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• [NBA] - Jazz sign William Howard and Stanton Kidd

  17-07-2019 23:55 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has signed forwards William Howard and Stanton Kidd. Per team policy, terms of the agreements were not released.Howard (6-8, 207, France) was part of the
  
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  17-07-2019 23:51 via twitter.com
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• Alexandra Petri: I have no racist bones, but this exoskeleton has propped me up for decades

  17-07-2019 23:27
  To be clear: I have not a single racist bone in my body! My body is a cartilaginous mass.I have no bones at all! I am a soft grub. I am a tender worm. If it were not for the enormous, thick exoskeleton of racism that has been constructed around me over the course of centuries, people would not keep accusing me personally of having this racist bone. I am very sorry that they keep feeling the need to do so. I have grown as best I could within this carapace, and I, personally, carry no ill will tow
  
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• Prosecutors drop groping case against Kevin Spacey

  17-07-2019 23:04
  Boston • Prosecutors dropped a case Wednesday accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a resort island bar in 2016, more than a week after the accuser refused to testify about a missing cellphone the defense says contains information that supports the actor’s claims of innocence.Spacey was charged with indecent assault and battery last year in the only criminal case that has been brought against the actor since his career collapsed amid a slew of sexual misconduct allegations.
  
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• Jeanette Rusk Sefcik: Men might vote for a woman. But will women?

  17-07-2019 23:00
  The question isn’t whether men will vote for a woman presidential candidate. Instead, I posit that it is: Will enough women make that leap of faith? In choosing a nominee, a party’s first criterion has to be electability. You have to believe your candidate can win. So a big question being posed in all types of formats and across gender lines is: Can a woman be elected president?In my view the standard way of looking at this question is whether men will vote for a woman. That's there,
  
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• Utah homeless service providers put out call for volunteers ahead of big move to three new resource centers

  17-07-2019 22:48
  Kathy Wagner says she’d always wanted to volunteer during her retirement, so after she left her job as a school secretary, she started putting in a few hours a week with the Volunteers of America, Utah.Then she got hooked.Several years later, she’s spending anywhere from 25 to 28 hours each week washing clothes, serving meals, sorting donations and cleaning out the pantry at the VOA Youth Resource Center. Over the holidays, she works up to 45 hours.“I didn’t ever realize
  
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• Two Republican senators, including Utah’s Mike Lee, emerge to slow 9/11 victims bill

  17-07-2019 22:42
  Washington • A Republican senator moved Wednesday to stall for the moment legislation providing compensation to 9/11 workers, sparking an emotional appeal on behalf of those sick and dying after responding to Ground Zero.Though lawmakers for several weeks generally declared broad support for the measure to extend a victims compensation fund, the objections of two conservative senators suggest its Senate passage may stall or require more political muscle to enact.Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., spoke
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Marijuana could be a cash crop for the few Utah farmers who win a license to grow it

  17-07-2019 22:40
  Eighty-one farmers have applied to receive one of 10 state licenses to legally grow cannabis and supply the state’s nascent medical marijuana program, giving each applicant roughly 1 in 8 odds of cultivating crops to meet the state’s demand.But exactly how significant that demand will be is unknown, as Utah’s law restricts legal marijuana use to a smaller pool of qualifying patients than a ballot initiative approved by voters last year, and because many Utahns are culturally an
  
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• FaceApp adds decades to your age for fun, but popular app raises privacy concerns

  17-07-2019 22:13
  If you’re wondering why your social media feed is being flooded by photos of wrinkle-enhanced celebrities and (suddenly) old friends, thank FaceApp.Personalities as varied as Drake, LeBron James, Gordon Ramsey and the Jonas Brothers have tapped the photo-editing app to fuel the future-self craze on Instragram, Facebook and Twitter. As of 11 a.m. Wednesday, FaceApp was the top trending free offering in Apple's App Store. FaceApp has altered photos for more than 80 million users since its 20
  
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• Harry Litman: Stevens was appointed by a Republican. But he had an independent streak.

  17-07-2019 22:10
  John Paul Stevens was the last Supreme Court justice chosen in the halcyon days before confirmations became fiercely ideological affairs. President Gerald Ford was seeking an uncontroversial choice who would not impede his election efforts. Stevens, a Republican former Chicago antitrust lawyer and relatively unknown judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, fit the bill. He was confirmed 98-0 two weeks after his nomination.When he took his seat, Stevens appeared to fit comfortably
  
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• .@mconley11 & @44Bojan made from emojis #TakeNote | #WorldEmojiDaypic.twitter.com/55WgGatNSb

  17-07-2019 22:08 via twitter.com
  .@mconley11 & @44Bojan made from emojis#TakeNote | #WorldEmojiDaypic.twitter.com/55WgGatNSb
  
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• Salt Lake police identify man shot and killed by an officer

  17-07-2019 21:52
  Salt Lake Police have identified the man shot and killed by an officer on Monday as 43-year-old Michael Brand.Police were called to the Sunrise Metro apartments, 580 S. 500 West, at about 1:30 p.m. Monday, after someone reported a problem involving a person with a mental illness. According to police, Brand produced a weapon and one of the officers shot him.Police have not released further details of the incident; they have not specified what kind of weapon Brand was allegedly carrying.The office
  
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• Registration closes MONDAY! Sign up now | @utahjazzdancers » https://on.nba.com/2NWjsQq pic.twitter.com/bO1Iwl2H2E

  17-07-2019 21:29 via twitter.com
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Sorting Out the Still-Wild West: Offseason Recaps & Tiers For All 15 Teams

  17-07-2019 21:09 via sportspyder.com
  The field is set. Of course, ranking teams at this point of the year can feel subjective. Look, everybody is undefeated in July. L.A. Theyre especially light on true big men.
  
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• Ted Lieu: I have served in the Air Force and Congress. People still tell me to ‘go back’ to China.

  17-07-2019 21:06
  I served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force and currently serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Yet I still experience people telling me to "go back" to China or North Korea or Japan. Like many immigrants, I have learned to brush off this racist insult. I never thought the president of the United States would tell members of Congress to "go back" to another country.President Donald Trump has often crossed the line of what constitutes decent behavior. But this time feels different, becaus
  
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• Legislation to protect Chaco Culture National History Park clears U.S. House committee

  17-07-2019 21:00
  Albuquerque, N.M. • Federal legislation aimed at limiting oil and gas development near a national park in New Mexico held sacred by Native Americans has been endorsed by a key congressional committee.The House natural resources panel on Wednesday approved the Democrat-sponsored bill. A similar measure is pending in the Senate.Tribes and environmentalists have been advocating for more protections beyond the boundaries of Chaco Culture National Historical Park, saying the region is full of cu
  
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• Salt Lake City’s Busker Fest taking applications for street performers for Aug. 16 event

  17-07-2019 20:28
  Can you sing for your supper? Do magic tricks for tips? Salt Lake City’s Busker Fest is looking for you.Street performers of all sorts are being sought to enter the second annual Busker Fest, set for Friday, Aug. 16, from 3 to 10 p.m., on downtown Salt Lake City’s Regent Street and Block 70 (between Main Street and State Street, and 100 South and 200 South).The vaudeville themed festival is looking for musicians, dancers, hula-hoopers, jugglers, performance artists and comedy acts. T
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz sign draft picks Jarrell Brantley and Justin Wright-Foreman to two-way contracts | KSL.com

  17-07-2019 20:19 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz will have all three second-round picks under contract, in some form, heading into next season.
  
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• Russell M. Nelson, LDS president, will speak at the NAACP convention in Detroit on Sunday

  17-07-2019 19:58
  The president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is scheduled to address the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, on Sunday.President Russell M. Nelson will be in Detroit for the 110th annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Representatives of the two groups have met several times over the past 18 months to plan and initiate a joint education and employment initiative in Chicago, San Francisco, Houston and Charlo
  
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• UTA awards contract to study $1.2 billion TRAX extension through the old Draper prison site to Lehi

  17-07-2019 19:52
  The Utah Transit Authority took a key step Wednesday that could lead eventually to a $1.2 billion TRAX extension through the soon-to-be-redeveloped Utah State Prison site in Draper and on to Lehi.The UTA Board awarded an $800,000 contract to Parametrix to perform a feasibility study on whether such an extension — or perhaps an alternate such as a bus rapid transit line — is affordable and desirable and where the best route should be.However, only $560,000 is currently available for t
  
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• Funeral planned for Army sergeant from Ogden who died in Afghanistan

  17-07-2019 19:44
  Ogden • An Army sergeant from Utah who died in Afghanistan will be buried in Ogden this week.The Standard-Examiner reports a funeral for U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Elliott J. Robbins is set for Thursday morning at St. James Catholic Church. A burial with military honors will follow at Ben Lomond Cemetery in North Ogden. The events are open to the public.The U.S. Army has said the 31-year-old died from noncombat injuries June 30 in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. No additional information has
  
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• Round Peak Fire burns near Springville, but crews are keeping it away from homes

  17-07-2019 19:39
  Firefighters continue to battle the Round Peak Fire east of Springville on Wednesday, and have been successful at keeping it away from any homes and buildings.Cooler temperatures and less wind overnight helped crews keep the fire from spreading down the mountain toward nearby homes. However, winds are expected to increase on Wednesday.The fire was started by a campfire about 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, according to a spokeswoman for the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forests, and remains under investigat
  
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• Utah’s Huntsman Center turns 50. What’s next for it?

  17-07-2019 19:38
  In the summer of 1969, Utah basketball player Mike Newlin persuaded construction workers to let him hammer a wooden plank into place on the free-throw line in front of the home team’s bench. When the Utes staged their first game in the Special Events Center in December, Newlin practically lived at that spot.Stanford coach Howie Dallmar simmered after Newlin made 23 of 25 free throws in Utah’s 96-94 victory. Ute assistant coach Jerry Pimm kidded him, “You didn’t think we w
  
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• Affordable housing, better air quality are what Salt Lake City residents want leaders to invest in

  17-07-2019 19:36
  Salt Lake City residents say they enjoy a relatively high quality of life, but they want city leaders to put a high priority on investing in affordable housing and improving air quality.Most think Utah’s capital city offers job opportunities, but that City Hall could do more to attract businesses. Most feel safe in their neighborhoods during the day, less so at night or when they’re walking downtown.And in general, according to the latest pulse on city sentiment, residents are not we
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: After nearly a year, is Russell M. Nelson’s campaign to erase the LDS Church’s nickname succeeding?

  17-07-2019 19:29
  It has been almost a year since Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, launched his push to get members, the media, scholars and others to stop using the nicknames “Mormon” and “LDS” when talking about the faith and its followers.Since that time, the Utah-based church has made a number of changes. Some have been high profile, renaming the renowned Tabernacle Choir, for one; others have been less noticeable, like rejiggering websit
  
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• [Deseret News] - Emmanuel Mudiay excited to play for Utah Jazz, work on mental side of his game

  17-07-2019 19:09 via sportspyder.com
  Former New York Knicks guard Emmanuel Mudiay is heading to Utah, and he's excited about it.
  
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• Utah’s bears are out in force this year, so clean up and don’t feed them

  17-07-2019 19:04
  Hey, Utahns, stop feeding the bears. Or leaving food where bears can get it, at least.That's the word from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, which reports that the number of bear incidents has more than doubled this year.In June, a black bear — the only species found in Utah — was captured and killed after it got into a tent and scratched a boy in Hobble Creek Canyon east of Springville. (The boy was not seriously injured.) Within days, a second bear was seen in Springville, a
  
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• Emmanuel Mudiay excited to play for Utah Jazz, work on mental side of his game

  17-07-2019 19:02
  New York Knicks' Emmanuel Mudiay (1) moves the ball against the Orlando Magic during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, April 3, 2019, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)APSALT LAKE CITY — Former New York Knicks guard Emmanuel Mudiay is heading to Utah, and he's excited about it.In an interview with the New York Daily News, Mudiay says that he is ready to make the playoffs and learn from Jazz coach Quin Snyder."I'm kind of just tired of going back early into the summer
  
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• One city hopes ‘Baby Shark’ will drive the homeless away from a park

  17-07-2019 18:08
  West Palm Beach, Fla. • Officials in West Palm Beach are hoping a continuous loop of children’s songs played throughout the night will keep homeless people from sleeping in a city park.West Palm Beach parks and recreation director Leah Rockwell tells the Palm Beach Post they're trying to discourage people from camping out along the glass-walled Lake Pavilion. She says the pavilion rakes in some $240,000 annually from events.The loop of “Baby Shark” and “Raining Tacos
  
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• Utah’s Tony Finau hopes to get back on track in the British Open, the last major of the season

  17-07-2019 18:04
  In his last major golf tournament before turning 30, Tony Finau will be trying to extend one successful streak and launch another.The Lehi resident has played well in all three of his previous British Open appearances, including a tie for ninth place last July. But he’s regrouping after his run of making the 36-hole cut in eight straight majors ended last month in the U.S. Open.The PGA Tour’s 2018-19 calendar is accelerated, designed to end prior to the football season. So this week&
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Derrick Favors asked Jazz to trade him to New Orleans

  17-07-2019 17:50 via sportspyder.com
  When it became apparent that the Utah Jazz and veteran forward Derrick Favors were going to part ways, the latter requested to specifically be requested to one team, the New Orleans Pelicans. One note on Derrick Favors: New Orleans was his preferred...
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Monson: Former Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan 'Is Dying' from Dementia, Parkinson's

  17-07-2019 17:16 via sportspyder.com
  Former Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan 's health is reportedly in decline because of Parkinson's Disease and dementia. "He is dying," someone close to the Sloan family told Gordon Monson of the Salt Lake Tribune ...
  
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• Interior to shift 44 jobs to Utah, move BLM headquarters to Colorado

  17-07-2019 16:51
  Although Utah lost in the competition for the Bureau of Land Management’s future headquarters, its Republican governor hailed the agency’s freshly unveiled reorganization, which will see nearly all of its senior leadership and national programs relocated to Western states.“Moving key decision makers closer to the lands where their decisions will have the greatest impact is a win for everyone,” Gov. Gary Herbert said Tuesday, joining Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat,
  
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• Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman sentenced to life in prison

  17-07-2019 16:43
  New York • The Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. prison, a humbling end for a drug lord notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or tunnel his way out of trouble.A federal judge in Brooklyn handed down the sentence Wednesday, five months after Guzman’s conviction in an epic drug-trafficking case.The 62-year-old drug lord, who had been protected in Mexico by an army of gangsters and an elaborate corruption operat
  
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• ‘That’s a good-lookin’ 50:’ What’s next for Utah’s Huntsman Center, after a half-century of highlights?

  17-07-2019 16:36
  In the summer of 1969, Utah basketball player Mike Newlin persuaded construction workers to let him hammer a wooden plank into place on the free-throw line in front of the home team’s bench. When the Utes staged their first game in the Special Events Center in December, Newlin practically lived at that spot.Stanford coach Howie Dallmar simmered after Newlin made 23 of 25 free throws in Utah’s 96-94 victory. Ute assistant coach Jerry Pimm kidded him, “You didn’t think we w
  
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• ACLU, others sue to halt Trump asylum ban

  17-07-2019 15:56
  Washington • Plaintiffs led by the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the Trump administration in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Tuesday in an attempt to halt the implementation of a new policy disqualifying most asylum seekers who pass through Mexico before reaching the United States.The attorneys suing the government argued in their complaint that the Trump administration lacks the authority to exclude asylum seekers who arrive across the U.S. southern border becau
  
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• Political Cornflakes: New data reveals 76 billion pain pills flooded the nation as the opioid crisis escalated

  17-07-2019 15:53
  Happy Wednesday!The nation’s largest drug companies distributed more than 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills in America from 2006 through 2012, according to newly released federal data. During that period, the nation’s opioid epidemic surged and claimed about 100,000 lives. Three companies manufactured nearly 90% of these pills, and six companies distributed three-quarters of them. [WaPost] (Note: This item has been updated.)Topping the news: The 10th Circuit U.S. Court
  
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• Round Peak Fire continues to burn, but crews are keeping it away from Springville homes

  17-07-2019 15:50
  Firefighters continue to battle the Round Peak Fire east of Springville on Wednesday, and have been successful at keeping it away from any homes and buildings.Cooler temperatures and less wind overnight helped crews keep the fire from spreading down the mountain toward nearby homes. However, winds are expected to increase on Wednesday.The fire was started by a campfire about 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, according to a spokeswoman for the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forests, and remains under investigat
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: After nearly a year, is Nelson’s campaign to erase the church’s nickname succeeding?

  17-07-2019 15:41
  It has been almost a year since Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, launched his push to get members, the media, scholars and others to stop using the nicknames “Mormon” and “LDS” when talking about the faith and its followers.Since that time, the Utah-based church has made a number of changes. Some have been high profile, renaming the renowned Tabernacle Choir, for one; others have been less noticeable, like rejiggering websit
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Longtime Jazz coach Jerry Sloan ‘is dying,’ will no longer be able to attend games

  17-07-2019 15:35 via sportspyder.com
  Longtime Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan doesn’t have much time left. The once intense, perfection-demanding, iron-willed man at the helm of some of the best teams in franchise history is battling a long fight, one that extends beyond a grueling...
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Holocaust is a fact, not a belief

  17-07-2019 15:28
  A man named Josef Buzhminski told this story at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.It happened on July 27, 1942, at the fence of the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl, Poland. Buzhminski was watching from hiding as an SS man named Kidash seized a Jewish woman and her 18-month-old son. "She held the baby in her arms," Buzhminski said, "and began asking for mercy that she be shot first and leave the baby alive."From behind the fence," he continued, "there were Poles who raised their hands ready to catch the baby
  
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• Letter: Issues for the homeless left unresolved

  17-07-2019 15:24
  When I read Sunday’s Salt Lake Tribune article on the new homeless centers I was amazed to find out that, according to the UTA trip planning site, it takes a minimum of 37 minutes and at least one transfer to get from the South Salt Lake center to the Fourth Street clinic.While vans will be provided for "certain medical appointments," which appointments will be included?Will that include counseling appointments for people with serious mental health problems? What about things such as smoki
  
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• Letter: Money is not the same as character

  17-07-2019 15:23
  The one great value of having Donald Trump as president is that he shows the American public that having a lot of money is no indication of intelligence, morality, character or leadership.As a strongly capitalist country, we have been brainwashed to believe that money is the barometer of all things, and that those who have it are somehow special. Look at our obsession with celebrities. But then notice who they really are. They are no different than you or me.As Ernest Hemingway once said to F. S
  
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• Letter: Utah lawmakers are the real terrorists

  17-07-2019 15:22
  Sorry, Gov. Herbert. Protesting the arrogant unrighteous Utah Republican Legislature is not borderline terrorism.The underhanded, last-minute takeover of a sovereign city to build a massive “inland port” facility to make money for Republican developers is terrorism.The increased pollution and deteriation of the quality of life of citizens to operate this “port,” all to line the pockets of legislators and their friends, is terrorism.Closing the prison at great cost, and at
  
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• Salt Lake Bees split doubleheader with Sacramento River Cats

  17-07-2019 15:21
  Jose Rojas hit two home runs to lead the Salt Lake Bees to a 12-5 win in Game 1 of a doubleheader against the Sacramento River Cats at Smith’s Ballpark on Tuesday.The River Cats won Game 2, scoring two runs in the top of the seventh to prevail, 8-6.In Game 1, Rojas hit solo home runs — his 21st and 22nd of the season — in the first and third innings. Taylor Ward also homered, had three hits and scored three times for the Bees. Dillon Peters (4-1) held the River Cats scoreless t
  
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• Letter: Who are the real terrorists in Utah?

  17-07-2019 15:20
  “Your three minutes are up.”That has been the response from the Inland Port Authority Board to heartfelt and often eloquent testimonies, ranging from citizens decrying the inevitable degradation of one of the most important ecosystems in the Western Hemisphere to a mother living near the proposed port tearfully stating her concerns over her child with asthma.The board members look with blank stares, no eye contact, some scrolling through their phones. I have been to several Inland Po
  
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• Letter: Neither party is the enemy of the people

  17-07-2019 15:18
  President Trump acts like the whole Republican Party is this ultra-conservative faction. He acts like the whole Democratic Party is the ultra-liberal faction. Both parties have their good and bad points, but none is the enemy of the people.I’m heading towards the RINO and Blue Dog Democrat designations. Trump hasn’t publicly denounced them, yet. They seem to hold more to the people-over-party representation craved by the public.It is quite natural for the party in power to resist los
  
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• Letter: The planet is dying and Utah leaders won’t listen

  17-07-2019 15:16
  Our elected leaders want us to follow the rules. When we do, they change them. Like they did earlier this year when they first revamped two of the three ballot initiatives approved by voters.Meanwhile, Utah is getting warmer ('SLC Hot Like Vegas? Possible. Think 2050,” Salt Lake Tribune, July 12). Air pollution is killing Utahns (“Utah's Air Quality is Sickening, Even Killing Locals Year-Round New Research Suggests”, Tribune, Jan. 9, 2018).Who is listening when our voices are r
  
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• Salt Lake City residents say they want leaders to invest in affordable housing and improve air quality

  17-07-2019 15:00
  Salt Lake City residents say they enjoy a relatively high quality of life, but they want city leaders to put a high priority on investing in affordable housing and improving air quality.Most think Utah’s capital city offers job opportunities, but that City Hall could do more to attract businesses. Most feel safe in their neighborhoods during the day, less so at night or when they’re walking downtown.And in general, according to the latest pulse on city sentiment, residents are not we
  
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• LDS leaders get a first look at what will replace Scouting

  17-07-2019 15:00
  Latter-day Saint leaders got a sneak peek this week at the faith’s sweeping new global program that will replace its Boy Scout and Young Women curriculum by the end of the year.The new plan was laid out in a letter dated July 15, sent to the church’s general authorities, general officers, area presidencies, bishops and stake presidents (the faith’s mostly male lay clergy).It is long on values to instill — gospel learning, service and activities, and personal development &
  
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