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• ‘Trib Talk’: Opioid manufacturers spend a lot of money on the Utah doctors who prescribe their drugs

  28-11-2018 23:49
  Some Utah physicians receive tens of thousands of dollars in free meals, speaking fees and other incentives from opioid manufacturers, as pharmaceutical representatives work to build lucrative relationships with the doctors who prescribe medicine to their patients.It’s a dynamic that is illuminated by new federal disclosure rules, and one that has come under fire as communities in Utah and around the country grapple with an opioid epidemic that puts patients on a path to addiction and, in
  
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• NBA Daily: First Quarter Grades: Northwest Division

  28-11-2018 23:35 via basketballinsiders.com
  David Yapkowitz continues Basketball Insiders' "First Quarter Grades" series with a look at the Northwest Division.
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee blocks proposed legislation to protect Mueller investigation of Russian meddling in U.S. election

  28-11-2018 23:27
  Washington • Sen. Mike Lee of Utah objected Wednesday to passing legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, scuttling a bipartisan attempt to ensure President Donald Trump can’t end the probe into whether he or his team colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election.Democratic Sens. Chris Coons of Delaware and Cory Booker of New Jersey and Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona had attempted to pass the bill by unanimous consent, a maneuver that can be
  
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• Alexandra Petri: You are in Melania Trump’s nightmare forest. Keep to the path.

  28-11-2018 23:04
  Listen to me. The trees in the White House were all green when I got here. They were all green as recently as Monday. But the trees have turned.Walk faster.Don't be afraid. The trees would smell it.Things are wrong here. Little details are wrong. The attorney general is different. He hasn't been confirmed by the Senate. We go nearly a month between daily press briefings. The trees are red. The phrase "Be Best" is everywhere. "Be Best." As though to "be best" is grammatical and not the clumsy art
  
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• Holly Richardson: This Christmas, remember the families of children with extra challenges

  28-11-2018 23:00
  Thirty years ago this week, I became the mother of a special needs child when our daughter Elizabeth was born. She came to this earth with a variety of disabilities that added up to “severe.” That had not been in my plan for the neat little life I wanted to live and it rocked me to the core. In an attempt to be helpful and comforting, people shared with me the “Welcome to Holland” story by Emily Perl Kingsley. In it, Kingsley likens becoming a mom to a child with special
  
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• All-female ski team provides another route for racers

  28-11-2018 23:00
  Foreste Peterson confronted a cold reality after four years on the U.S. ski team development squad and four more competing at Dartmouth College : Her racing days were about to end.Not ready to retire, there were not many other avenues, either. Time to put those environmental and geography studies to use , Peterson reckoned.Out of the blue, Peterson received an offer almost too good to be true: Funds for housing, travel and coaching to keep her on the slopes.The 25-year-old Peterson is a member o
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz quarter one report card: Joe Ingles, Royce O’Neale at SF

  28-11-2018 22:48 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz small forwards Joe Ingles and Royce O'Neale have both had their ups and downs in the early season. We've reached the quarter-point of the 2018-19...
  
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• Utah Jazz quarter one report card: Joe Ingles, Royce O’Neale at SF

  28-11-2018 22:31
  Utah Jazz small forwards Joe Ingles and Royce O’Neale have both had their ups and downs in the early season. We’ve reached the quarter-point of the 2018-19 NBA season and things in the Utah Jazz’s corner of the basketball universe are less than great. As a collective, the Jazz are three games under .500 at the […]
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Eco-activist explains why her fellow Latter-day Saints can — and should — be environmentalists

  28-11-2018 22:29
  The federal government recently released a sweeping scientific report filled with dire predictions if climate change is left unchecked, but President Donald Trump is doubting his own administration’s findings.The White House’s perplexing response set off fresh conversations this week about the perils of a warming climate. As that debate, like the planet itself, heats up, we invited Ty Markham, a co-founder of the Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance, to discuss her grass-roots a
  
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• The Weekly Run: Jazz are struggling big-time, but insist ‘we’re not gonna start fraying’

  28-11-2018 22:23
  The Weekly Run is a weekly Salt Lake Tribune newletter on the Utah Jazz. Subscribe here.Monday’s 33-point loss to the Pacers at Vivint Smart Home Arena was not only the Jazz’s second-worst home defeat ever, and their sixth loss in their past eight games — it also seemed to serve as a flashpoint for some oppositional defiance.It manifested itself in different ways, of course.Jae Crowder was not taking issue with anyone in particular, but with the idea that the 9-12 start is who
  
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• At Salt Lake’s Taqueria Los Lee, the owners make guests feel like family while serving gorditas to rave about

  28-11-2018 22:10
  Taqueria Los Lee is, in many ways, reminiscent of your favorite aunt’s house —where family welcomes you with open arms and delicious smells waft from the kitchen.The Lee family began catering in Utah more than 15 years ago and, with the recent opening of Taqueria Los Lee, multigenerations are able to work together and share the food of their homeland.Charm and kindness radiate from the taqueria’s corner table, where guests will sometimes find co-owners Oscar and Rosa Lee and ot
  
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• Utah State’s Matt Wells named Mountain West coach of the year; school record-tying 18 Aggies make all-conference team

  28-11-2018 22:06
  The Utah State Aggies had history-making season, finishing 10-2 and falling just short of the Mountain West Conference championship game.The league noticed.USU’s Matt Wells was named the Mountain West Coach of the Year, while 18 Aggies earned various all-conference accolades as the league office announced its postseason football honors on Wednesday. In all, USU had eight offensive players, eight defensive players and two specialists recognized.Utah State’s 18 all-conference honors we
  
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• Sundance Film Festival for 2019 breaks records for submissions and diversity, as its new programming director shatters a glass ceiling

  28-11-2018 22:00
  The 2019 Sundance Film Festival will boast “the most inclusive lineup we’ve had in a long time,” said new programming director Kim Yutani — and her team has the numbers to prove it.Organizers at Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute announced Wednesday a slate of titles — chosen from a record 14,259 submissions, including 4,018 feature-length films — that will screen Jan. 24-Feb. 3 in Park City, Salt Lake City and at the Sundance resort.Of the 112 films se
  
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• Here are the 112 movies set to screen at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival

  28-11-2018 22:00
  Here are the 112 movies, announced Wednesday by the Sundance Institute, that will screen at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The festival runs Jan. 24-Feb. 3 in Park City and at venues in Salt Lake City and the Sundance resort.Some passes are still on sale at sundance,org. So are 10-ticket packages for the festival’s second half (Jan. 30-Feb. 3), for Salt Lake City screenings, and for Utah students. The schedule of when and where movies will screen will be posted soon on sundance.org.Peopl
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Opioid manufacturers spend a lot on money on the Utah doctors who prescribe their drugs

  28-11-2018 21:49
  Some Utah physicians receive tens of thousands of dollars in free meals, speaking fees and other incentives from opioid manufacturers, as pharmaceutical representatives work to build lucrative relationships with the doctors who prescribe medicine to their patients.It’s a dynamic that is illuminated by new federal disclosure rules, and one that has come under fire as communities in Utah and around the country grapple with an opioid epidemic that puts patients on a path to addiction and, in
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah State’s Matt Wells named Mountain West coach of the year; school record-tying 18 Aggies make all-conference team

  28-11-2018 21:46 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah State Aggies had history-making season, finishing 10-2 and falling just short of the Mountain West Conference championship game.
  
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• 🗝: Rubio vs. Dinwiddie Tipoff: 5:30PM MT #KeyMatchup | @USFcorp https://t.co/IlJCO2mjbb

  28-11-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  
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• [Sports Illustrated] - Donovan Mitchell and the Jazz stumble out of the gate | SI.com

  28-11-2018 21:07 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz entered the 2018-19 season with big expectations. They've failed to live up  to those thus far, with Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert and others taking a step back. 
  
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• Can you speak as many languages as Raul Neto? #LookItUp | @Xfinity https://t.co/fDuL5dMRjf

  28-11-2018 20:45 via twitter.com
  
  Can you speak as many languages as Raul Neto? #LookItUp| @Xfinity https://t.co/fDuL5dMRjf
  
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• Utah corner Julian Blackmon has rolled with the punches this season, but he has a message for the naysayers

  28-11-2018 20:32
  In the hours after Utah bested Oregon on November 10, still maintaining the hope that the fleeting Pac-12 South crown might soon belong to the Utes, one of Utah’s most important players took to Twitter and gave thanks. In giant pinkish letters, Julian Blackmon wrote: “Thank you.” The two words were placed over a photo of himself addressing the media at an earlier time. Surrounding his thanks were various messages he’s seen or received throughout his junior season.None of
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - At Salt Lake’s Taqueria Los Lee, the owners make guests feel like family while serving gorditas to rave about

  28-11-2018 20:27 via sportspyder.com
  South Salt Lake • Taqueria Los Lee is, in many ways, reminiscent of your favorite aunt’s house —where family welcomes you with open arms and delicious smells waft from the kitchen.
  
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• Salt Lake City gets its first Miracle pop-up bar filled with Christmas kitsch and holiday cocktails

  28-11-2018 20:16
  Salt Lake City is about to get a miracle.Actually, Utah’s capital is one of 90 sites around the globe that will host the Miracle Bar — a Christmas-themed pop-up with kitschy décor and holiday cocktails. It opens Friday and runs through Dec. 31 at the Hotel Monaco, 15 W. 200 South.For the monthlong run, the downtown hotel has transformed its Vault Bar into a gift-wrapped lounge with twinkling lights, wintery scenes and a 12-foot Nutcracker geared for the Instagram and selfie cr
  
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• Number of undocumented immigrants in Utah hits a 10-year low

  28-11-2018 20:10
  The number of undocumented immigrants in Utah is decreasing and has hit its lowest point in a decade, according to a new study.The Pew Research Center estimates that 95,000 immigrants without papers lived in Utah in 2016, a reduction from 100,000 in 2015 — and down from a peak of 110,000 in 2007.However, the latest estimate — based on U.S. Census Bureau data — has a margin of error of 10,000 people, plus or minus. So Pew cautions that the latest apparent one-year drop could be
  
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• Dana Milbank: The truth is finally catching up with Trump

  28-11-2018 20:06
  Video: Hurricane Florence is one of many signs of climate change, and those who deny it are complicit in the destruction, meteorologist Eric Holthaus says. (Gillian Brockell, Kate Woodsome, Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)
  Washington - In the beginning, they proffered “alternative facts.” Later, they told us that “truth isn’t truth.”All along, President Trump and his lieutenants were betting that Jonathan Swift was correct when he wrote more than three centuries a
  
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• Salt Lake City police provides video of officers shooting Cody Belgard, whose family has questioned the killing

  28-11-2018 20:05
  Salt Lake City police released video Wednesday showing officers shooting and killing Cody Belgard on Nov. 9.Belgard’s family has raised questions about why police were pursuing Belgard, 30. The family has described him as non-violent.The police department statements, however, has described Belgard as ramming a police car when he fled officers who approached him in a Sugar House parking lot earlier that night. When officers found Belgard later in Rose Park, police wrote, he was “nonco
  
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• With passage of Prop 2, Utah Patients Coalition reorganizes, shifts attention to lobbying the Legislature

  28-11-2018 20:01
  The campaign behind this year's medical cannabis initiative is changing shape so it can continue pushing state policymakers for patient access to the treatment.The group, Utah Patients Coalition, has operated so far as a political issues committee (PIC) dedicated to the passage of Proposition 2. Now, it’s reorganizing as a political action committee (PAC), an entity that can advocate generally on legislative and political issues.The group’s new director, Desiree Hennessy, said the fi
  
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• State and federal officials are asking a judge to toss ex-AG Mark Shurtleff’s $60 million lawsuit

  28-11-2018 19:35
  State and federal officials are asking a judge to toss a $60 million civil rights lawsuit filed earlier this year by former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who is suing everyone involved in investigating and charging him with public corruption four years ago.It was one of Utah’s most sweeping political scandals in state history, which resulted in the dismissal of all charges against Shurtleff in 2016.But Shurtleff argues in a civil lawsuit that even though charges were dropped, the d
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jennifer Rubin: Not a natural maverick, Romney still shouldn’t be simply a go-alonger

  28-11-2018 19:32 via sportspyder.com
  The Senate next year will be more Republican, more-Trumpian, and more likely to genuflect to the White House with the absence of the late Arizona senator John McCain, R-Ariz., as well as less dogmatically pro-Trump Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and Jeff..
  
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• #WallpaperWednesday 🎨 Have you visited either of our downtown murals? 📍 Main Street » on.nba.com/2zwkg54 📍 B… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-11-2018 19:31 via twitter.com
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• Jennifer Rubin: Not a natural maverick, Romney still shouldn’t be simply a go-alonger

  28-11-2018 19:23
  The Senate next year will be more Republican, more-Trumpian, and more likely to genuflect to the White House with the absence of the late Arizona senator John McCain, R-Ariz., as well as less dogmatically pro-Trump Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and Jeff Flake of Arizona. But it doesn't mean the body is consigned to knee-jerk support of Trump and the amplification of the president's pro-Russia, pro-tariff, anti-immigrant message. While the Senate will lose Corker and Flake, Mitt Romney of Utah is
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah fans have snapped up tickets for Pac-12 title game and are excited about a potential Rose Bowl trip. Any other bowl, though? Maybe not.

  28-11-2018 19:09 via sportspyder.com
  This is the dilemma that Utah football fans always wished they would have: Should they spend money to attend Friday's Pac-12 championship game, or just hope the Utes win and make plans for the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day?
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - One Theory on Utah’s Struggles: Not Enough Fun

  28-11-2018 19:05 via sportspyder.com
  It is no secret that the Utah Jazz have gotten off to a slower start than many in Utah and around the league had anticipated. Beyond that, it’s more than just the 9-12 season record that have fans …
  
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• Utah fans have snapped up tickets for Pac-12 title game and are excited about a potential Rose Bowl trip. Any other bowl, though? Maybe not.

  28-11-2018 19:00
  This is the dilemma that Utah football fans always wished they would have: Should they spend money to attend Friday's Pac-12 championship game, or just hope the Utes win and make plans for the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day?Or both?Other questions will come into play if Utes lose to Washington and miss their Rose Bowl opportunity. How many fans would follow the team to another bowl? And how far might the Utes fall in the Pac-12's bowl structure?The novelty of Utah’s first appearance in the Pa
  
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• “We definitely see him the same way the Jazz do, definitely the future of Adidas Basketball and being a great partn… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-11-2018 18:57 via twitter.com
  “We definitely see him the same way the Jazz do, definitely the future of Adidas Basketball and being a great partn… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Salt Lake City police provide video of officers shooting Cody Belgard, whose family has questioned the killing

  28-11-2018 18:25
  Salt Lake City police on Wednesday released video showing officers shooting and killing Cody Belgard on Nov. 9.Belgard’s family has raised questions about why police were pursuing Belgard, 30. The family has described him as non-violent.The police department statements, however, has described Belgard as ramming a police car when he and his girlfriend fled officers who approached him in a Sugar House parking lot earlier that night. When officers found Belgard later in Rose Park, police wrot
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Adidas pushes Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell as future of its basketball line at Brooklyn event

  28-11-2018 18:17 via sportspyder.com
  On the eve of Utah’s road matchup versus the Brooklyn Nets, Mitchell was a surprise guest Tuesday night as Adidas introduced its latest footwear collection for the 2019 spring/summer.
  
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• Get a $10 Team Store gift card with each ticket you purchase to a December or January home game. Use promo code HOL… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-11-2018 18:14 via twitter.com
  Get a $10 Team Store gift card with each ticket you purchase to a December or January home game. Use promo code HOL… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Adidas pushes Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell as future of its basketball line at Brooklyn event

  28-11-2018 18:11
  BROOKLYN — Just two hours after landing in New York, Utah Jazz players Jae Crowder, Georges Niang, Alec Burks, Ekpe Udoh, Royce O'Neale, Ricky Rubio and even head coach Quin Snyder entered the Adidas Brooklyn Farm to support teammate Donovan Mitchell.On the eve of Utah's road matchup versus the Brooklyn Nets, Mitchell was a surprise guest Tuesday night as Adidas introduced its latest footwear collection for the 2019 Spring/Summer.Mitchell showed up in an exclusive pair of N3XT L3V3L sneake
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Adidas pushes Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell as future of basketball line at Brooklyn event

  28-11-2018 17:38 via sportspyder.com
  On the eve of Utah’s road matchup versus the Brooklyn Nets, Mitchell was a surprise guest Tuesday night as Adidas introduced its latest footwear collection for the 2019 spring/summer.
  
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• Letter: Some suggestions for when Democrats take control of the House

  28-11-2018 16:39
  Republicans in our Republican-controlled Congress have failed our country by sitting on their hands while our rogue president has made a mess of things.Maybe when Democrats take control of the House in January, they can enact some remedies. Following are some suggestions.Pass legislation making it illegal for presidents to lie.Establish a prerequisite that all candidates for president must demonstrate a familiarity with our Constitution, particularly the passages relating to the separation of po
  
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• Letter: McAdams is a Democrat in name only

  28-11-2018 16:36
  Democrats worked very hard to elect Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams to the U.S. House of Representatives. The final result of all that effort was his victory after a touch-and-go period of ballot reporting. Utah, despite the gerrymandering, had elected someone to represent the non-Republican residents of the state.Then we learned that the joke was on us. McAdams revealed himself to be a Democrat in name only. Like his predecessor Jim Matheson, he plans to vote with the Republicans against Nan
  
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• Letter: What was holding Love back before?

  28-11-2018 16:35
  I was happy when Mia Love first got elected to Congress with the hope that a fresh face from a first-generation minority immigrant might be a start to meaningful change for Utah and our country.Now, with Ms. Love’s crybaby response to her recent defeat (which happened in spite of the Tribune’s endorsement), she has provided ample reason to believe my original viewpoint was not correct.In her news conference and various cable news appearances, former Rep. Love talked about how she is
  
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• Letter: Bagley deserves a big hug for his parody of McNaughton’s ludicrous painting

  28-11-2018 16:18
  A big Thanksgiving hug to editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley for his wonderful parody (Tribune, Nov. 25) of the ridiculously heroic painting by Jon McNaughton of a snarling Donald Trump running with a football (Tribune, Nov 22).Anybody who sees the deeply flawed Trump as a heroic figure has got to have some serious ethical issues himself, not to mention the sheer lunacy of depicting our cheeseburger-devouring president as an athlete.So thanks to Bagley for the more accurate portrait: Trump as an ov
  
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• Letter: Where are the cries of outrage over Khashoggi?

  28-11-2018 16:14
  The horrific murder of Washington Post writer Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi by Saudi assassins was met with little more than a shrug by the sitting president of the United States. In a nauseating response to this barbaric crime, Donald Trump insisted, “We stand with Saudi Arabia,” and proceeded to thank the Saudis for lower oil prices.What is equally chilling to me is the apparent acquiescence of elected officials to the brazen murder of an American resident. Where is the unison howling outr
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Are Trump’s rhetoric and policies tied to a rise in hate crimes? House Democrats plan to investigate that question.

  28-11-2018 15:57
  The expected incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says that when Democrats take over the chamber, they plan to investigate the rise in hate crimes and the ways President Donald Trump’s policies and rhetoric may be enabling it. In a letter to top administration officials on Tuesday, New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler said the Trump administration appears focused on “targeting specific racial and ethnic minorities as the suspected main sources of domestic terrorism." He pointed
  
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• Utah’s youngest legislator: ‘I won’t call anybody old if they don’t call me young.’

  28-11-2018 15:47
  Paradise • Casey Snider — farmer, firefighter, newly minted state legislator — declares sorrowfully that his energy levels have been fading a bit as he approaches the ripe old age of 33.The Cache County resident used to milk cows every morning before sunrise and then head to school for the day. He used to commute between Utah and D.C., taking the red-eye flight east on Sunday nights so he could start the workweek Monday morning. He used to run on three to four hours of sleep a n
  
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• Gehrke: A mail carrier’s simple act shows we don’t all have to be Brent Taylor to serve

  28-11-2018 15:47
  It was a letter that ordinarily might have been stamped undeliverable and returned to its sender.But this wasn’t an ordinary letter.This letter was addressed to “Mrs. Brent Taylor” and the address simply read, “Home of an American Hero, North Ogden, Utah 84414.”Based on the ZIP code, it got routed to the Ben Lomond Post Office. There, a clerk named Sterling Harris spotted it and recognized the name, and he and his colleagues did what needed to be done. So, when Jenn
  
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• Forest Service shows video of gender reveal explosion that started 2017 Arizona wildfire

  28-11-2018 15:45
  There are two things that outraged Arizonans can learn from a video that shows the start of the 47,000-acre Sawmill Fire, which caused more than $8 million in damage and took 800 firefighters a week to get under control:Explosives will immediately ignite tall grass and spread flames over a parched Arizona landscape, with devastating effects.Dennis Dickey’s baby is a boy.Authorities had already revealed the eye-rolling reason behind the massive 2017 wildfire: a Border Patrol agent’s g
  
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• Did police go too far in letting reporters question a handcuffed suspect accused in a cop’s death? Some defense attorneys think so.

  28-11-2018 15:43
  It was like a scene out of a movie: A suspect in a gray hoodie is led out of a police station in handcuffs, flanked by officers in the dark of night.Nearby, television cameras start rolling, lights flash in his eyes. He hangs his head as reporters rush to ask questions.That was the scene Monday evening as Unified police officials led Jeffrey Black to the Salt Lake County jail after he was arrested in connection to the death of South Salt Lake Police Officer David Romrell.Romrell was killed Satur
  
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