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• Erik Wemple: No Trump, please! Orlando Sentinel gets a jump on 2020 endorsements

  18-06-2019 23:58
  Here's a prediction: Newspapers around the country will endorse President Donald Trump's opponent in the 2020 presidential election by a gaping margin, perhaps even exceeding the 57-to-2 blowout for Hillary Clinton in 2016 (among the country's 100 largest papers).One way to stick out from this lump of consensus? Get your endorsement out early. “Our Orlando Sentinel endorsement for president in 2020: Not Donald Trump,” reads the headline on the Sentinel’s Tuesday editorial, whic
  
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• U.S. air quality is slipping after years of improvement

  18-06-2019 23:30
  After decades of improvement, America’s air may not be getting any cleaner.Over the last two years the nation had more polluted air days than just a few years earlier, federal data shows. While it remains unclear whether this is the beginning of a trend, health experts say it's troubling to see air quality progress stagnate.There were 15% more days with unhealthy air in America both last year and the year before that there were on average from 2013 through 2016, the four years when America
  
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• BYU says new ESPN deal is imminent, but bowl agreements are extending the negotiations

  18-06-2019 23:26
  Provo • BYU’s annual Football Media Day came and went Tuesday without any major announcements. However, the much-expected new contract extension with ESPN is still very much in the works, athletic director Tom Holmoe said in a pre-recorded statement that aired during the live broadcast titled “State of the Program.”Holmoe said the holdup to the negotiations is BYU’s bowl situation, as the Cougars rely on ESPN to help them land postseason games because they are an ind
  
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• State employees this year are slated to begin their exodus from Capitol Hill to Taylorsville. What comes after that?

  18-06-2019 23:13
  Hundreds of state employees are poised to move off Capitol Hill by the end of 2020 so their current office complex can be razed the following year.What happens to the site after the demolition crews leave will depend on the availability of funds, a state facilities manager told a legislative panel on Tuesday.If the money is in place, construction will begin on a new Capitol complex building that could deliver new conference space and an area to exhibit some of the state’s historical and cu
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Georges Niang 2018-19 highlights

  18-06-2019 23:12 via sportspyder.com
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• Commentary: 20 changes LDS Church President Russell Nelson has made to appeal to millennials and Generation Z

  18-06-2019 23:12
  Since “The Next Mormons” was published earlier this year, one of the questions I’ve been asked repeatedly is some version of this:“When will The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints start changing so that it stops alienating people in their 20s and 30s?”I reply that the church has been changing — rapidly. Ever since Russell M. Nelson took office in January 2018, the changes have been coming fast and furious, and most of them are quite millennial-friendl
  
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• Utah boy sues Soldier Hollow Charter School saying it ignored ‘red flags’ before his principal raped him on a field trip

  18-06-2019 23:09
  He was 10 years old when his charter school principal took a group of students on a trip to the bowling alley as a reward for doing well in class.But the principal, Charles Weber, ended up violating the fifth grader. He took him to the bowling alley restroom, the boy says, and raped him.Now, the Utah County boy and his mother are suing Soldier Hollow Charter School, alleging its board of directors ignored complaints from parents and staffers for years about Weber’s inappropriate behavior.
  
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• George Pyle: It isn’t just money that can be tainted

  18-06-2019 23:00
  “The trouble with tainted money is t’aint enough of it.”The coinage is attributed to William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, when he was asked about the morality of drawing support for his charitable institution from money bags that, in some cases, might be trying to atone for, or distract from, the distasteful ways in which they acquired all that wealth in the first place. As The Salt Lake Tribune goes forward into the brave new world of being a — deliberately &mda
  
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• Calling for ‘better council members,’ Biskupski delivers blistering criticism of Salt Lake City Council over inland port

  18-06-2019 22:59
  As Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski announced her plans to amend a lawsuit she filed against the state earlier this year, she said she was “ashamed” of the role the City Council has played in the development project she’s contesting.The mayor and council have often found themselves on different wavelengths when it comes to the inland port, a massive distribution hub planned for approximately ⅓ of the city’s northwest area. And, calling for “better council
  
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• [Fansided: Sir Charles In Charge] - NBA Rumors: Indiana Pacers targeting Ricky Rubio heading into free agency

  18-06-2019 22:55 via sportspyder.com
  NBA Rumors: The Indiana Pacers are reportedly targeting Ricky Rubio heading into free agency. Will he be a good fit next to Victor Oladipo? Over the past t...
  
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• Tampons, pads will now be free at a number of Salt Lake City-run facilities

  18-06-2019 22:03
  The Salt Lake City Council has set aside $20,000 in funding for a one-year pilot program that will soon make feminine hygiene products available for free at bathrooms in some city buildings.The three women currently serving on the council — Amy Fowler, Ana Valdemoros and Erin Mendenhall — spearheaded the “menstrual equity” initiative together as part of the council’s 2019 budget package and say they hope it will help push state lawmakers to take action on the issue.
  
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• Salt Lake City teachers rally — again — for a pay raise

  18-06-2019 21:52
  Chelsie Acosta started by taking attendance.She asked how many in the crowd taught at an elementary school. How many were brave enough to handle middle school. And who boldly chose to stand in front of a classroom in a high school.“Now,” she said, “how many of you are on summer break?”Nearly all of the more than 200 teachers in front of her raised their hands. “And we still showed up,” one woman shouted back. “We’re used to working overtime,”
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - If the Utah Jazz trade for Kevin Love during 2019 NBA Free Agency ...

  18-06-2019 21:43 via sportspyder.com
  Utah’s offensive woes will be solved. Defensively however ...
  
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• Kearns High football players post video of gay pride flag burning

  18-06-2019 21:29
  There will be consequences for Kearns High football players who posted a video of someone setting an LGBTQ pride flag on fire, their coach promised.As the flag burns in the video, which was posted last week on Snapchat, someone can be heard laughing and another person can be heard saying, “All gays die.”“We have one rule in our program, and that is not to embarrass yourself, your family or your team," Coach Matt Rickards told FOX 13. “That rule was broken. There’s g
  
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• Wildlife officials kill a black bear after it injured a boy in a Utah campground

  18-06-2019 21:24
  Utah wildlife officials have killed a black bear that injured a boy in Utah’s Hobble Creek Canyon east of Springville early Tuesday after it entered a private campground and disturbed a tent where the youngster was sleeping.The boy suffered minor scratches and is expected to be OK, according Faith Heaton Jolley, spokeswoman for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.The bear, however, had to be euthanized because of its apparent lack of fear of people.The federal Wildlife Services, a Depa
  
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• Leonid Bershidsky: Russia’s power grid is an easy target for U.S. hacking

  18-06-2019 21:00
  A report in the New York Times that the U.S. Cyber Command has intensified secret efforts to hack the Russian power grid is less interesting for its content than because of U.S. officials’ apparent cooperation in publicizing the activity. Like any power grid undergoing a digital transformation, the Russian one is quite hackable — but why would the U.S. want public discussion of the matter?The New York Times story talks about “implants” — the placement of malware in
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - If the Utah Jazz sign Malcolm Brogdon in 2019 NBA Free Agency ...

  18-06-2019 20:32 via sportspyder.com
  It would be good, but maybe not good enough
  
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• Hunt is on for a black bear after it injured a boy in a Utah campground

  18-06-2019 20:08
  Utah wildlife officials are searching for a black bear that injured a boy in Utah’s Hobble Creek Canyon east of Springville early Tuesday after it entered a private campground and disturbed a tent where the youngster was sleeping.The boy suffer minor scratches and is expected to be OK, according Faith Jolley, spokeswoman for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.The bear, however, will be euthanized because of its apparent lack of fear of people.“It is unclear how long it may take
  
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• As Trump’s defense pick withdraws, he addresses violent domestic incidents

  18-06-2019 20:06
  Washington • In the months that he has served as President Donald Trump's acting secretary of defense, Patrick Shanahan has worked to keep domestic violence incidents within his family private. His wife was arrested after punching him in the face, and his son was arrested after a separate incident in which he hit his mother with a baseball bat. Public disclosure of the nearly decade-old episodes would re-traumatize his young adult children, Shanahan said.On Tuesday, Trump announced in a twe
  
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• [Fansided: Sir Charles In Charge] - NBA Rumors: Utah Jazz the favorites to land Mike Conley via trade

  18-06-2019 20:03 via sportspyder.com
  NBA Rumors: The Utah Jazz is reportedly considered the favorites to land Mike Conley via trade Heading into the offseason, there is one glaring hole in the...
  
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• [The Score] - NBA win totals: 5 way-too-early bets for 2019-20

  18-06-2019 19:59 via sportspyder.com
  Sportsbooks wasted no time opening up NBA win totals for the 2019-20 season, dropping them shortly following the culmination of The Finals.Though we're on the cusp of a soap opera-type offseason that could drastically impact projected totals - it's...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - What would a Mike Conley trade mean for the Utah Jazz moving forward?

  18-06-2019 19:56 via sportspyder.com
  The Athletic's Shams Charania has reported that “Utah is a frontrunner to acquire Conley should the Grizzlies trade the point guard during draft week.”
  
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• What would a Mike Conley trade mean for the Utah Jazz moving forward?

  18-06-2019 19:46
  Memphis Grizzlies Mike Conley (11) drives past Utah Jazz's Royce O'Neale (23) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 8, 2019, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht)APSALT LAKE CITY — Reports are swirling that the Utah Jazz and Memphis Grizzlies are in talks once again on a trade that would see the Grizzlies send point guard Mike Conley to the Jazz.After discussions reportedly were active prior to the NBA's trade deadline in February before ultimately dying,
  
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• Biskupski delivers blistering criticism of City Council members over inland port. Erin Mendenhall retorts by calling her a ‘failed mayor.’

  18-06-2019 19:21
  As Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski announced her plans to amend a lawsuit she filed against the state earlier this year, she said she was “ashamed” of the role the City Council has played in the development project she’s contesting.The mayor and council have often found themselves on different wavelengths when it comes to the inland port, a massive distribution hub planned for approximately ⅓ of the city’s northwest area. And, calling for “better council
  
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• Watchdog to investigate whether BLM broke the law by studying Grand Staircase monument’s potential for oil and gas leasing

  18-06-2019 19:16
  Washington • The Government Accountability Office is investigating whether the Bureau of Land Management broke the law by identifying tracts of land for possible oil and gas drilling inside the original Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument contrary to Congress’ explicit prohibition of such activity.The GAO confirmed Tuesday that it has accepted a request by top Democrats in the House and Senate appropriations committees to issue a legal opinion on the matter.“It’s t
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz Shorts: Welcome to Utah, Mike Conley? | KSL.com

  18-06-2019 19:01 via sportspyder.com
  With only days left until the NBA Draft, the Jazz are looking at ... Mike Conley?
  
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• Following standardized testing debacle, Utah will sign a $21 million contract with the company it previously used

  18-06-2019 19:00
  After five years working with a standardized testing company, the state decided to switch to a new provider with the hope that it might help rebrand the annual exam, give it a new name and encourage more students to take it.That didn’t pan out.During its inaugural rollout this spring, the business, Questar, had computer glitches that delayed thousands of students in taking their assessments. Teachers reported that the scores that showed on computer screens didn’t match the reports th
  
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• Catherine Rampell: The struggling iconic American industry you’re not thinking of

  18-06-2019 18:51
  An iconic American industry is struggling.This sector has long been battered by forces beyond its control: globalization, automation, "disruptive" new competitors, changing tastes. Bankruptcies mount, and workplaces shutter around the country. Big, empty buildings, once bustling with young people, have been left to rot.To add insult to injury, the industry is poised to get slaughtered by President Trump's escalating trade wars. But notwithstanding the U.S. trade representative's (USTR) public he
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump’s mental gymnastics are incomprehensible

  18-06-2019 18:45
  Washington • Only a man who is, like, really smart could perform mental gymnastics at the level President Trump has attained over the past few days.On Saturday, Trump declared that The New York Times committed a "virtual act of Treason" by reporting on a U.S. cyber campaign against Russia.Mere seconds later, he proclaimed that the supposedly treasonous report was “ALSO, NOT TRUE!”Thus, in Trump's telling, did the journalists commit the capital offense of … divulging false
  
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• Following standardized testing debacle, Utah will sign a $21 million contract with the reliable company it previously used

  18-06-2019 18:33
  After five years working with a standardized testing company, the state decided to switch to a new provider with the hope that it might help rebrand the annual exam, give it a new name and encourage more students to take it.That didn’t pan out.During its inaugural rollout this spring, the business, Questar, had computer glitches that delayed thousands of students in taking their assessments. Teachers reported that the scores that showed on computer screens didn’t match the reports th
  
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• Weber State OK’d a student growing hemp for his senior project. He could still be arrested for misusing.

  18-06-2019 18:07
  Ogden • Jeff Colbert gets a lot of strange looks — and more than a few incredulous questions — when he talks about his research project.“Is that even legal?” some people ask him. “The university is letting you do what now?” others want to know.Sometimes he tries to explain, but mostly he laughs, too.Colbert came to Weber State University in northern Utah to study botany after nearly two decades of working in law enforcement. Now, he’s specializing i
  
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• Trump threatens to deport millions beginning next week

  18-06-2019 17:53
  Washington • President Donald Trump is threatening to remove millions of people living in the United States illegally ahead of formally announcing his reelection bid .The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement next week will "begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States," Trump said in a pair of tweets Monday night."They will be removed as fast as they come in," he wrote.An administration official said the effort wo
  
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• Watchdog to investigate BLM for studying Grand Staircase monument’s potential for oil and gas leasing

  18-06-2019 17:14
  Washington • The Government Accountability Office has opened a probe into whether the Bureau of Land Management broke the law by identifying tracks of land for possible oil and gas drilling inside the original Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument contrary to Congress’ explicit prohibition of such activity.The GAO confirmed Tuesday that it has accepted a request by top Democrats in the House and Senate appropriations committees to issue a legal opinion on the matter.“It&rs
  
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• Logan restaurateur facing 5 years in prison, accused of sending forged checks after federal wage investigation

  18-06-2019 17:10
  The owner of a popular Utah chain of Mexican restaurants is facing up to five years in prison, charged with forging checks meant to repay his workers’ back wages.Justin Hamilton, 40, of Logan, pleaded not guilty in April to a felony charge of obstructing a proceeding of a federal agency. On Monday, the Utah U.S. Attorney’s Office scheduled a change-of-plea hearing for Thursday.According to court documents, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division — which enfo
  
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• AP investigation: Utah jail inmate’s suicide not an isolated case

  18-06-2019 17:08
  The last time Tanna Jo Fillmore talked with her mother, she was in a Utah jail, angry and desperate. She’d called every day that week, begging for help.I need my medicine, she demanded.At 25, Fillmore had long struggled with mental illness, but Xanax and hyperactivity medication had stabilized her. Now, she was locked up on a probation violation, and she told her mother the jail nurse was refusing to provide her pills. In their final conversation, Fillmore threatened to kill herself.Melany
  
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• Kearns High football coach promises ‘consequences’ for players who posted video of a gay pride flag being burned

  18-06-2019 16:48
  There will be consequences for Kearns High football players who posted a video of someone setting an LGBTQ pride flag on fire, their coach promised.As the flag burns in the video, which was posted last week on Snapchat, someone can be heard laughing and another person can be heard saying, “All gays die.”“We have one rule in our program, and that is not to embarrass yourself, your family or your team," Coach Matt Rickards told FOX 13. “That rule was broken. There’s g
  
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• Utah man charged with attempted murder after he reportedly stabbed dog and its owner when the animal sniffed him

  18-06-2019 15:59
  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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• Political Cornflakes: Report: Trump’s nominee for United Nations ambassador was often absent from her last diplomatic post

  18-06-2019 15:31
  Happy Tuesday!President Donald Trump’s pick for United Nations ambassador has often been absent from her current position as U.S. ambassador to Canada, officials say. Federal Aviation Administration records show a private jet used by Trump’s nominee, Kelly Craft, and registered to her husband made nearly 130 flights between the United States and Canada during the 15 months of her tenure. A spokesperson for the Crafts would not say how many of those trips involved her travel. [Politic
  
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• Letter: Let everybody help choose our president

  18-06-2019 15:28
  Russia participated in our last election. We should encourage other countries to help us select our president, including China, and all other interested countries.Maybe they are already doing so?Alden Laney, MillcreekSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Where is the patriotism in Stewart?

  18-06-2019 15:27
  When Donald Trump said Wednesday on an ABC TV interview that he would “accept” information about an opponent from a foreign government as he did in 2016 (which violates the Constitution), Mitt Romney said Thursday that it was “unthinkable” that someone would engage in this illegal activity.In all his campaigns, Romney said he had never had one contact with a foreign government, and if he did, he would turn it over to the FBI immediately.Trump’s campaign has had over
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - If the Utah Jazz signed D’Angelo Russell in 2019 NBA Free Agency ...

  18-06-2019 15:25 via sportspyder.com
  Utah would have the backcourt of the future.
  
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• Letter: What part of ‘illegal’ doesn’t Stewart understand?

  18-06-2019 15:25
  Rarely does anything Rep. Chris Stewart says surprise me, but telling CNN that it would be “foolish” to turn down information from a foreign government about an election opponent, and further stating that the legality of doing so would depend upon whether the information is “credible.” takes the cake.The head of the Federal Election Commission has made it perfectly clear that doing so under any circumstance is a violation of federal election laws.I have two questions for
  
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• Letter: The backbone of the family

  18-06-2019 15:23
  My dad grew up on a farm in central Wisconsin with 14 brothers and sisters. He never went beyond 8th grade but his basic intelligence was great.He became a cabinet maker, but the Depression in the 1930s and 1940s did not call for too many cabinet makers. Like everyone else, he had to change professions and became a welder at International Harvester. He became a union leader and was president of his local and regional union. He left the union and retired.He was raised as a Catholic and taught me
  
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• Letter: Won’t any Republican challenge the president?

  18-06-2019 15:22
  Perhaps even more disturbing than the president’s carryover “Celebrity Apprentice” authoritarian dictator mentality, leading to obstructing “executive privilege” testimony refusals and latest willingness to accept foreign adversarial campaign opponent “dirt,” is the continuing support of his underbelly base and impotent Republican legislators.To regain the prominence of the Republican Party, can any candidate with the courage, integrity, intelligence and
  
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• Letter: Judging only the cowards you don’t like

  18-06-2019 15:19
  Former Deputy Scot Peterson is being charged with a crime and is reviled by his nation because of his cowardice, refusing to engage the gunman who was attacking the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February, 2018.Most of those making the judgment have never faced such fear and have no idea what they would do in a similar situation. As a military career officer, I see little difference between what Peterson did and what was done by every draft dodger. This makes our current commander in ch
  
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• Letter: No oil wells in wildlife refuges

  18-06-2019 15:15
  This concerns a detailed plan of Thurston Oil to use drilling and fracking to create two oil wells inside Ouray National Wildlife Refuge. They expect to produce 400,000 barrels of “waxy crude.” Thurston leased rights to the underground oil and minerals from the Utah Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.The surface, given to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the 1960s, is a safe home for wetlands wildlife. The 15,000-acres, partly bordered by the Green River, sound
  
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• Salt Lake City’s 9th & 9th neighborhood to get a new sushi restaurant

  18-06-2019 15:12
  Tsunami will open its fifth Utah restaurant — this one in Salt Lake City’s popular 900 East and 900 South neighborhood — later this year.The restaurant will be located in the former Alamexo Cantina space at 1059 E. 900 South, the company announced recently.“We are very excited to have the opportunity to move into such a wonderful neighborhood," Judy Cullen, marketing director for Tsunami, said in a news release. “We have always wanted to be a part of this walkable,
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - With West’s heavy hitters in turmoil, Utah Jazz need to take advantage

  18-06-2019 15:12 via sportspyder.com
  With both the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets facing issues this summer, now is the time for the Utah Jazz to aim to strike. The Utah Jazz have f...
  
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• With West’s heavy hitters in turmoil, Utah Jazz need to take advantage

  18-06-2019 15:09
  With both the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets facing issues this summer, now is the time for the Utah Jazz to aim to strike. The Utah Jazz have fielded a competitive and exciting team in each of the past three seasons. Unfortunately, while they’ve been a playoff squad each year, they’ve been stopped dead […]
  With West’s heavy hitters in turmoil, Utah Jazz need to take advantage - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Trump could revive Utah’s uranium mines any day now, but activists worry about the industry’s toxic legacy

  18-06-2019 14:00
  A decision expected from the Trump White House in coming weeks could have far-reaching consequences for Utah’s uranium mining industry, which has been largely dormant in the face of competition from overseas producers.U.S. nuclear power plants get the vast majority of their uranium fuel from foreign sources — such as Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and China — even though there are ample reserves of the radioactive mineral at home in the Colorado Plateau.President Donald Trump c
  
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