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• Tribune editorial: Bring Utah’s tax reform into the sunshine

  09-03-2019 22:56
  It was an absurd ask from the beginning: A tax overhaul that touches every pocketbook in the state, and a two-week window for Utahns to digest it.The death of House Bill 441 last week was preordained. The challenge now is to prevent more of the same.Gov. Gary Herbert tried to imply at a Thursday press conference that this has somehow been a heroic effort that only Utah’s leaders could pull off."It would have been easy to kick it down the road as we see too often on tough issues around the
  
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• Utes claim their 12th NCAA ski championship in dominating fashion

  09-03-2019 22:41
  Utah claimed the school's second NCAA skiing championship in three years and third of this century, after taking a commanding lead into Saturday's final competition at Stowe, Vt.Roni Remme’s second place finish in the women’s slalom helped the Utes secure the combined men’s and women’s title, the program’s 12th NCAA championship and 13th overall, counting an AIAW title.Utah finished with 530.5 points, followed by Vermont (476), Colorado (455), Dartmouth (447) and De
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Jazz’s bench production has surged since the All-Star break. What accounts for the improvement?

  09-03-2019 21:53 via sportspyder.com
  No one from the group of Jae Crowder, Kyle Korver, or Royce O’Neale is going to win NBA Sixth Man of the Year honors after this season. And the Jazz’s second unit doesn’t have some cutesy nickname like “Bench Mob” that makes it known to national...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Ranking potential 2019 first-round playoff matchups

  09-03-2019 21:40 via sportspyder.com
  Which realistic playoff opponents would present the most and least favorable matchups for the Utah Jazz? The Utah Jazz's recent disappointing loss to the M...
  
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• The Jazz’s bench production has surged since the All-Star break. What accounts for the improvement?

  09-03-2019 21:22
  No one from the group of Jae Crowder, Kyle Korver, or Royce O’Neale is going to win NBA Sixth Man of the Year honors after this season. And the Jazz’s second unit doesn’t have some cutesy nickname like “Bench Mob” that makes it known to national pundits.It’s just full of players being quietly effective in going out and doing their jobs.Since the All-Star break, the Jazz’s bench players are collectively first in the NBA in both assist percentage and pace,
  
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• Utah Jazz: Ranking potential 2019 first-round playoff matchups

  09-03-2019 21:19
  Which realistic playoff opponents would present the most and least favorable matchups for the Utah Jazz? The Utah Jazz’s recent disappointing loss to the Memphis Grizzlies notwithstanding, this team appears more than primed to forge their way into a third straight postseason appearance. Sitting at sixth place in the West with a record of 37-28 […]
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• Larsen: The completely foreseeable massive failure of the 2018-19 Lakers

  09-03-2019 20:58
  In case you’re somehow unaware of the complete failure that has been the Lakers’ season, here’s the update: despite signing LeBron James, the Lakers have a 30-35 record and essentially a zero percent chance of making the playoffs. Current ESPN modeling predicts that the Lakers will win 37 games this year. If that holds true, they will have signed one of the greatest players the world has ever seen and gotten... two wins more than last year. What a trainwreck.LeBron was hurt for
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Larsen: The completely foreseeable massive failure of the 2018-19 Lakers

  09-03-2019 19:26 via sportspyder.com
  In case you’re somehow unaware of the complete failure that has been the Lakers’ season, here’s the update: despite signing LeBron James, the Lakers have a 30-35 record and essentially a zero percent chance of making the playoffs. Current ESPN...
  
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• ‘It’s in my guts’: Gary Andersen is back home, at USU, where he always hoped he’d be lucky enough to return

  09-03-2019 19:15
  Logan • Football season was long over, and a whiteout slammed the streets of Logan. On a frigid winter evening over four years ago, the kind of storm that forced folks to just stay in for the night, the unforgettable impression made by Gary Andersen during his time there resurfaced. Hamid Salehi, then the owner of Logan’s Heroes, a sandwich shop on Main Street in Logan, said of all the years he’s been in Cache Valley, nothing ever compared to those four-plus years Andersen was i
  
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• R. Kelly to be released from jail after payment made

  09-03-2019 19:14
  Chicago • R&B singer R. Kelly was scheduled to be released on Saturday from the Chicago jail where he’s been held since Wednesday after someone paid the $161,000 he owed in back child support, a law enforcement spokeswoman said.Sophia Ansari, a spokeswoman for the Cook County Sheriff's Department, which operates the jail, said that she expected Kelly's release would come early Saturday afternoon. She said the money was posted sometime Saturday morning. She did not immediately know
  
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• John Curtis: We need this law to curb presidential overreach

  09-03-2019 17:47
  When the founders of our great nation designed the American political system, they saw a separation of governing powers as a fundamental cog in the machine of democracy. A president, serving as commander in chief, would be essential in administering and executing the law. However, in Federalist 51, Madison magnificently argued that the legislative branch must be the strongest because of its proximity to the American people. The Constitution was ratified shortly thereafter, and Congress’s l
  
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• Commentary: Farms aren’t tossing perfectly good produce. You are

  09-03-2019 17:47
  If food waste were a country, it would be the world's third-largest emitter of CO2, after China and the United States. In our nation alone, we throw away some 63 million tons of food a year, even as 40 million Americans are considered food insecure.Advocates of the "ugly produce" movement say they have a way to radically reduce this waste: cutting the price of fruits and vegetables that normally go uneaten because they look too weird."We're not talking about rotten stuff, we're not talking about
  
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• Commentary: A divided Salt Lake County cannot stand

  09-03-2019 17:46
  There have been several articles recently published containing quotes and narratives from legislators, city officials, and others proposing to divide Salt Lake County. The talk of splitting our county just brings animosity and frustration for the vast majority of elected officials and citizens. In the words of President Abraham Lincoln, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”Leaders of this county must reach out to one another by communicating, collaborating, and compromising
  
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• Jayme Closs kidnapping suspect reportedly confesses in letter from jail

  09-03-2019 17:35
  A man accused of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs from her rural Wisconsin home in the fall after her parents were killed has purportedly written a letter from jail saying he regretted the crimes and committed them "mostly on impulse."The letter supposedly from Jake Patterson, who was arrested in January after Closs escaped from his home, was sent to KARE 11 News reporter Lou Raguse in response to questions Raguse had mailed the inmate.Wisconsin authorities have told the news station they beli
  
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• Wanted: More pastures for West’s overpopulated wild horses

  09-03-2019 17:28
  Cheyenne, Wyo. • If you ever wished to gaze at a stomping, snorting, neighing panorama of Western heritage from your living-room window, now could be your chance.A classic image of the American West — wild horses stampeding across the landscape — not only has endured through the years but has multiplied past the point of range damage. Through May 3, the U.S. government is seeking more private pastures for an overpopulation of wild horses.Many consider rounding up wild horses to
  
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• Utah may pump $10M into research for a different kind of nuclear power

  09-03-2019 17:15
  Utah lawmakers are considering a $10 million appropriation to develop a nuclear research lab that local leaders say could put the state at the forefront of a clean energy revolution and generate hundreds of new jobs in rural communities in desperate need of them.The money would equip an empty warehouse Emery County has acquired near Orangeville in hopes of establishing a thorium-based energy industry.For several months, the Legislature has been fielding pitches from Brigham Young University chem
  
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• Pope Francis, Russell Nelson share a hug, discuss global relief in first-ever meeting between a Latter-day Saint prophet and a Catholic pontiff

  09-03-2019 17:15
  For the first time, a Catholic pope and a Latter-day Saint prophet met — faith to faith and face to face.Pope Francis and Russell M. Nelson, top leaders of separate global Christian religions, sat down together Saturday at the Vatican for a 33-minute exchange a day before the American-born faith dedicates its first temple in Rome, the cradle of Catholicism.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the meeting between the 82-year-old Francis and the 94-year-old Nelson, early
  
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• Few in Washington, including Trump, seem to care as the budget deficit balloons

  09-03-2019 16:03
  Washington • The federal budget deficit is ballooning on President Donald Trump’s watch and few in Washington seem to care.And even if they did, the political dynamics that enabled bipartisan deficit-cutting deals decades ago has disappeared, replaced by bitter partisanship and chronic dysfunction.That's the reality that will greet Trump's latest budget , which will promptly be shelved after landing with a thud on Monday. Like previous spending blueprints, Trump's plan for the 2020 bu
  
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• Utah’s female brewers come together to make their own special blend of beer

  09-03-2019 15:48
  Ogden • At the end of a long week — when beer often dominated the headlines — more than two dozen women came together Friday to make a one-of-a-kind brew and to celebrate the growing female presence in Utah’s craft brew ranks.“After the drama in the craft beer industry this week," said Jacquie Wright King, a brewer at Roosters Brewing Co. in Ogden, “this is our happy place."In addition to being the head brewer at Roosters, King is co-founder of the Utah chapter
  
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• Holly Richardson: It’s time to defund war efforts in Yemen

  09-03-2019 15:47
  What do Sens. Mike Lee and Bernie Sanders have in common? They both want the U.S. to end its involvement in the civil war in Yemen.For the last four years, Yemen has been caught in a bloody civil war between the Yemeni government and an Islamic armed group called the Houthis, along with their allies like ISIS and Al Qaeda. More than 60,000 people have died — some 120 civilians each week. Many more are suffering in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis of today, with 14 million people
  
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• Letter: Where will unwanted children find love?

  09-03-2019 15:00
  The Feb. 24 commentary by Utah state Rep. Cheryl Acton misrepresents facts about abortion and childbirth.Legal abortion causes few, minor complications and has a death rate of less than one in 100,000. The death rate from childbirth exceeds 18 per 100,000, according to the National Institutes of Health. Common causes of maternal death are hemorrhage, infection and pulmonary embolism. About 40 percent die from problems like cardiovascular disease or diabetes.If my patient, a diabetic mother of th
  
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• Letter: Utah Republican’s war against democracy isn’t over

  09-03-2019 15:00
  In the Tribune’s editorial regarding SB54, you claim “the Utah Republican Party’s quixotic war against democracy is over.”I disagree. Democracy won the battle against SB54, but the Utah Republican party continues its war on democracy. For evidence, all we need to do is look at how the Republican-dominated Legislature had Republican-sponsored bills overturning the will of the people in Propositions 2 and 3. We shall see how they act regarding Proposition 4.Furthermore, the
  
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• Letter: Rushing ill-considered tax reform would only harm Utah

  09-03-2019 15:00
  Our Utah legislators are telling us that tax reform is necessary to address a large shift in our tax base from goods to services. A substantial change has occurred during the technological revolution of the past 20-30 years, but the current ratio of services to goods is unlikely to increase a substantial amount in the future — a majority of the shift to services has already occurred.Utah’s legislators and governor say that a new law taxing services is needed to “keep Utah afloa
  
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• Letter: Legislators don’t care about the health and safety of Utahns

  09-03-2019 15:00
  The majority of state legislators don’t care about the health and safety of people. They vote for things that make them look good in the eyes of those that give big dollars and their church.Here are a few things they have voted on this year:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/03/01/house-rejects-plan/" target=_blank>No to seat belts required in school buses</a>.<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/02/26/house-kills-bill-ban/" target=_blank>No
  
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• Letter: ‘BlacKkKlansman’ was the better film

  09-03-2019 15:00
  I watched Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” to compare it with “The Green Book,” my favorite for best picture at the Academy Awards. To my surprise I concluded “BlacKkKlansman” was truer to the subject.“BlacKkKlansman” deserved the Academy Award. It dramatized the mindless, insane-like hate and disrespect some white people had for black people — hate that continues today. Most devious are the subtle roadblocks white people continue to erect
  
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• Pope Francis and Russell Nelson discuss global relief, families and religious freedom in first-ever meeting between a Latter-day Saint prophet and a Catholic pontiff

  09-03-2019 14:32
  For the first time, a Catholic pope and a Latter-day Saint prophet are meeting — faith to faith and face to face.Pope Francis and Russell M. Nelson, top leaders of separate global Christian religions, are sitting down together Saturday at the Vatican for an exchange the day before the American-born faith dedicates its first temple in Rome, the cradle of Catholicism.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the meeting between the 82-year-old Francis and the 94-year-old Nels
  
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• Commentary: Stop casting stones, reverends

  09-03-2019 14:01
  Jesus invited disciples to put down their fishing nets and start hauling in believers. The catch was a motley crew of outcasts and sinners: tax collectors, prostitutes, cowards and doubters. Yet he was willing to die for them.This lesson is lost on many of today’s Christian churches. Instead, they slam their doors in the faces of would-be members. The issue is sex. A loudly assertive minority of Christians has shrunk the grandeur of God to the narrow space between navel and knee. No 13-yea
  
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• Romney, Lee no fans of Trump’s emergency order but will they vote to overturn it?

  09-03-2019 14:00
  Washington • Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney of Utah were not fans of President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency, though neither will say yet whether they will vote to override his action that would siphon funds from the Pentagon to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.Lee and Romney, both Republicans, are two of a handful of Republican senators who have not said if they'll vote with Democrats on a resolution to cancel the national emergency, which many experts have said is lega
  
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• Bills aim to fund big oil and gas transport projects without oversight by state board

  09-03-2019 14:00
  The Utah Senate passed a bill Friday that would create a permanent funding stream for a seven-county consortium’s efforts to develop major projects for moving minerals extracted in eastern Utah to market.Over the objections of state Treasurer David Damschen earlier in the day, a Senate panel advanced SB152, which would divert up to $750,000 in Utah’s federal mineral revenues from the state’s Community Impact Board, or CIB, to the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition. The bill
  
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• Catholic cardinals implicated in sex abuse, cover-ups

  09-03-2019 13:46
  Vatican City • The conviction of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin for failing to report a known pedophile priest to police deepens the crisis confronting an already discredited Catholic Church hierarchy. The verdict handed down by magistrates Thursday shows the church’s once-untouchable “princes” increasingly are judged accountable for priests who abuse children and the superiors who allowed the abuse to continue.After centuries of impunity, cardinals from Chile to Austra
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - 38 points from Donovan Mitchell not enough for the Jazz to overcome the Grizzlies

  09-03-2019 08:38 via sportspyder.com
  Wouldn’t mind a guy like that on the Jazz
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - 'We didn’t do a good enough job defensively,' Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder says after another loss to lowly Memphis Grizzlies

  09-03-2019 06:55 via sportspyder.com
  The Memphis Grizzlies have the Utah Jazz's number this year, as they won for the third time against the Jazz this season, despite coming into the game with the second-worst record in the Western...
  
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• 'We didn’t do a good enough job defensively,' Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder says after another loss to lowly Memphis Grizzlies

  09-03-2019 06:44
  MEMPHIS — Early in the season, the Memphis Grizzlies handed the Jazz a pair of disheartening losses in Salt Lake. That was when the Grizzlies still had Marc Gasol and the Jazz were struggling a bit. Surely the Jazz, with their improved play of late, couldn't lose again to the Grizzlies, who came with in the second worst record in the Western Conference, a third time could they?Yes, they could and they did.The Jazz climbed an uphill battle all night and while they didn't play poorly, they c
  
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• Memphis Grizzlies beat Utah Jazz 114-104 despite Donovan Mitchell’s 38 points

  09-03-2019 06:40
  Memphis • It took the Jazz’s perimeter defenders awhile to figure out how to competently contain Memphis’ dribble penetration. And so, it took awhile for the bigs to be spared from having to pick their poison in the Grizzlies’ 2-on-1 forays into the paint. As a result, it took awhile for the Jazz to finally claw their way back against an opponent with the second-worst record in the Western Conference.Yeah, all of that took awhile. As for finally getting over the hump and f
  
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• [KSL] - Conley, Valanciunas lead Grizzlies past Jazz 114-104

  09-03-2019 06:10 via sportspyder.com
  Mike Conley is continuing to lead the Memphis Grizzlies down the stretch, and a new big center has stepped up to help with the scoring load.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Triple Team: Jazz defense subpar again as Grizzlies slice and dice Jazz interior for win

  09-03-2019 06:07 via sportspyder.com
  Three thoughts on the Jazz’s 114-104 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.
  
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• The Triple Team: Jazz defense subpar again as Grizzlies slice and dice Jazz interior for win

  09-03-2019 05:52
  Three thoughts on the Jazz’s 114-104 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Where’s the Jazz’s defense?The Grizzlies are the worst offensive team in the league. They’re 30th in points per game, 30th in offensive rating, and 30th in pace. So the Jazz, usually an elite defensive team, should have made life even tougher on the Grizzlies. They did not. Memphis had a 120 offensive rating tonight, scoring 114 points in 95 possessions. Th
  
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• Utah mother charged with murder in death of her 6-year-old son

  09-03-2019 05:38
  The mother of a 6-year-old who was found unresponsive with multiple injuries in his Sandy home, and who died two days later, was charged Thursday with murder.Sandy police initially investigated 31-year-old Reyna Elizabeth Flores-Rosales for child abuse after they found her son unresponsive in their home on Feb. 25. (Court documents first listed the child’s age as 7, but his age was 6.)When the child never woke up and died at the hospital two days later, detectives shifted to build a murder
  
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• [Torn By Sports] - Episode 184: Race for Third in the NBA Western Conference

  09-03-2019 05:05 via sportspyder.com
  We continue our weekly watch of the NBA Western Conference Playoff seeding. LeBron James passes Michael Jordan. International Women's Day!
  
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• [USA Today] - Conley, Valanciunas lead Grizzlies past Jazz 114-104

  09-03-2019 04:57 via sportspyder.com
  Mike Conley had 28 points and 11 assists, Jonas Valanciunas added 27 points and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Utah Jazz 114-104
  
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• 3 takeaways from the Utah Jazz's loss to the Memphis Grizzlies

  09-03-2019 04:55
  MEMPHIS — The Utah Jazz lost to the lowly Memphis Grizzlies for the third time this season on Friday night, falling 114-104.Here are three takeaways from the game.— The Grizzlies entered Friday averaging a league-worst 101.4 points per game, but the Jazz struggled to get stops for most of the night. Memphis shot better than 51 percent from the field and finished with 60 points in the paint.—Utah committed 13 turnovers, five of which came during a crucial second quarter in which
  
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• [KSL] - Mike Conley leads Memphis over Utah

  09-03-2019 04:45 via sportspyder.com
  Not even Donovan Mitchell's 38 points was enough to keep up with Memphis on Friday.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - 3 takeaways from the Utah Jazz's loss to the Memphis Grizzlies

  09-03-2019 04:37 via sportspyder.com
  A look at some of the factors that led to the Jazz's road loss on Friday night.
  
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• Snowstorm slams the Salt Lake Valley, temporarily closes canyons

  09-03-2019 04:35
  Utahns heading home for the weekend may run into some traffic delays due to some big fat snow flakes as a white out has hit the Wasatch Front.According to the National Weather Service, residents can expect 1-5 inches of snow Friday afternoon, with a bit more in the benches.“When the snow gets heavier, you can see some slush accumulation, especially north of Salt Lake City," said Christine Kruse, a meteorologist with the weather service. “And then in the benches, you’ll be more
  
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• Letter: Rep. Chris Stewart should have another look at his oath

  09-03-2019 03:38
  Much commentary followed U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart’s Feb. 26 op-ed “U.S. faces an imminent threat of socialism.”Aside from his comments echoing a 21st century version of the 1950s Red Scare, there is a threat far more imminent than a viral spread of “socialism.”Stewart begins his article remembering the occasion of his swearing in as an officer in the United States Air Force, an oath stating in part, “I will support and defend the Constitution of the United Stat
  
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• With tax reform dead, lawmakers are delaying budget talks amid disagreement between House, Senate leaders

  09-03-2019 03:33
  A day after pulling the plug on tax reform, legislative leaders on Friday canceled a crucial budget meeting aimed at finalizing much of the state’s spending plan for next year.Legislative leaders had little to say about the delay, but advocates were left to worry whether or not they would get their requested appropriations.“When we have agreement between the two chambers we will meet,” Rep. Val Peterson, an Orem Republican who sits on the Executive Appropriations Committee, sai
  
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• Facing a possible court ordered eviction for allegations of unpaid rent, sandwich shop Even Stevens says they’ve paid back the money

  09-03-2019 03:32
  The Utah-based sandwich shop Even Stevens has run into more money woes, as the property owner of its Sugarhouse location filed court documents Friday to evict the restaurant for allegedly not paying rent.Brooks Pickering, Even Stevens chief restructuring officer, said the company paid past due rent to the property owners Friday and that the issue had been resolved. He said the restaurant isn’t in danger of closing.Attorneys for the landlord, DRMH LLC., filed two verified complaints for evi
  
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• Former Ute Delon Wright is adjusting nicely to his new team after trade to Memphis

  09-03-2019 03:15
  MEMPHIS — After getting drafted in the first round by the Toronto Raptors in 2015 following a standout career at the University of Utah, Delon Wright was getting comfortable in Toronto where he was a key contributor off the bench for one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference.Then early last month, just before the trade deadline, he had to pack his bags and move to Memphis, being part of the trade that sent Grizzlies' star Marc Gasol to the Raptors. Former Jazzman C.J. Miles also went
  
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• Dante Exum plans to return to practice 'this week' for Utah Jazz after long injury absence

  09-03-2019 03:15
  SALT LAKE CITY — Dante Exum is finally getting close to a return for the Utah Jazz.Less than an hour before the team's game Friday night on the road against the Memphis Grizzlies, the organization announced that while the Australian would miss the contest, he was re-evaluated on Friday and plans to return to practice "this week."Exum has been out since spraining his left ankle on Jan. 5 against the Detroit Pistons. On Feb. 22, the Jazz revealed that he had also suffered a bone bruise.In hi
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Rudy Gobert says Donovan Mitchell is ‘one of the best two-guards in the league’

  09-03-2019 03:08 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert says shooting guard Donovan Mitchell is one of the best two-guards in the NBA and that the youngster is still going to get better as his career moves along. Mitchell and the Jazz got off to a slow start this season, but...
  
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