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• Ricky & Jae are both probable for tomorrow night's game against Toronto.

  31-12-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
  Ricky & Jae are both probable for tomorrow night's game against Toronto.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah’s Rep. Mia Love was absent from most House votes since losing re-election

  31-12-2018 23:20 via sportspyder.com
  Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, participated in only 14 of 85 votes during the lame-duck House session that followed her defeat by Democratic Rep.-elect Ben McAdams, the worst of any member of Utah’s federal delegation and near the bottom of the entire...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jimmy Carter: How to repair the US-China relationship and prevent a modern Cold War

  31-12-2018 23:08 via sportspyder.com
  Forty years ago, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and I normalized diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the United States, putting an end to three decades of hostility. This led to an era distinguished by peace in East Asia...
  
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• Utah’s Rep. Mia Love was absent from most House votes since losing re-election

  31-12-2018 22:28
  Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, participated in only 14 out of 85 votes during the lame-duck House session that followed her defeat by Democratic Rep.-elect Ben McAdams, the worst of any member of Utah’s federal delegation and near the bottom of the entire Congress.According to the website GovTrack, Love missed 83.5 percent of House votes during November and December — well above her average 4.1 percent absent rate — putting her in the 98th percentile for nonparticipation during the low
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Snow closes Arches, Canyonlands. Shutdown leaves no money to plow roads.

  31-12-2018 22:11 via sportspyder.com
  With fresh snow covering the roads and no personnel available to plow them, Arches and Canyonlands national parks shut their gates Monday as the federal government’s partial shutdown ground into its second week.
  
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• Jimmy Carter: How to repair the US-China relationship and prevent a modern Cold War

  31-12-2018 22:00
  Forty years ago, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and I normalized diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the United States, putting an end to three decades of hostility. This led to an era distinguished by peace in East Asia and the Pacific region. China's spectacular economic growth, in conjunction with its continuing integration with the much larger U.S. economy, has enabled the two countries to become engines of global prosperity. Scientific and cultural exchanges have b
  
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• Snow closes Arches, Canyonlands. Shutdown leaves no money to plow roads.

  31-12-2018 21:44
  With fresh snow covering the roads and no personnel available to plow them, Arches and Canyonlands national parks shut their gates Monday as the federal government’s partial shutdown ground into its second week.Utah has been funding some personnel costs at Arches and two other busy national parks since the shutdown started Dec. 22, but that money is being used to staff visitor centers and clean toilets, not clear roads.“It is unknown when the road will open,” the National Park
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Alexandra Petri: 2018 was a year that happened

  31-12-2018 21:42 via sportspyder.com
  Ah, 2018! I can still almost remember what it was like to be alive in February 2018. Drake was on the radio, and there was an Olympics! Did you know that there was an Olympics in 2018? Someone reminded me recently that this happened, and I ceased...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Leonard Pitts: 2018, the year we lost ourselves

  31-12-2018 21:34 via sportspyder.com
  Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?
  
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• Utah Highway Patrol made some DUI arrests, but so far none under the state’s stricter 0.05 blood alcohol limit

  31-12-2018 21:29
  The first day of Utah’s stricter new DUI law was not too different than the year before in terms of drunk-driving arrests, according to the Utah Highway Patrol.Eight drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in the 24 hours of Dec. 30, Col. Michael Rapich of the UHP and deputy commissioner of Utah’s Department of Public Safety said Monday.What’s more, Rapich said, all eight blood-alcohol levels registered above 0.08 percent, the previous measure for impai
  
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• Alexandra Petri: 2018 was a year that happened

  31-12-2018 21:16
  Ah, 2018! I can still almost remember what it was like to be alive in February 2018. Drake was on the radio, and there was an Olympics! Did you know that there was an Olympics in 2018? Someone reminded me recently that this happened, and I ceased speaking mid-conversation and just sat there with my mouth hanging open. I have lost all track of time. I entered 2018 a comparatively young, spry individual; I am emerging from it broken and in need of ointment, like Scott Pruitt (a man you may have fo
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Highway Patrol saw almost no difference in arrests on first day of stricter 0.05 DUI law

  31-12-2018 21:09 via sportspyder.com
  The first day of Utah’s stricter new DUI law was not too different than the year before in terms of drunk-driving arrests, according to the Utah Highway Patrol.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - From trades to awards to the playoffs, here are the top 10 Jazz stories of 2018, a year to remember

  31-12-2018 21:01 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz entered 2018 with a 16-21 record and with limited hope, struggling to play well in the shadow of a departed star. But just a few weeks after the calendar flipped, the team went on a season-changing run that pushed them through to the second...
  
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• Leonard Pitts: 2018, the year we lost ourselves

  31-12-2018 21:00
  Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?Of course not.As a year ticks into its final hours, old acquaintances are front of mind, sometimes painfully so. It lends a certain melancholy sweetness to the whole ritual. We mark a milestone reached, but we also remember all that we have lost along the way.Meaning personal losses, yes: a dad, a friend, a child, a husband or a sister who once was here but has since turned to memory. But it's a moment for remembering our public losses,
  
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• From trades to awards to the playoffs, here are the top 10 Jazz stories of 2018, a year to remember

  31-12-2018 20:32
  The Jazz entered 2018 with a 16-21 record and with limited hope, struggling to play well in the shadow of a departed star. But just a few weeks after the calendar flipped, the team went on a season-changing run that pushed them through to the second round of the playoffs. Here’s The Salt Lake Tribune’s top Utah Jazz stories of 2018.10. Jazz draft Grayson Allen
  (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune)
  The Utah Jazz introduce their top draft pick Grayson Allen in Salt Lake City, Wednesda
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Elections and films help effort to ban gay conversion therapy in Utah and across the U.S.

  31-12-2018 20:09 via sportspyder.com
  New York • Activists urging more states to ban gay conversion therapy for minors are expecting major gains in 2019, thanks to midterm election results and the buzz generated by two well-reviewed films.
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Highlights: Jazz 129 | Knicks 97

  31-12-2018 20:05 via sportspyder.com
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Arizona and Utah sync licensing rules for Lake Powell fishing

  31-12-2018 20:05 via sportspyder.com
  Phoenix • Arizona and Utah are now in sync on what’s needed to fish on Lake Powell, the Colorado River lake that straddles the border between the two states.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - After being one of the WCC’s ‘Big 3’ for years, underachieving BYU basketball might have to fight just to make the league’s middle tier

  31-12-2018 20:05 via sportspyder.com
  Provo • Losing by 22 points in a game in which it trailed by as many as 36 is certainly not the way BYU’s basketball team wanted to finish the non-conference portion of its schedule and wrap up the 2018 calendar year.
  
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• 📓| “I kind of had the same feeling I had last year when we made that big run. I feel that same way, that same energ… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-12-2018 19:56 via twitter.com
  📓| “I kind of had the same feeling I had last year when we made that big run. I feel that same way, that same energ… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Navajo bill aimed at changing company to for-profit status

  31-12-2018 19:55 via sportspyder.com
  Farmington, N.M. • A bill proposed for consideration by the Navajo National Council is aimed at making a tribal-owned energy company a for-profit corporation.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Here’s the most popular Netflix show in Utah and every other state

  31-12-2018 19:44 via sportspyder.com
  One of the core assumptions about Netflix is that, thanks to its popularity and ubiquity, the service can blur boundaries. From Nashua, New Hampshire, to Newport Beach, California, Seattle to Sarasota, Florida, we're all watching the same thing. (And
  
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• [NBA] - 'We fought through it and we got better' — Rudy Gobert expects an improved Utah Jazz in 2019

  31-12-2018 19:42 via sportspyder.com
  On Jan. 5, 2018, Rudy Gobert made a prediction.His team was struggling. Before the end of the month, the Utah Jazz would be nine games below .500, their playoff hopes in grave danger. Gobert was not
  
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• Elections and films help effort to ban gay conversion therapy in Utah and across the U.S.

  31-12-2018 19:42
  New York • Activists urging more states to ban gay conversion therapy for minors are expecting major gains in 2019, thanks to midterm election results and the buzz generated by two well-reviewed films.Fourteen states and the District of Columbia have already enacted laws prohibiting licensed therapists from trying to change a minor’s sexual orientation. Leaders of a national campaign to ban the practice are hopeful that at least four more states — Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - A new housing proposal in Utah would focus on encouraging mother-in-law apartments and even more residential buildings along transit corridors

  31-12-2018 19:41 via sportspyder.com
  A Utah lawmaker influential on housing issues is proposing a major financial boost for the state’s top source of low-interest lending to affordable residential construction, the Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund.
  
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• A new housing proposal in Utah would focus on encouraging mother-in-law apartments and more residential buildings along transit corridors

  31-12-2018 19:39
  A Utah lawmaker influential on housing issues is proposing a major financial boost for the state’s top source of low-interest lending to affordable residential construction, the Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund.Senate Bill 34 — filed in advance of the 2019 Utah legislative session that begins in January — would pump an initial $20 million into the fund in 2020, followed by another $4 million each year thereafter, according to sponsoring Sen. Jake Anderegg, R-Lehi.On top of expand
  
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• Arizona and Utah sync licensing rules for Lake Powell fishing

  31-12-2018 19:37
  Phoenix • Arizona and Utah are now in sync on what’s needed to fish on Lake Powell, the Colorado River lake that straddles the border between the two states.The Arizona Game and Fish Department and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources announced Friday that residents of Arizona and Utah as of Tuesday, Jan. 1, may buy just a resident license from their home state and fish all of the lake with only that one license.The change is that Utah will no longer require an $8 Utah stamp to fis
  
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• After being one of the WCC’s ‘Big 3’ for years, underachieving BYU basketball might have to fight just to make the league’s middle tier

  31-12-2018 19:36
  Provo • Losing by 22 points in a game in which it trailed by as many as 36 is certainly not the way BYU’s basketball team wanted to finish the non-conference portion of its schedule and wrap up the 2018 calendar year.The Cougars were competitive for only the first 10 minutes Saturday in an eventual 103-81 loss to Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss. Now the question has to be asked: Will it get worse before it gets better?Having lost three straight for the second time this season an
  
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• Navajo bill aimed at changing company to for-profit status

  31-12-2018 19:34
  Farmington, N.M. • A bill proposed for consideration by the Navajo National Council is aimed at making a tribal-owned energy company a for-profit corporation.The Daily Times reports that the legislation would authorize the tribe to petition the U.S. Interior Department to allow the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. to become a for-profit corporation under the Indian Reorganization Act.The NTEC is a tribal enterprise company created in 2013 to purchase the Navajo Mine near Fruitland.Besides own
  
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• Here’s the most popular Netflix show in Utah and every other state

  31-12-2018 19:30
  One of the core assumptions about Netflix is that, thanks to its popularity and ubiquity, the service can blur boundaries. From Nashua, New Hampshire, to Newport Beach, California, Seattle to Sarasota, Florida, we're all watching the same thing. (And that thing, it seems, is "The Crown.")Except it turns out we're not.A researcher in Salt Lake City named Victoria Merinda has compiled the most searched-for Netflix shows in the country over this past year and proceeded to break them down by state.
  
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• .@YoungSubaru presented a $25,000 check to the Ogden Trails Network through its Share the Love Event. This money he… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-12-2018 19:28 via twitter.com
  .@YoungSubaru presented a $25,000 check to the Ogden Trails Network through its Share the Love Event. This money he… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s agenda is dependent on provable falsehoods

  31-12-2018 18:19 via sportspyder.com
  Since President Donald Trump's inauguration, The Washington Post's fact-checkers have tracked more than 7,600 lies from the president. He's repeated some of them so frequently that they had to create a whole new Pinocchio category - the "Bottomless...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: How Pope Francis must change in 2019

  31-12-2018 18:19 via sportspyder.com
  Pope Francis did not have the year he thought he was going to have.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Vatican spokesman and his deputy resign suddenly

  31-12-2018 17:51 via sportspyder.com
  Vatican City • Vatican spokesman Greg Burke and his deputy resigned suddenly Monday amid an overhaul of the Vatican’s communications operations that coincides with a troubled period in Pope Francis’ papacy.
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s agenda is dependent on provable falsehoods

  31-12-2018 17:48
  Since President Donald Trump's inauguration, The Washington Post's fact-checkers have tracked more than 7,600 lies from the president. He's repeated some of them so frequently that they had to create a whole new Pinocchio category - the "Bottomless Pinocchio" - to do justice to his refusal to relinquish provable falsehoods. Trump’s ability to maintain his parallel universe in which he is responsible for nothing and yet has achieved everything now defines his presidency. Only in that univer
  
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• Commentary: How Pope Francis must change in 2019

  31-12-2018 17:45
  Pope Francis did not have the year he thought he was going to have.It began this way: marked by sniping about his reform tendencies, especially where Catholic Church teaching on the family is concerned. As the Vatican geared up for its 2018 synod assembly — a meeting of bishops from around the world who gather in Rome to advise the pope on different issues, this year on youths and vocations — talk that the 2014 and 2015 synod meetings on the family had been rigged in favor of a refor
  
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• Vatican spokesman and his deputy resign suddenly

  31-12-2018 17:38
  Vatican City • Vatican spokesman Greg Burke and his deputy resigned suddenly Monday amid an overhaul of the Vatican’s communications operations that coincides with a troubled period in Pope Francis’ papacy.In a tweet, Burke said he and his deputy, Paloma Garcia Ovejero, had resigned effective Jan. 1. Francis accepted the resignation Monday, the Vatican said in a statement.“At this time of transition in Vatican communications, we think it’s best the Holy Father is com
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Salt Lakers are No. 7 when it comes to keeping New Year’s resolutions — but West Valley residents are No. 65

  31-12-2018 17:26 via sportspyder.com
  People across the country are making New Year’s resolutions, and four out of five of us — maybe even nine out of 10 of us — are going to fail to keep them.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - New Years Resolutions for Utah Jazz players

  31-12-2018 17:03 via sportspyder.com
  Out with the old and in with the new.
  
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• Salt Lakers are No. 7 when it comes to keeping New Year’s resolutions — but West Valley residents are No. 65

  31-12-2018 16:59
  People across the country are making New Year’s resolutions, and four out of five of us — maybe even nine out of 10 of us — are going to fail to keep them.So, while the bar isn’t set particularly high, Salt Lake City is No. 7 when it comes to keeping New Year’s resolutions, and West Valley is No. 65 on the same list.That’s according to WalletHub, which ranked 182 American cities based on “their conduciveness to self-improvement,” looking at 56 &ldq
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Baby, it’s cold outside! Expect no snow and bad air this week.

  31-12-2018 16:46 via sportspyder.com
  Sunday’s storm, which brought an inch or two of snow to the Salt Lake Valley, is the last significant precipitation expected along the Wasatch Front this week. But, boy, it’s going to be cold.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Jesus and the INN Between

  31-12-2018 16:10 via sportspyder.com
  “There but for the grace of God go I,” I thought, as I read about The INN Between in the Tribune Dec. 16.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Hatch should call out the president

  31-12-2018 16:10 via sportspyder.com
  If outgoing Sen. Orrin Hatch is as concerned about raising “the bar of decency” in Washington as he says he is, he could start by calling out the immoral, illegal and indecent behavior of his guy in the Oval Office.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Hatch has much to apologize for

  31-12-2018 16:10 via sportspyder.com
  The 2018 Sen. Orrin G. Hatch Apology Tour continues, as he reverses himself regarding statements that our president is not subject to the rule of law.
  
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• Baby, it’s cold outside! Expect no snow and bad air this week.

  31-12-2018 16:09
  Sunday’s storm, which brought an inch or two of snow to the Salt Lake Valley, is the last significant precipitation expected along the Wasatch Front this week. But, boy, it’s going to be cold.The possibility of light, lake-effect snow, with little to no accumulation, will taper off in northern Utah by mid-day on Monday. According to the National Weather Service, “the main story will be the arrival of some of the coldest air of the season.”If you’re planning on atten
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: White House derangement has had wide-ranging effects

  31-12-2018 16:06 via sportspyder.com
  The derangement of the current White House has affected the wider society over the past two years: increased hate crimes, loss of civility, amazing ethical lapses of government department secretaries. In recent weeks, derangement has broken through...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Pay for Medicaid, not med school

  31-12-2018 16:06 via sportspyder.com
  In response to Josh Nelson’s “It’s time to make medical school free” (Tribune, Dec. 22), I agree with a lot Nelson said in his commentary, but not all.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah homeless service providers working toward a fresh start when new shelters open next year

  31-12-2018 15:45 via sportspyder.com
  Matt Minkevitch, executive director of The Road Home, was optimistic in a recent interview about the progress of the homeless shelter’s annual holiday fundraiser.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Critter cams have produced thousands of images of wildlife roaming northern Utah’s mountain trails

  31-12-2018 15:45 via sportspyder.com
  As many a northern Utah mountain biker or cross-country skier knows from firsthand experience, moose often hang out on favorite trails and are not always in a hurry to let a rider pass, yet most cyclists can go a lifetime without ever seeing a...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - An app says Utah is the ‘sickest state;’ officials say it’s a mild flu season so far. Will tech change how infectious diseases are tracked?

  31-12-2018 15:45 via sportspyder.com
  It’s a question every parent worries about in the winter: How bad is the flu season going to be?
  
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