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• Saints waive former Utes star Chase Hansen, sign Utah prep products Elliss and Gustin

  10-05-2019 23:14
  If Chase Hansen is going to fulfill his lifelong dreams of playing in the NFL, he’ll have to find another team. On Friday, the New Orleans Saints announced they’d waived the former University of Utah star linebacker a couple weeks after signing him as an undrafted free agent.Hansen, who turns 26 later this month, underwent back surgery in January. Hansen’s father, Brian, told The Salt Lake Tribune recently that New Orleans considered the former Lone Peak High quarterback a draf
  
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• Thousands celebrate Golden Spike’s 150th anniversary with music, fireworks and a historic reminder of how ‘the nation was united’

  10-05-2019 22:57
  Promontory • The story of the transcontinental railroad, historian Jon Meacham told an audience at the spot where the two threads of that railroad were tied together 150 years ago Friday, “is the story of America, for better or for worse.”Meacham helped tell that story at the recently re-designated Golden Spike National Historic Park Friday, giving the keynote address at a ceremony full of re-enactment, music, prayers and dignitaries including two senators, a governor, a congres
  
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• Payson City on boil order after water main broke earlier this week

  10-05-2019 22:44
  Some residents of Payson City have been ordered to boil their water until further notice after a water main broke on Thursday.According to FOX 13, residents who were left without water when the pipe broke need to boil their water to ensure its safety. On Thursday, a 10-main was broke when a boring machine bored through the line, with water flooding into homes in the area. Payson Fire and Rescue said homes between 400 North to 900 North and 300 East and 750 East are affected by the boil order.The
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz invite Utah State’s Neemias Queta to pre-draft workout ahead of NBA Draft Combine

  10-05-2019 22:43 via sportspyder.com
  On Saturday, Queta will be one of six players working out for the Jazz basketball staff at Zions Basketball Campus.
  
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• Utah Jazz invite Utah State’s Neemias Queta to pre-draft workout ahead of NBA Draft Combine

  10-05-2019 22:37
  Utah State center Neemias Queta watches with anticipation as the field for the NCAA Tournament is revealed Sunday afternoon in Logan.SALT LAKE CITY — Neemias Queta has his flight booked for the Windy City next week as one of 66 draft hopefuls set to attend the 2019 NBA Draft Combine in Chicago.But the Utah State center won't have to go far for his next pre-draft workout.On Saturday, Queta will be one of six players working out for the Jazz basketball staff at Zions Basketball Campus.Queta,
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - 2018-2019 Utah Jazz Season Review: Donovan Mitchell

  10-05-2019 22:30 via sportspyder.com
  Don’t say it was a down year ... and don’t call next year a comeback.
  
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• Man charged with murder in the October 2018 death of a former West High teacher

  10-05-2019 22:20
  Nearly seven months after a former West High School teacher was killed during what her boyfriend described as “aggressive sex,” he has been charged with her murder.Nathan Edward Parry, 34, was charged Friday in 3rd District Court with murder, a first-degree felony, and obstructing justice, a second-degree felony. A $1 million warrant for his arrest was issued. According to the charging document, Parry called 911 on Oct. 21 to report that “he believed his girlfriend” &mdas
  
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• Provo aims to make scooters, bikes available this summer

  10-05-2019 22:02
  Provo • Provo officials say they hope to have rentable bicycles and electric scooters available in the city this summer.The Daily Herald reported Thursday that the city has selected the company Zagster as its vendor for scooter and bike shares.Zagster has recommended for the city to make available 400 scooters and 100 bicycles.City parking and sustainability coordinator Austin Taylor says the contract with Zagster is still being worked out.Officials have not yet determined where the scooter
  
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• Prosecutors get more time to file Colorado shooting charges

  10-05-2019 22:00
  Denver • Prosecutors leading the case against two students suspected of shooting nine classmates, one fatally, in a suburban Denver charter school have until next week to decide what charges to pursue, a judge ruled Friday.The decision by District Judge Theresa Slade delays hearings that had been scheduled for Friday for Devon Erickson, 18, and 16-year-old Alec McKinney, who is listed in court documents as Maya, to learn the criminal charges they face in the shooting at STEM School Highland
  
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• House passes $19B disaster aid bill over Trump opposition

  10-05-2019 21:47
  Washington • The House on Friday passed a $19 billion disaster aid bill that would deliver long-sought relief to farmers, victims of hurricanes and floods, and rebuild southern military bases, as Democrats try to dislodge the legislation from a Senate logjam over aid to hurricane-slammed Puerto Rico.The measure passed by a 257-150 vote over the opposition of most Republicans, who said it should also include the Trump administration's $4.5 billion request for stepped up humanitarian aid and
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Reactions to Utah Jazz promoting Dennis Lindsey and Justin Zanik

  10-05-2019 21:34 via sportspyder.com
  Well run franchise makes yet another good decision.
  
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• [The Score] - Report: Jazz promoting pair of front office executives

  10-05-2019 21:22 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz appear set to reward a pair of front office executives.The club is promoting general manager Dennis Lindsey and assistant GM Justin Zanik, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.Lindsey will be elevated to executive vice president of...
  
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• With Nick Rimando out, Andrew Putna is getting a chance to show that he is Real Salt Lake’s goal-keeping future

  10-05-2019 21:21
  Herriman • Life as a backup goalie can be difficult. The starter gets the focus of the training sessions, all 90 minutes in games and the always-valuable experience.The backup, however, trains just as hard as the starter and travels just as much. But when the whistle blows, that player is on the bench, watching intently from the sideline, waiting a turn.Unless something happens to the starter, such as a national team call-up or an injury. Then, and likely only then, will the backup get a ch
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz promote Dennis Lindsey to executive VP of basketball operations, Justin Zanik to GM

  10-05-2019 21:17 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz have promoted general manager Dennis Lindsey to executive vice president of basketball operations. Assistant general manager Justin Zanik will be taking over Lindsey’s old general manager gig. The Jazz announced the promotions on Friday:
  
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• Letter: Medicare for All is a bad idea

  10-05-2019 21:06
  In response to the May 6 commentary from Christine Helfrich.Medicare for All is wrong, for the following reasons:The shortage of doctors in the next 20 years is expected to be 125,000.Canadians have to wait to see a specialist more than nine months on average, and they wind up going to the US to have their surgery performed.There will be long waiting lists to see a specialist. Seniors will not get treatment because younger patients will also be on these waiting lists.The government will set comp
  
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• [ESPN] - Jazz rework front office, promote Zanik to GM

  10-05-2019 21:06 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz have promoted general manager Dennis Lindsey to executive vice president of basketball operations and assistant GM Justin Zanik to GM.
  
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• Utah Jazz promote Dennis Lindsey to executive VP of basketball operations; Justin Zanik named general manager

  10-05-2019 21:01
  The Jazz signed two of its top executives to new contracts Friday and gave them promotions as well.Former Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey has been named the franchise’s executive vice president of basketball operations. Meanwhile, Justin Zanik has been promoted from assistant general manager to general manager under Lindsey. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski was the first to report the news.“We are excited for these promotions as they further enable Dennis to provide executive lead
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz reshape front office, Dennis Lindsey and Justin Zanik promoted

  10-05-2019 21:01 via sportspyder.com
  Dennis Lindsey has been promoted to VP of Basketball Operations while Justin Zanik is now the new General Manager.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz promote Justin Zanik to general manager, Dennis Lindsey becomes executive vice president

  10-05-2019 21:01 via sportspyder.com
  Zanik has served as assistant general manager for the past five years and was named a finalist for the Philadelphia 76ers GM job in 2018.
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Report: Dennis Lindsey Promoted in Jazz Front Office; Justin Zanik Named New GM

  10-05-2019 20:59 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are reportedly set to promote general manager Dennis Lindsey to executive vice president of basketball operations. Assistant general manager Justin Zanik will take over as Utah's GM...
  
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• [NBA] - Utah Jazz announce basketball operations promotions of Lindsey, Zanik

  10-05-2019 20:56 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz announced today the front office promotions of Dennis Lindsey to executive vice president of basketball operations and Justin Zanik to general manager.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz promote Dennis Lindsey to executive VP of Basketball Operations; Justin Zanik named general manager

  10-05-2019 20:54 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz signed two of its top executives to new contracts on Friday, giving them promotions as well.
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz promote Justin Zanik to general manager

  10-05-2019 20:53 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are promoting general manager Dennis Lindsey to executive vice president of basketball operations and assistant general manager Justin Zanik to general manager, according to an ESPN report.
  
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• Utah Jazz promote Justin Zanik to general manager, Dennis Lindsey becomes executive vice president

  10-05-2019 20:43
  Dennis Lindsey, Utah Jazz general manager, talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019.Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsDennis Lindsey, Utah Jazz general manager, talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019.Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsDennis Lindsey, Utah Jazz general manager, talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thur
  
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• [ESPN] - Sources: Jazz rework front office; Zanik to GM

  10-05-2019 20:43 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz are promoting general manager Dennis Lindsey to executive vice president of basketball operations and assistant GM Justin Zanik to GM, league sources told ESPN.
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz Rework Front Office, Promote Lindsey, Zanik

  10-05-2019 20:42 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz are making some changes to their front office structure, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, who reports that longtime …
  
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• Jazz promote Dennis Lindsey and Justin Zanik

  10-05-2019 20:36
  In moves that will reshape the front office of one of the Western Conference’s perennial playoff franchises, the Utah Jazz are promoting general manager Dennis Lindsey to executive vice president of basketball operations and assistant GM Justin Zanik to GM, league sources told ESPN.
  
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• 4-month-old girl dies; her 16-year-old baby sitter has been arrested

  10-05-2019 20:05
  A 4-month-old baby who suffered head injuries Thursday night died Friday morning, and the 16-year-old boy who was baby-sitting her is in custody, according to West Valley City police.Officers responded to a report of child who was not breathing at the Shadowbrook Apartments at 3852 S. 1845 West about 8:30 p.m. on Thursday. When they arrived, they performed CPR. The baby was first taken to Jordan Valley Medical Center, then flown by helicopter to Primary Children’s Hospital.The infant was t
  
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• Commentary: This Mother’s Day, give Latter-day Saint women the gift of Heavenly Mother

  10-05-2019 20:02
  Heavenly Mother,Are you really there?And do you hear andAnswer every child’s prayer?As I sat in Latter-day Saint Primary singing time during 2018, I found myself needing to change the words of several songs about God because my own experiences with God recently have included God the Mother/Heavenly Mother/Goddess. I also sang:I am a child of GodAnd they have sent me here. . .Teach me all that I must do,To live with them someday.When I sang that one, one of my dear little Sunbeams piped up,
  
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• [Forbes] - Royce O'Neale Working His Way Into A Career With The Utah Jazz

  10-05-2019 20:00 via sportspyder.com
  After two seasons with the Utah Jazz, Royce O'Neale looks like a player who could stick in the NBA for a while.
  
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• Clearfield’s Jon Bryant, Salt Lake City’s Juan Higuera advance to national Golden Gloves semifinals

  10-05-2019 20:00
  Jon Bryant, the 24-year-old Davis County boxer who escaped a rough, often homeless, life in Washington and found success in Utah pursuing the sweet science is two wins away from claiming a national Golden Gloves championship.Bryant will meet Kelvin Davis II of Washington, D.C., in a semifinal bout Friday night in Chattanooga, Tenn. Bryant came up short in his two previous trips to nationals.“This time, I am very confident,” he said last week after winning his third region championshi
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Trump’s two worst economic ideas have collided

  10-05-2019 19:54
  At 12:01 a.m. Friday, President Trump's two worst economic ideas finally collided — and made each other even worse.To be sure, there are a lot of terrible economic theories espoused by this president (tax cuts pay for themselves, government shutdowns are fun, scam artists should roam free, etc.). But the specific bad ideas I'm referring to are:1. Trade wars are good and easy to win; and2. It’s smart for the president to publicly bash the Federal Reserve.Last fall, Trump began loudly
  
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• Stifling defense fuels the Utah Royals FC’s hot start, and goalkeeper Nicole Barnhart is at the center of it

  10-05-2019 19:53
  Sandy • As the dynamic Samantha Kerr of the Chicago Fire charged toward the Utah Royals FC’s goal, keeper Nicole Barnhart tracked her every touch.The space between them narrowed. Kerr steadied herself before she shot, attempting to beat Barnhart to the back post. But the veteran Royals keeper had already cut off Kerr’s angle, and stopped the ball cleanly — maybe even easily — with her abdomen.Although just one of three saves in the Royals’ third consecutive shu
  
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• Suddenly, everyone has an opinion on the Aperol Spritz

  10-05-2019 18:15
  It must be a slow newsweek. Why else would a hot take on a light, fizzy cocktail send shock waves through social media Thursday?The spark that triggered the outrage is . . . the Aperol Spritz. Yes, the Italian cocktail made with the bitter-leaning, low-alcohol pre-meal spirit, along with prosecco, club soda and an orange slice.Specifically, that spark came in the form of a column published posted by the New York Times, boldly headlined "The Aperol Spritz Is Not a Good Drink." The author of the h
  
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• Up to 70 migrants drown after boat capsizes off Tunisia

  10-05-2019 17:50
  Tunis, Tunisia • As many as 70 migrants trying to reach Europe from Libya drowned Friday when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, and at least 16 other people from the boat were rescued, according to U.N. migration officials and Tunisia’s state news agency.The International Organization for Migration called it the deadliest migrant boat sinking since January. The drownings happened as migrant arrivals to Europe are decreasing.The smuggling boat left Libya on Thursday and sen
  
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• [USA Today: Rockets Wire] - Chris Paul's struggles in isolation could cost Rockets their season

  10-05-2019 17:43 via sportspyder.com
  Houston Rockets star Chris Paul has averaged just 14.6 points per game during his current playoff series against the Golden State Warriors. Paul has been guarded predominantly by Golden State’…
  
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• Today’s the day: The 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike is being celebrated at Promontory Summit

  10-05-2019 17:40
  It’s all coming together Friday, with the biggest celebration Promontory Summit, Utah, has seen in 150 years.“Spike 150” ceremonies at Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory will mark the completion of the first transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, when America’s west and east coasts were first joined by train tracks.The morning will kick off with the arrival of replicas of the Jupiter and the No. 119, the locomotives that met at Promontory in 1869.Here&r
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Bringing in a star should be Dennis Lindsey’s top priority, but at which position?

  10-05-2019 17:32 via sportspyder.com
  A point guard? Stretch power forward? Another wing? It’s not an easy question to answer.
  
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• After Trump invite, Iran commander says: No talks with U.S.

  10-05-2019 16:43
  Tehran, Iran • A top commander in Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said Friday that Tehran will not talk with the United States, an Iranian news agency reported — a day after President Donald Trump said he’d like Iranian leaders to “call me.”The semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted Gen. Yadollah Javani as saying that "there will be no negotiations with America."The Iranian commander also claimed the U.S. would not dare take military action against Iran bu
  
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• Suspects in Colorado school shooting due back in court

  10-05-2019 16:40
  Denver • Both suspects in a suburban Denver school shooting are due back in court Friday as prosecutors file charges in the attack that killed a student and wounded eight others.The district attorney's office also is expected to decide whether the younger suspect will be charged as an adult in Tuesday's shooting.Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old senior killed during the shooting, and two classmates at the STEM School Highlands Ranch have been credited with helping thwart the attack by char
  
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• Elaine L. Chao: Salute all the workers on the transcontinental railroad

  10-05-2019 16:01
  On May 10, 1869, a few short years after the Civil War, two railroad trains met nose-to-nose at Promontory Summit before a cheering crowd. The occasion marked the completion of America’s first transcontinental railroad – a monumental feat of innovation, engineering and manpower that connected east and west and forever transformed a young nation.Nearly 1,800 miles of track connected our country’s coastal cities to the rural interior, opening up new markets and creating an econom
  
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• George Pyle: The real public health emergency is delusional thinking

  10-05-2019 16:00
  Sixth-graders are talking about their willingness to “go down fighting” against the next psychopath who attacks their school with a weapon of war.Utah mothers and mothers-to-be are the latest to be afflicted by an epidemic of opioid addiction and death.An outbreak of parental dimwittedness has brought measles back from the dead and threatens to do with same with even more dangerous diseases.People who don’t die of treatable or detectable diseases still go bankrupt because Utah
  
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• 16-year-old arrested after 4-month-old girl he was babysitting is critically injured

  10-05-2019 15:52
  A 4-month-old baby is in critical condition and the 16-year-old boy who was babysitting her is in custody, according to West Valley City police.Officers responded to a report of child who was not breathing at the Shadowbrook Apartments at 3852 S. 1845 West about 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday. When they arrived, they performed CPR. The baby was first taken to Jordan Valley Medical Center, then flown by helicopter to Primary Children’s Hospital, where she remained in critical condition on Wednesday m
  
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• Political Cornflakes: President Trump’s efforts to build rapport with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un haven’t erased tensions between the two nations

  10-05-2019 15:44
  Happy Friday!The escalation of tensions between North Korea and the United States comes even though President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un have each tried to resist hawkish advisers. Kim and Trump have focused on building a personal relationship as they look to forge a historic disarmament accord. “What’s really striking is how in both systems the bureaucracies aren’t always moving in the same direction as the leaders are signaling,” Scott Snyder, a Korea expert at the Co
  
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• Kirby: Now families can be together not only forever but also at their kids’ weddings

  10-05-2019 15:29
  This column includes a picture of my parents at their wedding reception. They were married in the Manti Temple the day before Thanksgiving 1952. The reception was held the following week in the Fontana, Calif., Latter-day Saint meetinghouse.Here’s the thing: If you look really hard at the picture, you might catch a glimpse of me. See I was there, too. Mom was almost three months along with me when this picture was taken.Note: Yeah, I asked her if I could reveal that personal fact. She says
  
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• Gomberg: (breathes in deep, coughs a little) OK, so I’m high, and there’s a few things I want you to know

  10-05-2019 15:27
  Well, I’m admittedly a little stoned right now sitting in my hotel room in Denver making love to a bag of Popchips, in case you were wondering how my day is going.You see, I’m visiting our neighboring state to snag The Salt Lake Tribune’s plentiful Top of the Rockies Awards given by the Colorado Society of Professional Journalists. I thought, “Marina, like any place you travel, you ought to consider partaking of the local culture.”So, I’ve walked and wandered,
  
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• New Café Berlin brings German food to Sandy

  10-05-2019 15:19
  Sandy • Three German brothers moved from a small town outside Kohln, Germany, to Utah in 2017 with one purpose — to give returned missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a taste of the Deutschland again.They opened Rimmels German Street Food in Orem, which specialized in döners — a portable wrap/sandwich found all over Europe.Now the brothers — Mathias, Thomas and Andreas Rimmel— are on to their next German-themed restaurant. This time
  
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• Elizabeth Bruenig: Students who charge shooters are heroes. It’s shameful they’re martyrs, too.

  10-05-2019 14:30
  You can determine the excesses of an era by its martyrs. Essential to the story of a martyr is that they did not wish to die but rather chose or accepted death over some unacceptable alternative. The alternative — the thing being selected against — contains the fervor of the age, and it signs its name in the blood of martyrs.On April 30, as college students at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte were gathering for an end-of-year concert, a gunman entered a university buildi
  
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• Utah may lose big if the state doesn’t invest in the census right now, warns Salt Lake County’s mayor

  10-05-2019 14:00
  Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson is sounding an alarm: Utahns are in danger of being seriously undercounted — and losing millions in federal funding — in next year’s census unless governments, philanthropists and businesses step up.After all, Utah Latino leaders say the state’s 80,000 to 100,000 undocumented immigrants — and perhaps citizens in their extended families — could skip it over worry about deportation if they answer a proposed question about the
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: How weird is this? ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ is completely ignoring ‘Endgame.’

  10-05-2019 14:00
  “Avengers: Endgame” is the biggest thing ever in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The movie has hauled in more than $2 billion worldwide in 11 days, and could surpass “Avatar” as the biggest-grossing movie ever.(Not adjusted for inflation, that is.)So it would only make sense for the television side of Marvel to capitalize on that. And, given the cataclysmic events in “Endgame” — no spoilers here — there would absolutely have to be reverberations tha
  
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