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• [NBC Sports] - Likely top-10 pick Jarrett Culver of Texas Tech makes it official, declares for NBA Draft

  18-04-2019 23:40 via sportspyder.com
  We all knew this was coming, but on Thursday he made it official: Texas Tech’s Jarrett Culver is declaring for the NBA Draft, where he is expected to be a top-10 pick. He made the announcemen…
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Are the Rockets actually better than last year? They say it’s possible — and the Jazz probably don’t disagree.

  18-04-2019 23:39 via sportspyder.com
  Houston • In 2017-18, the Houston Rockets finished with 65 wins.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Rockets’ Chris Paul knows Jazz will be ‘a lot more comfortable going into their home court’

  18-04-2019 23:36 via sportspyder.com
  The Houston Rockets blew out the Utah Jazz in Games 1 and 2 at home, but Rockets All-Star point guard Chris Paul knows Utah will be “a lot more comfortable going into their home court” for Game 3 and 4. The Jazz went 29-12 at home during the regular...
  
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• Are the Rockets actually better than last year? They say it’s possible — and the Jazz probably don’t disagree.

  18-04-2019 23:36
  Houston • In 2017-18, the Houston Rockets finished with 65 wins.They chased the vaunted Golden State Warriors, a team that features not one but two MVP winners on its roster to seven games in the Western Conference Finals, and only lost that last Game 7 because of an injury to Chris Paul and remarkably missing 27 threes in a row at one point. They were a whisker away from a trip to the NBA Finals, and given how that series went for Golden State, imagining the Rockets as likely champions isn
  
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• Search crew finds body at bottom of Angels Landing in Zion National Park

  18-04-2019 23:22
  Search and rescue crews looking for a 35-year-old man who went missing in the Zion National Park earlier this week found a body Thursday at the bottom of the park’s iconic Angels Landing rock formation.Park spokeswoman Aly Baltrus said investigators haven’t confirmed it is the same man, but the body matches the description they have of him, and the man had told a friend he planned to hike the Angels Landing trail.Baltrus said the park didn’t receive any reports of a man falling
  
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• Utah agrees to not enforce new 18-week abortion ban until the courts review it

  18-04-2019 23:12
  The Utah Attorney General’s Office on Thursday said it has agreed not to enforce a new law restricting abortions until judges determine whether it is constitutional.HB136, passed by the Utah Legislature during the session that ended in March, bans elective abortions after 18 weeks of gestation. Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a lawsuit to strike down the law.The office of Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes on Thursday filed a motion agreeing to what&rsquo
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Down 2-0 after a pair of blowouts, Jazz say it’s time to ‘man up’ against Rockets

  18-04-2019 23:12 via sportspyder.com
  Houston • Fumbling the ball out of bounds, then failing to rotate and allowing a lob for a dunk. Losing control of the ball again the next time down, yielding a transition layup, and committing a silly foul for a three-point play to top it off. One...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Rockets’ James Harden not worried about dealing with Jazz fans

  18-04-2019 23:09 via sportspyder.com
  Houston Rockets superstar shooting guard James Harden is not worried about dealing with Utah Jazz fans in Games 3 and 4. The Jazz fans have a history of being hostile and insensitive. On March 11, a Jazz fan told Oklahoma City Thunder star point...
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Very Not Explosive Mueller Report

  18-04-2019 23:02
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, April 19, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/18/bagley-cartoon-ruinous/" target=_blank><u>The Ruinous Green New Deal </u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/16/bagley-cartoon-cross/"><u>Cross Purposes</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/15/bagl
  
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• Hear ye, hear ye: After 50 years, Salt Lake City’s Five Alls restaurant bids customers cheerio

  18-04-2019 22:46
  The owners of Salt Lake City’s Five Alls have decided to close their five-decade-old eatery, which at one time was one of Utah’s most popular restaurants for wedding proposals, birthday celebrations, holiday meals and dinner before the high school prom.“We had a great 50-year run,” said Anne Halliday Lentz, a daughter of founder Richard Halliday, who opened the restaurant in 1969 and attracted customers with single-priced five-course Scottish meals served on old-English-s
  
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• Trump tried to choke Russia probe, oust Mueller, report says

  18-04-2019 22:41
  Washington • Public at last, special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed to a waiting nation Thursday that President Donald Trump tried to seize control of the Russia probe and force Mueller’s removal to stop him from investigating potential obstruction of justice by the president. Trump was largely thwarted by those around him.Mueller laid out multiple episodes in which Trump directed others to influence or curtail the Russia investigation after the special counsel's appoi
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Nuggets take 13-game losing streak in San Antonio into Game 3

  18-04-2019 22:40 via sportspyder.com
  Spurs’ home-road records historically divergent
  
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• Pope Francis celebrates Holy Thursday ahead of foot-washing ritual

  18-04-2019 22:05
  Vatican City • Pope Francis ushered in the most solemn period in the Catholic liturgical calendar by celebrating a Holy Thursday Mass and the ritual washing of the feet, made more poignant this year after the devastation of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral.The Chrism Mass celebrates the unity of priests with their bishops. During Thursday’s service in St. Peter’s Basilica, Francis blessed the holy oils that will be used over the course of the year in the administration of sacra
  
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• Church membership in U.S. plummets over past 20 years, poll shows

  18-04-2019 21:59
  New York • The percentage of U.S. adults who belong to a church or other religious institution has plunged by 20 percentage points over the past two decades, hitting a low of 50% last year, according to a new Gallup poll. Among major demographic groups, the biggest drops were recorded among Democrats and Hispanics.Gallup said church membership was 70% in 1999 — and close to or higher than that figure for most of the 20th century. Since 1999, the figure has fallen steadily, while the p
  
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• This 29-year-old Utah County actor, director, screenwriter and songwriter aims to be 'a female version of Walt Disney’

  18-04-2019 21:47
  Looking at her purse, a large Dooney & Bourke handbag covered with an image from “Cinderella,” one could infer that Savannah Ostler is just a big Walt Disney fan.But this 29-year-old Utah County actor, director, screenwriter, songwriter, producer and one-woman marketing department has something bigger in mind.“I want to be a female version of Walt Disney,” Ostler said, “someone who has her hands in everything and oversees all aspects of her projects.”Ostle
  
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• ‘Let’s go freaking kill it’: Utes know they need urgency above all else to advance to the finals of the NCAA Gymnastics Championships.

  18-04-2019 21:09
  Fort Worth, Texas • Utah’s gymnastics team likens the season to climbing a mountain, with the goal of improving throughout the year so the Utes are in prime form at the NCAA Championships.Unfortunately for the Utes, their last few NCAA Championships have ended not at the top, but in the valley of lows.The Utes, who compete in the NCAA Championships Friday at 1 p.m. in Ft. Worth, finished ninth in 2016 and fifth the last two championships.Utah is the third seed in its session this year
  
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• Ishaan Tharoor: Trump now owns the Yemen war

  18-04-2019 21:00
  For a time, President Donald Trump could plausibly say this wasn't just his fight. The previous administration of Barack Obama tacitly greenlit the 2015 Saudi intervention into what was then a civil war in Yemen. Four years later, the conflict has metastasized into a grim regional conflagration, pitting a U.S.-backed Saudi and Emirati-led coalition against the country's Houthi rebels, whose ties to Iran have only grown tighter amid the fighting.Accurate figures are hard to come by, but it is est
  
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• When the ground stops shaking after Utah’s next big earthquake, here’s what you should do next

  18-04-2019 20:47
  When the big earthquake hits Utah, most people know they should drop, cover and hold on. But after the ground stops moving, the next question can seem a little more daunting: What happens now?After more than 130 minor earthquakes hit the area near Bluffdale in February, it’s a question that may hit closer to home for some residents in Salt Lake County. But as experts stressed emergency preparedness on Thursday in conjunction with the 8th Great Utah ShakeOut — a drill mimicking a 7.0-
  
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• A candidate to lead the Utah Republican Party deletes blog posts copied without attribution

  18-04-2019 20:31
  Chadwick Fairbanks III, one of four candidates seeking to lead the Utah Republican Party, deleted a series of posts from his campaign website Thursday that were copied without attribution from outside, conservative-oriented websites.The posts, lifted in their entirety but with some minor alterations, were taken from the Washington Examiner, NewsWars and the Tenth Amendment Center and published under Fairbanks’ name at utahgopforchadwick.com. Their topics included the potential of Utah beco
  
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• Utah artists fill empty storefronts at The Gateway with ethereal, fantastic spring installations

  18-04-2019 20:28
  Traditional signs of spring include tulips and Easter eggs. New signs of spring at The Gateway include a narwhal flying through space and a unicorn breaking free from a canvas.Vestar, the company that owns The Gateway, has hired Utah artists to create fantastic art installations with a spring theme. The artwork will fill 10 empty storefronts throughout the outdoor mall for the next three months.Artists also will be able to open shops in their spaces during monthly Gateway Art Strolls, organized
  
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• Red All Over: Ute running back Armand Shyne moves to Texas Tech. And is MyKayla Skinner really the ‘most hated’ gymnast?

  18-04-2019 20:04
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here. The reaction to athletes transferring from a school usually fits one of two categories. Fans either believe it’s a sign of a failing program, or they diminish the athlete’s ability.Armand Shyne seems to have found a sweet spot. The former Utah running back is moving to Texas Tech as a graduate transfer. Shyne is remembered for his contribution to the Utes’ first Pac-12 South championship,
  
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• Hale Centre Theatre’s 2020 season will feature singing, dancing, murder and Mary Poppins

  18-04-2019 20:04
  Hale Centre Theatre's 2020 season will feature bluegrass music, ballroom dancing, a practically perfect nanny, a sinking ship, a murder, a jungle hero and a holiday classic — along with a “surprise.”The Sandy theater company announced seven productions Thursday and said it’s keeping an eighth secret “due to the publisher’s request.”The season will feature “Bright Star,” “Strictly Ballroom,” “Mary Poppins,” “Titan
  
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• Eye on the Y: New basketball coach Mark Pope moving quickly, by BYU standards, to assemble his staff

  18-04-2019 20:04
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on BYU athletics. Subscribe here.New BYU basketball coach Mark Pope is close to claiming a win over his former school. Utah Valley is hoping for a split.Pope has moved relatively quickly — by BYU standards — to get former Utah Valley University assistant coaches Chris Burgess and Cody Fueger to join him at BYU.Why?Because he values the work of Burgess and Fueger so much that he doesn’t want new coach Mark Madsen, p
  
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• Pro skier Dave Treadway dies after 100-foot plunge into crevasse

  18-04-2019 20:03
  Canadian professional freeskier Dave Treadway was killed Monday when he fell about 100 feet into a crevasse while skiing in the backcountry with a group of people in the mountains just north of Whistler, British Columbia.Treadway, 34, died near Rhododendron Mountain, about 10 miles from where he lived in Pemberton, British Columbia, and 17 miles from Whistler. His death was announced on his website in a statement that called him "an incredible skier and a monumental human."Pemberton District Sea
  
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• Independent presidential candidate Howard Shultz to hold events in Utah

  18-04-2019 20:03
  Howard Schultz, the former CEO of Starbucks exploring an independent run for the U.S. presidency, is coming to Utah next week for a series of town halls, his team announced Thursday.The visit is part of Schultz’ “Heart of America” bus tour as he prepares to make a formal decision on whether to mount a third-party challenge against President Donald Trump in 2020.Schultz is scheduled to meet with the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday followed that day by a town hall at Dav
  
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• [Deadspin] - James Harden Is Just Toying With Poor Ricky Rubio

  18-04-2019 19:32 via sportspyder.com
  The Houston Rockets have encountered little resistance through their first two games against the Utah Jazz. They’ve hung 240 points on the NBA’s second-best defense and hit 32 three-pointers. (Those would’ve come in handy last May.) Eric Gordon and P.
  
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• James Harden Is Just Toying With Poor Ricky Rubio

  18-04-2019 19:22 via deadspin.com
  The Houston Rockets have encountered little resistance through their first two games against the Utah Jazz. They’ve hung 240 points on the NBA’s second-best defense and hit 32 three-pointers. (Those would’ve come in handy last May.) Eric Gordon and P.J. Tucker are getting theirs, the weird bench unit is playing…Read more...
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz Shorts: Utah, you have a problem

  18-04-2019 19:17 via sportspyder.com
  KSL.com's Ryan Miller and Sean Walker discuss the Jazz's Game 2 loss and if there is any hope moving forward.
  
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• Aaron Blake: Barr did just what his critics feared he would do. Again.

  18-04-2019 19:12
  Video: Attorney General William P. Barr on April 18 discussed the release of the redacted report from special counsel Robert S. Mueller’s investigation. (The Washington Post)
  When Attorney General William Barr announced he was going to hold a news conference before the release of the Mueller report Thursday, there was instant pushback. How can the media ask questions about a report it hasn’t seen? Would this just be a whole bunch of pre-spin from a man already accused of being too fr
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Rockets’ James Harden ready to block out intense Utah Jazz home crowd: ‘I don’t worry about the fans’

  18-04-2019 19:03 via sportspyder.com
  With the Utah Jazz set to host Houston in Games 3 and 4 of the first round series, the games will be played on Saturday, April 20, and Monday, April 22, at 8:30 p.m. MDT.
  
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• Rockets’ James Harden ready to block out intense Utah Jazz home crowd: ‘I don’t worry about the fans’

  18-04-2019 18:58
  Fans watch as Utah Jazz forward Royce O'Neale (23) prepares to throw the ball inbounds while guarded by Houston Rockets guard James Harden (13) during the Utah Jazz's 113-92 loss to the Houston Rockets in game three of the NBA semifinals at the Vivint Arena on Friday, May 4, 2018, in Salt Lake City.Jacob Wiegand, Deseret NewsHOUSTON — Heckling and trash talking from fans is nothing new to Houston Rockets star James Harden.As the back-to-back scoring champion and reigning MVP, it certainly
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Struggling Jazz Fall Again to a Red Hot Harden

  18-04-2019 18:38 via sportspyder.com
  Utah finished 2nd in the regular season with their defensive rating, giving up 105.2 points per 100 possessions. Rubio on hip, Harden passes to P.J. Where is Donovan Mitchell?
  
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• Trump tried to seize control of Mueller probe, report says

  18-04-2019 18:27
  Washington • Public at last, special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed to a waiting nation Thursday that President Donald Trump had tried to seize control of the Russia probe and force Mueller’s removal to stop him from investigating potential obstruction of justice by the president.In a previously unreported episode, the report said that in June 2017, Trump directed White House Counsel Don McGahn to call the acting attorney general and say that Mueller must be ousted bec
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Latter-day Saints can relate to Hulu’s new comedy about Muslims

  18-04-2019 18:14
  There’s a new show on Hulu about a young man who practices a different religion from most other Americans. He doesn’t smoke or drink. His parents want him to meet a nice girl who shares his faith, get married and have children.And most people refer to his religion with a six-letter word that starts with “M.”“Ramy” is not, however, about a Morm … er, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It’s about a young man (Ramy Youssef)
  
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• The Salt Lake Stallions and the AAF have left broken bones and broken lives in their wake. Ex-Ute Gionni Paul and others are picking up the pieces.

  18-04-2019 17:48
  Gionni Paul sat in the Rice-Eccles Stadium locker room with his right arm broken and his outlook undamaged. The former University of Utah star told himself he could come back next year and build on his performance as a Salt Lake Stallions linebacker.Three days later, the Alliance of American Football stopped playing. “I’m thinking, ‘I’m dreaming,’ ” Paul said, reliving the April 2 team meeting when the announcement came.Paul soon became a face of the AAF playe
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: What should I do about fans behaving badly, including my wife?

  18-04-2019 17:47
  Dear Ann Cannon • I have two children, a son and a daughter, who are currently playing high school basketball in Utah. And the fans are TERRIBLE. The kids are bad, but the adults are worse. You would not believe how they behave and the horrible things that come out of their mouths. It’s downright scary at the girls’ games because there are fewer people in attendance, so you can really hear what’s being said. Now I have a better understanding of the Utah/BYU rivalry and all
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: A fourth African temple, the ethics of missionary work, a Utah ‘Brexit'?

  18-04-2019 17:46
  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: Mormonism’s ‘Notre Dame’
  (Rick Egan|The Salt Lake Tribune)Holiday lights at Salt Lake Temple. Friday, Nov. 23, 2018.
  (Rick Egan/)As Notre Dame burned in Paris this week, Latter-da
  
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• Political Cornflakes: The White House’s Mueller reaction plan has a wild card: Trump

  18-04-2019 17:46
  Happy Thursday! The long-awaited special counsel’s report is due out this morning. You can guess every major news outlet will be covering -- make sure to check back at sltrib.com for updates -- and it’ll be dominating the news cycle today. President Donald Trump’s team is ready to respond. But there’s one wild card: President Trump. The goal for Thursday is to use the bully pulpit of the White House to give the appearance of a president consumed by the demands of his offi
  
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• Frontrunner train strikes and kills person in one county; mud covers freight train tracks in another

  18-04-2019 17:46
  A man died Thursday morning when a Frontrunner train ran over him at the station in Orem.“It appears as though he was distracted,” said Utah Transit Authority spokesman Carl Arky. “We don’t know if he had earbuds in or was on a cellphone or what at this point."The man’s identity has not been released. The collision happened at 4:53 a.m. Afterwards, trains were delayed and UTA shuttled passengers with buses. Service was restored about 6:15 a.m.UTA cameras showed that
  
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• At 14, Savannah Ostler started writing her first screenplay. 15 years later, her Utah-made ‘Twice the Dream’ is opening in theaters.

  18-04-2019 17:46
  Looking at her purse, a large Dooney & Bourke handbag covered with an image from “Cinderella,” one could infer that Savannah Ostler is just a big Walt Disney fan.But this 29-year-old Utah County actor, director, screenwriter, songwriter, producer and one-woman marketing department has something bigger in mind.“I want to be a female version of Walt Disney,” Ostler said, “someone who has her hands in everything and oversees all aspects of her projects.”Ostle
  
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• Environmental groups urge Utah to protect views at national parks and cut coal plant emissions

  18-04-2019 17:45
  Utah regulators’ ideas for cutting emissions from coal-fired electrical plants is under fire from environmentalists who dismiss it as a rehash of a flawed plan the Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency has already rejected — twice.Under the Clean Air Act, the state is obligated to minimize “regional haze” that obscures vistas at national parks and other protected airsheds with the goal of achieving “natural conditions” by 2064.Emissions from two power plan
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Rockets’ James Harden earns playoff career-high in rebounds in Game 2 vs. Jazz

  18-04-2019 17:20 via sportspyder.com
  Houston Rockets superstar James Harden has yet again added another feather on his cap on Wednesday night as he led his team to a 118-98 victory against the Utah Jazz in their Western Conference first-round encounter. The reigning MVP set a new...
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: 3 takeaways from Game 2 vs. Rockets

  18-04-2019 16:26 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz fell to the Houston Rockets in Game 2 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals on Wednesday. Here are three takeaways from the loss. The road ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Ricky Rubio: “We’re not gonna quit”

  18-04-2019 16:25 via sportspyder.com
  Jazz down 0-2, staring the end of their season right in the face
  
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• [The Score] - 3 reasons why Jazz have been no match for Rockets

  18-04-2019 16:05 via sportspyder.com
  When the Western Conference playoff bracket was settled on a frenetic final night of the regular season, no first-round series looked as juicy as the 4-5 matchup between the Houston Rockets and Utah Jazz.That Houston held serve at home to take a 2-0...
  
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• Letter: President seeks to breed hostility

  18-04-2019 15:16
  The president’s job is presiding. The job description is tucked into the title. Preside. We did not choose to call our executive “His Highness,” or “Caesar,” but “Mr. President.”Even if we construe “preside” in the bluntest manner — if we say “preside” means “to run the show” — then we’re still confronted by this: To run the show is not to be the show.If your job is presiding over a government by the
  
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• Letter: LDS Church still stands for intolerance

  18-04-2019 15:16
  Treating the LDS Church’s policy regarding LGBTQ+ parents of member children as a “small step forward” for the church’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights grossly overlooks the pervasive and still ever-present culture of hate and intolerance towards those who are “different” within the LDS church.Let’s be clear, simply manipulating the nomenclature such that gay members aren’t technically “apostates” does nothing to change the message that childre
  
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• Letter: Moving people in the canyons

  18-04-2019 15:15
  There’s been a lot of talk lately about the myriad of problems in Big and Little Cottonwood canyons. One solution is to not allow parking in these canyons. For anyone.Now, before you hurt yourself laughing, try to understand the logic. This strategy unfairly discriminates against every user group. The goal, remember, is to save the canyons, not to make everyone happy.Let the free enterprise system figure out who will set up continuously running shuttle buses (with bike and ski racks), that
  
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• Letter: What do Americans have that Kiwis don’t?

  18-04-2019 15:14
  After the horrific massacre there, it took New Zealand just one week to stop the sale of military-style assault rifles.What do we Americans have that the Kiwis don’t? First of all, a badly outdated constitutional amendment, about which gun rights advocates routinely ignore the clause dealing with the necessity of “A well-regulated militia.” They only look at the other clause. Read it for yourselves.And, secondly, scaremongers of the National Rifle Association, who have successf
  
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• Letter: Bagley captures the sad moment

  18-04-2019 15:13
  Thank you, Pat Bagley, for your touching illustration of a “homesick” Lady Liberty staring sadly at the burning Notre Dame cathedral.As a lover of history, art, and culture, to say nothing of my memories of Paris, your picture captured my emotions perfectly. I have often been in awe of your ability to get to the "heart" of many issues with your marvelous cartoons. This time you really found the mark.Lynne Larson, American ForkSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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