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• Canadian polygamist to sell properties in British Columbia

  05-03-2019 23:35
  Calgary, Alberta • A Canadian man who was recently convicted of polygamy is selling property he owns in British Columbia, Canada, to repay creditors.The Calgary Herald newspaper in Canada reports that Winston Blackmore will auction off two different sets of large properties in southeastern British Columbia. One is listed at $536,000 and the other at $280,000. They are part of companies owned by Blackmore.The properties are not part of the polygamous community of Bountiful, where Blackmore a
  
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• ‘I think his play kind of speaks for itself': New midfielder Everton Luiz has added some bite to RSL midfield

  05-03-2019 23:27
  Sandy • The offseason wish list at Real Salt Lake stretched beyond the goal-scoring forward the fan base has yearned for. RSL had to strengthen its starting lineup in order for the style and approach head coach Mike Petke wants to be more effective, more doable, so the club had to go out and find a no-nonsense player to man the midfield next to a club legend.RSL believes it has found that piece in Everton Luiz.The 30-year-old Brazilian defensive midfielder was acquired on loan from Italian
  
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• Jake Lindsey — son of Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey —retires from basketball due to Parsonage-Turner syndrome diagnosis

  05-03-2019 23:00
  When a player loses his basketball career, it’s tough. When it ends not on his or her own terms, it’s even tougher.“The phrase that athletes die twice is far truer than any former athlete ever wants to admit.”Jake Lindsey — son of Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey — wrote the above in a piece on BaylorBears.com that announced his retirement from basketball due to a diagnosis of Parsonage-Turner syndrome. Lindsey starred for Olympus High in Holladay before st
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jody Genessy: One really bad Utah Jazz loss doesn't mean the season's lost

  05-03-2019 22:09 via sportspyder.com
  The 140ish recent earthquakes that have gotten the south end of the Salt Lake Valley all shook up didn’t compare to the rumbling around Jazzland on Monday night.
  
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• Jody Genessy: One really bad Utah Jazz loss doesn't mean the season's lost

  05-03-2019 21:59
  SALT LAKE CITY — The 140ish recent earthquakes that have gotten the south end of the Salt Lake Valley all shook up didn't compare to the rumbling around Jazzland on Monday night.All the excitement and enjoyment of consecutive wins over two of the NBA's best teams — Denver and Milwaukee — came crumbling down after the Jazz blew a 17-point lead in a home loss to a New Orleans Pelicans team whose not-so-distant future likely includes the lottery and an Anthony Davis bidding war an
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - While Pelicans deal with Anthony Davis situation, Jazz hope to show in rematch that they’re the focused ones

  05-03-2019 21:58 via sportspyder.com
  New Orleans • It has been suggested that the ongoing saga of the uneasy, imperfect truce between superstar big man Anthony Davis and the Pelicans can’t help but be a distraction to that team.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jake Lindsey — son of Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey —retires from basketball due to Parsonage-Turner syndrome diagnosis

  05-03-2019 21:58 via sportspyder.com
  “The phrase that athletes die twice is far truer than any former athlete ever wants to admit.”
  
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• While Pelicans deal with Anthony Davis situation, Jazz hope to show in rematch that they’re the focused ones

  05-03-2019 21:56
  New Orleans • It has been suggested that the ongoing saga of the uneasy, imperfect truce between superstar big man Anthony Davis and the Pelicans can’t help but be a distraction to that team.And yet, it was the Jazz who gave an unfocused effort in Monday night’s stunning loss at Vivint Smart Home Arena.Days removed from significant wins against Denver and Milwaukee, Utah’s players said all the right things before facing New Orleans. Derrick Favors noted at the team’s
  
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• FDA chief Scott Gottlieb steps down after nearly 2 years

  05-03-2019 21:48
  Washington • Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is stepping down after nearly two years leading the agency’s response to a host of public health challenges, including the opioid epidemic, rising drug prices and underage vaping.Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced Gottlieb's planned resignation in a statement Tuesday.President Donald Trump tapped Gottlieb in 2017 to "cut red tape" at the FDA.Gottlieb bucked expectations by pushing the agency to
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz’s bench is the best in NBA since All-Star break

  05-03-2019 21:38 via sportspyder.com
  The loss to the Pelicans was terrible, but the game highlighted one of Utah’s rediscovered strengths: their bench.
  
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• Paul Waldman: The dishonest smearing of Ilhan Omar

  05-03-2019 21:35
  In what is surely the most shameful decision of her current term as speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has decided that the time has come for the House of Representatives to rebuke Rep. Ilhan Omar for things she didn't actually say and ideas she didn't actually express. In the process, Pelosi and other Democrats are helping propagate a series of misconceptions about anti-Semitism, Israel, and American political debate.I'm going to try to bring some clarity to this issue, understanding how diffic
  
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• Pipeline breach spills oil into southern Utah’s San Juan River

  05-03-2019 20:59
  A small oil spill contaminated the San Juan River after a gathering line ruptured near the southern Utah community of Montezuma Creek early Friday.About 28 barrels of produced water and crude oil were released by the time the pipeline operator, Elk Petroleum, could stop the leak on federal land, according to Kevin Okleberry, spills coordinator with the Utah Division of Water Quality. The ruptured pipeline collects production liquids from several wells in the Greater Aneth Oil Field.The failure r
  
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• Remember the plan to change UTA’s name? It’s about to die officially as part of a big transportation proposal.

  05-03-2019 20:46
  A bill to tweak last year’s massive restructuring of the transportation system is nearing the finish line in the Legislature.SB72 will do everything from dump a controversial new name for the Utah Transit Authority to allow owners of clean-fuel cars to lower their new higher registration fees by volunteering to be guinea pigs for a new tax on the miles they drive.The House passed SB72 unanimously Tuesday. The Senate-passed bill now goes to the full House for final consideration.Last year,
  
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• BYU’s Yoeli Childs, Brenna Chase and Shaylee Gonzales make the All-WCC basketball first teams; Gonzales also named women’s Newcomer of the Year

  05-03-2019 20:45
  For the first time since they joined the West Coast Conference in 2011-12, the BYU men’s basketball team does not have two players on the All-WCC First Team.BYU junior forward Yoeli Childs is the only Cougar on the 10-member first team, which was announced Tuesday by the league office. Coaches of all 10 member schools vote on the team, but are not allowed to vote for their own players.The votes are based on league games only.BYU junior TJ Haws made the five-member Second Team, while forwar
  
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• AMA, Planned Parenthood challenge Trump family-planning rule

  05-03-2019 20:44
  The American Medical Association and Planned Parenthood filed a federal court lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new Trump administration rule changing criteria for family-planning grant money in ways sought by anti-abortion activists.The new rule, announced last week by the Department of Health and Human Services, would prohibit family planning clinics funded by the federal Title X program from making abortion referrals — a provision that critics denounce as a “gag rule.”Clinics th
  
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• Hate crimes bill now heads to the Utah House, as sponsor says ‘people have taken the time to dig in, to understand’

  05-03-2019 20:43
  The Utah Senate passed a much debated update to the state’s hate crimes law Tuesday on a vote of 18-11, sending it to the House.Two senators flipped their votes after supporting the bill on Monday: Ronald Winterton, R-Vernal, and Lincoln Fillmore, R-South Jordan. Still, SB103 received the support of 12 Republicans and all six Senate Democrats in its final Senate vote.With just more than a week left in the session, this is the furthest a hate crimes proposal has made it through the Legislat
  
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• Monson: The Jazz played with fire against the Pelicans and got burned. Is this an aberration or a sign of trouble?

  05-03-2019 20:26
  This is not the column I intended to write, on a game the Jazz did not intend to play, on a defeat they did not intend to suffer.That initial piece included questions about the Jazz’s final 20 games, the ease of them, the breezy winning that would come, and what that would mean for the postseason.The Jazz were supposed to beat the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night, just the way they are supposed to beat most of the teams remaining on their schedule, determined by some to be the weakest
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Pels game proves team can’t sleepwalk to its goals

  05-03-2019 20:25 via sportspyder.com
  After a brilliant weekend of basketball, the Utah Jazz came crashing violently back to Earth against the New Orleans Pelicans. On Saturday, the Utah Jazz l...
  
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• Utah’s Megan Huff repeats as an All-Pac-12 women’s basketball player, earns first-team honors

  05-03-2019 20:24
  Utah senior forward Megan Huff's job description became even more demanding during the Pac-12 women's basketball season as the Utes lost their No. 2 scorer to a knee injury in January, and then their No. 3 scorer was sidelined in February. Through it all, Huff remained as productive as anyone could ask of her, and she was rewarded Tuesday with another selection to the 15-player All-Pac-12 team.Ute guard Dru Gylten and forward Dre'Una Edwards, who was injured Feb. 22, made the five-player All-Fre
  
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• Julian Blackmon gets a new perspective as a Ute safety, and he likes what he sees after moving from cornerback

  05-03-2019 20:22
  In the air, Tyler Huntley’s pass looked perfect. Utah receiver Derrick Vickers ran down the sideline as the ball arrived, and here came safety Julian Blackmon, moving in front of him to make the interception during the Utes’ first session of spring football practice Monday.That's the kind of play the Utes hope Blackmon will make frequently in his new position, having moved from cornerback. Defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley believes the switch can do as much for Blackmon and the de
  
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• Amendments drastically change a bill to end conversion therapy, which seeks to turn LGBTQ children straight. Advocates are fuming.

  05-03-2019 20:19
  The sponsor of a proposed ban on conversion therapy in Utah on Tuesday watched his colleagues dismantle his bill and replace it with an alternative that he says would do nothing to stop the widely-discredited practice."This bill, substitute 4, just to make it clear, will not prevent conversion therapy," Rep. Craig Hall told the House Judiciary Committee.But the committee opted to go with the substitute, which the majority of members said would strike a balance between allowing therapists to spea
  
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• Girl recants story of attempted abduction outside a Bountiful school, police say

  05-03-2019 19:37
  A Monday report of an attempted abduction outside South Davis Junior High School turned out to be false, Bountiful police announced Tuesday.In a news release, the police department said the girl’s statements “were not consistent” with what investigators found.“When confronted about the inconsistencies, the complainant recanted her statements,” the news release said.On Monday, police in Bountiful said they were trying to find a man who attempted to take a girl after
  
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• Sophomore Lopini Katoa and walk-on Tyler Allgeier say they can be the workhorse running backs BYU needs, but the search goes on away from spring practice

  05-03-2019 19:30
  Provo • BYU running backs Lopini Katoa and Tyler Allgeier have read the posts on social media, sized up newspaper articles and fan blogs and heard a few things here and there about how the Cougars desperately need to find a workhorse running back to replace graduated ball-carriers Squally Canada and Matt Hadley and graduate transfer Riley Burt, who is leaving for Utah State.Frankly, they are not amused.“I believe I can be that guy,” said Katoa, a redshirt sophomore who had 76 ca
  
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• Utah Jazz: Pels game proves team can’t sleepwalk to its goals

  05-03-2019 19:22
  After a brilliant weekend of basketball, the Utah Jazz came crashing violently back to Earth against the New Orleans Pelicans. On Saturday, the Utah Jazz looked like a club on the fast track to elite status in the Association. After trailing by 17 early in the fourth quarter, Donovan Mitchell and company miraculously stormed back […]
  Utah Jazz: Pels game proves team can’t sleepwalk to its goals - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Most Senate Republicans lack the courage to defy Trump

  05-03-2019 19:00
  As of this writing only four Senate Republicans — Susan Collins of Maine, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky — have agreed to support the resolution ending President Donald Trump’s fraudulent emergency declaration. Tillis and Collins are up for re-election in 2020 in purple states, and Murkowski has been the least sycophantic Republican on major votes (e.g., repeal of Obamacare, confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh). Only Rand P
  
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• Remember the plan to change UTA’s name? It’s about to disappear as part of a big transportation proposal.

  05-03-2019 18:44
  A bill to tweak last year’s massive restructuring of the transportation system is nearing the finish line in the Legislature.SB72 will do everything from dump a controversial new name for the Utah Transit Authority to allow owners of clean-fuel cars to lower their new higher registration fees by volunteering to be guinea pigs for a new tax on the miles they drive.The House passed SB72 unanimously Tuesday. The Senate-passed bill now goes to the full House for final consideration.Last year,
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Despite stumble, recent surge changes Jazz season outlook

  05-03-2019 18:42 via sportspyder.com
  Despite a loss to New Orleans, three consecutive victories over playoff opponents has changed the outlook of the Jazz season.
  
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• A decade after the first person was cured of HIV, a second patient is in long-term remission

  05-03-2019 17:59
  A London man has been in remission from HIV for a year and a half, without drugs, after receiving a stem cell transplant of virus-resistant cells — raising the prospect that he has become the second person to ever be cured of the disease.The "London patient" case, cautiously reported in the journal Nature as still too "premature" to be declared a cure, comes a decade after Timothy Brown, known in medical circles as the "Berlin patient" was cured by a similar stem cell transplant, galvanizi
  
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• LDS Church, de-emphasizing those three letters, unveils a new internet address with more changes on the way

  05-03-2019 17:58
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued its move away from the monikers “Mormon” and “LDS” on Tuesday by introducing its new web address.The church’s homepage is moving to ChurchofJesusChrist.org. News from the Utah-based faith will be found at Newsroom.ChurchofJesusChrist.org, though, as of Tuesday morning, that link didn’t appear to be working.The old homepage was found at LDS.org or Mormon.org. Last year, church President Russell M. Nelson
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Kyle Korver on his place in history and the future of shooting

  05-03-2019 17:26 via sportspyder.com
  What's next for shooting in the NBA? Kyle Korver believes there could be a 4-point line someday.
  
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• [NBA] - Utah Jazz Alumni Roundtable: Griffith, Eaton, Okur, Russell, Bailey and Crowder swap stories from their playing days

  05-03-2019 17:16 via sportspyder.com
  Darrell Griffith remembers the smell from the hockey locker room next door at the Salt Palace. Mark Eaton remembers the rusty lockers when his team practiced at Westminster College.So as the two Utah
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Kyle Korver, Then and Now 003

  05-03-2019 17:11 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Kyle Korver, Then and Now 002

  05-03-2019 17:11 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Kyle Korver, Then and Now 001

  05-03-2019 17:11 via sportspyder.com
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• ‘Captain Marvel’ movie dedicated to Utah Valley grad killed last year in Thunderbirds crash

  05-03-2019 17:11
  A U.S. Air Force pilot and Utah Valley alumnus, killed last year in a crash while practicing for the Thunderbirds precision flight team, has received a unique honor: Having the new Marvel movie dedicated to him.At the end of the credits of “Captain Marvel,” which opens nationwide on Friday, there’s a line that reads: “In memory of Major Stephen Del Bagno, USAF, Thunderbird 4.”Del Bagno, 34, died April 3, 2018, when his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed in the Nevada Test
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - NBA Power Rankings: Arrow pointing up for Utah Jazz

  05-03-2019 16:58 via sportspyder.com
  An impressive 3-0 week solidified Utah in the top 10
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Utah Jazz Alumni Roundtable with Darrell Griffith, Mehmet Okur, Bryon Russell

  05-03-2019 16:53 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz alumni Darrell Griffith, Mark Eaton, Bryon Russell, Thurl Bailey, Mehmet Okur and Corey Crowder swap stories about Frank Layden, Jerry Sloan, the S...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Rock On: Stop the presses! Someone gets mad after a USU game!

  05-03-2019 16:52 via sportspyder.com
  Also, it might have been cold for the MLS game in Colorado, but Real Salt Lake has a record of its own.
  
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• Dana Milbank: Ilhan Omar is using President Trump’s playbook

  05-03-2019 16:52
  Washington • What does Rep. Ilhan Omar have in common with President Trump? Sadly, more than you would think.The Democratic freshman from Minnesota is perhaps the most prominent victim of the anti-Muslim hatred that Trump spews. The president appeared to be referring to Omar, a Somali American, when he told a conservative audience Saturday that certain members of Congress “hate our country.” She has also been the target of regular death threats and vile displays such as a poste
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Republicans’ deregulation is hurting consumers. A new bill from Democrats could help.

  05-03-2019 16:47
  For markets to work, you need a system where either the government protects consumers or consumers can adequately defend themselves. Or both. But you can't have neither. The "neither" option lands you in a kleptocracy, which is basically where Republicans have been leading the country for the past few years.Happily, a new bill — introduced by Democratic lawmakers last week — would restore at least some of consumers’ diminished tools for self-defense.Republican politicians love
  
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• Rock On: Stop the presses! Someone gets mad after a USU game!

  05-03-2019 16:42
  NOT SO NEWSYAn angry exchange in the hallway following Utah State's win over Nevada, Saturday, has resulted in an investigation by the conference.One Wolf Pack player allegedly punched a fire extinguisher. The incident is being investigated because, you know, no one has ever lost his temper on the way to the locker room after a loss.FREEZE FRAME
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  The Colorado Rapids play the Portland Timbers on a snow-covered pitch during the second half of an MLS soccer game Saturday, March. 2, 2019
  
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• Fake Latter-day Saint missionaries tried to get inside homes in northern Utah, police say

  05-03-2019 16:10
  The men said they were there to talk about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but residents and police in Roy say that claim is about the only thing the men had in common with the church’s real missionaries.The two tried to get into homes in Roy, FOX 13 reported. Police want to find the men and ask that anyone who sees call 801-774-1063.Three women on Roy’s western half told FOX13 they were approached by the men Sunday.“I saw him [peering into the window] and when
  
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• Rain and mountain snow will hit Utah tonight and through the week

  05-03-2019 16:09
  Rain or snow, depending on one’s altitude, will roll into Utah through Tuesday night and into the week, the National Weather Service reports.Precipitation will land on the western edge of Utah on Tuesday afternoon, then spread north and east through the evening. Rain will fall in lower elevations. Snow is expected above 7,000 feet.That’s just the start. In its “Hazardous Weather Outlook,” the National Weather Service predicts widespread precipitation all week — mode
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Jazz favored in all but one remaining game; Aggies projected to play in SLC for NCAA tourney

  05-03-2019 16:00 via sportspyder.com
  According to FiveThirtyEight's CARMELO model, the Jazz are favored to win in every game of their remaining schedule except for the April 7 matchup against the Lakers in Los Angeles, plus the...
  
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• Morning links: Jazz favored in all but one remaining game; Aggies projected to play in SLC for NCAA tourney

  05-03-2019 15:46
  As we learned last night in the Utah Jazz's collapse against the New Orleans Pelicans — a team in disarray, reeling from superstar Anthony Davis demanding a trade and a team that had won just 29 games entering Monday night's game against the Jazz — any team in the NBA can win on any given night. The Jazz, who led by as many as 17 points against New Orleans, squandered a late lead and fell to the Pelicans 115-112.With the loss fresh in Jazz fans' minds, take the following projections
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Record number of Americans want third party to help fix political system — but it’s still only 38%

  05-03-2019 15:44
  Happy Tuesday!More than one in three Americans think that a third party is needed to fix the American political system. Some 38 percent of Americans, to be exact, is the highest since the Wall Street Journal and NBC poll started tracking that question in 1995. The poll also shows that only one of every 10 Americans believe the current system is working well. However, polls show that nearly half of Americans are sour on the two top potential candidates talking about running as independents or as
  
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• Commentary: The Trump-Kim summit scared the Bún bò Nam Bộ Out of Me

  05-03-2019 15:42
  A few days ago, I received a phone call from Vietnam.“Don’t worry, honey, there are snipers on our roof.”On the other end of the phone is my husband in Hanoi, trying to reassure me about his safety.“How, for the love of Mike,” I wail, still in my pajamas, “is that supposed to reassure me?”As chance would have it, my husband is on a business trip staying in the very same hotel as Donald Trump during the summit with Kim Jong Un. Don Don (as my husband must
  
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• Letter: Bill would subject cities to a ‘gravelocracy’

  05-03-2019 15:14
  House Bill 288, passed in the Utah House and now before the Senate, would legalize gravel quarry operations to continue and to expand regardless of local government input.This type of overt big-government/big-industry partnership for corporate and legislator profit lays waste to our political agency at the local government level, and craters our confidence in good government. HB288 should get the no vote.Bluff, where I live, lies within a Bermuda Triangle of active and inactive gravel pits where
  
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• Commentary: Millennial Mormons and the polarized future of the faith

  05-03-2019 15:14
  The research I’ve been working on for the past three years is now a book: “The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church,” which released a few days ago from Oxford University Press. Hooray! I’m proud of the book and grateful to all the people who helped to make it happen.(And before I forget, my publicist wants me to tell you that I’m doing two book talks/signings this week while I am in Utah:Tuesday, March 5, at 5:30 p.m., Benchmark Books in Salt L
  
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• Letter: Will Smith’s pass its savings on to us?

  05-03-2019 15:13
  I read in The Tribune that Smith’s will no longer accept Visa credit cards beginning April 3. Smith’s cites excessive fees that “drive up food prices for all customers.”I’m waiting to see if shelf price tags reflect a reduced price effective April 3.I won’t hold my breath.Karen Collett, BountifulSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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