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• Salt Lake Tribune photos of the month for November 2018

  01-12-2018 23:45
  Here are the best photographs made by Salt Lake Tribune photographers in November.To keep up with the work of the newspaper’s photographers, follow The Tribune on Instagram.
  (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) (Trent Nelson/)A couple embraces during a dog walk in Salt Lake City’s Memory Grove on Nov. 1.
  (Francisco Kjolseth|The Salt Lake Tribune) (Francisco Kjolseth/)Ballet West dancer Lucas Horns volunteers on Sundays at the VOA Youth Resource Center, where he leads an LGBTQ suppo
  
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• “There were similarities to how they got to the rim, their size, athleticism. It was a fun week, sitting on the cou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-12-2018 23:37 via twitter.com
  “There were similarities to how they got to the rim, their size, athleticism. It was a fun week, sitting on the cou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Former Exponent II treasurer admits to stealing more than $100K from Mormon feminist magazine

  01-12-2018 23:23
  A former treasurer for Exponent II, one of Mormonism’s longest-running feminist magazines, stole more than $100,000 from the nonprofit foundation in Boston, the group announced Saturday.Suzette Smith, a professional organizer in Virginia, became Exponent’s volunteer treasurer in 2012 and embezzled donations to the group for her personal use from then until 2017, when her fraudulent activities came to light.“This was not an isolated incident or one-time lapse in judgment; she ac
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Congressional candidate Shireen Ghorbani enters the race for county mayor

  01-12-2018 23:18 via sportspyder.com
  Less than a month after the end of her first political race in Congressional District 2, Shireen Ghorbani has announced she will run for the Salt Lake County mayor seat being vacated by Rep.-elect Ben McAdams.
  
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• Congressional candidate Shireen Ghorbani enters the race for county mayor

  01-12-2018 23:11
  Less than a month after the end of her first political race in Congressional District 2, Shireen Ghorbani has announced she will run for the Salt Lake County mayor seat being vacated by Rep.-elect Ben McAdams.Ghorbani is a communications professional at the University of Utah and ran unsuccessfully to unseat Rep. Chris Stewart, but was wildly popular in the Salt Lake County portions of the district, winning 67 percent of the vote.The half-Iranian daughter of an immigrant, Ghorbani decided to run
  
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• Utah’s Hogle Zoo annual winter lights show opens

  01-12-2018 22:20
  Jennie Taylor, and her family flipped the switch lighting up the ZooLights at Hogle Zoo, the state’s largest animated light display, Friday night.Zoo-goers braved a heavy snow storm as they strolled around the zoo, checking out the lights, which included 10 animal lanterns.Jennie Taylor, whose husband, Maj. Brent Taylor, was killed in action in Afghanistan last month, was treated to a backstage tour of the zoo, by Hogle Zoo Director Steve Burns. The family was able to to feed the giraffes
  
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• Fresh snow carpets the Salt Lake Valley as a frosty morning gives way to clear skies.

  01-12-2018 22:20
  Fresh snow carpets the Salt Lake Valley as the early morning sun reveals a few winter worshippers taking advantage of conditions at Bonneville Golf Course in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018. Ski resorts in the high country reported over 12 inches of accumulation with more expected over the next several days.
  
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• The anatomy of a trade: This is what happened to new Jazz forward Kyle Korver when he was dealt from Cleveland to Utah

  01-12-2018 22:11
  Less than 48 hours after learning he had been traded from Cleveland to Utah, Kyle Korver stepped on the floor on Friday for the first time as a Jazzman in 2018, and immediately hit a three just 12 seconds after entering the game.But to get Korver to that point was a mammoth undertaking by a team of behind-the-scenes individuals working together to make it possible to put him in a Jazz uniform so quickly, and to set Korver up with a future in Utah for the rest of the season. Here’s how it a
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Three cheers for Korver as Jazz visit Heat

  01-12-2018 22:03 via sportspyder.com
  Three cheers for Korver as Jazz visit Heat
  
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• American Fork senior Isaac Johnson goes back to roots, signs with Oregon Ducks

  01-12-2018 22:01
  American Fork • The interest in Isaac Johnson started early.After a showing at a California basketball camp in the summer after eighth grade — a performance he dubbed as unremarkable — he was pulled aside by a Utah State assistant basketball coach and offered a scholarship. Before that moment, Johnson never thought he would become an elite basketball player.“Then it just kind of dawned on me that I can actually be pretty good,” Johnson said.Now a senior at American F
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Former Exponent II treasurer admits to stealing more than $100K from Mormon feminist magazine

  01-12-2018 21:30 via sportspyder.com
  A former treasurer for Exponent II, one of Mormonism’s longest-running feminist magazines, stole more than $100,000 from the nonprofit foundation in Boston, the group announced Saturday.
  
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• George H.W. Bush helped lead GOP toward evangelicalism

  01-12-2018 20:43
  George H.W. Bush, who died Friday, was a lifetime Episcopalian, part of the blue blood of America’s founding Christianity. But as a presidential candidate, he was part of a Republican opening to evangelicalism that changed the country’s landscape.A bombing mission that plunged him into the Pacific Ocean during World War II and his younger daughter’s death from leukemia were among the times when he said he looked to God and prayer.Bush attended Christ Episcopal Church in Greenwi
  
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• 'Among the greatest heroes of the American Century’: Utah leaders remember George H. W. Bush

  01-12-2018 20:36
  Washington • Utah’s political leaders on Saturday paid tribute to former President George H.W. Bush, who died late Friday at age 94.The World War II aviator who served as a congressman, CIA director and U.N. Ambassador and presided over the final days of the Soviet Union, was a statesman who brought out the good in people, the Utah political figures said.“No one stood taller than George H.W. Bush, a giant among men,” tweeted Sen.-elect Mitt Romney, R-Utah. “Hero in w
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Pope Francis says he’s worried about homosexuality in the priesthood

  01-12-2018 20:34 via sportspyder.com
  Vatican City • Pope Francis has been quoted in a soon-to-be published book as saying that having gays in the clergy “is something that worries me” and remarking that some societies are considering homosexuality a “fashionable” lifestyle.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - George F. Will: Bush was summoned by events

  01-12-2018 20:34 via sportspyder.com
  Washington - At the beginning of his long and well-lived life, George Herbert Walker Bush, who in politics was always prosaic, acquired, by way of a grandfather, the name of a British poet and priest (George Herbert, 1593-1633). He acquired much else...
  
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• Pope Francis says he’s worried about homosexuality in the priesthood

  01-12-2018 20:31
  Vatican City • Pope Francis has been quoted in a soon-to-be published book as saying that having gays in the clergy “is something that worries me” and remarking that some societies are considering homosexuality a “fashionable” lifestyle.Italian daily Corriere della Sera’s website Saturday ran excerpts of the book in the form of an interview that Francis gave about religious vocations. Francis was quoted as describing homosexuality within the walls of seminaries
  
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• George F. Will: Bush was summoned by events

  01-12-2018 20:26
  Washington - At the beginning of his long and well-lived life, George Herbert Walker Bush, who in politics was always prosaic, acquired, by way of a grandfather, the name of a British poet and priest (George Herbert, 1593-1633). He acquired much else from family inheritance.The future 41st president was descended from a governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland -- from financier George Herbert Walker, whose name is on golf's Walker Cup -- and from a U.S. senator -- his father Prescott, o
  
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• New version of Utah Medical Cannabis Act broadens list of providers who can recommend marijuana

  01-12-2018 20:19
  An updated version of the drafted Utah Medical Cannabis Act, released Friday night, would expand the number of medical providers who could recommend the substance to patients.The revised bill debuted hours after Gov. Gary Herbert called lawmakers to convene Monday for a special session on medical marijuana. The legislation under consideration would overwrite Proposition 2, the ballot initiative that voters passed last month.Herbert and other state leaders in early October unveiled the cannabis b
  
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• Monson: Utah’s reward for a mostly stellar season should be more than just another crappy bowl

  01-12-2018 20:00
  Santa Clara, Calif.OK, so we know Utah will not be going to the Rose Bowl, having lost to Washington in the Pac-12 championship game here on Friday night. There will be no parade, no march down Colorado Boulevard, no history made. Where does that leave the Utes, heading into the second- and third- and fourth- and fifth-tier possibilities of Pac-12-affiliated bowl games? Which bowl game do the Utes deserve to be invited to?Well. As Bill Munny told Little Bill Daggett in the film Unforgiven, &ldqu
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - As president, George H. W. Bush visited Utah 3 times during his doomed campaign for re-election

  01-12-2018 19:56 via sportspyder.com
  President George H.W. Bush — back before he was using his middle initials — visited Utah three times during his one term in office. And all three times he was campaigning for a second term he didn’t win.
  
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• As president, George H. W. Bush visited Utah 3 times during his doomed campaign for re-election

  01-12-2018 19:50
  President George H.W. Bush — back before he was using his middle initials — visited Utah three times during his one term in office. And all three times he was campaigning for a second term he didn’t win.Sept. 8, 1991 • President Bush flew into the Salt Lake International Airport, where he was greeted by a crowd estimated at 7,000. He met with leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; visited patients at Primary Children's Medical Center, and later attende
  
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• ICYMI: Korver, Crowder light it up from deep as Jazz take down Hornets. » on.nba.com/2zCQCLg https://t.co/8Crfv3hI6N

  01-12-2018 19:43 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Korver, Crowder light it up from deep as Jazz take down Hornets.» on.nba.com/2zCQCLg https://t.co/8Crfv3hI6N
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - In GM country, workers aren’t abandoning Trump - so far

  01-12-2018 19:37 via sportspyder.com
  Will they have jobs come spring? Should they put in for transfers and move their families to Texas or Tennessee? How much should they spend on Christmas? Democratic Sen.
  
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• In GM country, workers aren’t abandoning Trump - so far

  01-12-2018 19:30
  Lordstown, Ohio • Since General Motors announced its decision this week to shut down its hulking Lordstown plant — the anchor of this northeast Ohio town — workers on the line have had nothing but questions. Will they have jobs come spring? Should they put in for transfers and move their families to Texas or Tennessee? How much should they spend on Christmas?One they haven't yet answered: Who is to blame?It was working-class voters like these who bucked the area's history as a
  
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• E.J. Dionne: The virtues of a public-spirited patrician such as George H.W. Bush

  01-12-2018 19:21
  George H.W. Bush was legendary for his thank-you notes. He wrote thousands of them, expressing appreciation for kindnesses large and small. When it came to his gratitude, no one was left behind.In light of the consequential life Bush lived, lifting up this habit might seem to accentuate the trivial. After all, he served bravely in one war and, as president, led his country to victory in another. What's the big deal about thank-you notes that are politically shrewd and reflect the old-fashioned h
  
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• Bill Clinton: George H.W. Bush’s Oval Office note to me revealed the heart of who he was

  01-12-2018 19:18
  On Jan. 20, 1993, I entered the Oval Office for the first time as president. As is the tradition, waiting for me was a note from my predecessor, George Herbert Walker Bush. It read:- - -Dear Bill,When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too.I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described.There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism
  
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• With the Rose Bowl gone from their grasp, the Utes will regroup for another game

  01-12-2018 19:00
  Santa Clara, Calif. • In his eagerness to answer, Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham occasionally interrupts a question.That happened Friday night, when someone mentioned how the previous losers of Pac-12 championship games have never won their bowl games in those seven seasons. Whittingham’s immediate response: “So should we not show up?”The question, as it developed, was a good one: After their 10-3 loss to Washington at Levi’s Stadium, how would the Utes recover
  
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• Midvale murder: Woman’s family feared boyfriend’s ex-wife before slaying

  01-12-2018 18:58
  The family of a woman who authorities say was killed by her boyfriend’s ex-wife while decorating a Christmas tree is sounding a warning about the devastating impact of domestic violence that goes beyond two people.Lisa Vilate Williams, 26, was making homemade ornaments with her boyfriend’s twin 3-year-olds at his apartment on Sunday when his ex-wife, Chelsea Watrous Cook, 32, burst in and shot her to death in front of the children, police said.The slaying came after Cook targeted Wil
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Midvale murder: Woman’s family feared boyfriend’s ex-wife before slaying

  01-12-2018 18:57 via sportspyder.com
  The family of a woman who authorities say was killed by her boyfriend’s ex-wife while decorating a Christmas tree is sounding a warning about the devastating impact of domestic violence that goes beyond two people.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - How the Utah Jazz are working to integrate Kyle Korver into their system without overloading the process

  01-12-2018 18:56 via sportspyder.com
  Ahead of making the debut of his second tenure with the Jazz on Friday, Korver went through shootaround. Later in the afternoon, he also met individually with Jazz coach Quin Snyder, his former...
  
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• How the Utah Jazz are working to integrate Kyle Korver into their system without overloading the process

  01-12-2018 18:47
  CHARLOTTE — Kyle Korver arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina around 4 p.m. Thursday.He immediately fulfilled his physical exam obligation in order for his trade from Cleveland to Utah to clear before heading back to the team hotel to catch up on some rest.Then, ahead of making the debut of his second tenure with the Jazz on Friday, Korver went through shootaround. Later in the afternoon, he also met individually with Jazz coach Quin Snyder, his former assistant coach in Atlanta, to go over
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Water district is raising money for a plan that is dead in the water

  01-12-2018 18:38 via sportspyder.com
  The Washington County Water Conservancy District is increasing property taxes for 2019. Taxes buy us civilization, but sources of special district income can be opaque, and the most opaque is property tax. Unlike water use charges, it doesn’t encourage...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Salt Lake City Council’s “woe is me” attitude is not justified

  01-12-2018 18:38 via sportspyder.com
  It’s predictable that Salt Lake City Council members didn’t mention the issue of raising their own salaries until after the recent election.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Replace Salt Lake City blight with high-density housing

  01-12-2018 18:38 via sportspyder.com
  The goal of affordable housing is worthy. However, in a story published Nov. 23 (“Salt Lake Chamber pushes ahead with affordable housing blitz, but some cities are still hesitant”),
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Pyle promotes theocracy in Utah

  01-12-2018 18:38 via sportspyder.com
  For years a girl declines, victim to the damage earthquakes cause the infrastructure in her brain and body from seizures. The father cuddles her and begs for medicine that can help. Deaf legislators fail to hear the agony. Voters see the pain, rally, and.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Lee, Hatch and other Republicans fiddle as Rome burns

  01-12-2018 18:38 via sportspyder.com
  The legislation introduced in the Senate to protect the Mueller investigation was blocked Wednesday by Sen. Mike Lee. Meanwhile, Sen. Orrin Hatch proclaims there is no reason to worry about President Donald Trump doing anything to undermine, defund or...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: The real ‘enemy of the people’ is silence

  01-12-2018 18:38 via sportspyder.com
  Let’s be serious. The Salt Lake Tribune is not the enemy of the people. Neither is the Wall Street Journal, or the New York Times or the Associated Press. Not even the Deseret News!
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - First reactions from Kyle Korver’s first game back with Utah Jazz

  01-12-2018 18:34 via sportspyder.com
  The sharpshooter’s first game back with Utah couldn’t have gone any better, so what does our team of reckless bloggers think about it?
  
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• Here is what Utah leaders are saying about George H. W. Bush

  01-12-2018 18:32
  President George H. W. Bush died Friday at age 94. Here is what Utah’s politicians are saying about him. This story will be updated as more reaction comes in.
  No one stood taller than George H.W. Bush, a giant among men. Hero in war, servant in the halls of state, and President of the greatest nation on earth. 1/5— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) December 1, 2018Ann & I have been enormously blessed by President Bush’s counsel, generosity & friendship. We have laughed together
  
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• Commentary: The real ‘enemy of the people’ is silence

  01-12-2018 18:27
  Let’s be serious. The Salt Lake Tribune is not the enemy of the people. Neither is the Wall Street Journal, or the New York Times or the Associated Press. Not even the Deseret News!Despite wild claims from the president, they — and most other mainstream media outlets, whether they be national or local, broadcast, digital or print — are not in the business of producing “fake news.” They pursue fact-based reporting. Facts, by definition, must be consistent with realit
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - New version of Utah Medical Cannabis Act broadens list of providers who can recommend marijuana treatment

  01-12-2018 18:26 via sportspyder.com
  An updated version of the drafted Utah Medical Cannabis Act, released Friday night, would expand the number of medical providers who could recommend the substance to patients.
  
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• Letter: Replace Salt Lake City blight with high-density housing

  01-12-2018 18:26
  The goal of affordable housing is worthy. However, in a story published Nov. 23 (“Salt Lake Chamber pushes ahead with affordable housing blitz, but some cities are still hesitant”),The Salt Lake Tribune again shows bias and lack of knowledge about growth issues along the Wasatch Front.Cities and citizens who choose not to embrace the Salt Lake Chamber policy statement are labeled as an “angry constituency” or “balking,” which is not honest or accurate.Noticeab
  
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• Letter: Lee, Hatch and other Republicans fiddle as Rome burns

  01-12-2018 18:26
  The legislation introduced in the Senate to protect the Mueller investigation was blocked Wednesday by Sen. Mike Lee. Meanwhile, Sen. Orrin Hatch proclaims there is no reason to worry about President Donald Trump doing anything to undermine, defund or block the investigation or fire Robert Mueller.Are both of Utah’s senators out of their minds? Now Trump is talking about the possibility of pardoning Paul Manafort!Are there any clear-thinking individuals who truly believe Trump will not do
  
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• Walden: Clippers are the biggest early-season surprise in the jumbled West

  01-12-2018 18:25
  Lost to some fans in all the furor of the Jazz’s underwhelming start is the fact that the entire Western Conference is, to this point, quite insane.Through Friday night’s games, the top eight “seeds” in the conference would be: 1. Clippers; 2. Nuggets; 3. Thunder; 4. Warriors; 5. Grizzlies; 6. Lakers; 7. Trail Blazers; 8. Mavericks.Everybody who had that eight-team combination, in that order, before the season started, raise your hand …That’s right — no
  
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• Letter: Water district is raising money for a plan that is dead in the water

  01-12-2018 18:25
  The Washington County Water Conservancy District is increasing property taxes for 2019. Taxes buy us civilization, but sources of special district income can be opaque, and the most opaque is property tax. Unlike water use charges, it doesn’t encourage conservation and disproportionately affects the poor.WCWCD’s budgets, philosophies and plans are not on the Utah Transparency website. It’s clear these officials want to provide as much water as anyone wants, and they hope the st
  
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• Letter: Salt Lake City Council’s “woe is me” attitude is not justified

  01-12-2018 18:25
  It’s predictable that Salt Lake City Council members didn’t mention the issue of raising their own salaries until after the recent election.In their self-authored argument in favor of the Streets Reconstruction Bond in the voter information pamphlet, they failed to mention their departmental budget has gone up from $2.5 million in 2014 to over $3.7 million in 2017 – a 48 percent increase in just three years. With this knowledge, voters may have questioned their “woe is me
  
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• Letter: Pyle promotes theocracy in Utah

  01-12-2018 18:25
  For years a girl declines, victim to the damage earthquakes cause the infrastructure in her brain and body from seizures. The father cuddles her and begs for medicine that can help. Deaf legislators fail to hear the agony. Voters see the pain, rally, and Proposition 2 passes.In the Nov. 11 Tribune, George Pyle defends the “political power play” that followed, “understanding” voter frustrations when “state officials clearly in league with the LDS Church sweep it asid
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Luka Doncic blocks LeBron James at the rim. Twice.

  01-12-2018 18:24 via sportspyder.com
  LeBron did not see this coming.
  
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• New version of Utah Medical Cannabis Act broadens list of providers who can recommend marijuana treatment

  01-12-2018 18:20
  An updated version of the drafted Utah Medical Cannabis Act, released Friday night, would expand the number of medical providers who could recommend the substance to patients.The revised bill debuted hours after Gov. Gary Herbert called lawmakers to convene Monday for a special session on medical marijuana. The legislation under consideration would overwrite Proposition 2, the ballot initiative that voters passed last month.Herbert and other state leaders in early October unveiled the cannabis b
  
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• When the Jazz win, cancer loses! You can make a one-time donation to #5ForTheFight OR you can make an automatic $5… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-12-2018 18:14 via twitter.com
  When the Jazz win, cancer loses!You can make a one-time donation to #5ForTheFight OR you can make an automatic $5… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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