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• Ute gymnasts advance to NCAA region final despite lowest score of the season

  05-04-2019 23:34
  There was little drama for Utah’s sixth-ranked gymnastics team on Friday as the Utes easily advance to the finals of their NCAA Regionals in Baton Rouge, La.The Utes won their session with a 196.8 score, while Minnesota was second with a 196.3 and Arkansas was third with a 196.175 and BYU was fourth with a 195.55.Utah and Minnesota advanced to Saturday’s finals at 6 p.m. MT where they will meet the top two finishers of Friday evening’s session that includes LSU, Auburn, Arizona
  
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• [NBA] - Forever Jazz – Get to know why these fans fell in love with the Utah Jazz

  05-04-2019 22:50 via sportspyder.com
  Jed Geisler still vividly remembers sitting in front of the television of his family’s home and watched the masters work.“Ever since I was little, my whole family watched games,” the Utah man said.
  
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• A former Utah firefighter says her sexual abuse reports against a co-worker were ‘hushed’ by his father: the fire chief

  05-04-2019 22:50
  A former Utah firefighter is suing her supervisors, the town and the county they worked in, saying the assistant fire chief who allegedly raped her was protected from discipline — allowing further abuse for years — because his father was both the fire chief and a sheriff’s deputy.The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Utah’s U.S. District Court, alleges Austin Corry sexually harassed the woman soon after she started at the Kanosh Volunteer Fire Department and that the abuse cont
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run podcast: Gobert’s new jazz album, likely playoff matchups and how Utah defends guards

  05-04-2019 22:22 via sportspyder.com
  The NBA season only has six days left. Worse, since to Monday’s NCAA basketball final inspired a day of NBA rest, there are only five days left of actual games. Weird, right?
  
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• Weekly Run podcast: Gobert’s new jazz album, likely playoff matchups and how Utah defends guards

  05-04-2019 22:17
  The NBA season only has six days left. Worse, since to Monday’s NCAA basketball final inspired a day of NBA rest, there are only five days left of actual games. Weird, right?But to Eric Walden and Andy Larsen, that just means looking forward to the playoffs. It’s looking likely — but certainly not guaranteed — that the Jazz play the Blazers in the first round. What would that mean for the Jazz, especially given that they’ve given large point totals to scoring guards
  
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• A man fell off the edge of the Grand Canyon. He’s the third visitor death in eight days.

  05-04-2019 22:11
  A sightseer plunged to his death from a Grand Canyon cliff this week, bringing the park's fatality count to three in the last eight days.Park officials were notified on Wednesday around noon that an individual had fallen off an edge, according to a National Park Service statement released Thursday. Rangers discovered the body of a 67-year-old man 400 feet below the South Rim in Grand Canyon Village.National Park Service officials and the local medical examiner's office are still looking into the
  
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• [KSL] - Rudy Gobert says creative DPOY campaign makes him 'want to work even harder'

  05-04-2019 22:08 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz put a lot of resources and thought into Rudy Gobert's Defensive Player of the Year campaign. That didn't go unnoticed by Gobert — or his teammates.
  
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• Die, robocalls, die: How to stop robocall spammers and exact revenge

  05-04-2019 21:42
  “Call me, maybe?” is on the brink of becoming “Call me, never.”Robocalls, those computer-generated shysters, are making some people stop answering the phone altogether. The rest of us trust unknown calls about as much as truck stop sushi. By several estimates, Americans got more than 5.2 billion automated calls in March — a record of about 16 for every man, woman and child.It's happening because the internet made it incredibly cheap and easy to place thousands of ca
  
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• Rich Lowry: Biden’s problem is his ego, not his libido

  05-04-2019 21:38
  Joe Biden wants us to believe that all his touching speaks to how deeply he cares about other people.It's really a testament to how much regard he has for himself.As everyone has always known, Biden is prone to weird and wildly overfamiliar interactions with women, which are extensively on the record and have been the subject of jocular commentary over the years.The #MeToo era has put his grabby style in a different light, and now he's had to tweet out a video saying he gets it.Biden's conduct i
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Rudy Gobert reacts to being on 'album cover' after listening to jazz for the first time

  05-04-2019 21:28 via sportspyder.com
  The package was released Friday morning.
  
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• New Utah prison is running about 20% over budget, 18 months behind schedule, and will hold fewer inmates than planned

  05-04-2019 21:26
  The new prison under construction west of Salt Lake City will be more expensive, smaller and will open later than planned.Marilee Richins, deputy director of the Utah Department of Administrative Services, briefed reporters Friday on the construction of the replacement for the current prison in Draper. What was supposed to cost $650 million is on pace to cost 18-22% more than that, Richins said, due in part to higher than expected costs for labor and materials.The news has implications for inmat
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Rudy Gobert blessed with John Coltrane photoshopped album cover for DPOY campaign

  05-04-2019 21:26 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz big man Rudy Gobert is aiming to win his second straight Defensive Player of the Year award, and as part of his campaign, the Jazz have photoshopped Gobert on to the album cover for John Coltrane’s classic Prestige 7105: I see you @utahjazz.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz ready for rematch with Sacramento Kings

  05-04-2019 21:24 via sportspyder.com
  The upstart kings surprised the Jazz in their own building back in November.
  
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• At 94, Russell Nelson emerging as a ‘transformative’ Latter-day Saint leader

  05-04-2019 21:22
  At 94, Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has proved a far more vigorous and transformative figure than scholars expected when he took office a year ago, pushing through a flurry of surprising changes on such matters as gay members and the name of the faith.Nelson made his biggest public move yet Thursday when the church rescinded rules banning baptisms for children of gay parents and branding same-sex couples apostates subject to excommunication. Th
  
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• Rudy Gobert reacts to being on 'album cover' after listening to jazz for the first time

  05-04-2019 21:18
  SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert had never listened to jazz music before Thursday night, but he had good reason to.The Jazz organization on Friday morning began a campaign for the Frenchman to be voted the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year by releasing a vinyl record-themed package reminiscent of an album by famed jazz musician John Coltrane.While there's no actual music on the record, the package highlighting Gobert's defensive prowess has just about everything else a real r
  
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• BYU men’s basketball coaching search is narrowing and UVU’s Mark Pope is the frontrunner. Could a successor to Dave Rose be named next week?

  05-04-2019 20:56
  Provo • BYU officials are close to naming a men’s head basketball coach to replace Dave Rose, and indications remain strong that Utah Valley coach Mark Pope is the frontrunner for the vacant position.BYU has completed the interview process and would like to have a new coach in place by the middle of next week, if not sooner, sources say.Pope, 46, remains at the top of BYU’s wish list, as has been widely reported. His interest in BYU and whether he wants the job is not as clear,
  
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• UTA celebrates completion of double track for Sugar House streetcar, and hails new development it has attracted

  05-04-2019 20:40
  Officials on Friday celebrated the completion of a $5.9 million project to double track part of the Sugarhouse streetcar line to allow more frequent service. They were even more ebullient about how the streetcar is helping to transform the community around it.“The S-Line has been a catalyst for economic development,” in a once ignored area along an abandoned freight train line, said Carlton Christensen, chairman of Utah Transit Authority Board.“We’ve seen … that if
  
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• The Pentagon says climate change threatens Utah’s Hill Air Force Base more than any other Air Force, Navy or Army base

  05-04-2019 20:39
  Hill Air Force Base is No. 1 on a Defense Department list of “priority installations” that will be affected by climate change.In a letter to Congress, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen Lord wrote that the list “includes scoring and weighting of the five climate-related hazards (recurrent flooding, wildfire, drought, desertification and permafrost thaw) based on the immediacy of the threat.”Permafrost thaw is not a danger to Hill, which is lo
  
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• Review: After the appetizers and before the desserts, a not-so-fine dining experience at Salt Lake City’s new Sonoma Grill

  05-04-2019 20:39
  On paper, Sonoma Grill + Wine Bar looks exquisite, from the elegant space inside the Peery Hotel to the photos of beautifully plated food on its website.In reality, the menu at the downtown Salt Lake City restaurant feels unfocused, the kitchen execution is inconsistent and the service team struggles at times.The menu, described as a “wood-fired and farm-inspired dining experience” with a focus on California cuisine, includes a variety of items that includes pork belly tacos, an Asia
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Let’s get nuts! Are the Jazz dark-horse NBA Finals contenders?

  05-04-2019 19:53 via sportspyder.com
  Some statistical projection models are giving the Utah Jazz an outside shot to shock the world and make a run to the 2019 NBA Finals. If you're like me and...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Let’s get nuts! Are the Jazz dark-horse NBA Finals contenders?

  05-04-2019 19:29
  Some statistical projection models are giving the Utah Jazz an outside shot to shock the world and make a run to the 2019 NBA Finals. If you’re like me and you’re A) old and B) way more into Batman than any adult with a spouse, child and mortgage ever should be, there’s a better than […]
  Utah Jazz: Let’s get nuts! Are the Jazz dark-horse NBA Finals contenders? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Tell The Tribune: How do you think ‘Game of Thrones’ will end?

  05-04-2019 19:13
  “Game of Thrones” begins its eighth and final season on Sunday, April 14. Five weeks later — on May 19 — it will all be over, and theories abound about how it’s going to end. We want to know what you think. Will Daenerys Targaryen and her nephew, Jon Snow, rules the Seven Kingdoms together? Will Cersei Lannister maintain her grip on the Iron Throne? Will the Night King and the Army of the Dead kill everyone? And what about the dragons?Your responses won’t be p
  
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• Jazz’s campaign for Rudy Gobert’s Defensive Player of the Year award centers around a custom album made in the style of John Coltrane

  05-04-2019 18:57
  Rudy Gobert’s biggest fans wanted a second chance to see their star under the lights. So naturally, they called for an encore.On Friday, Jazz management unveiled its “Gobert/Encore” jazz album — yes, like the music, not the basketball team — the centerpiece of their efforts campaigning for Gobert to win Defensive Player of the Year for a second consecutive season. The album is a nearly note-for-note reproduction of John Coltrane’s debut album, first released i
  
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• ‘Mr. Lyman’s accusations are misplaced’: U.S. attorney’s office responds to Utah lawmaker’s claims of collusion and defamation

  05-04-2019 18:42
  In a recent court filing objecting to a proposed increase to his monthly restitution payments and accusing federal prosecutors and the news media of collusion and defamation, Blanding Republican Rep. Phil Lyman acknowledged that his economic circumstances had changed since voters elected him to the Utah Legislature.That means the court has discretion to adjust Lyman’s court-ordered payments “to serve the interests of justice,” U.S. attorney for Utah John Huber and Assistant U.S
  
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• Competition to be BYU’s place kicker is close as Cougars wrap up spring practices, look ahead to preseason training camp

  05-04-2019 18:37
  Provo • One of the most intense position battles when BYU opens preseason training camp in late July will be at place kicker.In one corner is the incumbent, 6-foot sophomore Skyler Southam, the Wasatch High product who did all the place-kicking last season after returning from a church to Santiago, Chile. Southam was 11 of 16 on field goals, with a long of 47, and 42 of 44 on PAT attempts.In the other corner is recently returned missionary Jake Oldroyd, the 6-1, 195-pound sophomore who also
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Team’s campaign for Rudy Gobert DPOY push is epic

  05-04-2019 18:23 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz have officially tipped off their campaign to help Rudy Gobert secure his second Defensive Player of the Year award. NBA teams employing creat...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Team’s campaign for Rudy Gobert DPOY push is epic

  05-04-2019 18:01
  The Utah Jazz have officially tipped off their campaign to help Rudy Gobert secure his second Defensive Player of the Year award. NBA teams employing creative strategies to help woo NBA Awards voters for their players is nothing new. However, the Utah Jazz are reinventing the wheel with their latest push for year-end hardware. Rudy […]
  Utah Jazz: Team’s campaign for Rudy Gobert DPOY push is epic - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Uproxx: Dime Magazine] - The Jazz Made Albums To Support Rudy Gobert’s Quest To Repeat As Defensive Player Of The Year

  05-04-2019 17:30 via sportspyder.com
  Utah’s push for Rudy Gobert to defend his Defensive Player of the Year award is on.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz’s campaign for Rudy Gobert’s Defensive Player of the Year award centers around a custom album made in the style of John Coltrane

  05-04-2019 17:24 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert’s biggest fans wanted a second chance to see their star under the lights. So naturally, they called for an encore.
  
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• [NBA] - Time for an Encore: Jazz launch Rudy Gobert's Defensive Player of the Year campaign with commemorative vinyl

  05-04-2019 17:19 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert owned records, just not any vinyl.Until now.“My mom probably has a record player,” he said. “I might need to get one.”The Utah Jazz this week kicked off Gobert’s 2019 Defensive Player of
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Rudy DPOY album photo shoot

  05-04-2019 17:17 via sportspyder.com
  Go behind the scenes as Rudy Gobert recreates the album cover of John Coltrane’s “Prestige 7105."
  
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• [KSL] - Encore: Utah Jazz begin Rudy Gobert DPOY campaign by re-creating classic jazz vinyl

  05-04-2019 17:12 via sportspyder.com
  John Coltrane had a steely-eyed stare in his debut album. And now Rudy Gobert does, too.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - The story behind the Utah Jazz's Rudy Gobert Defensive Player of the Year campaign featuring John Coltrane

  05-04-2019 17:03 via sportspyder.com
  Ahead of this year’s Defensive Player of the Year voting, Gobert went full Coltrane-mode in the re-creation of “Coltrane/Prestige 7105” that was released in late 1957 with “Gobert/Encore...
  
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• The story behind the Utah Jazz's Rudy Gobert Defensive Player of the Year campaign featuring John Coltrane

  05-04-2019 17:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — In his debut as a leader, a stone-faced John Coltrane posed for the cover of his "Coltrane" album, released by Prestige Records as catalogue 7105 in late 1957, with just his saxophone.Released not too long after Coltrane was fired by legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis then retreated to Philadelphia to clean up his drug abuse, this Coltrane album would catapult his legendary career with his back against the wall.Now, 62 years after Coltrane recorded his debut solo LP, the
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Trump’s next possible Fed nominee can’t understand basic policy issues

  05-04-2019 16:43
  Video: It’s always concerning when the president chooses an unqualified political operative to an important position. But this is especially true if we’re talking about appointments to the Federal Reserve Board, which should be independent. Post columnist Catherine Rampell says that’s exactly why President Trump’s choice of Stephen Moore - a long-time GOP political operative and professional Trump surrogate - has been so troubling. (Joshua Carroll , Danielle Kunitz/The Wa
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Stockton and Malone called overrated; Warriors treat Stallions fans to free game

  05-04-2019 16:37 via sportspyder.com
  Also, seniors from Utah State, Weber State, Utah Valley and Southern Utah among those competing in a 3-on-3 tournament.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - For Grayson Allen, it’s *still* all about defense

  05-04-2019 16:34 via sportspyder.com
  If the rookie out of Duke wants to play, he’ll have to keep playing defense
  
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• National championships in Salt Lake City prove you’re never too old to figure skate

  05-04-2019 16:29
  A neon green headband with a fuchsia bow and matching hot pink gloves made figure skater Marci Richards easy to spot as she glided across the ice at the Salt Lake City Sports Complex.But Richards, a part-time Utah resident and Milwaukee native, stood out for another reason: At 73, she is a “super-ager,” defying stereotypes in a sport usually reserved for youngsters.“It’s musical and artistic, and it keeps my body in shape," said Richards, who didn’t start ice skatin
  
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• Morning links: Stockton and Malone called overrated; Warriors treat Stallions fans to free game

  05-04-2019 16:29
  SALT LAKE CITY — Were John Stockton and Karl Malone overrated?Though they're both in the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, have more assists and points than any duo in NBA history, each own two Olympic gold medals and rewrote multiple league records and consistently had the Utah Jazz in a position to contend for nearly two decades, one writer thinks they get too much credit.Known for his opinions about race issues and politics, journalist and activist Shaun King picked Stockton and Malone as hi
  
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• An Instagram account sharing anonymous stories has renewed conversation about BYU’s Honor Code

  05-04-2019 16:26
  Sidney Draughon got a call from Brigham Young University two days before Christmas.A man she dated had told the college, owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that their relationship broke the Provo school’s strict rules forbidding any sexual touching before marriage. The administrator was calling to ask exactly what she had done.“She asked questions about my underwear,” Draughon recalled. “She asked, ‘Where did he touch you and how many times?&r
  
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• Could it be a match? BYU law school pairs up with dating website company for student-alumni mentoring

  05-04-2019 16:12
  Brigham Young University’s law school and the dating website Match.com may seem like an unlikely pair.But the two organizations recently partnered up to take a new approach to the law school’s mentoring program by using Match Group’s personality algorithm to pair law students with alumni mentors.It’s a novel approach for BYU, a private university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and for Match. A representative for the company, which owns Match.com
  
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• George Pyle: It is difficult for people in power to change their mind

  05-04-2019 16:00
  “Never apologize, mister. It’s a sign of weakness.”— Capt. Nathan Brittles (John Wayne), “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,” 1949"When my information changes, I change my mind. What do you do?”— John Maynard Keynes (attributed)“He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday.”— Stephen Colbert, roasting President George W. Bush, 2006“I don’t know. I’m making this up as I g
  
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• After almost 8 months, KSL is back on DirecTV

  05-04-2019 16:00
  Nearly eight months after KSL-Channel 5 was removed from DirecTV, the two sides have finally settled their dispute. The NBC affiliate returned to the satellite provider’s lineup late Thursday.“We are so grateful to our … viewers who stuck with us,” tweeted KSL vice president and general manager Tanya Vea. “Happy to be back on DirecTV!”The two sides had already spent several months negotiating over how much KSL would be paid for its signal when the station wen
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Immigrants needed to boost shrinking population of working-age Americans

  05-04-2019 15:58
  Happy Friday!Need a reason to welcome immigrants? Research shows that the population of working-age Americans will drop significantly without them in coming years, making it more difficult to fund such things as Medicare and Social Security — let alone fill all labor needs.The Pew Research Center says the large Baby Boom Generation — born after World War II and up to 1965 — is heading into retirement. Its loss plus the smaller size of following generations means the working-age
  
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• Fredrik Landstedt’s New Mexico ski program got eliminated, so he moved to Utah and won a national championship

  05-04-2019 15:48
  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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• Utah enjoys its deepest snowpack in years, but water officials are not quite ready to declare an end to the drought

  05-04-2019 15:25
  Ken’s Lake in Grand County is barely a puddle of its normal self, currently holding just 20 percent of its 13,000 acre-foot capacity, thanks to seven straight dry years in southern Utah.The level of this reservoir near Moab is expected to dramatically rise in the coming weeks as the La Sal Mountains sheds a snowpack that is holding twice as much water as it usually does this time of year.“It’s official: Utah’s snowpack is fantastic this year!” federal hydrologists c
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: A stunning reversal of gay policy; ex-missionaries embrace immigrants; and Nelson to scale Everest?

  05-04-2019 15:15
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: Missionary rebuild
  (Illustration by Christopher Cherrington|The Salt Lake Tribune)After surveying thousands of returned Latter-day Saint missionaries, independent researcher Matt Martinich determin
  
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• Letter: Keep teens busy and away from screens

  05-04-2019 15:02
  Teen suicide was very rare in my father’s time. Back then, everybody in a family who was able-bodied had to work just to survive. Suicide was almost unheard of, as was the word “bipolar.”Rather than merely sitting your kid down to have a talk about what may be bothering them, how about trying these proven remedies for bored and /or troubled children? Try giving your kids tasks and duties to perform on a regular basis. Today, kids spend too much time on computers and watching TV
  
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• Your cellphone bill will go up after Utah’s Legislature again increased 911 fees

  05-04-2019 15:00
  Gov. Gary Herbert let a bill go into law without his signature Wednesday that imposes a 178% increase in a statewide 911 fee.The measure was one of just three Herbert didn’t sign — a signal of displeasure — but stopped short of vetoing. It will mean a 16-cent per month increase in the monthly fee charged on every cellphone and landline in the state beginning July 1. While that doesn’t sound like much, it adds up to real money: $5.2 million next year and, by 2022, $8.4 mil
  
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• Letter: Maybe just one baseball box score a day?

  05-04-2019 15:00
  My wife and I just got back from spring training baseball in Arizona. Along the way we stayed in several cities and towns, each smaller than Salt Lake City in population. I was amazed to see that the local newspapers in almost all of these locations carried all the daily major league baseball box scores. Is it possible The Salt Lake Tribune might be able to fit in just one box score each day?Mike Altieri, Heber CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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