School appear to be trying to stage a walkout to protest the recent firing of a teacher’s aide.According to a news release from the Salt Lake City Brown Berets, the students want the teacher’s aide reinstated and are “demanding the teaching of Chicano studies as well as teacher evaluations by students." The group has its roots in a movement begun by Chicanos in California in the 1960s and now advocates against oppression and exploitation.Two students c
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Electric scooters are like Q-Tips

  16-11-2018 18:18
  Santa Monica, Calif. - Electric scooters are a little like Q-Tips .In both cases, the products are marketed with explicit warnings about how not to use them, even though everyone knows that’s precisely the way pretty much every customer will use them.For scooter riders here in Santa Monica, it means: Don’t you dare ride on the sidewalk, which is against the law, even though it sometimes feels super unsafe to ride next to cars. Or: Wink-wink, always wear a helmet. Also, the beach bike
  
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• Morning links: 'BYU' helps Utah's new athletic director move; Dunking Rudy Gobert

  16-11-2018 17:31
  SALT LAKE CITY — University of Utah athletic director Mark Harlan got help from an unexpected source while moving into new territory.To clarify, that's new territory on a couple of levels for him — to a new home in the Salt Lake City area this week and to his first full-fledged foray into the wild and wacky sports rivalry between Utah and BYU.Harlan was a good sport about what appeared to be a joke played on him by someone who works for the moving company. He humorously documented th
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Judge hands CNN victory in its bid to restore Jim Acosta’s White House press pass

  16-11-2018 17:13 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • A federal judge on Friday ruled in favor of CNN and reporter Jim Acosta in a dispute with President Donald Trump, ordering the White House to temporarily restore the press credentials that the Trump Administration took away from Acosta last..
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - His sons say they lied about being sexually abused. Now a Utah father is asking a judge to find him factually innocent.

  16-11-2018 17:13 via sportspyder.com
  He spent more than seven years in a prison for sexually abusing his sons — crimes he said he didn’t do.
  
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• His sons say they lied about being sexually abused. Now a Utah father is asking a judge to find him factually innocent.

  16-11-2018 17:10
  He spent more than seven years in a prison for sexually abusing his sons — crimes he said he didn’t do.Even his adult sons say they made up the allegations a dozen years ago that led a jury to convict him.Now, David Hawkins is asking a judge to find him factually innocent.Hawkins’ sons told The Salt Lake Tribune in August that they had lied on the witness stand as children because they were mad at their dad, upset at the way they were treated at home and how their father discip
  
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• Judge hands CNN victory in its bid to restore Jim Acosta’s White House press pass

  16-11-2018 17:09
  Washington • A federal judge on Friday ruled in favor of CNN and reporter Jim Acosta in a dispute with President Donald Trump, ordering the White House to temporarily restore the press credentials that the Trump Administration took away from Acosta last week.In a victory for the cable network and for press access generally, Judge Timothy J. Kelly granted CNN's motion for a temporary restraining order that will prevent the White House from keeping Acosta off the White House grounds.The White
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah’s continuity plan has undone last season’s success

  16-11-2018 16:58 via sportspyder.com
  This isn’t the first time the franchise has tried continuity, and it didn’t work last time either
  
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• Political Cornflakes: President Trump and his kids have anxiety over Mueller’s investigation

  16-11-2018 16:38
  President Trump and kids have anxiety over Mueller’s investigation. McAdams rises on Love in votes but a recount is likely.Happy Friday. Lawyers for President Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. insist they aren’t worried about special counsel Robert Mueller. But half a dozen people in contact with the White House and other Trump officials say a deep anxiety has started to set in that Mueller is about to pounce after his self-imposed quiet period, and that any number of Trump&r
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Jazz Nation still reeling from loss to Mavericks

  16-11-2018 16:29 via sportspyder.com
  Yea, it still hurts. A lot.
  
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• [Vice Sports] - What if the Warriors Traded Draymond Green? - VICE Sports

  16-11-2018 16:26 via sportspyder.com
  This isn’t to say Golden State should trade the perennial Defensive Player of the Year candidate just to appease Kevin Durant, but it’s worth wondering what they could get, or would even want, in return.
  
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• Mormon Land newsletter: New name for Mormon studies, more scrutiny of bishops' interviews, and why those who leave the church can’t leave it alone

  16-11-2018 15:56
  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 this newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: Middle-way members
  (Illustration by Christopher Cherrington|The Salt Lake Tribune)So-called Middle Way Mormonism is generating a lot of chatter online, in homes, at churches and elsewhere. While a
  
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• Paul Waldman: The rebellion against Nancy Pelosi is absurd

  16-11-2018 15:45
  Something exceedingly bizarre is going on in Congress right now. Kevin McCarthy, second in command among House Republicans, watched his party get trounced in the midterms, and was rewarded with a promotion to Republican leader. Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer were quickly confirmed by their respective caucuses to stay in charge in the Senate. Yet Nancy Pelosi, who just engineered the biggest Democratic win in the House since the post-Watergate election of 1974, is the one facing a challenge to
  
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• Jared Bernstein: An open letter to the new House Democrats

  16-11-2018 15:43
  To: New House DemsFrom: Jared, the GoodRe: Woohoo!!!First, I can't tell you how glad I am to see you!If I had known you were coming, I would've baked a cake! Instead, I've written you a memo on what looks most important from my humble political-economy corner.But before we jump in, two points. First, rest assured that I know you do not represent an ideological monolith. In this divided country, that's a feature, not a bug. I welcome your diversity in all forms.That said, after paying close atten
  
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• Hugh Hewitt: C’mon, liberals. Take a break from the bubble.

  16-11-2018 15:41
  A year ago, Hillary Clinton joined me on my radio show for a long discussion about her memoir of the 2016 presidential race, “What Happened?” In September, John Kerry — like Clinton, a former secretary of state — came on the show to discuss his memoir “Every Day Is Extra.”For both former Democratic presidential nominees, it was their first appearance on a program that has run three hours every weekday for more than 18 years, on any day of which they would have
  
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• Gehrke: What do Donald Trump, Mike Lee and Kim Kardashian have in common? They want justice reform, and there’s a chance it could happen.

  16-11-2018 15:36
  Sentenced to 55 years in prison for selling dime-bags of marijuana — a sentence his judge called “unjust and cruel” — Utahn Weldon Angelos became the poster child for a federal criminal system begging for reform.Now, after years of tireless work, there is a narrow window of opportunity for Congress to put a renewed focus on justice, to restore some compassion to sentencing, to address racial disparities in the system and ensure inmates have a better shot at rehabilitation
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: My sister-in-law lives lavishly, but pleads poverty at family gatherings

  16-11-2018 15:35
  Dear Ann Cannon • As Thanksgiving approaches, my husband and I have already started to shudder over the joyous event. Many times we’ve hosted extended family for dinner (as we will again this year) and are grateful for the chance to gather with everyone.HOWEVER!One of my husband’s sisters is always the big drama queen. In all the years I’ve known my husband, this sister ricochets from one disaster to another. Her husband is always losing his job, they’re perpetually
  
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• Tribune editorial: Time to take firearms seriously

  16-11-2018 15:22
  It would in no way offend the Second Amendment or any person’s right to self-defense were Utah to start treating the misuse and sloppy handling of firearms as the serious and often deadly matter it is.Too much of American culture, aping movies and video games that are supposed to be fantasy rather than reality, now pretends that it is a basic human right to possess whatever implement of death one chooses. That there are no accompanying responsibilities, no need to show cause that one does
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: The ‘Riverdale’ parents are even crazier than their kids

  16-11-2018 15:00
  Now in the midst of its third season, “Riverdale” is a decidedly dark, completely bonkers take on the old “Archie” comics — which had been around a long time when the parents and grandparents of today’s teenagers were young. (“Archie” debuted in 1941.)And yet Rolling Stone called “Riverdale” a “sensation” and a “ratings-busting guilty pleasure” that has turned the young actors who play Archie (KJ Apa), Jughead (C
  
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• Salt Lake City’s Gourmandise bakery expands kitchen, adds ‘to-go’ location and a third eatery in Draper

  16-11-2018 15:00
  Salt Lake City’s Gourmandise bakery is expanding.Owners Vernon and Hally Hanssen — who bought the business 12 years ago — recently opened Gourmandise To-Go at 1000 S. Main, Salt Lake City.The new location, in a space previously occupied by Bake 360, has a smaller menu than the original store at 250 S. 300 East. But it does include a large central kitchen, where all the cookies, cakes, breads and other decadent desserts for the entire company are baked, says Clinton Fowler, Gour
  
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• Gay ex-Mormon campaigns to lead the Navajo Nation in ‘Moroni for President’

  16-11-2018 15:00
  “Moroni for President” is about a gay man, raised as a Latter-day Saint, who ran for president of the Navajo Nation. And it’s a lot more about the Navajo part of the story than either the gay or faith aspects.“That’s what I liked about the film in the end — highlighting that gay, Mormon piece was also just highlighting the different ways that one can be Navajo,” said Moroni Benally, a Salt Lake City resident who’s the subject of the film.What began
  
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• Commentary: Why would Maj. Brent Taylor choose to deploy?

  16-11-2018 15:00
  "Why would he go?"Recently, a relative called from Salt Lake City to talk about the tragic death of Utah Army National Guard Maj. Brent Taylor (who in civilian life had also served as mayor of North Ogden). She was sad at his passing, but wanted to know why he would leave behind his wife, seven children, and city — exposing them all to the possibility of life without him. How could he do that?I should know. As a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, it’s a question I’ve grappled
  
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• Commentary: Citizen Scientists needed to study Wasatch wildlife

  16-11-2018 15:00
  There has perhaps not been a more important time to hone our understanding of the current state of ecological health and function of the Wasatch Mountains and the wildlife that live here.The Wasatch sustains 9 million visitors a year, which is about the same as that of the “mighty five” Utah national parks. Currently many planning processes and opportunities to shape the future of the central Wasatch are unfolding, ranging from the Central Wasatch National Conservation and Recreation
  
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• California fire refugees camp in Walmart parking lot amid uncertainty

  16-11-2018 15:00
  Chico, Calif. • Fire refugee Anna Goodnight sat on an overturned shopping cart Thursday in a Walmart parking lot as she ate scrambled eggs and tater tots while her husband drank a Budweiser.The couple was trying to put a good face on a weeklong ordeal that left them uncertain of the fate of their home and now had them camping next to the store with hundreds of others forced to flee from a deadly Northern California wildfire. But William Goodnight finally lost it and began to cry."We're grat
  
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