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• Liverpool stuns Barcelona 4-0 to reach Champions League final

  07-05-2019 23:53
  Liverpool , England • Liverpool delivered the greatest in a long line of famous comebacks to reach the Champions League final on Tuesday, beating Lionel Messi’s Barcelona 4-0 at Anfield to overturn a three-goal deficit from the first leg.Divock Origi scored twice, either side of goals by halftime substitute Georginio Wijnaldum early in the second half, to send Liverpool into its second straight final and set up a meeting with either Ajax or Tottenham on June 1.It was only the third ti
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Projecting the Salary Cap Space for all 30 NBA Teams

  07-05-2019 23:25 via sportspyder.com
  How many max slots will be open for 2019 free agency?
  
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• Utah’s Megaplex Theatres will offer a subscription service, with two tickets a month for $14.95

  07-05-2019 22:39
  Utah’s Megaplex Theatres is joining the subscription-service game to attract moviegoers to the multiplex.The theater chain, which operates 176 screens at 15 first-run locations across Utah and in Mesquite, Nev., announced Tuesday that it is introducing MegaPass, a subscription that offers members two movie tickets for $14.95 a month.With regular weekend evening tickets going for around $10, depending on time and location, the new service could shave $5 off the cost of a movie date night.Th
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Brad Rock: Why now is the time for the Jazz to exceed the speed limit

  07-05-2019 22:34 via sportspyder.com
  Free agency flexibility and the need to supplement the stars make it unlikely the current makeup will stay intact— nor should it.
  
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• Brad Rock: Why now is the time for the Jazz to exceed the speed limit

  07-05-2019 22:24
  FILE: Jazz players walk off the floor at a timeout after a Royce O'Neale (23) 3-point shot as the Utah Jazz and the Phoenix Suns play in an NBA basketball game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Utah won 116-99.Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsUtah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder talks to his players during a timeout as the Utah Jazz and the Oklahoma City Thunder play in game one of the NBA playoffs in Oklahoma City on Sunday, April 15, 2018. Utah falls 108-116.Scott G Winte
  
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• It’s official: Marie Osmond will join CBS’ ‘The Talk’ in September

  07-05-2019 22:01
  As expected, CBS has announced that Marie Osmond will be a new host of CBS’ “The Talk.”She'll join the show's panel when it begins its 10th season in the fall, sitting alongside Eve, Carrie Ann Inaba, Sharon Osbourne and Sheryl Underwood. Osmond will replace Sara Gilbert, who's leaving the show after nine seasons.“It is such a joy for me to be joining ‘The Talk’ in September. After guest co-hosting and appearing as a guest on the show throughout the years, I a
  
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• Utahn will have to ‘hook up’ or ‘check out’ of Fox reality show ‘Paradise Hotel’

  07-05-2019 21:58
  Fox is reviving “Paradise Hotel,” one of its sleazier reality-competition shows, and a Utahn will be there when the show premieres on Thursday.Hans Wiener will be one of the, ahem, “sexy singles” who check into a luxury beach hotel and compete for big bucks.“Eleven sexy singles will do whatever it takes to win the competition,” host Kristin Cavallari says in a promo. “And the rules are really simple — hook up, or you’re checking out.”On
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Killer Economy

  07-05-2019 21:57
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, May 8, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05/06/bagley-cartoon-sharkcare/" target=_blank><u>Sharkcare for All</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05/03/bagley-cartoon-trump/"><u>Trump Finally Gets a Dog</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05/02/ba
  
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• Kentucky Derby winner Country House won’t run in Preakness

  07-05-2019 21:46
  After being declared the winner of the Kentucky Derby by disqualification, Country House will not run in the Preakness, ending any chance this year at another Triple Crown.Assistant trainer Riley Mott confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday that the long shot winner of horse racing's biggest event is no longer being considered to run in the second jewel of the Triple Crown. Country House was elevated to the winner's circle at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday after Maximum Security was disqual
  
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• A biracial Utah boy was shut in the doors of a school bus and left dangling outside as it drove forward. Now his family is suing.

  07-05-2019 21:45
  He had reached the last step and was about to jump off the bus when he felt a tug at his back.A line of kids had already filed off ahead of him and at least five more had been standing in line behind him. But suddenly the bus lurched forward. And his body was pinned, dangling outside, his backpack caught in the door.The tires rotated inches from his white sneakers as the road rolled below him. He tried not to wiggle or pull his backpack loose, afraid that if one of the straps broke, he’d b
  
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• Massive restored locomotive steaming to Ogden for Thursday Golden Spike gathering

  07-05-2019 21:25
  Cheyenne, Wyo. • It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain.The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive rolled out of a Union Pacific restoration shop in Cheyenne over the weekend for a big debut after five years of restoration. It then headed toward Ogden for a Thursday celebration, part of its yearlong tour to commemorate the transcontinental railroad’s 150th anniversary.Big Boys haul
  
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• Jason Rezaian: Imprisoned for a job well done, reporters are finally freed in Myanmar

  07-05-2019 21:15
  The prison ordeal of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo is thankfully over, but their biggest challenges may lie ahead.The two local reporters for Reuters contributed incredibly detailed investigative reporting that uncovered a massacre of Rohingya Muslims in a rural province of Myanmar in September 2017. The journalists obtained photos of the victims shortly before their executions as well as evidence from the mass grave where they were buried. The information they revealed was so shocking that authoritie
  
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• Can the Utes’ new kicker and punter match the program’s standards? That’s asking a lot

  07-05-2019 21:13
  Ben Lennon’s head bobbed as he stood behind the snapper and counted the 14 yards to his proper spot on the field. That’s the first thing Utah’s new punter learned during spring football practice, after figuring he could stand anywhere that seemed comfortable.After the program’s historic showing in last month’s NFL Draft, Utah is starting over in the kicking game. The Utes’ proven formula, in this decade: find a punter from Australia and a kicker who skied inte
  
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• U.S. Soccer files response to lawsuit filed by women’s team

  07-05-2019 20:51
  The U.S. Soccer Federation has formally denied allegations of gender discrimination made by players of the U.S. women’s national team.Twenty-eight members of the current women's player pool filed the lawsuit March 8 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, alleging "institutionalized gender discrimination" that includes unequal pay with their counterparts on the men's national team.The USSF filed its answer on Monday, about one mo
  
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• Immigrants have no need to fear citizenship question, Census Bureau director assures Utah audience

  07-05-2019 20:48
  Immigrants should not fear that they could somehow be deported for answering a proposed census question next year about their citizenship status, Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham told a Utah audience on Tuesday.“Federal laws say that we will never in our lifetime reveal confidential information,” including how specific individuals answer that question, he told a morning newsmaker breakfast at the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.“If we do, we c
  
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• Moo! BYU is adding a milk-and-cookie bar

  07-05-2019 20:11
  Brigham Young University is opening an on-campus bar later this year — a milk-and-cookie bar.Because, of course, BYU is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which teaches its members to abstain from drinking alcohol. Milk and cookies are OK, however. And, once the new on-campus facility is completed, milk and cookies will be actively encouraged.And not just plain ol' milk. Or even plain ol' chocolate milk. BYU is promising a variety of flavors — incl
  
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• A Utah woman accused of strangling her children nearly nine years ago is now deemed competent to face murder charges

  07-05-2019 20:11
  It’s been almost nine years since police say a Layton mother barricaded a bedroom door and then strangled her two young children.But Sun Cha Warhola’s case has been stalled nearly from the onset, after a judge determined that her mental illness rendered her not competent to face two counts of aggravated murder in court.Since then, she’s been at the Utah State Hospital — and at one point, was civilly committed to the facility.But now medical experts say she is competent, a
  
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• [Forbes] - Can Ricky Rubio Survive The NBA's Three-Point Revolution?

  07-05-2019 19:42 via sportspyder.com
  Is Ricky Rubio's NBA future tied to the Utah Jazz?
  
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• Utah’s Megaplex Theatres will offer a subscription services, with two tickets a month for $14.95

  07-05-2019 19:23
  Utah’s Megaplex Theatres is joining the subscription-service game to attract moviegoers to the multiplex.The theater chain, which operates 182 screens at 16 locations across Utah and in Mesquite, Nev., announced Tuesday that it is introducing MegaPass, a subscription that offers members two movie tickets for $14.95 a month.With regular weekend evening tickets going for around $10, depending on time and location, the new service could shave $5 off the cost of a movie date night.The new serv
  
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• [KSL] - By the numbers: Utah Jazz season in review

  07-05-2019 19:19 via sportspyder.com
  Success or Failure? Inside the numbers that defined the Jazz' season
  
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• Tell The Tribune: Has BYU’s Honor Code enforcement changed your view of the school?

  07-05-2019 19:00
  Luke Staley, a former Brigham Young University football player, recently told The Salt Lake Tribune he believes the school unfairly or inappropriately enforces its Honor Code and that he may ask for his retired number to be removed from BYU’s football stadium.“I still get goosebumps when I see my name and number up at the stadium,” Staley said. “I want to make it clear that I love BYU. But now I wonder if there’s more value for me to take down my name to raise aware
  
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• Eugene Robinson: If you dream of seeing the Great Barrier Reef, don’t wait

  07-05-2019 18:30
  Washington • There are roughly eight million plant and animal species in the world. One of them — homo sapiens — may soon wipe out a million of the rest. And we’re just getting started.That's the depressing bottom line from a comprehensive new United Nations report on biodiversity. Species are going extinct at a rate unmatched in human history — and the die-off is accelerating. It sounds melodramatic to say that we're killing the planet, but that's what the scientifi
  
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• Plans call for 87,000-square-foot Latter-day Saint temple in Saratoga Springs

  07-05-2019 18:15
  Utah’s 18th Latter-day Saint temple has taken another step toward construction and eventual completion.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Tuesday that it has filed preliminary plans — with no exterior or interior renderings — for the edifice due to go up in Saratoga Springs.The three-story, 87,000-square-foot structure will be built in the new Beacon Pointe subdivision west of Redwood Road and north of Meadow Side Drive, according to a news release. A 21,
  
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• Dana Milbank: Let’s give Trump cash reparations — in exchange for his retirement

  07-05-2019 17:53
  Washington • How can we ever repay Donald Trump?The sad truth is we probably cannot. And yet, conscience dictates that we try.This is why we should welcome Jerry Falwell Jr.'s proposal: America owes President Trump reparations.The president of Liberty University floated this fine idea over the weekend, and Trump himself quickly embraced the proposal with a retweet, adding a rationale: "Despite the tremendous success that I have had as president, including perhaps the greatest ECONOMY and mo
  
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• Catherine Rampell: It’s obvious what we don’t want in a Fed nominee. Here’s what we do.

  07-05-2019 17:41
  It’s pretty easy to identify what we don’t want in a Federal Reserve Board member. So let’s talk about what we do want.Last week, President Trump told us that one of his announced-though-never-formally-nominated choices for Fed, Stephen Moore, had withdrawn from consideration. This came just 10 days after another Fed pick, Herman Cain, bowed out.Both men were unfit for one of the world's most powerful economic policymaking jobs. That was obvious from their confused and often se
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Guest commentary: Here's how the Utah Jazz can keep Derrick Favors

  07-05-2019 17:20 via sportspyder.com
  Derrick Favors has been exceptional this season and if the Jazz pick up the option on his contract this summer it will limit what Dennis Lindsey can do this offseason.
  
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• Guest commentary: Here's how the Utah Jazz can keep Derrick Favors

  07-05-2019 17:15
  Derrick Favors 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.SALT LAKE CITY — Seven years ago, Dennis Lindsey was hired as general manager of the Utah Jazz and since that day Lindsey has completely reshaped the organization. Coaches and players have come and gone but the lone survivor has been Derrick Favors.Favors was brought to Utah in the huge De
  
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• Two more years? Trump’s retweet sets off a furor over the idea of bonus time.

  07-05-2019 16:52
  Washington • President Donald Trump for months has griped, complained and tweeted about what he says is the unfair Russia “witch hunt” investigation that has consumed nearly half of his presidency.Now, the president has floated a possible solution: two bonus years.Trump over the weekend shared a tweet by Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, in which Falwell complimented Trump for “no obstruction, no collusion” and a soaring economy, before adding, &ldq
  
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• Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time

  07-05-2019 16:31
  Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings? For most people, the answer is, “Are you crazy?”Yet that's essentially what Amazon has been doing to millions of us with its assistant Alexa in microphone-equipped Echo speakers. And it's hardly alone: Bugging our homes is Silicon Valley's next frontier.Many smart-speaker owners don't realize it, but Amazon keeps a copy of everything Alexa records after it hears its name. Apple's Siri, and until recently Google'
  
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• Cory Booker proposes national license for all gun owners

  07-05-2019 16:07
  Washington • Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker is proposing that all gun owners be licensed by the federal government, a process that would include an interview and safety training.National licensing is one of more than a dozen specific proposals in a sweeping gun control agenda the U.S. senator from New Jersey released on Monday. It's his second policy rollout in three weeks as he tries to break through the crowded Democratic primary field .While current gun owners and first-ti
  
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• House committee moving ahead with contempt vote for Barr

  07-05-2019 15:30
  Washington • A House committee is poised to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress — the opening salvo in what could be a lengthy, acrimonious court battle between House Democrats and President Donald Trump’s administration over special counsel Robert Mueller’s report .House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler scheduled a Wednesday vote to hold Barr in contempt of Congress, citing the Justice Department’s failure to provide the full text o
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Former military, intelligence leaders urge congressional support for Trump’s Space Force proposal

  07-05-2019 15:15
  Happy Tuesday!Retired military and intelligence officials are pressing Congress to support President Donald Trump’s controversial proposal to establish a U.S. Space Force. More than three dozen former leaders signed an open letter that argued the initiative would help “protect and advance U.S. vital national interests.” The signatories included former Secretary of Defense William Perry and former high-ranking Pentagon official Robert Work, both of whom served under Democratic p
  
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• Kirby: Does your DNA have you looking over your shoulder?

  07-05-2019 14:05
  It could be you — you know, one of those people who are sweating the genealogical DNA fishing trips police are using to close out cold cases?The number of people who think they literally got away with murder long ago is dwindling. You might be parked in a nursing home somewhere and — voila — the cops come calling with a murder warrant.Police send decades-old DNA samples to genealogical labs, where they’re compared to millions of people who voluntarily surrendered their ge
  
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• Commentary: Calling Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group is scapegoating

  07-05-2019 14:00
  The Trump administration is reportedly pushing to issue an order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a “foreign terrorist organization,” which would bring the weight of U.S. sanctions against a diverse political movement with millions of members — despite the group publicly disavowing violence nearly 50 years ago.That’s been a goal of many anti-Muslim activists and professional Islamophobes for years. The government has never gone along with the push to declare
  
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• Letter: Trump needs Russia’s help

  07-05-2019 13:50
  No wonder that Donald Trump refuses to believe that Russia interfered in our 2016 presidential elections! It was probably the only way he could have been elected and will probably be the only way he will be elected in 2020. He welcomed Russia interference in 2016, and he welcomes it with open arms once again! Even if Russia hadn’t hacked into voting machines, the misinformation it tweeted and advertised favoring Trump affected at least 126 million voters, according to the Mueller report.I
  
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• Letter: No tolerance for racism in high school sports

  07-05-2019 13:50
  Apparently the UHSAA has a problem in confronting racist behavior on the part of high school basketball fans and in some cases players and coaches. These games are part of an overall curriculum at so-called educational institutions, and not some open forum where the rights of individuals to speak their minds on social issues have to be protected under some twisted definition of the exercise of free speech.There is a simple solution available to the UHSAA. First, the UHSAA needs to establish a co
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz’s 2019 summer league gets a facelift

  07-05-2019 07:49 via sportspyder.com
  Summer league hoops will return to Salt Lake City once again in 2019 with a new-look event hosted by the Utah Jazz. Without question, summer league basketb...
  
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• Letter: Sen. Lugar’s study abroad program enriched our lives

  07-05-2019 04:30
  In regard to the May 3 Salt Lake Tribune opinion article by Sam Nunn, “Follow ‘Lugar Way’ of civility and respect”:I, too, want to express my gratitude for Sen. Richard Lugar, who died April 29 at age 87. Our family didn’t know him personally, but we have been touched deeply by the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program. We have hosted three young people from around the world as high school exchange students; in fact, our daughter was a YES student for
  
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• Letter: A good time to cut the federal workforce

  07-05-2019 04:30
  Now that the unemployment rate has dropped to a level unseen for 50 years, even minorities are seeing the best employment picture ever.The growing, multi-Democrat candidature contends that the way to lessen the rising national debt is to stick it to Buffett, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos and the other very wealthy and instituting additional taxes on everything, including breathing.Here's an idea. With employment opportunities so much better, why not reduce our overburdened, excessively costly and les
  
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• Paul Waldman: Trump is counting on Russian help to get reelected

  07-05-2019 04:00
  “Why doesn’t the president get tough with Putin about what everyone seems to agree is clear meddling in 2016 and the threat of meddling in 2020?” Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday, referring to the most recent friendly phone call Donald Trump had with Vladimir Putin.Pompeo came up with a creative dodge, suggesting that maybe they just ran out of time: “Sometimes conversations just aren’t long enough to cover every issue tha
  
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• Aaron Blake: 4 very important things Mueller could tell us

  07-05-2019 03:40
  Robert Mueller could testify to Congress as soon as next week, as House Democrats have proposed a May 15 appearance for the special counsel. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, sounds as if he’d prefer that it never happen, tweeting Sunday that Mueller shouldn’t testify and that it would constitute a “redo for the Dems.”But just how big an event might this be? And does Trump actually have anything to fear?When this prospect was first raised long before the Mueller report c
  
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• Body of 80-year-old man found in Ogden River

  07-05-2019 03:30
  The body of an 80-year-old man was found Monday in the Ogden River, about two miles up Ogden Canyon.Members of the man’s family called police when they found his car parked alongside State Route 39, which follows the river, FOX 13 reported.They also believed some items found near the river belonged to the man, Weber County Sheriff’s Lt. Matt Jensen told FOX 13.“After about an hour, one of the teams located the man caught up against some brush on the side of the bank,” Jen
  
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• Once homeless, Clearfield boxer Jon Bryant plans to win the Golden Gloves and then turn pro

  07-05-2019 02:19
  Fourteen male and female boxers will represent the Utah-based Rocky Mountain franchise at the Golden Gloves National Tournament of Champions this week in Tennessee.All 14 have compelling stories to share, but few can say they overcame what Clearfield’s 24-year-old Jon “Bumptime” Bryant did throughout his teenage years to make it to one of the biggest stages in national amateur boxing. On his own since the age of 13, Bryant used boxing to stay on track and avoid trouble.“I
  
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• Splash pad at Salt Lake City’s Gateway temporarily closed by health department

  07-05-2019 02:18
  The snowflake-shaped water fountain at The Gateway was temporarily closed by the Salt Lake County Health Department on Monday after inspectors found improper chlorine levels.According to a notice posted on the department website, Vestar — the company that owns the downtown development — was cited for operating "a pool in a way that causes or creates a threat to the public health, safety, or the environment.”The company had recently done repairs on the splash pad’s injecto
  
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• Ramesh Ponnuru: Infrastructure bill might be bad use of $2 trillion

  07-05-2019 02:00
  Little green shoots of bipartisanship are sufficiently rare these days that it feels mean to stomp on them. But I’m afraid that it’s very unlikely that the $2 trillion infrastructure bill that congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump are discussing will amount to a good use of taxpayer money.The promises are big and numerous. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explains:“It’s about jobs, jobs, jobs. It’s about promoting commerce. It’s about clean air, clean w
  
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• RSL and the Utah Royals FC say they have an ‘efficient, effective’ broadcast, heavy on streaming

  07-05-2019 01:50
  Fans of Real Salt Lake and the Utah Royals FC have multiple options when it comes to watching games not played at Rio Tinto Stadium. RSL home and road games are broadcast on KMYU — as well as Royals road games — and all games for both teams can be streamed online on either the KSL app or Yahoo Sports.The details behind those broadcast options, however, have been tweaked within the last year, significantly in some cases. The RSL organization last August stopped airing Royals games liv
  
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• Riverton City Council considers anti-abortion resolution as critics say it’s ‘wildly inappropriate’

  07-05-2019 01:23
  The Riverton City Council is considering a resolution that would declare its support for unborn humans, belief that life begins “at the moment of conception” and opposition to lessening existing restrictions on abortion.It’s an issue cities usually don’t step into — and it comes at a time when abortion rights have become a flashpoint both in conservative Utah, with recent moves from state lawmakers to restrict access to the procedure, and across the nation.“I
  
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• Here’s who will be leading Utah’s massive tax overhaul discussion

  07-05-2019 01:02
  Utah’s legislative leaders on Monday unveiled their tax reform “dream team,” a task force that in coming months will formulate a plan for stabilizing the state’s revenue streams.The 10 voting members of the panel will be Republican Sens. Lyle Hillyard, Curt Bramble and Kirk Cullimore and Democratic Sen. Karen Mayne and Republican Reps. Francis Gibson, Tim Quinn, Mike Schultz and Robert Spendlove and Democratic Rep. Joel Briscoe. The group will also include four non-voting
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: The media underestimates Joe Biden’s strengths

  07-05-2019 00:55
  Listen to the mainstream media and you’ll think former Vice President Joe Biden is a defender of the status quo, out of touch with the increasingly progressive base that wants not only to jettison President Donald Trump but also significantly change the economic and political structure of America. The media, perhaps eager for a horse race, gets the primary contest wrong in a bunch of ways.First, Biden is leading by a mile in early primary polls. The older, moderate Democratic voters plus A
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Sharkcare for All

  07-05-2019 00:34
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05/03/bagley-cartoon-trump/" target=_blank><u>Trump Finally Gets a Dog</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05/02/bagley-cartoon-axing/"><u>Axing Booze and Entertainment</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05
  
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