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• Utah pilot killed in World War II finally returns home

  19-03-2019 23:55
  Just months before the end of World War II, Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Lynn W. Hadfield was piloting a bomber plane from France to Germany when it was struck by anti-aircraft fire and crashed somewhere near the German city of Dulmen.Crews scoured the landscape for the Utahn and two other men in the plane, but found nothing conclusive. That is, until 2016, when a German researcher found evidence of a crash site in Hülsten-Reken, about 10 miles away, according to a news release from the Defense
  
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• West Virginia attorney general accuses Catholic diocese of knowingly employing pedophiles

  19-03-2019 23:54
  Charleston, W.Va. • A Catholic diocese and its former bishop in West Virginia knowingly employed pedophiles and failed to conduct adequate background checks on camp and school workers, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the state attorney general.Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s suit against the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston and Bishop Michael Bransfield was brought under the state’s consumer credit and protection act, which several lawyers said is a first-of-its kind m
  
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• Pope Francis nixes French cardinal resignation after sex abuse cover-up

  19-03-2019 23:38
  Vatican City • Pope Francis has declined to accept the resignation of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin as archbishop of Lyon after he was convicted of failing to report a known predator priest to police, the Vatican said Tuesday.The decision greatly disappointed abuse survivors, given that Barbarin had traveled to the Vatican on Monday to present his resignation after the March 7 verdict and six-month suspended sentence he received.Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said Tuesday that dur
  
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• No sign of elevated lead in the blood of Sandy residents after the big water contamination

  19-03-2019 23:28
  Tests taken after Sandy’s recent water contamination found no sign of elevated lead levels in residents’ blood, the Salt Lake County Health Department reports.Intermountain Healthcare administered 704 blood tests between Feb. 23 and March 8 to residents of the three zones in Sandy where fluoride, copper and lead leaked into the water system. Of those tested, only one — an adult over 65 – was found with a lead level of 5.1 micrograms per deciliter of blood, above the level
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Together we make a difference

  19-03-2019 23:24 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz and Mountain America Credit Union partnered together to help give back to the community.
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Threes of the Week - 3.19.19

  19-03-2019 23:24 via sportspyder.com
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• Real Salt Lake attempt to take positives out of ugly loss against D.C. United

  19-03-2019 23:14
  Herriman • Tuesday morning before training, Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke showed his team the tape of the first 30 minutes against D.C. United. It was the only period of the game that felt good for RSL after a string of unfortunate events led to an ugly 5-0 loss.In the days after a game that personified Murphy’s law, RSL’s players were more focused on looking ahead to this Saturday at Los Angeles Football Club rather than looking back. But for some, it seemed the sting of expe
  
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• Lawmakers want NFL’s Panthers to practice in South Carolina

  19-03-2019 23:06
  Columbia, S.C. • South Carolina lawmakers are taking steps to lure the Carolina Panthers to move their practice facility and operations across the North Carolina state line by introducing legislation that would provide tax credits and incentives to professional sports teams.Members of the House Economic Development Legislative subcommittee voted Tuesday in favor of the Professional Sports Team Investment Act. The proposal would allow the NFL team to be eligible for tax credits and exemption
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Like everybody else, the Jazz love the NCAA Tournament. How do they follow it and who do they root for?

  19-03-2019 22:33 via sportspyder.com
  New York • If you ask him to, Donovan Mitchell will fill out your bracket for you.
  
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• Facebook says no one flagged NZ mosque shooting livestream

  19-03-2019 22:30
  London • Facebook says none of the 200 or so people who watched live video of the New Zealand mosque shooting flagged it to moderators, underlining the challenge tech companies face in policing violent or disturbing content in real time.The social media giant released new details about its response to the video in a blog post. It said the gunman's live 17-minute broadcast was viewed fewer than 200 times and the first user report didn't come in until 12 minutes after it ended. Fifty people w
  
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• Wendy Williams reveals she’s been staying in a sober-living house

  19-03-2019 22:00
  Wendy Williams has built a reputation on her willingness to talk about pretty much anything, but the daytime talk show host stunned viewers Tuesday when she tearfully revealed she has been living in a sober house.Williams, 54, has been open about her past struggles with cocaine abuse. She has said she was a "functioning addict" who would sometimes party all night during her days as a brash radio host."So you know me for being a very open and truthful person," Williams said on "The Wendy Williams
  
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• Layton man charged with choking, punching, cutting and killing his dog. He said he ‘enjoyed’ it.

  19-03-2019 21:52
  A Layton man has been charged with torturing and killing his dog — which he reportedly told a friend he “enjoyed.”Cailean Torquil Macdona MacLeod, 20, has been charged in 3rd District Court with torture of a companion animal, a third-degree felony; and unlawful detention of his girlfriend, a class B misdemeanor.According to court documents, a friend reported to police that MacLeod “told him that he had killed his dog and wanted to join the military to kill people.”
  
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• Former RSL coach Jason Kreis to coach US U-23 team, tasked with reaching Olympics

  19-03-2019 21:34
  Chicago • Former Major League Soccer coach Jason Kreis has been hired to run the U.S. under-23 team and tasked with the challenge of reaching next year’s Olympic tournament after the Americans failed to qualify for the London and Rio de Janeiro Games.He will coach the team for the first time in exhibitions on Friday against Egypt and Sunday versus the Netherlands, both in San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain.The 46-year-old is a former U.S. national team player, like new senior national team
  
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• U.S. signs off on Wyoming uranium mine expansion

  19-03-2019 21:30
  Cheyenne, Wyo. • The U.S. government has approved the expansion of a Wyoming uranium mine and is reviewing plans for a new mine not far away.Both projects involve the use of wells rather than pits or shafts to extract uranium in a process called in-situ mining. Wyoming produces more uranium than any other state and all of it comes from in-situ mines.The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced Tuesday it has approved an expansion to double the surface area of Littleton, Colorado-based Ur-En
  
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• New Zealand’s prime minister hopes to deny accused mass shooter notoriety

  19-03-2019 21:22
  Dunedin, New Zealand • New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she would deny the accused gunman the fame he sought by refusing to even speak his name in an emotive parliamentary meeting on Tuesday, the first since the worst massacre in her country’s modern history.Espousing anti-immigrant, white nationalist ideology, 28-year-old Australian national Brenton Tarrant allegedly killed 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch on Friday, rattling a country that takes pride in its sa
  
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• BYU tight end Moroni Laulu-Pututau’s recovery from major knee injury is ahead of schedule, thanks to groundbreaking surgical procedure

  19-03-2019 21:05
  Provo • The first time BYU’s Moroni Laulu-Pututau suffered a season-ending injury, he wasn’t sure what had just happened, and figured he would be back on the field after a day or two of rest. The second time, he knew immediately.“It was the worst feeling in the world,” said the receiver-turned-tight end of the knee injury that caused him to miss most of the 2018 season. “I knew it was bad. I knew something was wrong. It was almost like a numb feeling. I couldn&
  
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• Utah’s police regulators discipline 3 officers, discuss what constitutes ‘lying’

  19-03-2019 21:04
  Sandy • Utah’s police regulators suspended three officers for misconduct Tuesday and discussed whether to follow state auditors’ recommendations about when an officer is considered to have lied.Nathan Jacobsen resigned from the Willard Police Department in February 2018, but the Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training Council still had to decide what to do with his police certification.Jacobsen was found to have used a department laptop computer to create a temporary phone num
  
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• 7 states seek support from Congress for Colorado River drought plan

  19-03-2019 21:02
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • States that rely on a major river in the U.S. West are pushing for federal legislation to implement a plan to protect the water amid a prolonged drought.The Colorado River serves 40 million people in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.The states’ representatives are meeting Tuesday to sign a letter asking Congress to support their drought contingency plan.Under the agreement, states — including Utah — would voluntarily gi
  
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• A Utah death row inmate wants to use the words of a dying man to help prove the LDS Church meddled in his trial

  19-03-2019 20:54
  He called him charitable and inspirational, someone who was a “better man than many walking outside the prison.”Chuck Thompson, a one-time LDS bishop, penned these words of praise about death row inmate Douglas Lovell, according to the inmate’s attorney, as part of a book Thompson wrote while battling terminal cancer.Lovell’s attorneys want that book admitted into court to help prove The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meddled in his 2015 trial.Four years ago,
  
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• White officer on trial in fatal shooting black teenager Antwon Rose

  19-03-2019 20:42
  Pittsburgh • A prosecutor urged jurors Tuesday to focus on a white police officer’s frame of mind when he shot and killed an unarmed black teenager near Pittsburgh last summer.Former East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld, 30, fired three bullets into 17-year-old Antwon Rose II after pulling over an unlicensed taxicab suspected to have been used in a drive-by shooting minutes earlier. Rose was a front-seat passenger in the cab and was shot as he fled.Prosecutors said Rosfeld,
  
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• Utah Supreme Court considers new trial for officer’s death

  19-03-2019 20:21
  Provo • The Utah Supreme Court has heard arguments over the possibility of a new trial for a woman convicted as an accomplice in a police officer’s killing.The Daily Herald reports that no decision was reached when the court convened at Brigham Young University Monday to hear whether Meagan Grunwald should have a new trial.Grunwald was convicted of 11 charges including first-degree aggravated murder for the January 2014 death of Utah County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Cory Wride.She was sen
  
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• Monson: Thanks to Magic and Bird, Salt Lake City is the place where the Madness of March began

  19-03-2019 18:30
  The game was the biggest of its kind ever — and it happened right here in Salt Lake City.It was more than big. It was transcendent.It launched the NCAA Tournament on a flight to its current status as one of the sports calendar’s premier events, prompting millions of Americans each March not only to watch the games, but to participate in them, to make them theirs by filling out brackets in countless office pools from coast to coast. And it lifted basketball — college and profess
  
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• Mueller began investigating Michael Cohen’s phone and digital data months before FBI raid, warrants show

  19-03-2019 18:28
  Washington • Special counsel Robert Mueller obtained court-approved warrants to search the emails of President Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen in July 2017, according to newly unsealed documents illustrating how the investigation moved quickly and quietly to scour the digital trails of the president’s associates.Search warrants unsealed Tuesday in Cohen’s case offer new insight into how Mueller and his team handed off a key part of the Cohen investigation to federal pr
  
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• Heather Bennett, Salt Lake City school board member since 2005, has died

  19-03-2019 18:28
  Heather Bennett, a member of the Salt Lake City Board of Education since 2005, has died. She was 61.A spokeswoman for the Salt Lake City School District on Tuesday confirmed Bennett’s death. A fuller statement will be released later Tuesday.Bennett represented Precinct 5 in the Salt Lake City School District — an area that extended from the Jordan River to 1300 East, between 900 South and 2100 South, and includes East High School, Horizonte Instruction and Training Center, Innovation
  
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• A key slice of Summit County’s farm heritage can be saved, but the public needs to kick in last $535K

  19-03-2019 18:28
  The Osguthorpe farm on Old Ranch Road would make members of that Summit County family rich indeed if they sold the 158-acre tract near Park City to developers, but they would rather keep the Snyderville Basin’s last working historic farm in production.The wool from Osguthorpe sheep is used to make military dress uniforms. Yet the land that sustains the sheep producing that wool also preserves open space that now helps sustain Park City’s status as a beautiful place to live and visit.
  
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• Shopko will close all its remaining stores in June — including 7 more in Utah

  19-03-2019 18:26
  Ashwaubenon, Wis. • Wisconsin-based retail chain Shopko Stores plans to close its remaining 120 department stores by mid-June.The company filed for bankruptcy in January, citing excessive debt and ongoing competitive pressure. It announced it would close more than 100 stores, including 13 of its 20 outlets in Utah. Monday’s announcement will affect the seven that were spared at that time — in Ballard, Layton, Logan, Moab, Riverdale, Salt Lake City and Tremonton.Shopko said Monda
  
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• All of the college basketball blue-bloods have played in SLC during the NCAA Tournament, except one. Here come the Kansas Jayhawks.

  19-03-2019 18:26
  Duke, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina and UCLA.Name almost any blue-blood program in college basketball, and that team has appeared in one or more NCAA Tournament games in Salt Lake City. Who’s missing? Kansas. The Jayhawks will check that box Thursday, facing Northeastern in a first-round game at Vivint Smart Home Arena.This week marks the 20th time the University of Utah has hosted NCAA games over 52 seasons, in Einar Nielsen Fieldhouse, the Huntsman Center or Vivint. Kansas is competi
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Kyle Korver may shoot under 40 percent on threes

  19-03-2019 18:24 via sportspyder.com
  One of the best 3-point shooters of all-time, Kyle Korver of the Utah Jazz, might shoot under 40 percent from deep for just the second time in 10 years. Du...
  
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• [NBA] - Utah Jazz Camps and Clinics provide 'elite' learning environment for young athletes

  19-03-2019 18:11 via sportspyder.com
  From his college days at Weber State to a professional basketball career internationally and in the G League, Nick Covington has been a part of all sorts of youth basketball camps.And the Utah Jazz’s
  
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• AP source: Mike Trout, Angels close to record $432M, 12-year deal

  19-03-2019 18:09
  A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels are close to finalizing a $432 million, 12-year contract that would shatter the record for the largest deal in North American sports history.The deal was disclosed Tuesday by a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not been finalized and had not been announced.Trout would top the new $330 million, 12-year contract be
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - New York native Donovan Mitchell excited, more relaxed in second Utah Jazz trip to Madison Square Garden

  19-03-2019 18:07 via sportspyder.com
  Mitchell was born in Elmsford, New York as the son of Nicole and Donovan Sr., who is currently the director of player relations and community affairs for the New York Mets.
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump is right. This is a witch hunt!

  19-03-2019 18:05
  Washington • President Trump is right. This is a witch hunt.Monday morning, he used the term for the 261st time as president (according to the Factba.se database), this time tweeting: “50% of Americans AGREE that Robert Mueller’s investigation is a Witch Hunt.”On a weekend of rage directed at late senator John McCain, “Saturday Night Live,” Fox News and many others, Trump rose Sunday morning to denounce Crooked Hillary’s Fake and Unverified Dossier, &ldqu
  
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• Ogden mother and daughter die in apparent murder-suicide

  19-03-2019 18:03
  Ogden Police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that resulted in the deaths of a mother and daughter.On Tuesday at 2 a.m., officers arrived at a home on 27th Street and discovered two women dead inside the residence as “the result of an apparent murder-suicide by gunshot.” Police identified the women as 31-year-old Bianca Villalobos and her 63-year-old mother, Maria Villalobos.Police did not indicate who they believed used the gun, or when they believe the women died. The i
  
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• New York native Donovan Mitchell excited, more relaxed in second Utah Jazz trip to Madison Square Garden

  19-03-2019 18:03
  WASHINGTON — As the Utah Jazz's private plane touched down in New York during the wee hours of Tuesday morning, "The Ruler's Back" by Jay-Z was blasted upon the request of Donovan Mitchell.In many ways the song was symbolic of the occasion.As a young boy, Mitchell would often survey the action from the nosebleed section of Madison Square Garden but has returned to face his hometown Knicks on Wednesday as a rising star.Reminiscing on those days of watching Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler, A
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Alan Krueger’s minimum wage research was remarkable. So was his happiness work.

  19-03-2019 18:00
  When I first learned of Princeton University economics professor Alan Krueger's tragic passing over the weekend, I thought about happiness.Sure, most people would probably associate this intellectual giant and longtime public servant with his work on the minimum wage. In a paper looking at cross-state labor markets, he upturned decades of conventional wisdom that said raising the minimum wage would necessarily reduce employment. His finding that a higher wage floor could actually increase jobs f
  
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• Letter: Utah Catholic Church should stand against conversion ‘therapy’

  19-03-2019 17:41
  Thank you, Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, and your fellow representatives, who have gutted a bill to protect LGBTQ youth in our state and left them at risk for another year. You should be so proud.However, it is with deep sadness and a heavy heart that I reflect on the silence of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City during the Utah Legislature’s debate on the practice of conversion “therapy.”As a lifelong Catholic and as a developmental psychologist for nearly 50 years, I would have
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Jazz must plan for future without Exum

  19-03-2019 17:40 via sportspyder.com
  After Dante Exum's latest injury, the Jazz must alter their plans this summer to build in place of Exum, rather than wait for another rehabilitation.
  
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• Utah Jazz: Kyle Korver may shoot under 40 percent on threes

  19-03-2019 17:38
  One of the best 3-point shooters of all-time, Kyle Korver of the Utah Jazz, might shoot under 40 percent from deep for just the second time in 10 years. During his second stint with the Utah Jazz, Kyle Korver has fit in quite nicely. He’s 37 years old, but he still gets the job done […]
  Utah Jazz: Kyle Korver may shoot under 40 percent on threes - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Dartmouth physicist, known for doubting religious skeptics, wins 2019 Templeton Prize

  19-03-2019 16:45
  A Dartmouth College professor who says he is a religious agnostic but whose work has focused on the links between science and the mysteries of creation is the winner of the 2019 Templeton Prize.Marcelo Gleiser, 60, a native Brazilian, is the first Latin American to win the prestigious prize, which honors an individual “who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery or practical works,” said the John Templeton
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Phillies first baseman smashed TV after players played Fortnite during a game; Jim Boylen draws ire with timeout in blowout game

  19-03-2019 15:23 via sportspyder.com
  It's almost baseball season, with Major League Baseball opening day on March 28. With spring training is winding to a close, here are three funny baseball stories from the past week:
  
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• Morning links: Phillies first baseman smashed TV after players played Fortnite during a game; Jim Boylen draws ire with timeout in blowout game

  19-03-2019 15:08
  It's almost baseball season, with Major League Baseball opening day on March 28. With spring training is winding to a close, here are three funny baseball stories from the past week:Phillies first baseman smashes TVLast season, the Philadelphia Phillies finished 2018 with a 80-82 record, but its fortunes could be turning in 2019 after the addition of Bryce Harper. ESPN's Jeff Passan reports that during one of the last games of the 2018 season, some Phillies players were playing Fortnite during t
  
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• Spring City man wounded by police after he allegedly fired first at officers

  19-03-2019 14:59
  A Spring City man was hospitalized after he was shot by police — after police say he shot at them first.According to the Sanpete County Sheriff's Department, they received a call about 5:30 p.m. on Monday that a man had fired a gun at the caller. When police arrived at 379 N. Main Street and spoke with the 53-year-old man inside, he was “uncooperative” and “refused to exit the residence.”Sanpete County officers called in the Utah County Metro SWAT team, and efforts
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Can the Utah Jazz catch the March Mardness Magic?

  19-03-2019 14:54 via sportspyder.com
  No one is primed for a bigger finish
  
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• Letter: Lawmakers care more about guns than about students

  19-03-2019 14:28
  Why is it more important for one person to be able to sport a gun within a 500-foot perimeter of a school than it is for hundreds of children within that school to have to hide in their classrooms in fear that that person could come into their school and start shooting?As the grandmother of 12, I spoke before the House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee, pleading with them to move House Bill 217, Open Carry Near Schools, forward in order to help prevent unnecessary lock-downs that ar
  
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• Letter: Utah lawmakers are threatened by the people’s power

  19-03-2019 14:27
  It’s obvious that many Utah lawmakers were unhappy that three out of four ballot initiatives passed last November. Medical cannabis, expanded Medicaid and redistricting measures were just too much for them to tolerate.Our patriarchal lawmakers are threatened by the actions of the citizens and have decided to make the initiative process much more difficult. Requiring the names of people who have signed petitions to be posted online is meant to suppress citizen action and intimidate voters.
  
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• Letter: Utah Catholic should stand against conversion ‘therapy’

  19-03-2019 14:27
  Thank you, Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, and your fellow representatives, who have gutted a bill to protect LGBTQ youth in our state and left them at risk for another year. You should be so proud.However, it is with deep sadness and a heavy heart that I reflect on the silence of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City during the Utah Legislature’s debate on the practice of conversion “therapy.”As a lifelong Catholic and as a developmental psychologist for nearly 50 years, I would have
  
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• Letter: Bishop’s response to Green New Deal shows his ignorance

  19-03-2019 14:27
  In calling the Green New Deal “tantamount to genocide,” and “born of attitudes that show no respect for the lives and livelihoods of the American people,” Rep. Rob Bishop exhibits, once again, his extreme bigotry and ignorance.Science has shown the dire condition our planet is in. We all are experiencing the effects of climate change now in our daily lives. Immediate action is needed.It shows a complete lack of respect to deny these facts, and I’m dumbfounded as to
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Trump takes on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ late Sen. John McCain in an unusually active weekend tweet storm

  19-03-2019 14:26
  President Donald Trump averages about 16 tweets per weekend but was recently unusually active on the platform, posting more than 50 times from Friday morning to Sunday evening. He took on “Saturday Night Live” and the late Sen. John McCain and defended Fox News opinion hosts who have recently come under fire for bigoted statements. It was unclear what had provoked his flurry of activity, and even advisers were searching for the normal cues that set him off: White House officials perf
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Players of the Week face off, Rudy Gobert and Utah Jazz prevail

  19-03-2019 14:23 via sportspyder.com
  Jazz put together a complete game, near wire-to-wire victory
  
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• Hmong students are among the forgotten minorities of higher education

  19-03-2019 14:00
  If you are driving east on Florin Road toward Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California, you will pass under a pedestrian bridge that has a message permanently affixed to it: “If you dream it, you can do it.”It's the kind of message I have seen in neighborhoods where aspirations far surpass resources - and in that way it is fitting. More than three-quarters of students at Burbank qualify for free lunches. A fifth of students come from households where Hmong is the primary
  
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