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• [NBA] - NBA Commissioner Adam Silver discusses fan experience, 5 for the Fight patch at Qualtrics summit

  07-03-2019 23:36 via sportspyder.com
  NBA commissioner Adam Silver remembers the first game he ever attended. It was a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden. He was a young boy there with his father.“I can almost smell it,” Silver
  
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• Cohen’s lawyer says Trump advisers were ‘dangling’ pardons

  07-03-2019 23:30
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s advisers dangled the possibility of a pardon for his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen last year, Cohen’s attorney said Thursday, as congressional investigators zero in on the president’s pardon power.The issue of pardons has emerged as a key line of inquiry as Democrats launch a series of sweeping investigations into Trump's political and personal dealings.Lanny Davis, Cohen’s lawyer, said in a written statement Thursday that
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Thousands of miles away and five years removed from a remarkable championship in Europe, ‘brothers’ Joe Ingles and Shawn James are reunited in Utah

  07-03-2019 23:21 via sportspyder.com
  Upon arriving in Israel nearly six years ago, having just signed a deal with Maccabi Tel Aviv, Joe Ingles didn’t know much about his new home.
  
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• Government kept track of journalists, others during caravan

  07-03-2019 23:00
  San Diego • The U.S. government kept a database on journalists, activists, organizers and “instigators” during an investigation into last year’s migrant caravan, infuriating civil liberties and media groups who called it a blatant violation of free speech rights.U.S. Customs and Border Protection compiled information that contained passport photos, date of birth, suspected role in the caravan and whether they had been arrested. The database was revealed Wednesday by the Sa
  
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• Monson: A dirty little secret vexes high school sports in Utah: Athletic trainers aren’t required for practices and games, so many schools go without. It needs to be addressed.

  07-03-2019 22:45
  There’s a dirty little secret plaguing high school sports in Utah. The fact that the plague might not be as bad here as it is in some other states shouldn’t bring much comfort.Here’s what would bring comfort: More full-time athletic trainers hired and utilized at Utah schools.At a conference on safety in prep sports held on Thursday in a suite at Rice-Eccles Stadium, David Perrin, Dean of the College of Health at the University of Utah, asked a significant question: “Don&
  
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• New BYU offensive line coach Eric Mateos brings a big personality to Provo

  07-03-2019 22:36
  Provo • Eric Mateos still hasn’t found or even unpacked everything he quickly threw together when he made the overnight drive from Texas to BYU after becoming the Cougars’ new offensive line coach a couple weeks ago.But the affable, quick-witted and fun-loving assistant coach has already embarked on a more important search — at least to BYU fans — as spring practices got underway in Provo this week. Mateos inherited an experienced and talented offensive line from Rya
  
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• Trib Caucus: Inside tax reform and behind the fury of LGBT advocates over the conversion therapy debate

  07-03-2019 22:32
  Every week during Utah’s legislative session, The Salt Lake Tribune’s political reporters and columnists will chat about the hottest topics of the week. The following is a lightly edited transcript of their conversation.Taylor Stevens (politics reporter): Welcome to this week’s Trib Caucus Slack chat, which convenes weekly during the 2019 legislative session. With just days left in the session, lawmakers have this week voted to formally call for a convention of states to propos
  
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• Ex-Trump campaign boss Manafort to be sentenced in tax fraud

  07-03-2019 22:23
  Alexandria, Va. • When former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is sentenced for tax and bank fraud, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III will likely issue the same lecture he gives to drug dealers and bank robbers."You write the pages to your own life story," Ellis routinely tells defendants before pronouncing sentence. He also tells those who appear before him that "life is a series of choices and living with the consequences of those choices."Manafort's choices leave the 69-year-old wi
  
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• The detective who didn’t investigate Lauren McCluskey’s case before the student was murdered has left the University of Utah. It’s unclear if she quit or was fired.

  07-03-2019 22:21
  The detective assigned to investigate Lauren McCluskey’s complaints about harassment and extortion — which the student reported weeks before she was killed by the man she told officers about — has left the University of Utah’s police department.The woman, who started working at the campus in March 2016, is no longer in her post as of Wednesday, said U. spokesman Chris Nelson. He declined to say whether she resigned voluntarily or was terminated.“We won’t talk
  
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• Commentary: Why journalists will keep using the word ‘Mormon’

  07-03-2019 22:16
  This week, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that it has renamed its core websites and social media accounts to reflect the full name of the institution.Among the changes:The church’s official website, which has been<a href="https://www.lds.org/"> lds.org</a>, has been changed to <a href="http://ChurchofJesusChrist.org" target=_blank>ChurchofJesusChrist.org</a>.The<a href="http://www.mormon.org/"> Mormon.org</a> website, which is
  
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• House and Senate Republicans dig in on split over retail beer sales

  07-03-2019 22:10
  Rep. Tim Hawkes earned lots of laughs from his Republican House colleagues on Thursday as he reviewed some of the “weird” alcohol laws on the books in other states, from prohibitions against serving alcohol to animals to bans on beer advertisements that include depictions of Santa Claus.But the mood in the House Majority Caucus room sobered significantly when the Centerville Republican pivoted to discuss fetal alcohol syndrome, liver cirrhosis, and impaired driving.“People lose
  
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• Thousands of miles away and five years removed from a remarkable championship in Europe, ‘brothers’ Joe Ingles and Shawn James are reunited in Utah

  07-03-2019 22:09
  Upon arriving in Israel nearly six years ago, having just signed a deal with Maccabi Tel Aviv, Joe Ingles didn’t know much about his new home.In an introductory video for his new club, Ingles, along with fellow Maccabi new signing Tyrese Rice, was quizzed about Tel Aviv landmarks, population, the name of his team’s president, and more. Ingles was stumped on most of it, wildly guessing on others. But there was one question he knew the answer to right away: who was his team’s cap
  
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• Greg Sargent: Trump’s defenders are telling a very big lie. Don’t let them get away with it.

  07-03-2019 22:00
  Sometimes the small lies mask big lies, and we often spend so much time chasing the small ones that we let the big ones slide past, uncorrected and even undetected. Little by little, President Donald Trump's most ardent defenders have smuggled a big lie into the ongoing political debate, and it isn't attracting any scrutiny.That big lie is this: Democrats in Congress who have launched a new round of hearings and other oversight efforts on Trump are abusing their power, because they lack evidence
  
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• Judge rules that Provo’s VidAngel violated movie studios’ copyrights with its streaming service of filtered Hollywood films

  07-03-2019 21:59
  VidAngel, the Provo company that lets customers stream filtered versions of Hollywood movies into their homes, has lost another copyright battle in court.A federal judge in California granted summary judgment against VidAngel Inc., and in favor of four major movie studios. The ruling said the studios have proved that VidAngel violated the studios’ copyrights and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which includes protection for security software to keep the movies from being pirated.In ru
  
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• Upset about noise at a Woods Cross motel, man throws punch that kills another man

  07-03-2019 21:58
  One man is dead and another is in jail after an argument about noise at a Woods Cross motel.Ross Alan Latham, 31, was booked into the Davis County Jail for investigation of manslaughter after he punched an Arizona man, who later died from his injuries.According to police, both Latham and Tilman Bitsoie, 45, were staying at the Intown Suites at 635 S. 700 West on Monday. Bitsoie was in the hallway talking on his phone when Latham began “yelling at the victim to keep it down,” police s
  
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• 100 things Jazz fans should know and do before they die

  07-03-2019 21:54
  Excerpted from 100 Things Jazz Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. Copyright © 2019 by Triumph Books. Used with permission.When word spread around a Salt Lake City-area elementary school that “The Stifle Tower” had arrived for an assembly before the 2017-18 season, students began chanting something that sounded like it came from a famous sports movie. “Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!”
  Kids then erupted in a loud cheer as Rudy Gobert entered the gymnasium after ducking so hi
  
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• UTA asks public: Would you rather have more frequent buses, or have them serve more areas?

  07-03-2019 21:31
  Critics often complain that the Utah Transit Authority shortchanged local bus service as it went $2 billion in debt to build new train systems. But the agency’s newly restructured board now is asking the public to help it make key decisions to improve bus service.It launched an online survey Thursday and announced plans for public meetings to figure out how to balance two competing questions: should buses cover more geographic area, or focus instead on maximizing frequency.“Should UT
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: The highest-paid LDS athlete ever, more temple changes for women, a missionary tax

  07-03-2019 21:21
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: Ready, worthy and Able
  (Tribune file photo) Early Latter-day Saint black convert Elijah Able, sometimes spelled Abel.Knowing who ordained whom to the priesthood in the church’s early days is
  
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• State Department aware of two LDS missionaries detained in Russia; they may be deported, reports say

  07-03-2019 20:47
  Washington • The State Department says it is aware of the detention of two missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Russia, and there is no “higher priority” than the protection of U.S. citizens abroad.The two missionaries — called “volunteers” in Russia because they are not allowed to proselytize — were detained Friday in the Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk while at a church building. The Moscow Times reported the two may b
  
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• Eye on the Y: Kalani Sitake loves him some quarterbacks, apparently

  07-03-2019 20:13
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Legend has it that a famous professional golfer — I think it was Lee Trevino — was once asked why he made an 11 on a particularly gnarly golf hole.“Because I missed the putt for a 10,” he replied.That quote came to mind Tuesday when BYU football coach Kalani Sitake was asked why the Cougars have 10 quarterbacks on their spring football roster.“Because we couldn’t h
  
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• Cohen sues Trump Organization, wants it to pay legal bills

  07-03-2019 20:12
  New York • President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming the Trump Organization broke a promise to pay his legal bills and owes at least $1.9 million to cover the cost of his defense.The lawsuit, filed Thursday in New York state court, claims the Trump Organization stopped paying Cohen’s mounting legal fees after he began cooperating with federal prosecutors in their investigations related to Trump’s business dealings in Russia and
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump only hires the worst people

  07-03-2019 19:42
  Video: From disaster response to the economy, President Trump gives himself and his administration high marks, most of the time.(Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)
  Washington • It’s hard to find good help these days.During his campaign, President Trump boasted that he would "surround myself only with the best." But by his own account, his administration attracts rather the opposite.On Saturday, Trump publicly mocked former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, imitating his Southern accent:
  
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• Aggies appear NCAA Tournament-bound. But how high will they be seeded and where will they be sent? Is SLC a possibility?

  07-03-2019 19:29
  The morning following a history-making victory, Craig Smith’s voice was still quite hoarse, because it’s always quite hoarse. Utah State’s first-year head coach had plenty of reason to yell in the nervy 100-96 road win at Colorado State Tuesday night that clinched at the very least a share of the Mountain West Conference regular-season crown. And once Smith worked his way into the locker room, pandemonium set in for a group that was, frankly, given zero shot of this from outsid
  
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• Two first cousins are upset they couldn’t get married in Utah. Here’s what the law says.

  07-03-2019 19:26
  Angela Peang and Michael Lee are Utahns in love. They’re cousins, too.“My first cousin and I have been in love with each other our whole lives but we are prohibited from marrying in the state of Utah where we live,” Peang wrote in an online petition. “We believe that the law is outdated and it needs to be changed so that we can socially legitimize our love.”Utah law allows marriages between cousins. The spouses just have to be age 55 and able to demonstrate to a sta
  
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• State Department aware of two LDS missionaries held in Russia; Trump Jr. denounces the detention

  07-03-2019 19:13
  Washington • The State Department says it is aware of the detention of two missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Russia, and there is no “higher priority” than the protection of U.S. citizens abroad.The two missionaries — called “volunteers” in Russia because they are not allowed to proselytize — were detained Friday in the Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk while at a church building. The Moscow Times reported the two may b
  
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• Red All Over: Pac-12 honors Steve Smith Sr., who could become Utah’s second Pro Football Hall of Famer. And what’s next for Eric Weddle?

  07-03-2019 19:13
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here.The Pac-12 has widened its membership in the conference's Hall of Honor to include athletes in sports other than basketball, and football player Steve Smith Sr. will be Utah's honoree during next week's Pac-12 men's basketball tournament in Las Vegas.The news of Smith’s award came this week, just as his former Baltimore Ravens teammate, ex-Ute defensive back Eric Weddle, was being released by the team
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Highlights: Jazz 114 | Pelicans 104

  07-03-2019 18:39 via sportspyder.com
  After dropping the game on their home court, the Jazz re-faced the Pelicans and got a season-high 25 points from Derrick Favors and 22 apiece from Donovan & ...
  
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• The detective who didn’t investigate Lauren McCluskey’s case before the student was murdered has left the University of Utah

  07-03-2019 18:11
  The detective assigned to investigate Lauren McCluskey’s complaints about harassment and extortion — which she reported weeks before she was killed by the man she talked to officers about — has left the University of Utah’s police department.The woman, who started working at the campus in March 2016, is no longer in her post as of Wednesday, said the U.’s spokesman Chris Nelson. He declined to say whether she resigned voluntarily or was terminated.“We won&rsqu
  
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• Gehrke: A handful of Utah ideologues should be ashamed for choosing discredited quackery over protecting LGBTQ youth

  07-03-2019 17:59
  There was a time when people would take doses of mercury for just about any ailment. No, it didn’t really help. Often it made things worse, sometimes much worse. And there was a chance it could result in death.The modern-day equivalent is so-called “conversion therapy,” where practitioners believe they can “cure” a patient’s same-sex attraction. It’s an (almost) universally discredited and disavowed practice, surviving predominantly in die-hard religious
  
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• A Utah teacher is facing discipline for telling a Catholic student to remove Ash Wednesday mark from his forehead

  07-03-2019 17:59
  A teacher told a fourth grade boy to remove the religious symbol from his forehead, and the Davis School District is investigating the episode, FOX 13 reported.William McLeod told the station he was the only student at Valley View Elementary School in Bountiful wearing an ash cross on his forehead.“A lot of students asked me what it is," William told FOX 13. “I said, ‘I’m Catholic. It’s the first day of Lent. It’s Ash Wednesday.'”Then a teacher approache
  
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• Commuters, beware! Friday snowstorm expected to dump several inches on northern Utah.

  07-03-2019 17:58
  Rain on Thursday will be followed by snow that reaches the valley floors on Friday in northern and central Utah.The National Weather Service has issued winter weather advisories, and the storm could affect both the morning and evening commutes.Thursday’s storm is expected to wind down beginning in the early afternoon, but the next storm system will reach the state late Thursday — and it could bring “several inches” of snow to the valley floors in northern Utah, the Nation
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Preseason rankings for BYU, Utah and Utah State football; Pac-12 nonconference schedules lacking

  07-03-2019 17:37 via sportspyder.com
  Athlon Sports ranked all 130 FBS football programs heading into spring camp, with Utah, Utah State and BYU all ranking in the top 60. Also, does the Pac-12 need to improve its nonconference...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Kid turns down offer for Donovan Mitchell’s shoe

  07-03-2019 17:20 via sportspyder.com
  It’s nothing out of the ordinary to see professional athletes signing apparel for fans. Some patrons would do just about anything to acquire a piece of gear from their favorite player. There is one fan, however, who recently turned down an offer...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Preseason rankings for BYU, Utah, and Utah State football; Pac-12 non-conference schedules lacking

  07-03-2019 17:14 via sportspyder.com
  Athlon Sports ranked all 130 FBS football programs heading into spring camp, with Utah, Utah State and BYU all ranking in the top 60. Also, does the Pac-12 need to improve its non conference...
  
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• Morning links: Preseason rankings for BYU, Utah and Utah State football; Pac-12 nonconference schedules lacking

  07-03-2019 17:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — With spring football underway at many a school and on the way for others, Athlon Sports released its "Pre-spring ranking of every FBS college football team for 2019."That meant an in-depth look, or at the very least a paragraph on each of the 130 FBS football programs.As the publication put it, "it's never too early to look at the year ahead and project where all 130 teams could rank when the official Athlon Sports magazine predictions are released later this summer."Lowes
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: It’s time - high time - to take Fox News’ destructive role in America seriously

  07-03-2019 17:00
  Chris Wallace is an exceptional interviewer, and Shepard Smith and Bret Baier are reality-based news anchors.Now that we've got that out of the way, let's talk about the overall problem of Fox News, which started out with bad intentions in 1996 and has swiftly devolved into what often amounts to a propaganda network for a dishonest president and his allies.The network, which attracts more viewers than its two major competitors, specializes in fearmongering and unrelenting alarmism. Remember "the
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Reevaluation date approaching, will we see Dante Exum back soon?

  07-03-2019 16:55 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz point guard Dante Exum is set to be reevaluated on Friday. Will a return to the court be soon to follow? When it was announced that Dante Exum wo...
  
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• Catherine Rampell: What’s behind the ballooning trade deficit

  07-03-2019 16:54
  For years President Trump has been obsessed with trade deficits, (incorrectly) viewing them as a good measure of which countries are "winning" and which are "losing." The United States has run a trade deficit for decades, thereby designating us a perennial loser in Trump's worldview. He promised to turn things around by picking a few easy-to-win trade wars.Instead, by Trump’s own measure, we’re bigger “losers” than ever before. The trade deficit just jumped to its largest
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Derrick Favors is winning games for the Utah Jazz

  07-03-2019 16:45 via sportspyder.com
  Hulk-like performances lately from Favors have resulted in some of the biggest wins of the season.
  
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• Commentary: Utah tax overhaul plan would hurt education

  07-03-2019 15:56
  The Utah Legislature has proposed a dramatic tax overhaul in the form of House Bill 441). How does HB441 help Utah? We don’t know every way it will help but we do know one way in which it won’t — education funding.Utah has a budget revenue surplus of about $1.3 billion this year. HB441 proposes lowering income taxes and taxing services instead. What isn’t being said is that education funding is tied constitutionally to our income taxes. Last year, the Legislature lowered
  
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• Commentary: Let’s reform the tax system sooner than later

  07-03-2019 15:55
  “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”Asking people if they want a tax increase is like asking some of my patients if they want a flu shot.“No way!” comes the response from kids. “It just makes me sick,” is a common reply from others — like many of you.Most who succumb to my pleading accept the fact that, more often than not, it helps prevent serious illness. Sure, we get a sore arm for a couple of days. But about half the time the vac
  
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• Letter: House rejects a deterrent to stupid behavior

  07-03-2019 15:54
  Once again, the Utah Legislature has said it’s OK to drive with one hand while holding and talking on a cellphone with the other.Rep. Carol Moss introduced a bill, for the third time, to make it illegal to use a hand-held device while driving. Again it was defeated.Is this an acceptable practice in the eyes of the legislators who voted no? Will my grandchildren pass drivers education while holding and talking on their cellphones?Between 2007 and 2016, Utah had 52,000 accidents caused by di
  
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• Letter: Just because I can’t walk into the wilderness doesn’t mean I oppose having it

  07-03-2019 15:53
  Rainier Huck, in his March 3 letter, pretends to champion the aged and the disabled in his protest against wilderness designation. I don’t think that Mr. Huck speaks for me.I am 66 years old, I have MS, and when I get tired my left foot will drag. I can no longer go as deep into wilderness as I once did. But I would never want to despoil it with roads and gasoline power vehicles just so I can go deeper into it. That would be the height of selfishness.I am grateful that wilderness exists, t
  
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• Letter: Cohen’s testimony was stomach-turning

  07-03-2019 15:53
  The spectacle of Michael Cohen testifying before Congress was enough to turn my stomach.Not the fact that he openly admitted to perjuring himself in the service of Donald Trump, but the behavior of the Republicans on the committee.They made a big show of outrage trying to discredit Cohen as an admitted liar in the service of his client.These same people — and all Utah's Republicans in the House — offer unqualified support for Trump who, according to The Fact Checker, has told almost
  
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• Letter: Stewart blows the ‘socialism’ dog whistle

  07-03-2019 15:52
  It is no secret to anyone watching the news that a key GOP strategy in 2020 will be to blow the socialism dog whistle loud and often, and Rep. Chris Stewart's recent commentary in The Tribune is a perfect example of that strategy.The U.S. economy, as are most developed economies, is what is known as a hybrid economy, in that it blends both capitalism and socialism. The only difference between them is how much of a blend is at work in each. One would not want to live in pure unregulated capitalis
  
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• Letter: Utah law undermines incentives to conserve water

  07-03-2019 15:51
  I am writing in support of Utah Senate Bill 214, which would limit the amount of property taxes that could be charged by water districts in the state, and encourage water conservation in Utah. The system that Utah has in place for water taxes and water pricing is flawed. Currently, property owners pay a tax to water districts to sell water to the property. This creates internal subsidies that allow water districts to sell water cheaper than true market value. This taxation leads to some of the l
  
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• Utah’s latest quasi-natural disaster alert: Watch out for those roof avalanches

  07-03-2019 15:45
  The Utah Avalanche Center is warning home owners who still have snow on their roofs to look up.The center said “numerous roofs avalanched” on Tuesday. The slides dumped large piles of snow, the center wrote on its website, and warned that they could be especially dangerous for children.“Warm temperatures mean roofs will continue to shed their snow — please alert your friends and family who may not normally check avalanche forecasts," the Utah Avalanche Center wrote.
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Half of female political consultants have experienced sexual harassment

  07-03-2019 15:24
  Happy Thursday!A majority of U.S. political consultants believe that sexual harassment is at least somewhat common in campaign industry. Nearly half of female consultants say that they have experienced harassment themselves. The survey by Campaign and Elections magazine suggests that more than a year after the advent of the “Me Too” movement, such conduct lives on in campaigns. “There are bad apples in every industry, but there’s a clear recognition within the political c
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: My friend can’t get over her brother’s death

  07-03-2019 15:20
  Dear Ann Cannon • I have a good friend who lost her brother two years ago. She doesn’t seem to be getting over his death. Is it possible for someone to get “stuck” in their grief? How can I help her do to move on? It doesn’t seem to me like she’s landed in a very emotionally healthy place.— My friend’s BFFDear BFF • Thank you for your question. As it turns out, I’ve been thinking about this very issue recently.OK. Grief is personal and th
  
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• Utah Jazz: Reevaluation date approaching, will we see Dante Exum back soon?

  07-03-2019 15:00
  Utah Jazz point guard Dante Exum is set to be reevaluated on Friday. Will a return to the court be soon to follow? When it was announced that Dante Exum would be reevaluated following the All-Star break, I’m sure the majority of Utah Jazz fans figured he would have been back in action by now […]
  Utah Jazz: Reevaluation date approaching, will we see Dante Exum back soon? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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