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• Is the inland port project moving too slowly? Incoming House speaker suggests taking a look at changes to speed up the project.

  11-12-2018 23:43
  The Inland Port Authority Board formed this summer, yet snow covered the yet-to-be-developed ground in Salt Lake City’s westernmost area last week as policymakers, community advocates and board members toured the site of the future distribution hub.The board’s work in overseeing the development — which has been billed as the state’s largest-ever economic development undertaking — has been slow, Sen. Gregg Buxton, R-Roy, told a legislative committee on Monday.Though
  
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• American Fork medical supply company agrees to pay $1.6 million after Medicare fraud allegations

  11-12-2018 23:34
  Federal prosecutors have reached a settlement for $1.6 million with an American Fork telemarketing company over accusations of Medicare fraud.The company, Western Medical Group, and its owners, Benjamin D. George and Jody C. Rookstool, have agreed to pay $1,634,844 to settle allegations under the False Claims Act, U.S. Attorney for Utah John W. Huber announced Tuesday.Western Medical — doing business under that name and also as Arizona Medical and Senior First Medical, among others —
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Is the GOP the law and order party? Not so much.

  11-12-2018 23:30
  Washington - For a party that claims to be “tough on crime,” Republicans have seemed pretty confused by what it means to hold criminals to account.Particularly when it comes to white-collar crimes, or really any crimes committed by rich people.On Friday, for instance, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., argued that President Trump should pardon his former campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, who has been convicted of eight felonies and pleaded guilty to another two."If Manafort was going to be pros
  
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• How do you pronounce "gif"? Derrick Favors knows. 😏 #OnTheClock | @BaileysMoving https://t.co/giPQV7wFCN

  11-12-2018 23:23 via twitter.com
  
  How do you pronounce "gif"? Derrick Favors knows. 😏#OnTheClock | @BaileysMoving https://t.co/giPQV7wFCN
  
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• 1 dead, 10 wounded in Strasbourg, France, shooting

  11-12-2018 22:04
  Paris • The Latest on shooting in Strasbourg (all times MST):1:50 p.m.A French regional official says that a shooting in Strasbourg has left at least one dead and 10 wounded in the city center near a world-famous Christmas market.The prefect of France's Bas-Rhin region says the gunman, who is still at large, has been identified.Authorities haven't given a motive for the shooting.The European Parliament spokesman, meanwhile, says that the building is on lockdown in Strasbourg. Jaume Duch sai
  
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• This Utah agency’s job is to help victims. But worried about fraud and a shrinking budget, it pushed for charges against a woman over her rape kit.

  11-12-2018 22:03
  A state agency set up to help crime victims urged authorities earlier this year to charge a woman who had reported she was sexually assaulted because staffers thought she was defrauding them and they were worried about their budget.That woman ended up in court, accused of making a fraudulent claim for asking the state to pay the $750 cost of her rape kit. She even spent time in jail before prosecutors dismissed her case nine months after it was filed. Her attorney worries that prosecutions like
  
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• Provo beats Salt Lake City in ranking of best college towns — and so do Orem and Rexburg, Idaho

  11-12-2018 22:01
  Brigham Young University’s hometown beat the University of Utah’s hometown in a ranking of the best college towns and cities in America — which will certainly surprise some of those loyal to the Utes.Imagine their consternation when they learn that BYU-Idaho's hometown is also ranked higher.Provo finished fourth in Wallethub.com’s listing of 2019’s best college towns and cities in America; Salt Lake City finished 21st. Rexburg, Idaho — home of BYU-Idaho &mdash
  
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• See us face the Warriors & Blazers when you buy this ticket bundle for just $75 🎟 » on.nba.com/2B8PDTb https://t.co/Rbue5lMVAP

  11-12-2018 21:52 via twitter.com
  
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• The Runnin’ Utes could take lesson in sharing the ball from Utah’s unbeaten women’s basketball team

  11-12-2018 21:48
  The solution is right there, in the same building. The issue for the Utah men's basketball team is how to develop the traits that are creating offensive success for the other squad that operates in the Jon M. and Karen Huntsman Basketball Facility.The theme was inescapable Tuesday, when men's coach Larry Krystkowiak and women's coach Lynne Roberts staged their first tandem news conference of the season. Coincidentally or not, everything Roberts said about her unbeaten team's unselfishness in her
  
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• ‘Gary Andersen is home.' The former Utah State football coach comes full circle, returns to the Cache Valley to lead the Aggies once again.

  11-12-2018 21:37
  Logan • Gary Andersen’s face was plastered all over Maverik Stadium. On top of three flights of stairs leading to the main lobby of the stadium, he was there. On the large screen that looks over the Aggies football field, he was there. Through the hallway in the room of his introductory press conference, he was there.After a while, Andersen’s presence felt omnipresent, as if he never left back in 2013 to pursue other head coaching opportunities. After six years away, Andersen wa
  
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• Commentary: It’s hard to be gay and Catholic. It doesn’t have to be.

  11-12-2018 21:06
  Homosexuality in the priesthood “worries” Pope Francis. This he made clear in a book excerpt published this month by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, immediately igniting confusion in the Catholic Church, including among the gay laity.As a gay woman who accepts Catholic teaching, I understand the confusion. In more abstract comments, the pope frames gay people as servants of God. But his more direct statements present us as threats, especially in the priesthood or religious
  
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• Summit aims to boost Utah’s defense and aerospace trade with Indo-Pacific nations

  11-12-2018 20:59
  The U.S. government’s desire to promote American industry on the global stage was on display Tuesday as diplomats mingled with Utah business representatives hoping to expand their sales to Asian markets.Held in Salt Lake City, the Discover Global Markets convention, backed by the U.S. Department of Commerce, is targeting Utah’s aerospace, defense and security sectors, offering area businesses a range of free assistance, advice and planning on how to reach potential buyers and trading
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: ‘Can you imagine anyone other than Trump?’ Time magazine publishes a perfectly fitting answer

  11-12-2018 20:55
  Never before has Time magazine recognized a "person of the year" who was no longer living.But Jamal Khashoggi’s face graces its cover this year, with the murdered Washington Post contributing columnist named one of the magazine’s examples of “The Guardians and the War on Truth.”The standard for the annual award is not popularity or positivity, but rather influence. Impact. (It has, after all, gone to both Hitler and Stalin.)And, as Editor in Chief Edward Felsenthal explai
  
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• Jazz’s Rudy Gobert rails on refs again: ‘If I gotta do justice myself, I’m gonna do justice myself. And it’s gonna get ugly.’

  11-12-2018 20:37
  Call it Rudy vs. Refs, Round 3.After the Jazz’s previous meeting with the Heat, back on Dec. 2 in Miami, center Rudy Gobert ripped the NBA’s officiating as “s---” and “inconsistent,” partly for the late-game shove against teammate Donovan Mitchell that did not get called, partly for his own minor contact with Dwayne Wade that did, and partly for a whole host of other accumulated grievances.Last week vs. Houston, a pair of highly questionable early foul calls (
  
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• Steven Soderbergh, who helped make the Sundance Film Festival famous, will return to Park City to pick up Slamdance’s Founders Award

  11-12-2018 20:29
  One of the original success stories of the Sundance Film Festival — director Steven Soderbergh — will return to Park City in January to receive the Founders Award from Sundance’s scrappy rival, the Slamdance Film Festival.The festival — which runs Jan. 25-Feb. 1 at the Treasure Mountain Inn in Park City — announced Tuesday that Soderbergh will bring with him his latest movie, “High Flying Bird."The drama tells of a sports agent (Andre Holland) who makes an int
  
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• Paul Waldman: All the ludicrous defenses Hatch and other Republicans offer on the Russia scandal

  11-12-2018 20:23
  Defending Donald Trump has been a challenge and a headache for Republicans ever since he became their party's nominee for president in 2016. After every appalling tweet, every racist statement, and every ludicrous policy idea, Republicans are called upon to explain why this is really no big deal and everything's fine.But with Trump's scandals deepening and the law closing in, justifying the president's words and actions is getting harder and harder.Fortunately for them, Republicans have always b
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Is the Jazz done making moves after Korver trade?

  11-12-2018 20:10 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz made an unusual trade to acquire Kyle Korver early in the season — is it a sign there are more trades to come?
  
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• Happy Birthday to all the December Birthdays! 🎉🎂 To celebrate, we’ve partnered with @chipcookiesco to give FIVE wi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-12-2018 20:03 via twitter.com
  Happy Birthday to all the December Birthdays! 🎉🎂To celebrate, we’ve partnered with @chipcookiesco to give FIVE wi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz’s Rudy Gobert rails on refs again: ‘If I gotta do justice myself, I’m gonna do justice myself. And it’s gonna get ugly.’

  11-12-2018 19:46 via sportspyder.com
  Call it Rudy vs. Refs, Round 3.
  
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• Outgoing Sen. Jim Dabakis announces plans to run (again) for Salt Lake City mayor

  11-12-2018 19:31
  Sen. Jim Dabakis, an outspoken state lawmaker who made it a custom to host live Facebook broadcasts during lunchtime at the Capitol and earlier this year livestreamed himself sampling a medical marijuana edible, made the announcement about his next political move in a similar fashion on Tuesday.In a seven-minute video streamed live on Facebook, the retiring state lawmaker said he plans to jump into the 2019 race for Salt Lake City mayor.“I’m in,” he said. “I will be runni
  
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• Grayson & Georges have been assigned to the Stars 🌟 twitter.com/utahjazzpr/sta…

  11-12-2018 19:20 via twitter.com
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Your first look at Donovan Mitchell’s new exclusive Stance socks

  11-12-2018 19:17 via sportspyder.com
  Surprise! After being announced Sunday as the latest Stance socks “Punks & Poets” brand ambassador, a limited edition Donovan Mitchell signature sock was released Tuesday.
  
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• Your first look at Donovan Mitchell’s new exclusive Stance socks

  11-12-2018 19:11
  SALT LAKE CITY — Surprise!After being announced Sunday as the latest Stance socks Punks & Poets brand ambassador, a limited edition Donovan Mitchell signature sock has released Tuesday.Mitchell's sock features his favorite emoji, one with zipped lips, plus his own personal self-owned Spida logo for the first time. It was originally set to release in the spring and is his first-ever signature product."Shout out to the zipper, quiet all the haters," Mitchell said.Utah Jazz star Donovan M
  
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• UDOT buys homes to make way for I-15 widening, but neighbors say vacant houses bring squatters, drugs, graffiti

  11-12-2018 19:09
  Midvale • Spencer Mears noticed homeless folk started wandering his neighborhood last summer when the Utah Department of Transportation began buying up homes — and leaving them vacant — for an upcoming project to widen Interstate 15.“I see people pushing grocery baskets or on bikes that have all their stuff packed on them as they go through the area,” he says. Police say many have outstanding arrest warrants or drug problems, and try to squat in the vacant boarded-u
  
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• The internet is in love with a massive reply-all failure in Utah government

  11-12-2018 19:09
  More than 20,000 Utah state government employees saw their email inboxes bombarded with messages last weekend after an otherwise innocuous invitation to an office holiday potluck was inadvertently sent statewide and pulled into a black hole of reply-all responses.The nightmare scenario familiar to and dreaded by office workers everywhere was documented on Twitter by Joe Dougherty, who fittingly works as spokesman for the Utah Division of Emergency Management. At 10 a.m. Friday he posted a photo
  
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• Trump bickers with Democratic leaders, threatens government shutdown

  11-12-2018 19:06
  Washington • Arguing heatedly in public with Democratic leaders, President Donald Trump threatened repeatedly on Tuesday to shut down the government if Congress doesn’t provide the money he says is needed to build a wall at the Mexican border. He insisted the military can build it if Democrats won’t vote for the funding.Trump’s comments came as he opened a contentious meeting with Democratic Senate and House leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, with the government looki
  
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• Avowed neo-Nazi sentenced to life in prison in fatal Virginia car attack

  11-12-2018 18:59
  Charlottesville, Va. • James Fields Jr., the avowed neo-Nazi who rammed his car into a group of counterprotesters at a white-supremacists rally, was sentenced to life in prison by a jury Tuesday after a trial that offered an unsparing view of the physical and emotional ruin he caused in this city with a burst of vehicular rage 16 month ago.As he had throughout his two-week trial, Fields, 21, sat impassively at the defendant’s table, clad in a powder blue sweater, as the jury delivered
  
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• Monson: Has Gary Andersen found a lasting home at Utah State, or will the boomerang fly again ... to Utah?

  11-12-2018 18:46
  Let’s say Gary Andersen returns to Utah State — that much he’s already signed to do — and improves upon all that he did the first time around in Logan — something he likely will do. What then?It’s pretty easy to remember that when Andersen came to the Aggies the first time as head coach in 2009, they needed him in the worst way. Their records over the nine previous seasons collided and leaked into an abysmal total of 28-75. As college football scenes go, Utah
  
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• Outgoing Sen. Jim Dabakis announces plan to run (again) for Salt Lake City mayor

  11-12-2018 18:45
  Sen. Jim Dabakis, an outspoken state lawmaker who made it a custom to host live Facebook broadcasts during lunchtime at the Capitol and earlier this year livestreamed himself sampling a medical marijuana edible, made the announcement about his next political move in a similar fashion on Tuesday.In a seven minute video streamed live on Facebook, the retiring state lawmaker said he plans to jump into the 2019 race for Salt Lake City mayor.“I’m in,” he said. “I will be runni
  
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• Commentary: Blame lies, secrecy and unchecked power, not gay priests

  11-12-2018 18:38
  This past summer’s credible allegations against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick have fundamentally altered the way Catholics are talking about the abuse crisis. In the wake of the Boston Globe’s 2002 exposé (memorialized in the important and painful film, Spotlight), the conversation revolved around the most shocking tales of abuse – namely, of priests sexually molesting children. And indeed, it’s the allegation that “Uncle Ted” sexually assaulted a
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz players, employees give back during the holiday season

  11-12-2018 18:28 via sportspyder.com
  Royce O’Neale can’t wait for Christmas morning. Literally. “We open our presents on Christmas Eve,” the Utah Jazz forward said. “We always say we’re going to just open one, but then somehow we always end up opening all of them.”
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - UDOT buys homes to make way for I-15 widening, but neighbors say vacant houses bring squatters, drugs, graffiti

  11-12-2018 18:13 via sportspyder.com
  Midvale • Spencer Mears noticed homeless folk started wandering his neighborhood last summer when the Utah Department of Transportation began buying up homes — and leaving them vacant — for an upcoming project to widen Interstate 15.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Slain journalist Jamal Khashogg, Capital Gazette staff among winners of Time’s Person of the Year

  11-12-2018 18:13 via sportspyder.com
  Time magazine has announced its 2018 Person of the Year is “The Guardians,” four individuals and one group — all journalists — who this year helped expose “the manipulation and the abuse of truth” around the world.
  
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• Slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Capital Gazette staff among winners of Time’s Person of the Year

  11-12-2018 18:10
  Time magazine has announced its 2018 Person of the Year is “The Guardians,” four individuals and one group — all journalists — who this year helped expose “the manipulation and the abuse of truth” around the world.They are the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post contributing columnist who was killed inside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul in October; the staff of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland; journalist Maria Ressa, the chief
  
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• Dana Milbank: The perfect cover letter for aspiring White House chiefs of staff

  11-12-2018 18:09
  Washington - I awoke on Monday to find myself in complete agreement with President Trump."Democrats can't find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey's testimony," he tweeted, repeating that there is "No Smocking Gun."This is true! Though Trump appears to be in considerable legal trouble, no one investigating the president is believed to have found a smocking gun. Even if investigators had such a weapon, it is unclear what they would use it for -- other than embroide
  
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• Legal brothel owners upset over proposed Elko license fees

  11-12-2018 17:48
  Elko, Nev. • Legal brothel owners in northeastern Nevada are trying to beat back the city of Elko’s proposal to double their license application fees and more than triple renewal fees at the regulated houses of prostitution.The Elko Daily Free Press reports the dramatic increases are outlined in a business impact statement scheduled to go before the Elko City Council for the first time on Tuesday.Under the current proposal, license application fees for license would increase from $2,5
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - South Salt Lake man charged in the drug overdose death of a 16-year-old girl in 2016

  11-12-2018 17:41 via sportspyder.com
  A South Salt Lake man is in custody two years after he allegedly caused the drug-overdose death of a 16-year-old girl.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Interior officials downplayed federal wildlife experts’ concerns about Trump’s border wall, documents show

  11-12-2018 17:41 via sportspyder.com
  Federal government scientists raised red flags last year about President Donald Trump’s proposed wall for the U.S.-Mexico border, suggesting it could harm the habitats of imperiled species living in the ecologically diverse region. Constructing a...
  
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• South Salt Lake man charged in the drug overdose death of a 16-year-old girl in 2016

  11-12-2018 17:38
  A South Salt Lake man is in custody two years after he allegedly caused the drug-overdose death of a 16-year-old girl.David Oliver Glatzer, 42, was taken into custody by Unified Police, who stopped his car in Midvale on Sunday night, two days after South Salt Lake Police put out an alert asking for help locating him. Glatzer tried to run away but was quickly apprehended.According to court documents, Glatzer called police on Nov. 13, 2016, to report a teenage girl “unresponsive and not brea
  
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• Interior officials downplayed federal wildlife experts’ concerns about Trump’s border wall, documents show

  11-12-2018 17:35
  Federal government scientists raised red flags last year about President Donald Trump’s proposed wall for the U.S.-Mexico border, suggesting it could harm the habitats of imperiled species living in the ecologically diverse region. Constructing a physical barrier in southern Texas, some said, should be avoided if possible.But a number of those concerns did not make it to border officials considering the wall's construction.Interior Department officials stripped from a key letter to U.S. Cu
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz inconsistency continues

  11-12-2018 17:30 via sportspyder.com
  Will they bounce back in the 2nd half like last season?
  
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• Report: Climate change was behind 15 weather disasters in 2017

  11-12-2018 17:30
  A drought scorched the Great Plains, causing wildfires and $2.5 billion in agriculture losses. Catastrophic floods submerged more than a third of Bangladesh. Record-shattering heat waves killed scores of people in Europe and China.These were among 15 extreme weather events in 2017 that were made more likely by human-caused climate change, according to in-depth studies published this week in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. At least one episode — a devastating marine hea
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Rock On: Rudy Gobert's most excellent adventure

  11-12-2018 17:02 via sportspyder.com
  Also, Taysom Hill is owning New Orleans. You have to like his chances later, too.
  
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• Rock On: Rudy Gobert's most excellent adventure

  11-12-2018 17:00
  Rudy Gobert became the first NBA player in 15 seasons to get tossed in the first three minutes of a game, according to ESPN.After picking up his second foul against Houston, last week, he slapped away a couple of water cups at the scorer's table, triggering his ejection."Fouls were called," Gobert said, "and I had a stupid reaction."Not necessarily.Rock On believes any time you can throw things at the office and take the day off it's a good thing.
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• Centerville police resolve case of teens harassing homeowners

  11-12-2018 15:32
  According to the Centerville Police Department, a case of teenagers harassing homeowners in the city is on its way to being resolved.A day after posting on Facebook that a home in the southeast part of Centerville has been under siege because “for some crazy reason, teenage boys like to harass the nice people who live there" — shutting off power to the home and throwing water balloons at the windows late at night — the department posted that “a representative of those res
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Why was the surly bobcat Mr. Murderbritches freed, while thousands of other ‘nuisance’ wild animals get a bullet?

  11-12-2018 15:28 via sportspyder.com
  When Josh Carver shot video of a snarling bobcat last month as he was releasing it from a cage, the Utah conservation officer just wanted to show his kid the fun stuff he does at work.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Six decades and more than $600M later, the Eccles legacy of giving lives on, benefiting groups large and small across Utah

  11-12-2018 15:28 via sportspyder.com
  Two large portraits hang in the boardroom of the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Political Cornflakes: Sen. Hatch says allegations against Trump are irrelevant because the economy is surging

  11-12-2018 15:28 via sportspyder.com
  Sen. Hatch: Allegations against Trump are irrelevant because the economy is surging. Bad data make tracking homeless populations difficult, report says. New group says Legislature’s replacement of Prop 2 is a constitutional crisis.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Voter initiatives should stand

  11-12-2018 15:28 via sportspyder.com
  Given the difficulty of the process to place an initiative on the ballot in the state of Utah, it seems to me that once a proposition has passed in an election, state legislators should not be allowed to immediately repeal it.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Salt Lake City should try ranked-choice voting

  11-12-2018 15:28 via sportspyder.com
  Salt Lake City’s upcoming mayoral election is shaping up to be to feature an impressive field of candidates.
  
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