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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - James Harden Ushers in a New Era of Ugly

  16-04-2019 23:49 via sportspyder.com
  Believe me, I know how much this sounds like sour grapes. But this isnt about the playoffs, or even really about the Jazz or Rockets. The game becoming more itself, as it were.
  
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• Monson: The secret to the Jazz beating the Rockets in these playoffs is found in the past

  16-04-2019 23:36
  Joe Ingles was feeling fine, and he had it going on.And that was one of the most significant aspects to the Jazz’s only win over the Rockets in their playoff series last year, coming in the second game.As the Jazz try to figure out — after their 32-point defeat on Sunday — how not to get blown off the floor by Houston in Game 2 this time around, it’s worth reviewing some of the basics of their postseason victory over James Harden’s team.To start, the Jazz got help f
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: The secret to the Jazz beating the Rockets in these playoffs is found in the past

  16-04-2019 23:30 via sportspyder.com
  Joe Ingles was feeling fine, and he had it going on.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Chris Paul is a coach on the floor for the Rockets, earning him respect — and compliments — from Jazz coach Quin Snyder

  16-04-2019 23:29 via sportspyder.com
  Houston • Jazz coach Quin Snyder is a big enough fan of Rockets point guard Chris Paul’s acumen that he’s willing to go to the well of self-effacing humor to make his point.
  
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• Slow-starting Real Salt Lake finally have momentum; now they hope it travels to Cincinnati

  16-04-2019 23:27
  Herriman • When Real Salt Lake went into Rio Tinto Stadium last Saturday coming on the heels of a four-game losing streak, the team collectively felt some nerves. Coach Mike Petke alluded to that in his postgame remarks, even though his team picked up the 2-1 win over Orlando City SC.Snapping the losing streak had to feel good for an RSL squad that started the season with only one win in its first six games. Now as Real heads on the road to face expansion side Cincinnati FC, they’re l
  
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• Man charged after allegedly shooting his brother during an argument

  16-04-2019 23:03
  A 32-year-old South Jordan man was arrested early Sunday after his brother called police and said his younger sibling had shot him, according to a news release from the Summit County Sheriff’s Office.The two brothers and their families were staying at a hotel in Summit County when the men got into an argument.The man who was shot says during the dispute, his brotherpulled out a gun and began firing it at him. One bullet struck him in the right buttock and the other went into the wall of th
  
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• Chris Paul is a coach on the floor for the Rockets, earning him respect — and compliments — from Jazz coach Quin Snyder

  16-04-2019 23:00
  Houston • Jazz coach Quin Snyder is a big enough fan of Rockets point guard Chris Paul’s acumen that he’s willing to go to the well of self-effacing humor to make his point.“I’ve said it before, I think Chris is probably a better coach than me,” Snyder said. “That’s not saying much about me, I’m trying to give him a compliment.”The two know each other well from their multiple playoff battles: now in each of the last of the last three sea
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert called it ‘tough to watch’ the Notre Dame Cathedral fire in Paris

  16-04-2019 22:55 via sportspyder.com
  “It was tough to watch,” Gobert said following Tuesday’s practice. “It’s one of the most iconic monuments, not only in France but in history, in general."
  
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• Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert called it ‘tough to watch’ the Notre Dame Cathedral fire in Paris

  16-04-2019 22:46
  In this image made available on Tuesday April 16, 2019 flames and smoke rise from the blaze after the spire toppled over on Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. An inferno that raged through Notre Dame Cathedral for more than 12 hours destroyed its spire and its roof but spared its twin medieval bell towers, and a frantic rescue effort saved the monument's "most precious treasures," including the Crown of Thorns purportedly worn by Jesus, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Thier
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder calls Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul a ‘better coach than me’

  16-04-2019 22:36 via sportspyder.com
  “Tell Quin, I ain’t no free agent no more,” Paul responded jokingly during Tuesday’s practice. “He don’t need me anyway.” Both Paul and Snyder are members of the NBA competition...
  
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• Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder calls Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul a ‘better coach than me’

  16-04-2019 22:26
  Utah Jazz guard Ricky Rubio, left, looks to pass as Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul defends during Game 1 of their first-round playoff series, Sunday, April 14, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets won 122-90.Eric Christian Smith, Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — As Quin Snyder leads the Utah Jazz from the sidelines against the Houston Rockets, he has a great deal of appreciation for their veteran floor general Chris Paul."I've said it before, I think Chris is probably a better coach than me,"
  
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• Utah Royals FC forward Brittany Ratcliffe will miss most of the 2019 season with a torn ACL, she announces via Instagram on Tuesday.

  16-04-2019 22:07
  Utah Royals FC forward Brittany Ratcliffe is going to be sidelined for awhile.Ratcillfe announced via Instagram Tuesday that she has torn her ACL and will miss most, if not all, of the 2019 season.“There are no words to describe the sadness I feel in my heart,” Radcliffe wrote. “But it is through adversity that we realize what we are truly made of. You can never control the adversities you face, but you can always control the response.”Radcliffe said in her post that she
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Houston takes 1-0 lead into game 2 against Utah

  16-04-2019 21:24 via sportspyder.com
  The Houston Rockets host the Utah Jazz in the Western Conference first round with a 1-0 lead in the series
  
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• BYU baseball coach Mike Littlewood’s offseason ‘housecleaning’ has paid off; Cougars are having their best season in years

  16-04-2019 21:21
  Provo • Right fielder Brock Hale believes every member of the 2019 BYU baseball team has his back this season.The senior from Mesa, Ariz., isn’t sure he could say that last year when the Cougars were picked to defend their 2017 West Coast Conference title and make it back to the NCAA Tournament, but faltered mightily and finished with a disappointing 22-28 record and out of the four-team WCC tournament.With Hale and other seniors such as infielders Brian Hsu and Casey Jacobsen, catche
  
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• Essay: And Paris will always have Notre Dame

  16-04-2019 20:46
  Every cathedral, like any great stone building, is a work in progress. No sooner have the walls risen than they start to collapse, the weight of stone pushing down and splaying out, settling and cracking.Take a closer look at most great old churches, and you see huge pillars wrapped in metal, iron reinforcing bars embedded in the walls, arches pulled together at their base with metal rods. If you took an X-ray of the buildings, they would look a bit like the mouth of someone who has had a lot of
  
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• ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ actress Georgia Engel dies at 70

  16-04-2019 20:29
  Los Angeles • Georgia Engel, who played the charmingly innocent, small-voiced Georgette on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and amassed a string of other TV and stage credits, has died. She was 70.Engel died Friday in Princeton, New Jersey, said her friend and executor, John Quilty. The cause of death was unknown because she was a Christian Scientist and didn't see doctors, Quilty said Monday."I know the world will be sad and sorry. She touched so many people," said her agent, Jacque
  
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• Commentary: Trump’s attacks on Muslims are a threat to all religions — from Mormonism to Protestantism to Catholicism

  16-04-2019 20:29
  So another norm of public decency falls, like a historical building demolished to make way for one of Donald Trump’s tasteless towers.When the president of the United States goes after an American Muslim — in this case Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who came to the United States as a Somali refugee — using images of the 9/11 attacks, it is cruel, frightening and dangerous in new ways.It is cruel because Trump essentially delivered his political rant while standing on desecrated grav
  
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• Fire at Notre Dame, a Catholic icon, was made even more heartbreaking by the timing

  16-04-2019 20:14
  Paris • A symbol of Paris, a triumph of Gothic architecture and one of the most visited monuments in the world, the Cathedral of Notre Dame is a beloved icon for millions across the globe. But for many in this largely Catholic country, especially for the most faithful, the medieval masterpiece is a sacred space that serves as the spiritual as well as the cultural heart of France.So as it burned on Monday — during Holy Week, which precedes Easter — Parisians gathered on the other
  
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• 'Like a one-two punch’: Utah’s MyKayla Skinner and MaKenna Merrell-Giles form one of college gymnastics’ best duos. Can they lead the Utes to the top?

  16-04-2019 19:39
  Considered separately, MaKenna Merrell-Giles and MyKayla Skinner are great gymnasts.Together, the two are the result of some sort of human chemistry experiment, combining to create huge results for the Utah Utes.Would Merrell-Giles be the gymnast she is without Skinner? It’s doubtful. Would Skinner get the big scores she consistently earns without Merrell-Giles setting her up? Probably not.One thing is certain though, their combination has been tremendously successful for the two gymnasts,
  
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• Utahns would rather binge Hallmark show that starred indicted actress than ‘Game of Thrones,’ according to unscientific survey

  16-04-2019 19:35
  “Game of Thrones” is the most binge-watched TV show in America, but Utahns prefer a show that starred an actress charged in the college admissions scandal — if you believe an unscientific survey by Geek.com, that is.The website asked its readers to answer questions about their binge-watching habits over the past 18 months. While HBO’s “Game of Thrones” was No. 1 nationally and in eight states (more than any other show), Utahns were alone in their preference fo
  
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• Former GOP lawmaker and Weber County dairy farmer is picked to lead Utah agriculture department

  16-04-2019 19:35
  Kerry Gibson, the current deputy director for the Utah Department of Natural Resources and a former Republican legislator, has been named the new commissioner for the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.Gov. Gary Herbert, who announced the appointment Monday, said Gibson’s previous government experience and his career as a dairy farmer "will serve him well as he works with Utah’s farmers, ranchers and other important members of our agricultural community.”Gibson served in t
  
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• Utah man accused of killing his brother in a property dispute

  16-04-2019 19:34
  A 76-year-old Delta man was shot to death, and his brother is in jail in what’s been described as an argument over property.John Peck, 63, was booked into the Millard County jail on Sunday night after he called police to report that “he had shot his brother and needed help,” according to a booking document filed with the jail the jail.When deputies arrived near 100 W. 1000 North in Delta shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, Peck was outside the residence and was “very emot
  
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• Utah students take to e-scooters for local transportation

  16-04-2019 19:21
  St. George • College students and residents in a Utah city have quickly taken to e-scooters as a new method of local transportation.The Spectrum reported Monday that Dixie State University students and others in St. George have taken more than 13,400 trips using the Spin-brand electric scooters since they were introduced in March.Officials say the program’s launch at the university initially put 100 scooters into service, and by next week the program will reach the maximum 400 e-scoot
  
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• Weber State University students unhappy with response to racist stickers

  16-04-2019 19:18
  Ogden • Students at a Utah university have expressed frustration with the administration’s response to racist stickers and posters found at the school.Weber State students are unhappy with the university’s actions after material promoting white supremacy appeared the weekend of March 30-31 on buildings and other structures around the Ogden campus, The Standard-Examiner reported Sunday.Some students said many at the school about 38 miles (61 kilometers) north of Salt Lake City we
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Lookin' Live: Episode 3

  16-04-2019 18:59 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz went into Houston and faced a tough James Harden-led Rockets team in Game 1 of the NBA Playoffs. National pundits and local writers talk about the m...
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Jazz lost Game 1 at the trade deadline, not on Sunday

  16-04-2019 18:48 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz game plan came up short on Sunday night, but no game plan would have taken down this Rockets team. The Jazz simply aren't talented enough.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - A 72-37 run? Why the Golden State Warriors' epic collapse to the Los Angeles Clippers may look familiar to Utah Jazz fans

  16-04-2019 18:47 via sportspyder.com
  The Golden State Warriors were up 94-63. Everything looked good. The team had a 99.9 percent chance to win. It didn't go so well.
  
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• A 72-37 run? Why the Golden State Warriors' epic collapse to the Los Angeles Clippers may look familiar to Utah Jazz fans

  16-04-2019 18:28
  Oklahoma City Thunder forward Corey Brewer (3) swipes the ball away from Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) as he goes at Oklahoma City Thunder forward Paul George (13) as the Utah Jazz and the Oklahoma City Thunder play in game two of the NBA playoffs in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Utah won 102-95.Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsGolden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr gestures during the second half of Game 2 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series against the Los A
  
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• Catherine Rampell: The Trump administration’s census question degrades our data. And our democracy.

  16-04-2019 18:22
  Washington • It’s not enough that President Trump and his advisers have been arguing for years that official government data is bad, untrustworthy, phony, manipulated for political gain. Now they are working to lend credence to these smears and conspiracy theories — by making them true.Unless, that is, the Supreme Court intervenes.During the Obama administration, Trump repeatedly claimed that official numbers released by our independent federal statistical agencies — such
  
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• Alexandra Petri: At Notre Dame, the burning of a great stone book

  16-04-2019 17:58
  Video: To many Parisians, the Cathedral of Notre Dame has embodied the heart of the French capital for more than 800 years. Here’s a look back at the cathedral’s history. (Drea Cornejo/The Washington Post)
  A great book is burning, one of the greatest ever written.That an edifice like Notre Dame Cathedral could survive so much and then, in an instant, by accident, be engulfed in flames and devastated in a matter of hours causes, in 2019, a sensation that is at once harrowing and dull
  
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• Mark your calendars. Here are the 31 shows in the 2019 Red Butte Garden Outdoor Concert Series.

  16-04-2019 17:48
  Like the plants it grows on the foothills of Salt Lake City, Red Butte Garden creates its summer concert lineup organically.“We try to look at each individual opportunity and show as its own kind of living, being thing,” said Chris Mautz, concert promoter for the Red Butte Garden Outdoor Concert Series. “Each of them has their own story to tell.”The 2019 concert series will have 31 stories to tell, mixing up-and-coming performers like blues rocker Gary Clark Jr. and multi
  
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• Notre Dame’s stability assessed after fire rips through monument

  16-04-2019 17:44
  Paris • Authorities are assessing the stability of Notre Dame Cathedral after a fire ripped through the iconic monument in central Paris and seriously damaged large parts of the structure."Fire risk being now removed, it's now about the building itself," deputy interior minister Laurent Nunez said early Tuesday morning after visiting the iconic 850-year-old Gothic monument.Firemen were still hosing the south side of the transept to cool down the building, and a district around the cathedral
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Brad Rock: Utah Jazz need a bench to become '12 Angry Men'

  16-04-2019 17:12 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell was quiet on Sunday, but Thabo Sefolosha says it was an everybody kind of problem.
  
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• Yes, FanX still has to pay $4 million in legal fees, stop using ‘Comic Con,' judge says again

  16-04-2019 17:01
  The lawsuit over use of the science fiction and fantasy convention name “Comic Con” might still be on appeal, but a federal judge says his earlier ruling stands.The Salt Lake City-based convention now called FanX must pay $4 million in attorney fees, the judge affirmed Monday, FOX 13 reported. The injunction forbidding the convention from using “Comic Con,” like the more-famous gathering in San Diego, was made permanent, the station reported.The ruling is a minor procedur
  
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• Red Butte Garden plans 31 shows for summer, including Mark Knopfler, Lyle Lovett, Lucinda Williams, Seal and the B-52s

  16-04-2019 17:01
  Like the plants it grows on the foothills of Salt Lake City, Red Butte Garden creates its summer concert lineup organically.“We try to look at each individual opportunity and show as its own kind of living, being thing,” said Chris Mautz, concert promoter for the Red Butte Garden Outdoor Concert Series. “Each of them has their own story to tell.”The 2019 concert series will have 31 stories to tell, mixing up-and-coming performers like blues rocker Gary Clark Jr. and multi
  
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• Admission to every national park is free on Saturday

  16-04-2019 17:01
  National Parks Week kicks off Saturday with a present for every American: Admission to the nation’s 61 national parks and more than 300 other sites across the country is free.That includes, of course, Utah’s five national parks: Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef and Zion. It also includes seven national monuments — Cedar Breaks, Dinosaur, Grand Staircase/Escalante, Hovenweep, Natural Bridges, Rainbow Bridge and Timpanogos Cave — as well as Golden Spike Natio
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Playoff Notes: Jazz Searching for Answers on Both Ends After G1 Loss

  16-04-2019 16:47 via sportspyder.com
  They say defense wins championships, but well soon see as its the #2 ranked offense in the NBA versus the #2 ranked defense. If Sunday was the indicator, the defense got trumped.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning Links: Derrick Favors honored by Georgia Tech; Rudy Gobert mourns Notre Dame; Jake Toolson to Utah State?

  16-04-2019 16:35 via sportspyder.com
  Georgia Tech released a video in honor of Favors. Also, Utah State is among the favorites to land UVU transfer Jake Toolson, and three Utes crack the list of the best 150 NFL draft prospects.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Game 1 was terrible. But don’t expect a repeat.

  16-04-2019 16:33 via sportspyder.com
  No way everything can go that poorly again
  
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• Morning Links: Derrick Favors honored by Georgia Tech; Rudy Gobert mourns Notre Dame; Jake Toolson to Utah State?

  16-04-2019 16:23
  Utah Jazz forward Derrick Favors (15) talks with the media about game one during a press availability at the team hotel in Houston on Monday, April 15, 2019.Utah State quarterback Jordan Love, left, is tripped by Michigan State's Matt Morrissey (10) and Josh Butler (19) during the second quarter of an NCAA college football game, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)AP SALT LAKE CITY — We are still months away from the start of the 2019 college football season,
  
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• Quarterback Russell Wilson sticks with Seahawks, becomes NFL’s highest paid player

  16-04-2019 16:17
  Renton, Wash. • Russell Wilson is sticking around with the Seattle Seahawks as the highest paid player in the NFL.Wilson posted a video on social media early Tuesday saying, "Seattle, we got a deal," shortly after agreeing to a $140 million, four-year extension with the Seahawks, his agent Mark Rodgers told The Associated Press. Wilson's new deal runs through the 2023 season and includes a $65 million signing bonus, a no-trade clause and $107 million in guaranteed money.Wilson's per year av
  
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• West Utah man accused of killing his brother in a property dispute

  16-04-2019 16:00
  A 76-year-old Delta man was shot to death, and his brother is in jail in what’s been described as an argument over property.John Peck, 63, was booked into the Millard County jail on Sunday night after he called police to report that “he had shot his brother and needed help,” according to a booking document filed with the jail the jail.When deputies arrived near 100 W. 1000 North in Delta shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, Peck was outside the residence and was “very emot
  
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• Political Cornflakes: From midwestern mayor to presidential hopeful: Meet Mayor Pete

  16-04-2019 15:57
  Happy Tuesday. You may not be able to pronounce his name. Yet. But Pete Buttigieg is on the rise. In the span of 11 weeks, the South Bend mayor has risen from the bottom of the pack to a slot in the top tier of the 2020 Democratic field. Can it last? [Politico] Also, if you missed it, a profile of Buttigieg that’s worth a read. [NYMag]Topping the news: Ahead of a scheduled campaign visit to Utah, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren discusses public land conservation includin
  
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• Kirby: We’re all slaves to the machines we built

  16-04-2019 15:48
  There are times when I could easily prefer living in the Bronze Age. The Stone Age even. Both were more ignorant times, to be sure, but also considerably less complicated.Before you say, “Well, don’t you already live there in your head?” consider the fact that you’re still alive as proof that I don’t. Brutal villainy and a general lack of concern for human life was considered a job skill back then.My fault with the modern age — aside from the fact that social
  
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• One of every 5 jobs in Utah is supported by international trade, study says

  16-04-2019 15:15
  Here’s a reason to pay attention as President Donald Trump wages trade and tariff wars: A new study says international trade supports 1 of every 5 jobs in Utah — 389,000 of them.The study by the Business Roundable, an association of chief executive officers of top U.S. firms, says trade with Canada and Mexico alone support more than 120,000 jobs in Utah. The state exported $2.7 billion in goods and services to those two countries in 2017.The group said that highlights “the need
  
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• Police find man shot to death in the middle of a Salt Lake City street

  16-04-2019 15:12
  Police investigating a report of gunshots found a man’s body in the middle of Wenco Drive early Monday morning.Few details are available but, according to Salt Lake Police, they responded to the area of 1600 South and 1000 West at about 4:30 a.m. and found the man — identified as Gerad Ohlwiler, 41 — dead in the street. Police later confirmed Ohlwiler suffered a gunshot wound.Our #Detectives have confirmed that the #victim from this morning’s #homicide died from a gunshot
  
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• [Jazz Fanatical] - Highlights of Opponent Game Thread Highlights 2018-2019: Joe Ingles

  16-04-2019 15:02 via sportspyder.com
  ** Kawhi vs. Joe Ingles A modern day Magic/Bird rivalry TOR ** ingles look like Larry bird out there SAC SAC ** Jackson making Ingles look like Larry Bird. SAC ** Joe Ingals > LARRY BIRD lol GSW…
  
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• Letter: Trump is hurting America

  16-04-2019 15:00
  We should be worried that Donald Trump is the president and has the support of most Republicans. Supporting Trump is a denial of America’s need to get along with the rest of the world. Isolationism did not work during either of the World Wars, nor will it work now in our ever-globalized world. Favoring Trump is a green light to racism, hate speech and verbal abuse. A vote for Trump is telling the people who flee violence, poverty and disasters that their lives don’t matter, that thei
  
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• Letter: Pollution is ruining national park views

  16-04-2019 15:00
  Utah’s national parks bring people from all over the world and provide locals a respite from daily life. Unfortunately, our national parks are being clouded by a haze of human-made NOx (nitrogen oxide) and PM (particulate matter) pollution being emitted from the Hunter and Huntington coal power plants. The pollution from these power plants reduces the ability to see Canyonlands, Arches, Capitol Reef, Bryce and Zion National Parks by 70% of the year or more!There are solutions available thr
  
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