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• Letter: Subcategories are nothing new to the census

  29-04-2019 23:26
  I mostly agree with the Editorial Board of The Salt Lake Tribune reciting the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in their editorial: "Utah needs an accurate census count.” The pivotal word indeed is “persons.” I agree that the Constitution demands a count of the total number of humans to enable apportionment numbers to the U.S. Congress.However, for many decades subgroups have been used. I have seen census data on my grandparents and others where it would cite “Head
  
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• Courting moderate voters, GOP leans into warnings of Democrats’ socialism

  29-04-2019 23:11
  Alamosa, Colo. • In this scruffy, high-desert town encircled by prairies and potato farms, Sen. Cory Gardner drew shouts of approval last week for his message that Democrats are shoving the country toward socialism.“That’s not what government is or what it should be,” he told about 200 Alamosa County Republicans at a barbecue fundraiser in a National Guard armory. “We have to stand up and fight. Are you going to join me in this fight?”For Gardner and other Repu
  
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• China, two dozen other countries top religious freedom offenders list

  29-04-2019 22:49
  Washington • With its particular focus on China’s oppression of religious and human rights, an independent watchdog group has decried in its annual report the state of religious freedom across the globe.The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan organization created 20 years ago, concludes in its Monday report that “innumerable believers and nonbelievers across the globe continued in 2018 to experience manifold suffering due to their beliefs.”The
  
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• Commentary: Trump’s stonewalling of Congress is illegal. How far will he push it?

  29-04-2019 22:03
  It is all too easy to underestimate the significance of President Donald Trump's outright defiance of Congress' request that senior aides testify. His declaration that this White House will resist all congressional subpoenas, across the board, is an unprecedented challenge to the House's exercise of its constitutional oversight powers.To be sure, presidents and Congress joust often over requests for senior aide testimony or White House documents. The public might suspect that such disputes are i
  
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• Widow of Mother Emanuel pastor: ‘Much prayer is needed’ four years after attack

  29-04-2019 21:35
  Jennifer Pinckney had hoped to be in Bible study on the evening of June 17, 2015.But her 6-year-old daughter had other plans.The two were in the senior pastor’s office at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., on the night that Dylann Roof opened fire during the church’s Wednesday night Bible study, killing nine people. Among the victims was Clementa Pinckney, the church’s pastor and Jennifer’s husband.She and her daughter heard the shots, barricaded the door and hid und
  
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• Islamic State leader: Sri Lanka attack was revenge for Syria

  29-04-2019 21:29
  Colombo, Sri Lanka • The leader of the Islamic State group praised the Easter suicide bombings that killed more than 250 people in Sri Lanka in a video released Monday, calling on militants to be a “thorn” against their enemies in his first filmed appearance in nearly five years.The video of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to whom the suicide bombers in last week’s attack apparently pledged their loyalty, came as the top official in the Catholic Church urged Sri Lanka to crack down
  
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• Is Times columnist David Brooks a Christian or a Jew? His latest book traces his faith and his second marriage.

  29-04-2019 21:18
  In the world of national columnists, David Brooks is a star. But in the past few years, The New York Times writer and author has whipped up fascination among a certain subset of readers for a specific, gossipy reason: They wonder if the Jewish writer has become a Christian.In his best-selling new book, “The Second Mountain: The Quest for the Moral Life,” Brooks, 57, one of the most prominent columnists in the country, traces his spiritual journey alongside his relationship with his s
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Gun Wrong

  29-04-2019 21:06
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, April 30, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/27/bagley-cartoon-john-snow/" target=_blank><u>John Snow Knows</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/25/bagley-cartoon/"><u>Legislative Hearing</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/24/bagley-cartoon
  
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• Commentary: White supremacist violence has a long history in San Diego

  29-04-2019 20:47
  When I was in high school, I got a lot of attention from a group of older boys. They were swaggering cool kids, surfer types in a time — the early 1990s — and a place — San Diego — where that was the bleeding edge of cool. They were all white kids, tanned from long days at the beach, with hair down to the middle of their backs. They were good looking, muscular and notorious, which at that particular time and at that particular school was just as good as popular.They were
  
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• Utes grab a graduate transfer from Marshall to bolster their offensive line

  29-04-2019 20:11
  As Utah’s spring football practice concluded in mid-April, coach Kyle Whittingham pointed to a lack of depth on the offensive line as one of his team’s remaining issues. The Utes have made a move to address that need, landing Alex Locklear as a graduate transfer from Conference USA’s Marshall University.Locklear entered the NCAA transfer portal with one year of eligibility remaining and chose Utah over Tennessee, where his brother plays, he announced Monday. Locklear plans to a
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - 2018-2019 Utah Jazz Season Review: Ricky Rubio

  29-04-2019 20:01 via sportspyder.com
  Ricky Rubio will forever be remembered for creating the Utah Jazz’s special locker room culture.
  
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• Yoga helps some Utah inmates find ‘the beauty and peace’ while behind bars

  29-04-2019 19:35
  Draper • Inmate Ferosa Bluff stood stock-still, barely swaying as she curled one foot behind her knee and stretched her arms toward the gymnasium’s drab ceiling at the Utah State Prison.Stretched out in a half-moon shape in front of her, 13 other women held the same pose.Bluff calmly instructed the women to breathe and find their balance as she led the yoga class on a recent Friday. In unison, they followed, pushing and contorting their bodies from position to position.At the conclusi
  
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• New EPA document tells communities to brace for climate change impacts

  29-04-2019 19:05
  The Environmental Protection Agency published a 150-page document this past week with a straightforward message for coping with the fallout from natural disasters across the country: Start planning for the fact that climate change is going to make these catastrophes worse.The language, included in guidance on how to address the debris left in the wake of floods, hurricanes and wildfires, is at odds with the rhetoric of the EPA’s own leader, Andrew Wheeler. Just last month, Wheeler said in
  
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• Horseshoe Bend overlook in Arizona now has parking fee

  29-04-2019 18:47
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Parking at a spot near the edge of an Arizona canyon where the Colorado River makes a sharp U-turn now comes at a cost. You can blame that mostly on social media.Countless posts have celebrated the wonder of Horseshoe Bend, where the bluish-green river takes a 270-degree turn just outside the town of Page, near the Utah border. Photographs on Facebook, Instagram and elsewhere show tourists dangling their feet over a more than 500-foot drop, staring contemplatively or thro
  
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• President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims

  29-04-2019 18:24
  It took President Donald Trump 601 days to top 5,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker’s database, an average of eight claims a day.But on April 26, just 226 days later, the president crossed the 10,000 mark — an average of nearly 23 claims a day in this seven-month period, which included the many rallies he held before the midterm elections, the partial government shutdown over his promised border wall and the release of the special counsel’s report on Russian in
  
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• [Torn By Sports] - Episode 189: Utah Jazz season – The Epilogue

  29-04-2019 18:19 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz season ends. What's next? Free Agency? The NBA Playoffs first round action comes to a close. Plus we talk NFL Draft.
  
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• Plan to store underground water backfires, forces Utah town to upgrade to costly sewer system

  29-04-2019 17:47
  Millville • All year long, a perennial spring discharges water through the Cache Valley city of Millville, providing what could be a steady source of pristine drinking water from under the Bear River Mountains.The bucolic hamlet a few miles south of Logan, however, cannot tap the water from Garr Spring in summer because farmers have first dibs on it. Yet the town cannot store it in winter because it lacks a reservoir. So this water runs out to the Blacksmith Fork River for part of the year,
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz brass face tough decisions to sign or not to sign key players this offseason

  29-04-2019 17:18 via sportspyder.com
  “Adding a sniper at any position is something that we’re going to have to strongly evaluate,” said Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey. “We’ll have a few options.”
  
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• Utah Jazz brass face tough decisions to sign or not to sign key players this offseason

  29-04-2019 17:05
  Utah Jazz guard Ricky Rubio talks 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 NewsUtah Jazz guard Ricky Rubio (3) reacts as the Houston Rockets call a time out and the Jazz are ahead during the first quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Playoffs at the Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, April 22, 2019.Kristin Murphy, Deseret
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Predicting the Utah Jazz offseason after losing to the Rockets

  29-04-2019 07:43 via sportspyder.com
  One thing is for certain, changes are coming
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz 2018-19 player grades: All things considered, Donovan Mitchell was brilliant

  29-04-2019 05:27 via sportspyder.com
  Despite a rocky start and a disappointing final game, Donovan Mitchell was phenomenal for the Utah Jazz all season long and took a clear step forward. The ...
  
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• Utah Jazz 2018-19 player grades: All things considered, Donovan Mitchell was brilliant

  29-04-2019 05:14
  Despite a rocky start and a disappointing final game, Donovan Mitchell was phenomenal for the Utah Jazz all season long and took a clear step forward. The Utah Jazz are largely where they are today thanks to the incredible ascent of Donovan Mitchell. After losing Gordon Hayward in the offseason of 2017, most thought the […]
  Utah Jazz 2018-19 player grades: All things considered, Donovan Mitchell was brilliant - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and Mo
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Rudy Gobert reacts to Warriors’ defense on Rockets’ James Harden

  29-04-2019 04:54 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz was tuned in to Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals between the Houston Rockets and the Golden State Warriors. From his observation, it seemed that the Warriors were allowed to aggressively contest Harden when he...
  
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• [Larry Brown Sports] - Rudy Gobert thinks Jazz were not officiated fairly against Rockets

  29-04-2019 01:32 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert noticed a stark difference in the way the Golden State Warriors were officiated against the Houston Rockets compared to the way the Utah Jazz were during their first-round series. Following the Warriors win over the Rockets in Game 1 of...
  
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• [ESPN] - NBA players add to chorus of refereeing complaints on Twitter

  29-04-2019 01:06 via sportspyder.com
  Rules changes? Fines? Flops? All of those were among the chatter on social media from players, executives and even an owner after a contentious Game 1 between the Warriors and Rockets.
  
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