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• Bagley Cartoon: Simpler Crooked Times

  19-07-2019 23:20
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, July 21, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/18/bagley-cartoon-flim-flam/" target=_blank><u>Flim-Flam</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/16/bagley-cartoon-one-big/"><u>One Big Mic Drop</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/15/bagley-cartoon-st
  
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• Utah man charged with murder after he allegedly punched his infant son in the head

  19-07-2019 23:12
  A 23-year-old Utah man has been charged with murder in the beating death of his 5½-month-old son.Shawn Malik Johnson of West Valley City was charged Friday in Third District Court with the first-degree felony. A week earlier, police responded to a report of a child not breathing and found Deyvion Johnson unresponsive. The infant was transported to Primary Children’s Hospital, where doctors reported a large bruise on the side of his head; a fractured skull; brain swelling and eye inj
  
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• Utah native Preston Summerhays advances to the finals of the U.S. Junior Amateur golf tournament

  19-07-2019 22:43
  Preston Summerhays has won 11 straight golf matches during the past two weeks, doing so in nearly every possible way. Victory Nos. 10 and 11, in Friday's quarterfinals and semifinals of the U.S. Junior Amateur, each featured a remarkable surge after Summerhays trailed in the middle of the round.The two-time State Amateur champion advanced to the final match of the Junior Amateur, thanks to wins of 2 up over Ohio golfer Austin Greaser and 4 and 3 over England’s Thomas Pagdin at the Invernes
  
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• Feds move to seize homes and businesses from polygamous Kingston Group as fraud defendants plead guilty

  19-07-2019 22:41
  The owners of Washakie Renewable Energy pleaded guilty to charges Thursday in what the government has called a $511 million biofuel fraud, and the pleas could have repercussions for the polygamous sect to which they belong.Jacob O. Kingston, the company’s CEO, pleaded guilty Thursday to 41 charges including money laundering, fraud, conspiracy and witness tampering and obstruction of justice, according to a court docket. His brother and the chief financial officer, Isaiah E. Kingston, plead
  
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• Here’s the 8 companies Utah picked to grow cannabis for state’s medical marijuana program

  19-07-2019 22:37
  Utah officials have selected eight companies to grow the state’s first legal cannabis crop, a critical step in launching a newly approved medical marijuana program by early next year.Half of the cultivation licenses went to existing Utah businesses, while the other half are based out-of-state but have “Utah ties,” according to a Friday morning news release from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.The agency was authorized to award up to 10 licenses but only chose to han
  
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• Power pitching has taken over baseball. The Bees and Pacific Coast League are no exception.

  19-07-2019 22:34
  In his sixth pro season, having moved through the Los Angeles Angels' system from the rookie-league Orem Owlz to the Triple-A Salt Lake Bees, relief pitcher Jeremy Rhoades understands how the business of baseball works.“You either keep up with the game and what they ask of you,” Rhoades said, “or you'll be out of it.”In his job description, that means delivering the ball with more velocity in an effort to overpower the hitters. As veteran slugger Brandon Belt of San Franc
  
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• There’s a Utah version of the Area 51 raid. It’s called 'Storm the Church Vault.’

  19-07-2019 22:21
  Refreshment assignments have already been handed out. Someone has promised to bring funeral potatoes. Another says they’re making green Jell-O.But instead of going to a church gathering, the group is planning to meet at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon and, using strength in numbers, break into the LDS Church’s secret vault to reveal any artifacts held inside.The hoax event, called “Storm the Church Vault, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” is a play on the pretend ra
  
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• Kurt Bestor to launch ‘Music in High Places’ concert series at Kayenta

  19-07-2019 22:17
  Kurt Bestor wants to get high — and it has nothing to do with local cannabis laws.The Utah musician and composer, famous for his Christmas extravaganzas, is launching a concert series called “Music in High Places,” to be performed in breathtaking natural and manmade locations.The first is set for Sept. 7, 7:30 p.m., at the Center for the Arts at Kayenta, in Ivins, Utah. Bestor has played Christmas shows twice at Kayenta, but this will be the first time he’s played there &
  
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• Plan to slow Western wildfires would clear strips of land

  19-07-2019 21:57
  The Trump administration is proposing an ambitious plan to slow Western wildfires by bulldozing, mowing or revegetating large swaths of land along 11,000 miles of terrain in the West.The plan that was announced this summer and presented at public open houses, including one in Salt Lake City this week, would create strips of land known “fuel breaks” on about 1,000 square miles of land managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in an area known as the Great Basin in parts of Idaho,
  
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  19-07-2019 21:45 via twitter.com
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• Erik Wemple: What on earth was CNN thinking?

  19-07-2019 21:05
  On July 30 and July 31, CNN will be hosting a pair of Democratic primary debates in Detroit. For each showdown, there will be 10 candidates on the stage.On Thursday night, CNN assembled 12 people to decide on which of the two nights the candidates would be appearing.It was called “The Draw” — a programming block designed, perhaps, as an experiment with this inspiration: How complicated and baroque can we make the process of dividing a pool of candidates into two separate lots?
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Nigel Williams-Goss' journey from Europe to the NBA

  19-07-2019 21:04 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz guard Nigel Williams-Goss details his journey from Europe to the NBA.
  
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• [Deseret News] - 2017 draft pick Nigel Williams-Goss signs with Utah Jazz

  19-07-2019 20:17 via sportspyder.com
  Two years after being drafted by the Utah Jazz, guard Nigel Williams-Goss signed with the team Friday.
  
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• Berkeley drops words like ‘manpower’ in push to be inclusive

  19-07-2019 20:07
  Berkeley, Calif. • There will be no manholes in Berkeley, California. City workers will drop into “maintenance holes” instead.Nothing will be manmade in the liberal city but “human-made.” And students at the University of California, Berkeley, will join “collegiate Greek system residences” rather than fraternities and sororities.Berkeley leaders voted unanimously this week to replace about 40 gender-specific words in the city code with gender-neutral term
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz officially sign Nigel Williams-Goss

  19-07-2019 20:05 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz have officially announced that they have signed former Gonzaga guard Nigel Williams-Goss. Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium tweeted that the deal is for three years, $4.8 million, with a full guarantee in Year 1, but the tweet...
  
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• LDS Church announces expanded youth conferences in wake of split with Scouting

  19-07-2019 20:01
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced one of the ways it will replace the Scouting program — it will expand its For the Strength of Youth conferences (FSY) to the United States and Canada.FSY conferences are based on the Especially for Youth conferences that have been operated by church-owned Brigham Young University for more than 40 years. The five-day conferences will include “activities, devotionals, and classes designed to provide opportunities to grow spi
  
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• 2017 draft pick Nigel Williams-Goss signs with Utah Jazz

  19-07-2019 20:01
  Nigel Williams-Goss, who was selected by the Utah Jazz in last Thursday's NBA draft, speaks to reporters at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.Laura Seitz, Deseret NewsUtah Jazz's Nigel Williams-Goss poses for photos after the Jazz introduced their 2017 NBA Draft picks during a news conference Wednesday, June 28, 2017, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Rick Bowmer, APSALT LAKE CITY — Two years after being drafted by the Utah Jazz, guard Nigel Willi
  
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• Utah picks 8 companies to grow cannabis for state’s medical marijuana program

  19-07-2019 20:00
  Utah officials have selected eight companies to grow the state’s first legal cannabis crop, a critical step in launching a newly approved medical marijuana program by next year.Half of the awardees have existing businesses inside the state, while the other half are based out-of-state but have “Utah ties,” according to a Friday morning news release from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.The agency was authorized by law to award up to 10 licenses but chose to hand out o
  
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• Rich Lowry: For Planned Parenthood, no doctors need apply

  19-07-2019 19:59
  Poor Leana Wen. She took Planned Parenthood’s propaganda a little too seriously. And now she’s out of a job.For the longest time, Planned Parenthood has insisted that it’s a health care organization and it only cares about abortion — supposedly a tiny share of its business — insofar as it’s a function of health care.Whenever Republicans have threatened Planned Parenthood's funding over abortion, the response was, Abortion? Don't be silly. We are all about Pap
  
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• Real Salt Lake’s Corey Baird knows stats aren’t everything. But he wants to score and assist more

  19-07-2019 19:41
  Herriman • Goals by Albert Rusnák and Sam Johnson had Corey Baird written all over them.It was April 18 in Cincinnati, and the second-year Real Salt Lake homegrown player’s shot rebounded straight to Rusnák for a shot that found the back of the net. Later, another attempt on goal by Baird was blocked only to find Johnson for the finish.Baird remembers those plays well, even though they happened months ago. They’re indicative of the impact he feels he’s had on
  
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• Elliott Robbins, Army sergeant killed in Afghanistan, buried in Utah

  19-07-2019 19:41
  Ogden • An Army sergeant from Utah who died in Afghanistan has been laid to rest in Ogden.Family, friends, fellow military members and others gathered Thursday for the funeral of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Elliott J. Robbins, The Standard-Examiner reported .Robbins, 31, is survived by his wife, Luz Victoria, and baby boy. During the funeral, Rev. Erik Richtsteig recognized the child who shares his father’s name."There are many things I'd like to tell Elliott that I can't because he's to
  
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• Utah’s unemployment rate drops to 12-year low: 2.8%

  19-07-2019 19:34
  Utah’s unemployment rate in June hit its lowest level in 12 years — 2.8%. And Utah ranks No. 3 nationally in the net number of jobs it has added in the past 12 months.That’s according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.“The Utah economy remains strong and continues to absorb and employ labor at a fast pace,” said Mark Knold, senior economist at the Utah Department of Workforce Services. About 45,500 Utahns are unemployed and are actively
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Trump’s immigration policies speak louder than his racist, xenophobic words

  19-07-2019 19:12
  Vile, chilling, dangerous and life-threatening.These words cannot adequately describe the Trump rally chants of “send her back,” referring to a U.S.-citizen congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who immigrated from Somalia as a child refugee; or the presidential tweets that inspired this chant, suggesting that Omar as well as three native-born U.S.-citizen congresswomen of color should all be deported. (On Thursday, President Trump said he “wasn’t happy” with the chan
  
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• Proposed rule for Utah psychologists would prohibit conversion therapy for children

  19-07-2019 18:55
  Utah psychologists could be prohibited from conducting conversion therapy on minor-aged clients, under a draft rule approved Thursday.The change, proposed by an advisory board to the state’s professional licensing division, comes at the urging of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert.The Republican governor in June directed the state’s Psychologist Licensing Board to review and create rules regarding conversion therapy — a widely discredited practice that seeks to change a person’s sexu
  
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• [The Score] - Jazz sign 2017 pick Williams-Goss to reported 3-year, $4.8M deal

  19-07-2019 18:50 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz announced Friday they've signed guard Nigel Williams-Goss, their second-round pick in the 2017 draft.The deal is worth $4.8 million over three years, sources told The Athletic's Shams Charania.After being selected 55th overall by Utah,...
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz Sign Nigel Williams-Goss

  19-07-2019 18:48 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has signed guard Nigel Williams-Goss. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released.Williams-Goss (6-3, 190, Gonzaga) was originally selected by
  
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• [NBA] - Drafted, stashed, but not forgotten: Nigel Williams-Goss kept close contact with the Utah Jazz during two seasons abroad

  19-07-2019 18:48 via sportspyder.com
  Right after a big win, Nigel Williams-Goss could expect a congratulatory text. After a tough night, there might be a “Hang in there” message waiting for him after the game. The point guard was alone
  
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• For LDS story ‘The Fighting Preacher,’ filmmaker turns real life into a movie

  19-07-2019 18:48
  T.C. Christensen admits he had to go a few rounds with “The Fighting Preacher” before bringing the story of Willard and Rebecca Bean — who served one of the longest missions in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — to the movie screen.Christensen had just finished making his 2011 movie “17 Miracles,” the first of two movies that focused on hardships on the pioneer trail to Utah, when someone suggested he read the book “A Lion a
  
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• We have signed Nigel Williams-Goss https://www.nba.com/jazz/jazz-sign-nigel-william-goss?_ga=2.38772512.20701836.1563485075-1160178980.1559837147 …

  19-07-2019 18:36 via twitter.com
  We have signed Nigel Williams-Goss https://www.nba.com/jazz/jazz-sign-nigel-william-goss?_ga=2.38772512.20701836.1563485075-1160178980.1559837147 …
  
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• “Cancer affects all of us, whether you’re a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, or patient.” — Jennifer Aniston #5ForTheFight | @5ForTheFight_ pic.twitter.com/lSgfLtvwrv

  19-07-2019 18:26 via twitter.com
  “Cancer affects all of us, whether you’re a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, or patient.”— Jennifer Aniston#5ForTheFight | @5ForTheFight_pic.twitter.com/lSgfLtvwrv
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run podcast: In-depth analysis — and a few debates — on all of the Jazz’s offseason additions

  19-07-2019 18:22 via sportspyder.com
  After spending some time in Vegas for the NBA Summer League, The Tribune’s Utah Jazz beat writers, Andy Larsen and Eric Walden, return to discuss all the team’s new players — from the guys who’ll be in the starting lineup, like Mike Conley and Bojan...
  
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• Weekly Run podcast: In-depth analysis — and a few debates — on all of the Jazz’s offseason additions

  19-07-2019 18:19
  After spending some time in Vegas for the NBA Summer League, The Tribune’s Utah Jazz beat writers, Andy Larsen and Eric Walden, return to discuss all the team’s new players — from the guys who’ll be in the starting lineup, like Mike Conley and Bojan Bogdanovic, to the guys who’ll be fighting for the 13th through 15th spots, such as Nigel Williams-Goss, Miye Oni, William Howard, and Stanton Kidd.Along the way, Andy and Eric have some glass-half-full/glass-half-empty
  
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• Utah’s Tony Finau sticks around the British Open’s top 10, despite a wobbly finish of his second round.

  19-07-2019 18:04
  Tony Finau bogeyed two of the last three holes in Friday's second round of the British Open, posting a 1-under-par 70 that left him in a tie for 11th place as of the completion of his round in the mid-afternoon at Royal Portrush Golf Club.The Lehi resident stands 4 under for the tournament, five strokes off the lead held by Shane Lowry, with heavy rain expected to affect the rest of the field as the second round continues.Finau reached 6 under with a birdie on the par-4 No. 15. But he bogeyed th
  
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• Who started a fire at Latter-day Saint church in Utah? Authorities offer reward.

  19-07-2019 17:26
  Authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for information about an arson fire at a Latter-day Saint church building in Cottonwood Heights.The Unified Fire Authority and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are looking for whoever was responsible for starting the fire at the meetinghouse at 3625 E. Dover Hill Drive early Sunday. There were no injuries, but the blaze caused an estimated $800,000 damage.The fire began in the foyer area of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day S
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - What can Jazz fans expect from Jeff Green?

  19-07-2019 16:41 via sportspyder.com
  We asked an expert
  
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• Across U.S., clergy mobilize to support vulnerable migrants

  19-07-2019 16:34
  So far this week, an anticipated nationwide sweep has not materialized at the expected magnitude. Yet the mere prospect of such action has prompted legions of pastors, rabbis and their congregations across the United States to stand ready to help vulnerable immigrants with offers of sanctuary and other services.Here's a look at some of the recent developments:___Utah's dominant religious denomination, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, doesn't offer sanctuary to immigrants, but it
  
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• Charles Lane: Thank (or blame) John Paul Stevens for your binge-watching habit

  19-07-2019 16:27
  Many Americans are mourning John Paul Stevens, the retired Supreme Court justice who died Tuesday at age 99, as the liberal lion who stood for gay rights, campaign-finance reform and government power to regulate gun ownership.All true. But let us never forget Stevens’ most transformational cultural contribution on the court — as the intellectual godfather of binge-watching.Seriously: Stevens was the author of a landmark 1984 ruling that thwarted the entertainment industry’s eff
  
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• Utahn helped map the moon for Apollo 11 astronauts

  19-07-2019 16:19
  Stansbury Park • Before astronauts could land safely on the moon — a feat that happened 50 years ago this week — NASA officials needed to pick a nice flat spot to aim at. But they couldn’t do that without a very accurate map of the lunar surface.It was a project that took two and a half years, required mathematical and scientific genius and, according to Utah resident Jim Taylor, “miles of Scotch tape.”A physicist, who now lives in Stansbury Park, Taylor and tw
  
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• George Pyle: No more about this being a Christian nation

  19-07-2019 16:19
  “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”-- Matthew 25:40 (King James Version)No. No more. Not one more word.Events of the last few weeks have proven, as if proof were necessary, that those who claim that the United States of America is a Christian nation, or a society firmly founded in Judeo-Christian values, are either lying or under the influence of heavy drugs.Let us, please, hear no more about it.We can argue over interpre
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Staff Post: The Jazz’s Place in the WC, Impact of Additions, Starting Spots & More

  19-07-2019 16:06 via sportspyder.com
  Which means the step-back-and-figure-out-what-just-happened part of the offseason is here. Were on it. Dig in! Those are the four best western teams. Jamal Murray and Gary Harris.
  
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• Two brothers still missing after their empty boat was found on Strawberry Reservoir

  19-07-2019 16:05
  The search for two brothers whose abandoned boat was found Thursday on Strawberry reservoir resumed Friday morning.The 61- and 70-year-old brothers, who live in Pleasant Grove and Salem, were fishing at the reservoir. Their boat, with the engine still running, was found in the Ladders Day Use Area by a visitor, who alerted authorities about 2:30 p.m. When park rangers were unable to locate the brothers, the Wasatch County Search and Rescue team was called in.According to the Wasatch County Sheri
  
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• Molly Roberts: What the FaceApp freak-out really tells us

  19-07-2019 16:02
  Thank God for technology. How else would we know what Gordon Ramsay would look like at 92? Or the Jonas Brothers as septuagenarian has-been heartthrobs. Or Ludacris, still furious but somewhat less fast a few decades down the line.FaceApp, a nifty download that can age you decades with a single snapshot, is filling the Web with geriatrics — and raising as many eyebrows as it has grayed. The product had a flare of popularity that petered out two years ago amid criticism that its “ethn
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Democratic legislators call for heightened security in the wake of “send her back” chants

  19-07-2019 15:52
  Happy Friday!Democratic lawmakers are seeking beefed up security for congressional representatives following a Trump rally in which crowd members began chanting “send her back.” The rally goers were referring to U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of four congresswomen of color whom President Donald Trump recently targeted with racist tweets. When reporters asked Omar if she was concerned for her safety, she said she isn’t. “What I’m scared for is the safety for people who sh
  
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• Review: ‘Fighting Preacher,’ an LDS missionary story, has warmth and humor

  19-07-2019 15:36
  Utah filmmaker T.C. Christensen’s latest dive into Latter-day Saint history, “The Fighting Preacher,” charms by focusing on a human story of a missionary family pushing back against prejudice with kindness and patience.It’s 1915, and former pro boxer Willard Bean (David McConnell) and his young wife, Rebecca (Cassidy Hubert), are given an assignment by the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The calling: Take up residence in the farm that was the h
  
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• Zachary Moses, a Democratic candidate for governor, wants to break up Republican control of Utah and build a space port

  19-07-2019 15:33
  Zachary Moses says he has always been an unaffiliated voter, but he recently registered with the Utah Democratic Party to mount a long-shot bid for governor in 2020.“I’m too much of a socialist to register as a Republican,” he said.In a wide-ranging interview with The Tribune on Thursday, Moses — the 36-year-old CEO of a travel company that focuses on LGBTQ clients — outlined his motivations and plans for seeking the state’s highest office as a political newco
  
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• UTA proposes route for Murray-Taylorsville-West Valley City bus rapid transit line

  19-07-2019 15:00
  The Utah Transit Authority is one step away from finalizing the route of its new “Midvalley Connector,” a bus rapid transit (BRT) system through West Valley City, Taylorsville and Murray.It will offer speedier service to such points as Valley Fair Mall, Salt Lake Community College’s Redwood Campus, Sorenson Research Park and the Intermountain Medical Center.The final route was endorsed Wednesday by the UTA Advisory Council, whose members come from cities served by the agency. T
  
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• Domestic violence survivors will soon have a new safe haven in Park City

  19-07-2019 14:45
  Park City’s Peace House, a nonprofit serving domestic violence survivors in Summit and Wasatch counties, is coming out of the shadows and into the light with the opening of a new Community Campus this fall.Historically, the Peace House was split between two locations: a community outreach office near downtown Park City and a 2,000-square-foot emergency shelter in an undisclosed location. Now, those services will be combined in a secure building 20 times the size on Round Valley Drive.Sally
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Utah’s ‘Queer Eye’ guy, Tan France, did NOT name (or invent) the French tuck

  19-07-2019 14:00
  Yes, Utah’s “Queer Eye” guy, Tan France, has popularized a little fashion tip he likes to call the French tuck. No, he didn’t name it after himself.“This is insane. No!” said France, the fashion guru on the show, which starts streaming its fourth season Friday on Netflix.For those of you who haven’t seen the show, the Fab Five — France, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness — descend upon one person in each episode a
  
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