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• Real Salt Lake feeling benefits of focusing a bit more on its play when preparing for opponents

  02-07-2019 23:55
  Sandy • During the three weeks that Real Salt Lake had a break from Major League Soccer competition, coach Mike Petke implemented a slight change in how the team prepares for games week to week. He said he wanted to focus more on how his own team plays and a less on the copious research involved in scouting an opponent.Since Petke announced the change, RSL has earned four points in its last two games — a road draw with the Chicago Fire and a home win over Sporting Kansas City. It&rsqu
  
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• Draper brush fire burns near four homes

  02-07-2019 23:48
  A fast-moving fire charred a hillside at Point of the Mountain in Draper, burning at the edge of several residents’ backyards but doing no damage to homes.The blaze, which started Tuesday afternoon, could be seen burning in dry grass alongside Interstate 15. Draper Fire Chief Clint Smith said the department received several calls at 1:45 p.m. alerting them of the tall flames.“We rushed to those homes in most imminent danger," the chief added.Crews were able to cut a line behind the h
  
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• Justice: Census to be printed without citizenship question

  02-07-2019 23:47
  The Justice Department says the 2020 Census is moving ahead without a question about citizenship.Kristen Clarke, an attorney for a civil rights group that helped fight the addition of the question, says Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits that the printing of the hundreds of millions of documents for the 2020 counts would be starting soon.Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco has confirmed there would be "no citizenship question on 2020 census."The White House didn't
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Wishing He Would Zip It

  02-07-2019 23:22
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/01/bagley-cartoon-founding/" target=_blank><u>Founding Fathers Fun Facts</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/06/28/bagley-cartoon-press/"><u>Press Control</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/06/27/bagl
  
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• George Pyle: Democrats show some of The Right Stuff

  02-07-2019 23:00
  In the Tom Wolfe book and Philip Kaufman movie “The Right Stuff,” there’s a standout scene where astronaut John Glenn has just been pried out of his Mercury capsule because bad weather has scrubbed his exceedingly risky (“Our rockets always blow up") Atlas launch.He is instantly confronted by a NASA bureaucrat who is mad because Glenn’s wife, Annie, doesn’t want to admit Vice President Lyndon Johnson, and attendant press corps, into her home. Annie is shy, in
  
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• West Valley City prepares for another smelly summer

  02-07-2019 22:48
  If the winds are just right, residents of West Valley City can expect a foul smell to ruin their summer plans — again.According to FOX 13, the city is experiencing a rotten odor for the second year in a row. Elena Watson, a resident of West Valley, described it like “a giant soiled diaper.” She said they are unable to be outside because the smell is so bad. West Valley City Manager Wayne Pyle said the city believes the cause is a waste processing company near the landfill. Howe
  
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• Body of Elliott Robbins, Utah solder killed in Afghanistan, returns to the United States

  02-07-2019 22:41
  The remains of Army Sgt. 1st Class Elliott Robbins arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Tuesday.Robbins’ family was there to greet the casket. Robbins, who is from Ogden, died Sunday in Helmand Providence, Afghanistan. The U.S. Army has only said Robbins died of “non-combat” injuries.Robbins was a medic assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), based in Fort Carson, Colo. He was born Aug. 18, 1987, in San Diego, according to the Army. He joi
  
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• Now’s the time to comment on how to spend $4B on Wasatch Front transportation

  02-07-2019 22:36
  Officials want to hear from Wasatch Front residents about how to spend some $4 billion on transportation over the next six years.The Wasatch Front Regional Council has released its draft 2020-2025 Transportation Improvement Plan — which includes proposals on when to build highway, transit, bike and pedestrian projects, and how much to spend on each.All facets of “the transportation system really have to work well together with our population growing so fast,” said Andrew Gruber
  
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• Meet John Molnar, a 28-year-old Utah veteran running for Congress on political age limits, ballot initiative protection and a military path to citizenship

  02-07-2019 22:33
  Under John Molnar’s legislative agenda, unmarked police cars would be prohibited from initiating traffic stops, lawmakers would be jailed and charged with treason for amending successful ballot initiatives, and immigrants who enlist in the military would be granted full citizenship upon the honorable completion of their service.Molnar also proposes that government salaries be tied to constituents’ median household incomes, that government officials be required to receive their health
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s celebration of himself is the perfect reminder of why he must leave

  02-07-2019 22:00
  President Donald Trump has crushed political norms and constitutional barriers, whether by his incessant, brazen lying or his defiance of Congress in executive power grabs or impeding the Mueller investigation or smearing our intelligence community or taking monies from foreign governments in violation of the emoluments clause (according to two district court judges). But now, he has really done it.Absconding with the most American of holidays, Independence Day, he plans to run a Soviet-style mi
  
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• Utah mill eyes radioactive material from Estonia

  02-07-2019 21:48
  Cortez, Colo. • A Colorado-based company is asking for permission to ship radioactive material from eastern Europe to a uranium mill in Utah.The Cortez Journal reported Monday that Energy Fuels Resources submitted an application in April to the Utah Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control to allow the White Mesa Uranium Mill to accept material from a rare-earth production plant in Estonia.The residual material contains uranium that the mill can extract to make fuel rods for nucle
  
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• ‘She did nothing to deserve this’: Friends and family mourn slain Utah student MacKenzie Lueck

  02-07-2019 21:10
  When MacKenzie Lueck threw a birthday party for her cat, she didn’t hold back.“She even got champagne,” said her friend, Katie Kvam.“Oh my goodness. Do you remember the cake?” added Kennedy Stoner. “She made it out of special cat food.”All of Lueck’s closest friends were invited to celebrate Nova, a fluffy gray kitty whom she adored, as she turned another year older. They were asked to wear pointy party hats and throw confetti. And everyone sang of
  
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• Commentary: Why can’t ex-Mormons just leave the LDS Church alone? Turns out, most do.

  02-07-2019 21:09
  “You can take the person out of Mormonism, but you can’t take the Mormonism out of the person.”“They can leave the church . . . but they just can’t leave the church alone.”These are just two of the adages I’ve heard about ex-Mormons — former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It’s mostly current, active Latter-day Saints I hear saying these things, painting a portrait of former members as angry, hateful people who are
  
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• Helaine Olen: Ivanka Trump wants power, and laughing at her expense won’t stop her

  02-07-2019 20:52
  This past weekend, left-wing Twitter was enthralled by a short clip of Ivanka Trump attempting to insert herself into a conversation among French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Theresa May, International Monetary Fund President Christine Lagarde and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau while at the annual Group of 20 summit in Japan. The group appeared to be patiently tolerating Trump — at least, until the moment it became clear Lagarde could no longer contain her disd
  
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• [Deseret News] - Brad Rock: Rudy Gobert's not the only Frenchman Jazz fans can salute

  02-07-2019 20:36 via sportspyder.com
  William Howard is trying to catch the Jazz's eye as a summer league player. He and Rudy Gobert come from the same place — and a far different spot.
  
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• Sterling Van Wagenen, a Latter-day Saint filmmaker, gets six years to life for child sex abuse

  02-07-2019 20:29
  American Fork • If it was up to this young girl, Sterling Van Wagenen would spend the rest of his life in prison for sexually abusing her.She stood in the courtroom Tuesday, arms crossed, as her older sister read a statement. She wants him to stop apologizing, she said. He should have come clean earlier and told her parents that he had touched her inappropriately.“You lied to literally everyone,” the girl said in her statement before Van Wagenen was sentenced Tuesday to spend at
  
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• State inquiry will delve into concerns about intermittent phone outages in Castle Valley area

  02-07-2019 20:29
  State regulators have opened an investigation into concerns about unreliable phone service in a part of southeastern Utah.The Utah Public Service Commission in late June consolidated two consumer complaints and the inquiry into a single case, since all arise out of quality concerns with Frontier Communications of Utah. The state’s public utilities division has already been looking into these issues, and the commission asked that the agency share the status of its investigation by July 8.&l
  
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• Brad Rock: Rudy Gobert's not the only Frenchman Jazz fans can salute

  02-07-2019 20:23
  Jazz fans chat during a time out in a Salt Lake City Summer League basketball game between the Utah Jazz and the Memphis Grizzlies at the Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, July 1, 2019.SALT LAKE CITY — Down the hallway at Vivint Arena, Rudy Gobert had passed by moments earlier, imposing and confident, comfortable in his space. Outside the Jazz locker room, countryman William Howard was coming from the same place — but a far different angle on Monday.Both players we
  
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• A Utah man faces charges for extorting more than 50 underage girls to send him nude photos

  02-07-2019 19:48
  A 19-year-old Utah man suspected of extorting more than 50 underage girls to send him nude pictures is facing multiple charges — now that he’s been sent home from an LDS mission.Gabe Ryan Gilbert, of South Jordan, was booked into the Salt Lake County jail and later released. He’s been charged in 3rd District Court with five counts of aggravated sexual extortion of a child, first-degree felonies; and four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, second-degree felonies.According
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Roster Remake Nears Completion as Jazz Add Shooting, Creation

  02-07-2019 19:41 via sportspyder.com
  He waited for the ball to whir around the perimeter where it found him open for a three. The shot glanced off the rim and the Pacers were off in transition. Bottom of the net.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - How will Ricky Rubio fit in the back-court with Devin Booker for the Suns?

  02-07-2019 19:30 via sportspyder.com
  In 2009, the Minnesota Timberwolves took a chance on Ricky Rubio with the fifth overall pick. At the time, they hadn’t made the playoffs in five years. A decade later: the drought is a decade longer. The 28-year old Spaniard dealt with the...
  
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• Chuck Raasch: Trump’s predecessors knew better than to make July 4 about themselves

  02-07-2019 19:00
  Four days after the Battle of Gettysburg, a Union victory that turned the Civil War toward eventual national reunification, a large crowd gathered at the White House to serenade Abraham Lincoln and demand a speech.There was much to celebrate: It was three days after the Fourth of July, four months before Lincoln would forever link the sacrifice of those who gave the "last full measure of devotion" in his Gettysburg Address. Ulysses S. Grant's army had on July 4 captured Vicksburg on the Mississi
  
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• [KSL] - 3 things you may have missed on the first day of the SLC Summer League | KSL.com

  02-07-2019 18:19 via sportspyder.com
  Tony Bradley went coast-to-coast, Dante Exum got forgotten, and Georges Niang worked on his new career at Day 1 of SLC Summer League.
  
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• [Franchise Sports] - Jazz, Pacers are perfect examples of how to run a small-market team

  02-07-2019 18:18 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz and Indiana Pacers have had brilliant free agency periods so far despite being small-market teams. Malcolm Brogdon and Bojan Bogdanovic are perfect signings.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Remaining Free Agent Options for the Utah Jazz

  02-07-2019 17:50 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz still need to fill in some depth
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Reactions from Day 1 of Salt Lake City Summer League

  02-07-2019 17:50 via sportspyder.com
  Jarrell Brantley ... wow.
  
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• Utah State University banned the man who is accused of killing Mackenzie Lueck

  02-07-2019 17:16
  Utah State University barred Ayoola Ajayi, who is in jail on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering Mackenzie Lueck, from its campus after a theft investigation, according to documents from the school.The campus police reports also describe Ajayi, a Nigerian immigrant, as overstaying his visa and perhaps being homeless. When USU police booked Ajayi into the Cache County jail in 2012 on suspicion of misdemeanor theft, officers notified both Immigration and Customs Enforcement and a Nigerian consul
  
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• [Deseret News] - Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell says this offseason is a summer of separation

  02-07-2019 16:56 via sportspyder.com
  “I’m just finding ways to get better," Mitchell said. On July 6, he will leave for a worldwide trip to Asia, France and Germany with Adidas.
  
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• Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell sees this offseason as summer of separation entering Year 3

  02-07-2019 16:44
  Donovan Mitchell, of the Utah Jazz, embraces his fans after event where the pedestrian bridge spanning 100 south, at The Gateway in Salt Lake City, is named after him on Tuesday, March 26, 2019.Steve GriffinSALT LAKE CITY — Social media videos of Donovan Mitchell actually in the gym during workouts have been few and far between this summer.And that's by design."A lot of it's been understanding that I can take care of what I have to take care of off the floor but still getting my work in,"
  
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• Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell says this offseason is a summer of separation

  02-07-2019 16:44
  Donovan Mitchell, of the Utah Jazz, embraces his fans after event where the pedestrian bridge spanning 100 south, at The Gateway in Salt Lake City, is named after him on Tuesday, March 26, 2019.Steve GriffinSALT LAKE CITY — Social media videos of Donovan Mitchell actually in the gym during workouts have been few and far between this summer.And that's by design."A lot of it's been understanding that I can take care of what I have to take care of off the floor but still getting my work in,"
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - 6 Under The Radar NBA Free Agent Signings

  02-07-2019 16:33 via sportspyder.com
  The off-season is well underway. Some teams are dipping into the bargain bin this free agency, while others are making power moves
  
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• Amazon removes novel written by MacKenzie Lueck murder suspect

  02-07-2019 16:29
  Amazon — the online retailer that made its name selling books — has removed a novel from its website that was written by Ayoola Ajayi, the man police have accused of kidnapping and murdering University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck.Some journalists noticed Monday that the novel, “Forge Identity,” had been removed.A plot summary on Goodreads.com states that “Forge Identity” is about a character named Ezekiel, who is 15 when he witnesses two murders and, in hi
  
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• [Deseret News] - Morning links: Why the Jazz leaving behind the 'feel-good team' label is a good thing for Utah

  02-07-2019 16:28 via sportspyder.com
  The Ringer's Haley O'Shaughnessy explains how the Utah Jazz's offseason moves are helping them shed the underdog label.
  
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• Morning links: Why the Jazz leaving behind the 'feel-good team' label is a good thing for Utah

  02-07-2019 16:22
  Memphis Grizzlies guard Mike Conley (11) drives against Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert in the second half of an NBA basketball game Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)Brandon DillSALT LAKE CITY — Are the Utah Jazz approaching 'team to hate' status?The Ringer's Haley O'Shaughnessy believes so.O'Shaughnessy called the Jazz one of the best teams in the NBA on both sides of the ball with their offseason moves to bring Mike Conley, Bojan Bogdanovic and Ed Davis to Sal
  
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• Here’s where it’s illegal to light fireworks along the Wasatch Front

  02-07-2019 16:05
  Tuesday is the first day it’s legal in Utah to light fireworks for the Independence Day holiday — so if your neighbors have been setting off the Roman candles already, they have been breaking the law.Utah law says personal, or Class-C, fireworks can be used in two brief windows in July: July 2 to 5 for the Fourth, and July 22 to 25 for Pioneer Day. (Such fireworks can also be bought and lit for New Year’s Eve and the Chinese New Year.)Each city in Utah has its own restrictions
  
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• Weber County says it will stop charging inmates $10 a day

  02-07-2019 16:04
  Ogden • The Weber County jail will stop charging inmates $10 a day to help pay the cost of incarcerating them.The Standard-Examiner reports the practice will end Aug. 1. Officials say none of the current debts will be forgiven.Corrections spokesman Lt. Joshua Marigoni says the jail wants to keep inmates out of debt when they're released. He also says billing under the "pay-to-stay" program isn't worth the work, and it hurts the county's ability to get federal grants to help inmates.Marigoni
  
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• Riot police clear away protesters from Hong Kong legislature

  02-07-2019 15:58
  Hong Kong • Hundreds of protesters swarmed into Hong Kong’s legislature Monday night, defacing portraits of lawmakers and spray-painting pro-democracy slogans in the chamber before vacating it as riot police cleared surrounding streets with tear gas and then moved inside.The three-hour occupation, which ended early Tuesday, came on the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony's return to China, a city holiday, and reflected mounting frustration with Hong Kong's leader for not res
  
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• 2 are killed when experimental plane crashes in central Utah

  02-07-2019 15:51
  An experimental plane crashed Monday in Sanpete County, killing two men.The Sanpete County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call reporting the downed plane at 5:11 p.m. According to a Facebook post by the department, the “small, glider-type craft” went down approximately four miles northeast of Ephraim City, and the men onboard — whose names have not been released — were dead when rescue teams arrived.The plane had taken off from the Nephi airport and was enroute to
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Now is the time for Democrats to engage on foreign policy

  02-07-2019 15:30
  In the annals of presidential foreign policy trips, this one has to be the worst — until the next time President Donald Trump ventures overseas.Let's review: Trump mocked the notion he should warn Russian President Vladimir Putin about interfering with our elections and swooned over a fellow enemy of the press.My Washington Post colleague Margaret Sullivan writes, "Trump ‘bonded with Putin’ over his scorn for journalists. ... ‘Get rid of them. Fake news is a great term, i
  
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• Letter: Spend that fireworks money on ice cream

  02-07-2019 15:29
  Hey people,Can you all do me a favor and quit blowin’ **** up?Yeah I get it. America and everything. But, really?If you've seen one fireworks display, you've seen them all, and yet you still keep terrorizing my dog every year. ’Cuz you got the right to celebrate. But do you ever think of anyone but yourselves?Maybe spend that money on some ice cream for the ones you hold dear?Aw, never mind. Happy Fourth of July! The Greatest Generation will be proud of all you all.Dave Teal, Hollada
  
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• Letter: So, what is to be done about immigration?

  02-07-2019 15:28
  There were two columns in The Salt Lake Tribune Opinion section of June 23 about the treatment of migrants by ICE and the Border Patrol. I did not read one piece of constructive advice on how to improve it.Neither ICE, the Border Patrol nor the U.S. Marshall Service were designed or equipped to house, feed and provide medical care in long term care for 144,000 people in May alone, tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors or the 1,000 people who showed up in El Paso in one day. The Hilton was bo
  
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• Letter: Judge Trump by the company he keeps

  02-07-2019 15:27
  They say you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. In the case of Donald Trump, he likes to belittle, insult and alienate our long time worldwide allies (France, the UK, Australia, etc.) while cozying up to the murderous and corrupt leaders of human rights abusing nations.Mohammed bin Salman, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un are all brutal tyrants. Trump's pal Benjamin Netanyahu is as corrupt and conniving as Trump.Here at home, Trump has systematically removed anyone in his cabi
  
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• Utah’s new toughest-in-nation DUI limit snags 49 people in first 3 months

  02-07-2019 15:26
  Last year, driving with a blood alcohol content (BAC) between 0.05 and 0.079 was legal in Utah. But 49 people found out the hard way that is no longer the case during the first three months of the year.As Utah’s new toughest-in-the-nation drunken driving law took effect, overall DUI arrests also increased by 4.5% in that period, according to data released by the Utah Highway Patrol. It waits about 90 days to release data for each quarter because blood test results often are delayed —
  
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• Letter: Leave the fireworks to the pros

  02-07-2019 15:25
  Like we’re on autopilot at this time of year, we are out buying fireworks as if it’s a requirement.It’s the way we always celebrate Independence Day — also known as the Fourth of July — a national holiday. Every year, unwanted fires, injured people and terrified pets are a result.Wouldn’t we all be much better off leaving the operation of the fireworks to the professionals who are contracted each year to stage the public extravaganzas that amaze everyone with
  
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• Letter: How about some letters supporting Trump?

  02-07-2019 15:22
  I've been a subscriber to The Salt Lake Tribune for 20 years. I read the letters published every day with great interest because I love this great state.The one thing that bothers me is the fact that Utah is one of the most conservative states in the country, yet the letters section regularly contains a majority of letters derogatory of President Trump even though he won the state of Utah in the 2016 election.I, personally, had reservations about voting for Trump in 2016, but took a chance on hi
  
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• Letter: Why is there no mention of suicide?

  02-07-2019 15:17
  The Democratic candidates just held a debate on gun violence.No mention of suicide.Madonna just stated on Instagram that gun violence disproportionately affects children, teenagers and the marginalized.No mention of suicide.Two out of every three firearm deaths in America are suicides. In America, about 70 percent of suicides are white males.Maybe, just maybe, we should talk about that.Park the whataboutism, and really, honestly discuss the fact that white men are killing themselves at an alarmi
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Biden plummets, Harris slides into second in major 2020 poll

  02-07-2019 15:00
  Kamala Harris has rocketed into the top tier of the Democratic presidential primary, while Joe Biden’s once double-digit lead has taken a hit, according to a national poll taken after last week’s debate. Harris’ surge places her firmly within the top tier, which now consists of former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. [POLITICO]Happy Tuesday!Topping the news: Utah lawmakers have created a board of seven physicians who
  
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• A prominent Latter-day Saint filmmaker expected to be sentenced for child sex abuse

  02-07-2019 15:00
  American Fork • Sterling Van Wagenen, a Latter-day Saint filmmaker with deep ties to Utah’s film industry, is expected to be sentenced Tuesday for sexually abusing a child.Van Wagenen pleaded guilty earlier this year to two child sex abuse charges in two different courtrooms. Both involve the same victim, a young girl who reported Van Wagenen abused her between 2013 and 2015, when she was between 7 and 9 years old. Charging documents say the girl told her parents that Van Wagenen inap
  
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• Kirby: Independence Day and the boom loons

  02-07-2019 14:00
  By ear, I can tell whether a distant explosion came from a professionally manufactured firework or a bootleg version put together by unsupervised kids with access to the assorted ingredients.Sonny can do this as well, with one small difference. Even though our mutual interest in the loud arts has caused a surprising amount of deafness in both of us, we have separate fields of study.As a former gunner’s mate in the Navy, Sonny is far better when it comes to the noise of actual military ordn
  
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• After a defeat in court, Motorola drops its fight over the $50 million Utah public safety contract

  02-07-2019 14:00
  Motorola Solutions, for decades Utah’s provider of public safety communications equipment, has given up the fight over its loss of a $50 million contract that was put up for bid last year.Harris Co. won the bidding last December by coming in about $30 million cheaper than Motorola. But the award was challenged by Motorola, who took its accusations of bid-rigging and other violations of procurement code through administrative appeals and then to court.A key ruling Thursday by the Utah Supre
  
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