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• Michael A. Kalm: Anyone interested in saving the lives of 173 Utah children and adolescents?

  25-02-2019 23:44
  A recent front-page article in The Salt Lake Tribune detailed the progress, or lack of progress, of three gun bills before the Utah Legislature.House Bill 114, proposed by Rep. Cory Maloy of Lehi is a “stand your ground” type bill that “makes it explicit that a person’s failure to retreat during an attack ‘is not a relevant factor in determining whether the individual ... acted reasonably.’" HB114 is already heading to the House floor. Meanwhile, languishing i
  
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• Paper or plastic? Utah lawmakers may overrule cities’ eco-friendly bag bans.

  25-02-2019 23:42
  Plastic bags blowing around are a problem across Utah, but for some state lawmakers the bigger issue is cities’ efforts to ban them.Targeting ordinances already enacted by two left-leaning, tourism-dependent cities, HB320 would block Utah cities and counties from regulating “auxiliary containers.”“Consistency in the market” is the driving need for the measure, sponsoring Rep. Mike McKell, R-Spanish Fork, told the House Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
  
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• Utah’s tech sector now accounts for more than 300,000 jobs in the state, a new study finds

  25-02-2019 23:28
  Employment in Utah's technology sector has grown at twice the national average over the last 10 years and the industry now supports one in every seven jobs in the state, a new study says.With more than 116,100 in direct employment, the tech sector’s influence on Utah’s overall economy is now ahead of the state’s real estate industry — only with an average yearly compensation of $102,000 per position, nearly 75 percent higher than the average of $58,400 paid per job in oth
  
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• Individuals fleeing polygamy should have access to victim assistance funding, Utah representative argues

  25-02-2019 23:15
  A bill that would open up victim assistance funding for more people escaping from polygamy passed easily in the Utah House on Monday and is bound for the Senate.Money from the crime victims reparation fund can cover the costs of medical treatment, mental-health services and child-care expenses, explained the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Kyle Andersen. Victims can use the aid to meet their immediate needs and get back on their feet in the aftermath of a crime.Andersen stressed that the bill, HB214,
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Joe Ingles leads the league in consecutive games played. What’s his secret?

  25-02-2019 23:11 via sportspyder.com
  In a storied November matchup against the Memphis Grizzlies, Joe Ingles returned from the locker room after suffering a head wound that required stitches and a Civil War-era head bandage.
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Utah’s Hot Topic

  25-02-2019 23:03
  This Pat Bagley cartoon, titled “Utah’s Hot Topic,” appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/02/22/bagley-cartoon-state-flag/" target=_blank><u>State Flag Redesign</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/02/21/bagley-cartoon-partners/"><u>Partners in Crime</u></a><a href="https:
  
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• Utah’s Mitt Romney and Mike Lee among senators to watch on Trump’s emergency declaration showdown

  25-02-2019 22:57
  Washington • The fight over President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall is heading to the GOP-controlled Senate, putting Republicans in the uncomfortable spot of deciding whether to back his declaration of a national emergency.Enough Republicans are chewing over whether to support Trump’s plan to create suspense about the vote and how the issue will play in the 2020 elections. Their objections range from constitutional to pragmatic, with many seeing Trump’s plan as a
  
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• Joe Ingles leads the league in consecutive games played. What’s his secret?

  25-02-2019 22:57
  In a storied November matchup against the Memphis Grizzlies, Joe Ingles returned from the locker room after suffering a head wound that required stitches and a Civil War-era head bandage.Thirty seconds later, Marc Gasol landed on Ingles near the sideline after trying to break up a pass. An exasperated Ingles yelled at his head coach, Quin Snyder, loud enough for the crowd to hear."Hey, just get me out of the game,” he joked.It’s the only time Ingles has ever asked that.Ingles is now
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jazz guard Ricky Rubio refuses to let business of NBA ruin love for Utah community: ‘It’s just who he is’

  25-02-2019 22:14 via sportspyder.com
  “The community doesn’t have to fall because this business works this way,” Rubio said.
  
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• R&B star R. Kelly pleads not guilty in sex abuse case

  25-02-2019 22:13
  Chicago • R. Kelly pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he sexually abused four people dating back to 1998, including three underage girls, and his attorney said the R&B star was still trying to pay the bail that would allow him to go free while awaiting trial.Kelly walked into a Chicago courtroom wearing an orange jumpsuit after spending the weekend in the city’s 7,000-inmate jail. He said little during the brief arraignment, telling the judge only his name. His lawyers spok
  
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• Jazz guard Ricky Rubio refuses to let business of NBA ruin love for Utah community: ‘It’s just who he is’

  25-02-2019 21:54
  SALT LAKE CITY — As media gossip and rumors were spreading like wildfire near the NBA trade deadline, it was nearly impossible for Utah Jazz guard Ricky Rubio to escape the chatter.Even as reports surfaced with his name linked to potential deals, the Spanish floor general tried not to let it affect his on-court production or his work in the community.But quite naturally, he's human, so his business team was somewhat concerned about possibly being moved to another city after planting seeds
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Clear eyes, full heart, can’t miss: Joe Ingles looks refreshed after break

  25-02-2019 21:41 via sportspyder.com
  Welcome back, Joe.
  
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• Expectations are low as President Trump looks for a win at his summit with North Korea

  25-02-2019 21:08
  Washington • President Donald Trump will head into his second meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un having reframed what would make a successful summit, lowering expectations for Pyongyang’s denuclearization while eager to declare a flashy victory to offset the political turmoil he faces at home.Trump was the driving force behind this week’s Vietnam summit, aiming to recreate the global spectacle of his first meeting with Kim, though that initial summit yielded few concre
  
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• Bill allowing higher alcohol beer in Utah grocery stores wins initial Senate approval

  25-02-2019 20:56
  A bill to put higher-alcohol beer in Utah grocery and convenience stores was approved by the Senate on Monday — despite worries about the loss of liquor revenue to the state and the potential that the measure is just one step away from allowing wine in retail outlets.SB132, which would hike the alcohol limit on retail beer from its current 3.2 percent by weight to 4.8 percent, passed 21-8 on a second reading. After a third reading in the Senate, possibly Tuesday, it will go to the House fo
  
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• Analysis: Pope Francis’ sex abuse summit: What it did and didn’t do

  25-02-2019 19:56
  Vatican City • Pope Francis’ summit on preventing sexual abuse was never going to meet the expectations placed on it by victims groups, the media and ordinary Catholics outraged over a scandal that has harmed so many and compromised the church’s moral authority so much.Indeed, no sweeping new law was announced to punish bishops who cover up abuse. No files were released or global reporting requirement endorsed requiring priestly rapists to be reported to police. In his final spe
  
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• BYU’s defense has improved every year in the Kalani Sitake era. Will that trend continue in 2019?

  25-02-2019 19:42
  Provo • When spring football practices begin for BYU next Monday, the focus will likely be on the offense, just like last year, when Jeff Grimes replaced Ty Detmer as the Cougars’ offensive coordinator and went about rebuilding a unit that was awful the previous season.Can the offense continue its upward climb? Who will emerge as the backup quarterback behind presumptive starter Zach Wilson? And how involved will Wilson be after having shoulder surgery in January? Which running backs
  
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• Tony-nominated producer Christopher Massimine picked as new managing director of Utah’s Pioneer Theatre Company

  25-02-2019 19:20
  A New York theater producer who helped shepherd two Tony-winning Broadway shows has been picked to run the business side of Utah’s Pioneer Theatre Company.Christopher Massimine has been chosen to be PTC’s managing director, starting July 1, the theater company announced Monday.Massimine will take the job that has been filled for 28 years by Chris Lino, who announced last year he is retiring, prompting a 10-month search for his successor. Lino’s last day is June 30.In a statemen
  
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• 8-year-old girl injured after falling from Utah chairlift

  25-02-2019 18:31
  Park City • A young girl is in the hospital after falling from a chairlift at a Utah ski resort.KUTV in Salt Lake City reported Sunday that the 8-year-old girl was riding on a chairlift at Park City Mountain Resort on Saturday when she suddenly fell.Resort officials said in a news release that the ski patrol immediately responded the scene.The child, who is from Alpine, had been on the Silverlode Express chairlift.She was taken by air ambulance to Primary Children's Hospital.Her condition o
  
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• Suspects in Colorado slaying, other crimes held in Oregon

  25-02-2019 18:25
  Roseburg, Ore. • Two men suspected in a crime spree across three states, including a deadly Colorado carjacking, have been arrested in Oregon.Oregon State Police say 31-year-old Jose Lopez-Jovel and 30-year-old Matthew Anthony Fanelli remained jailed Monday on multiple charges.Authorities say Lopez-Jovel was arrested Saturday afternoon after an attempted carjacking at a Roseburg restaurant but Fanelli fled in their car.Police say Fanelli fired several shots while driving down an interstate.
  
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• Six Utes are headed to the NFL Scouting Combine as Utah keeps developing talent

  25-02-2019 17:59
  Utah's football team will be among the Pac-12 favorites in 2019, with plenty of returning talent.The NFL Scouting Combine, starting this week, is a reminder that the Utes will miss some outstanding players.Nine seniors, counting two kickers, were in Utah’s 24-player starting lineup in 2018. Six were invited to the combine in Indianapolis, making them likely draft choices: linebackers Chase Hansen and Cody Barton, offensive tackle Jackson Barton, safety Marquise Blair, kicker Matt Gay and p
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: BYU's Nick Emery a good sport after going viral; Nike features Utah athlete

  25-02-2019 16:32 via sportspyder.com
  And a former Jazz player still has love in his heart for Utah.
  
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• Morning links: BYU's Nick Emery a good sport after going viral; Nike features Utah athlete

  25-02-2019 16:19
  SALT LAKE CITY — Nick Emery, no stranger to being mocked for something he did on the basketball court, couldn't have handled himself any better in the aftermath of an embarrassing situation that happened over the weekend.During the Cougars' blowout loss at Gonzaga, the BYU guard lost his balance as Zags' guard Geno Crandall made some nifty zig-zagging moves en route to the hoop. It didn't help that Emery stepped on a teammate's foot.It might not have mattered on this possession."How do you
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Could Trump’s secret weapon in 2020 be Hispanic voters?

  25-02-2019 15:39
  President Donald Trump announced his candidacy by accusing Mexico of sending “rapists” across the border. He’s ordered refugee children separated from their parents. He’s made building a wall to shut out migrants the focal point of his presidency. Now, the president is making an aggressive play for Hispanic-American votes in Florida and beyond — and polls suggest Democrats may need to be worried for 2020. [POLITICO]Happy Monday.Topping the news: Environmental activi
  
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• A Utah legislator wants Salt Lake City to house North America’s only Olympic-quality skate park

  25-02-2019 15:39
  If Rep. Mike McKell gets his way, Utah will be home to North America’s only Olympic-grade skate park, just in time for the sport to make its Olympic debut in Tokyo in 2020.All he needs is $300,000 from the state.McKell, R-Spanish Fork, told The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday that after speaking with his fellow lawmakers, he’s confident he’ll get the money. Vans Corp. will supply the remaining $200,000 needed to build the park.If all goes as planned, the park will be built by mid-A
  
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• After Venezuela aid is torched, Guaido plots bolder moves

  25-02-2019 15:32
  There was blood, smoke, smashed glass and tear gas. But a day of violence Saturday left Venezuela where it was before: Nothing changed on the ground. No one seems to be winning. And the nation is still hungry, scared and wondering what comes next.“Honestly, I’m disappointed,” said Luis Antonio Cequera, 52, a water vendor in the border town of Cucuta, where the clashes between supporters of President Nicolas Maduro and his rival Juan Guaido were fierce. “What we need is su
  
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• A Utah parole agent told Lauren McCluskey’s killer to ‘get his crap together,’ but mostly gave him high marks

  25-02-2019 15:18
  Draper • In the months before he murdered Lauren McCluskey, Melvin S. Rowland gave the appearance of a convict who wanted to succeed at parole.Rowland had switched jobs and phone numbers a few times and kept his parole agent informed of the changes. The 37-year-old used a dating app in May, tested positive for marijuana in August and missed some counseling appointments, but the agent opted to handle those violations of his parole conditions with warnings.“I came down on him,” Ro
  
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• From coffee to gay issues to doctrine, Jana Riess’ 'momentous’ book shows how LDS millennials view the faith and why more are leaving

  25-02-2019 15:17
  Right after World War II, American Christianity, including Mormonism, flourished. Religion was the rising tide that lifted everyone’s boat.Now, with devotion to denominations declining, researcher and writer Jana Riess set out to discover where Mormonism fits in the country’s religious landscape.Is that same exodus happening with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and for the same reasons or has the Utah-based faith bucked the trend?The answer to these questio
  
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• Gehrke: The LDS Church has always been a fixture at the Capitol, but this year it seems more engaged, constructive than ever

  25-02-2019 15:16
  Let’s start here: Despite the objections from some, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a right to have a voice in policymaking, just like the Catholics and Lutherans and Jews and Buddhists and Unitarians and … you get the idea.The church represents a vast constituency in Utah and has a legitimate interest in what it views as moral issues.Since before Utah was a state, we’ve seen the church use its political clout. And with 90 percent of the current Legislature
  
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• Letter: Utah faces a radioactive nightmare

  25-02-2019 15:00
  Our Legislature has passed legislation — HB220 — that would allow Class B and Class C nuclear wastes (including depleted uranium) to be stored at the EnergySolutions repository, with approval from the Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control.These long-lived wastes increase in toxicity over hundreds of thousands of years. It is inconceivable to me that they are seriously considering this possibility.When the Skull Valley site was originally approved, the citizens of Utah we
  
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• Letter: Pay for the border wall with thoughts and prayers

  25-02-2019 15:00
  A response to soon-to-be-former (not soon enough) Sen. Orrin Hatch.Sir, as per your request for citizens to pay for your “Trump Wall,” you have our (wait for it) thought and prayers.Failing that, do what all us “so-called childish people” have to do. Start a GoFundMe.Tod White, OremSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Making our beautiful state a wasteland

  25-02-2019 15:00
  Why do so many of our legislators consider our beautiful state a wasteland? It seems if they can’t destroy our incredible wild lands through extraction, they want to destroy it by bringing unsafe radioactive waste into our state.The introduction of House Bill 220, Radioactive Waste Amendments, by Rep. Carl Albrecht and Sen. Scott Sandall proves my point.HB220 would replace a 15-year ban on admitting Class B and Class C radioactive materials into Utah disposal sites and would allow any clas
  
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• Letter: Let FrontRunner serve Point of the Mountain

  25-02-2019 15:00
  An article on the Feb. 18 Salt Lake Tribune Opinion page, “Trust the process at the Point of the Mountain,” co-written by Theresa Foxley and Wade Sherman, stated that two-thirds of the traffic on I-15 is just passing through.If traffic is just passing through, why is a TRAX line at Point of the Mountain even being considered at this time? FrontRunner connects Salt Lake City, Sandy, Draper and Lehi. Before the state prison is relocated and that land vacated for the lust of developers,
  
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• Letter: Get out and vote — or run for office

  25-02-2019 15:00
  As I read Kim Thomson's letter on Feb. 14, I could feel her demoralization in regards to the decimation of Props 2 and 3 by our sanctimonious legislators, and understand her conclusion that our votes do not matter.I, however, want to offer an alternative view. Our current legislators are in this powerful position because we voted them in, and can be gone when we vote them out. Now, more than ever, it is time for us to become an informed and active electorate.The complexion of our legislative bod
  
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• Letter: Check population projections in the Bennion Elementary neighborhood

  25-02-2019 15:00
  As a former Salt Lake School Board member, may I suggest that the school board make sure that they have coordinated with the Salt Lake City Planning Office in regard to the future of Bennion Elementary.It's essential that documentation be made available of the projected resident population forecast for the inner city that the city is trying to revitalize with the booming housing development occurring downtown and the resulting increase in student population.The old Ensign Elementary School was t
  
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• Don Gale: Education for life instead of education about ‘rules’

  25-02-2019 14:30
  I appreciate the importance of STEM education. I have more of it than 95 percent of the population (almost four years of pre-med biology, chemistry, physics and math), but STEM does not go far in solving our real problems. For that we need increased education in humanities, arts and social sciences. STEM will get us to Mars. Humanities will help us get along with one another here on earth. We will survive whether or not we make the trip to Mars. The question is whether we will survive if we don&
  
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• Ramesh Ponnuru: There’s a catch to all the cheeriness about deficits

  25-02-2019 14:00
  Alarmed by the rise in the deficit and the national debt, which now tops $22 trillion? More and more intellectuals are here to tell you not to worry so much.On the left, Stephanie Kelton argues that deficits are worrisome only when they produce inflation, and inflation remains low. On the center-left, Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers suggest that low interest rates are a reason to increase "worthwhile investments in such areas as education, health care, and infrastructure." On the center-right,
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz coach Quin Snyder claims the enemy for Utah is ‘mistakes’

  25-02-2019 06:21 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are in a precarious situation right now. Their record is currently at 33-26, good enough for them to hold on to the sixth spot in the Western Conference, and while they do have the second easiest schedule in the league over the next...
  
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• NFL competition committee to discuss expanding use of instant replay

  25-02-2019 06:17
  Members of the NFL’s competition committee are scheduled to discuss the possible expansion of instant replay as an officiating tool, potentially to include reviews of pass interference and other judgment calls by officials, when they meet Monday in Indianapolis.No decisions are expected to be made as the committee conducts its annual meetings at the NFL Scouting Combine this week. The competition committee probably will not decide what, if anything, it will propose to team owners regarding
  
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• University of Utah student Roni Remme finishes 2nd in Alpine combined event in Switzerland for her first World Cup podium spot

  25-02-2019 05:53
  Crans-Montana, Switzerland • Federica Brignone completed a World Cup hat trick Sunday by winning an Alpine combined event at Crans-Montana for the third straight year.Brignone protected her lead from the morning downhill with a solid slalom run to beat Roni Remme of Canada by 0.38 seconds. Remme, a 23-year-old University of Utah student, was fastest in slalom to get a first career podium finish.Wendy Holdener was third, trailing 1.04 behind Brignone, two weeks after retaining her world titl
  
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• In an upset, ‘Green Book’ takes best picture; ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ wins four Oscars

  25-02-2019 05:51
  Los Angeles • The segregation-era road-trip drama “Green Book” was crowned best picture at the Academy Awards, handing Hollywood’s top award to a film seen as a feel-good throwback to some but ridiculed as an outdated inversion of “Driving Miss Daisy” by others.In a year where Hollywood could have made history by bestowing best-picture on Netflix (“Roma”) or Marvel (“Black Panther”) for the first time, the motion picture academy instead
  
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• Pope Francis vows to end abuse cover-ups, but disappointed survivors hoped for more concrete action

  25-02-2019 03:16
  Vatican City • Pope Francis closed out his extraordinary summit on preventing clergy sex abuse by vowing Sunday to confront abusers with “the wrath of God” felt by the faithful, end the cover-ups by their superiors and prioritize the victims of this “brazen, aggressive and destructive evil.”But his failure to offer a concrete action plan to hold bishops accountable when they failed to protect their flocks from predators disappointed survivors, who had expected more f
  
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• ‘Black Panther’ gets two Oscars; Regina King wins best supporting actress

  25-02-2019 03:14
  Los Angeles • “Black Panther,” which is aiming to become the first superhero film to win best picture, won two awards early at 91st Academy Awards for the lush, big-budget craft of Ryan Coogler’s Marvel epic.“Black Panther” won for Ruth Carter’s costume design and Hannah Beachler’s production design at Sunday’s Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Beachler had been the first African-American to ever be nominated in the category. In a te
  
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• E.J. Dionne: History will notice which Republicans distance themselves from Trump

  25-02-2019 02:00
  Washington • In 1964, Nelson Rockefeller, then the governor of New York, rose before the Republican National Convention to condemn “extremists” who had “no plan and no program to keep the peace and bring freedom to the world.”Amidst the boos and catcalls from right-wingers on the floor, Rockefeller denounced those who "spread distrust," "engender suspicion" and "encourage disunity."“There is no place in this Republican Party,” declared this stalwart of GO
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Dirk Nowitzki turns back the clock in potential last game against Utah Jazz

  25-02-2019 01:52 via sportspyder.com
  With the possibility that the future Hall of Famer retires later this year, Nowitzki had his best game of the season on Saturday night and recalled his first-ever playoff series, which came...
  
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• Dirk Nowitzki turns back the clock in potential last game against Utah Jazz

  25-02-2019 01:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — By the spring of 2001, the Dallas Mavericks had missed the playoffs for 10 straight years before they finally broke through to win 53 games in the 2000-2001 campaign, led by third-year pro Dirk Nowitzki. Their 53-win mark tied them with the Utah Jazz, who won the tiebreaker, and the teams met in the postseason's first round, with the Jazz getting the Western Conference's fourth seed and home-court advantage.The veteran Utah team quickly asserted itself, winning the first t
  
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• Alexandra Petri: Some other things inside your devices we forgot to tell you about, sorry!

  25-02-2019 01:13
  So it has come to our attention that people were annoyed there was a bonus microphone in their Google-owned Nest they had not been told about. First, whoops! We definitely meant to tell people, because there is no reason they would not have been excited by it. That yelling we hear outside our offices is almost 100 percent excitement, we are sure.Anyway, just to get people to calm down, here is a rundown of some exciting features we also inadvertently neglected to mention but know you are going t
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: If history repeats, Ricky Rubio is about to get lit

  25-02-2019 00:33 via sportspyder.com
  Ricky Rubio played a key role in the Utah Jazz's big second-half run in 2017-18. He may have saved his best for the playoff race this season, too. What a d...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Kristen Ledlow may have found her new favorite NBA team in the Utah Jazz

  25-02-2019 00:33 via sportspyder.com
  NBA TV and TNT's Kristen Ledlow may have very well found her new favorite team as the Utah Jazz Twitter account advocated for her to have a role in Space J...
  
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