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• Hugh Hewitt: Look forward, Mr. President

  27-12-2018 23:30
  San Clemente, California, in 1978 was the Elba of America. I went there fresh out of college for a job working as a researcher for David Eisenhower, which quickly became a job as an editorial assistant to former president Richard M. Nixon, who had finished his memoirs and moved on to the two books I worked on, "The Real War" and "Leaders."Early in 1980, Nixon moved to New York City, and I went with him, leaving in the fall for law school. I went back to California in 1989 at his request to overs
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Your Children’s Health Is Being Sold for Money

  27-12-2018 23:29
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Dec. 28, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/12/26/bagley-cartoon-animal/" target=_blank><u>Animal Spirits</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/12/22/bagley-cartoons-there-was/"><u>There Was No Room</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/12/20/bagley-cart
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Transgender inmate gets rare transfer to female prison

  27-12-2018 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  Chicago • A transgender woman serving a 10-year sentence in Illinois for burglary has been moved from a men’s to a women’s prison in what could be a first for the state, her lawyers announced Thursday.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Time is running out for federally funded mental-health clinics

  27-12-2018 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  An experimental mental-health and addiction treatment program that has shown early success at combating the opioid crisis at risk of losing its federal funding.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Furious Iraqi lawmakers demand US troop withdrawal

  27-12-2018 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  Baghdad • President Donald Trump’s surprise trip to Iraq may have quieted criticism at home that he had yet to visit troops in a combat zone, but it has infuriated Iraqi politicians who on Thursday demanded the withdrawal of U.S. forces.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Before leaving office, A Virginia congressman blocked a bill intended to help abused Native American women

  27-12-2018 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • In one of his final acts before leaving office next week, Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., blocked a bill intended to improve the federal government’s response to violence against Native American women.
  
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• Furious Iraqi lawmakers demand US troop withdrawal

  27-12-2018 23:14
  Baghdad • President Donald Trump’s surprise trip to Iraq may have quieted criticism at home that he had yet to visit troops in a combat zone, but it has infuriated Iraqi politicians who on Thursday demanded the withdrawal of U.S. forces."Arrogant" and an "a violation of national sovereignty" were but a few examples of the disapproval emanating from Baghdad following Trump's meeting Wednesday with U.S. servicemen and women at the al-Asad Airbase.Trips by U.S. presidents to conflict zon
  
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• [KSL] - Donovan Mitchell knows 'more' will be expected with signature shoe

  27-12-2018 23:06 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell is anticipating higher expectations after getting Adidas signature shoe.
  
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• Time is running out for federally funded mental-health clinics

  27-12-2018 23:02
  An experimental mental-health and addiction treatment program that has shown early success at combating the opioid crisis at risk of losing its federal funding.An estimated 9,000 patients could lose access to medication-assisted treatment, and 3,000 clinic jobs could be lost if the funding is not renewed, according to the National Council for Behavioral Health. Some states may feel the impact as early as January, since clinics must give staff 60 to 90 days' termination notice.Lawmakers in both p
  
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• Before leaving office, A Virginia congressman blocked a bill intended to help abused Native American women

  27-12-2018 22:58
  Washington • In one of his final acts before leaving office next week, Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., blocked a bill intended to improve the federal government’s response to violence against Native American women.A spat between the congressman, whose district is home to the largest Indian tribe in Virginia, and the bill's sponsor, outgoing Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D.-N.D., has played out publicly over the last week.In a tweet, Heitkamp, who narrowly lost her bid for reelection, urged people to ask
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Shutdown set to extend into new year after Congress punts on budget, border talks

  27-12-2018 22:36 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • Congress effectively gave up on trying to reopen a quarter of the federal government until after the new year, as negotiations stalled Thursday among Republican and Democratic leaders.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Boy, 12, survives avalanche that buried him for 40 minutes

  27-12-2018 22:36 via sportspyder.com
  Paris • A 12-year-old boy in the French Alps was found alive and uninjured after being buried under an avalanche for 40 minutes, an event his rescuers are calling a true “miracle.”
  
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• Transgender inmate gets rare transfer to female prison

  27-12-2018 22:32
  Chicago • A transgender woman serving a 10-year sentence in Illinois for burglary has been moved from a men’s to a women’s prison in what could be a first for the state, her lawyers announced Thursday.Deon "Strawberry" Hampton , 27, was moved after a yearlong legal battle and resistance from the Illinois Department of Corrections.Hampton, of Chicago, requested the transfer in 2017 on grounds she'd be less vulnerable to the sexual assault, taunting and beatings she was subjected
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Alexandra Petri: An appraisal of my data, for the companies who now own it

  27-12-2018 22:31 via sportspyder.com
  First, congratulations, (Name of Company)! Either through shrewd negotiation, or completely by accident because you did not realize Facebook had decided to give you this access until The New York Times called, you have successfully acquired all my...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - This week in Mormon Land: Why church isn’t boring; a trailblazing bell; Scout lawsuit settlements

  27-12-2018 22:28 via sportspyder.com
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this newsletter in...
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - A Beary Merry Christmas

  27-12-2018 22:21 via sportspyder.com
  A Beary Merry Christmas - YouTube Skip navigation Sign in Search Loading... Close This video is unavailable. Get YouTube without the ads. Working... Unsubscribe from Utah Jazz?
  
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• Shutdown set to extend into new year after Congress punts on budget, border talks

  27-12-2018 21:55
  Washington • Congress effectively gave up on trying to reopen a quarter of the federal government until after the new year, as negotiations stalled Thursday among Republican and Democratic leaders.House members were told they would not be expected back for votes this week, and the Senate was expected to follow suit, according to Democratic and Republican aides. That would hand the job of reopening the federal government to Democrats when they take control of the House in January.Congress wa
  
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• 📹| “Defensively, you have to adjust, on some level, to who you’re playing and also staying true to the things that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-12-2018 21:50 via twitter.com
  📹| “Defensively, you have to adjust, on some level, to who you’re playing and also staying true to the things that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - 2nd man nears end of historic solo trek across Antarctica

  27-12-2018 21:49 via sportspyder.com
  A British adventurer was close to becoming the second person to traverse Antarctica completely unassisted just a few days after an American became the first to conquer the feat, which was previously said to be impossible.
  
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• Boy, 12, survives avalanche that buried him for 40 minutes

  27-12-2018 21:49
  Paris • A 12-year-old boy in the French Alps was found alive and uninjured after being buried under an avalanche for 40 minutes, an event his rescuers are calling a true “miracle.”French police in the town of Bourg Saint-Maurice said the boy was skiing off piste at the La Plagne ski resort in a group of seven skiers Wednesday when he was swept away.The boy started going down ahead of the others and was the only one caught when a large section of snow detached and roared down the
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz star Donovan Mitchell gets his own spider-inspired Adidas signature shoe

  27-12-2018 21:48 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell will be wearing some Donovan Mitchells on the court next year.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Conor Sen: Investors more wary of Trump than of Wall Street

  27-12-2018 21:48 via sportspyder.com
  Stock market losses and volatility, particularly in financial stocks, have people worried about, well, everything.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Behind the Headlines: 2018 year in review

  27-12-2018 21:48 via sportspyder.com
  Salt Lake Tribune editors reflect on the stories that defined 2018, including the debate around medical marijuana, the seismic shifts inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, election-year battles, fallen heroes, gun protests and...
  
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• Alexandra Petri: An appraisal of my data, for the companies who now own it

  27-12-2018 21:42
  First, congratulations, (Name of Company)! Either through shrewd negotiation, or completely by accident because you did not realize Facebook had decided to give you this access until The New York Times called, you have successfully acquired all my personal data! I am sure that, like any good collector, you are wondering: What makes this addition to your portfolio special? What value does it bring?I have taken the liberty of annotating each item.(1) Search history: A rich, strange document with m
  
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• Jazz star Donovan Mitchell gets his own spider-inspired Adidas signature shoe

  27-12-2018 21:41
  Donovan Mitchell will be wearing some Donovan Mitchells on the court next year.That’s because Adidas basketball released a preview of Mitchell’s signature shoe on Thursday, with a Spiderman-influenced theme and name.The shoes, dubbed the “D.O.N. Issue #1” — like a comic book — don’t yet have a release date, though Jazz website SLC Dunk reported that the shoes would be released in the third quarter of 2019. D.O.N. stands for “Determination Over Nega
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - National Guard from 4 states including Utah will help with cyber operations

  27-12-2018 21:39 via sportspyder.com
  Denver • National Guard soldiers from Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah are deploying to Fort Meade, Maryland, as part of a cyber protection team supporting U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Cedar City sandwich shop manager charged with raping a 17-year-old employee

  27-12-2018 21:39 via sportspyder.com
  A manager at a Cedar City sandwich shop has been charged with twice raping a 17-year-old girl he supervised — the second rape allegedly occurring 10 days after police began their investigation.
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Why church isn’t boring; a trailblazing bell; Scout lawsuit settlements

  27-12-2018 21:33
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Bored at church? Look around.
  Scott Sommerdorf |The Salt Lake Tribune
  Homeless man pauses after sacrament meeting at a church service for the homeless at the Rio Grande LDS Branch, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017.(Scott Sommerdorf/)As
  
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• Conor Sen: Investors more wary of Trump than of Wall Street

  27-12-2018 21:30
  Stock market losses and volatility, particularly in financial stocks, have people worried about, well, everything.This recent sell-off is historic in scale but strange because it’s hard to identify a specific culprit behind it. The jitters could be chalked up to the hawkishness of the Federal Reserve, the flattening of the yield curve, trade wars, the relationship between the U.S. and China, projections for slower economic growth in 2019, financial market liquidity issues near year-end ...
  
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• Behind the Headlines: 2018 year in review

  27-12-2018 21:30
  Salt Lake Tribune editors reflect on the stories that defined 2018, including the debate around medical marijuana, the seismic shifts inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, election-year battles, fallen heroes, gun protests and wildfires. At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune Senior Managing Editor Matt Canham, Managing Editor David Noyce and News Columnist Robert Gehrke join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the year’s top stories. Every Friday at 9 a.m., stream
  
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• 2nd man nears end of historic solo trek across Antarctica

  27-12-2018 21:09
  A British adventurer was close to becoming the second person to traverse Antarctica completely unassisted just a few days after an American became the first to conquer the feat, which was previously said to be impossible.Louis Rudd's expedition blog on Thursday showed that the 49-year-old has only has about 50 miles (80 kilometers) left on the journey across the continent and is expected to finish Saturday.If Rudd — a Hereford, England, resident and captain in the British Army — comp
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Sen.-elect Mitt Romney hires more staff as he prepares to take office next week

  27-12-2018 20:59 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • Sen.-elect Mitt Romney on Thursday announced several new staffers as he ramps up to take office next Thursday.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers want death sentence tossed

  27-12-2018 20:59 via sportspyder.com
  Boston • Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzkhokhar Tsarnaev told a federal appeals court Thursday that his convictions or death sentence should be tossed because the judge refused to move the case out of the city where the bombs exploded,...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Eye on the Y: Slumping Cougars are ‘going through a tough time’ as they prepare for basketball showdown at No. 19 Mississippi State

  27-12-2018 20:58 via sportspyder.com
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter covering BYU athletics. Subscribe here.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Court records detail Spacey’s encounter with teenager

  27-12-2018 20:58 via sportspyder.com
  Boston • A Massachusetts man who says he was groped by Kevin Spacey at a Nantucket restaurant in 2016 caught part of his encounter with the actor on video, according to court records.
  
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• Cedar City sandwich shop manager charged with raping a 17-year-old employee

  27-12-2018 20:49
  A manager at a Cedar City sandwich shop has been charged with twice raping a 17-year-old girl he supervised — the second rape allegedly occurring 10 days after police began their investigation.Joshua Michael Downard, 35, of Cedar City, has been charged with two counts of rape, first-degree felonies; forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony; and sexual battery, a class A misdemeanor.According to court documents, Downard took the girl to a “remote location” in early April an
  
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• National Guard from 4 states including Utah will help with cyber operations

  27-12-2018 20:47
  Denver • National Guard soldiers from Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah are deploying to Fort Meade, Maryland, as part of a cyber protection team supporting U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.The Colorado guard said Thursday Cyber Protection Team 174 will help the Defense Department with network security and cyber defensive operations.The deployment will last a year.The team's assignment is to help commanders operate freely in the cyber domain as well as on the ground while
  
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• Utah Sen.-elect Mitt Romney hires more staff as he prepares to take office next week

  27-12-2018 20:42
  Washington • Sen.-elect Mitt Romney on Thursday announced several new staffers as he ramps up to take office next Thursday.Romney picked his campaign's political director Kelsey Berg as his deputy chief of staff, former Utah lawmaker and Salt Lake County Recorder Adam Gardiner as his state director and longtime Senate aide Liz Johnson to head up his communications shop.Romney previously named his campaign manager, Matt Waldrip, who had led business development at the hedge fund Solamere, as
  
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• Eye on the Y: Slumping Cougars are ‘going through a tough time’ as they prepare for basketball showdown at No. 19 Mississippi State

  27-12-2018 20:39
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter covering BYU athletics. Subscribe here.It seemed like a good idea at the time.Last summer, when BYU basketball coach Dave Rose and his assistants — primarily Tim LaComb — were putting together their 2018-19 non-conference schedule, they tried to find the best opponents possible to improve the strength of their schedule and perhaps impress the NCAA tournament selection committee.Problem is, those opponents haven’t b
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Donovan Mitchell expects pressure after becoming first Utah Jazz player with signature shoe since Karl Malone

  27-12-2018 20:31 via sportspyder.com
  “With this comes more,” Mitchell said during shootaround. “So I have to bring more, do more and I know that but at the end of the day this is just a blessing.”
  
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• Court records detail Spacey’s encounter with teenager

  27-12-2018 20:22
  Boston • A Massachusetts man who says he was groped by Kevin Spacey at a Nantucket restaurant in 2016 caught part of his encounter with the actor on video, according to court records.The then 18-year-old man sent a video via Snapchat to his girlfriend that allegedly showed Spacey touching the front of his pants, according to a state police report filed in Nantucket District Court and obtained by the Cape Cod Times .Spacey's lawyers said at a show-cause hearing last week the video shows some
  
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• Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers want death sentence tossed

  27-12-2018 20:19
  Boston • Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzkhokhar Tsarnaev told a federal appeals court Thursday that his convictions or death sentence should be tossed because the judge refused to move the case out of the city where the bombs exploded, making it impossible for him to get a fair trial.In a 500-page brief filed in the 1st U.S. District Court of Appeals, Tsarnaev's legal team outlined a host of other problems with his 2015 trial, including issues with jurors, certain testimony from sur
  
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• Donovan Mitchell expects pressure after becoming first Utah Jazz player with signature shoe since Karl Malone

  27-12-2018 20:18
  SALT LAKE CITY — Donovan Mitchell has sported everything from the Adidas Dame 4 to the Pro Bounce Low, and more recently the Pro Vision sneakers, but was spotted in a brand new model at the Utah Jazz practice facility.Mitchell officially broke out his D.O.N Issue #1 kicks on Thursday morning after his first Adidas signature sneakers were announced ahead of the Jazz's marquee game versus the Philadelphia 76ers on TNT.Details on the price and date of the sneaker release won't get announced u
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Romney’s first order of business in the Senate

  27-12-2018 20:15
  Sen.-elect Mitt Romney, R-Utah, we presume, didn’t wade back into politics, run a Senate campaign and agree to serve for six years just to go-along-to-get-along in a body devoid of leadership. He’s a former governor, a former presidential nominee, a successful businessman and the savior of the Salt Lake Olympics, for goodness’ sake. He has heft, experience and the respect of his peers. If he simply becomes another keep-our-head-down Republican, he’ll be no different than
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The 9 best dishes our reviewers ate in 2018 were an eclectic mix of unfussy foods and ethnic meals

  27-12-2018 20:02 via sportspyder.com
  As the year comes to a close, it’s time to reminisce about the unforgettable foods of 2018, the ones that oozed flavor and made us drool.
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump finally found a conspiracy theory he doesn’t believe

  27-12-2018 19:52
  Washington • So President Trump finally found a conspiracy theory he doesn’t believe."Are you still a believer in Santa?" Trump asked an unsuspecting 7-year-old, Collman Lloyd, when she called in to the military's Santa Claus tracker line on Christmas Eve."Yes sir," she replied."Because at 7, that's marginal, right?""Yes, sir," replied the child, though she didn't know what "marginal" meant.I can imagine the confusion of the young South Carolinian, who had put out sugar cookies and ch
  
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• Red All Over: Pac-12 may need another Ute victory to salvage the bowl season.

  27-12-2018 19:50
  Red All Over is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.While the Utah football team prepares to play Northwestern in Monday’s Holiday Bowl in San Diego, the Utes' other potential destinations will come into view in the coming days.The Utes may have ended up in San Antonio, where Washington State will meet Iowa State in Friday’s Alamo Bowl. They could have gone to El Paso, Texas, where Stanford will face Pittsburgh in Monday’s Sun
  
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• How do you rank Utah’s top political power brokers?

  27-12-2018 19:48
  Utah saw a major political upheaval in 2018. Voters passed a slate of ballot initiatives, Sen. Orrin Hatch retired and the Legislature was flipped in a number of ways.Taking all of that into account, columnist Robert Gehrke will rank Utah’s most powerful political players on Jan. 2. But before he does, he wants to get a sense of how The Salt Lake Tribune’s readers would vote. So he’s narrowed the list to 20 names, and he’d like to find out who you would put in the top 10.
  
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• The 9 best dishes our reviewers ate in 2018 were an eclectic mix of unfussy foods and ethnic meals

  27-12-2018 19:47
  As the year comes to a close, it’s time to reminisce about the unforgettable foods of 2018, the ones that oozed flavor and made us drool.Our year-end favorites are an eclectic mix of unfussy, casual ethnic meals that include stuffed pockets from Mexico, two salads, a decadent breakfast favorite, a vegan burrito and two meaty sandwiches — one made with crispy chicken, the other a classic steak with a Utah twist.Here’s a snapshot of the nine dishes we especially enjoyed this year
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah State went all the way to Portugal to find center Neemias Queta. He was worth the trip.

  27-12-2018 19:37 via sportspyder.com
  There is a legend in Portugal centuries old, and it involves a rooster.
  
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