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• Former BYU Cougar, longtime prep basketball coach Jim Jimas dies at 74

  11-07-2019 23:57
  After playing for some of the most legendary basketball coaches in state history at Bingham High School and BYU, Jim Jimas became one himself, guiding Hillcrest and Brighton high schools to state championships over a 22-year head coaching career.Jimas, forever a Cougar hoops hero after making one of the most memorable plays in program history to secure a victory in the NIT championship game over Army, died early Tuesday morning at his home in Salt Lake City.He was 74.One of Jimas’ former p
  
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• Salt Lake City Police open investigation of at least six alleged assaults by inland port protesters and an internal review of officer conduct during violent clash

  11-07-2019 23:39
  Protesters involved in a demonstration that turned violent in downtown Salt Lake City earlier this week sought to offer their side of the story at a news conference on Thursday: one that blames overly aggressive police.Amid calls from state and city leaders for civility and elevated discourse — and after Utah Gov. Gary Herbert decried the protests as “borderline terrorism,” noting that some protesters self-identify as anarchists — the people who were involved pointed to p
  
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• Housing Secretary Ben Carson visits a Utah opportunity zone — a tool Salt Lake City plans to use to create a ‘life sciences corridor’ in poor neighborhoods

  11-07-2019 22:51
  Salt Lake City hopes to use a Trump administration tool to turn the seven “opportunity zones” located within its boundaries into a “life sciences corridor” spanning from the University of Utah’s research park to the city’s northwest side.The zones, designated low income communities based on census data, are part of a program created in the 2017 federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that will allow big institutional investors, such as banks, to defer capital gains and
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Bojan Bogdanovic shares how he will fit in offensively with Jazz

  11-07-2019 22:50 via sportspyder.com
  After Mike Conley, Bojan Bogdanovic was the Utah Jazz’s biggest acquisition of the offseason. The veteran forward is left the Indiana Pacers to play in Salt Lake City, where he will have to adapt to a different role. Bogdanovic shared how he thought...
  
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• New Mexico, Colorado get fired up over chile peppers

  11-07-2019 22:49
  Albuquerque • “It’s on!”New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she's ready for a culinary duel with her neighbors to the north after the governor of Colorado proclaimed on social media that chile grown in his state is the best and will be stocked in grocery store across four western states.Gov. Jared Polis fueled the fiery debate when he said stores in Lujan Grisham’s state would be supplied with inferior chile from New Mexico."If Colorado wants to go chile to c
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Bojan Bogdanovic reveals what intrigued him about playing for Jazz

  11-07-2019 22:15 via sportspyder.com
  Bojan Bogdanovic can’t wait to get started with the Utah Jazz after officially signing his four-year, $73.1 million contract with the team. Bogdanovic revealed what intrigued him about playing for the Jazz. “Just seeing that the Jazz are a real...
  
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• Protesters involved in inland port demonstration say violence was sparked by police brutality

  11-07-2019 21:42
  Protesters involved in a demonstration that turned violent in downtown Salt Lake City earlier this week sought to offer their side of the story at a news conference on Thursday: one that blames overly aggressive police.Amid calls from state and city leaders for civility and elevated discourse — and after Utah Gov. Gary Herbert decried the protests as “borderline terrorism,” noting that some protesters self-identify as anarchists — the people who were involved pointed to p
  
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• ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ turns 20 with an episode that’s surreal, even for him

  11-07-2019 21:07
  Is there anyone on the planet who doesn’t know who lives in a pineapple under the sea? You don’t even have to watch the animated series to know that absorbent and yellow and porous is he. Heck, you don’t even have to own a TV.According to Nickelodeon, more than $13 billion in SpongeBob SquarePants-related consumer products have been sold since the show premiered in 1999.Rodger Bumpass, who voices Squidward, said his own “world’s largest merchandising collection&rdqu
  
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• Driving drowsy? UDOT warns it’s as dangerous as driving drunk — and caused 1,299 wrecks in Utah in past year

  11-07-2019 21:07
  Millcreek • Like too many drivers on summer road trips, Chris Draper didn’t get much sleep before he left on an overnight journey through central Nevada toward Utah. About dawn, he was drowsy.“I had the air conditioning blasting at me,” he remembers. His head nodded and startled him, “but I said, ‘I can keep going. I’m OK,’” and slapped himself in the face and turned up the radio.The next think he remembers is waking up as a nearby truck blare
  
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• [Deseret News] - Brad Rock: Mike Conley can thank this former Jazz player for setting the table for him in Utah

  11-07-2019 21:03 via sportspyder.com
  Conley joins a short but distinguished list of point guards who have been a major key in the franchise's long history of success.
  
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• Left without a league, Snow College football powers on, insists its future remains bright as an independent

  11-07-2019 21:01
  Ephraim • Spend any amount of time in Sanpete County, and you will learn that the rural communities in central Utah treasure the now defunct Mormon Miracle Pageant in Manti, lieutenant governor Spencer Cox of Fairview, Wasatch Academy’s nationally prominent high school basketball program in Mount Pleasant, and Snow College football in Ephraim.The latter, folks along US-89 will quickly and proudly point out, isn’t going the way of the pageant seven miles down the road.“Snow
  
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• Popular Utah beer is rejected in North Carolina because it has ‘polygamy’ in its name

  11-07-2019 21:00
  When it comes to poking fun at Utah’s polygamist past, North Carolina just doesn’t get the joke.A request to sell Wasatch Brewery’s Polygamy Nitro Porter in the Tarheel State was rejected in mid-June, because the name and the label promote an unlawful activity.“Polygamy is illegal. Therefore these products will not be approved,” states the rejection letter sent to the Utah Brewers Cooperative, which produces and sells beers made by Wasatch and Squatter’s Brewe
  
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• George F. Will: To defeat Trump, Democrats should nominate Bennet

  11-07-2019 20:56
  Washington • With a disgust commensurate with the fact, Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat, says that during 40% of his 10 Senate years the government has been run on “continuing resolutions.” Congress passes these in order to spare itself the torture of performing its primary function, which is to set national priorities. Bennet is too serious a person to be content in today’s Senate, and if Democrats are as serious as they say they are about defeating Donald Trump, Be
  
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• Hugh Jackman was a no-show at the Gallivan Center, but his fans still got free coffee

  11-07-2019 20:53
  Several hundred people got free coffee at Gallivan Center on Thursday morning. What they didn't get was a glimpse of Hugh Jackman.The star of everything from “X-Men” to “Les Miserables” to “The Greatest Showman” was a no-show, although his people never confirmed that he’d be there handing out cups of his Laughing Man coffee. But he’d been making a habit of it at cities on the tour — in Boston, Chicago, Dallas and, just a day earlier, in Denve
  
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• Brad Rock: Mike Conley can thank this former Jazz player for setting the table for him in Utah

  11-07-2019 20:50
  Memphis Grizzlies Mike Conley warms up before an NBA basketball game Friday, March 8, 2019, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht)Karen Pulfer Focht, FR171263 APRickey Green (14) of the Utah Jazz gets off a pretty two points as Brad Davis (15) of the Dallas Mavericks looks on in Dallas April 8, 1982. Dallas won 123-109. (AP Photo/David Breslauer)David Breslauer, APUtah Jazzs Rickey Green (14) moves through hands traffic under the basket as he tried for two points in the first period of
  
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• Alexandra Brodsky: Trump has made it impossible for government lawyers to act ethically

  11-07-2019 20:47
  The Trump administration's explanation for why it wants to put a citizenship question on the U.S. census was "contrived," Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote in late June, voting with the four liberals on the Supreme Court. That is a polite way of saying that the stated rationale - that the question would help the government enforce the Voting Rights Act - was a lie.After that decision, government lawyers at first told both the opposing counsel and the courts that the Census Bureau was ready
  
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• Help on the way: Utah Royals FC to get all of its World Cup players back in next two weeks

  11-07-2019 20:45
  Sandy • For nearly the entire 2019 season, the Utah Royals FC have not been at full strength.There were injuries to start the season, then just as the Royals had some of those players get healthy, six players starting leaving Utah for France to compete in the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Three of those six — Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley O’Hara and Christen Press of the United States — only played two games with the Royals. The other three — Katie Bowen, Rachel Corsie an
  
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• Ex-Weber State football player dies following jail stay

  11-07-2019 20:44
  Ogden • Authorities say a former football player at Weber State University has died after he was booked into a Utah jail.The Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office tells the Standard-Examiner that 32-year-old Trevyn Smith was taken to a hospital after he "suffered a medical incident" at the county jail on July 4.Utah Highway Patrol troopers arrested Smith in downtown Salt Lake City on July 1.Authorities say he had outstanding warrants, including failure to appear in court, driving under the infl
  
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• Trump to announce new executive action on census question

  11-07-2019 20:39
  Washington • President Donald Trump is expected to announce new executive action Thursday after the Supreme Court blocked his effort to require a citizenship question on the 2020 census.Trump tweeted Thursday morning that he would be holding a news conference on the subject. A senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to preview the plans, said the president would be announcing new action but did not elaborate.Any action to get past the Supreme Court ruling would li
  
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• Noah Smith: A $15 minimum wage isn’t so scary

  11-07-2019 20:35
  A new Congressional Budget Office analysis of a nationwide minimum wage increase has stirred up lots of debate, since it predicts that an increase would have both good and bad effects.The CBO examines three possible levels for the federal minimum wage — $10, $12, and $15 versus $7.25 an hour now (although some states have higher floors). For each level, it asked how much take-home pay would rise, and how much employment would fall. The most common economic theory — good old supply an
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Apostle warns against letting converts join the church before they are ready

  11-07-2019 20:34
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.The ‘B’ word
  (Keith Johnson | Special to The Tribune) M. Russell Ballard, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, speaks during the 188th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - 3 ways new point guard group will benefit Utah Jazz

  11-07-2019 20:18 via sportspyder.com
  With the Utah Jazz reshaping and retooling their point guard group this offseason, here are three benefits that the new faces will present for the Jazz in ...
  
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• Monson: We can thank a courageous, candid man who just died, Jim Bouton, for revealing the truth about pro sports and pro athletes

  11-07-2019 19:56
  One of my favorite sports quotes of all-time was written by former Major League pitcher turned author Jim Bouton: “You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all along.”He also wrote: “Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?”And: “It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don’t mean it.”Bouton, maybe mor
  
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• Red All Over: ESPN’s Football Power Index favors Utah in 10 of 12 games, but that doesn’t necessarily mean ‘10-2’

  11-07-2019 19:49
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here.ESPN's Football Power Index is fascinating to me, because it provides a gauge of every college football matchup throughout the season and factors in the science of probability.Here’s what I mean: The FPI formula favors Utah in 10 of 12 regular-season games, so the natural response is to think the Utes are expected to go 10-2 (losing at USC and Washington). But that’s not how probability works. T
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: An underrated 2019 NBA offseason

  11-07-2019 19:49 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz had one of the best and busiest summers in the league. However, no one is really giving them the attention they deserve. When the Utah Jazz l...
  
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• Behind the Headlines: A look at inland port protests, teacher pay increases and the evolving Utah Jazz roster

  11-07-2019 19:39
  This week in Utah, inland port protesters clash with police at the offices of the Salt Lake City Chamber; teachers and the Salt Lake City School District reach a tentative agreement over pay; and the Utah Jazz shake up their roster.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Taylor Stevens and Andy Larsen and news columnist Robert Gehrke will join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stories. Stream “Behind the Headlines” at kcpw.org, or tune in to KCP
  
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• [The Big Lead] - Predicting NBA Western Conference Playoff Seeding for 2019-20 NBA Season

  11-07-2019 19:07 via sportspyder.com
  The draft is over and all the big names are signed. Now it’s time to look ahead to this upcoming NBA season by predicting the playoff seeding in the Western Conference.  8 – New Orleans…
  
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• U.S. poised to begin immigration enforcement operation

  11-07-2019 18:58
  Washington • A nationwide immigration enforcement operation targeting people who are in the United States illegally is expected to begin this weekend after it was postponed last month by President Donald Trump, according to two administration officials and immigrant activists.The operation, which is sparking outrage and concern among immigrant advocates, would target people with final orders of removal, including families whose immigration cases had been fast-tracked by judges in 10 major c
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Ed Davis may be their most valuable signing

  11-07-2019 18:25 via sportspyder.com
  Ed Davis was one of the many moves the Utah Jazz made this offseason. Despite the low name recognition, he could easily be Utah’s most important signing....
  
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• [NBA] - Q&A: Bojan Bogdanovic on stepping up after Victor Oladipo's injury, fitting in Quin Snyder's system, and playing in Salt Lake City

  11-07-2019 18:20 via sportspyder.com
  Bojan Bogdanovic is coming off the best season of his career. The 6-foot-8 Croatian sharpshooter was a big reason why the Indiana Pacers continued to win last season, even after All-Star guard Victor
  
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• UTA renews Salt Lake City discount passes, awards contract for new on-demand transit pilot project in south valley

  11-07-2019 18:18
  The Utah Transit Authority Board has approved three significant steps that show continuing evolution in its services.One project soon will test converting transit in southern Salt Lake County into a cross between Uber and traditional bus service. Another continues a tweaked-over-the-years deal to offer Salt Lake City residents half-price monthly passes. And one seeks grants to resolve bottlenecks that cause delays and limit growth of the FrontRunner commuter train service.Following is a look at
  
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• Nadine Burke Harris: The toxic stress of detention can dramatically alter kids’ lives

  11-07-2019 18:06
  Video: Children growing up with toxic stress from abuse or neglect are more likely to have lifelong health problems. Migrant children being separated from their parents, students surviving a school shooting, kids growing up in homes with substance abuse or mental illness are all at risk. But Nadine Burke Harris, California’s surgeon general, says there is hope. (The Washington Post)Children in dirty clothes who haven’t been bathed in days. Eight-year-olds caring for toddlers out of n
  
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• Review: Disney’s new version of ‘The Lion King’ brings a realistic look to a familiar story

  11-07-2019 18:04
  Every time Disney has produced “The Lion King,” it’s been a stylized rendition, and the question becomes whether the particular style — hand-drawn animation in the 1994 film, puppet performance in the Broadway production, or now photo-realistic computer animation — works for the story of a young cub maturing into a leader.With director Jon Favreau and an army of animators and artists arranging pixels into realistic-looking African landscapes and talking animals, the
  
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• ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ is coming back — and coming to Utah

  11-07-2019 18:03
  “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” is returning to television next year, and production of the show is returning to Utah for a pair of episodes.The Ogden-based Wadman Corporation announced Thursday that it will be the contractor for home rebuilds for two families in the “greater Ogden area.”“When the producers of ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ called us, there was no doubt we were willing to take on the challenge of organizing the building of two new hom
  
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• Are you ready for this? — By 2050, Salt Lake City weather will feel more like Las Vegas, study says

  11-07-2019 17:54
  In just more than 30 years, the weather in Salt Lake City will feel more like Las Vegas with the warmest month increasing by 10 degrees. This is according to a new global analysis of how some cities’ weather will shift under climate change. The National Weather Service says the warmest month in Salt Lake City has an average temperature of 91 degrees. That means 30 years from now, the average temperature during the warmest month would be 101 degrees.The Crowther Lab in Switzerland has creat
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Remember those ‘baseball baptisms’? Apostle warns against letting converts join the church before they are ready.

  11-07-2019 17:23
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.The ‘B’ word
  (Keith Johnson | Special to The Tribune) M. Russell Ballard, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, speaks during the 188th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ
  
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• Mining company rejects EPA order for Superfund cleanup work

  11-07-2019 17:22
  Durango • A mining company says it won’t carry out cleanup work ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of a Superfund project in southwest Colorado.The Durango Herald reported Wednesday that Sunnyside Gold Corp. sent the EPA a letter saying the company isn’t responsible for pollution flowing from inactive mines in the area.The EPA wants Sunnyside to help pay for some of the initial investigations into the Bonita Peak Superfund cleanup, citing the company's p
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz star Donovan Mitchell has a hilarious response to fan asking why he lost ROY to Ben Simmons ‘who can’t shoot’

  11-07-2019 16:48 via sportspyder.com
  It has already been two years, and yet some people still can’t seem to get over the fact that Philadelphia 76ers stud Ben Simmons got the Rookie of the Year nod ahead of Utah Jazz rising star Donovan Mitchell. As it turns out, Mitchell himself might...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell continues to prove why he is a man of the people

  11-07-2019 16:47 via sportspyder.com
  Posing with fans across the world and holding random Q&A sessions on Twitter are the the most recent developments.
  
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• Eye on the Y: Former WAC and Sun Belt commissioner Karl Benson revives BYU football-to-the-AAC talk

  11-07-2019 16:02
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Provo • Just when it appeared the prospects of BYU’s football program joining the American Athletic Conference were dead, former WAC and Sun Belt commissioner Karl Benson revived them with some comments to the Sports Business Journal recently.In his weekly SBJ College Newsletter, reporter Michael Smith penned a piece that laid out “two scenarios that truly elevate the AAC” afte
  
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• Labor Secretary Alex Acosta defends wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s plea deal

  11-07-2019 15:57
  Washington • Embattled Labor Secretary Alex Acosta on Wednesday defended his role as a federal prosecutor in brokering a decade-old plea deal for sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but lawyers for victims criticized his explanation and Democrats called for him to appear at a congressional hearing in two weeks.Acosta, the top federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida when the 2008 deal was struck, portrayed his actions and those of his fellow federal prosecutors as heroic and possib
  
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• Political Cornflakes: White House social-media summit will reportedly include far-right fringe elements and conspiracy theorists

  11-07-2019 15:20
  Happy Thursday!A planned social-media summit at the White House today will feature traditional conservatives voices but also is expected to attract some far-right promoters of fringe conspiracy theories and misinformation. Among those boasting of invitations are Bill Mitchell, a radio host who advanced the bizarre QAnon conspiracy theory, and activist Ali Alexander, who attempted to smear Sen. Kamala Harris using inflammatory rhetoric questioning whether she is an “American black." [CNN]To
  
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• Gehrke: Inland port rioters hurt their own cause, but their anger is understandable

  11-07-2019 15:18
  Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown said in 28 years in law enforcement, he had never seen a scene as violent as the clash between protesters and police that spilled onto downtown streets Tuesday afternoon.It started as a strange hodgepodge of protesters upset about all sorts of issues, primarily the inland port — the sprawling section of Salt Lake City snatched by the state for a massive shipping center — but also a sprinkling of pro-immigration, environmentalist and anti-racism
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Kris Dunn's future and other NBA podcasts of the day

  11-07-2019 15:12 via sportspyder.com
  All the top NBA podcasts compiled here on a daily basis so you don’t have to look for them. Enjoy! LOCKED ON JAZZ – What should excited Jazz fans, Initial look at Points Gained and NBA …
  
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• Paul Waldman: GOP lies and bad faith are set to unleash an epic health care disaster

  11-07-2019 15:07
  You know that feeling you get from witnessing something so shocking that it makes you feel the world has gone mad, even as you simultaneously feel incapable of greeting it with the appropriate outrage because you've suffered through so many equally outrageous things recently?Perhaps there's a long word in German for this. Whatever that word might be, it's what anyone following the Republican lawsuit seeking to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act is now feeling.That suit is a kind of legal
  
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• Letter: Remember Utah’s immigrant roots

  11-07-2019 15:02
  When the pioneers, many of whom are our forefathers, migrated from Illinois to the west in 1847, they were seeking freedom from oppression to exercise their faith in peace. They wanted to be free, to speak, live and pray as they believed they should. The pioneers risked all to migrate west, not to the United States but to Mexico. They sought escape from the oppression imposed upon them by the United States and, in particular, the state of Illinois.Members of our congressional delegation have for
  
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• Letter: Someone was trying to have Pitts killed

  11-07-2019 15:00
  I am currently pacing through my house in disbelief. I finally got a chance to read Leonard Pitts' column from the July 7 Salt Lake Tribune. As I began to read, I assumed Pitts was telling a story of someone to make a point for his column. When I realized that he was the story, and that he had been put in a position that frequently results in death by police shooting, I felt terrified and sick. Leonard Pitts and George Pyle are my favorite editorialists. They have the courage to say what many of
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: How much mothering do my adult children need?

  11-07-2019 14:58
  Dear Ann Cannon • I am so grateful to have children who are now raised, on their own, and very independent. My problem is in knowing how much they want me in their lives. I would love to spend more time with them, chat and offer advice when asked. They do ask for help when it’s needed, but sometimes I wonder if I could be more of a presence in their lives. I don’t want to be in their face and have them wish I would go away, but at the same time, how do I know how much they want
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz star Donovan Mitchell thinks Coby White, Ja Morant are dark horses for Rookie of the Year award

  11-07-2019 08:03 via sportspyder.com
  It appears Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell is intrigued by the talent the 2019 NBA Draft had to offer. Many have pegged New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson as the clear-cut favorite to win the NBA Rookie of the Year award. However, while...
  
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