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• BYU was short on experienced receivers before junior Neil Pau’u was charged with DUI on campus. Now it’s a real problem.

  25-06-2019 23:47
  Provo • Trailing Western Michigan 10-7 heading into the third quarter of the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl last December, BYU desperately needed its offense to awaken after a punchless 115-yard performance in the first half.Freshman quarterback Zach Wilson zipped a short pass over the middle to Neil Pau’u the first play of the second half, and the sophomore walk-on from Anaheim, Calif., made a couple defenders miss and gained 48 yards. The big play opened the floodgates, boosted Wilson&rsq
  
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• Salt Lake City karaoke business finally lands a beer license. How? By adding 2 pool tables.

  25-06-2019 23:44
  Utah liquor officials said “no" two months ago, when Salt Lake City’s Heart & Seoul Karaoke applied for a license to serve beer.On Tuesday, the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control commission — just like it did last month with a Utah ax-throwing company — changed its mind.The reason? The addition of pool tables.Heart & Seoul, located at 67 W. 100 South, recently added two pool tables, and placed signs at the front door and reception desk to let customers
  
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• Imagine a system that allows cars, roads and signals all to ‘talk’ to one another to prevent wrecks. UDOT signs $50M deal to help develop it.

  25-06-2019 23:37
  One engineer calls it a “digital seat belt.”It’s a futuristic system to create a protective bubble around cars using technology that allows vehicles to communicate constantly with one another, with traffic signals and even with the roadway to prevent collisions or other accidents.The Utah Department of Transportation and Panasonic formed a $50 million partnership Tuesday to take the next steps toward developing this project. They hope to form the nation’s most advanced tr
  
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• Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski issues her first budget veto in fight over how the city spends on affordable housing

  25-06-2019 23:18
  Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski issued the first vetoes of her tenure in office on Tuesday, crossing out several of the City Council's newly passed budget proposals for nearly $4 million of spending on affordable housing.With a series of line-item vetoes announced Tuesday afternoon, Biskupski sought to undo the council’s decision to shift nearly $2.59 million held in the city’s Housing Trust Fund away from the administration-controlled Housing and Neighborhood Development Divis
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Mike Conley is excited about a “new challenge, a new opportunity, and a new home” in Utah

  25-06-2019 23:03 via sportspyder.com
  Mike Conley and Donovan Mitchell, the Utah Jazz’s new and vaunted backcourt, want to hit the ground running when the two take the court together come October.
  
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• George Pyle: When authority is its own worst enemy

  25-06-2019 23:00
  “Revelation had indeed no weight with me, as such; but I entertained an opinion that, though certain actions might not be bad because they were forbidden by it, or good because it commanded them, yet probably those actions might be forbidden because they were bad for us, or commanded because they were beneficial to us, in their own natures, all the circumstances of things considered.”— Benjamin Frankin, AutobiographyWe worry about people who don’t follow the rules, who di
  
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• Who did MacKenzie Lueck meet? Salt Lake City police ask key person in this baffling missing person case to call them.

  25-06-2019 22:59
  Salt Lake City police on Tuesday made more pleas for help in finding missing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck.Assistant Police Chief Tim Doubt asked the person Lueck met early June 17 in a North Salt Lake park to come forward.He asked for anyone who knows whether Lueck has an extra cell phone or social media accounts to share that information.And Doubt made another plea to Lueck.“MacKenzie,” Doubt said, “in the case you just want to be left alone, please let us know y
  
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• Mike Conley is excited about a “new challenge, a new opportunity, and a new home” in Utah

  25-06-2019 22:42
  Mike Conley and Donovan Mitchell, the Utah Jazz’s new and vaunted backcourt, want to hit the ground running when the two take the court together come October.So while the trade bringing Conley to Utah hasn’t even been completed yet — it won’t be until at least July 6, when the NBA’s moratorium ends — the work between the two star guards has already begun in earnest.This week, they worked out together with NBA skills development trainer Chris Johnson in Los Ang
  
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• Salt Lake County Council urges the state Legislature to pass a ban on so-called “conversion therapy”

  25-06-2019 22:36
  The Salt Lake County Council is calling on the Utah Legislature to end a widely discredited form of therapy that attempts to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQ youth — a move that comes just months after lawmakers on Capitol Hill gutted a proposal that would have done so.The resolution, passed unanimously by the partisan council on Tuesday, urges state lawmakers to protect minors from so-called “conversion therapy” to prohibit mental health professionals
  
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• Utahns are worried the housing crunch will damage the economy

  25-06-2019 22:21
  Utahns are increasing worried the state's housing crunch will start to dampen economic growth, according to a Zions Bank survey released Tuesday.Fully 60% of Utahns polled in June for the bank's Consumer Attitude Index said they believed rising home values are having negative effects on the state's economy. Another 22% said the impact was neutral and the remaining 18% said they thought it was positive.Two-thirds of those surveyed said they felt housing was not readily available in their neighbor
  
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• BYU was short on capable receivers, and that was before experienced rising junior Neil Pau’u was charged with drunken driving on campus

  25-06-2019 22:10
  Provo • Trailing Western Michigan 10-7 heading into the third quarter of the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl last December, BYU desperately needed its offense to awaken after a punchless 115-yard performance in the first half.Freshman quarterback Zach Wilson zipped a short pass over the middle to Neil Pau’u the first play of the second half, and the sophomore walk-on from Anaheim, Calif., made a couple defenders miss and gained 48 yards. The big play opened the floodgates, boosted Wilson&rsq
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Civil rights and Latter-day Saint attorney Carolyn Homer talks about making her living defending Muslims

  25-06-2019 22:04
  With foundational beliefs in prophets, modesty, fasting and family values, Islam and Mormonism share some deeply rooted faith traditions.And this week’s guest, Carolyn Homer, knows more than a little about both religions.Homer is a civil rights attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Listen here:
  
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• Health impact from smoke rises with more intense wildfires

  25-06-2019 22:00
  Billings, Mont. • Climate change in the Western U.S. means more intense and frequent wildfires churning out waves of smoke that scientists say will sweep across the continent to affect tens of millions of people and cause a spike in premature deaths.That emerging reality is prompting people in cities and rural areas alike to prepare for another summer of sooty skies along the West Coast and in the Rocky Mountains — the regions widely expected to suffer most from blazes tied to dryer,
  
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• Golfer Boo Weekley is trying to rebuild his career after beating cancer; he’ll be playing in this week’s Utah Championship

  25-06-2019 21:53
  Farmington • PGA Tour player Tony Finau of Lehi endorsed the newly named Korn Ferry Tour by citing how he played at this level only four years before making the U.S. Ryder Cup team.Odds are that multiple members of future teams are competing this week at Oakridge Country Club in the Utah Championship. The process also goes in the other direction. Boo Weekley, a star of the Americans’ 2008 Ryder Cup victory, is using the tour as one of his avenues in coming back from an 18-month absenc
  
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• Utah launches its first rare-liquor drawing with a hard-to-get Kentucky whiskey at a bargain price

  25-06-2019 21:38
  Utah’s first drawing for hard-to-get liquors officially launched Tuesday, with the state offering bottles of Elmer T. Lee single barrel bourbon for $37.99.This award-winning whiskey is practically a steal. A 750 milliliter bottle is listed for as much as $300 online. It’s one instance when the state’s mandatory 88% markup on spirits favors consumers.Utahns now have seven days to visit the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control website — https://abc.utah.gov —
  
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• Sally Jenkins: NCAA President Mark Emmert is the lord of a feudal state who knows its time is over

  25-06-2019 21:19
  California is close to passing a law that would return to athletes what the NCAA unjustly stole: the rights to their own names, images, and likenesses. One’s name and face are what some people might call a birthright. But in the eyes of the NCAA, college athletes don’t have birthrights; they’re serfs. NCAA President Mark Emmert, the Lord High of the Carillon Towers, has suggested all of California’s postseason competition could be jeopardized if the state allows an athlet
  
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• Unintended pregnancies are declining nationally, hovering at about one-in-five in Utah

  25-06-2019 21:07
  David Turok remembers a patient he saw at a clinic in downtown Salt Lake City a few years ago.The woman had come “way too close to dying” while previously giving birth, Turok said. She wanted an IUD, but didn’t have insurance and couldn’t afford it.“Why are we making it so hard for people to plan their families?” he said.Turok, an associate professor with the University of Utah Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, was a panelists at an event Monday held at
  
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• Monson: Jazz’s Rudy Gobert clutches two NBA defensive trophies, and he is reaching now for more

  25-06-2019 20:58
  Rudy Gobert further established himself as the best defensive basketball player on the planet on Monday night, garnering for the second year in a row the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year Award.“I say this all the time,” Gobert said, the trophy secured on stage, thanking his coaches, his teammates, his mom, mixing in a little French, adding that he is most grateful. “It’s a team game.”So, it is. A team game made a lot easier by a single defensive anchor.Gober
  
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• Utes get a QB commitment for 2020, and Cameron Rising promises to be ‘the best scout-team quarterback’ in 2019

  25-06-2019 20:57
  Utah’s football program has landed a quarterback who’s arriving in 2020, when the Utes will stage a competition for the job that will be vacated by three-year starter Tyler Huntley.Katravis Marsh, a south Florida product like Huntley, recently announced his commitment to Utah. If Marsh follows through and signs with the Utes in December, the program’s 2020 roster of scholarship quarterbacks will include Drew Lisk as a senior, Jason Shelley as a junior, Cameron Rising as a sopho
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Jazz’s Rudy Gobert clutches two NBA defensive trophies, and he is reaching now for more

  25-06-2019 20:52 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert further established himself as the best defensive basketball player on the planet on Monday night, garnering for the second year in a row the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year Award.
  
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• Electric scooter program is coming to Provo this summer

  25-06-2019 20:15
  Provo, Utah • Provo Mayor Michelle Kafusi has announced 200 electric scooters are coming to the city this August.Kafusi tweeted Monday the city has launched a pilot program with bike sharing program Zagster to bring 200 dockless Spin scooters and 100 bikes to Provo later this year.Electric scooters are popular in a number of Utah cities already, including Salt Lake City and Ogden. Nearby St. George also has a contract with Zagster.Provo's parking and sustainability coordinator Austin Taylor
  
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• Imagine a system that allows cars, roads and signals all to ‘talk’ to each other to prevent wrecks. UDOT signs $50M deal to help develop it.

  25-06-2019 20:06
  One engineer calls it a “digital seat belt.”It’s a futuristic system to create a protective bubble around cars using technology that allows vehicles to communicate constantly with each other, with traffic signals and even with the roadway to prevent collisions or other accidents.The Utah Department of Transportation and Panasonic formed a $50 million partnership on Tuesday to take the next steps toward developing this project. They hope to form the nation’s most advanced
  
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• Permanent warnings about algal bloom are being installed around Utah Lake

  25-06-2019 20:04
  Forget about temporary warnings of algal blooms on Utah Lake — the Utah County Health Department is putting up permanent warning signs.The permanent Harmful Algal Bloom (or HAB) signs are meant to be educational and raise awareness of the blooms, which were found earlier this month near the Saratoga Springs Picnic Area and have hit the lake for the previous three summers.“The signs are more infographic in their approach and should help us to better communicate with those who are usin
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Rudy Gobert Q&A: Jazz center talks about his latest NBA award, Mike Conley and next season

  25-06-2019 19:13 via sportspyder.com
  After Rudy Gobert won his second Defensive Player of the Year award on Monday night — and after about an hour of hoisting two DPOY trophies for photographers from just about every possible NBA outlet — Gobert caught up with Tribune Jazz beat...
  
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• Utah records increase in home-school students

  25-06-2019 19:12
  Provo, Utah • Data shows the number of students home-schooled in Utah has more than doubled.The Daily Herald reported Tuesday that the Utah State Board of Education recorded more than 16,000 home-school students during the 2015-16 school year, the most recent year with available data.Nearly 17% of the students were in the boundaries of the Alpine School District, about 6% were in the Nebo School District and nearly 3% were in the Provo School District.The state recorded more than 7,000 home
  
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• Rudy Gobert Q&A: Jazz center talks about his latest NBA award, Mike Conley and next season

  25-06-2019 19:05
  After Rudy Gobert won his second Defensive Player of the Year award on Monday night — and after about an hour of hoisting two DPOY trophies for photographers from just about every possible NBA outlet — Gobert caught up with Tribune Jazz beat reporter Andy Larsen outside the Barker Hangar studio in Santa Monica, California. Their conversation follows:First of all, congratulations on the award. I saw Quin [Snyder] was there supporting you tonight, and I wanted to ask how you felt his s
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - PJ Tucker throws shade after Jazz star Rudy Gobert wins Defensive Player of the Year

  25-06-2019 18:08 via sportspyder.com
  Houston Rockets veteran P.J. Tucker was not in a very good mood in last night’s NBA Awards program. The 6-foot-6 swingman took to social media to share his dismay with the results, and decided to take out his frustration in what appears to a be a...
  
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• It’s late, but hot weather is expected to arrive in the Salt Lake Valley

  25-06-2019 17:34
  Just as July is about to start, hot weather comes with it — and it’s a notable arrival. The Salt Lake Valley and Tooele areas are forecast to reach about 90 degrees Tuesday. It will be the first day this year that the temperature is that high. The National Weather Service said it is “quite late” in the year for the valley to see temperatures 90 and higher. The weather service says this will be one of only 18 years since 1875 that it is this late in the year to have a 90 d
  
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• 400,000 households could lose food stamps under Trump plan expected soon

  25-06-2019 17:15
  Washington • With the Trump administration considering a multipronged attack on federal poverty programs, Democrats staged a preemptive action.They defended a provision that allows states to provide food-stamp benefits to recipients who are above federal guidelines.And they blasted attempts by Republicans to disparage current program guidelines. At a hearing last week, Republicans pointed to a retired Minnesota man in the audience who received food stamps despite being a millionaire.“
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - See some of the best fan reaction as Utah Jazz's Rudy Gobert, Mike Conley receive NBA honors

  25-06-2019 17:10 via sportspyder.com
  Twitter users were incredibly excited about how well-represented the Jazz were at the NBA Awards on Monday night.
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - 3 Reasons Why The Utah Jazz Will Be Contenders In The West Next Season

  25-06-2019 17:09 via sportspyder.com
  The Memphis Grizzlies traded longtime Star Mike Conely to the Utah Jazz in exchange for Jea Crowder, Grayson Allen, Kyle Korver and
  
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• See some of the best fan reaction as Utah Jazz's Rudy Gobert, Mike Conley receive NBA honors

  25-06-2019 17:07
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert was named the league's Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight season and new point guard Mike Conley received both the Sportsmanship Award and the Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year award.SALT LAKE CITY — For a night in late June, Monday was rather perfect for the Utah Jazz.At the annual NBA Awards show in Los Angeles, center Rudy Gobert was named the league's Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight season and new point guard Mike Con
  
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• Turns out, southern Utah’s juniper trees aren’t so indestructible after all. But what is killing them?

  25-06-2019 16:57
  Late last fall, some 20 federal scientists toured southeastern Utah, prodding sickly and dead juniper trees, peeling back bark, snapping off branches and digging the dirt around root collars in search of clues to what could be killing the West’s most hardy tree species.Trip leader Liz Hebertson, a plant pathologist with the U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Health Protection program, buried her face in a dying juniper’s foliage, which had turned a telltale shade of deep yellow, dabb
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Could Rudy Gobert’s legacy end up in the Hall of Fame?

  25-06-2019 16:56 via sportspyder.com
  After his back-to-back Defensive Player of the Year Award, he’s on the right path.
  
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• [CBS Sports] - 2018-19 NBA Awards: Jazz star Rudy Gobert named Defensive Player of the Year for second straight season - CBSSports.com

  25-06-2019 16:56 via sportspyder.com
  Gobert is the 10th player in league history to win the award multiple times
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump heroically saves us from himself

  25-06-2019 16:38
  Washington • Let us praise President Trump for saving us from himself.As public outcry swelled, Trump announced over the weekend that he would postpone immigration raids and mass deportations, reversing a reckless plan devised a week earlier by a thoughtless fellow by the name of — let’s see here — Donald J. Trump.Last week, Trump declared that 10 minutes before a planned strike on Iran, “I stopped it” because it was “not proportionate” to Tehran&rs
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Those aren’t the emails we should be looking for

  25-06-2019 16:34
  President Trump would like to make someone’s email a central issue in the 2020 election, just as it was in 2016.I’m on board — though I disagree with which someone we’re talking about.We should be laser-focused on newly discovered private emails between a high-ranking census official and a GOP operative, and what they reveal about a long-term Republican conspiracy to rip political representation and financial resources from Democrats and people of color.Thanks to recent c
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: A conservative’s vision: Let’s make politics great again

  25-06-2019 16:30
  Peter Wehner, a former adviser to President George W. Bush and a prominent Never Trump voice, is out with a new book, "The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump." At a time when politicians are held in low regard and a moral retrograde sits in the White House, Wehner makes the counterintuitive argument that we must recognize politics as a noble endeavor. My conversation with him covered a lot of ground; it has been condensed for length and lightly edited for clarity.Rubi
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Trade Details: Jazz, Warriors, Lakers, Magic, More

  25-06-2019 16:29 via sportspyder.com
  NBA teams weren't allowed to send out more than $5.243MM in trades during the 2018/19 league year, but the Jazz …
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - What should the Utah Jazz do at the Power Forward position?

  25-06-2019 16:22 via sportspyder.com
  T minus 5 days until free agency
  
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• Salt Lake City mayoral candidates say young people must push City Hall to take ‘courageous steps’ in gun violence prevention

  25-06-2019 16:06
  Most of the action that’s needed around gun reform and school safety initiatives in Salt Lake City has to come from state lawmakers and the federal government, candidates vying to lead the capital city of one of the youngest states in the nation said Monday night.Still, the mayoral hopefuls promised they would work to engage youth voices at City Hall and would lead the charge on issues primarily impacting the demographic, if elected.“I believe that it is part of the responsibility of
  
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• Trump signs order that aims to reveal real health care costs

  25-06-2019 16:00
  Washington • President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that calls for upfront disclosure by hospitals of actual prices for common tests and procedures to help keep costs down.The idea is to give patients practical information that they can use to save money. For example, if a hospital charges your insurer $3,500 for a type of echocardiogram and the same test costs $550 in a doctor's office, you might go for the lower-price procedure to save on copays.But insurers said the idea
  
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• Commentary: Don’t wait to the end to have say in public budgets

  25-06-2019 16:00
  Picture this: It’s 8 p.m. on a Wednesday. Ten residents have already spoken, and 20 more line up waiting their turn to talk. One by one they step up to the podium — some to talk about a lack of transparency, others with questions about funding decisions, all of them wanting to be heard, pleading for collaboration. There are millions of dollars, mostly their tax money, being allocated and distributed, and this is only their second time being heard. Each year, cities determine how tax
  
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• Commentary: Good journalism is gasping for air

  25-06-2019 15:55
  Hillsboro, Ohio • Eager to watch President Donald Trump’s campaign kickoff rally last week, I first tuned in to Fox News. After about a half hour, I decided I would flip over to MSNBC, then CNN. I was disappointed to discover neither carrying the event.Let's get this straight. The incumbent president was formally announcing his reelection bid in front of 20,000 people, and neither MSNBC nor CNN deemed it newsworthy enough to interrupt its typical nightly lineup? Viewers weighed in, wi
  
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• Letter: There but for the grace of God

  25-06-2019 15:33
  I’d like to thank Salt Lake Tribune journalist Erin Alberty for her compelling and compassionate front page story “Who Is Worth Searching For?” You gave a voice to Teja Trujillo, who is surely grieving the tragic death of her son “Chino.”I don't fully understand the process of searching for missing persons and I don't intend to assign blame.However, what struck me so profoundly was this family’s experience of not counting, not mattering and being unworthy of p
  
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• Letter: Trust women to make that choice

  25-06-2019 15:31
  We are told we cannot hide behind the words “choice” or “privacy” or “freedom” while discussing reproductive agency, according to state Sen. Dan McCay after proposing an elective abortion ban in Utah.As we are advised to dismiss or disparage these essential elements of free agency, is it OK to talk about trust?We cannot hide behind the words “pro-life,” “life of a child,” or “divine personage” (sic) if we can’t trust h
  
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• Letter: The term ‘concentration camp’ is accurate

  25-06-2019 15:29
  Thank you for your recent editorial on concentration camps, which I read on Facebook.As a rabbi and someone who has studied Jewish history, I believe your understanding of the term "concentration camp" is accurate. More importantly, you have placed the discussion of concentration camps where it belongs, as a purely moral issue, not political.All Americans, liberal, conservative or other, should be shocked and anguished that inhumane and cruel treatment of children is official national policy. We
  
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• Letter: Do we really value all life equally?

  25-06-2019 15:29
  There was an interesting juxtapositioning of two stories in The Salt Lake Tribune this week.Utah state Sen. Dan McCay proposes to eliminate all abortions in Utah. Teja Trujillo bemoans that police weren’t excited to search for her missing son, Keith “Chino” Fulcher.On the one hand, McCay wants all lives to be born, arguing that human life begins at conception, thus proclaiming that society has a responsibility to give birth to all conceived human lives.On the other hand, Trujil
  
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• Letter: Utah voters don’t hold legislators to account

  25-06-2019 15:25
  George Pyle’s excellent commentary on Sunday was right on, except for one important omission.In his “the Utah’s Capitol is the place where…” list of unconscionable deeds imposed on us by our compassionless legislators, he failed to include “the Utah Capitol is the place where”... members of the Legislature can ignore the public because the public, by and large, show their lack of concern for moral standards and will still vote them into office.Shame on
  
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• Salt Lake City drivers drop 19 spots in new safety rankings, fall to No. 67

  25-06-2019 15:15
  Salt Lake City drivers crashed in a new nationwide safety ranking, dropping 19 spots to No. 67 overall among the country’s largest 200 cities.That’s the finding in Allstate’s annual America’s Best Drivers Report, which ranks cities according to collision frequency based on claims made to that insurance company.The report figures that Salt Lake City drivers are in accidents about once every 9.81 years. That is about 8% worse than the national average of suffering a wreck e
  
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