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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Dante Exum is producing at previously unprecedented levels. Has he finally turned the corner?

  30-12-2018 23:53 via sportspyder.com
  As many longtime supporters of Jazz point guard Dante Exum noted on social media Saturday night, the price of real estate on “Exum Island” is skyrocketing.
  
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• Dante Exum is producing at previously unprecedented levels. Has he finally turned the corner?

  30-12-2018 23:36
  As many longtime supporters of Jazz point guard Dante Exum noted on social media Saturday night, the price of real estate on “Exum Island” is skyrocketing.Against the Knicks, he registered 13 points and 13 assists for the first double-double of his career. The prior game, against the 76ers, he scored 20 points while hitting 3 of 5 shots from deep. He had two strong games against the Blazers recently — totaling 15 points (on 7-for-9 shooting) and four assists on Christmas, and e
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Proposed Arizona monument would honor Mormon settlers

  30-12-2018 23:31 via sportspyder.com
  Phoenix • A proposed monument at the Arizona Capitol would recall the migration story of thousands of Mormon settlers who made difficult treks from Utah to Arizona in the 19th century.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah QB Tyler Huntley needs ‘a miracle’ to play in the Holiday Bowl, Kyle Whittingham says

  30-12-2018 23:14 via sportspyder.com
  San Diego • Utah quarterback Tyler Huntley’s return to the field in Monday’s Holiday Bowl “would take a miracle,” Ute coach Kyle Whittingham said Sunday.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Army vet writes children’s books to help families cope during parents' deployments

  30-12-2018 23:09 via sportspyder.com
  Orem • A retired U.S. Army sergeant from Utah has written a pair of children’s books to help families cope with the deployment of a parent.
  
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• Proposed Arizona monument would honor Mormon settlers

  30-12-2018 22:59
  Phoenix • A proposed monument at the Arizona Capitol would recall the migration story of thousands of Mormon settlers who made difficult treks from Utah to Arizona in the 19th century.Legislation authorizing the monument died last spring but is expected to be considered anew in 2019. Supporters hope they can erect the monument at Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza in Phoenix to honor settlers whose journeys included crossing the Colorado River at Lees Ferry near the Grand Canyon.The Arizona Republ
  
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• Utah QB Tyler Huntley needs ‘a miracle’ to play in the Holiday Bowl, Kyle Whittingham says

  30-12-2018 22:44
  San Diego • Utah quarterback Tyler Huntley’s return to the field in Monday’s Holiday Bowl “would take a miracle,” Ute coach Kyle Whittingham said Sunday.During his appearance at a news conference with Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald, Whittingham labeled Huntley's case “by all definitions, a game-time decision.”Asked after the formal session about who would make that call, Whittingham said the school’s medical staff would determine whether Huntley
  
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• Army vet writes children’s books to help families cope during parents' deployments

  30-12-2018 22:28
  Orem • A retired U.S. Army sergeant from Utah has written a pair of children’s books to help families cope with the deployment of a parent.Leslie Zimmerman said she was inspired to write the books after seeing her nieces and nephews struggle when her older sister was deployed, the Daily Herald in Provo reports . Zimmerman said children of deployed parents can suffer depression, anxiety and anger.Zimmerman is now a mother but didn't have children when she was deployed to Iraq in 2003.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The 5 best Utah Jazz moments of 2018

  30-12-2018 20:55 via sportspyder.com
  It’s been a heckuva a year in Jazzland. Here’s looking back at a wild 365 days.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Southwestern Montana skaters seek ‘wild ice’

  30-12-2018 20:08 via sportspyder.com
  Helena, Mont. • The sharp scrape of steel on ice cut through a rare windless December morning at the Silos on Canyon Ferry Reservoir as a quartet of skaters moved briskly across the smooth frozen surface.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Whether it’s boring or exciting, Utah will beat Northwestern in the Holiday Bowl

  30-12-2018 20:08 via sportspyder.com
  San Diego • With all the comparisons between Utah and Northwestern pointing toward a slog-a-thon, a punch-you-in-the-mouth defensive struggle, the question then becomes this: From an entertainment standpoint, will the Holiday Bowl end up being a...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Miami coach Richt retires after Hurricanes finish season 7-6

  30-12-2018 20:08 via sportspyder.com
  Coral Gables, Fla. • Mark Richt stepped down as Miami coach on Sunday, an announcement that caught the school off-guard and comes just days after the end of an underachieving season.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - In 2019, it’s time to move beyond the Bechdel Test

  30-12-2018 20:08 via sportspyder.com
  2018 has been the kind of year that makes you hunger for good news in almost any arena, so it’s no surprise that feminist observers of the entertainment industry this month seized on a new analysis that implied that starring a woman boosts a movie’s...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - FBI, New Jersey investigators gathered evidence of undocumented immigrants who say they worked at Trump golf course, lawyer says

  30-12-2018 20:08 via sportspyder.com
  Federal and state investigators are scrutinizing the employment documents of immigrants without legal status who allegedly worked at President Donald Trump's golf club in New Jersey, according to their attorney.
  
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• Commentary: Church made a mistake pulling away from the Boy Scouts

  30-12-2018 19:59
  Scrolling through Facebook the other day, I saw a post about a Fox Business article saying the Boy Scouts of America may have to declare bankruptcy.I started scrolling through the comments, but I was quickly disheartened and disappointed. Many people were placing the blame on the BSA. A few cited high pay for executives, but this is necessary for such a program. In order to be run well, an organization needs to attract competent people, and those people require higher pay to make it worth their
  
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• Commentary: There’s no Nazi God. People follow the teachings of religion teachings because it sets us free.

  30-12-2018 19:57
  Johnny Townsend offended a lot of people in his commentary in the Dec. 23 Salt Lake Tribune — not just members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, although I am sure his main aim was at them.He offended almost every religion, including Jews, all Christians and Muslims, because he criticized the God of the Old Testament for killing the firstborn of every Egyptian and “undesirables” from the Promised Land.I am surprised that he mocks church members for keeping the
  
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• Southwestern Montana skaters seek ‘wild ice’

  30-12-2018 19:46
  Helena, Mont. • The sharp scrape of steel on ice cut through a rare windless December morning at the Silos on Canyon Ferry Reservoir as a quartet of skaters moved briskly across the smooth frozen surface.A mild reflection grew across the ice as they approached, slowing to a stop near the shore before a few pushes on the skates sent them gliding once again, becoming only specks against the outline of Mount Baldy in the background."It's so graceful and the possibilities are endless," said Dal
  
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• FBI, New Jersey investigators gathered evidence of undocumented immigrants who say they worked at Trump golf course, lawyer says

  30-12-2018 19:46
  Federal and state investigators are scrutinizing the employment documents of immigrants without legal status who allegedly worked at President Donald Trump's golf club in New Jersey, according to their attorney.Anibal Romero, a Newark attorney who represents five undocumented immigrants who say they worked at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, said in an interview Saturday that he met with investigators from the New Jersey state attorney general's office and two FBI agents in November,
  
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• In 2019, it’s time to move beyond the Bechdel Test

  30-12-2018 19:44
  2018 has been the kind of year that makes you hunger for good news in almost any arena, so it’s no surprise that feminist observers of the entertainment industry this month seized on a new analysis that implied that starring a woman boosts a movie’s prospects at the box office.The research, compiled by Creative Artists Agency and the company shift7, is a sensible attempt to use the only true leverage point in Hollywood. (For all the industry’s liberal platitudes, the past few y
  
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• Monson: Whether it’s boring or exciting, Utah will beat Northwestern in the Holiday Bowl

  30-12-2018 19:41
  San Diego • With all the comparisons between Utah and Northwestern pointing toward a slog-a-thon, a punch-you-in-the-mouth defensive struggle, the question then becomes this: From an entertainment standpoint, will the Holiday Bowl end up being a forgettable snooze-fest, an ugly game only Buddy Ryan could like?It might.That’s not this particular bowl’s tradition, what with final scores in past games being notable for their explosion of offense and points. In nearly half of the bo
  
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• Miami coach Richt retires after Hurricanes finish season 7-6

  30-12-2018 19:41
  Coral Gables, Fla. • Mark Richt stepped down as Miami coach on Sunday, an announcement that caught the school off-guard and comes just days after the end of an underachieving season.Richt, 58, said he was not forced out, and that the decision to retire was his."My love for The U is simply great," Richt said. "My true desire is for our football program to return to greatness, and while terribly difficult, I feel that stepping down is in the best interests of the program."Richt said he inform
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter suggesting furloughed workers do chores to cover rent was posted by accident, federal office says

  30-12-2018 19:36 via sportspyder.com
  The agency that oversees the government's civilian workforce is facing scrutiny after suggesting federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown barter with their landlords if they can't make rent payments, advice that has been called "l
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Do Utah leaders honor the people’s trust?

  30-12-2018 19:27 via sportspyder.com
  In voting, we, the people of Utah, select political leaders we hope will represent our views and act with honor and integrity. In fact, we might pray for them using words such as pioneer Eliza R. Snow’s: “Let them seek for wisdom instead of power...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Scott D. Pierce: In memoriam — a look back at 112 TV shows that got the ax in 2018

  30-12-2018 19:23 via sportspyder.com
  As 2018 draws to a close, let’s make like the Emmys and the Oscars and do our own “In Memoriam” segment, running down the list of TV deaths that happened this year.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Clean up the air before the Olympics

  30-12-2018 19:23 via sportspyder.com
  Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2030? Fantastic.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Is Netflix killing the movie theater? Not so fast.

  30-12-2018 19:23 via sportspyder.com
  This Christmas, Hollywood’s major film releases are competing for Americans’ entertainment time with a slew of new shows on Netflix — and all those television series that slipped through the cracks during the year.
  
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• Letter suggesting furloughed workers do chores to cover rent was posted by accident, federal office says

  30-12-2018 19:06
  The agency that oversees the government's civilian workforce is facing scrutiny after suggesting federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown barter with their landlords if they can't make rent payments, advice that has been called "laughable."On Thursday, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management tweeted sample letters to help the roughly 800,000 affected workers negotiate with creditors and mortgage companies. One letter, meant for employees to send to their landlords, discussed
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Happy Holidays: Utah Jazz center Tony Bradley makes season debut

  30-12-2018 18:59 via sportspyder.com
  Christmas is in the rear view mirror, but it's still the holiday season for Utah Jazz center Tony Bradley, who made his season debut on Saturday night. Wit...
  
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• Commentary: Do Utah leaders honor the people’s trust?

  30-12-2018 18:53
  In voting, we, the people of Utah, select political leaders we hope will represent our views and act with honor and integrity. In fact, we might pray for them using words such as pioneer Eliza R. Snow’s: “Let them seek for wisdom instead of power and they will have all the power they have wisdom to exercise.”Democracy, we believe, provides assurance that the power and trust we invest in elected leaders will not be abused. To that end, George Washington, in his farewell address
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: In memoriam — a look back at 112 TV shows that got the ax in 2018

  30-12-2018 18:50
  As 2018 draws to a close, let’s make like the Emmys and the Oscars and do our own “In Memoriam” segment, running down the list of TV deaths that happened this year.Not actual people. Not characters. A list of shows that died. It’s a long list — 112 shows.Some of them clearly deserved to die. “Inhumans” couldn't go away fast enough, and the fact that an awful show like “Designated Survivor” hung on for two seasons does not speak well of the te
  
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• Letter: Clean up the air before the Olympics

  30-12-2018 18:49
  Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2030? Fantastic.The eyes of the world will be on us, and it will be a great opportunity to showcase our state.However, what will visitors think as they fly into the beautiful new Salt Lake International Airport and are unable to see our city through the smog? How embarrassing will it be when the TV cameras show a city looking more like Beijing than the beautiful valley and mountains that viewers expected?Simply hoping there will not be a pollution-trapping in
  
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• Is Netflix killing the movie theater? Not so fast.

  30-12-2018 18:48
  This Christmas, Hollywood’s major film releases are competing for Americans’ entertainment time with a slew of new shows on Netflix — and all those television series that slipped through the cracks during the year.Yet many of those films — “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” “Mary Poppins Returns” — are projected to do big business in theaters, with “Aquaman” already winning the weekend with a strong $68 million opening through Su
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Couple who lost home in California wildfire get pardons for drug crimes

  30-12-2018 18:33 via sportspyder.com
  San Francisco • Jason Burnett said he detected a faint feeling of disappointment from his wife when California Gov. Jerry Brown pardoned him for an old drug crime less than two weeks after the couple lost their home in the nation’s deadliest...
  
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• Happy Holidays: Utah Jazz center Tony Bradley makes season debut

  30-12-2018 18:31
  Christmas is in the rear view mirror, but it’s still the holiday season for Utah Jazz center Tony Bradley, who made his season debut on Saturday night. With multiple players out due to injury, and with the Utah Jazz absolutely annihilating the New York Knicks, I knew there was a chance Tony Bradley would get […]
  Happy Holidays: Utah Jazz center Tony Bradley makes season debut - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Legislature saves us from ourselves

  30-12-2018 18:02 via sportspyder.com
  As I read Merrill Nelson's commentary in the Dec. 23 Tribune, rebutting Rocky Anderson's claim of legislative overreach in passing compromise legislation on medical marijuana, two words came incessantly to mind: "Dude, really?"
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Utah’s new BAC law should show mercy for first-time offenders

  30-12-2018 18:02 via sportspyder.com
  Utah is getting hit with a different kind of New Year’s gift for 2019: stricter drinking laws. Utah is now the first and only state in the nation with a law banning individuals from driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.05 percent or above;...
  
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• Couple who lost home in California wildfire get pardons for drug crimes

  30-12-2018 18:02
  San Francisco • Jason Burnett said he detected a faint feeling of disappointment from his wife when California Gov. Jerry Brown pardoned him for an old drug crime less than two weeks after the couple lost their home in the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century.Heather Steels Burnett had applied for a pardon, too, but didn’t receive it last month like her husband."She's like, 'I didn't get mine,'" Jason Burnett, 44, playfully recalled her reaction.That changed Monday when Brow
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Overpopulation + overheated earth = mass migration

  30-12-2018 18:01 via sportspyder.com
  Even a casual glance at the headlines reveals a staggering number of places where humans and the Earth are being challenged by overpopulation and/or climate change. People, animals, insects and even plants are migrating because of a warming planet....
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Brodi Ashton: Finish this sentence, ‘If Tinder were a place, it would be …’

  30-12-2018 18:01 via sportspyder.com
  Recently, my friend and I were discussing the travails of online dating and he said, if Tinder were a place, it would be a seedy bar where the time of day is always 2 in the morning.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Ask Ann Cannon: My husband has traveled and worked odd hours for years, and I no longer feel connected to him. Now what?

  30-12-2018 18:01 via sportspyder.com
  Dear Ann Cannon • I have been married nearly two decades. My husband’s job requires him to travel alone for long periods of time and for our family to move a lot. When he is working locally, his hours are weird and inconvenient for family time. I...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - ‘It is the biggest fight of my life’: $1 million payout on the line as Utah’s Sean O’Connell goes for MMA glory

  30-12-2018 17:52 via sportspyder.com
  During this phase of his life, he’s spent most of it persuading people to let him get punched in the face.
  
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• Sen. Hatch often said what he really thought — sometimes followed by an apology

  30-12-2018 17:48
  "Democrats are ‘the party of homosexuals.’” — During a Republican fundraiser in southern Utah in September 1988.“You’re always going to have nutcakes out there, no matter what you do.” — Talking about protesters during a Salt Lake City visit of President George W. Bush in August 2005.“Committing crimes of moral turpitude such as perjury and obstruction of justice go to the heart of qualification for public office. These offenses were committe
  
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• ‘It is the biggest fight of my life’: $1 million payout on the line as Utah’s Sean O’Connell goes for MMA glory

  30-12-2018 17:45
  During this phase of his life, he’s spent most of it persuading people to let him get punched in the face.In a fight on New Year’s Eve inside Madison Square Garden in New York City, there will be no shifting of that narrative. There he’ll be, fists balled up, ready to rampage, willing to accept the outcome, because when you’re Sean O’Connell, you’ve been used to such a scenario for, well, forever. Only this time, there’s a ton more at stake. Like, $1 mil
  
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• Commentary: Church made a mistake pulling away from the BSA

  30-12-2018 17:44
  Scrolling through Facebook the other day, I saw a post about a Fox Business article saying the Boy Scouts of America may have to declare bankruptcy.I started scrolling through the comments, but I was quickly disheartened and disappointed. Many people were placing the blame on the BSA. A few cited high pay for executives, but this is necessary for such a program. In order to be run well, an organization needs to attract competent people, and those people require higher pay to make it worth their
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Book World: The evolution of YA fiction, from ‘The Outsiders’ to ‘Harry Potter’ to ‘Twilight’

  30-12-2018 17:42 via sportspyder.com
  For a genre that’s so popular among readers of all ages, young adult lit is surprisingly young: The term was only coined in the 1960s, introducing an official way to describe books aimed at kids 12 to 18. In the relatively short time since, change...
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: The 10 best TV shows of 2018 are worth fighting ‘The Good Fight’ to watch

  30-12-2018 17:38
  According to the good folks at FX Networks, there were 495 original scripted TV series in 2018 — 160 on streaming services, 146 on broadcast networks, 144 on basic cable and 45 on pay cable. And those were just scripted series, not counting reality shows and documentaries and news and sports and everything else.No single person can possibly keep up with 495 scripted series. No single person can possibly keep up with the good ones. Even if that’s 1 in 10, that’s still 50 good TV
  
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• The images that defined 2018, as seen by The Salt Lake Tribune’s photographers

  30-12-2018 17:35
  In Utah, 2018 had its share of sorrow, from funerals for a fallen soldier, firefighter and police officer to the loss of a Latter-day Saint prophet and a benevolent businessman.But there were also bright moments of humanity, touches of triumph and instances of sheer beauty. This state is unlike any other, and throughout this year, the photographers at The Salt Lake Tribune took great care to bring you stories that illuminated what it means to be a Utahn.See the best photographs of 2018 here.
  
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• Brodi Ashton: Finish this sentence, ‘If Tinder were a place, it would be …’

  30-12-2018 17:34
  Recently, my friend and I were discussing the travails of online dating and he said, if Tinder were a place, it would be a seedy bar where the time of day is always 2 in the morning.I remarked that most of the conversations in this bar would contain threats of buying someone a drink, but then never really following through with it. Everyone would wander around and nobody would make eye contact or talk — until it was 2:30 a.m., and then some man would ask every woman left, “Hey, wanna
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: My husband has traveled and worked odd hours for years, and I no longer feel connected to him. Now what?

  30-12-2018 17:34
  Dear Ann Cannon • I have been married nearly two decades. My husband’s job requires him to travel alone for long periods of time and for our family to move a lot. When he is working locally, his hours are weird and inconvenient for family time. I have been mom AND dad for years. There has never been infidelity on either of our parts, but I find myself no longer connected to this marriage. The old song “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” feels like my curren
  
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• Letter: Overpopulation + overheated earth = mass migration

  30-12-2018 17:32
  Even a casual glance at the headlines reveals a staggering number of places where humans and the Earth are being challenged by overpopulation and/or climate change. People, animals, insects and even plants are migrating because of a warming planet. Competition for limited land, food, water, energy and minerals is causing conflicts across the globe.We know that human population will be controlled at some point by a combination of war, famine, disease or the difficult political and individual choi
  
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