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• Jazz Gaming kicks off its second season in the NBA 2K League on Friday

  04-04-2019 23:58
  Jazz Gaming will kick off its second season in the NBA 2K League on Friday with a pair of matches in the group stage of The Tipoff tournament.The NBA 2K League is an esports venture founded by the NBA and Take-Two Interactive Software. It features 21 teams competing in a combination of regular-season, tournament, and playoff games.Players compete as unique characters — not existing NBA players — in 5-on-5 play; no artificial intelligence is used. Jazz Gaming, which is affiliated with
  
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• FBI rejects teen’s claim to be long-missing boy based on DNA

  04-04-2019 23:31
  Cincinnati • DNA tests disproved a teenager’s claim that he was an Illinois boy who disappeared eight years ago, the FBI said Thursday, dashing hopes that the baffling case had finally been solved.For a day and a half, a breakthrough seemed to be at hand when a teenager found wandering the streets of Newport, Kentucky, on Wednesday identified himself as 14-year-old Timmothy Pitzen and claimed he had just escaped from two men in the Cincinnati area who had held him captive for seven ye
  
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• Grizzlies’ Caleb Herbert named first-team All-ECHL

  04-04-2019 23:16
  The Utah Grizzlies’ Caleb Herbert on Thursday was named first team all ECHL.Herbert is fifth in the league with 31 goals. He also leads the team with 37 assists and is tied for fourth in the league with 68 points. Herbert has been big on the power play as he has 28 power play points, which is tied for second best in the league.He is the first player since current Grizzlies Assistant Coach Ryan Kinasewich to be named first team all ECHL. Kinasewich was named to the first team in the 2009-20
  
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• Boeing’s CEO apologizes for lives lost in Ethiopian, Indonesian crashes

  04-04-2019 23:02
  Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg apologized Thursday for the tragedies in which crashes of Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people, according to a letter made public on the company’s website.In his most extensive comments on the subject to date, Muilenburg acknowledged distinct similarities between the two events, including the implication certain Boeing equipment issues.Muilenburg recognized the role in both crashes of a Boeing-approved flight system,
  
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• Criminal mischief? Lehi police crack down on chalk art protest by children, moms concerned over gravel mine

  04-04-2019 22:57
  Lehi children and mothers who recently decorated city pavement with chalk art protesting a potential new gravel pit are guilty of “criminal mischief,” according to the city.On Tuesday, after city workers had scrubbed away the chalk hearts, mountains and messages politely reproaching Lehi government leaders, a police officer showed up at the house of one protester to confront her about writing on the steps and walkways of City Hall. She wasn’t home at the time, but the officer t
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Grayson Allen takes advantage of opportunity with big game in Phoenix

  04-04-2019 22:28 via sportspyder.com
  Although it's been a disappointing season overall for Jazz rookie Grayson Allen, he came up big Wednesday night when the Jazz needed him as he scored a career-high 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting and...
  
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• Barr defends handling of Mueller’s Russia report

  04-04-2019 22:28
  Washington • Attorney General William Barr on Thursday defended his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation, saying the document contains sensitive grand jury material that prevented it from being immediately released to the public.The statement came as Barr confronts concerns that his four-page letter summarizing Mueller’s conclusions unduly sanitized the full report in President Donald Trump’s favor, including on the key question o
  
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• Battery thieves kept going and going... until Utah police and Comcast caught them

  04-04-2019 22:26
  Police in West Valley City say they have broken a theft ring that was stealing backup batteries providing reserve electricity for cable, broadband and 911 phone service.Criminal charges have been filed against one person, according to a news release from West Valley City, and prosecutors are considering charges for 10 more. The group is accused of stealing alpha-cell batteries, valued at $180 each, from Comcast.The batteries were stored at locations in West Valley City and elsewhere on the Wasat
  
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• ‘I’ve got tears of joy’: Change to LDS Church’s LGBTQ policy earns praise beyond the faith community

  04-04-2019 22:21
  Equality Utah Executive Director Troy Williams was traveling Thursday morning and said he had to pull over to check his phone after it started “exploding” with the news that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had ended its controversial 2015 LGBTQ policy.Williams said he felt overwhelmed, adding that the change — about 3½ years after the policy leaked in November 2015 — was a positive step forward.“I’m grateful that leaders have listened to
  
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• Grayson Allen takes advantage of opportunity with big game in Phoenix

  04-04-2019 22:18
  SALT LAKE CITY — He may not play Friday night against Sacramento, nor in any of the three games the Jazz play next week to finish the regular season.However, Grayson Allen will always remember Wednesday night's game at Phoenix, perhaps the best of his rookie season, which has been a disappointment in many ways.Allen, a first-round pick out of Duke, has played in just 33 games this season, less than half of Utah's 78 games and came into Wednesday's game averaging just 3.8 points in less tha
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: How can you root against Jimmer? BYUtv documents his time in China.

  04-04-2019 22:01
  Toward the end of BYUtv’s documentary about Jimmer Fredette, one of his friends and coaches says the ex-Brigham Young University basketball star “is a guy that people should root for.” And he’s right.Oh, I’m not saying Utah Jazz fans should have rooted for him quite so hard when he came to town as a member of the Phoenix Suns on March 25. And I’m not arguing that the former college player of the year deserved another shot in the NBA, or that he’s going t
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Church Approved

  04-04-2019 21:59
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, April 5, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/03/bagley-cartoon-brexit/" target=_blank><u>The Brexit Knight</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/02/bagley-cartoon-national/"><u>National Security Crisis</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/01/bag
  
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• After strong performance at Pac-12 championships, Utah gymnasts brimming with confidence going into NCAA regional

  04-04-2019 21:52
  Utah’s gymnastics team lost its last regular season meet and finished second at the Pac-12 Championships, but the sixth-ranked Utes don’t sound like a team on a losing streak. To the contrary, the Utes might have more confidence in their gymnastics right now than they have at any point in the season.The Utes hope to translate that confidence into an NCAA-worthy performance this weekend at the NCAA regionals in Baton Rouge, La.Utah competes against Minnesota, BYU and Arkansas in its a
  
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• Kirby: General Conference seating, like eternal home hunting, is all about location, location, location

  04-04-2019 21:51
  What if seating at General Conference for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were based on some abstract notion of personal worthiness?It’s a stupid idea, I know. But it came to me during a moment of quiet reflection — known to others as “evil influence” — regarding one hierarchical picture of senior church leaders dressed completely in white at the Rome Temple dedication.President Russell M. Nelson said God commanded him to have the entire 15 members o
  
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• House joins Senate in passing measure to end U.S. involvement in Yemen, setting up a Trump veto

  04-04-2019 21:51
  Washington • The House voted Thursday to end U.S. participation in Yemen’s civil war, denouncing a Saudi-led bombing campaign that has been blamed for worsening an already dire humanitarian crisis and sending the measure to President Donald Trump for an expected veto.The vote was 247-175, with one member simply voting "present" and fell largely along party lines, reflecting how Democrats and Republicans remain divided over how to address Saudi Arabia's efforts to challenge Yemen's Hou
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - 'For them it's a dream come true:' Rudy Gobert hosts camp visitors

  04-04-2019 21:50 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert hosted MVPs from his summer camp in Saint Quentin as they visited Salt Lake City to watch a Utah Jazz game.
  
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• Ethiopia says pilots followed Boeing’s recommendations

  04-04-2019 21:50
  Addis Ababa, Ethiopia • The pilots of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 performed all the procedures recommended by Boeing to save their doomed 737 Max 8 aircraft, but could not pull it out of a flight-system-induced dive, a preliminary report into the crash concluded Thursday.In a brief summary of the much anticipated preliminary report on the March 10 crash, Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges told reporters that the “aircraft flight-control system” contributed to the plan
  
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• Behind the Headlines: The LDS Church reverses its policy on children of LGBTQ parents

  04-04-2019 21:50
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reverses a policy that generally prevented the children of same-sex parents from joining the faith, and that labeled same-sex married couples apostates. Under a new law, four Utah women ask for a second look at their sexual assault cases. And the exemption to a new law governing the placement of hidden GPS devices on Utah cars.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune managing editor David Noyce, government and politics editor Dan Harrie, and editoria
  
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• Fredrik Landstedt’s New Mexico program got eliminated, so he moved to Utah and won a national championship. How did the Utes’ first-year ski coach do it?

  04-04-2019 21:49
  The day after the New Mexico board of regents voted to eliminate the university's skiing program last July, Fredrik Landstedt took a job at Utah.The Utes won the combined men's and women's national championship eight months later.This would be a better story if it all really happened that suddenly, with Landstedt storming out of the fateful meeting and heading to Salt Lake City, vowing to win an NCAA title and make New Mexico regret his move.The real-life version is almost as good, though. After
  
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• Eye on the Y: Unlike 22 years ago, BYU’s new basketball coach won’t be a surprise

  04-04-2019 21:49
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on BYU athletics. Subscribe here.The last time BYU had a head men’s basketball coaching opening, it was pretty apparent to most people close to the program that eight-year assistant Dave Rose would get the job to replace Steve Cleveland, who was moving on to Fresno State after a 9-21 season in Provo.That wasn’t true in 1997, when BYU brass began an exhaustive search to fill a vacancy created when Roger Reid was fired sev
  
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• Gondolas? Tolls? Trains? Highway officials want your input on transportation fixes in Big and Little Cottonwood canyons

  04-04-2019 20:45
  Do you favor charging tolls to help reduce traffic congestion in Big Cottonwood and Little Cottonwood canyons? How about building new train lines there? Adding more buses? Do you like the idea of a gondola up the canyons? Or adding an extra lane to roads?Officials say all those and other options are on the table as two new studies are gaining speed to look at the future of transportation in the canyons — and they are seeking public comment.The website udot.utah.gov/cottonwoodcanyons has ex
  
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• [NBA] - For a next-level relationship. On and off the court.

  04-04-2019 20:26 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell tweeted it as a New Year’s joke. “New year, new me.” Mitchell says he was mostly kidding, joining thousands of other people in the familiar refrain. But you know what? He wasn’t
  
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• Red All Over: Ex-Ute quarterback Jack Tuttle can play for Indiana in 2019. Is that a good sign for current QB Cameron Rising?

  04-04-2019 20:14
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here.Having transferred to Indiana in January, former Utah quarterback Jack Tuttle this week won his NCAA appeal to become eligible to play in 2019, without having to sit out during a year of residency.What does that mean for current Ute quarterback Cameron Rising, formerly of Texas? Logically, Tuttle’s case should improve Rising’s chances, the variable being the basis of Tuttle’s appeal. Tuttl
  
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• Dana Milbank: Mitch McConnell undid 213 years of Senate history in 33 minutes

  04-04-2019 19:00
  Video: President Trump has been pushing Senate Republicans to go ‘nuclear’ in order to pass bills he supports. But what is the so-called ‘nuclear option’? (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
  Washington • Members of the Senate used to call their institution the “world’s greatest deliberative body.”No one is likely to mistake it for that after Wednesday.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in his latest move to seize power by dismantling the
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Highlights: Jazz 118 | Suns 97

  04-04-2019 18:31 via sportspyder.com
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• Paramount releases an action-packed trailer for upcoming season of made-in-Utah ‘Yellowstone’

  04-04-2019 18:16
  The Paramount Network has released a trailer for Season 2 of the mostly made-in-Utah drama “Yellowstone” – and, clearly, a whole lot is going to happen. The 90-second trailer is loaded with drama, action and violence.“All the angels are gone, son,” says the show’s central character, John Dutton (Kevin Costner). “There’s only devils left.”Costner stars as the patriarch of a rich and powerful family that owns an enormous ranch in Montana. (Some
  
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• LDS Church dumps its controversial LGBTQ policy, cites continuing ‘revelation’ from God

  04-04-2019 18:15
  In a stunning announcement Thursday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced a reversal of its controversial November 2015 policy, which deemed same-sex couples “apostates” and generally prevented their children from joining the faith.“Effective immediately, children of parents who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender may be baptized without [governing] First Presidency approval,” the faith said on its newsroom website, "if the cu
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Rudy Gobert becomes first Utah player with over 1,000 rebounds in multiple seasons

  04-04-2019 17:28 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz big man Rudy Gobert made some history on Wednesday night as he became the first ever player in franchise history to grab more than 1,000 rebounds in multiple seasons. This is via NBA stats guru Justin Kubatko. Rudy Gobert grabbed his 1,000th
  
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• Body found in creek believed to be missing 4-year-old Utah girl

  04-04-2019 17:26
  The body of a 4-year-old Utah girl who disappeared on March 14 is believed to have been found in a creek, according to the Navajo Division of Public Safety.Anndine Jones was last seen near her home near Aneth and Montezuma Creek in the southeastern corner of Utah. Footprints believed to be hers were seen along McElmo Creek; her body was found by volunteers searching the creek north of Aneth on Wednesday evening.According to the Navajo Police Department, her body has been “tentatively ident
  
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• E.J. Dionne: Congress is right to subpoena the Mueller report. It shouldn’t have had to.

  04-04-2019 17:01
  Video: Attorney General William P. Barr is planning key redactions to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report. It is already causing a political fight on Capitol Hill. (Taylor Turner/The Washington Post)
  Washington • The House Judiciary Committee should not have had to vote Wednesday to subpoena special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. It should already have been sent to Congress. The fact that the body’s Democrats had to take this forcing action underscores why Att
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: ‘Mayor Pete’ is sweeping the media off their feet. Time for a few deep breaths.

  04-04-2019 17:00
  To paraphrase Alicia Keys, we keep on fallin'... in and out of love ...And at the moment, the presidential candidate that many media types — and quite a few citizens — are tumbling for is 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg, also known as Mayor Pete of South Bend, Ind.His fundraising is spiking.His numbers on the prediction markets come with a green arrow pointed straight up.And media figures are fallin’ — all over themselves — to give him the kind of attention that hasn&rsq
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Rudy Gobert’s historical season keeps on getting better

  04-04-2019 16:45 via sportspyder.com
  Another day, another record broken by Rudy Gobert
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning Links: Kemba Walker to the Utah Jazz this offseason?; BYU baseball among the best in the West

  04-04-2019 16:24 via sportspyder.com
  Whether or not Walker will leave Charlotte this summer is yet to be determined, but the idea that he should leave and join the Jazz is gaining traction. Also, BYU baseball more consistent than...
  
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• Morning Links: Kemba Walker to the Utah Jazz this offseason?; BYU baseball among the best in the West

  04-04-2019 16:16
  SALT LAKE CITY — Should Kemba Walker sign the with Jazz this summer?The answer, per Sportskeeda contributor Jason Hirsch, is a resounding yes.That was his argument in the column Opinion: Kemba Walker should sign with the Utah Jazz this summer.In it, Hirsh looks at the many attributes that have Walker considered among the best point guards in the NBA, not to mention a candidate for a spot on an All-NBA team.Hirsch also detailed Walker's rise from a struggling rookie to that of All-Star, a t
  
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• House Judiciary panel approves subpoenas for Mueller report

  04-04-2019 15:35
  Washington • The House Judiciary Committee approved subpoenas Wednesday for special counsel Robert Mueller’s full Russia report as Democrats pressure the Justice Department to release the document without redactions.The committee voted 24-17 to give Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., permission to issue subpoenas to the Justice Department for the final report, its exhibits and any underlying evidence or materials prepared for Mueller’s investigation. Nadler has not yet s
  
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• Review: Emilio Estevez brings dry humor and an open heart to ‘The Public,’ a homeless drama inspired by Salt Lake City’s library

  04-04-2019 15:21
  As a filmmaker, Emilio Estevez is the most sincere kid in the pumpkin patch, with never a hint of cynicism — and he wears his heart proudly on his sleeve in “The Public,” an earnest comedy-drama about people looking out for their fellow humans.Estevez stars in this movie, which he wrote and directed, inspired by a 2007 essay by Chip Ward, a now-retired Salt Lake City librarian who wrote plainly and eloquently about how public libraries have become de facto shelters for the home
  
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• Gehrke: Utah doesn’t need to fear a popular vote for president, but ditching the Electoral College remains a long shot

  04-04-2019 15:21
  What if, instead of having a direct election, Utah’s candidates for governor had to win electoral votes allocated based on Utah’s population — say, one vote for every 30,000 people plus two each for the 29 counties?Salt Lake County, and its more than 1 million people, would get 38 electoral votes. Daggett and the state’s 12 least populous counties would get three each. Together, those 13 rural counties would have more electoral votes than Salt Lake, despite having 900,000
  
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• Letter: Climate change threatens the economy

  04-04-2019 15:20
  To say that the world is addicted to oil is an understatement. Oil is more than an addiction, it’s the life blood of the world’s energy intensive economy.Despite the world’s insatiable demand for what science and common sense tell us is a finite resource, industry and those that constantly require more and more of what industry can produce behave as though oil is as plentiful as the perpetual energy produced by the sun.While the captains of industry and the merchants of the ext
  
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• Letter: Stewart has no concern about Trump

  04-04-2019 15:19
  It was troubling to me to read in the newspaper that Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, has asked for the resignation of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff because of Schiff’s opinion that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia.Department of Justice rules stipulate that a sitting president cannot be indicted for a criminal offense. Rather he, or she, must first be impeached before a criminal charge may be initiated.Stewart seemingly has no concern about Trump's continuous fals
  
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• Letter: It is Rep. Stewart who should resign

  04-04-2019 15:19
  Rep. Chris Stewart,Seriously, you are calling for Rep. Adam Schiff to resign his committee chairmanship? You are calling for our political leaders to apologize for putting this country in a political crisis?!?Maybe you should start with President Trump issuing an apology to this country for running a campaign that took meetings with the Russians! If President Obama had done that (or, God forbid, Hillary Clinton) you would have been calling for public hangings. What is wrong with you that you are
  
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• Letter: Lee should respect other members of Congress

  04-04-2019 15:18
  Sen. Mike Lee should be censured by the Senate. Public mockery of another member of Congress is unacceptable and should not be tolerated, no matter how much he disagrees. All ideas should be taken seriously and discussed.Lee’s public shenanigans not only cost taxpayers unnecessary money, but border on bullying and intimidation. It is unbecoming to a member of the esteemed Senate that is supposed to represent the people of Utah.Marilyn Marshall, MagnaSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: What was Mike Lee thinking?

  04-04-2019 15:13
  What was Mike Lee thinking?I don’t know what Sen. Mike Lee was thinking when he addressed the Senate using his comic book approach to argue against the Green New Deal, offering no alternative to dealing with climate change and its fiscal and physical effects.With no changes in our behaviors, we will be spending hundreds of billions of dollars dealing with the damage caused by floods, fires, mudslides and high-energy weather events attributed to our changing climate.Let’s deal with th
  
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• Letter: Lee doesn’t want to solve our problems

  04-04-2019 15:12
  Thanks to our increasingly infamous senator, Mike Lee, I now understand better why we must defund Planned Parenthood.In his otherworldly speech against the Green New Deal, he explained that we need more people to fall in love and increase our population so that they, not us, can solve the problems we refuse to face. How can that happen if Planned Parenthood is funded, right?Lee’s speech exemplifies some of the outcomes of our defunded public education system in Utah, where he and others ar
  
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• As recreation keeps booming near Moab, feds look to limit dispersed camping at biking hot spot

  04-04-2019 15:08
  Klondike Bluffs, where a heavenly mountain bike area north of Moab was developed barely a decade ago, appears to be going to hell — if it hasn’t arrived there already.These public lands, sandwiched between U.S. 191 and Arches National Park, remain premier places to ride and view dinosaur tracks, but dispersed camping has taken a serious toll on the land and degraded the visitor experience.Campers drive over soft soils in search of sites to pitch a tent, flatten vegetation, and leave
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: Pet influencers make me feel inferior as a doggy parent

  04-04-2019 15:07
  Dear Ann Cannon • I love following dogs on Instagram, but since I got a puppy a year ago, the pet-stagram that used to make me so happy now makes me feel bad about my failures as a dog mom. I know social media presents a skewed perspective on everyone’s life, but how can I enjoy looking at other people’s adorable puppers without feeling bad about how my relationship with my pet isn’t as insta-worthy?— Down in the DumpsDear Down • Your question reminds me of an e
  
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• Some go from polygamy to the LDS Church, but only after navigating obstacles from their former faith or their new one

  04-04-2019 15:00
  May Jeffs had enough of prophets.Her grandfather and an uncle were presidents of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Their orders dictated what Jeffs could eat, wear, watch and listen to, along with where she could go and whom she could see.“I was like, ‘I don’t want to ever be tied to something that controls me like that again,’” Jeffs said.Her older brother had joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She saw h
  
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• Commentary: NATO’s next war is against global tyranny

  04-04-2019 15:00
  This month marks the 70th anniversary of the birth of NATO, the most successful alliance in history. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addressed a joint session of Congress, an event that allowed American lawmakers to demonstrate that they still care about an alliance that President Donald Trump views as an anachronism. NATO’s supporters, however, should not be content to glory in past achievements. They should be thinking about how to adapt America’s alliances to a world in wh
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Utah faces five competitors to host presidential debates

  04-04-2019 14:42
  Happy Thursday!Utah will face five competitors to host the 2020 presidential debates, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Wednesday.It said the other applicants are: Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.; Hartford, Conn.; Creighton University in Omaha, Neb.; the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.; and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.Three will be chosen for the highly watched events in the weeks leading up to the November election. In 2016, the debates between Presi
  
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