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• Kevin Love sighting in Utah! Is he a sensible trade target for the Utah Jazz?

  07-06-2019 23:56
  Kevin Love was once again spotted spending time in the great state of Utah. Which brings up the point – should he be on the Utah Jazz’s trade radar? When it comes to finding players that are a good fit with the Utah Jazz, one of the predominant requirements (to fans anyway) is that they […]
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Another Round of Jazz Q&A as Offseason Targets Come into Focus

  07-06-2019 23:47 via sportspyder.com
  Were also getting a better sense of which players might be truly available on July 1. So with those parameters taking shape, its time for another round of reader questions. Rubio?
  
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• Mitt Romney says President Trump has wrong approach on China; former Australian PM says Trump is ‘like Teddy Roosevelt on speed.’

  07-06-2019 22:56
  Park City • If Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, had been the CEO of China, he said Friday, he would have made many of the same decisions the nation did, like building up a steel manufacturing sector while engaging in predatory pricing and theft of intellectual property.“If we were running China, that’s how we would have done it,” Romney, a former venture capitalist, said. “We also would have stolen as much intellectual property as we could.”Those actions would land an
  
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• Utah will cancel its $44 million contract with a standardized testing company after repeated glitches and outages

  07-06-2019 22:11
  The state will cancel its contract with standardized testing company Questar — a strong but not wholly unexpected response after computer glitches delayed thousands of students in taking their year-end exams this spring and left administrators questioning whether the results will even be valid enough to use.The decision came after an hourlong deliberation by the Utah board of education that started late Thursday in an executive session closed to the public. When the meeting re-opened just
  
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• [Standard-Examiner] - Farmington pushing to build arena in Station Park, attract Utah Jazz G League team

  07-06-2019 21:56 via sportspyder.com
  Farmington City has a new high school, miles of hiking and biking trails, a booming population and a popular shopping mall — and it might not be done yet.
  
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• Commentary: Mormonism is pro-environment

  07-06-2019 21:42
  I was arguing recently about politics with a non-Mormon friend who complained that Latter-day Saints were anti-science, anti-evolution, anti-vaccination, anti-environment, and a collection of other unfair labels.I argued back strenuously, saying that I’d always felt that my Mormon religion and family valued education, sometimes to the exclusion of any other achievement. And just because we believe in God doesn’t mean that we can’t also hold other ideas — like evolution an
  
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• A trip to Normandy gives Utahn new understanding of his fallen family member’s D-Day sacrifice

  07-06-2019 21:39
  Joel Murphy grew up hearing stories about a family member who enlisted in World War II and was shot — and later died — during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. But Murphy didn’t know much about him.Then Murphy, a self-described World War II enthusiast, went with his wife Sharon to France to visit the places he’d only heard about and seen on TV.Through “pure serendipity,” the couple stayed at a chateau that was occupied by German soldiers and near a bridge tha
  
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• Air Force allows Sikh to wear turban, beard and unshorn hair in ‘historic’ decision, ACLU says

  07-06-2019 21:32
  Washington • The U.S. Air Force has granted a religious accommodation to an active duty Sikh airman that will allow him to wear a turban, beard and unshorn hair in accordance with his faith.In a statement, Airman 1st Class Harpreetinder Singh Bajwa said he was "overjoyed that the Air Force has granted my religious accommodation. Today, I feel that my country has embraced my Sikh heritage, and I will be forever grateful for this opportunity."Bajwa serves as a crew chief at the McChord Air Fo
  
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• Utah reservoirs near capacity after high snowpack levels

  07-06-2019 21:31
  Ogden • A federal agency says Utah’s small and midsized reservoirs are full or almost full after the state’s snowpack has reached its deepest level in years.The Standard-Examiner reported Thursday that the Natural Resources Conservation Service has found that the smaller reservoirs are reaching capacity and the larger reservoirs are gaining substantial runoff amounts.The agency says in its June report that the state has "anomalously high snowpack levels in several basins."Accord
  
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• Utah highway reopening after unusually long snow closure

  07-06-2019 21:28
  Ogden • A northern Utah highway popular with outdoor recreation enthusiasts is fully reopening after being closed this year two weeks later than is normal because of accumulated snow.The Department of Transportation said the Monte Cristo Highway, also known as State Route 39, was set to reopen at midnight Thursday in time for use this weekend.A 19-mile section had been closed between near Huntsville and near Woodruff.That section of the highway is expected to remain open until late fall, wi
  
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• Trump criticizes his administration’s promotion of returning to the moon before exploring Mars

  07-06-2019 21:24
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Friday sharply criticized NASA for promoting its plan to return to the moon before exploring Mars, a strategy that Trump endorsed in a directive early in his tenure and championed as recently as last month."For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago," Trump said on Twitter. "They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part)
  
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• Utah forward Donnie Tillman is taking a leave of absence for personal reasons and won’t play for the Utes in 2019-20

  07-06-2019 21:10
  Donna Holmes once moved from Detroit to Las Vegas in hopes of giving her youngest son a better high school basketball experience. And now Donnie Tillman says he's leaving the University of Utah and going home to be with his mother, amid her health issues.Tillman, named the Pac-12 Sixth Man of the Year in March, is taking a leave of absence from the school and will miss the 2019-20 season, he announced Friday. The 6-foot-7 forward could use a redshirt year and rejoin Utes as a junior in 2020-21,
  
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• A BYU lieutenant was under criminal investigation for two years. New records show the computer searches that sparked the inquiry.

  07-06-2019 20:46
  At the heart of a controversy that may cost Brigham Young University its police department is a simple question: When can an officer look at a report from another agency?Investigators are allowed to read the records from other departments as long as it is for a legitimate law enforcement purpose.But one BYU lieutenant was under the cloud of a criminal investigation for two years for his record searches after leaders from other Utah County law enforcement questioned his actions.So what did he act
  
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• Judge Memorial’s Jack Terrill is Gatorade’s Utah boys high school soccer player of the year

  07-06-2019 20:23
  Judge Memorial’s Jack Terrill enjoyed a full day of hiking in Boulder, Utah, on Thursday, he was receiving loads of text messages of congratulations.It wasn’t until he got back home that he saw just what those congratulations were for. Terrill, a junior at Judge Memorial Catholic High School, was named the Gatorade Utah Boys Soccer Player of the Year. He is the first soccer player from the school to win the award.“At first I thought my friends were just messing around,” T
  
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• 1 of every 22 Brighton residents is running for office; If that happened in Salt Lake City, there would be 9,200 candidates.

  07-06-2019 20:23
  The soon-to-incorporate town of Brighton at the top of Big Cottonwood Canyon has a population of just 260. But 12 are running either for mayor or the new town council — one of every 22 residents.If a similar ratio of Salt Lake City residents ran for office this year, more than 9,200 candidates would make for one jampacked ballot.In Brighton, aspiring town leaders required an extra measure of dedication just to file for office. They couldn’t do it locally, because the town won’t
  
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• She used to be an accountant. Now Utah Royals FC defender Rachel Corsie will lead Scotland in its first-ever Women’s World Cup

  07-06-2019 20:13
  The last time Rachel Corsie remembers her home country of Scotland did anything of note on the world soccer stage was when she was 9 years old. She was playing soccer then, but only at the park for fun, and the Scottish men’s national team had qualified for the FIFA World Cup. The year was 1998.Fast forward two decades and Corsie, 29, who also plays for the Utah Royals FC, is captain of the Scotland women’s national team, which will compete in its first-ever Women’s World Cup t
  
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• [NBA] - Get Fit for 3v3

  07-06-2019 19:50 via sportspyder.com
  Warmup — Light jog or jump rope 3–5 minutes RED's (1 set 15 Reps) Get on hands and knees Round back up high and drop head between elbows Reach stomach toward ground and head up Bring knees
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Joe Ingles 2018-19 highlights

  07-06-2019 19:33 via sportspyder.com
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• Testing glitches frazzled teachers and students, so Utah is canceling its contract with troubled company

  07-06-2019 18:39
  The state will cancel its contract with standardized testing company Questar — a strong but not wholly unexpected response after computer glitches delayed thousands of students in taking their year-end exams this spring and left administrators questioning whether the results will even be valid enough to use.The decision came after an hourlong deliberation by the Utah board of education that started late Thursday in an executive session closed to the public. When the meeting re-opened just
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Here's where the Utah Jazz rank (high!) in all-time winning percentage

  07-06-2019 18:38 via sportspyder.com
  Some NBA fans will likely be surprised by a few of the teams in the top five.
  
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• Here's where the Utah Jazz rank (high!) in all-time winning percentage

  07-06-2019 18:23
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) grabs Utah Jazz forward Jae Crowder (99) as they celebrate winning Game 4 of the NBA Playoffs against the Houston Rockets at the Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, April 22, 2019.Former Jazz players L-R: Jeff Hornacek, Pace Mannion, Thurl Bailey Mark Eaton and Frank Layden watch the Karl Malone retiring of his jersey Mar 23, 2006 in SLC. Jeffrey D. Allred/photoJefffrey D. AllredSALT LAKE CITY — When it comes to NBA franchises that con
  
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• Delegation from Vietnam tours Utah sites and talks religious freedom and families with LDS First Presidency

  07-06-2019 18:21
  A delegation headed by Vietnam’s Committee for Religious Affairs was in Utah this week, meeting with members of the governing First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as government and academic leaders.The group toured the church’s Family History Library, Welfare Square, Humanitarian Center, Bishop’s Central Storehouse and Brigham Young University during its Tuesday-through-Thursday visit.“We have longstanding cooperative relationships w
  
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• Utah forward Donnie Tillman taking a leave of absence for personal reasons, will not play for Utes next season

  07-06-2019 18:14
  Just about a week after declaring he would forgo the NBA Draft return to Utah for his junior season, Ute forward Donnie Tillman s taking a leave of absence from the team to help care for his ailing mother and will not be a member of the Runnin’ Utes basketball team in 2019-20.“It is with a heavy heart that I share with Utah fans that I will not be returning to the Utes this fall,” Tillman said in a news release. “I have always respected and admired Utah’s commitment
  
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• Testing glitches frazzled teachers and students, so Utah is cancelling its contract with troubled company

  07-06-2019 17:28
  The state will cancel its contract with standardized testing company Questar — a strong but not wholly unexpected response after computer glitches delayed thousands of students in taking their year-end exams this spring and left administrators questioning whether the results will even be valid enough to use.The decision came after an hourlong deliberation by the Utah board of education that started late Thursday in an executive session closed to the public. When the meeting re-opened just
  
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• Utah man says he robbed a bank because he couldn’t afford his medications

  07-06-2019 17:05
  A 64-year-old Utah man charged with robbing a Roy bank told police he did it because he couldn't afford his medications.Glenn Douglas Mower was charged in Second District Court with robbery, a second-degree felony. According to a probable cause statement, he admitted to police that he went to a Key Bank branch at 5201 S. 1900 West in Roy on Monday with a white paper bag and “asked the teller to place the money in it.”He then returned to his room at an adjacent motel. He was identifie
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Everyone’s got a climate plan. So where’s the carbon tax?

  07-06-2019 17:01
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has a big, bold, multitrillion-dollar plan for addressing climate change. So does her rival Joe Biden. Likewise former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke. And, of course, Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., whose entire campaign is structured around the climate crisis.These candidates, to their credit, have offered thoughtful solutions for addressing the most pressing policy challenge of our time. Their proposals are highly detailed and thorough, often running to dozens of pag
  
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• George Pyle: Vigilante justice only makes our streets meaner

  07-06-2019 17:00
  “If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”— Anton ChekhovThe 19th century Russian writer was talking about the need to pare down one’s prose to the bare minimum, to not confuse the audience of his plays or burden the readers of his short stories with unimportant distractions that have nothing to do wit
  
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• Utah man charged with attempted murder after he hit an 11-year-girl with his car

  07-06-2019 16:50
  A 19-year-old Draper man who allegedly intentionally ran down an 11-year-old girl with his car has been charged with attempted aggravated murder, a first-degree felony.On May 31, Steven Becky drove his car into the girl as she walked an electric scooter by the side of the road near 15050 S. Winged Bluff Lane. According to charging documents, Becky took “a sharp right turn toward” the girl, who was walking an electric scooter. Surveillance video “clearly showed the vehicle veer
  
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• ‘Until you live it ... it’s not real.’ Utah AD Mark Harlan looks back on his first year with the Utes.

  07-06-2019 16:48
  Mark Harlan remembers the rallies. Utah’s athletic director is convinced the Rice-Eccles Stadium crowd influenced the fourth quarters of November football games vs. Oregon and BYU, and those snapshots of his first year on the job will stick with him.“I knew there was incredible passion here … but until you come and live it and learn it, it’s not real,” Harlan said, describing the atmosphere as “more than anything I could have expected — and I expected a
  
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• Former Ute Jonathan Fanene faces assault charges in American Samoa

  07-06-2019 16:43
  Pago Pago, American Samoa • Former Cincinnati Bengals defensive end and former Ute Jonathan Fanene faces charges he used a pipe, golf club and broom handle to assault his wife and his sister over allegations he had an extramarital affair while on a trip to Hawaii, according to court documents filed this week.Fanene has been charged in the district court of American Samoa with eight felonies, including kidnapping and assault, and five misdemeanors. He has been released on $100,000 bail and w
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Kevin Love's Utah vacation photos create a buzz

  07-06-2019 16:42 via sportspyder.com
  Though it's quite possible he's just visiting for pleasure, some NBA fans and media are wondering about the power forward's possible future with the Jazz.
  
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• Rafael Nadal plows through Roger Federer in 3 sets to reach 12th French Open final

  07-06-2019 16:37
  Paris • Rafael Nadal made quick work of Roger Federer in their first French Open meeting since 2011, beating his rival 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 Friday in strong wind to reach his 12th final at Roland Garros.Nadal has never lost a semifinal at the clay-court Grand Slam tournament. Never lost a final, either.And he's never lost to Federer in Paris, improving to 6-0. Overall, Nadal leads their series 24-15. Federer had won their past five meetings, but those were all on hard courts.It's a whole different
  
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• Morning links: Kevin Love's Utah vacation photos create a buzz

  07-06-2019 16:36
  FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2018, file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers' Kevin Love poses for a portrait during the NBA basketball team's media day, in Independence, Ohio. From the outside, the Cavaliers’ All-Star forward appears to have it all: A model’s striking looks, a multi-million dollar contract, a dream job. Perfection. At 30, he’s in the prime of his career, and maybe for the first time, truly happy. Nearly a year since suffering a panic attack during a game against Atlanta, a
  
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• Commentary: With summer ozone, air quality is a year-round issue in Utah

  07-06-2019 16:30
  As the calendar ticks over from May to June, kids hide their book bags under their beds and we start planning dinners and parties at parks and picnic tables. Air quality also moves to the back of our minds.The winter inversion season is over, so we don’t have to think about what is going on with our air quality while we enjoy all the warm weather activities with our family and friends, right?Wrong! Utah has a summer time air quality problem that is just as harmful as our wintertime inversi
  
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• Hugh Hewitt: To regulate Big Tech, we need prudence, not politics

  07-06-2019 15:08
  What changed over the weekend?Last week, the American public was generally unprepared for state-actor attacks on our cyberinfrastructure. Indeed, many Americans were generally unaware that such threats exist, even though these threats could potentially be more destructive to the country than Sept. 11, 2001, or Pearl Harbor.Last week, U.S. social media — indeed, worldwide social media — remained open to manipulation by malign agents of disinformation. We are still defended by only the
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Michael Bloomberg says he’ll spend $500M trying to close every coal-fired power plant in the United States

  07-06-2019 15:05
  Happy Friday!Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pledging $500 million to replace coal-fired power plants with wind, solar and other renewables. A spokesman said the money will go to lobby state and local governments because Bloomberg has given up on Washington taking serious action on climate change. [NYT]Topping the news: The Utah Democratic Party has been roiled by financial problems and conflict over sexual harassment allegations, but four people who want to lead the organization deba
  
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• Kirby: Best way to fix the world is underpopulation

  07-06-2019 15:02
  Climate change could end civilization by 2050. The news is all over the internet. According to Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, the collapse of the Earth as we know it today is a “near certainty” within decades.So, 2050 is 31 years from now. If I’m still alive then — which is equal parts unlikely and unthinkable — I’ll be almost 100 years old.Since I’m not impressed with 66, I plan on being dead by 2050. A lot of us will be. You shouldn’t worry too
  
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• Utah stands to take a big hit from Trump-ordered tariffs on Mexican goods

  07-06-2019 14:00
  Utah would be among the states hurt the most if President Donald Trump follows through with threats to impose tariffs beginning Monday on goods from Mexico in an attempt to force it to crack down on immigrants headed to the United States.As a share of its overall economy, Utah ranks No. 7 among all states as the most dependent on imports from Mexico, according to research by The New York Times. The Beehive State’s Mexican imports amount to 2% of its gross domestic product.“About 25%
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Gays, lesbians, transgender people and ‘Tales of the City’ just aren’t that shocking anymore

  07-06-2019 14:00
  Eighteen years after it last aired on TV, Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City” returns as a 10-part Netflix miniseries that starts streaming on Friday. As was the case in 1994 (on PBS), 1998 and 2001 (on Showtime), the narrative is filled with gay men, lesbians, transgender women and men, drug use, nudity, casual sex and a variety of fetishes.And it all seems a lot less shocking than it once did. Which caused me to wonder if that’s because I had changed or because the c
  
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• Oil drilling comes to Utah wildlife refuge. Will rules keep birds, plants and fish safe?

  07-06-2019 14:00
  A Dallas energy company expects to recover 400,000 barrels of oil from two wells it proposes to drill inside eastern Utah’s Ouray National Wildlife Refuge but only after agreeing to onerous concessions to avoid disturbing habitat used by migratory birds and threatened species of plants and fish.The project taps the very heart of the refuge, formerly irrigated fields known as Leota Bottom framed by a big eastward bend in the Green River.To protect the rare yellow-billed cuckoo, for example,
  
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• Letter: Women go to Planned Parenthood of their own accord

  07-06-2019 14:00
  I must take issue with Robert Sleight’s snarky stab at Planned Parenthood (“Population check,” The Public Forum, June 4).He made it sound as though Planned Parenthood is scouring black neighborhoods, looking for recruits. Women of whatever race go to Planned Parenthood of their own accord.Barbara Vogel, TooeleSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Who, what, when, where, why and how?

  07-06-2019 14:00
  The following quip has been attributed to Mark Twain. “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”In my view, that warning still applies. One must often go to several different sources of news in order to get some semblance of the whole truth.Nowadays, some sources of news admit their biases. Other sources claim to provide the unbiased truth about what they report. I have found that to be an often false claim. In my v
  
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• Letter: Those who must pick up the pieces

  07-06-2019 14:00
  The future is not ours. It belongs to those who will have to pick up the pieces we leave behind.As a state and a nation, as we proceed on to decision 2020, what are some of the issues that our elected officials should be addressing?I, for one, feel the following are some of the key issues that must be fully addressed by all those seeking our support and vote.The quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink. The roads we travel, potholes and all. The role of the robots and of artificial i
  
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• Letter: BYU is not the only place that is not disabled-friendly

  07-06-2019 14:00
  In the June 2 issue of The Salt Lake Tribune there was an article about Brigham Young University having problems in being disabled-friendly. I’ve got news for the valley. It’s not just BYU. Many of the problems listed are also present in Salt Lake City and surrounding towns.There are too few disabled-accessible apartments. Most have a three-year waiting list, or they say they are handicapped-accessible, but one arrives to find the apartments have to be accessed by going down or up so
  
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• Letter: At least Chaffetz isn’t running for governor

  07-06-2019 14:00
  We are in a sad state (pun intended) when the most exciting and encouraging local political news is that Jason Chaffetz will not be running for Utah governor.However, after the Utah Legislature’s fumbling of the medical marijuana and Medicaid expansion initiatives (you know, the will of the people), I’ll take what I can get.Best of luck to Mr. Chaffetz and his deep state conspiracy theories on Fox News. Luckily, most rational people will not have to endure the embarrassment that is J
  
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• ‘Rather than risk continued interruptions,’ Utah will cancel its contract with standardized testing company Questar after delays and glitches this spring

  07-06-2019 09:00
  The state will cancel its contract with standardized testing company Questar — a strong but not wholly unexpected response after computer glitches delayed thousands of students in taking their year-end exams this spring and left administrators questioning whether the results will even be valid enough to use.The decision came after an hourlong deliberation by the Utah board of education that started late Thursday in an executive session closed to the public. When the meeting re-opened just
  
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• Utah Democrats running to lead the party discuss fundraising and the 2020 election — despite fire alarm interruption

  07-06-2019 06:06
  Four rivals for the Utah Democratic Party chairmanship squared off Thursday night over the organization’s finances, cohesiveness and strategies for expanding the party’s footprint in a ruby-red state.The candidate forum at the Salt Lake City Public Library was disjointed — interrupted after about a half-hour by a fire alarm that led to the building’s temporary evacuation — but touched on some of the key differences between the party’s current leader and her ch
  
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• Davis County mother says police pointed a gun at her 10-year-old son — an incident she believes was racially charged

  07-06-2019 05:54
  A Davis County mother says a Woods Cross police officer pointed a gun at her 10-year-old son during a police pursuit of two armed suspects on Thursday — an incident she believes was racially biased.Police Lt. Adam Osoro confirmed that an officer had pointed his gun at DJ Hrubes during a “dynamic and unfolding” search that started in Centerville and ended in West Bountiful. A nearby officer who responded to the incident came across the child, who was playing in a front yard, and
  
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• Big day for BYU women at NCAA Track and Field Championships in Austin, Texas

  07-06-2019 05:13
  A day after BYU’s men’s long distance runners placed 1-3-4 in the 10,000 meters at the NCAA Track and Field Championships, BYU’s women got their turn to shine.Five BYU women ran in Thursday’s preliminaries, and four advanced to the finals in their events at Mike Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas.Most notably, one of BYU’s best chances to add another national championship like the one Clayton Young got Wednesday in the 10,000 meters, Erica Birk-Jarvis, easily advanced i
  
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• Joe Biden reverses course on amendment that bans federal funds from being used to pay for abortions

  07-06-2019 05:00
  Atlanta • After two days of intense criticism, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reversed course Thursday and declared that he no longer supports a long-standing congressional ban on using federal health care money to pay for abortions.Biden's reversal came after rivals and women's rights groups blasted him for affirming through his campaign aides that he still supported the Hyde Amendment.With the shift, Biden could limit any damage from women's groups and progressives who alread
  
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