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• New high-tech, energy-efficient liquor store opens in Davis County. It has an ‘impressive’ wine cave but no cold beer.

  11-03-2019 23:37
  Syracuse • Utah’s 46th liquor store, which opened Monday in a rapidly growing section of Davis County, is high-tech, energy efficient and the first to have a wine cave.Yet customers still won’t find cold beer.Located in Syracuse at 865 W. Antelope Drive, the new 13,600-square-foot store — which cost $5.4 million to build — is among the largest in the state, explained Cade Meier, deputy director of the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. It is expected to t
  
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• [CBS Sports] - NBA scores, highlights, updates: Jazz host Thunder in battle of West contenders, Celtics take on Clippers - CBSSports.com

  11-03-2019 23:33 via sportspyder.com
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• Senate committee OKs an inland port bill that critics worry would facilitate transport of coal

  11-03-2019 23:27
  A bill that seeks to expand the inland port — a massive distribution hub planned for Salt Lake City’s westernmost area — unanimously cleared a Senate committee on Monday, despite concerns from environmentalists over the proposal’s relationship to coal.HB433, sponsored by inland port board member and House Majority Leader Francis Gibson, would shift the development from its focus on a single site in the state’s capital to a multisite approach that would include rural
  
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• BYU guard Jahshire Hardnett will leave program as a graduate transfer with one year of eligibility remaining

  11-03-2019 23:26
  Las Vegas • Junior point guard Jahshire Hardnett, who missed a significant portion of the 2018-19 season with a hand injury, announced on social media Monday that he is leaving the BYU basketball program as a graduate transfer.“I have decided to cut ties with the basketball program this semester [and] graduate this spring and become a [graduate-transfer],” Hardnett wrote on his Twitter account. “I am now on the transfer portal and available to have contact with coaches fro
  
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• President Trump’s budget plan slashes Interior Department funding, boosts oil and gas drilling

  11-03-2019 23:21
  Washington • President Donald Trump proposed budget would slash the Interior Department’s spending by 14 percent, speed up oil and gas exploration and reduce money for the government to buy up new land for preservation.Trump’s $4.7 trillion budget plan, which Congress is unlikely to take up, would also move staff of the Interior’s headquarters in Washington out West, though it doesn’t detail where. Officials have mentioned Salt Lake City as a possible new home for th
  
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• Corner Canyon girls’ basketball star wins Utah Gatorade Player of the Year award

  11-03-2019 23:18
  Ever since Corner Canyon High senior Kemery Martin signed her national letter of intent to play basketball for the University of Utah last summer, her senior year has gone smoothly. She led the Chargers to the Class 5A title game — a first for the program — and had her sights set on being named a McDonald’s All-American.Although Corner Canyon lost in the championship contest, and she did not make the McDonald’s team after being nominated, Martin got a consolation prize Fr
  
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• Utah lawmaker complains of ‘vile messages’ after her changes torpedoed the conversion therapy bill

  11-03-2019 23:05
  A Utah representative is saying that she and her family are facing an “onslaught of vitriol, the likes of which I have never seen” since she helped make major changes to a bill that would’ve banned conversion therapy on minors.In a Monday email to fellow House colleagues, Rep. Karianne Lisonbee apologized for any "tension I have brought to our body" and said she never intended to cause pain.The wave of criticism comes after Lisonbee and Rep. Brady Brammer, R-Highland, last week
  
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• Last-minute push fails to advance ‘Lauren’s Law,’ which would’ve made it easier to sue gun owners who loan out a firearm later used in a murder

  11-03-2019 23:04
  A House Democrat made one final attempt Monday to pass “Lauren’s Law,” a bill designed to prevent people from loaning out their guns negligently.But the legislation, named in memory of slain University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey, failed to gain traction in its second committee hearing of the session as lawmakers concluded it could lead to harsh punishments for well-intentioned firearm owners.Rep. Andrew Stoddard, the sponsor of HB190, said he’ll be back next year wi
  
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• ‘I’m not for impeachment,’ Pelosi says, potentially roiling fellow Democrats

  11-03-2019 23:04
  Washington • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview that she opposes moving to impeach President Donald Trump even though she believes he is “unfit” for office - her first definitive statement on the subject and one that stands to alienate members of her own Democratic Party who are intent on ousting the president."I'm not for impeachment," she said in a March 6 interview conducted for a future issue of The Washington Post Magazine."This is news," she added. "I haven't
  
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• Utah House unveils bare-bones ‘skinny’ budget plan that strips out most proposed new funding

  11-03-2019 23:03
  House Speaker Brad Wilson confirmed Monday that House and Senate Republicans are at odds on how to proceed on the state’s budget after the collapse of a major tax reform proposal, and that the 2019 session could end Thursday with only a “skinny budget” in place — or potentially no agreement on new spending for public education and other state programs.Speaking to members of the House Democratic Caucus, the Kaysville Republican said budget negotiations up to this point wer
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Salt City Seven: Downside of a Soft Schedule, Exum’s Impact, Playoff Picture & More

  11-03-2019 22:48 via sportspyder.com
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Analysis: How Derrick Favors and the pick-and-roll are fueling the Utah Jazz's second-half resurgence

  11-03-2019 21:57 via sportspyder.com
  Coach Snyder and Derrick Favors credit health, while a pick-and-roll connection with Joe Ingles has also elevated Favors' play on the season. In March he bore the nickname of the Hulk, but Favors...
  
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• Boeing jet under scrutiny after Ethiopia crash

  11-03-2019 21:50
  Ejere, Ethiopia • Airlines in Ethiopia, China, Indonesia and elsewhere grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliner Monday after the second devastating crash of one of the planes in five months. But Boeing said it had no reason to pull the popular aircraft from the skies.As the East African country mourned the 157 victims of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that went down in clear weather shortly after takeoff Sunday, investigators found the jetliner’s two flight recorders at the crash site out
  
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• Analysis: How Derrick Favors and the pick-and-roll are fueling the Utah Jazz's second-half resurgence

  11-03-2019 21:44
  SALT LAKE CITY — For nine seasons, Derrick Favors has called Utah home while navigating trade rumors, injuries, positional challenges, coaching changes, and roster movement. Despite that, Favors has donned a hard hat on a nightly basis to embody what he and the Jazz represent: blue-collar, grit-and-grind, under the radar, tough, hard workers. His most recent stretch is one of the finest of his career.MVP of the week: Derrick FavorsLast week, the Utah Jazz went 1-2, with the lone win agains
  
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• Paul Waldman: What the Democratic presidential candidates aren’t telling us

  11-03-2019 21:38
  Beto O'Rourke is inching closer to running for president, as we learn today from the New York Times:"As the Democratic presidential field takes final shape, Mr. O'Rourke seems inclined to be in this, according to interviews with people who have spoken to him and other top Democrats. He says he has made a decision about whether to run and could announce it as early as this week, unsettling prospective rival campaigns that consider Mr. O'Rourke a credible threat. [...]"Few doubt Mr. O'Rourke's cap
  
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• Cory Booker: It’s time for the next step in criminal justice reform

  11-03-2019 21:38
  Edward Douglas woke up on Jan. 10, 2019, in a federal penitentiary in Pekin, Ill., where he had spent every morning of the past 15 years of his life. He was serving a lifetime sentence for selling 140 grams of crack cocaine — an amount about the size of a baseball.It seemed like any other day until, at 10:30 a.m., a guard came into Douglas's cell and told him he needed to call his lawyer. A few minutes later, he reached his lawyer, who informed him that, thanks to a new law, he would be a
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Threes of the Week - 3.11.19

  11-03-2019 21:25 via sportspyder.com
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• Bill limiting rural counties to a 3-person commission falls short in Senate committee

  11-03-2019 21:20
  It took Blanding Republican Rep. Phil Lyman three tries to get HB257 through a House committee. He doesn’t have that luxury in the Utah Senate with the last committee meetings held Monday.The Senate Government Operations Committee deadlocked 2-2 Monday on the bill, which would limit counties of the 5th and 6th classes — under 11,000 population — to only a three-person commission form of government with no ability to change to a different governing structure.“It doesn&rsqu
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz throw down against the Oklahoma City Thunder

  11-03-2019 20:43 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz need some good wins - will the streak begin tonight?
  
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• Utah lawmakers look for drug cost solutions as one warns: 'People are going without their medicines and bad things are happening’

  11-03-2019 20:14
  Utah lawmakers were considering taking the first steps toward importing prescription drugs from Canada, where prices for some medications are a fraction of what is charged in the United States.But after pharmaceutical industry representatives warned of potential challenges under federal law, state senators decided it was not worth trying.“It’s not gonna happen,” said Senate Majority Leader — and pharmacy owner — Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City, at a Friday committee hear
  
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• Utah coal country’s push for a West Coast deep-water port resurfaces as Senate panel advances funding plan

  11-03-2019 19:49
  One way or another, $53 million of Utah taxpayers’ money soon may get sunk into a deep-water export terminal on the West Coast in an effort to shore up the state’s fading coal industry.On Monday, a Senate panel advanced a bill that would transfer the administration of a special “throughput infrastructure” fund to the Utah Office of Energy Development, bypassing a vetting process established by another agency charged with determining how these federally sourced dollars are
  
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• [The Big Lead] - Best Bets for Monday's NBA Games: Gambling Picks for Thunder-Jazz, Celtics-Clippers, and More

  11-03-2019 19:45 via sportspyder.com
  Happy Monday! NBA picks are up!
  
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• Sedrick Barefield gives Utah another All-Pac-12 basketball pick; Timmy Allen makes the All-Freshman team

  11-03-2019 19:31
  Senior guard Sedrick Barefield extended Utah’s run of All-Pac-12 players and forward Timmy Allen made the conference’s All-Freshman team, as voted by the league’s coaches Monday.Barefield's selection to the 10-player first team marks a sixth straight season when a Utah athlete has been honored, following Delon Wright (2014 and '15), Jakob Poeltl (2016), Kyle Kuzma (2017) and Justin Bibbins (2018).The Utes have finished among the conference's top four teams each of the past five
  
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• Bill dies that sought tax equity between car rental and car sharing firms

  11-03-2019 19:29
  A Senate committee on Monday killed a bill that sought to create more tax equity between traditional car rental companies and new peer-to-peer car sharing firms.Rep. Kim Coleman, R-West Jordan, the bill’s sponsor, said she had worked out a compromise that most sides could support, but it came so late that she had been unable to put it into a written substitute bill.The committee was unwilling to forward the bill to the Senate floor without first seeing the changes in writing, and voted 5-1
  
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• What Tucker Carlson got right and wrong about Utah polygamist Warren Jeffs

  11-03-2019 19:28
  On Sunday, the liberal watchdog Media Matters for America published a series of statements made in 2006 and 2009 by now-Fox News host Tucker Carlson criticizing the prosecutions of Utah polygamist Warren Jeffs.Here’s what Carlson said about Jeffs and his criminal cases, the dates he made the comments and the facts.• Sept. 6, 2006: “He’s not accused of touching anybody; he is accused of facilitating a marriage between a 16-year-old girl and a 27-year-old man. That’s t
  
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• Photo captures history — all 15 top Latter-day Saint leaders in Rome for temple opening

  11-03-2019 19:28
  Rome may be the capital of Catholicism, but, for four days, it’s also the center of Mormonism.On Saturday, Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had an audience with Pope Francis, the first-ever meeting between a top Mormon prophet and a Catholic pontiff.On Sunday, Nelson dedicated his church’s first temple in Rome. Those dedication services continue through Tuesday.The events in Italy are so significant to the Utah-based faith that all of i
  
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• Committee halts bill that would have stopped Utah drivers from needing a front license plate

  11-03-2019 19:22
  A move to save Utah money by providing only one license plate — for the rear bumper — died in a Senate committee Monday.The Senate Transportation Committee voted 3-1 to hold, and thus essentially kill, HB207.Rep. Christine Watkins, R-Price, argued that many modern vehicles are not designed to easily accommodate a front license plate, so many motorists do not use them. She said 19 states do not require them, and providing only one plate would save Utah money.But it was opposed by law
  
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• Utah’s first step toward importing drugs from Canada has died, but lawmakers remain interested

  11-03-2019 18:46
  Utah lawmakers were considering taking the first steps toward importing prescription drugs from Canada, where prices for some medications are a fraction of what is charged in the United States.But after pharmaceutical industry representatives warned of potential challenges under federal law, state senators decided it was not worth trying.“It’s not gonna happen,” said Senate Majority Leader — and pharmacy owner — Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City, at a Friday committee hear
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Jazz players reflect on the women in their lives

  11-03-2019 18:12 via sportspyder.com
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• Tucker Carlson won’t apologize for his ‘misogynistic’ comments on statutory rape — or his defense of Warren Jeffs

  11-03-2019 18:07
  Tucker Carlson refused to apologize Sunday after audio surfaced of him degrading women and airing controversial opinions about statutory rape and underage marriage on a radio program between 2006 and 2011. Instead, the Fox News host plugged his prime-time show and urged his detractors to come on as guests.Carlson was widely criticized on Sunday following a report from the nonprofit Media Matters for America that compiled and transcribed more than a dozen instances of the host appearing on the "B
  
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• Flight recorders found in Ethiopian jetliner crash

  11-03-2019 18:06
  Ejere, Ethiopia • Authorities in Ethiopia, China and Indonesia grounded all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft Monday following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner that killed 157 people, and investigators found the flight recorders from the field where the plane went down.The new plane crashed shortly after takeoff in clear weather outside Addis Ababa on Sunday, and the airline decided to ground its remaining four 737 Max 8s until further notice as “an extra safety precaution,”
  
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• IHOP is offering free pancakes on March 12

  11-03-2019 17:48
  Celebrate National Pancake Day — and give to a charitable cause — this Tuesday at any IHOP location.On Tuesday, March 12, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., IHOP will host its annual Free Pancake Day campaign to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, including Intermountain Healthcare’s Primary Children’s Hospital.The only thing better than pancakes is FREE PANCAKES. That's why we made a day of it. pic.twitter.com/MIrHg9gjx5— IHOP (@IHOP) March 11, 2019Guests can r
  
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• Will the NCAA get the football targeting rule right this time? Ute coaches weigh in on the latest proposal.

  11-03-2019 16:54
  If a proposed new rule had been in effect last October, former Utah safety Marquise Blair would have missed all of the next game after receiving his second targeting penalty of the football season.Then again, a more thorough review of each call may have kept Blair from being penalized at all.The NCAA Football Rules Committee is proposing a harsher, more progressive penalty for targeting, while suggesting that in-game reviews apply higher standards to the call. Any penalty that comes with an ejec
  
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• Utah lawmakers move quickly on a late-emerging plan to borrow $1.6 billion for transportation projects

  11-03-2019 16:36
  In the last week of the legislative session, Utah lawmakers are trying to hurry through a plan to borrow another $1.6 billion to speed transportation projects.After nearly 10 minutes of debate — with no comments from public witnesses — the Senate Transportation Committee voted 5-0 to approve SB268 and sent it to the full Senate. The bill was introduced just last Friday.“We’re behind the eight ball as far as infrastructure, and we’re growing at a rapid pace,” s
  
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• Growing number of Boeing Max 8 planes grounded after crash

  11-03-2019 16:19
  Beijing • Boeing’s stock plunged 8 percent Monday morning as aviation authorities in China, Indonesia and Ethiopia ordered airlines to ground their Boeing 737 Max 8 planes the day after one crashed in Ethiopia, killing all 157 people on board.The crash of the Ethiopian Airlines jet shortly after it took off from Addis Ababa on Sunday is drawing renewed scrutiny of the plane just four months after a similar crash of the same model that killed 189 people in Indonesia.Chicago-based Boein
  
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• U.S. Olympic cycling medalist Kelly Catlin dies at 23

  11-03-2019 16:15
  Kelly Catlin, a member of the U.S. women’s pursuit team that won a silver medal during the 2016 Olympic Games, died Thursday night at age 23. Her death left her father describing “unbelievable” pain and her sister saying, “I want the world to know there was a human being underneath that hard shell.”Catlin died in her on-campus residence at Stanford University; her family members said she died by suicide. "There isn't a minute that goes by that we don't think of her
  
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• Colorado residents seek to block major oil and gas project

  11-03-2019 15:48
  Denver • Frustrated residents of a Denver suburb say state law is forcing them to participate in a major oil and gas drilling project against their wishes, so they launched legal challenges with potentially significant consequences for the industry.Backed by a federal judge, they have a chance this week to ask state regulators to block multiple wells planned within about 1,300 feet of homes in the city of Broomfield.The dispute is a microcosm of a broader battle in Colorado, where burgeonin
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Happiness of Donovan Mitchell and the Utah Jazz

  11-03-2019 15:37 via sportspyder.com
  Last week was not the greatest of weeks for Jazz fans. The Jazz went 1-2 with two bad losses to teams they probably should have beat. It’s disappointing when they could have created distance...
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Inside President Trump’s massive 2020 re-election effort

  11-03-2019 15:00
  Happy Monday. President Donald Trump is readying his 2020 re-election campaign that will mirror his message that got him elected in the first place. But, unlike 2016, where the campaign was largely spontaneous and ran without a large staff, the new effort includes a massive data-gathering and get-out-the-vote push aimed at dwarfing any previous presidential reelection effort, according to campaign advisers. [WaPost]Topping the news: State Sen. Daniel Thatcher’s hate crime bill, a piece of
  
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• Hit-and-run driver kills one man, critically injures another in South Salt Lake

  11-03-2019 14:47
  South Salt Lake Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who killed one man and critically injured another on Saturday night.The two victims were in a crosswalk at 3300 S. Main Street at 11:51 p.m. when the light changed, according to police, and a car proceeded through the intersection and struck them. Both were transported to a local hospital, where one man died and the other is in critical condition.Their names have not been released.Police said the vehicle that struck them is believed t
  
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• Murray homeowner shoots and kills intruder

  11-03-2019 14:45
  Sample HTML blockMurray police are investigating after a man was who made an “unwanted entry” into a home was shot and killed by the homeowner on Sunday night.According to police, the man entered the home near 440 E. 5900 South about 7 p.m. on Sunday without the permission of the homeowner, who confronted the man and fired multiple shots.Police believe the two men, whose names have not been released by police, did not know one another. The investigation into exactly what happened con
  
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• President Trump is reviving his border wall fight, this time with a new budget request

  11-03-2019 14:43
  Washington • President Donald Trump is reviving his border wall fight, preparing a new budget that will seek $8.6 billion for his signature project, impose steep spending cuts to other domestic programs and set the stage for another fiscal battle.Budget documents like the one Trump is releasing Monday are often seen as just a starting point of negotiation. Fresh off the longest government shutdown in history, Trump’s 2020 proposal shows he is eager to confront Congress again to boost
  
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• New high-tech, energy-efficient liquor store opens Monday in Davis County. It has a wine cave but no cold beer

  11-03-2019 14:17
  Syracuse • Utah’s 46th liquor store, which opens Monday at 11 a.m. in a rapidly growing section of Davis County, is high-tech, energy efficient and the first to have a wine cave.Yet customers still won’t find cold beer.Located in Syracuse at 865 W. Antelope Drive, the new 13,600-square-foot store is among the largest in the state, according to figures provided by the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.With energy-efficient heating and air conditioning and LED lighting
  
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• Letter: Stewart confuses socialism and communism

  11-03-2019 14:00
  Like so many people, our representatives may confuse socialism with communism. This confusion results in the word “socialism” triggering a strong, negative emotional response in the audience similar to the word “communism.” Thus, socialism must then be avoided at all costs and any programs that have a socialistic flavor are suspect.In his Feb. 26 article in The Tribune, Rep. Chris Stewart warns of the dangers of democratic socialism. Yet each country he names as examples
  
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• Letter: Protect vulnerable groups — don’t turn a blind eye to them

  11-03-2019 14:00
  I read the March 6 Salt Lake Tribune’s front section with a gimlet eye. The topics ranged from gay conversion therapy, to pedophilia in the Utah Catholic clergy, to House Bill 136′s backward fight for restrictions on abortion. I refer specifically to the articles “Advocates blast substitute for conversion therapy ban” and “Endowment keeps the name of a priest accused of sex abuse,” and the Public Forum letter “Lay off women’s bodies.” What do
  
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• Letter: President Trump needs to stop misrepresenting people

  11-03-2019 14:00
  I am not a Democrat. I do believe in tough border security. I don’t believe in a wall. We should be stretching our arms out and trying to figure a peaceful solution to this problem, while also strengthening our border. The president has lied to us from the start of the wall talk. He calls the people who come here illegally, killers, drug runners and sex traffickers. Anything to scare the people. I have worked with these people over the years in construction, and the hotel business and this
  
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• Letter: Is our Legislature Utah’s, or the Mormon Church’s?

  11-03-2019 14:00
  Utah voters voted to approve Prop 2, but under pressure from the Mormon Church, “our” Utah Legislature replaced it with the highly restrictive Utah Medical Cannabis Act. The Mormon Church was against selling slightly higher alcohol content beer (1/10th of a teaspoon more of the demon alcohol) in our grocery stores, so “our” Legislature killed SB132, too. Finally, the Mormon Church was against banning “dangerous and ineffective” conversion therapy as a way to &
  
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• Letter: Don’t let tax reform debate cool down

  11-03-2019 14:00
  I couldn’t help smiling when I read the front page headline in the March 8 Salt Lake Tribune: “Guv, legislators put tax plan on ice.” The subtitle to the headline reads, “After weeks of holding closed-door talks and taking fire from businesses and community, Herbert now hopes to hold a special session by summer.”Our governor and legislative leaders are wise indeed. “By this summer,” public school educators will have dispersed to summer jobs, career-enhan
  
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• Utah’s first step toward importing drugs from Canada has died. But lawmakers remain interested, warning ‘people are going without their medicines and bad things are happening.’

  11-03-2019 13:00
  Utah lawmakers were considering taking the first steps toward importing prescription drugs from Canada, where prices for some medications are a fraction of what is charged in the United States.But after pharmaceutical industry representatives warned of potential challenges under federal law, state senators decided it was not worth trying.“It’s not gonna happen,” said Senate Majority Leader — and pharmacy owner — Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City, at a Friday committee hear
  
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