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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Are the Utah Jazz ready to start a revolution against the Sacramento Kings?

  21-11-2018 23:59 via sportspyder.com
  Can Donovan Mitchell stop De’Aaron Fox?
  
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• Former ‘Hercules’ star Kevin Sorbo headlines Tabernacle Choir’s new Christmas video

  21-11-2018 23:25
  Just in time for Thanksgiving, the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square has released a seven-minute Christmas video that stars Kevin Sorbo (“Hercules: The Legendary Journeys”) as a police officer who helps an expectant young couple.It’s set to choir music director Mack Wilberg’s arrangement of “Silent Night.” The choir also announced Wednesday that those hoping for tickets to its sold-out Christmas concerts Dec. 13–15 can enter a sweepstakes by answering &l
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Rep.-elect Ben McAdams prepares for Congress after a roller-coaster election

  21-11-2018 23:14
  After two long weeks of counting votes, and counting more votes, and counting even more votes, election results were finalized by Utah’s counties on Tuesday and the competitive 4th District race was called for Democrat Ben McAdams. The result bookended an unpredictable and at-times nasty campaign between McAdams and Republican Rep. Mia Love, with polling and early vote totals ping-ponging back and forth between the two candidates.With McAdams' election, Utah will have a Democratic represen
  
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• How, and why, BYU quarterback Zach Wilson’s family of die-hard Utah Utes fans turned from red to blue

  21-11-2018 22:26
  Lisa Wilson, a die-hard University of Utah football fan her entire life, was annoyed, then angry, then a little bit terrified.The mother of six walked into her Draper home last December and learned that her husband Mike, a defensive tackle on Utah’s football teams from 1992-95 under head coach Ron McBride, had just talked to BYU head coach Kalani Sitake.Mike told Lisa the Cougars were wondering if their son, standout Corner Canyon senior quarterback Zach Wilson, was interested in making a
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz vs. Sacramento Kings Key Match-up: Big-time backcourt battle

  21-11-2018 22:16 via sportspyder.com
  The key to a Utah Jazz victory against Sacramento will be slowing the dynamic backcourt duo of Buddy Hield and De'Aaron Fox. I recently wrote about how the...
  
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• [NBA] - Joe Ingles brings family along for Zions Bank video shoot

  21-11-2018 22:08 via sportspyder.com
  Basketball isn’t for the weak.But neither is parenting.That’s what a recently released Zions Bank commercial featuring Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles taught us. As the father to twins—Jacob and Milla—Ingles is no stranger to being outnumbered.
  
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• Questions about the romaine warning? Here are some answers

  21-11-2018 22:00
  New York • Avoid all romaine lettuce, but don’t worry about your turkey.With two food poisoning outbreaks making headlines before Thanksgiving, the messages about what's safe to eat can be hard to keep straight. Here's what you should know before you sit down for dinner.What lettuce outbreak?On Tuesday, U.S. health officials issued an unusually broad warning against all types of romaine lettuce amid an E. coli outbreak. They asked restaurants and grocers to stop selling it, people to
  
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• Utah Jazz vs. Sacramento Kings Key Match-up: Big-time backcourt battle

  21-11-2018 21:59
  The key to a Utah Jazz victory against Sacramento will be slowing the dynamic backcourt duo of Buddy Hield and De’Aaron Fox. I recently wrote about how the Sacramento Kings are no longer a team that can be overlooked, so the Utah Jazz can’t afford to do so when the two teams tip-off this evening. […]
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• Utah men’s basketball team can build its NCAA Tournament credentials this week in the Wooden Legacy

  21-11-2018 21:48
  Kyle Kuzma's sprained ankle in Honolulu is memorable in Utah's recent basketball history, because of how the injury hurt the Utes' NCAA Tournament credentials.The loss of Kuzma in a first-round game of the 2016 Diamond Head Classic altered the Utes' path in the tournament, as they fell to San Francisco in the opening round. Winning the consolation bracket didn’t do Utah much good, and that’s why Thursday night’s game vs. Hawaii in the Wooden Legacy is vital to the 2018-19 Utes.
  
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• #ShootaroundInterview 🎙️: "We're going to play our game. We've been showing two faces this season and we've been… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-11-2018 21:41 via twitter.com
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - NBA Power Rankings: Will the real Utah Jazz please stand up?

  21-11-2018 21:41 via sportspyder.com
  A whirlwind 2-2 week offered a little of everything.
  
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• Tell The Tribune: Are you a Republican who voted for Ben McAdams?

  21-11-2018 21:11
  Public polling and this year’s election results suggest that many traditionally conservative voters in Utah’s 4th District opted to support Democrat Ben McAdams over Republican Mia Love.We want to hear from these Utahns: How did you decide who to vote for? What were the issues on your mind as you cast your ballot?window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.3.min.js"><\/script>')
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah men’s basketball team can build its NCAA Tournament credentials this week in the Wooden Legacy

  21-11-2018 21:10 via sportspyder.com
  Kyle Kuzma's sprained ankle in Honolulu is memorable in Utah's recent basketball history, because of how the injury hurt the Utes' NCAA Tournament credentials.
  
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• American believed dead after encounter with remote Indian tribe hostile to outsiders

  21-11-2018 20:57
  New Dehli • A 27-year-old American tourist was killed by members of one of India’s most isolated hunter-and-gatherer tribes, according to police in the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands.The American man, John Allen Chau, paid five fishermen to take him to North Sentinel Island, said Deepak Yadav, a senior police official in the city of Port Blair.The island is home to the tiny Sentinelese tribe, whose members reject contact with the wider world and react with hostility and violence t
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Weekly Run: Time for the Jazz to stop ‘showing two faces’

  21-11-2018 20:49 via sportspyder.com
  The Weekly Run is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter about all things Utah Jazz. Subscribe here.
  
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• Rebuking Trump’s criticism of ‘Obama judge,’ Chief Justice Roberts defends judiciary as ‘independent’

  21-11-2018 20:48
  Washington • U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday issued an extraordinary statement in response to President Donald Trump’s criticism of federal judges, one day after the president blamed an “Obama judge” for ruling against his administration’s ban on asylum for those who cross the border illegally."We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges," Roberts said in a statement released the day before Thanksgiving. "What we have is an
  
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• The Weekly Run: Time for the Jazz to stop ‘showing two faces’

  21-11-2018 20:41
  The Weekly Run is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter about all things Utah Jazz. Subscribe here.One night the Jazz are beating Memphis, the next they’re getting blown out in Dallas. They’re beating full-strength Boston, then falling apart against short-handed Indiana.They’re as frustrated about it as fans are.“We’ve been showing two faces this season, and we’re being up and down most of the time,” point guard Ricky Rubio conceded at Wednesda
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - ‘Mormon Land’: Funeral potatoes, green Jell-O, the Word of Wisdom — they’re all on the menu in this podcast about food and faith

  21-11-2018 20:37 via sportspyder.com
  It’s Thanksgiving week, and Americans’ thoughts — and stomachs — turn inevitably to food.
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Funeral potatoes, green Jell-O, the Word of Wisdom — they’re all on the menu in this podcast about food and faith

  21-11-2018 20:32
  It’s Thanksgiving week, and Americans’ thoughts — and stomachs — turn inevitably to food.What better time, then, to explore whether Latter-day Saints have any special connection to food or, at least, certain foods? After all, we’ve all heard about funeral potatoes and green Jell-O. But the faith also has a health code that counsels members on what they should and should not eat or drink. What role does it play?Here to discuss this topic is Christy Spackman, who hold
  
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• Get your phones City ready ❤️🧡💛 #WallpaperWednesday https://t.co/9Adifct4rc

  21-11-2018 19:43 via twitter.com
  
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• Midway’s Ice Castles are taking shape, as low temperatures help crews grow icicles

  21-11-2018 19:26
  Freezing temperatures are usually an obstacle for construction — but not for the artisans building the Ice Castles installation in Midway.“Mother Nature has been our friend this month,” said Ryan Davis, CEO of Ice Castles, the company behind the annual 1-acre walk-through ice-and-light display.Below-freezing temperatures at night this week have made the ice-making easier, the company said in a statement.Crews are growing and harvesting up to 10,000 inches of icicles each day. T
  
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• An Orem man sued after he was convicted, then acquitted, of killing his wife. A judge has dismissed claims against the prosecutor who first took the case to trial.

  21-11-2018 19:05
  A federal judge has dismissed claims against prosecutors in a lawsuit filed last year by an Orem man who was convicted then later acquitted of his wife’s shooting death.Conrad Mark Truman alleged in the federal lawsuit that law enforcement used “misleading, false and outright fabricated” evidence to charge him with murder and keep him behind bars for nearly four years.Truman was convicted by a jury in 2014 of murder and obstruction of justice — despite his testimony that
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Romney says Trump’s reaction to brutal murder of Saudi journalist goes against ‘basic human rights’

  21-11-2018 19:00 via sportspyder.com
  Sen.-elect Mitt Romney is slamming President Donald Trump’s statements on a slain Saudi journalist, tweeting Tuesday that they are “inconsistent ... with American greatness.”
  
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• How, and why, BYU quarterback Zach Wilson’s family of diehard Utah Utes fans turned from red to blue

  21-11-2018 19:00
  Lisa Wilson, a diehard University of Utah football fan her entire life, was annoyed, then angry, then a little bit terrified.The mother of six walked into her Draper home last December and learned that her husband Mike, a defensive tackle on Utah’s football teams from 1992-95 under head coach Ron McBride, had just talked to BYU head coach Kalani Sitake.Mike told Lisa the Cougars were wondering if their son, standout Corner Canyon senior quarterback Zach Wilson, was interested in making a r
  
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• Romney says Trump’s reaction to brutal murder of Saudi journalist goes against ‘basic human rights’

  21-11-2018 18:50
  Sen.-elect Mitt Romney is slamming President Donald Trump’s statements on a slain Saudi journalist, tweeting Tuesday that they are “inconsistent ... with American greatness.”Earlier in the day, Trump had announced the U.S. would not be taking further action against Saudi Arabia for the killing of Jamal Kashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who was a vocal critic of the Saudi government. The CIA has concluded that the Saudi crown prince ordered the brutal murder.In his tweet, Ro
  
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• Holly Richardson: Gobble Gobble Give is looking to feed 1,000 people tomorrow and they need your help

  21-11-2018 18:40
  For the past 20 years, Barry Walker has gotten together with a group of friends on Thanksgiving morning to feed the homeless in their neighborhood. They all bring a dish of traditional holiday food, some gently used clothes and shoes and toiletries and a blanket or two.In the beginning, these friends gathered around a table where they caught up on each other’s lives, then packed their homemade dishes into take-out containers and headed to feed where people living in their cars, alleyways o
  
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• The star of ‘Babe’ brought a dead piglet to the Utah Capitol to make a point about animal cruelty

  21-11-2018 18:34
  Demonstrators carried the stiff carcasses of several dead piglets into the Utah Capitol on Tuesday, saying the deceased animals are clear signs that some farms in Utah engage in animal cruelty as part of their everyday business practices and that needs to change.The group, the California-based Direct Action Everywhere, hoped to drop off letters and show the piglets — which they called “concrete, visual proof” of cruelty — to Gov. Gary Herbert, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and Att
  
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• Utah County ranks No. 6 nationally for employment growth over past year

  21-11-2018 18:28
  Utah County is among the nation’s leaders for creating new jobs over the past year — ranking No. 6 among the country’s 349 largest counties, according to federal data released Wednesday.The number of jobs there, where Silicon Slopes is fueling more high-tech jobs, jumped by 4.8 percent between June 2017 and June 2018, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.That was more than three times more than the national average job growth of 1.5 percent.The top large county in t
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Could the Utah Jazz make a trade with the Wizards?

  21-11-2018 18:18 via sportspyder.com
  What would it take for the Jazz to get Bradley Beal or Otto Porter?
  
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• Provocative Provo artist’s latest pro-Trump painting portrays the president triumphant on a football field

  21-11-2018 17:56
  Just in time for BYU-Utah rivalry week, Jon McNaughton is selling prints of his latest pro-Donald Trump painting — which depicts the president in a red jersey crossing the goal line as he leaves blue-clad defenders in his wake.Brigham Young University and the University of Utah have nothing to do with it, of course. Trump is outfitted in red to represent Republicans; the others are in blue to represent Democrats.The players are painted in vintage football uniforms, complete with leather he
  
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• Cold weather and snowmaking machines push Snowbird opening up to Saturday

  21-11-2018 17:29
  There will be plenty of places to ski in Utah over Thanksgiving weekend. Recent cold weather has been a boon for resorts — including Snowbird, which will open for the season Saturday,Ten days of low overnight temperatures and “the herculean efforts of our snowmaking crews” have Snowbird ready to open six days earlier than previously announced, President and General Manager Dave Fields said in a news release. “Weather forecasts show a system change later this week, allowin
  
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• The day before Thanksgiving is the busiest of the year at Utah liquor stores

  21-11-2018 17:16
  Limited parking. Empty shelves. Long checkout lines.That’s what Dailene Christensen dodged by shopping at a Salt Lake City wine store Tuesday.“We wanted to avoid coming in tomorrow,” said Christensen, who knows the day before Thanksgiving is typically the busiest day of the year at Utah’s 45 state-run liquor stores.“Of course, we have to go grocery shopping, too,” said her daughter Deri Trinnaman, “and there will probably be lines there.”“Pri
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Dana Milbank: Nancy Pelosi is the best person to lead the House Democrats. That’s why she should retire.

  21-11-2018 16:56 via sportspyder.com
  Washington - Nancy Pelosi had an exceptional 2018 midterm election cycle. Her prodigious fundraising and the message discipline she helped impose propelled House Democrats to their biggest gains since 1974. She has proved herself to be a skilled...
  
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• Dana Milbank: Nancy Pelosi is the best person to lead the House Democrats. That’s why she should retire.

  21-11-2018 16:52
  Washington - Nancy Pelosi had an exceptional 2018 midterm election cycle. Her prodigious fundraising and the message discipline she helped impose propelled House Democrats to their biggest gains since 1974. She has proved herself to be a skilled legislative whip, and she is — by far — the best person to lead House Democrats in 2019.This is why she should announce her retirement.Paradoxical? Not at all.The 16 House Democrats who signed a letter Monday declaring they would vote against
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Political Cornflakes: President Trump again goes after one of his favorite targets — the courts

  21-11-2018 16:35 via sportspyder.com
  Trump lashes out at the 9th Circuit court with a vague threat. Ben McAdams brings the blue wave to landlocked Utah. And Utahns may soon be driving to Wendover for more than gambling.
  
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• Political Cornflakes: President Trump again goes after one of his favorite targets — the courts

  21-11-2018 16:28
  Trump lashes out at the 9th Circuit court with a vague threat. Ben McAdams brings the blue wave to landlocked Utah. And Utahns may soon be driving to Wendover for more than gambling.Happy Wednesday. President Donald Trump is once again attacking a federal court that ruled against him. In fact, he lashed out at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals even before it has weighed in on a district judge’s ruling against Trump’s ban on asylum for some migrants. The president called the court &ldq
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: As Trump looks the other way on Khashoggi’s murder, is it time for some oversight?

  21-11-2018 16:12 via sportspyder.com
  Last Friday, The Washington Post broke the story that “the CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month.”
  
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• Commentary: As Trump looks the other way on Khashoggi’s murder, is it time for some oversight?

  21-11-2018 16:02
  Last Friday, The Washington Post broke the story that “the CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month.”This was simultaneously completely unsurprising and vitally important. It was unsurprising because the shifting stories about Khashoggi’s murder that the Saudi government had put out — finally culminating in the claim that it was the work of a “rogue” group &mdas
  
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• Letter: Why have Republicans made Nancy Pelosi a supervillain?

  21-11-2018 15:53
  It puzzles me how House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has become the poster child for why voters should vote Republican. What exactly has she done to garner such virulent disdain?When I bring up her name with Republican friends, many automatically react with disgust about what she represents to them as being a glaring example of a despicable politician. For them, a vote for a Democrat is a vote for one of their most detested legislative villains.Then, I ask them to specifically identify what it i
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Take changing gun culture seriously

  21-11-2018 15:52 via sportspyder.com
  You had me. Then you wimped out!
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Does Trump care more about a cover-up than murder?

  21-11-2018 15:52 via sportspyder.com
  Does Trump care more about a cover-up than murder?
  
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• Letter: Mueller time is far from up

  21-11-2018 15:52
  James Green (“Mueller time is up,” Nov. 18) has stated that the Mueller investigation has "produced nothing of substance." At least he didn't state "No collusion!"I would refer him to a Sept. 17 New York Times article, which states:"Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating possible links between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, has issued more than 100 criminal counts against 32 people and three companies. Additionally, two people — Michael D. Cohen, a
  
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• Letter: Does Trump care more about a cover-up than murder?

  21-11-2018 15:50
  Does Trump care more about a cover-up than murder?What does it say about the moral compass of our president that he is more concerned about the botched cover-up, “one of the worst cover-ups in the history of cover-ups,” of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi than he appears to be over the man's assassination itself? The execution of the plan produced a stronger response than the execution of the man. It says a lot more about Trump than he seems to realize.Louise Ewing, Salt Lake
  
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• Letter: Take changing gun culture seriously

  21-11-2018 15:43
  You had me. Then you wimped out!A great and reasoned opinion piece on taking guns seriously. Until it wasn’t. (“Take guns seriously,” Tribune editorial, Nov. 16.)Saying that universal background checks and prohibitions of semi-automatic weapons are “beyond the realm of political reality” is an excuse as opposed to leading the charge for changing the political, legal and social climate toward guns. Semi-automatic and automatic weapons have become the weapons of mass
  
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• Letter: Simple math tells us Utah voters were right to choose Medicaid expansion

  21-11-2018 15:33
  In the Nov. 16 Tribune, state Sen. Jacob Anderegg (R-Lehi) decries our voters choosing Medicaid expansion as putting Utah on “the fast road to bankruptcy.”Fear rhetoric.For those not traumatized by simple math, there is a lot of comfort in a few numbers. The federal government (i.e. “We the people”) will invest $800 million each year into Utah’s health care economy. This amount is very similar to the $814 million that the feds already invest each year into Utah&rsqu
  
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• Letter: We should end the politics of bullying

  21-11-2018 15:32
  I find it ironic that we are so focused on stopping bullying in schools, yet we condone it in our daily lives. We wonder why kids are prone to bully others. One reason may be because they see it every day on TV.Political campaigns have evolved into bullying ads. The Ben McAdams vs. Mia Love campaign consisted of nonstop negative comments. Rather than promoting their own qualifications, they chose to degrade each other. Every day, for weeks, we were exposed to a barrage of TV bullying ads. We see
  
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• Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke says he’ll put emphasis on building culture over the offseason

  21-11-2018 15:30
  Sandy • With the way Real Salt Lake ended its season on an upswing, coach Mike Petke is putting a premium on culture this offseason.Part of that culture, Petke said Tuesday during his final press conference of the year, is finding players who will fit with the dynamic of the current roster. He said he wants 30 players — not 18, 22 or 25 — that will exhibit a team-first mentality.“My staff and I, with the majority of players, have done a lot since I took over in improving t
  
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• Letter: What about those other counties?

  21-11-2018 15:30
  Three cheers for Mia Love’s dedication to protecting the integrity of the 4th Congressional District election!Given the governor’s description of Utah County elections as the “epicenter of dysfunction,” I eagerly await the representative’s efforts to double-check those ballots as well. Surely the lawsuits to review the ballot signatures in Juab, Sanpete and Utah counties will be delivered any day now!Michael Baker, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• New Mexico election official seeks same-day registration

  21-11-2018 15:28
  Santa Fe, N.M. • New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver will urge state lawmakers to expand automated voter registration at state agency offices and embrace other initiatives aimed at encouraging voter participation, after record-breaking turnout in the state’s midterm election.The state’s top election and campaign finance regulator told reporters on Tuesday that she would lobby for legislation in 2019 to allow same-day voter registration and to open major party pr
  
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