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• [Clutchpoints] - RUMOR: Jazz’s Derrick Favors currently not on the table in Mike Conley trade talks with Grizzlies

  17-06-2019 23:29 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are reportedly not putting big man Derrick Favors on the table in Mike Conley trade talks with the Memphis Grizzlies at the moment, according to Tony Jones of The Athletic. The Jazz are reportedly the frontrunners to acquire Conley...
  
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• [SB Nation: Ridiculous Upside] - NBA Mock Draft: Minnesota Timberwolves Select Chuma Okeke from Auburn

  17-06-2019 23:27 via sportspyder.com
  SB Nation’s NBA Network conducted a mock draft with bloggers from each team site making their team’s pick. After a trade, with the 23rd pick the Timberwolves select Chuma Okeke.
  
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• Salt Lake City’s Fourth of July fireworks will be held at The Gateway

  17-06-2019 23:23
  Salt Lakers will have to look farther north to see fireworks this Independence Day.The Gateway retail and entertainment complex on the west edge of downtown Salt Lake City has announced it will throw a celebration on Thursday, July 4, that will include two stages featuring live bands, DJs and karaoke, roaming magicians and buskers — and fireworks at 10 p.m.“We want to start a new Fourth of July tradition that our entire community can look forward to every year,” Jacklyn Briggs,
  
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• Commentary: ‘Never again’ is happening again at Fort Sill

  17-06-2019 23:22
  We are the sons, daughters, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and friends of Americans of Japanese ancestry who, during World War II, were forcibly removed from their homes and placed in camps around the country, an act that deprived our family members of their freedom, rights, privacy, property, dignity and, in many cases, their health.Some of us were children at the time, and we watched what the incarceration of our families and 120,000 Japanese Americans did to an entire community. We live w
  
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• Masked gunman killed after shootout at Dallas courthouse

  17-06-2019 23:10
  Dallas • A masked gunman opened fire Monday on a federal courthouse in downtown Dallas before being fatally shot in an exchange of gunfire with federal officers, witnesses and authorities said.Brian Isaack Clyde, 22, was pronounced dead at a hospital following the shooting outside the Earle Cabell Federal Building. Authorities offered no hint of his motive, but FBI agent Matthew DeSarno said there was nothing to indicate the presence of any other shooters or threats to the city.Clyde opened
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Mike Conley trade rumors: Grizzlies 'intensifying' talks to move veteran guard, Utah Jazz are front-runners, per report - CBSSports.com

  17-06-2019 23:03 via sportspyder.com
  Memphis' leader could be on the move this summer, and it appears he has several potential suitors
  
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• Ute QB Cameron Rising can’t take the field until 2020, the NCAA rules

  17-06-2019 22:56
  Cameron Rising hopes to follow Tyler Huntley as Utah’s starting quarterback in 2020, but if he does, it will mark his first opportunity to take the field for the Utes.The NCAA has denied Rising’s request for a waiver that would have made him eligible to play this season as a transfer from Texas, Utah announced Monday. That news was offset by receiver Derrick Vickers’ being granted an extra year of eligibility, enabling him to play as a senior in 2019.Rising joined the Utes in J
  
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• The Jazz badly need more shooters. Will one be available at No. 23 in Thursday’s NBA Draft?

  17-06-2019 22:55
  Back in late September, at the Jazz’s annual media day event, coach Quin Snyder noted that the team’s ability to progress would, in part, be tied to its ability to hit from deep.“Can we shoot from the 3-point line better? Can we shoot more?” he asked rhetorically.And in late April, a day after the Jazz were eliminated from the postseason by the Rockets four games to one, Dennis Lindsey, the now-President of Basketball Operations, acknowledged that getting better from beyo
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz wing Royce O'Neale seizes offseason growth with big opportunity ahead for Year 3

  17-06-2019 22:39 via sportspyder.com
  Since Utah's first-round playoff exit in April, Royce O'Neale has trained with Donovan Mitchell and Jae Crowder this offseason in Los Angeles and Miami. He begins the Junior Jazz summer road trip...
  
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• Utah man arrested in fatal Lake Powell boating accident

  17-06-2019 22:29
  A 21-year-old Utah man has been arrested on suspicion of being drunk when a boat he was driving smashed into a rock at Lake Powell, causing a woman to be thrown from the boat and die.A probable cause statement says Triston Brady Harrison was arrested Friday after the fatal accident when he showed multiple signs of being intoxicated.The victim wasn't identified in court documents.Harrison is arrested on suspicion of three charges related to the incident, including DUI and automobile homicide.He i
  
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• Dixie State University offers fingerprinting for DACA recipients

  17-06-2019 22:29
  St. George, Utah • Police at Dixie State University are offering people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and others fingerprinting services — a required step to secure driving privileges in Utah.Police at the St. George campus decided to offer the service after the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah reached out to them, The Spectrum reported last week.“We noticed that getting your fingerprints done for a drivers privilege card was something that people w
  
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• Utah Jazz wing Royce O'Neale seizes offseason growth with big opportunity ahead for Year 3

  17-06-2019 22:27
  Utah Jazz's Royce O'Neale talks with Boston Zeigler as young fans take part in a clinic at West High School in Salt Lake City on Monday, June 17, 2019.Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsUtah Jazz's Royce O'Neale poses for a photo with Sydnee Papenfuss as he meets young fans during a clinic at West High School in Salt Lake City on Monday, June 17, 2019.Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsBoston Zeigler, Oskar McClellan and other young Utah Jazz fans watch Royce O'Neale during a clinic at West High School
  
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• [NBA] - The Note: Prepare for the 2019 NBA Draft with the Jazz VP of player personnel Walt Perrin

  17-06-2019 22:18 via sportspyder.com
  There was one year that Walt Perrin decided to keep track of the number of basketball games he attended.“I was so astonished by the number,” he says, “that I quit. I don’t do that anymore.”Suffice it
  
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• First campaign disclosures show Spencer Cox with $250,000 banked for gubernatorial campaign

  17-06-2019 22:11
  Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox raised $250,000 during this first month of his candidacy for governor, according to initial figures released Monday by the Cox campaign.Online disclosure forms show $1,200 raised from six donors on May 14, the date that Cox formally announced his bid for the state’s highest executive office. But updated figures — state law requires donations to be reported within a month of their receipt — were expected later Monday, outlining the individual contributi
  
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• Alexandra Petri: A flabbergasted Richard Nixon revises his resignation speech

  17-06-2019 22:08
  “He left. I don’t leave.”— — —Boy, I feel like a goof, watching the Trump administration in action! My notion of what mistakes I made was wrong. In fact, my mistake was leaving. Consequently, I would like to amend a good deal the speech in which I originally resigned:I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. So, I think, I won't.I thought erroneously that America needs a full-time presid
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Jazz badly need more shooters. Will one be available at No. 23 in Thursday’s NBA Draft?

  17-06-2019 21:59 via sportspyder.com
  Back in late September, at the Jazz’s annual media day event, coach Quin Snyder noted that the team’s ability to progress would, in part, be tied to its ability to hit from deep.
  
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• Salt Lake City’s economic development director is stepping down

  17-06-2019 21:55
  Salt Lake City’s economic development director is stepping down in August to take a job in Virginia, after three years in Utah’s capital city.Lara Fritts, 48, has been the first person to head the city’s Department of Economic Development since Mayor Jackie Biskupski elevated it to a Cabinet-level position, shortly after the mayor took office in 2016.Biskupski said Monday that Fritts had succeeded in creating a world-class economic development campaign on the city’s behal
  
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• Driverless shuttle ferrying passengers in Farmington

  17-06-2019 21:30
  Farmington, Utah • A driverless shuttle is now in operation at a retail hub in Farmington.The Standard-Examiner in Ogden reports the robot vehicle began serving Station Park June 13, and is expected to keep operating there until July 6. It will then move to different communities throughout the state for the next year.The shuttle is completely electric, and has no driver, steering wheel or pedals. It operates at up to 15 mph and is equipped with sensors to react quickly to other vehicles, pe
  
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• Tribune editorial: Why the silence while suspicious PAC raked in cash?

  17-06-2019 21:22
  So there were plenty of suspicions about the Americans for an Informed Electorate PAC, but no one wanted to inform the electorate about them.Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox says he notified law enforcement a year and a half ago — roughly the beginning of 2018 — of possible illegal activity in the political action committee’s fund-raising. PAC officials say they operate a legit political outreach operation, but many of the people it solicited say the PAC was more interested in their money
  
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• WinCo’s frozen raspberries from Washington farm — and sold in Utah — recalled

  17-06-2019 21:21
  Bellingham, Wash. • Frozen red raspberries from a Washington state farm are being recalled across the western U.S.WinCo Foods says it sold frozen red raspberries manufactured by Rader Farms of Bellingham, Washington, that may be contaminated with norovirus.The 12-ounce packages with a "Best By" date of February 13, 2021, were sold in stores in Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington, Texas and Utah.The Food and Drug Administration found contamination in a s
  
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• [The Score] - Report: Grizzlies 'intensifying' Conley trade talks, Jazz a front-runner

  17-06-2019 21:06 via sportspyder.com
  The Memphis Grizzlies are intensifying talks about trading franchise point guard Mike Conley, and the Utah Jazz are a front-runner if the deal happens the week of the NBA draft, league sources told The Athletic's Shams Charania.The Grizzlies own the...
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Mike Conley Trade Rumors: Jazz a 'Front-Runner' as Talks Are 'Intensifying'

  17-06-2019 21:06 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are considered a "front-runner" to acquire point guard Mike Conley in a trade with the Memphis Grizzlies , according to Shams Charania of The Athletic...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz Front Runners to Land Mike Conley

  17-06-2019 20:54 via sportspyder.com
  Have the Jazz found their new point guard?
  
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• Fred Hiatt: Trump is frittering away our foreign policy riches

  17-06-2019 20:51
  The best way to understand President Donald Trump’s foreign policy successes — or quasi-successes — is to imagine him as the heir to a family fortune who thinks he is building a business even as he is, in reality, slowly squandering his inheritance.It's a stretch, I know.But stay with me — because, unlike with his private business dealings, the legacy Trump is frittering away belongs to us all.Take his recent dust-up with Mexico. For the purposes of this argument, it does
  
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• Salt Lake City’s first Cabinet-level economic development czar is departing for a job in Virginia

  17-06-2019 20:36
  Salt Lake City’s economic development director is stepping down in August to take a job in Virginia, after three years in Utah’s capital city.Lara Fritts, 48, has been the first person to head the city’s Department of Economic Development since Mayor Jackie Biskupski elevated it to a Cabinet-level position, shortly after the mayor took office in 2016.Biskupski said Monday that Fritts had succeeded in creating a world-class economic development campaign on the city’s behal
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - If the Utah Jazz sign Bojan Bogdanovic in 2019 NBA Free Agency ...

  17-06-2019 20:23 via sportspyder.com
  This would be a solid albeit unsexy move
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Report: Jazz the front-runner to acquire Mike Conley from the Grizzlies during draft week

  17-06-2019 20:15 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz attempted to acquire Memphis Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley at the trade deadline, and they are apparently trying to get him again. According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, the Jazz are the front-runners to acquire Conley during...
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Raul Neto 2018-19 highlights

  17-06-2019 19:56 via sportspyder.com
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Utah Jazz contracts key dates: Deadlines, options, trade eligibility...

  17-06-2019 19:53 via sportspyder.com
  For your perusal, here are the key contract dates for each Jazz player going forward. This is constantly updated, so check back often. June 30, 2019 Ekpe Udoh becomes an unrestricted free agent. Na…
  
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• BYU to focus on QB’s health and the ESPN deal at its annual Football Media Day

  17-06-2019 19:47
  Provo • How is quarterback Zach Wilson’s surgically repaired shoulder? Will BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe let coach Kalani Sitake begin his fourth season without a contract extension? And when will BYU and ESPN announce the renewal of their television deal and bowl agreements that expire at the end of the 2019 season?Those are the primary questions as BYU holds its traditional early summer Football Media Day on Tuesday at the BYU Broadcasting Building.BYUtv will broadcast some of t
  
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• Axl Rose, Slash and Guns N Roses will rock Salt Lake City in October

  17-06-2019 19:29
  Do you have an “Appetite for Destruction”? Do you remember “The Spaghetti Incident”?If so, there’s big news for Guns N Roses fans in Utah: Axl Rose, Slash and the rest of the band will be hitting Salt Lake City this fall, performing at Vivint Smart Home Arena on Oct. 29.The Not In This Lifetime Tour features Rose as lead vocalist, Slash on lead guitar and Duff McKagan on bass — the first time since 1993 the three have performed. They'll be joined by Frank Ferr
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - 2019 Pre-Draft Primer: Five Possible Future Jazz Players

  17-06-2019 19:07 via sportspyder.com
  Which means there is a 30% chance that they are simply out of the league within 3-5 years. That said, none of them were stars. Even at the college level, he already had NBA range.
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Tyler Cavanaugh 2018-19 highlights

  17-06-2019 18:42 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Ekpe Udoh 2018-19 highlights

  17-06-2019 18:42 via sportspyder.com
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - If the Jazz sign Tobias Harris in 2019 NBA Free Agency ...

  17-06-2019 18:38 via sportspyder.com
  They’ll finally have a team set up to succeed in the playoffs
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Donovan Mitchell Jr. shows gratitude, sense of humor, height with Father's Day post

  17-06-2019 17:09 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell shared a heartfelt, and funny, thanks for his dad on Father's Day. Also, check out this video of BYU quarterback Zach Wilson throwing the football.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - 3 ideal landing spots for D’Angelo Russell in NBA free agency

  17-06-2019 17:04 via sportspyder.com
  The Brooklyn Nets are looking to make franchise-altering moves this offseason, but it may include letting go of some prominent contributors from their 42-win 2018-19 season — which was highlighted by a playoff appearance. According to SNY’s Ian...
  
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• Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress, jeans queen, dies at 95

  17-06-2019 16:54
  New York • Gloria Vanderbilt, the intrepid heiress, artist and romantic who began her extraordinary life as the “poor little rich girl” of the Great Depression, survived family tragedy and multiple marriages and reigned during the 1970s and ’80s as a designer jeans pioneer, died Monday at the age of 95.Vanderbilt, the great-great-granddaughter of financier Cornelius Vanderbilt and the mother of CNN newsman Anderson Cooper, who announced her death via a first-person obituar
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - D'Angelo Russell Rumors: Jazz 'Like' Nets PG, Only Interested as UFA

  17-06-2019 16:52 via sportspyder.com
  D'Angelo Russell's future is in flux. If the Brooklyn Nets sign Kyrie Irving this summer, they likely won't match any offer sheets he signs with other teams, as Russell and Irving don't seem like a natural fit as a backcourt pair...
  
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• New Mexico mural focuses on missing Native American women

  17-06-2019 16:51
  Las Cruces, N.M. • A new mural in southern New Mexico seeks to honor missing and slain Native Americans amid a nationwide push to bring more attention to the issue.The Las Cruces Sun-News reports artist Sebastian "Vela" Velazquez recently erected the mural in Las Cruces in conjunction with the city's eighth annual "Illegal" graffiti art show.The work is part of a large-scale mural wrapping around the entirety of the Cruces Creatives building. In the mural, a Native American woman stands in
  
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• Utah man reportedly stabs dog and its owner after the animal sniffed him

  17-06-2019 16:50
  A Utah man is in jail after police say he stabbed a dog and the dog’s owner after the animal sniffed him.Police were called to a LaVerkin residence Saturday afternoon and found a man bleeding from the head and neck and the dog “severely bleeding” from the neck. The victim told the officer his dog sniffed his 27-year-old neighbor and his wife, according to jail documents, and he told the suspect not to touch his dog.The suspect then “pulled a knife from his pocket and stab
  
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• Morning links: Donovan Mitchell Jr. shows gratitude, sense of humor, height with Father's Day post

  17-06-2019 16:48
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell 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 — Like many other grateful children, Donovan Mitchell gave his dad a social media shoutout on Sunday.Mitchell's post showed a few things.He loves his dad, who works for the New York Mets. He loves the Mets. And he loves to make a good joke."Happy Fathers Da
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Vegas doesn’t seem to care about the Utah Jazz and that’s okay

  17-06-2019 16:03 via sportspyder.com
  The next week should be a busy one for the overlooked Utah Jazz
  
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• Authorities recover body of North Salt Lake man who drowned in East Canyon Reservoir

  17-06-2019 15:58
  The body of a man who drowned while swimming in the East Canyon Reservoir on Sunday has been recovered.Search crews located the 25-year-old man late Sunday night, according to a spokesman for the Utah State Parks.The North Salt Lake man, whose name has not been released, and his family had rented a pontoon boat on Sunday afternoon. He and two family members were swimming when the man, who was not wearing a life jacket, began to struggle in the cold water.“They noticed he was kind of strugg
  
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• Trump calls newspaper report on Russia power grid ‘treason’

  17-06-2019 15:51
  Washington • President Donald Trump has lashed out at The New York Times, saying it engaged in a “virtual act of treason” for a story that said the U.S. was ramping up its cyber-intrusions into Russia’s power grid.Do you believe that the Failing New York Times just did a story stating that the United States is substantially increasing Cyber Attacks on Russia. This is a virtual act of Treason by a once great paper so desperate for a story, any story, even if bad for our Cou
  
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• Helaine Olen: It’s long past time to raise the minimum wage

  17-06-2019 15:25
  On Wednesday, Nevada became the most recent state to increase its minimum wage, when Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak signed legislation that would also begin the slow process of raising it from the current $7.25 an hour for workers receiving benefits and from $8.25 for those without benefits, beginning with an increase of 75 cents next year.Hooray for Nevada. But the state’s action also highlights a bigger problem. If the national minimum wage is not raised by this Sunday — a highly un
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Tensions rise between U.S. and China as both nations pursue military dominance in space

  17-06-2019 15:08
  Happy Monday!A new space race has emerged between the U.S. and China, as each nation invests money and resources into increasing its military might in orbit. President Donald Trump has proposed a Space Force, and both countries are trying to develop laser and cyber weapons to destroy each other’s satellites. And Qiao Liang, a major general in the Chinese air force, has said the outspending tactics the United States used against the Soviet Union in the Cold War won’t work against Chin
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Anthony Davis trade reactions and other NBA podcasts of the day

  17-06-2019 15:01 via sportspyder.com
  All the top NBA podcasts compiled here on a daily basis so you don’t have to look for them. Enjoy! Jared Weiss on the NBA Finals and AD Trade from RealGM Radio with Danny Leroux June 17 03:04…
  
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• Sundance’s summer movie series will take free screenings around Utah

  17-06-2019 14:00
  The Sundance Institute’s summer movie series is expanding beyond outdoor screenings at Salt Lake City’s Red Butte Garden and Park City’s City Park — taking free movie experiences to Ogden, Coalville and St. George.The Robert Redford-founded arts nonprofit announced its slate of screenings, all showcasing films picked from past years’ offerings of the Sundance Film Festival.Some of the screenings will feature appearances by the filmmakers or other special events. All
  
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• Salt Lake City’s mayor and City Council clash over how to fund affordable housing

  17-06-2019 14:00
  Salt Lake City’s elected leaders say they agree that increasing the number of affordable houses and apartments remains a top priority.But the City Council, at least for now, wants more control over how City Hall spends millions of dollars toward this goal, setting up a new power struggle with Mayor Jackie Biskupksi.In approving the annual budget last week, the council carved out and moved management of nearly $2.59 million in housing loans away from the administration-controlled Housing an
  
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