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• New BYU men’s basketball coach Mark Pope is ‘dreaming big’ for a program that plateaued under Dave Rose

  16-05-2019 23:44
  Provo • Five weeks on the job — which included a 27-hour flight to West Africa for a 90-minute home recruiting visit — hasn’t altered new BYU basketball coach Mark Pope’s vision for a program that many believe is institutionally shackled from rising to greater heights than former coach Dave Rose was able to take it.“I am just dumb enough to think that we can accomplish everything that you dream about accomplishing in college basketball,” Pope said Thursda
  
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• Commentary: Racists deported my Chinese ancestor. He still loved the railroad he worked on

  16-05-2019 23:24
  One of the earliest stories I heard as a child was that my immigrant great-great-grandfather worked out West on the first transcontinental railroad. Yuan Son, along with tens of thousands of other Chinese workers, blasted tunnels, carved footholds and laid grade at death-defying heights through the most arduous parts of the Sierra Nevada, miraculously making it out alive. I envisioned him tough and swashbuckling — a cross between my tall, bartender grandfather, who often told me these stor
  
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• Helaine Olen: Alabama’s abortion ban doesn’t promote life. It exhibits contempt for it.

  16-05-2019 23:22
  On Tuesday, the Alabama state legislature decisively passed a bill that would criminalize all abortions in the state. It was accompanied with the usual tripe about the sanctity of life. “When God creates the miracle of life inside a woman’s womb,” one Alabama state legislator piously opined, “it is not our place as human beings to extinguish that life.”Less than 24 hours later, we got a chance to see just how well the United States actually does at encouraging women
  
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• Utah 'Booze News’ podcast: The end of the ‘Zion Ceiling,’ DUI update and liquor questions answered

  16-05-2019 23:09
  Salt Lake City’s Tin Angel restaurant will open a second location in Salt Lake City’s Eccles Theater this summer.To make way for the new eatery, the lobby will be remodeled and the state’s only ‘Zion Ceiling’ — a cousin to the ‘Zion Curtain’ — will be torn down.Also on this episode, Fox 13′s Ben Winslow explains why the Legislature will continue to discuss the state’s tough new drunken driving law, but don’t expect a repeal.
  
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• BYU star Shaylee Gonzales trying out for USA U19 World Cup women’s basketball team

  16-05-2019 23:07
  Provo • BYU women’s basketball coach Jeff Judkins said last fall that new recruit Shaylee Gonzales would become one of the best players in school history when all was said and done.Gonzales proved that assessment to be on target her freshman season, as she led the Cougars in scoring with a 17.0 average and helped them win the West Coast Conference tournament title and an NCAA Tournament game.Gonzales is in Colorado Springs, Colo., this week as one of 30 athletes invited to participate
  
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• LDS Church updates mobile apps as renaming push continues

  16-05-2019 23:01
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is renaming its mobile apps to align with the faith’s campaign to get rid of “Mormon” and “LDS” as shorthand nicknames for the religion.The Thursday announcement comes after the Utah-based church in 2018 began moving away from the widely recognized “Mormon” and “LDS” monikers. Church President Russell M. Nelson said the Lord communicated to him the importance of the faith’s full name and t
  
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• Utah’s most popular baby names in 2018 are ... the same as they were in 2017 and 2016

  16-05-2019 22:58
  The most popular boy's name and the most popular girl's name for babies born in Utah last year are two sides of the same coin — again.According to the Social Security Administration, Oliver was No. 1 for boys; Olivia was No. 1 for girls. And 2018 marked the third year in a row that Oliver and Olivia topped the Utah list.They were both No. 2 in the state the year before that.(That's based on requests for Social Security numbers for newborns.)Both names are also popular nationally, just not
  
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• Extreme weather pattern to divide nation next week

  16-05-2019 22:57
  Four seasons of weather and some of their most acute extremes may divide the nation next week.Between late Monday and Wednesday, computer models show the potential for a powerhouse storm in the middle of the nation that could unleash a dangerous outbreak of severe weather and flooding.The nation will become split by temperature contrasts as the storm draws unseasonably warm and humid air into the South while pulling abnormally cold air on its backside into the Rockies and western Plains.The spec
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Speaker for the Speechless

  16-05-2019 22:56
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, May 17, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05/15/bagley-cartoon-seminal/" target=_blank><u>Seminal Alabama Abortion Bill</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05/14/bagley-cartoon-churchy/"><u>Churchy State</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05/13/bag
  
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• U.S., European officials bring charges in global malware case

  16-05-2019 22:49
  Washington • Ten people, including five Russian fugitives, have been charged in connection with malicious software attacks that infected tens of thousands of computers worldwide and sought to steal $100 million from victims, U.S. and European authorities announced Thursday.The malware enabled criminals from Eastern Europe to take remote control of infected computers and siphon funds from victims' bank accounts, and targeted companies and institutions across all sectors of American life. Vic
  
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• Tyson Food to build a beef and pork plant in Eagle Mountain, employing more than 800

  16-05-2019 22:32
  One of Utah’s fastest growing cities will soon be home to a major food production plant.Eagle Mountain announced Thursday that Tyson Fresh Meat will invest nearly $300 million in the facility that will initially provide 800 jobs, and the company expects that to expand to 1,200 jobs within three years. The company says the plant will open in 2021.Fresh beef and pork will be brought in from other locations and workers will cut it up into steaks, chops and ground beef. The meat will then be p
  
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• Alan Matheson will leave Utah’s DEQ to oversee the development of the Draper prison site

  16-05-2019 22:16
  Utah’s Point of the Mountain Authority Board has hired a member of Gov. Gary Herbert’s Cabinet for a major role in what one official called “one of the largest economic development opportunities in our state’s history.”The 10-member panel voted unanimously late Tuesday to offer the job of executive director to Alan Matheson, who is now the executive director of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). After two days of negotiations, he accepted the job Th
  
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• Behind the Headlines: LDS Church comes out against an LGBTQ rights bill

  16-05-2019 22:09
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints comes out against an LGBTQ rights bill in Congress. In a separate move, the faith announces a plan to increase political participation on the part of its members. And Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox launches his gubernatorial campaign. At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune government and politics editor Dan Harrie, reporter Courtney Tanner, and columnist George Pyle join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stories. Every Friday at
  
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• Imagine a hybrid of Uber and a city bus system. UTA soon will launch ‘microtransit’ experiment.

  16-05-2019 22:07
  Combine ride-hailing services Uber or Lyft with a city bus system and you would have something similar to a new “microtransit” system that the Utah Transit Authority plans to test in southwestern Salt Lake County this fall.Like with Uber or Lyft, people use a smartphone app to hail a ride to a specific destination — and get an estimate of when it would pick them up and drop them off.But like traditional bus service, the fare is a set amount no matter the distance traveled (curr
  
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• Red All Over: Ute golfer Kyler Dunkle follows his own, difficult road to the NCAA Championships

  16-05-2019 22:06
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here. Kyler Dunkle will have a place in Utah golf history as the runner-up to the youngest winner in State Amateur history, after losing to 15-year-old Preston Summerhays in the final match last summer.In the University of Utah golf program, Dunkle is creating his own distinction. Dunkle this week became the first Ute golfer in 13 years to qualify for the NCAA Championships, via a demanding avenue. He tied for s
  
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• Monson: The price of a ticket does not buy a license to be ignorant. High school administrators are now driving that point home.

  16-05-2019 21:58
  “We have to learn to respect people again.”I don’t know Layton Christian High basketball coach Bobby Porter, never met the man. But I like him, like what he recently said about racism and vulgarism raising their ugly heads at high school basketball games in the state.He’s right.Learning is needed. Those heads cannot be raised without ignorant individuals lifting them up.Have you ever wondered why some people think it’s OK to yell stupid things from the stands during
  
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• The INN Between is getting $500k less from the state this year and may have to stop providing some services

  16-05-2019 21:39
  Ahead of massive changes to homeless services planned in Salt Lake County this summer, several resource providers are facing the possibility of cuts to both their offerings and staffing.The uncertainty comes after the state Homeless Coordinating Committee approved funding for just $17 million of the more than $40 million in requests it received — a gap that Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, the committee’s chairman, defended without apology.“The state is doing more this year than they&rsqu
  
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• The parents of a Utah teen killed by police are suing the department. They say their son’s back was turned and the officer never told him to stop.

  16-05-2019 21:30
  The parents of a teenage robbery suspect killed by Cottonwood Heights police are suing the officer who fired and the department, alleging their son didn’t pose a threat and officials covered up the officer’s negligence.They argue that by shooting their son, Zane James, in the back and firing stray rounds into a residential neighborhood, Cottonwood Heights officer Casey Davies had the potential to do more harm to bystanders than James, according to court documents to filed Thursday in
  
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• Who will oversee the transformation of Utah’s prison site in Draper? A member of the governor’s Cabinet.

  16-05-2019 21:29
  Utah’s Point of the Mountain Authority Board has hired a member of Gov. Gary Herbert’s Cabinet for a major role in what one official called “one of the largest economic development opportunities in our state’s history.”The 10-member panel voted unanimously late Tuesday to offer the job of executive director to Alan Matheson, who is now the executive director of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). After two days of negotiations, he accepted the job Th
  
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• Eye on the Y: Four-star basketball recruits Caleb Lohner, Mady Sissoko aren’t BYU’s only targets at Wasatch Academy

  16-05-2019 21:18
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Provo • Hardcore BYU basketball fans are well aware of two Wasatch Academy rising seniors that the new coaching staff is pursuing heavily, forwards Caleb Lohner and Maddy Sissoko.New coach Mark Pope has been to Mount Pleasant at least two times to visit the pair, and he also made a much-discussed trip to West Africa a few weeks ago to visit Sissoko’s parents in Mali.Perhaps lesser known ar
  
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• 5 states announce new lawsuits over prescription opioids

  16-05-2019 20:39
  Charleston, W.V. • Five state attorneys general announced lawsuits Thursday seeking to hold the drug industry responsible for an opioid addiction crisis that has become the biggest cause of accidental deaths across the country and in many states.The new filings in Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, West Virginia and Wisconsin mean 45 states have now taken legal action in recent years against Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. Some of the states are also suing Richard Sackler, a former president an
  
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• The Utah Sports Hall of Fame has a home of its own, at last

  16-05-2019 20:20
  Forty years after moving to Utah, Frank Layden marveled this week as he surveyed his place in the state’s sports history.The Utah Sports Hall of Fame Foundation has built its own home, more than 50 years after the organization’s founding. The museum, a $1.5 million project honoring Layden and 232 other inductees, will open Saturday at City Creek in downtown Salt Lake City.Vivint Smart Home Arena formerly displayed small plaques of the Hall of Fame members. The arena’s 2017 reno
  
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• Monson: The price of a ticket to a game does not buy a license to be ignorant. High school administrators are now driving that point home.

  16-05-2019 20:20
  “We have to learn to respect people again.”I don’t know Layton Christian High basketball coach Bobby Porter, never met the man. But I like him, like what he recently said about racism and vulgarism raising their ugly heads at high school basketball games in the state.He’s right.Learning is needed. Those heads cannot be raised without ignorant individuals lifting them up.Have you ever wondered why some people think it’s OK to yell stupid things from the stands during
  
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• Weekly Run podcast: Reactions to the draft lottery, and ‘No, you can’t do that’ answers to free agency questions

  16-05-2019 20:04
  Hey, how about that NBA Draft lottery, huh? Pretty crazy stuff. Except, the cynical among you might say, that with the Jazz slated to pick 23rd, it had zero impact upon them.Au contraire, Andy Larsen and Eric Walden might reply, were they the types to speak French. As it is, they’ll settle for a simple “don’t be so sure about that.”In this latest episode of the Weekly Run podcast, The Salt Lake Tribune’s pair of Jazz beat writers and “brothers in coverage&rdqu
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Joe Ingles joining Boomers for 2019 FIBA World Cup

  16-05-2019 20:01 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz F Joe Ingles will take the court with the Australian national team at the FIBA World Cup in China this summer. With the Utah Jazz boasting one of...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Joe Ingles joining Boomers for 2019 FIBA World Cup

  16-05-2019 19:51
  Utah Jazz F Joe Ingles will take the court with the Australian national team at the FIBA World Cup in China this summer. With the Utah Jazz boasting one of the Association’s most international roster in recent years, FIBA events have been an important facet of the team’s offseason. This summer should be no different; […]
  Utah Jazz: Joe Ingles joining Boomers for 2019 FIBA World Cup - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• NYC Mayor de Blasio announces candidacy, insults ‘Con Don’

  16-05-2019 19:45
  New York City • New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president, adding his name to an already long list of candidates itching for a chance to take on Donald Trump.The mayor announced his run with a video released by his campaign, then headed to the Statue of Liberty, where he said the country is in an "identity crisis" around immigration, which he called "the founding and unifying element of the American experience.""We are fi
  
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• Missouri Senate joins GOP anti-abortion wave with 8-week ban

  16-05-2019 19:41
  Jefferson City, Mo. • Missouri’s Republican-led Senate has passed a wide-ranging bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy, acting only hours after Alabama’s governor signed a near-total abortion ban into law.The Missouri bill needs another vote of approval in the GOP-led House before it can go to Republican Gov. Mike Parson, who voiced support for an earlier version Wednesday.The legislation includes exceptions for medical emergencies, but not for pregnancies caused by
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run podcast: Reactions to the draft lottery, and ‘No, you can’t do that’ answers to free agency questions

  16-05-2019 19:31 via sportspyder.com
  Hey, how about that NBA Draft lottery, huh? Pretty crazy stuff. Except, the cynical among you might say, that with the Jazz slated to pick 23rd, it had zero impact upon them.
  
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• Lobbyists ask Utah lawmakers to eliminate 7.5% sales tax to help oil and gas industry

  16-05-2019 19:11
  Eastern Utah’s Uinta Basin is missing out on the massive oil boom unfolding in New Mexico and Texas.The basin’s production — which is ratcheting up, thanks to a new program of horizontal drilling — could really soar were it not for the excessive costs of doing business in Utah and the difficulty of moving this crude.So argued a chorus of energy lobbyists appearing before a legislative panel Wednesday, imploring lawmakers to prioritize a proposal to erase the 7.5% sales ta
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Royce O'Neale: 'I’m becoming somebody in this league'

  16-05-2019 18:20 via sportspyder.com
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• A ride along the Jordan River helps Salt Lake City’s mayor promote alternative transportation

  16-05-2019 18:17
  Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski biked to work with an entourage of residents and city employees Thursday as part of the annual Mayor’s Bike to Work Day.A police escort assisted with the crossing of busy streets as the mayor rode a bike provided by the nonprofit bike share program, GREENbike.“Mayor’s Bike to Work Day is a great opportunity to get out and enjoy a beautiful spring morning on two wheels,” Biskupski said. “There has been a renaissance along the Jor
  
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• [NBA] - After a strong playoff showing, Royce O'Neale feels 'like I’m becoming somebody in this league'

  16-05-2019 17:55 via sportspyder.com
  As he’d done so many times over the series’ five games, Royce O’Neale saw James Harden coming at him. This time, with the Utah Jazz’s season at its end, the two competitors embraced, and Harden gave
  
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• Oil and gas industry tells Utah lawmakers tax breaks would boost production

  16-05-2019 17:34
  Eastern Utah’s Uinta Basin is missing out on the massive oil boom unfolding in New Mexico and Texas.The basin’s production — which is ratcheting up, thanks to a new program of horizontal drilling — could really soar were it not for the excessive costs of doing business in Utah and the difficulty of moving this crude.So argued a chorus of energy lobbyists appearing before a legislative panel Wednesday, imploring lawmakers to prioritize a proposal to erase the 7.5% sales ta
  
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• Homeless service providers like The INN Between and Catholic Community Services face budget cuts due to tight state funding

  16-05-2019 16:52
  Ahead of massive changes to homeless services planned in Salt Lake County this summer, several resource providers are facing the possibility of cuts to both their offerings and staffing.The uncertainty comes after the state Homeless Coordinating Committee approved funding for just $17 million of the more than $40 million in requests it received — a gap that Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, the committee’s chairman, defended without apology.“The state is doing more this year than they&rsqu
  
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• Wind, hail, lots of rain and — gasp! — snow are heading to Utah

  16-05-2019 16:48
  Expect strong to severe thunderstorms and damaging winds across much of Utah on Thursday, the National Weather Service warns.A wide swath of the state, on both sides of I-15 from St. George to the Idaho border, is under threat of storms, wind and hail that will develop in the early afternoon.Gusty winds will continue across much of Utah today 💨🍃⚠️A Wind Advisory for winds gusting up to 55 mph has been issued for much of western and eastern Utah from 9 AM through 10 P
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: The time when BYU’s new O-line coach offered Zion Williamson a football scholarship; Jazz may turn to Gonzaga for another pick

  16-05-2019 16:46 via sportspyder.com
  The talk linking New Orleans and Zion Williamson has been running rampant since Tuesday night’s NBA draft lottery, when the Pelicans were awarded the No. 1 pick. But a new BYU assistant once saw...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: The time when BYU’s new O-line coach offered Zion Williamson a football scholarship; Utah Jazz may turn to Gonzaga for another dr

  16-05-2019 16:38 via sportspyder.com
  The talk linking New Orleans and Zion Williamson has been running rampant since Tuesday night’s NBA draft lottery, when the Pelicans were awarded the No. 1 pick. But a new BYU assistant once saw...
  
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• NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio: Money is ‘in the wrong hands'

  16-05-2019 16:37
  New York City • New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president, adding his name to an already long list of candidates itching for a chance to take on Donald Trump.The mayor announced his run with a video released by his campaign."There's plenty of money in this world. There's plenty of money in this country. It's just in the wrong hands," de Blasio says at the beginning of the video.He concludes: "I'm running for president bec
  
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• Morning links: The time when BYU’s new O-line coach offered Zion Williamson a football scholarship; Jazz may turn to Gonzaga for another pick

  16-05-2019 16:31
  FILE - In this March 24, 2019, file photo, Duke forward Zion Williamson (1) dribbles the ball against Central Florida during the first half of a second-round game in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament in Columbia, S.C. Williamson was named the John R. Wooden Men's Player of the year at the College Basketball Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Friday, April 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford, File)APSALT LAKE CITY — The talk linking New Orleans and Zion Williamson has been running ramp
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz 2019 Mock Draft Outlook

  16-05-2019 16:30 via sportspyder.com
  With the complete draft order now set, who are the Jazz looking at?
  
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• An unvaccinated Utah County adult has come down with mumps — and a Wasatch County student who was vaccinated got it, too

  16-05-2019 16:18
  An unvaccinated adult in Utah County has contracted mumps, the health department confirmed Wednesday, while a fully immunized student in Wasatch County came down with it, too.The cases are prompting health officials to repeat reminders that the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine is an available and can, in most cases, prevent the spread of mumps.“Individuals should review their medical records and ensure they are up to date on all vaccines including two doses of the MMR vaccine, which p
  
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• Gehrke: Spencer Cox is the front-runner in Utah’s 2020 governor’s race. Here’s how to beat him.

  16-05-2019 15:14
  After months of signaling he was all-but-in the gubernatorial race, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox became the first heavyweight to announce his 2020 campaign.It was a slick, basically flawless launch, that occupied a prominent news slot statewide and bounced around social media all day long.We don’t have much polling to go by, but back in January The Salt Lake Tribune and Hinckley Institute of Politics polled just Republicans and found that he was basically neck-and-neck with former Rep. Jason Chaff
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: It’s much easier for me to give than to receive

  16-05-2019 15:14
  Dear Ann Cannon • I’m in a position in life where my dear friends are rendering a lot of service and kindnesses. It’s always been SO much easier for me to give than to receive, but I don’t want to appear ungrateful. How can I reciprocate when my circumstances don’t really allow “in kind” return? Just saying “thank you” seems so inadequate. It’s very disheartening.— Don’t Know What to DoDear Don’t Know • Your letter
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - 3 sleeper teams to watch out for in NBA free agency

  16-05-2019 15:11 via sportspyder.com
  With the NBA offseason approaching, we are hearing about all of the usual suspects as far as teams that will be most involved in the free-agent market. The New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers will all have substantial cap...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Report: Jazz expected to make another run at Mike Conley in the offseason

  16-05-2019 14:52 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are expected to make yet another run at Memphis Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley after showing deep interest in the lefty veteran before this season’s trade deadline, according to Kevin O’Connor of The Ringer. The Ricky Rubio...
  
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