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• State’s big tax reform bill roars out of a legislative committee. Next stop: the chamber floor.

  01-03-2019 23:48
  The hefty tax overhaul bill is headed to the House floor after getting strong support from members of a legislative panel Friday afternoon.The legislation wasn't so popular with the parade of business representatives who testified on it.Attorneys, broadcasters, accountants and tax advocates packed the House Revenue and Taxation Committee hearing to speak about the 257-page proposal that has been long-awaited but only released two days ago. The measure sponsored by Rep. Tim Quinn, R-Heber City, e
  
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• Senate gives early nod to bill requiring standalone hearings with extensive public comment for tax increases

  01-03-2019 23:42
  A city, county, school board or other taxing authority would be required to schedule a standalone hearing to consider tax increases, and allow time for effectively any member of the public who wishes to speak, under a bill that earned preliminary, unanimous approval from the Utah Senate on Friday.Senators voted 27-0 for SB179, which requires so-called “Truth in Taxation” hearings to be scheduled as the lone agenda item during such a meeting, or combined with discussion of a proposed
  
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• 2 teenage brothers killed in late-night traffic accident

  01-03-2019 23:12
  Two teenage brothers were killed when one drove his car into oncoming traffic just past midnight on Friday.According to West Valley City Police, 17-year-old Sage Snow was driving a Dodge Neon east on 4100 South when he crossed the center line at 4522 West and collided head-on with a westbound SUV. Snow and his 16-year-old brother, Rylie, both died at the scene; the driver of the SUV received minor injuries.A police spokesman said it was not immediately clear why Sage Snow crossed into oncoming t
  
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• Man fatally shot in Orem has been identified, and police are offering a reward for information leading to the suspect’s arrest

  01-03-2019 23:05
  Orem police continued their search Friday for a suspect in a Thursday night shooting at an apartment complex near Utah Valley University that left one man dead.Police have identified the victim as 26-year-old Dominque Barnett.The shooting — which was reported just after 8 p.m. — prompted the university to warn students to take shelter where they were and to avoid the Parkway Lofts, at 1225 W. 1000 South, which is west of the university, across Interstate 15. The take-shelter order wa
  
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• Legendary Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando will retire at the end of the 2019 season

  01-03-2019 23:05
  Houston • Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando will retire at the end of the 2019 Major League Soccer season.Rimando, who enters his 20th season in the league — 13th with RSL — announced his decision on Twitter on Friday. He thanked his family, children, RSL, D.C. United, and the game as a whole.Rimando also alluded to being focused on his final season now the announcement was made.“As always I’m looking forward to competing and giving everything I can to the club
  
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• Red Rocks looking for a bounce-back following UCLA loss, host top ten Michigan team on Saturday

  01-03-2019 23:04
  There will be a mix of old and new when Utah’s fifth-ranked gymnastics team takes the floor against Michigan Saturday.For Utah’s seniors, it will be the last time they compete in the Huntsman Center since Utah’s last regular season meet is on the road at Georgia.For the whole team, the Michigan meet marks the first time the Utes have had to compete since suffering a loss at home since 2012, a string of 34 straight home wins.While still bitterly disappointed to have lost to the
  
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• Southwest sues mechanics union alleging deliberate slowdowns

  01-03-2019 22:51
  Dallas • Southwest Airlines has raised the stakes in a showdown with its union of aircraft mechanics by filing a lawsuit over what it claims is an illegal work slowdown that is grounding planes and disrupting flights.It is Southwest's second lawsuit in three years against the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association and the result of raw feelings on both sides after more than six years of fruitless contract negotiations.The airline filed the lawsuit late Thursday in federal district court i
  
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• Space Force would be by far the smallest military service

  01-03-2019 22:27
  Washington • The Trump administration’s proposed Space Force, which faces an uncertain fate in Congress, would be the smallest military service — by far.Details of the Pentagon's proposal released Friday show the new service would have about 15,000 personnel, including an unspecified number of civilians, but would begin in 2020 as only a headquarters of about 200. The proposal was submitted Wednesday to Congress, which must authorize the new service.Space Force would be the firs
  
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• BYU’s men’s basketball attendance has decreased dramatically this season. Are fans losing interest? Or just the students?

  01-03-2019 22:13
  Provo • Assuming they won’t be selected to host a game in the National Invitation Tournament or a similar college basketball postseason game, the BYU Cougars will play their final game of the 2018-19 season on Saturday night against San Diego.Of all the question marks surrounding this year’s team, one in particular has school officials a bit perplexed.Where did all the fans go?Attendance at BYU men’s basketball games this season has plummeted by nearly 2,500 fans per game.
  
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• After years of fighting to win the right to open a Utah dealership last year, Tesla switches to online sales

  01-03-2019 22:13
  Tesla fought for years in courts and the Utah Legislature to finally win the legal right to open a manufacturer-owned dealership in the state last year. Now the company no longer needs it, and is moving exclusively to online sales globally.The company announced the change in a blog on Thursday.Tesla had no comment about how many sales jobs that may affect at its South Salt Lake City showroom. But spokeswoman Gina Antonini said "this will be a several month transition.”She noted that Tesla
  
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• [Torn By Sports] - Episode 183: Utah Jazz Winning Big! NBA Playoff Projections

  01-03-2019 21:48 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz remain strong playoff contenders after an impressive week. The Western Conference Playoffs are shaping up to be crazy good! Plus, the Oscar results!
  
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• Old Man Thabo Sefolosha Is The Latest Secret Weapon In Utah's Weird Arsenal

  01-03-2019 21:23 via deadspin.com
  The Utah Jazz ran out to a big lead over the Nuggets Thursday night, then held on for dear life during a late Denver surge and escaped with a 111–104 victory. A win over the Nuggets is a good win; a win over the Nuggets in Denver is, these days, almost unheard of. The Jazz did it while missing Ricky Rubio, Dante Exum,…Read more...
  
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• Unanimous vote in the Utah Senate clears the road for self-driving cars, if the governor agrees

  01-03-2019 21:06
  A bill to fully legalize driverless autonomous vehicles anywhere on Utah roads easily motored its way to final passage Friday, and is now on its way to Gov. Gary Herbert for his consideration.The Senate passed HB101 on a 23-0 vote with little debate. The House also earlier passed it unanimously.It aims mostly to allow developers of self-driving cars to move testing away from closed tracks and onto public roads. Its sponsor, Rep. Robert Spendlove, R-Sandy, said several companies are interested in
  
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• Chaos erupts, 2 arrested during Texas execution

  01-03-2019 20:59
  Huntsville, Texas • Chaos erupted outside Texas’ death chamber when the son of the condemned inmate pounded on the chamber windows, shouted obscenities and threw fists after his father spoke his final words.Billie Wayne Coble, a Vietnam War veteran who killed his estranged wife’s parents and brother and threatened to do the same to her in 1989, told five witnesses he selected to attend his Thursday night execution that he loved them. Coble then nodded as they watched from a witn
  
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• [KSL] - 'He’s made everybody a little better:' Kyle Korver's impact on the Utah Jazz

  01-03-2019 20:55 via sportspyder.com
  Kyle Korver scored 22 points in Utah's big win over Denver, but he's done more than just shoot it since arriving in Utah.
  
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• Iditarod sled dog race across Alaska kicks off this weekend

  01-03-2019 20:29
  Anchorage, Alaska • The world’s foremost sled dog race kicks off its 47th running this weekend as participants strive to push past a punishing two years for the sport’s image.Some of the drama has been resolved for Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. In December, race organizers cleared four-time winner Dallas Seavey of any wrongdoing in a 2017 dog-doping scandal. New members also have been appointed to the Iditarod's governing board following musher discontent over perceived
  
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• Trump lambastes Cohen, pointing to reportedly favorable book written by his former lawyer

  01-03-2019 20:25
  Washington • President Donald Trump sought to attack the credibility Friday of his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen by pointing to a book that he has reportedly proposed that depicts Trump far more favorably than did the scathing testimony he delivered to Congress this week."Book is exact opposite of his fake testimony, which now is a lie!" Trump said in morning tweets, in which he accused Cohen of committing perjury during a congressional hearing and called on Congress to demand the bo
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Time to see Donovan Mitchell as a point guard, not shooting guard

  01-03-2019 20:24 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are 6-0 in games where Mitchell starts at point guard.
  
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• The fate of Utah shops is unclear as retailers announce closures of over 300 stores across the U.S.

  01-03-2019 20:06
  You can’t blame America’s teenagers for no longer congregating at the mall like generations past: There aren’t all that many stores left.In the last 48 hours alone, several shopping-center staples unveiled plans to trim their footprints across the U.S. Gap Inc. said it would slash the store count of its struggling namesake brand by 230 locations over the next two years, just hours after J.C. Penney Co. said it would shutter 18 of its department stores. That news came on the hee
  
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• The 103-year-old Grand Canyon junior ranger who’s older than the park itself

  01-03-2019 20:05
  Rose Torphy has had a large life.At 103, she’s the matriarch of a family with five generations now below her. She loves bowling, traveling and watching poker. Every afternoon, she takes her daily glass of wine into her bedroom to toast a photo of her late husband of more than six decades, Ralph: “Here’s to you: no one better, no one damn near as good.”And Torphy has just become the oldest-ever junior park ranger at the Grand Canyon National Park — which is three yea
  
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• Is Real Salt Lake on the verge of a breakthrough season? Mike Petke has a team filled with plentiful options, difficult choices, and still big question marks

  01-03-2019 20:04
  Sandy • A few weeks after he took over as head coach of Real Salt Lake back in the spring of 2017, Mike Petke felt like he kept repeating himself at every media availability because he was. In order to get RSL back to where it was so used to being for so many years, it was going to take time, take buy-in, and take, above all else, a willingness to embrace the drastically overused, clichéd phrase of “the process.”Asked then to try and summarize where RSL stood in Petke&rsq
  
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• Russia to bar athletes drinking beer at doping tests

  01-03-2019 20:02
  Moscow • A beer with your urine sample? No longer in Russian sports.Citing "aggressive" athletes and interference with drug-testing results, Russia has barred sportspeople from drinking alcohol when they're tested for banned substances.A post-race beer might help a dehydrated athlete produce a urine sample, but now they'll have to stick to "large quantities of water" provided by the drug-testers, the Russian anti-doping agency's deputy CEO, Margarita Pakhnotskaya, said.She told The Associat
  
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• Commentary: Queer clergy begged our fellow Methodists to love us. They voted no.

  01-03-2019 19:23
  Methodists discern what we believe and form our doctrine by talking to one another — through what we call holy conference. At regional meetings and especially at the General Conference, an assembly of elected voting delegates from all over the world, we open with prayer and worship, and then go through lengthy legislative processes. These conferences are often intense, with long days of conversation followed by late nights of the same. But Methodists, of whom there are more than 7.6 millio
  
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• Utah’s United Methodist pastors ‘disappointed’ over LGBTQ vote, but will their congregations bolt?

  01-03-2019 19:15
  In the coming weeks and months, there will be an air of uncertainty hanging over the meetings and worship services of Utah’s United Methodist churches as members await the fallout of this week’s international vote to maintain the faith’s ban on same-sex weddings and ordination of LGBTQ clergy.“We are disappointed with the vote,” said Pastor Dennis Shaw of Hilltop United Methodist in Sandy. “My congregation, by and large, wanted to see a change; they wanted to
  
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• Big game? Larry Krystkowiak is allowing himself to say so. A win at Colorado could strengthen the Utes’ position for a top-four finish in the Pac-12.

  01-03-2019 17:58
  The lessons from Larry Krystkowiak's NBA playing and coaching career keep him from ever saying that any game is especially important, because there are always a bunch of them ahead on the schedule.The calendar enables him to cheat, though. It’s March. So the Utah coach looked at the Pac-12 basketball landscape last weekend and emphasized the value of a win at Washington State. Here comes another opportunity to rise or fall in the standings, Saturday afternoon vs. Colorado at the CU Events
  
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• Man shot in Orem dies; police searching for suspect; UVU classes go on as scheduled

  01-03-2019 17:29
  Orem police are continuing their search this morning for a suspect in a Thursday night shooting at an apartment complex near Utah Valley University that left one man dead.Police have not released the name of the victim, who died Friday morning.The shooting — which was reported just after 8 p.m. — prompted the university to warn students to take shelter where they were and to avoid the Parkway Lofts, at 1225 W. 1000 South, which is west of the university, across Interstate 15. The tak
  
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• LDS Church produces video series designed to keep missionaries safe

  01-03-2019 17:01
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wants its 65,000-plus missionaries to be safe — and it has produced a series of videos to help keep them that way.“The SafetyZone” is a 12-part series that covers pedestrian and bicycle safety, avoiding electrical wires, safe driving, appropriate behavior around children, crimes against missionaries (including physical and sexual harassment) and proper handling of food, among other topics.“Each episode covers a missionary sa
  
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• George Pyle: The spirits of bigotry past, journalism present and socialism future

  01-03-2019 16:57
  “You will be haunted by Three Spirits.”— Jacob Marley’s ghost, in “A Christmas Carol,” by Charles DickensThe spirit from the past weighed a lot more than a ghost. And, unlike Marley, it was both expected and appreciated.It was a package, tall and very thin. Inside was a large homemade picket sign. On one side, in very large block letters, “THE FAG RAG.” On the other, in similarly bold lettering, “RAPE OF THE TRUTH.” Each carried a citat
  
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• Despite discouragement from some LDS Church leaders, hundreds of central Utah women worked in parachute factories during World War II

  01-03-2019 16:49
  Manti • Annie Jensen had six sons and a son-in-law serving in the military: Four joined the Navy, two were in the Army and one served in the Marines. When she couldn’t find a flag to buy with enough stars to represent them all, she knitted her own and displayed it in her window.While serving as president of her local Relief Society, the women’s organization in the LDS Church, she also supported the military by taking on a role far less typical for the time: working outside her h
  
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• Catherine Rampell: The biggest lesson from Michael Cohen’s explosive testimony is that we need to beef up the IRS

  01-03-2019 16:30
  There were lots of takeaways from Michael Cohen's explosive congressional testimony this week: about Russia, racism, redemption.To me, the biggest lesson was that we desperately need to increase the Internal Revenue Service's budget.Cohen, formerly President Trump's personal lawyer, repeatedly offered accounts of not only how comfortable Trump became with cheating Uncle Sam but also how ill-equipped our tax cops were to catch him.We heard, for instance, Cohen's story about how the president used
  
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• Commentary: New members of Congress play on social media, work on TV

  01-03-2019 16:25
  As Wednesday's House Oversight Committee's Michael Cohen hearing approached its conclusion, the proceedings were starting to look like a lost opportunity. For hours Republicans pressed Cohen on his motivations, having seemingly convinced themselves that he had committed a decade-long series of criminal acts so that he could get a sweet book deal after his stint in federal prison. The Democrats, meanwhile, wasted most of their time on speeches, hypotheticals and performative outrage. It was, in s
  
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• Smith’s won’t accept Visa credit cards starting on April 3

  01-03-2019 16:16
  Beginning April 3, shoppers at Smith’s Food & Drug Stores will have to pay for their purchases with something other than a Visa credit card.The Kroger-owned stores announced that they will stop accepting Visa credit cards because of “excessive interchange and network fees that Visa and its issuing banks charge retailers.”Smith's will continue to accept all other forms of payment, including Visa debit cards.“Visa has been misusing its position and charging retailers ex
  
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• Orem police searching for shooting suspect; UVU classes go on as scheduled

  01-03-2019 15:46
  Orem police are continuing their search this morning for a suspect in a Thursday night shooting at an apartment complex near Utah Valley University that left a man critically wounded.The shooting — which was reported just after 8 p.m. — prompted the university to warn students to take shelter where they were and to avoid the Parkway Lofts, at 1225 W. 1000 South, which is west of the university, across Interstate 15. The take-shelter order was later lifted, and classes were scheduled
  
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• Political Cornflakes: A family couldn’t pay its debts to the city so the city seized its pet dog and sold her on eBay

  01-03-2019 15:26
  Happy Friday! A family in Germany had its pet dog seized by the government and sold on eBay to pay the family’s unpaid debts. Edda, a 1-year old purebred pug was listed on the online marketplace for $850, but ended up being sold for slightly less. The town of Ahlen defends its actions as perfectly legal and points to a search warrant that led to the seizure of items, including the family’s beloved Edda. But a spokesman acknowledged that the sale of the pug on eBay was questionable an
  
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• Utah’s United Methodist pastors ‘disappointed’ over LGBTQ vote, but will they bolt?

  01-03-2019 15:14
  In the coming weeks and months, there will be an air of uncertainty hanging over the meetings and worship services of Utah’s United Methodist churches as members await the fallout of this week’s international vote to maintain the faith’s ban on same-sex weddings and ordination of LGBTQ clergy.“We are disappointed with the vote,” said Pastor Dennis Shaw of Hilltop United Methodist in Sandy. “My congregation, by and large, wanted to see a change; they wanted to
  
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• Kirby: Same mess, less stress. A look at politics from the Apathetic Party.

  01-03-2019 15:13
  I tried watching the news regarding the Michael Cohen hearings and President Donald Trump’s visit in Vietnam with North Korean Head Squirrel Kim Jong Un.I reached my saturation point within 90 seconds. Not only did I not know what the hell was going on, I also didn’t care. I turned off the TV and went out to the garage to sharpen knives.Such political immaturity comes easy to me. I try not to waste time fretting over stuff I can’t do anything about — stuff like church, th
  
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• Letter: Headline missed the point of the article about Ute coaches

  01-03-2019 15:12
  In the Feb. 20 Tribune, a headline read “Kyle vs. Larry; 5 reasons Whitt is more popular than Krysto,” and on the sports page under large photographs of the two coaches the caption was “The people’s choice: Why is football coach Kyle Whittingham so much more popular than basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak? Ute fans cite five main reasons.”For those who do not read beyond the captions, they must be left with the impression that these two coaches are differently regar
  
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• Letter: Utah’s blatant hypocrisy about highway safety

  01-03-2019 15:11
  Let me start by saying I don't object to the .05 alcohol blood levels for DUI that our state recently put into place. My understanding is that similar laws exist in a number of European countries and, therefore, may not be a bad idea here.What I do object to is the blatant hypocrisy shown by so many of our legislators. They say their interest in passing strict drinking and driving laws is not about religion but about highway safety. Really?Our legislators consistently refuse to pass laws prohibi
  
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• Letter: Utah should care for the disabled first

  01-03-2019 15:08
  I would like to thank the person who wrote a letter to The Public Forum, published in the Feb. 21 Salt Lake Tribune. She talked about caring for the disabled first.At the age of 13, I was diagnosed with full spectrum autism. On top of that, I also have severe anxiety. While I have come a long way, I still have my limits. Developmental disabilities cannot be cured.In my view, the Legislature not passing the Medicaid expansion not only ignores the will of the voters, but they are also signaling th
  
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• Letter: Will Sen. Mike Lee cave in on Trump’s emergency?

  01-03-2019 15:05
  I've been offering to take odds with friends on how our self-avowed constitutionalist senator, Mike Lee, will vote on President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration.While Lee will point to the Constitution whenever it fits his agenda of claiming federal overreach, I wonder how he will interpret this "national emergency" declaration.While the pressing GOP issues under President Barack Obama were health care and our national debt, it seems we've quickly moved on to more pressing emergencies.
  
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• Letter: Build a wall around the Utah Legislature

  01-03-2019 15:03
  Saturday’s baffling edition informs us that 1) Utah has a $1 billion surplus. But that, 2) according to Matthew Weinstein’s commentary, Utah is failing to sustain school funding at anything other than falling levels.Is this not self-destructive? Perhaps one solution is to follow the wisdom of the day, and build a wall. This wall would need to surround the Legislature impenetrably, particularly preventing money from flowing in or out, allowing those who understand corporate, organizat
  
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• Letter: We have a really great theocracy here

  01-03-2019 15:00
  I had a great “LOL” moment when I opened the Opinion page of The Tribune and saw the article by Nicole Dicou of the Utah Brewer’s guild with the headline, “Proposed Utah beer law doesn’t help local brewers.”Is this a surprise? Surely this is the goal here.Then I saw that our governor has appointed a returned missionary to the alcohol commission, Stanley Parrish, who had been the LDS Church’s public affairs officer in London. Is it even necessary to say h
  
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• Letter: A way to help voters remember

  01-03-2019 15:00
  I think the Utah Legislature should have its sessions in September and October, right before elections. Maybe then the voters wouldn’t forget how they are not being represented.Alan C. Anderson, MidvaleSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Gomberg: I’m not Jussie Smollett or Michael Cohen, but I’ve messed up. Should I be judged in the same way they are?

  01-03-2019 15:00
  Can a person ever be better than their worst deeds?I’ve been wondering that as I see the court of public opinion gnaw away at the humanity of people like Jussie Smollett (or Kevin Hart or even Michael Cohen). Maybe the unbridled ire is warranted (after all, it’s their destructive actions that put them in the spotlight) and I get that we live in a world of immediate news and immediate reactions, but I also wonder about the value of withholding the full weight of our judgement. At leas
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: HBO just might convince you Michael Jackson was a child molester

  01-03-2019 14:00
  In this #MeToo age when we’re beginning to understand the importance of hearing and believing women’s stories of abuse, isn’t it about time we started hearing and believing the men who tell us they were abused by Michael Jackson?How can you support the women who accused Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby and R. Kelly and attack the men who accuse Jackson?For anyone willing to listen, HBO’s two-part, four-hour documentary “Leaving Neverland” is harrowing. Not because
  
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• Howard Lehman: Stewart is wrong about the ‘imminent threat’ of socialism

  01-03-2019 14:00
  In a recent commentary, Rep. Chris Stewart argued that the United States is faced with an “imminent threat” of Americans espousing socialism. While a few national politicians are using the term “democratic socialism,” no one is arguing for the implementation of socialism in the U.S.Stewart either suffers from a disconnect between fact and fiction or he intentionally seeks to divert attention from fundamental issues faced by many Americans and his inability to solve those
  
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• Christopher Smart: Chris Stewart shakes the new bogeyman of socialism

  01-03-2019 14:00
  Poor Congressman Chris Stewart. He doesn’t seem to know Social Security from third base. A sneaky beast called socialism, he proclaims, is coming to destroy the United States. Don’t tell granny.Our stalwart congressman, who has organized an “Anti-Socialism Caucus” in the House of Representatives, says nothing less than our freedom is at stake. Perhaps he could call it the Un-American Activities Caucus — after all, this is frightening stuff.Just look at Cuba and the
  
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• As memories of Manti’s wartime parachute factories fade, a museum wants Utah families to donate clothing and quilts made from parachutes

  01-03-2019 14:00
  Manti • Annie Jensen had six sons and a son-in-law serving in the military: Four joined the Navy, two were in the Army and one served in the Marines. When she couldn’t find a flag to buy with enough stars to represent them all, she knitted her own and displayed it in her window.While serving as president of her local Relief Society, the women’s organization in the LDS Church, she also supported the military by taking on a role far less typical for the time: working outside her h
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Kyle Korver talks about his 6-made three-pointers in the thrilling Denver win

  01-03-2019 12:04 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Highlights: Jazz 111 | Nuggets 104

  01-03-2019 12:04 via sportspyder.com
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