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• San Juan County administrator resigns in latest turmoil since election flipped the county to Democratic control

  01-05-2019 23:45
  In 2013, Kenneth Maryboy sat on the San Juan County Commission when he and his fellow commissioners hired Kelly Pehrson as the new county administrator.Pehrson, a resident of Monticello, served in the position for six years. Earlier this week, he gave 48 hours’ notice that he was resigning to take a job as the state’s deputy director of agriculture.“He seemed to be OK back when we hired him,” Maryboy said Tuesday, “but everything got a little too sticky for the past
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Possible free agency options for the Utah Jazz

  01-05-2019 23:30 via sportspyder.com
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• E.J. Dionne: William Barr has shamelessly corrupted the Mueller report

  01-05-2019 22:48
  One of our most colorful legal concepts is the “fruit of the poisonous tree.” The phrase was introduced by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter 80 years ago to hold that evidence obtained illegally cannot be used to convict a defendant.We now know that the entire debate the country has been having over special counsel Robert Mueller's report was fatally infected by the lethal sapling that was Attorney General William Barr's four-page letter offering his gloss on the findings of th
  
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• Employee was living inside a Utah liquor store and drinking during business hours, so state will shut it down

  01-05-2019 22:40
  In Utah, it’s illegal to live inside a liquor store — so you can shelve that dream — and employees are forbidden from drinking the alcoholic products during business hours.But that was the scenario that liquor enforcement officers encountered April 4 when they stepped into the state-contracted liquor store in Richmond, about 13 miles north of Logan.To make matters worse, the employee — the store manager and the son of the operator — sold liquor to a minor.The State
  
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• Watch live: Barr says Mueller letter was ‘a bit snitty’

  01-05-2019 22:36
  Washington • The Latest on Attorney General William Barr’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee (all times local):3:45 p.m."Snitty."That's the way Attorney General William Barr described a letter from special counsel Robert Mueller expressing concerns about his portrayal of the Russia probe.Barr was testifying at the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday when Democrat Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut asked about the letter. Mueller wrote it March 27, but it was only disclos
  
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• With three of next four games at home, Real Salt Lake has opportunity to build significant momentum

  01-05-2019 22:35
  Herriman • Real Salt Lake may be disappointed in the close loss to the L.A. Galaxy over the weekend, but it has a prime opportunity to pick up a smorgasbord of points over the next month or so.Three of RSL’s next four games are at Rio Tinto Stadium, and the lone road matchup is against the bottom-dwelling Colorado Rapids. Three of the teams Salt Lake will play between Saturday and May 24 — Portland Timbers, Colorado and Atlanta United — have a combined record of 4-15-5. Th
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: What’s the point of political parties?

  01-05-2019 22:32
  Both the Utah Republican and Democratic parties will elect new leaders in the coming weeks, which many voters and elected officials hope will usher in new chapters for the state’s main political organizations after years of infighting, debts and dysfunction.But the growing participation of unaffiliated voters, pressure from smaller parties, and changes to state law democratizing the candidate nomination process have raised questions about the shifting relevancy and roles of political parti
  
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• More turmoil in San Juan County as top administrator resigns amid allegations of outside influence on new leaders. Commissioner Maryboy says employee refused to follow orders.

  01-05-2019 22:25
  In 2013, Kenneth Maryboy sat on the San Juan County Commission when he and his fellow commissioners hired Kelly Pehrson as the new county administrator.Pehrson, a resident of Monticello, served in the position for six years. Earlier this week, he gave 48 hours notice that he was resigning to take a job as the state’s deputy director of agriculture.“He seemed to be OK back when we hired him,” Maryboy said Tuesday, “but everything got a little too sticky for the past four m
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: 2018 grad discusses the challenges he faced and the fears he had as a transgender student at BYU

  01-05-2019 22:10
  Matt Easton made headlines around the world after stating during his recent valedictory speech at Brigham Young University that he is “proud to be a gay son of God.”The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its flagship school aren’t the easiest places to be an LGBTQ member and student. Belonging to those institutions can be especially challenging for transgender individuals, for whom the rules are even muddier.Andy Winder knows that firsthand. He started undergoing h
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Ricky Rubio will start working out as early as May 13th back in Spain

  01-05-2019 22:07 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz starting point guard Ricky Rubio reportedly isn’t planning to take much time off this offseason. According to Eric Woodyard of the Desert News, Rubio will start working out as early as May 13th back in Spain. The guard becomes an...
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee blasts Dems, says the Mueller investigation was about undermining the president

  01-05-2019 22:04
  Washington • Sen. Mike Lee excoriated Democrats on Wednesday for jumping to conclusions about what special counsel Robert Mueller would find in his probe of President Donald Trump and his team, arguing that Trump’s critics were using the investigation to undermine the president.“The president's political adversaries have exploited the Mueller probe – it's mere existence – to spread baseless innuendo in an effort to undermine the legitimacy of the 2016 election and th
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Dennis Lindsey—Locker Room clean out

  01-05-2019 21:59 via sportspyder.com
  Dennis LindseyLocker Room clean out - YouTube Skip navigation Sign in Search Loading... Close This video is unavailable. Get YouTube without the ads. Working... Loading...
  
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• Letter: Enough of the old white men

  01-05-2019 21:55
  Please, old white men, step aside. Let someone else run the country. The OWM who is running the country right now is doing a terrible job. And the two OWM Democrats likely won’t be much better. Please, let Americans from another generation, gender and race tackle the issues of the day. And then, let’s follow their lead.An old white woman,Jonna Ramey, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Joe Ingles just went through his most challenging season in the NBA. He’s eager to clean the slate and get back at it.

  01-05-2019 21:46 via sportspyder.com
  Joe Ingles called it “the toughest year of my career.”
  
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• Joe Ingles just went through his most challenging season in the NBA. He’s eager to clean the slate and get back at it.

  01-05-2019 21:38
  Joe Ingles called it “the toughest year of my career.”It wasn’t the up and down end to the season, where after taking on a larger role than ever before during the regular season, he struggled mightily in the playoffs. But more than the Houston Rockets’ defense, it was instead his off-court life that turned Ingles’ year into a taxing one.Ingles’ son Jacob was diagnosed with autism early in the season, though the family didn’t announce the situation until
  
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• Letter: National popular vote would protect us from election hacking

  01-05-2019 21:26
  The Mueller report documents that, in 2016, at least one county computer system in Florida was successfully hacked by Russian operatives. The vote margin for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton was just over 100,000 votes in that state. That was approximately .07% of the total votes cast nationwide (136 million) in our last presidential election.It’s not known at this time which Florida county suffered the intrusion, but if the results were sufficient to flip the state’s total electora
  
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• Utah ranked No. 2 last year for growth in its gross domestic product

  01-05-2019 21:07
  Utah worked its way to the second-largest increase among the states last year in gross domestic product — the total value of all goods and services produced, according to federal data released Wednesday.Utah’s GDP increased by 4.3% in 2008, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.That national growth in GDP was 2.9%.Utah’s improvement was behind only the state of Washington, where GDP increased by 5.1%. Alaska was the worst performing among the states, where the GDP d
  
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• UDOT lists top upcoming road construction projects. Agency says they’re needed to avoid becoming California.

  01-05-2019 21:03
  Comedian Jeff Foxworthy once described Utah’s seasons as “almost winter,” “winter,” “still winter” and “road construction.”Road construction season is beginning — and the Utah Department of Transportation on Wednesday listed its Top 10 projects for the year, costing more than a combined $2.1 billion. They are just the featured items among 169 projects overall statewide this year.“We need to make these improvements to keep traffic
  
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• Huntsman family pledges $12 million for new professorships at Utah State University

  01-05-2019 21:02
  The Huntsman family announced Wednesday that it will commit $12 million toward new professorships in honor of late patriarch Jon M. Huntsman Sr. at the Utah State University business school named after him.The contribution is part of more than $56 million that the Huntsmans have donated to the school since 2007. And it is their first major project there since they said goodbye to Huntsman Sr. in February 2018.“These professorships are a realization of a priority articulated by my father mo
  
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• Here’s why Instagram is going to hide your ‘likes’

  01-05-2019 21:01
  Instagram will test hiding the number of “likes” that photos and videos receive — a central aspect of its platform — to rein in competitive tendencies and make the experience a little “less pressurized.”Instagram's head, Adam Mosseri, said the change is designed to minimize the stress of posting online, where users can fixate on how many "likes" their videos draw. "We want people to worry a little bit less about how many likes they're getting on Instagram and
  
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• Texas food stamp recipients may face ban on junk food and sugary drinks

  01-05-2019 20:57
  Texas state legislators are taking fresh aim at energy drinks, soda and candy. Rep. Briscoe Cain, a Republican who represents Baytown in the Houston area, filed a bill last month in the House Committee for Human Services that would bar people from using food stamps to pay for energy drinks, candy and other junk foods.The Texas bill aims to curb the spread of diabetes and other health problems linked to poor diet.The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP or food stamps, pr
  
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• Weekly Run podcast: How do the Jazz go from taking ‘baby steps’ to ‘big strides’ this offseason?

  01-05-2019 20:55
  With the Jazz off to an earlier-than-usual summer vacation, The Salt Lake Tribune’s Jazz beat writers, Eric Walden and Andy B. Larsen, found themselves discussing … the Champions League semifinals? Not for long, though.For while there may be no more Jazz games to play, there are still plenty of Jazz items to discuss. Plus, trolling Andy about a loss by his soccer team of choice may be entertaining to Eric but likely has limited appeal otherwise.Given that, they quickly settle in to
  
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• Olympic runner Semenya loses fight over testosterone rules

  01-05-2019 20:49
  Geneva • The sports world’s highest court ruled Wednesday that Olympic champion Caster Semenya and other female runners like her with unusually high testosterone must take medication to reduce their levels of the male sex hormone if they want to compete in certain events — a landmark decision with far-reaching ramifications for other women’s sports.In a 2-1 ruling, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld proposed rules issued by track's governing body, the IAAF, saying t
  
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• Kennecott is closing its last coal power plant and moving to renewable energy

  01-05-2019 20:18
  Kennecott Utah Copper will shut down its last coal power plant in Magna and shift to renewable energy, cutting its carbon footprint by as much as 65% — a total of more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to its owners.Rio Tinto announced Wednesday that power to the mining company will come from 1.5 million megawatt hours of renewable energy certificates purchased from Rocky Mountain Power, which will be “primarily sourced from its Utah-allocated portfolio includ
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: Fact-checking Trump is not enough

  01-05-2019 19:30
  It's a tsunami of lies.It's an avalanche of falsehoods. It's a deluge, a torrent, a rockslide, a barrage, an onslaught, a blitzkrieg.President Donald Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading statements since becoming president — on the size of the inaugural crowd, the number of steel plants being built in America and whether he knew about hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, to name just three.And as unbelievable as it sounds, the tempo is picking up dramatically.On Tuesday, a
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run podcast: How do the Jazz go from taking ‘baby steps’ to ‘big strides’ this offseason?

  01-05-2019 19:20 via sportspyder.com
  With the Jazz off to an earlier-than-usual summer vacation, The Salt Lake Tribune’s Jazz beat writers, Eric Walden and Andy B. Larsen, found themselves discussing … the Champions League semifinals? Not for long, though.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz's Georges Niang not satisfied with this year's playoff contributions becoming 'highlight of my career'

  01-05-2019 19:13 via sportspyder.com
  Not only did Niang appear in career-best 59 games, he also averaged 4.0 points and 1.5 rebounds while also working his way into Jazz coach Quin Snyder’s rotation throughout the postseason series...
  
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• Utah Jazz's Georges Niang not satisfied with this year's playoff contributions becoming 'highlight of my career'

  01-05-2019 19:02
  Utah Jazz forward Georges Niang (31) works to keep Houston Rockets guard Eric Gordon (10) away from the ball as the Utah Jazz and the Houston Rockets play in game 2 of the NBA Western Conference playoffs at the Toyota Center in Houston Texas on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. The Rockets won 118-98, to take a 2-0 lead.Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsUtah Jazz forward Georges Niang (31) looks to make a shot over Houston Rockets guard Gerald Green (14) during Game 4 of the NBA Playoffs at the Vivint Sma
  
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• Watch live: House committee votes to allow Barr questioning

  01-05-2019 18:49
  Washington • The Latest on Attorney General William Barr’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee (all times local):12:25 p.m.The House Judiciary Committee has voted to allow its staff to question Attorney General William Barr, throwing his scheduled testimony Thursday into question.The Democrat-led panel voted to allow extra time for questioning. Barr was testifying in the Senate during the House panel's vote Wednesday and has objected to the change. It's unclear whether Bar
  
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• Utah Republican Party convention gets a tech boost from Gov. Herbert’s donation

  01-05-2019 18:11
  The thousands of Republican delegates to the state party’s organizing convention on Saturday will have the time-saving benefit of electronic voting, thanks to a donation from Gov. Gary Herbert’s political action committee.A spokesman for Herbert confirmed a donation of roughly $18,000 to the party, but declined to comment further. Rob Anderson, the outgoing Utah Republican Party chairman, said the money will be used for hand-held voting devices, allowing for a faster and precise coun
  
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• Dana Milbank: Poof! There goes another Infrastructure Week.

  01-05-2019 18:03
  Video: Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) on April 30 said President Trump was charged with determining next steps on an infrastructure proposal. (The Washington Post)
  Washington • As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer sat down with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday to talk about an infrastructure bill, Trump’s acting chief of staff explained why they were wasting their time.“Is an infrastructure deal realistic in 2019?&r
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: 5 Utes make Athlon Sports' top 25 Pac-12 2020 NFL Draft prospects; Utah No. 12 in post-spring top 25

  01-05-2019 17:42 via sportspyder.com
  During Sunday's Warriors-Rockets game — the Warriors won 104-100 and it featured a lot of controversy surrounding how the game was officiated, Jazz players had a humorous Twitter exchange, plus...
  
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• Commentary: How Nixon’s legacy is protecting Trump

  01-05-2019 17:42
  Deep down in a cache of documents at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum sits a 15-page memorandum entitled "A Plan For Putting The GOP On TV News."The memo, dug up by journalist John Cook in 2011, was written two years before Nixon’s 49-state landslide re-election in 1972. Even five decades ago, Republicans perceived news coverage of their party to be the unfair product of a liberal media corps.The ideas underpinning the memo fueled massive changes in both media and politica
  
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• Morning links: 5 Utes make Athlon Sports' top 25 Pac-12 2020 NFL Draft prospects; Utah No. 12 in post-spring top 25

  01-05-2019 17:25
  Utah Utes defensive back Jaylon Johnson (1) celebrates after sacking Oregon Ducks quarterback Justin Herbert (10) during the game at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018.Spenser HeapsSALT LAKE CITY — The college football season is slowly inching closer. The 2019 college football schedule opens with Arizona visiting Hawaii on Aug. 24, and Utah and BYU kick off their season with an early rivalry matchup on Aug. 29 — just 120 days away.With spring football an
  
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• [Sporting News] - Jazz offseason preview: It's time for Utah to take chances in free agency, on trade market

  01-05-2019 16:30 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz are not likely to get beyond their second-round plateau without adding another star-caliber offensive piece and better shooting. There will be opportunities to do so this offseason.
  
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• [Forbes] - Rudy Gobert Hit Another Level For The Utah Jazz In 2018-19

  01-05-2019 16:11 via sportspyder.com
  As the NBA trends further away from big men, Rudy Gobert has found ways to remain not only relevant, but critical.
  
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• Dozens wounded in clashes as Venezuelan opposition leader Guaidó, with troops, announces ‘final phase’ against Maduro

  01-05-2019 16:01
  Caracas, Venezuela • Violent clashes erupted across Venezuela on Tuesday after opposition leader Juan Guaidó launched what he described as a military-backed challenge to President Nicolás Maduro, summoning thousands of people to the streets to demonstrate against the socialist leader.It was a high-risk gamble for Guaidó, the leader of the National Assembly, who declared himself interim president of Venezuela in January. And by late Tuesday, it was unclear whether it wou
  
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• May shows up in Utah with frost, fog

  01-05-2019 15:59
  May Day is synonymous with blooming flowers and warm — but not hot — weather. The Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo are almost here to help us transition into summer festival season.Instead, people in Salt Lake City on Wednesday woke to temperatures in the 30s and thin ice more reminiscent of the Midwest than the West. Flowers were still blooming, if you could see them through the light fog.Rain is expected in the morning, though the National Weather Service expects the day to improve
  
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• [Forbes] - The NBA's Referee 'Problem' Will Last As Long As We Want It To

  01-05-2019 15:58 via sportspyder.com
  The NBA's so-called referee "problem" is more a case of manufactured outrage than an actual league crisis.
  
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• Utah shopkeeper won’t be charged after fatally punching a customer in a fight over a soda

  01-05-2019 15:57
  A convenience store owner will not be charged after fatally punching a customer during an argument over a soda fountain drink last month in Clearfield.The Davis County Attorney’s Office determined there was “no reasonable likelihood” that the storeowner would be convicted if he was charged with a crime.Brandon Stufflebean, 39, of Layton, went into the store at 680 N. Main St. on the afternoon of April 10, where he got into an argument with the store owner about buying a drink,
  
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• Minneapolis officer convicted of murder in 911 caller death

  01-05-2019 15:51
  Minneapolis • A Minneapolis police officer was convicted of third-degree murder Tuesday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman who approached his squad car minutes after calling 911 to report a possible rape, a rare guilty verdict for an officer asserting he faced a life-or-death situation.Mohamed Noor was also found guilty of manslaughter in the July 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond , a 40-year-old dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia whose death bewildered and angered people in
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Offseason Q&A Volume 2: Jazz Targets, Positional Priorities & Cap Tools

  01-05-2019 15:49 via sportspyder.com
  I already posted Volume 1, with questions and answers about . Dig in! If the Jazz waive any of their non-guaranteed contracts, theyre barred from re-signing those players, right?
  
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• Trump, top Democrats agree on goal of crafting $2 trillion infrastructure plan

  01-05-2019 15:43
  Washington • Top Democrats emerged Tuesday from a meeting with President Donald Trump touting progress toward a $2 trillion infrastructure agreement — a rare moment of bipartisanship in a divided Washington, but one that both parties fear could evaporate quickly amid thorny financing questions and a poisonous political climate.Leaving the White House after the morning meeting, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., both said Trump had
  
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• Judge keeps most limits on ex-Disney actor in teen sex case

  01-05-2019 15:24
  A federal judge will allow a former Disney Channel actor to order groceries online while he’s awaiting trial on charges alleging he tried to have sex with a 13-year-old boy, but she rebuffed requests to further ease restrictions on his home detention.A lawyer for 49-year-old actor Stoney Westmoreland asked a judge Tuesday to allow Westmoreland more time to run errands in traffic in Los Angeles, where he lives.Salt Lake City-based Judge Evelyn Furse agreed only to a slight easing of his int
  
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• Political Cornflakes: President Trump may be about to get his second defeat in efforts to put a loyalist on the Federal Reserve Board

  01-05-2019 15:18
  Happy Wednesday!President Donald Trump ally Stephen Moore’s chances to become the next member of the Federal Reserve Board may be done even before he is officially nominated. One Republican senator, Joni Ernst of Iowa, said she likely would not vote for Moore and three other Republican women senators expressed concerns. In question are Moore’s past comments saying society will suffer if men are not the breadwinners of the family and denouncing co-ed sports. Last month, Trump friend H
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Would Kemba Walker or Tobias Harris be a better free agent target?

  01-05-2019 15:18 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz may have a hard time landing a big-time free agent this summer, but both Kemba Walker and Tobias Harris will be intriguing targets. With the ...
  
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• Letter: A RINO does not change his spots

  01-05-2019 15:11
  In regard to the April 28 letter of T. G. “Bud” Mahas, “Romney is a RINO”:Mahas laments that he is so sorry that he and others voted for, as he terms him, "the carpetbagger Mitt Romney.”Sir: I'm sorry, but with all the exposure we've all had to Romney and the kind of person he has many, many times shown himself to be — a professional flip-flopper who only cares about the 1% while deriding and insulting the "47 percenters," and with his "binders of women" &mdas
  
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• Letter: Why won’t Congress act on immigration?

  01-05-2019 15:08
  This dilemma at the United States southern border has gone on long enough. Increased and unchecked immigration is damaging our country in too many ways to mention.And where are our illustrious senators and representatives in all of this? I scan the newspapers and watch television and the internet every day, and I see no comments or solutions from any of our congressional congregation from Utah.We need representatives who are willing to take the forefront into passing legislation in Congress that
  
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• Letter: Enough voodoo economics

  01-05-2019 15:06
  I think we’ve had enough of voodoo economics. It didn’t trickle down. It didn’t raise all boats. It only supplied one side.Also, I think we've already multiplied. Now let's replenish the earth.Amelia Marie English, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Questions about U. campus murder

  01-05-2019 15:03
  Thank you, Professor Ron Mittelhammer, for your column “Still no accountability at the U. for murder on campus.” A brilliant and well reasoned response to the murder of Lauren McCluskey on the University of Utah campus.University President Ruth Watkins and campus police have seemingly shrugged off Lauren’s murder. “Nothing could have prevented the crime,” they say.Not true, people. Lauren and her family called campus police something like 22 times for help about the
  
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