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• Without Sam Johnson, Real Salt Lake will rely on attacking approaches used in previous seasons

  16-07-2019 23:56
  Herriman • Before Sam Johnson hurt his quad muscle in the first half of Real Salt Lake’s win over Columbus Crew earlier this month, the Liberian striker was firing on all cylinders. He’d scored three goals in two games, and four of RSL’s five goals in the previous six. In short, Johnson was basically the entire offense from a goal-scoring standpoint.What was initially deemed a “precautionary” substitution against Columbus turned into a serious injury. RSL coach
  
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• BLM headqurters heads West — but not to Utah

  16-07-2019 23:51
  Under a plan unveiled Tuesday by the Interior Department, the Bureau of Land Management’s senior management and national programs are pulling out of Washington, D.C., and getting dispersed into Utah, Colorado and other Western states where the majority of the agency’s 245 million acres are located.While incurring some upfront relocation costs, the bureaucratic overhaul is expected to save $50 million to $100 million over the next 20 years and will make the BLM more accessible to the
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - David Griffin has been intrigued by Derrick Favors for quite some time, believes he has untapped offensive potential

  16-07-2019 23:43 via sportspyder.com
  New Orleans Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin has been intrigued by Derrick Favors for quite some time and believes the big man has untapped offensive potential. The Pelicans acquired Favors in a trade with the...
  
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• [Deseret News] - Ice Cube calls decision to bring Big 3 basketball to Utah a no-brainer: ‘Salt Lake has always had swag to me’

  16-07-2019 23:38 via sportspyder.com
  “I think it has a stigma but every time I’ve come there, they’ve always come out even more than some of the cities you think they would come out in," Ice Cube said of Utah. His Big 3...
  
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• Ice Cube calls decision to bring Big 3 basketball to Utah a no-brainer: ‘Salt Lake has always had swag to me’

  16-07-2019 23:35
  FILE - In this July 16, 2017, file photo, LL Cool J, second from front left, and Ice Cube watch the action as The Power plays the Ghost Ballers during the first half of a BIG3 basketball game in Philadelphia, Pa. Whether sitting courtside in Philly or filming in Hollywood, Ice Cube remains the famous face of his 3-on-3 halfcourt Big3 basketball league. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz, File)APSALT LAKE CITY — Hip-hop fans all over the world have grown accustomed to Ice Cube intertwining his fingers
  
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• Utah tweaks its proposed medical marijuana rules to let out-of-state businesses claim cannabis growing licenses

  16-07-2019 23:33
  The state has scrapped a proposed residency requirement for Utah cannabis cultivation, to the dismay of some local farmers.The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, which is in the process of crafting rules for the state’s emerging medical marijuana program, concluded that residency restrictions could run afoul of federal law, an agency spokesman said. The agriculture department is holding a public hearing Wednesday on the latest draft of its cannabis cultivation rules.Tom Paskett, exec
  
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• Utes will open the 2019-20 men’s basketball season at Nevada and host BYU on Dec. 4

  16-07-2019 23:24
  Utah's nonconference schedule for the 2019-20 men's basketball season includes home games vs. Mississippi Valley State, Minnesota, BYU, Central Arkansas and UC Davis.The schedule, announced Tuesday, confirmed the Nov. 5 season opener at Nevada, as the Wolf Park recently announced. Utah’s home games vs. MVSU (Nov. 8) and UC Davis (Nov. 29) are previously undisclosed developments, as were the dates for visits by Minnesota (Nov. 15) and BYU (Dec. 4). Three of those home games are on Fridays.
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Checking In On 2019’s Unsigned Draft Picks

  16-07-2019 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  Only 13 of this year's 60 NBA draft picks have yet to sign their first NBA contracts. We look at what's next for them.
  
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• New UTA-endorsed app eases trip planning

  16-07-2019 23:21
  The Utah Transit Authority is partnering with what it says is North America’s leading transportation app — called Transit — to ease trip planning.The agency is making Transit its endorsed app. It will allow riders to see bus and rail options for their trips — including real-time updates, and step-by-step navigation.Through the app’s Transit+ feature, It also can offer connections to UTA services via bike sharing, scooter sharing and ride hailing services.“UTA&
  
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• Spencer Cox, known for speaking out in the past, says there’s ‘a better way’ to respond to Trump’s racist tweets

  16-07-2019 22:56
  In May 2013, a largely unknown Rep. Spencer Cox, R-Fairview, became the first state lawmaker to call for the impeachment of Attorney General General Swallow over allegations of corruption.Then in June 2016, as Utah’s lieutenant governor, Cox generated national media attention and widespread acclaim for his speech at a vigil honoring the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, in which he tearfully apologized for his own previous homophobic behavior and said his “heart had changed.&r
  
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• Head of Planned Parenthood forced out after eight months

  16-07-2019 22:36
  The president of Planned Parenthood was forced out of her job Tuesday in a dispute over the direction of the nation's largest women's reproductive rights organization amid growing political and legal challenges to abortion.Planned Parenthood's board met in emergency session Tuesday and approved Leana Wen's immediate departure just eight months after she took over the post.The move occurs at one of the most difficult moments in the group’s history. The organization faces growing financial p
  
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• BIG3 basketball is coming to Salt Lake City next week. Here’s what you need to know.

  16-07-2019 22:24
  The founders of the BIG3 basketball league know that, three seasons in, there is still some negative perception of their product that they’re trying to overcome.“This is not old guys playing basketball,” co-founder Jeff Kwatinetz said in a conference call on Tuesday afternoon. “This is athletes playing a game that is uniquely suited to their skills.”Given that mindset, it made total sense to the BIG3 execs to have a place like Salt Lake City host a slate of games fo
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Abolish the debt ceiling, once and for all

  16-07-2019 22:07
  The government is about to run out of money because of an arbitrary cap on how much it can borrow to make good on bills that it long ago promised to pay.Lawmakers and the White House are haggling over the conditions under which they will, once again, temporarily raise that cap, known as the debt ceiling. But the better solution would be to abolish it entirely — no strings attached.The debt ceiling, which has been around in some form for about a century, is sometimes portrayed as a way to i
  
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• As a warm-up to Days of ‘47 rodeo, longhorns graze on the Utah Capitol lawn

  16-07-2019 21:59
  Some may complain there’s a lot of bull at the Utah State Capitol — but steers are another matter.Eight American-bred longhorns from Colorado alternately grazed on and fertilized the Capitol’s lawn Tuesday, taking part in a 200-foot cattle drive to promote the Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo, which starts Friday at the Utah State Fairpark.“Beverly Hills may have Rodeo Drive, but we have the real rodeo,” a Wrangler-clad Gov. Gary Herbert said at Tuesday&rs
  
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• Photos: See the old West Jordan Middle School get demolished

  16-07-2019 21:37
  After more than 60 years of classes, the old West Jordan Middle School is being torn down, a process that should take about a week. An excavator started knocking down the brick walls Tuesday. The school was the oldest one in Jordan School District.The district has constructed a new school on the same property and it will be ready for students when classes start on Aug. 20.
  
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• American Athletic Conference commissioner: No plans to replace UConn; league will likely stay at 11 members

  16-07-2019 21:30
  Newport, R.I. • Schools interested in joining the American Athletic Conference after Connecticut leaves can call Commissioner Mike Aresco. The AAC will not be soliciting applications for membership.Aresco said Tuesday at the American Athletic Conference media day that the league is leaning toward not replacing UConn and going forward with 11 football schools after the Huskies depart for the Big East."One thing we decided early on: We weren't going to be making phone calls. We weren't going
  
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• BLM moving headquarters to Colorado from D.C., dashing Utah’s hopes

  16-07-2019 21:22
  Following through on one of his predecessor’s key initiatives, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is expected to announce Tuesday that he will move the Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters from Washington, D.C., out West.While Salt Lake City and Ogden would have been centrally located cities for the agency’s national office, Utah was not selected, although some BLM staffers could be transferred to offices here.The headquarters will be established in Grand Junction, Colo., a
  
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• Jana Riess: A swan song for Mormons’ Hill Cumorah Pageant

  16-07-2019 21:03
  I’ve just returned from a weekend in upstate New York, where I had the privilege of seeing the Hill Cumorah Pageant in Palmyra. Staged there since 1937 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the pageant recounts a Cliffs Notes history of the Book of Mormon on a site where one of the book’s great battles is believed to have been fought.Author with cast members before the pageant.I say it was a privilege, because despite some issues with the pageant (outlined be
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: One Giant Mic Drop

  16-07-2019 21:01
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, July 17, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/15/bagley-cartoon-stoking/" target=_blank><u>Stoking Hate</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/12/bagley-cartoon-maximizing/"><u>Maximizing Shareholder Value</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/1
  
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• 6-year-old Utah girl killed by golf ball hit by her father

  16-07-2019 20:59
  A girl was killed Monday when she was accidentally struck in the head by a golf ball at an Orem golf course.The girl was golfing with her father at the Sleepy Ridge Golf Course on Monday morning about 10:25 a.m., according to police. The child was sitting in a golf cart as her father teed off about 20 yards away.“The ball struck her in the back of the head, at the base of her neck,” said Lt. Todd Colledge of the Orem Police Department.The child, whose name has not been released, was
  
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• Utahns recall where they were when man landed on the moon 50 years ago

  16-07-2019 20:57
  Those old enough to remember the day 50 years ago, never forget where they were or what they were thinking on July 20, 1969 — when humans first stepped onto the surface of the moon.“It was a real turning point in human history,” said Mark Littmann, director of what then was Salt Lake City’s Hansen (now Clark) Planetarium. “Up until that point, humans had existed only on Earth. And now, for the first time, they existed, at least briefly, in another world.”Seein
  
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• As wildfires burn in Utah, officials warn hot and windy weather could lead to more

  16-07-2019 20:44
  Authorities are investigating whether someone started a fire burning east of Springville that came within half a mile of several homes.The Round Peak fire, which sparked Monday evening, is estimated to have burned 200 acres by Tuesday afternoon. Three engines, 60 firefighters, one helicopter and two single engine aircraft were battling the blaze.No homes or other structures were immediately threatened; the fire is burning mostly brush and grass, according to authorities. There are no reports of
  
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• Trump accuser Stormy Daniels is coming to Utah for an ‘intimate evening’

  16-07-2019 20:23
  Utahns will soon be able to spend an “intimate evening” with Stormy Daniels. The porn star whose silence was once bought and paid for by President Donald Trump is scheduled to make a personal appearance in Salt Lake City this fall.“An Intimate Evening with Stormy Daniels” — that’s really what they’re calling her book-tour appearance — is set for Tuesday, Oct. 15, at the Metro Music Hall in Salt Lake City. She’s promoting her tell-all, “
  
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• ‘We welcome everybody,' Herbert says — as he avoids talking about Trump’s Twitter attacks

  16-07-2019 20:20
  Gov. Gary Herbert delivered an optimistic message about Utah’s welcoming pioneer spirit Tuesday — but avoided the subject of President Donald Trump’s racist tweets over the weekend insulting four minority members of Congress.At a kickoff event for the Days of ’47 Cowboy Days & Rodeo, which featured a longhorn cattle drive on the Utah state Capitol lawn, Herbert talked about how the “pioneer spirit” wasn’t reserved for people like himself, a sixth-gen
  
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• U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan proposes expanding compensation from nuclear weapons testing

  16-07-2019 20:19
  Albuquerque, N.M. • A compensation program for those exposed to radiation from years of nuclear weapons testing and uranium mining would be expanded under legislation that seeks to address fallout across the western United States, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan rolled out the measure Tuesday on the 74th anniversary of the Trinity Test.As part of the top-secret Manhattan Project, government scientists and the U.S. military dropped the first atomic bomb in the N
  
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• [KSL] - The Jazz roster could be complete after signing Miye Oni | KSL.com

  16-07-2019 19:41 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz also came to terms with French forward William Howard.
  
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• Utah’s Tracy Aviary lost a trained raven for a month, and then the attorney general’s office called

  16-07-2019 19:32
  When a mysterious black bird began showing up outside the Capitol Hill offices of the Utah Attorney General’s Office last month, the large raven was the talk of the office.It was unusual to see a bird that size perched on the window, unafraid of the people on the other side of the glass tapping to get its attention.And for a month, the bird kept coming back. The employees named it “Edgar” — a nod to Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Raven” — and wondered
  
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• Utahn Jim Behnke had a goal of playing golf in all 50 states. He’ll reach it later this month — in Alaska. Now, he has a another dream.

  16-07-2019 19:32
  Playing every golf course in Utah apparently wasn’t difficult enough for former Salt Lake City resident Jim Behnke. Now, the former University of Utah Hospital administrator is closing in on the new goal he set when he finished playing all 122 courses in his adopted home state in 2013.Behnke, 63, who now lives in St. George, will have played golf in every state in the country when he tees it up July 29 in Alaska. His ever-patient wife, known as B.J. to her friends, insisted he save that st
  
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• | @ToBrad1's Summer League averages: 19.8p | 13r | 1.6b | 57 fg%pic.twitter.com/plSdU8lfkr

  16-07-2019 19:23 via twitter.com
  | @ToBrad1's Summer League averages:19.8p | 13r | 1.6b | 57 fg%pic.twitter.com/plSdU8lfkr
  
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• To protect forests from wildfires, Utah and feds launch $20 million effort

  16-07-2019 19:19
  Utah will get up to $20 million over the next four years to protect communities and watersheds in forest areas from the threat of catastrophic wildfire, Gov. Gary Herbert announced Tuesday.Under Utah’s Shared Stewardship agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Forest Service, the state will start two large, forest restoration projects intended to head off large unwanted fires in critical areas, Herbert’s office said in a news release. They include the upper Provo Ri
  
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• 10th Circuit Court upholds voting rights decision in San Juan County that resulted in historic Navajo-majority control

  16-07-2019 19:14
  Denver • In a blistering 42-page ruling, the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday, upheld the lower courts decision that San Juan County had violated the constitutional rights of residents in drawing gerrymandered voting districts and the appeals court affirmed the redrawn districts that resulted in the county’s first Navajo-majority Commission.Judge Nancy Moritz, writing for the court, said the county had violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and t
  
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• ‘Game of Thrones’ breaks record with 32 Emmy nominations, followed by ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ and ‘Chernobyl’

  16-07-2019 18:34
  Despite its controversial final episodes, HBO’s unstoppable “Game of Thrones” earned 32 Emmy Award nominations Tuesday morning, shattering the record for the most nominations for a show in a single season.Close behind were Amazon’s critic-favorite comedy “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” with 19; HBO’s surprise hit “Chernobyl” with 18; and NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” with 18. FX’s “Fosse/Verdon” and HBO’s &
  
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• Alexandra Petri: Why I have yet to denounce the president’s racist remarks

  16-07-2019 18:30
  I had a very busy week, and I forgot.Oh, yes, I am sure I would certainly very loudly denounce them as would my colleagues, but you see I cannot yet, because I died.Also I don't know what a tweet is.Also a big bird flew through the window and scooped up my phone in its beak and dropped it into a river, so even if I was going to, you see now I cannot!Also I am becoming a bird.Also CAW! CAW! CAW! NO FURTHER QUESTIONS!Also I have this condition where if anyone forces me to think hard at all about a
  
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• A graphic suicide scene in ’13 Reasons Why’ drew outcry. Two years later, Netflix deleted it.

  16-07-2019 18:25
  This story describes a fictional and graphic suicide. People who have suicidal thoughts can call 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or visit the Utah Suicide Prevention Coalition’s website for help. A smartphone application called SafeUT also allows users to chat or call a crisis counselor and submit tips.For more than two years, Netflix faced backlash for including a graphic suicide scene in the first season of its hit show “13 Reasons Why,” raising concerns about whether the teen drama&rs
  
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• As two wildfires burn in Utah, officials warn hot and windy weather could lead to more

  16-07-2019 18:22
  Authorities are investigating whether someone started a fire that is burning east of Springville that came within half a mile of several homes.The Round Peak fire, which sparked Monday evening, is estimated to have burned 70-100 acres by Tuesday morning. Three engines, 60 firefighters, one helicopter and two single engine aircraft were scheduled to be on site later in the morning.No homes or other structures were immediately threatened; the fire is burning mostly brush and grass, according to au
  
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• One Kingston, who co-owns a California casino, wants to give his shares to another member of a Utah polygamous sect

  16-07-2019 18:21
  Two men with ties to a Utah polygamous sect, and who own a casino in Lake Elsinore, Calif., should receive more time to apply for gambling licenses or sell to a cousin, an administrative law judge says.It’s the latest move in a two decade saga over the legal standing of the small casino attached to a motel. The “proposed decision” was more favorable than not to the Lake Elsinore Casino, which also has operated as the Sahara Dunes Casino.While Administrative Law Judge Theresa M.
  
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• [Deseret News] - Here's where the Utah Jazz rank following this year's free agency frenzy

  16-07-2019 17:44 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz came in at No. 9 in ESPN's post-free agency power rankings, behind five other Western Conference teams. A season ago, Utah was ranked No. 6 in the NBA heading into the season.
  
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• @ToBrad1https://twitter.com/RealGM/status/1151154143295225856 …

  16-07-2019 17:40 via twitter.com
  @ToBrad1https://twitter.com/RealGM/status/1151154143295225856 …
  
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• Here's where the Utah Jazz rank following this year's free agency frenzy

  16-07-2019 17:34
  Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles (2) and Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) high five during Game 5 against Houston in Houston on Wednesday, April 24, 2019.Laura SeitzSALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz are a top-10 team.No. 9 to be exact.That is where the Jazz stand in ESPN's latest NBA Power Rankings, which were compiled by a group of national sportswriters following the craziness that was the opening weeks of NBA free agency.Among the group of writers were Malika Andrews, Kevin Arnovitz, Tim
  
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  16-07-2019 17:06 via twitter.com
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• Dana Milbank: Trump has done the impossible. He has united the Democrats.

  16-07-2019 17:05
  Washington • President Trump, bless him, has once again achieved the impossible: He has unified the Democrats.The fractious opposition party had been holding one of its regular Festivals of Gratuitous Self-Injury over the past few weeks on the matter of race. Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.) and other Democratic presidential candidates had attacked the “hurtful” actions of front-runner Joe Biden from decades ago in opposing busing and in working with segregationist senators. Rep. Ale
  
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• Aaron Blake: Romney fails his own test on Trump’s racist tweets

  16-07-2019 16:58
  After tracking Republican responses to President Donald Trump’s racist tweets over the last couple of days, we can say this: Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, offered one of the strongest condemnations of anyone in his party.But that's mostly a function of the tepidness of the party's broader response. And it's hardly the standard Romney has set for himself.Romney offered a couple responses Monday to Trump's tweets urging nonwhite congresswomen to "go back" to their countries, both impromptu and i
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Pay a sweet silent tribute to Jerry Sloan, as the once-fierce lion’s eyes grow sleepy

  16-07-2019 16:02 via sportspyder.com
  The once-fierce lion’s eyes are tired now.
  
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• Monson: Pay a sweet silent tribute to Jerry Sloan, as the once-fierce lion’s eyes grow sleepy

  16-07-2019 16:00
  The once-fierce lion’s eyes are tired now.The battles — a thousand of them, and more — have been fought and won, and there is a final fight Gerald Eugene Sloan will not win. Against an opponent that never loses.Father Time, with all its minions — in this specific case, Parkinson’s and a severe brand of dementia — pummeling humans and the human condition, the condition that is weakened, year by year, month by month, day by day, minute by minute, striking even t
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Gobert, Mitchell NBA 2K20 ratings revealed (and they rock!)

  16-07-2019 15:30 via sportspyder.com
  The first batch of player ratings for the NBA 2K20 video game have been revealed and a pair of Utah Jazz players received sterling evaluations. Forget the ...
  
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• Paul Waldman: Biden proposes radical leftist health care plan

  16-07-2019 15:22
  The 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign is in many ways an argument between liberals and moderates over the path the Democratic Party should take, and on no issue has that argument been more intense than health care. Joe Biden has now released his health care plan, and while he's presenting it as a rebuke of the more liberal candidates, in fact it represents a significant move to the left.That's not how he's talking about it. The video Biden put out with the release of his plan was a d
  
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• Hugh Hewitt: How Trump can mitigate the damage of folding on the census

  16-07-2019 15:21
  “A punch in the gut” is how one GOP strategist, speaking to Axios, described President Donald Trump’s decision to throw in the towel on the 2020 Census litigation. There is no sugarcoating it: The president folded. It’s a big loss for Trump, the attorney general, the Constitution and the rule of law.The president had been dealt a bad hand by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and by generally bad lawyering until Attorney General William Barr showed up months ago. Then the Sup
  
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• Letter: There is more than one kind of mob rule

  16-07-2019 15:19
  Robert Gehrke’s column a few days ago discussed the inland port protest/riot at the Chamber of Commerce in Salt Lake City and provided a clear take on a very muddy subject. Included in the article were comments from Gov. Gary Herbert and Mayor Jackie Biskupski, both of whom chided the protesters for their bad behavior.There are different types of mob rule. The one on display at the Chamber of Commerce involved a loud, noisy, antagonistic and often incoherent presentation. Overt mayhem ensu
  
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