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• Tribune Editorial: Bears Ears committee is a monument to bad intentions

  27-04-2019 23:05
  The Bears Ears sham battle continues.The Trump Interior Department announced last week the members of a 15-person advisory committee to manage what’s left of Bears Ears National Monument, and — no surprise — the committee has no one who actually encouraged a Bears Ears National Monument.Interior, with its newly installed former oil and gas lobbyist as secretary, stacked the 15-member Bears Ears Advisory Committee with those who fought President Obama’s original designatio
  
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• Sheriff: Shooting at California synagogue leaves injuries

  27-04-2019 22:16
  Poway, Calif. • Authorities in Southern California say a shooting at a synagogue has left people injured but the extent is unclear.San Diego County sheriff's office also said Saturday on Twitter that a man has been detained in connection with the shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue.It's in the city of Poway just over 20 miles north of San Diego.Officials say deputies were called just before 11:30 a.m.
  
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• ‘Avengers: Endgame’ sets multiple records at box office

  27-04-2019 22:06
  New York • “Avengers: Endgame” is crushing the competition by setting multiple records at the box office a day after its release.The Walt Disney Co. says domestically the film opened Friday with a record $156.7 million (including Thursday previews), besting "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" ($119 million in 2015, though it played on fewer screens) and "Avengers: Infinity War" ($106 million in 2018).Outside the U.S., "Avengers: Endgame" broke another record by grossing an estimated
  
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• Utah state park renamed after former division director

  27-04-2019 22:00
  Duchesne, Utah • A state park in east-central Utah has been renamed in honor of a former director of the Division of Parks and Recreation.A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held Tuesday at Fred Hayes State Park at Starvation, formerly Starvation State Park.After beginning his career with Parks and Recreation in 1982 as a seasonal ranger, Hayes rose through the ranks and served as division director from 2012 until 2018, the year he died.The park is located in Duchesne (doo-shayne) and named a
  
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• Ute stars are the first two kicking specialists picked in the NFL draft: Mitch Wishnowsky by the 49ers and Matt Gay by the Buccaneers.

  27-04-2019 20:11
  Utah punter Mitch Wishnowsky was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers early in the the fourth round Saturday morning.Wishnowsky’s becoming the 110th pick in the NFL draft is a remarkably high position for a kicking specialist. The 49ers were known to be one of the few teams in need of a punter, as former Ute punter Tom Hackett – Wishnowsky’s Australian countryman – pointed out in a Salt Lake Tribune story this week.Ute kicker Matt Gay was not expecting to be drafted, but Ta
  
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• The Jazz will have plenty of room to maneuver and improve the team this offseason — depending on which path they pursue

  27-04-2019 19:15
  “We all need to have a championship on our minds,” Rudy Gobert said.A first-round playoff exit in five games to the Houston Rockets was the perfect reminder: while the Jazz have undoubtedly a better situation than most NBA teams — a 50-win season, young stars under contract for multiple seasons — there’s still a long way to go before the Jazz are truly elite.With that desire to improve comes the responsibility of making difficult decisions about the team’s fut
  
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• How do you solve a problem like the Galaxy’s Zlatan? ‘There’s no secret,’ says Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke

  27-04-2019 19:00
  Herriman • Real Salt Lake head coach Mike Petke has mused in the past about how to contain Zlatan Ibrahimovic, ever since the L.A. Galaxy’s dynamic striker strutted onto the Major League Soccer stage last season.“Double team him,” the coach said before RSL faced him for the first time. “Quadruple team him,” he said in jest before facing him again.While the Galaxy experienced some growing pains in their first year having a player like Ibrahimovic, 2019 has been
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Jazz will have plenty of room to maneuver and improve the team this offseason — depending on which path they pursue

  27-04-2019 18:48 via sportspyder.com
  “We all need to have a championship on our minds,” Rudy Gobert said.
  
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• Utah Democratic Party did not follow its own procedures in handling sexual misconduct claim against a former chair candidate, external review finds

  27-04-2019 18:39
  The Utah Democratic Party did not follow its own procedures in addressing complaints of sexual misconduct lodged against a candidate for party chair in 2017, according to an external report completed by the Democratic National Committee from the State of Washington.The report, requested by the Democratic Party as part of a review of its harassment policies, does not address the merits of the claims against Rob Miller and instead focuses on whether the party followed its established policies in h
  
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• Oliver North says he won’t serve 2nd term as NRA president

  27-04-2019 17:47
  Indianapolis • Retired Lt. Col. Oliver North said Saturday that he will not serve a second term as the president of the National Rifle Association amid inner turmoil in the gun-rights group.In a statement read to members of the group Saturday, North said he believes a committee should be set up to review the NRA's finances. North was not present at the meeting when the statement was read by Richard Childress, the NRA's first vice president."There is a clear crisis and it needs to be dealt w
  
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• At least 15 killed in blasts and gunfire during Sri Lanka police raid at suspected terrorist hideout

  27-04-2019 17:43
  Sainthamaruthu, Sri Lanka • At least 15 people were killed, including six children, in bomb blasts and gunfire as Sri Lankan security forces raided a rented home used by a group with suspected links to the deadly Easter bombings.The dramatic confrontation late Friday came amid a nationwide security crackdown and intensive searches for suspects in numerous locations across Sri Lanka. Police warned of possible further attacks and used new emergency powers to stop and question individuals and
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Will big-time free agents come to Utah? Donovan Mitchell, among others, will try to lure them in.

  27-04-2019 17:37 via sportspyder.com
  Decked out in a black T-shirt, a sweet chain dangling around his neck, Donovan Mitchell sat in front of the media the other day, cool as he ever was, answering questions of all sorts. One of the most important answers he gave was regarding what he...
  
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• Have dysfunction and infighting made Utah’s major political parties irrelevant?

  27-04-2019 17:31
  Other than for ninth grade student body president, Melissa Garff Ballard had never run a campaign before.Still, when the North Salt Lake Republican launched her bid for a Utah House seat last year, she figured she’d receive enough help from her party to make up for any gaps in knowledge.“As a new legislator," she said, “what I was expecting was that when I won the primary vote, that during the summer and for the fall, the party would have had our precinct chairs help get new vo
  
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• Monson: Will big-time free agents come to Utah? Donovan Mitchell, among others, will try to lure them in.

  27-04-2019 17:30
  Decked out in a black T-shirt, a sweet chain dangling around his neck, Donovan Mitchell sat in front of the media the other day, cool as he ever was, answering questions of all sorts. One of the most important answers he gave was regarding what he would do to make the Jazz a better team this offseason.He wasn’t talking about working on his cross-over or his court awareness. He was speaking to helping Jazz management lure in a useful free agent or two. Whether he thoroughly knows the Jazz&r
  
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• Utah farmers declare a tart cherry war as Turkey floods market with cheap fruit

  27-04-2019 17:18
  Utah farmers have declared a tart cherry war on Turkey, alleging producers in the Eastern European country are intentionally dumping cheap fruit on the U.S. market and crippling the multimillion-dollar industry America helped create.The Utah-based Payson Fruit Growers cooperative, along with four dried-cherry processors from Michigan, filed a countervailing and anti-dumping petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce and International Trade Commission.The petition, filed earlier this week by t
  
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• A family connected to a Utah polygamous sect owns a California casino, and regulators may end up shutting it down

  27-04-2019 17:18
  Of all the businesses owned by Utah’s Kingston family, perhaps none receive the government scrutiny of the Lake Elsinore Casino in Southern California.The family is the namesake of the Kingston Group, the polygamous sect that’s also known as the Davis County Cooperative Society. Church members own a diverse portfolio of service, financial and agricultural operations in Utah and Idaho, but these businesses typically require little more than updating their licenses and filing tax retur
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Derrick Favors wants in, but the Jazz must test the market

  27-04-2019 16:47 via sportspyder.com
  Derrick Favors was the Utah Jazz's most consistent performer during the 2019 NBA Playoffs, as well as the 82-game regular season. Derrick Favors future wit...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Derrick Favors wants in, but the Jazz must test the market

  27-04-2019 16:30
  Derrick Favors was the Utah Jazz’s most consistent performer during the 2019 NBA Playoffs, as well as the 82-game regular season. Derrick Favors future with the Utah Jazz has been an oft discussed topic throughout the 2018-19 season. But now, just days after the team’s season was officially ended at the hands of the Houston […]
  Utah Jazz: Derrick Favors wants in, but the Jazz must test the market - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and Mor
  
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• Commentary: Stop to figure the impact on the Cottonwood canyons

  27-04-2019 15:00
  As the Cathedral of Notre Dame burned earlier this month, it caused me to pause. It was in that long dark canyon, constructed 800 years ago, that I had prayed for an acquaintance who passed in 1972. Each of us has special places which evoke memories of people and things past. Some of these places are man-made, the Parliament, the U.S. Capitol Building, a church, a synagogue, a temple or a special place of meditation we have frequented or observed. As humans we like to think these human construct
  
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• Letter: Take a deep breath. The sky is not falling.

  27-04-2019 14:00
  After the hundreds of alarmist tomes published by The Tribune this year, it was so refreshing and gratifying to read the letters from Bill Keshlear and Paul Sharp in the April 23 edition. I’m sure their observations rang true among tens of thousands who enjoy the perspective of five or six decades of life.Here’s the thing, young folks. The sky is not falling.Everyone used to get the measles. No vaccination required. You can get it, and get over it.Mankind transitioned from whale oil
  
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• Letter: What’s wrong with America and the press

  27-04-2019 13:53
  Joe Biden’s candidacy for president highlights much of what is wrong with America and the press.A big fuss is being made of Biden gently kissing the back of a female Democrat’s head. Have you never kissed your children’s head to comfort or encourage them? Meanwhile, everyone seems to have forgotten about Donald Trump’s paying for sex and boasting of grabbing women by the genitals.He bamboozles his base into thinking he’s a leader by hogging the press, but all his in
  
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• Letter: What if politicians stayed within their spending limits?

  27-04-2019 13:50
  My grandson is running for an office at his junior high school. The school put a $15 limit on whatever they wanted to do to promote themselves. My grandson was so proud of himself, as he had 16 cents left over from his campaign.Wouldn't it be something if our politicians had a limit and actually campaigned within that limit? It would make elections much more fair rather than those with all the money being able to flood the media with their promises.Oh, well, maybe we have to wait for the younger
  
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• Letter: A selfless act of kindness for animals

  27-04-2019 13:46
  In a world where so much of the news is negative, I wanted to share a heartwarming story of an anonymous act of kindness that we on the Salt Lake County Council found very touching.In our County Council meeting on April 23, the county animal shelter staff highlighted a recent donation for the animals valued at $1,497. What makes this contribution special is that it was from a 19-year-old woman who requested donations for the animal shelter in lieu of gifts for her own birthday party. She then br
  
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• Letter: Laws need to meet constitutional muster

  27-04-2019 13:40
  In an April 22 article, Robert Gehrke raised alarm that many pieces of legislation pending in legislatures aren’t written from scratch by elected lawmakers, but often originate with model legislation, or from other subject matter experts.To illustrate that the phenomenon occurs in Utah, Gehrke singled out Rep. Kim Coleman’s legislation on campus free speech, which he incorrectly identified as being a version of the Goldwater Institute’s model legislation.As the legislative and
  
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• Letter: Someone needs to speak for the people

  27-04-2019 13:32
  Thank you to the activists who shut down the Inland Port Authority Board’s meeting this month. Something needed to be done, and more is needed to get the attention of our legislators and this un-elected board, as well as all Utahns.I recently attended one of the board meetings and spoke during the public comment period (shaking voice and all).In other cities with similar developments, the freeways are overcrowded with trucks. The 90-minute drive from Little Rock, Ark., to Memphis, Tenn., a
  
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• [Jazz Fanatical] - Highlights of Opponent Game Thread Highlights 2018-2019: Quin Snyder

  27-04-2019 12:04 via sportspyder.com
  ** Snyder has a mean face TOR — he’s already the NBA’s serial killer — It’s the fucking eyes ** quin snyder looks like hes gonna accidently kill one of his players after this game… SAC …
  
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• Report: Kyle Korver Considering Retirement

  27-04-2019 09:09 via basketballinsiders.com
  On Thursday during his meeting with the media, [Kyle] Korver acknowledged that he will entertain this summer the possibility of retiring. The 38-year-old Korver has a year remaining on his contract, but it is nonguaranteed for next season. “There’s a real cost as you get older,” he said of playing professional basketball. “There’s what you […]
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Warriors-Rockets preview: Guarding James Harden, the Kevin Durant machine, and Stephen Curry concerns beyond his ankle - CBSSports.com

  27-04-2019 08:31 via sportspyder.com
  Western Conference scout: 'The Warriors don't feel they need to do anything gimmicky'
  
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• [ESPN] - Warriors-Rockets II: Everything to know for the playoffs' must-see sequel

  27-04-2019 07:26 via sportspyder.com
  Get ready for Round 2. Golden State's path to a fifth straight NBA Finals once again goes through Houston.
  
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• Ute safety Marquise Blair and linebacker Cody Barton both go to the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL draft

  27-04-2019 05:48
  The Seattle Seahawks' ferocious hitting in the secondary merited the “Legion of Boom” nickname and helped the team play in consecutive Super Bowls in this decade. Utah safety Marquise Blair should fit right into Seattle's next generation of defensive backs.Seattle took Blair with the No. 47 pick of the NFL draft, in the middle of the second round. And then the Seahawks made Ute linebacker Cody Barton, a Brighton High School product, the No. 88 pick in the third round Friday night. Ro
  
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• BYU linebacker Sione Takitaki selected by Cleveland Browns in third round of NFL draft

  27-04-2019 05:42
  Sione Takitaki went from being kicked off the BYU football team after his first season in Provo to being named team captain his last. Now the Cougars’ senior linebacker is headed to the NFL.The Cleveland Browns selected Takitaki with the 17th pick of the third round of the NFL draft Friday night, No. 80 overall. The selection completed a remarkable rise for Takitaki, who was projected as a sixth- or seventh-round pick before he shined in a couple senior all-star games and put up impressive
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Top 8 most disappointing aspects of first-round loss to Houston

  27-04-2019 04:16 via sportspyder.com
  Several disappointing aspects of the Utah Jazz's first-round loss to the Houston Rockets added up to make it one of the more painful playoff exits in recen...
  
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• [Amico Hoops] - Cavaliers schedule Jazz assistant Jensen for coaching interview

  27-04-2019 04:16 via sportspyder.com
  The Cavaliers will interview Utah Jazz assistant Alex Jensen for their head-coaching vacancy, a source confirmed to Amico Hoops on Friday night. Jensen, 42, has been an assistant under Quin Snyder with the Jazz since 2013. Before that, Jensen...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Top 8 most disappointing aspects of first-round loss to Houston

  27-04-2019 04:10
  Several disappointing aspects of the Utah Jazz’s first-round loss to the Houston Rockets added up to make it one of the more painful playoff exits in recent memory. Although few suspected that the Utah Jazz would be able to get out of the first-round once it became solidified that they’d be facing the Houston Rockets, […]
  Utah Jazz: Top 8 most disappointing aspects of first-round loss to Houston - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell plans to use offseason to reach better shape: ‘I only had a really good few months’

  27-04-2019 03:14 via sportspyder.com
  "Once he gets more comfortable in his role and he knows that he’s one of those guys, the sky’s the limit for him," Rockets star James Harden said of Donovan Mitchell.
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell plans to use offseason to reach better shape: ‘I only had a really good few months’

  27-04-2019 03:02
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell leaves after talking to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Utah Jazz season ended with Wednesday's loss to Houston in the playoffs.Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsPortland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard (0) guards Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) during the first half in an NBA basketball game Monday, Jan. 21, 2019, in Salt lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Rick Bowmer, APUtah Jazz guard
  
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• Commentary: Salt Lake City is destroying its own livable neighborhoods

  27-04-2019 02:59
  Salt Lake City is the envy of other mid-size cities for having single-family housing close to the City Center. We are fortunate to have houses with unique architecture and historic value that have withstood the test of time, remain stalwart through various economies and tell the story of our city.Ironically, demolition, not preservation of this rich heritage is the growing trend.In 2018, the city approved 60 residential demolition permits, 37 of which were in three zip codes – 84102, 84105
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: John Snow Knows

  27-04-2019 02:29
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Saturday, April 27, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/25/bagley-cartoon/" target=_blank><u>Legislative Hearing</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/24/bagley-cartoon-font-fox/"><u>The Font of Fox Wisdom</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/23/bagley-
  
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• Video of Utah arch being blown up was fake, German artists admit. But how much did the media buy the hoax?

  27-04-2019 01:59
  Two German artists have admitted they created fake videos of an exploding Utah rock arch and hoodoos that went viral on the internet in December — and they’re being given a bit too much credit for having fooled the media.In a story in the German newspaper Die Welt (The World) headlined “How two Berlin artists fooled American media,” Julius von Bismarck and Julian Charrière detail how and why they did it. Bismarck said they wanted to create a fake video of something
  
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• [KSL] - Sales pitch: Jazz know this summer is a big one for future

  27-04-2019 01:54 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz think they are close to being a championship contender. What happens this summer will play a big role in if they can get there or not.
  
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• Police look at brakes after truck rams into cars, killing 4 near Denver

  27-04-2019 01:52
  Lakewood, Colo. • Four people died after a semitruck hauling lumber lost control and plowed into vehicles on a crowded highway near Denver, triggering explosions and a fire so intense that it melted the roadway and metal off cars, authorities said Friday."It was crash, crash, crash and explosion, explosion, explosion," said John Romero, a spokesman for the Lakewood, Colorado, police department, describing the 28-vehicle chain reaction of blasts from ruptured gas tanks.The truck driver, Roge
  
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• Meet the 11 Utah educators who won $10,000 each from the Huntsman family for being among the best in the state

  27-04-2019 01:48
  Utah’s Huntsman family has selected 11 school teachers and administrators for annual — and highly competitive — education awards, which include a check for $10,000 for each winner.Among them is a volunteer who bikes miles each morning to help kindergarteners. A high school teacher who grants her students’ wishes each semester. And a principal who’s so committed to getting kids to read that she grabs a book and sits down with them.The recognition, which started 27 ye
  
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• Computer glitch stops 18,000 Utah students from finishing end-of-year tests

  27-04-2019 01:41
  The state’s year-end testing has been interrupted by a major computer glitch — stopping more than 18,000 public school students from completing their assessments.The Utah Board of Education announced the technical issue Friday. And it comes as the state implements a new standardized test this year, known as RISE, run by a different vendor than schools have previously used.“We were planning for — though not expecting — the kinds of issues associated with any new comp
  
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• Multiple teams interested in Tobias Harris

  27-04-2019 01:25
  Tobias Harris, meanwhile, is a native of New York and was intrigued by Philadelphia over the course of this season, dating back to his time with the Clippers. Around the league, executives believe several other teams, such as Memphis, Utah, Dallas and Brooklyn, will also provide competition for Harris.
  
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• Longtime Utah Natural Resources boss retires with replacement expected to be named Monday

  27-04-2019 01:04
  Mike Styler, the longtime director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, is retiring after more than 14 years on the job — making him the longest-serving person in that post, according to the governor’s office.Styler called his tenure “incredibly rewarding,” especially his interactions with the more than 1,300 hardworking DNR employees and Gov. Gary Herbert, he said in a prepared statement.“Utah faces a number of difficult opportunities moving forward with wa
  
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• Holly Richardson: Time for a return to early Mormon feminism?

  27-04-2019 01:00
  In the spring of 1830, Joseph Smith Jr. founded The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Almost 12 years later, in a collaborative revelation between Joseph Smith and women including Eliza R. Snow, Sarah Kimball and Margaret Cook, the LDS Relief Society was formed. In her book “Women at Church,” Neylan McBain notes “the constructive three-way collaboration between the women, the prophet, and the Lord resulted in a women’s organization that was the first of its kin
  
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• A new scooter company – Spin – arrives in Salt Lake City, and GREENbike plans expansion

  27-04-2019 00:15
  The dockless transportation boom that came to Salt Lake City last summer only continues to grow, with the addition this week of a third e-scooter company.Spin, a San Francisco-based scooter company, came to St. George last month and now joins the companies Bird and Lime in Utah’s capital city. Under city regulations, each of the companies can deploy up to 500 scooters — meaning there could now be up to 1,500 on city streets if each company went for the maximum.And while city official
  
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• Girls’ football lawsuit filed in Utah to gauge interest in school teams

  27-04-2019 00:14
  Salt Lake City • The question of how many girls would play football for an all-female high school team if given the chance took center stage Friday in a Utah lawsuit filed by a teenage female football star.More than 400 girls have joined a league that 16-year-old Sam Gordon helped create, more than enough to get started in schools, lawyer Loren Washburn said. "The school district has an obligation to meet student demand," he said.The districts, though, argue it's tough to gauge whether ther
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Should the Jazz look to re-acquire Rodney Hood?

  27-04-2019 00:12 via sportspyder.com
  The off-season has officially begun for the Utah Jazz. That being said, there's many interesting free agent options out there for the Jazz - including form...
  
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