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• Murder victim donates heart to former Utah football player

  03-05-2019 23:57
  Ogden • Darcie Housley used to call her son “Mr. Friendly” because he was always making friends, no matter where he went.She also called him "Peanut," a moniker that stuck with friends and family.Brian didn't like the name much as a kid, even asking his mom to stop calling him that. As he got older, the name would grow on him. Darcie said many of his friends would refer to him by the nickname.Recently, she was gifted a necklace with a small peanut at the end. It's her way of tak
  
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• A refugee, a veteran, an athlete, a mom and a widow: Meet 5 Utah college graduates who are celebrating their diplomas

  03-05-2019 23:42
  For many of the record number of students Utah’s colleges graduated this spring — nearly topping 42,000 — earning a degree took tears and way too many tests. For some, it took decades.The Salt Lake Tribune talked to five graduates about what motivated them and what could have stopped them from walking across the stage this week. Among them is a refugee who was raised by her sister, a veteran who battled PTSD and a mom who wanted to wear a gap and gown before all five of her chi
  
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• In just minutes, Utah jurors acquit an investigator accused of trying to tamper with a case

  03-05-2019 23:39
  Last year, an investigator for Uintah County prosecutors was accused of breaking the law when he chit-chatted with potential jurors in a high-profile case.Jayson Chamberlain was charged with a felony, for attempting to tamper with jurors, that could have put him behind bars for up to five years.But after deliberating for a just a few minutes Wednesday, a Utah jury acquitted him."I think Jayson Chamberlain shouldn't have been charged in this case," defense attorney Edward Brass said Wednesday. "I
  
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• Salt Lake City mayoral candidates stake out stronger stances on a highly politicized development in the city’s northwest side

  03-05-2019 23:38
  In a 30-second video posted to David Garbett’s Facebook page at the end of April, the Salt Lake City mayoral candidate stands in front of a railroad track as a freight train moves behind him.“I oppose the inland port,” he says decisively.That declaration represents a shift to a stronger stance from just a few weeks ago, when Garbett said he would work to negotiate with the board overseeing development of a massive and highly politicized distribution hub planned for the city&rsq
  
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• Tribune Editorial: There’s more than road construction ahead

  03-05-2019 23:00
  The Utah Department of Transportation has announced its summer road construction priorities, and the top 10 projects alone add up to $2.1 billion. The list includes a couple of new roads, but in most cases it's widening existing roads and replacing bridges and exits on freeways. All pretty practical stuff.UDOT’s deputy director acknowledged the work will be a burden for drivers, “but without construction and improvements, we eventually get bogged down and we become California —
  
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• A native Utahn’s campaign to elect an independent vice president says it reached a milestone in Utah. State law suggests otherwise.

  03-05-2019 22:45
  On Thursday evening, a Twitter account for vice.run promoted a video message to Utahns, thanking them for their support of an independently-elected vice president of the United States.“This makes Utah the first of the 50 states to gather the pledges required to get an independent vice president on the ballot in 2020,” San Francisco businessman and vice.run founder David Blake says in the video. “We are on our way.”You did it, Utah! Thanks to your efforts, we now have our
  
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• UTA track replacement begins Saturday; will complicate traffic, TRAX commutes in Salt Lake City

  03-05-2019 22:44
  Commuting by TRAX and driving in downtown Salt Lake City will both become more complicated Saturday as the Utah Transit Authority begins the first phase of construction to replace some key track and switches.Crews will start work to replace a track at 400 South and Main Street at 5 a.m. on Saturday, which will close that intersection for a scheduled 18 days.TRAX riders on the Blue and Green lines will need to walk or take buses between the Courthouse and Gallivan stations, which UTA says will cr
  
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• Slain University of Utah student honored during commencement

  03-05-2019 22:26
  A University of Utah student who was fatally shot by a man she briefly dated was honored during the school’s commencement ceremony.KUTV reports nearly 8,500 graduates on Thursday night participated in the university’s 150th general commencement. Some of them wore pins to remember Lauren McCluskey.McCluskey, who was killed in October on campus, was scheduled to graduate with a degree in humanities.Salt Lake City company O.C. Tanner had pins made and donated them to the student athlete
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Kyle Korver replaces Sen. Bob Kerrey as speaker at Creighton University

  03-05-2019 22:23
  Omaha, Neb. • A former Creighton University basketball star will replace former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey as the university’s commencement speaker later this month.Creighton's president, the Rev. Daniel Hendrickson, announced Thursday that Kyle Korver will speak at both May 18 ceremonies scheduled by the Jesuit college in Omaha.Kerrey decided last month not to address graduates and their families, saying he didn't want his support for abortion rights to be a distraction. The state Re
  
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• Latter-day Saint women’s leader discusses ‘purse-slamming’ moments and how to deal with dismissive male authorities

  03-05-2019 22:20
  In a live “Sister to Sister” conversation Friday morning at Brigham Young University’s Women’s Conference, the three top female Latter-day Saint leaders offered unscripted responses to a few of the 5,000 questions submitted by women in the faith.The event, billed as “historic,” was a first of its kind at the annual gathering for women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that draws thousands of attendees to the Provo campus.Sheri Dew, chief execu
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Jazz’s Kyle Korver replaces Sen. Bob Kerrey as speaker at Creighton University

  03-05-2019 22:17 via sportspyder.com
  Omaha, Neb. • A former Creighton University basketball star will replace former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey as the university’s commencement speaker later this month.
  
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• [Forbes] - Utah Jazz Can Help Joe Ingles Age Gracefully By Upgrading The Pieces Around Him

  03-05-2019 22:14 via sportspyder.com
  How will Joe Ingles remain effective as he moves toward the end of his prime?
  
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• Gehrke: Mitt Romney is skipping the first Utah Republican convention since he became a senator

  03-05-2019 22:13
  There’s been a lot of speculation around the question: What kind of reception will freshman Sen. Mitt Romney receive this Saturday at the Utah Republican Party state convention?But consider this: Does it really matter if he’s not there to hear it?“[Sen. Romney] has family commitments and won’t be able to attend,” said Romney’s spokeswoman, Liz Johnson.
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• [Forbes] - Joe Ingles' Post-Prime

  03-05-2019 21:59 via sportspyder.com
  How will Joe Ingles remain effective as he moves toward the end of his prime?
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Trump Finally Gets a Dog

  03-05-2019 21:36
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Saturday, May 4. 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05/02/bagley-cartoon-axing/" target=_blank><u>Axing Booze and Entertainment</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05/01/bagley-cartoon-team/"><u>Team of Reviled</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/30/bagle
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Derrick Favors dilemma: Jazz want their ‘anchor’ back, but that might block their clearest path to progress

  03-05-2019 21:32 via sportspyder.com
  Over the coming months, there will be no shortage of speculation about how different the Jazz’s roster might look next season. After all, Ricky Rubio, Thabo Sefolosha, and Ekpe Udoh are unrestricted free agents; Kyle Korver is contemplating...
  
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• Monson: Why Luke Staley may ask for his number to be removed from BYU’s football stadium. It’s about the Honor Code.

  03-05-2019 21:19
  When BYU retired Luke Staley’s No. 6 in September 2017, the greatest running back the school has ever seen, a first-team All-American and Doak Walker Award winner, was thrilled.“This is something that I never imagined,” he said back then. “It’s a total honor for me.”It is a total honor for him no more.It is an abridged honor, an honor with an asterisk.It’s an honor he’s considering turning away from.The reason?Staley has had his fill of the way BYU
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Suns tap 76ers assistant Monty Williams as new coach

  03-05-2019 21:17 via sportspyder.com
  The Phoenix Suns are looking for stability after their previous coach lasted just one season.
  
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• [KSL] - Why has the Jazz chemistry been so strong? The same reason why it's likely to continue

  03-05-2019 21:10 via sportspyder.com
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• The Derrick Favors dilemma: Jazz want their ‘anchor’ back, but that might block their clearest path to progress

  03-05-2019 21:04
  Over the coming months, there will be no shortage of speculation about how different the Jazz’s roster might look next season. After all, Ricky Rubio, Thabo Sefolosha, and Ekpe Udoh are unrestricted free agents; Kyle Korver is contemplating retirement; and Derrick Favors’ salary does not become guaranteed until July 6.While the first three on that list seem unlikely likely to return, and Korver would be welcomed back with open arms should the 38-year-old decide to play out the final
  
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• Suns tap 76ers assistant Monty Williams as new coach

  03-05-2019 21:00
  FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2016 file photo, then-Oklahoma City Thunder assistant coach Monty Williams watches during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Denver. The Phoenix Suns announced Friday, May 3, 2019, they have hired Williams as their new coach, replacing Igor Kokoskov, who was fired last week after one disappointing season.(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)David ZalubowskiFILE - In this Jan. 19, 2016 file photo, then-Oklahoma City Thunder assistant coach Monty Williams watches duri
  
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• Letter: Genetic editing must be regulated

  03-05-2019 20:54
  In November 2018, Chinese scientist Dr. He Jiankui announced to the world he created the first genetically edited twin babies using a method called CRISPR. The Chinese government, along with the scientific community, quickly condemned He’s actions.Since 2018, the scientific community gathered to set up new regulations surrounding genetic editing. Their regulations came too late.Genetic editing is no longer the technology of science fiction, but the technology of a world desperate to regula
  
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• Letter: Utah should keep its old prison

  03-05-2019 20:53
  The recent news that the Utah state prison under construction is at least $130 million over estimates, and that its size is being reduced by 400 beds in order to save money, should come as no surprise to the tax-paying public. It’s also a couple of years behind schedule.Located at 8000 West and 1500 North, near the smelly, mosquito-filled swamps of the Great Salt Lake, the site of the new prison will not be very hospitable or accessible to the 1,000 volunteers who now serve at the old pris
  
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• Letter: What happened to our ‘unalienable rights’?

  03-05-2019 20:52
  So now it’s San Diego and, before that, Pittsburgh.Synagogues, mosques, churches, temples, colleges, schools, shopping malls. Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Baptists, Episcopalians and many others. All are meeting to discuss how many police/security guards it takes to protect our sanctuaries.These discussions are happening every day, in this country, that was created to “insure our Domestic tranquility.”We were founded on the principles that "we hold these truths to be self-evident,
  
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• Letter: The NRA operates like the mafia

  03-05-2019 20:52
  The National Rifle Association, representing only an extreme minority, has stolen the right of gun regulation from Utah citizens. A 90% majority, including gun owners, and 74% of NRA members, favor a universal background check, which, of course, NRA leaders and Republican legislators reject.The NRA-dominated GOP violates authentic democracy by refusing to honor the will of the majority.The NRA has been the most powerful lobby in the nation and operates like the mafia.It is greed-driven and makes
  
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• Letter: Wild places must endure

  03-05-2019 20:51
  Recently, my brother introduced his California hillbilly sibling to Utah’s wonders with a meandering jaunt south to the Mojave.With soaring peaks at every turn and for any occasion, many still ladled with snow, signs of Spring abundant, I fell hard for the Beehive State.From my brother’s running narrative, I learned the Utah’s geology must fill at least three thick volumes to describe how Nature nearly wore herself out in birthing such splendors as our eyes and science reveal.T
  
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• Letter: Great news about Kennecott’s last coal plant

  03-05-2019 20:51
  As someone who has become totally disillusioned with the current political process, I felt both energized and inspired when I read this headline in the May 2 Salt Lake Tribune, “Kennecott to close its last coal plant.”Whether this decision was driven by market forces or a reality of what must be done to protect the future of this planet, as well as its future inhabitants, is irrelevant. This is great news.The current political thought process permeating within this country has become
  
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• Letter: Friendship and greed build Ponzi schemes

  03-05-2019 20:51
  As Salt Lake City has been given the name of Fraudulent City, we should wake up to the reason why.In my opinion, it breaks down to two big reasons, friendship and greed.Friendship exists through the church or other organizations a person belongs to. Greed comes into play when these so-called friends start talking returns of more than 10%. One should be wary, as banks and other institutions will return less than 3% to 5%. This is where greed comes in.Ponzi schemes are built on these two points. I
  
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• Letter: U.S. should support the Global Fund

  03-05-2019 20:50
  In 2002, the world came together to create the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This international partnership has helped save 27 million lives since 2002.Yet we cannot consider the issue solved. Growing drug resistance. Funding shortfalls. Wavering political resolve. These are all threats to the progress made.Yet the Global Fund has a plan for keeping its life-saving work going, if only we will support it. The U.S. must rise to its responsibility in this.I urge the administr
  
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• Letter: The truth will come out, eventually

  03-05-2019 20:50
  We have become so numb to President Trump’s daily lies and distortions that they are not even news anymore, just background noise.But when the attorney general of the United States distorts the truth, that should make all who believe in the rule of law shutter.As it now turns out, special counsel Robert Mueller was upset, and put his feelings in writing, that Attorney General William Barr distorted the findings of the special counsel’s report.No wonder Barr let the report marinate in
  
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• Letter: The Constitution provides the standard of impeachment

  03-05-2019 20:40
  Our Electoral College method of selecting a president has failed to prevent a corrupt, or easily corruptible, individual from reaching the highest office in the United States. This selection of the president did not represent the American people as a whole.However, the Constitution provides a peaceful and politically accountable mechanism for removing a president before the end of his term.Reasonable people might often disagree about whether a particular president's misconduct borders on the mor
  
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• The two most conservative members of the Utah Board of Education are resigning

  03-05-2019 20:21
  They’ve fought against global warming and evolution being taught as fact in science classes. They’ve argued that sex education has become “comprehensive” and strayed too far from abstinence. And they’ve credited national teaching benchmarks for math and English with “expanding socialism.”Now, the two most conservative and outspoken members of the Utah Board of Education are resigning.Alisa Ellis and Lisa Cummins announced they will step down midterm, lea
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz's Kyle Korver replacing senator as Creighton commencement speaker

  03-05-2019 20:20 via sportspyder.com
  A former Creighton University basketball star will replace former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey as the university's commencement speaker later this month.
  
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• Utah Jazz's Kyle Korver replacing senator as Creighton commencement speaker

  03-05-2019 20:05
  Utah Jazz guard Kyle Korver 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.OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former Creighton University basketball star will replace former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey as the university's commencement speaker later this month.Creighton's president, the Rev. Daniel Hendrickson, announced Thursday that Kyle Korver will speak at both
  
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• Monson: BYU football great Luke Staley detests how his alma mater enforces its Honor Code. He may ask to have his retired name, number removed from LaVell Edwards Stadium.

  03-05-2019 19:44
  When BYU retired Luke Staley’s No. 6 in September, 2017, the greatest running back the school has ever seen, a first-team All-American and Doak Walker Award winner, was thrilled.“This is something that I never imagined,” he said back then. “It’s a total honor for me.”It is a total honor for him no more.It is an abridged honor, an honor with an asterisk.It’s an honor he’s considering turning away from.The reason?Staley has had his fill of the way BY
  
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• Commentary: A chance to modernize Utah’s wildlife management rules

  03-05-2019 19:36
  With Mike Styler’s impending retirement as boss of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Utah has a golden opportunity to make enlightened advances in how it manages public lands, waters and wildlife.One of Styler’s most notable accomplishments, as described in The Tribune article, was to “prevent the reintroduction of the gray wolf into Utah" and to remove endangered species protections from the wolf by waiving “normal contract rules to allow upfront payment [over th
  
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• Suspected shoplifter remains in critical condition after being tackled by employees and witnesses at Salt Lake hardware store

  03-05-2019 18:30
  A man suspected of shoplifting at an Ace Hardware Store was in critical but stable condition at a local hospital on Friday morning, the day after he was tackled by two store employees and two witnesses.According to Salt Lake City Police, the man — whose identity has not been released — was confronted, tackled and detained by the employees and witnesses in the parking lot of the store at 612 E. 400 South. When police arrived shortly after 7 p.m., they put the man in handcuffs, One of
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - NBA fires Turkish company that left Enes Kanter off a tweet

  03-05-2019 18:23 via sportspyder.com
  The NBA reacted in support of Portland's Enes Kanter on Thursday, not long after the league's Turkish-centric Twitter account failed to mention Kanter's efforts in the Trail Blazers' victory over...
  
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• NBA fires Turkish company that left Enes Kanter off a tweet

  03-05-2019 18:18
  Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter reacts after being called for a foul against the Denver Nuggets in the first half of Game 1 of an NBA basketball second-round playoff series Monday, April 29, 2019, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)David ZalubowskiDenver Nuggets forward Torrey Craig, left, runs into Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter, who pulls in a rebound during the first half of Game 2 of an NBA basketball second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 1, 2019, in Denver. (AP
  
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• Utah women’s basketball transfer Dre’Una Edwards will play for Kentucky

  03-05-2019 17:59
  Utah forward Dre'Una Edwards, the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, has chosen Kentucky to continue her women's basketball career.As reported in late March, Edwards entered the NCAA transfer portal, seeking a higher-level program with three years of eligibility remaining. Kentucky finished fourth in the Southeastern Conference and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament in March, when the Wildcats’ Rhyne Howard was named the SEC Freshman of the Year.Utah was ranked ahead of Kentucky in
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jazz happy with their wing players, but could be looking to improve at that position

  03-05-2019 17:55 via sportspyder.com
  Wing players are usually the top scorers for their teams as is the case with Donovan Mitchell on the Utah Jazz. The Jazz are happy with their wing players, but may be looking to add another to...
  
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• Jazz happy with their wing players, but could be looking to improve at that position

  03-05-2019 17:50
  Utah Jazz guard Naz Mitrou-Long (30), Utah Jazz guard Grayson Allen (24) and Utah Jazz center Ekpe Udoh (33) watch as the clock ticks down the last seconds of an NBA game against the Toronto Raptors at the Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018. The Jazz lost 111-124.Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsUtah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) goes up for a dunk as Utah Jazz and the Las Angeles Lakers play at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt lake City on Wednesday, March 27, 2019.
  
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• Catherine Rampell: The worst thing Barr did this week had nothing to do with the Mueller report

  03-05-2019 17:26
  Video: President Trump says the Republican Party will become ‘the party of healthcare,’ but columnist Catherine Rampell argues that if the GOP actually tried to devise a health system that fulfilled both conservative principles and public promises, it would probably come up with something like . . . Obamacare. (Joshua Carroll/The Washington Post)The worst thing that Attorney General William P. Barr did this week arguably had nothing to do with possible contempt of Congress or the Mue
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox delivers quite the pitch; Ute football gets national respect

  03-05-2019 16:41 via sportspyder.com
  "I can’t speak to anyone else’s reasoning, though it’s been my observation that the Utes tend to get overlooked on a year-to-year basis as much as any program in the country."
  
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• Morning links: Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox delivers quite the pitch; Ute football gets national respect

  03-05-2019 16:40
  Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at the under-construction Gail Miller Resource Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, May 2, 2019. Officials announced Thursday they are naming the new homeless resource center after Gail Miller, owner of the Utah Jazz, because of her dedication and generosity toward ending homelessness in Utah.SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox has plenty on his plate, what with his family life, his current job as the state's second in command and his preparation for a p
  
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• George Pyle: Learn to see through all the propaganda

  03-05-2019 16:00
  The title of the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States is claimed by The New York Post. It was founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton for the simple and express purpose of smearing the name of Thomas Jefferson.Jefferson survived. The Post survived. Freedom of the press survived. The nation survived. Hamilton, well, not so much.His creation of the Post, perhaps, was buyer’s remorse.Less than a year before, the still prototype Electoral College was deadlocked between Je
  
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• Kirby: BYU Honor Code Office could use an experienced transgressor. Someone like me.

  03-05-2019 15:19
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is working to revamp the Honor Code at Brigham Young University. This follows a public outcry over past practices that many have found abhorrent.For the record, I attended BYU many years ago. My experience with the Honor Code is limited because I took only a couple of night classes before I figured out where I wanted to go with the rest of my education.However, I have considerable experience with Honor Code-type transgressions, something of which I
  
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• Political cornflakes: Will President Trump’s expanded ‘conscience rule’ deprive patients of reproductive health care?

  03-05-2019 15:16
  Happy Friday!President Donald Trump announced new protections for health-care workers who refuse for moral or religious reasons to provide services or prescriptions related to abortion, assisted suicide or other procedures. The 440-page rule has some worried about depriving patients of reproductive health care. [NYTimes] [CNN]Topping the news: Utahns are once again starting to trust the scandal-scarred Utah Transit Authority, according to a new survey the agency commissioned. [Trib]-> Democra
  
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• Meet 5 Utah college graduates who are celebrating their diplomas and the struggles that they pushed through to get them

  03-05-2019 15:00
  For many of the record number of students Utah’s colleges graduated this spring — nearly topping 42,000 — earning a degree took tears and way too many tests. For some, it took decades.The Salt Lake Tribune talked to five graduates about what motivated them and what could have stopped them from walking across the stage this week. Among them is a refugee who was raised by her sister, a veteran who battled PTSD and a mom who wanted to wear a gap and gown before all five of her chi
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Oxygen channel claims it knows what happened to Susan Cox Powell. It doesn’t.

  03-05-2019 14:00
  The latest TV show about the disappearance of Susan Cox Powell claims that it has “new evidence” and “never-before-seen footage unveiling a new theory in the case.”To give the program as much latitude on those claims as possible, OK, they're not altogether false.What Oxygen's “The Search for Susan Cox Powell” doesn't say is that it has nothing to back up this “new theory.” That it is, essentially, idle speculation not supported by anything approach
  
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