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• Grace Summerhays reaches the round of 16 before losing in the U.S. Girls’ Junior golf tournament

  25-07-2019 23:57
  Grace Summerhays lost in the round of 16 in the U.S. Girls' Junior golf tournament Thursday afternoon, ending her family's remarkable performance of the past two weeks in United States Golf Association events.Summerhays qualified for match play as the No. 42 seed and won two matches before falling 6 and 5 to the No. 7 seed, Lei Ye of China, at SentryWorld in Stevens Point, Wis.The 15-year-old Summerhays lives most of the year in Scottsdale, Ariz.; her family spends the summers in Davis County, w
  
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• A Utah man confessed twice to making child porn as a teen — but his Latter-day Saint leaders didn’t report it to police

  25-07-2019 23:46
  He had gone to police in February 2018 with a confession: He spent years creating and sharing child pornography online when he was a teenager, capturing images of nude children who had been at his mother’s in-home day care.He was a 20-year-old man by this point, and according to court documents, he told investigators during that interview that this wasn't the first time he had disclosed to someone that he had made child pornography.He had told his church leaders with The Church of Jesus Ch
  
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• Hugh Hewitt: Tide has turned, and Trump has the advantage

  25-07-2019 23:43
  President Donald Trump has not yet been vindicated. Only his reelection will provide that condition so rare in the modern era of politics.But with the conclusion of former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony on Wednesday, Trump has decisively repulsed the attempt to deny him the opportunity to win that vindication at the polls in November 2020. Indeed, the president is now obviously, and with a high probability of success, going on the offensive.Politics is not war, but the history of war
  
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• UTA’s big choice: boost bus frequency or cover more areas

  25-07-2019 23:23
  The Utah Transit Authority board faces a big question that could refocus its bus service for years, and create a new set of winners and losers among taxpayers.Should it increase bus frequency in busy, densely populated areas to boost ridership, or spend its money instead to cover more geographic areas — including in sparsely populated neighborhoods?The board has a self-imposed deadline to decide by month’s endhow to balance those competing interests. No matter what, that seems bound
  
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• How Trump ended up in front of a presidential seal doctored to include a Russian symbol

  25-07-2019 23:08
  Washington • At first glance, there was nothing unusual about President Donald Trump’s introduction Tuesday at Turning Point USA’s student summit. In many ways, it mirrored the production style that has become synonymous with Trump’s campaign rallies.After a 12-minute video illustrating Trump’s rise to the presidency, music blared as the president’s name flashed across a giant screen in a bold shade of red. Trump took the stage and soaked in the raucous cheers
  
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• Privacy Notice

  25-07-2019 23:04
  Privacy NoticeEffective Date: December 7, 2017This Privacy Notice (this “Notice”) describes the type of information that The Salt Lake Tribune (“SL Trib” or “we”) collects through your use of our online platform (www.sltrib.com), and mobile apps (collectively, the “Services”). This Notice does not apply to information collected about you through any other means, including information collected by third parties or through non-electronic or offline m
  
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• C — Georges Niang #QualtricsPollpic.twitter.com/RDWXqmzmAT

  25-07-2019 23:03 via twitter.com
  C — Georges Niang#QualtricsPollpic.twitter.com/RDWXqmzmAT
  
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• B — Joe Ingles #QualtricsPollpic.twitter.com/iIX1TrZEpH

  25-07-2019 23:03 via twitter.com
  B — Joe Ingles#QualtricsPollpic.twitter.com/iIX1TrZEpH
  
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• A — Rudy Gobert #QualtricsPollpic.twitter.com/UBspoUnxwy

  25-07-2019 23:03 via twitter.com
  A — Rudy Gobert#QualtricsPollpic.twitter.com/UBspoUnxwy
  
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• USC may be down, but the Trojans aren’t out. The talent is still there. Watch out.

  25-07-2019 22:46
  Hollywood, Calif. • The Pac-12′s flagship program took the stage to end the conference’s Football Media Day, facing questions that will produce some answers by the middle of this season.The school’s history makes USC intriguing every year. The current state of Trojans raises the curiosity index even higher in 2019.USC is coming off its first losing season (5-7) in nearly 20 years and tackling a front-loaded schedule that includes games against Pac-12 South reigning champio
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Nelson didn’t apologize for past racial ban, but actions matter as well, says black Latter-day Saint professor

  25-07-2019 22:46
  Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, addressed the NAACP’s national convention this week.His appearance came in the wake of a new partnership formed between the church and the country’s oldest civil rights organization and a year after the faith celebrated the 40th anniversary of the end of its centurylong ban on blacks holding the priesthood and entering temples. No, Nelson did not apologize for that prohibition. Such words could have been
  
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• Cass R. Sunstein: A faithful Mueller kept his eye on the ball

  25-07-2019 22:28
  Throughout his testimony in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, and despite multiple efforts to divert him, former special counsel Robert Mueller was focused on just the two issues that were the topics of his official report: Russia's interference with the 2016 presidential campaign and possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.Republicans and Democrats alike disliked it, and found it weak, when Mueller answered their lengthy questions by referring to that report. "I
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Hard Brexit

  25-07-2019 22:26
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, July 26, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/23/bagley-cartoon-mulling/" target=_blank>Mulling Mueller’s Meaning</a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/22/bagley-cartoon-theres/">There’s Always Room for Tolerance</a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/19/bagley-cartoo
  
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• Police: Man arrested in Utah apartment building fire

  25-07-2019 22:17
  Layton, Utah • Authorities say a 20-year-old Utah man who told police he was playing with a lighter and an incense candle in an apartment where gasoline previously had been spilled is accused of starting a fire that destroyed a 24-unit building.Layton police said the fire Monday resulted in the arrest Tuesday of Angel David Colebrook on suspicion of reckless burning and reckless endangerment initially was reported as a cooking fire.Police said the gasoline that spilled had been stored in Co
  
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• Monson: Should Utah football fans be eager or expected to attend early-morning Pac-12 games? Ask Larry Scott.

  25-07-2019 22:04
  What about the fans?That’s a simple question too often forgotten in a modern era of sports that clamors for exposure and money by way of games made available on television, and by any other possible means.Pac-12 leadership, namely commissioner Larry Scott, believes the conference is in need of greater exposure for football, and that one way to gain those extra eyeballs, and presumably more prestige, in more eastern time zones is to have some Pac-12 teams play games on Saturdays at 9 a.m. P
  
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• ‘I’m not at peace with how my career ended,’ former Jazzman Joe Johnson says ahead of BIG3 league’s visit to Salt Lake City

  25-07-2019 22:03
  He played 17 seasons in the NBA, just turned 38 years old about a month ago, and is currently lighting up all comers in the BIG3 league, but Joe Johnson can’t shake the feeling that his days in professional basketball didn’t quite wrap up the way they were supposed to.“To be honest, I’m not at peace with how my career ended,” he told The Salt Lake Tribune. “Especially in Houston, not even getting a chance to play in the postseason for whatever reason. That&rsq
  
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• Utah County Commission moves forward with public vote on government change, over warnings that it lacks legal authority

  25-07-2019 22:01
  The debate over changing Utah County’s form of government could be headed to the ballot, to the courts, or to the state Legislature after an occasionally testy emergency meeting Thursday morning, in which the County Commission voted 2-1 to move forward with a public vote despite the objections of the county attorney.The commission’s resolution calls for a vote to be held this November on establishing a mayor-council government. But the resolution’s legality is ambiguous, and th
  
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• Salt Lake City’s new Oquirrh restaurant serves familiar food with a twist

  25-07-2019 22:00
  Even Utah residents have a hard time saying the name of this new Salt Lake City restaurant. That’s why the drink menu helpfully spells Oquirrh (can you spell it without looking?) phonetically as “Oak-er.”The restaurant opened in February and is named for the mountains on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley, the ever-present but maybe still-unfamiliar range.And that’s a good way to describe the food at Oquirrh: familiar dishes but with a twist.“We want … to
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Good things will come from Donovan Mitchell’s commitment to Team USA

  25-07-2019 21:57 via sportspyder.com
  Despite lost interest from some of the league’s brightest stars, Donovan Mitchell is committed to Team USA and it’s going to pay off for him.
  
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• so we’re good with @kraftmacncheese but do we have @HeinzKetchup_US beef rn?

  25-07-2019 21:44 via twitter.com
  so we’re good with @kraftmacncheese but do we have @HeinzKetchup_US beef rn?
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Rep. Chris Stewart slams Robert Mueller’s Russia probe

  25-07-2019 21:01
  Rep. Chris Stewart called out Robert Mueller for ensnaring “innocent people” in his Russia probe. The Utah Supreme Court finds that a state panel was unconstitutionally blocking medical malpractice lawsuits. And the hectic work schedule of a Utah public defender. At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Thomas Burr and Jessica Miller, and columnist Robert Gehrke join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stories. Every Friday at 9 a.m., stream &ldquo
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Honorary whiteness must be one powerful drug

  25-07-2019 20:53
  You had to become an "honorary white."That was the status South Africa used to bestow upon black performers from the United States who visited the apartheid regime. The O'Jays, Tina Turner, Ray Charles and Eartha Kitt were among those who received that designation, allowing them access to hotels and restaurants from which black Africans were barred.It was, as you might expect, a controversial thing. Or as Eddie Levert of the O'Jays later observed, "We've been apologizing ever since."While there
  
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• Officials investigating cause of fish deaths in Burch Creek near Ogden

  25-07-2019 20:44
  South Ogden • Officials are searching for a source of possible contamination after dozens of fish and a few ducks were found dead in a Utah creek.KUTV-TV reports children fishing in Burch Creek in South Ogden discovered the dead fish and called 911 Wednesday afternoon.The South Ogden Fire Department says nearby residents also reported smelling gas in the area.The department says between 40 and 50 fish were found dead.The Weber County Health Department says it was testing the water to determ
  
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• Red All Over: Are the Utes truly the Pac-12 football favorites? Yes, as opponents will view them.

  25-07-2019 20:33
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here. The only aspect of the Pac-12 South's official preseason poll that I wondered about this summer was whether Utah's football team would be a unanimous pick to repeat as the division champion.That almost happened. The Utes received 33 of the 35 votes from a media panel, consisting of voters (including me) who cover each athletic program in the conference.The part I overlooked was how North powers Oregon and
  
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• Eye on the Y: Nick Emery’s strange BYU basketball career started spectacularly, then fizzled

  25-07-2019 19:44
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Provo • What was supposed to be a slow week for BYU sports-related news was turned on its head Tuesday when rising senior guard Nick Emery made a stunning announcement on Instagram and Twitter that he was retiring from basketball. A news release from BYU followed shortly.This BYU basketball beat writer was on a cruise ship off the coast of Alaska at the time, so my colleagues Kurt Kragthorpe and
  
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• Karen Tumulty: The real bombshell from Mueller. The Russians are still coming.

  25-07-2019 19:30
  Democrats had hoped that with the long-awaited testimony of former special counsel Robert Mueller III, they would finally have a clarifying, cinematic moment, perhaps one that would convince a reluctant public to rally behind impeaching President Donald Trump.The idea was that if people could only hear the conclusions of his 22-month investigation through the lips of one of nation's most distinguished public servants, it would come to life.As countless pundits put it in recent weeks, Americans n
  
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• [Deseret News] - Some pretty marquee names on the Utah basketball scene celebrated birthdays yesterday. See who

  25-07-2019 19:16 via sportspyder.com
  It wasn't just Pioneer Day on Wednesday.
  
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• Some pretty marquee names on the Utah basketball scene celebrated birthdays yesterday. See who

  25-07-2019 19:01
  Kyle Kuzma celebrated his 24th birthday with the kids at the Flint downtown YMCA.Twitter video screenshot, via @E\_WoodyardSALT LAKE CITY — In addition to it being Pioneer Day on Wednesday, a number of birthdays of notable people in the Utah basketball community were celebrated.Starting with the oldest, there was Utah Jazz legend Karl Malone, who turned 56. Then there was former University of Utah star Kyle Kuzma, who is now 24. Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles' twin son and daughter, Jacob an
  
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• Utah’s groundbreaking outdoor recreation office becomes a model for new national network

  25-07-2019 19:00
  A new Outdoor Recreation Learning Network — launched this week by the National Governors Association — will help states leverage their outdoor resources to promote economic development.The network is modeled after a program Utah started six years ago.“Utah launched the first state outdoor recreation office in 2013 to focus on recreation management, support recreation businesses and ensure that our state’s cherished natural assets can sustain economic growth for years to c
  
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• ‘Who would Jesus deport?’: Latter-day Saints protest ICE and poor treatment of immigrants

  25-07-2019 18:46
  West Valley City • A few hummed hymns under their breath and sang that “families can be together forever.” Some carried signs with scriptures about humanity and loving thy neighbor and mercy. One woman in the back of the crowd wore a T-shirt that asked: “Who would Jesus deport?”On the holiday meant to celebrate their pioneer ancestors fleeing for asylum to the Salt Lake Valley — what was at the time (July 1847) Mexican territory — nearly 50 Latter-day Sai
  
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• Utes have heard BYU’s voices this summer, in advance of the season opener

  25-07-2019 18:30
  Hollywood, Calif. • Defensive lineman Bradlee Anae and his Utah football teammates have lasting memories of Media Day in Provo.Anae and running back Zack Moss enjoyed representing the Utes this week in the Pac-12 Football Media Day in Hollywood, but the summer event that will resonate with them came in June. That’s because Utah’s strength and conditioning staff has played clips from the BYU Football Media Day during weightlifting sessions this summer.The Utes were a big subject
  
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• Ranit Mishori: An ICE detention center wants a doctor who will follow orders. That’s unethical.

  25-07-2019 18:30
  Eight chilling words appeared in a medical job posting listed last week in the online career center of JAMA, one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world. A large firm is seeking a doctor to be "lead physician" of a particular "facility." But getting hired seems to require passing some sort of loyalty test: According to the posting, applicants must be "philosophically committed to the objectives of the facility."The facility is the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention
  
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• Here’s how much tech workers get paid in Utah and across the country

  25-07-2019 18:28
  Much has been made in recent years about the exorbitant cost of living in tech meccas like San Jose and Silicon Valley and rightfully so.The horror stories — from paying $750 a month to occupy a poltergeist-ridden attic or $400 to live inside a wooden box — are well documented and often mesmerizing.Perhaps the only positive byproduct of the Bay Area's absurdly high living costs is that it's forcing talented techies to look elsewhere for work, sprinkling the rest of the country with i
  
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• Letter: With Brophy gone, Watkins should be next

  25-07-2019 17:43
  University of Utah Police Chief Dale Brophy finally resigned, or possibly was just eased out, with a massive severance and golden parachute pension.Now, what about university president Ruth Watkins? And, this time, just bus fare to her next lodging in some college elsewhere and save the state and students money on another of those expensive payouts.As for Brophy, should not a quick review of his West Valley City stay have warranted red flags when he was initially employed at the U. of U.? The sc
  
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• Letter: Utah congressmen should call Trump out

  25-07-2019 17:43
  Recently our president went on another of his Twitter rants, this time disparaging four women of color, all members of Congress, encouraging them to go back from where they came. The next day he doubled down, calling them racist and anti-Semitic.At his rally in North Carolina, his rhetoric incited his mob into a frenzy and resulted in chants of “send her back,” referring to one of these women, Somali-born U.S citizen and U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. He reveled in the moment.Meanwhi
  
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• Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein found injured in federal jail

  25-07-2019 17:33
  Jeffrey Epstein was back in jail Thursday after he was found injured in the Manhattan jail where he’s being held on federal sex trafficking charges, according to people familiar with the matter.Epstein was found in his cell Tuesday unresponsive and with marks on his neck, according to one of the people, who asked not to be named because details of the incident aren't public. The money manager has since been treated and returned to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan. wh
  
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• Tim Wise: How do you beat Trump in 2020? The same way we beat David Duke in 1991.

  25-07-2019 17:30
  A white male president, Donald Trump, telling four members of Congress, all women of color, they should “go back” where they came from may be something new, but the sentiment isn’t. Stoking white racial resentment is one of the oldest plays in the American political playbook, and antiracists have often fallen short in their efforts to counteract it. Democrats face that challenge now, and they risk falling into the trap of side-stepping Trump’s race-baiting out of fear tha
  
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• Utah’s economy grew at nation’s fourth fastest rate in first quarter

  25-07-2019 17:13
  Utah’s $183 billion economy grew at the nation’s fourth fastest rate during the first quarter of this year, according to federal statistics released Thursday.Its gross domestic product — the market value of goods and services produced by labor and properties in a state — grew by 4.2% between Jan. 1 and March 31, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.Nationally, the gross domestic product grew by 3.1% in that time. The GDP increased in all 50 states and the Dis
  
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• Rich Lowry: ‘Cosmopolitan’ is a perfectly fine word for cosmopolitans

  25-07-2019 16:30
  Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley used a perfectly good word in its appropriate context, and stands accused of dog-whistle bigotry.At the National Conservatism conference in Washington, D.C., last week, Hawley gave a keynote address that attacked the coastal elite for being out of touch and out of sympathy with the heartland. He called it "the cosmopolitan elite," described its beliefs as the "cosmopolitan consensus," and accused it of building a "cosmopolitan economy."Even though there's not
  
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• Fire no longer threatens key Idaho nuclear facilities

  25-07-2019 16:24
  Boise, Idaho • The nation’s primary nuclear research facility plans to go back to regular operations Thursday after a change in wind direction pushed a wildfire away from the sprawling site in Idaho.The fire no longer poses a threat to key research facilities at the Idaho National Laboratory, lab officials said Wednesday evening.The lightning-caused fire at the Idaho National Laboratory is one of several across the U.S. West.Before the wind shifted, the Idaho blaze got close to severa
  
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• Utah police dog locates ‘missing’ child in a matter of seconds

  25-07-2019 16:23
  A West Jordan police dog quickly located a “missing” boy — who wasn’t as lost as his family believed.The department received a “frantic” call from the mother of the child earlier this month, according to a Facebook post. The family was visiting from out of town and young Talon was supposed to be in a basement sleeping with several other children, but when his mom couldn’t find him about 11:30 p.m. she contacted police.Family members searched the house wi
  
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• Latter-day Saints protest ICE and deportation of immigrants — who they say are ‘pioneers’ like them — on July 24 holiday

  25-07-2019 16:22
  West Valley City • A few hummed hymns under their breath and sang that “families can be together forever.” Some carried signs with scriptures about humanity and loving thy neighbor and mercy. One woman in the back of the crowd wore a T-shirt that asked: “Who would Jesus deport?”On the holiday meant to celebrate their pioneer ancestors fleeing for asylum to the Salt Lake Valley — what was at the time (July 1847) Mexican territory — nearly 50 Latter-day Sai
  
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• Trump vetoes congressional effort to block Saudi arms sales

  25-07-2019 16:16
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed a trio of congressional resolutions aimed at blocking his administration from selling billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month cited threats from Iran as a reason to approve the $8.1 billion arms sale to the two U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf.Saudi Arabia is an enemy of Iran and tension has mounted between the UAE and Tehran over several issues, including the
  
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• 3 takeaways on the Leagues Cup game between RSL and Tigres UANL

  25-07-2019 15:43
  Here are three takeaways from Real Salt Lake’s 1-0 loss to Liga MX side Tigres UANL.1. The dawn of RSL Cat There must be some kind of kooky farm of soccer-match-interrupting animals in Sandy somewhere because it happened again.Last year, a duck went onto the field at Rio Tinto Stadium and had grounds crew members and even Albert Rusnák chasing after it. On Wednesday, it was a cat.A cat straight up ran onto the field and disrupted EVERYTHING. #RSLCat pic.twitter.com/6sznmtPsiy—
  
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• Political Cornflakes: An inconvenient truth is global warming may soon affect companies’ credit

  25-07-2019 15:38
  Happy Thursday!Global warming may soon affect the credit worthiness of companies. The rating agency Moody’s purchased a majority share of a firm that measures the physical risks of climate change to companies — including hazards from extreme rainfall, hurricanes, heat stress and ocean rise. “We are taking these risks very seriously,” said Myriam Durand, global head of assessments at Moody’s. [NYTimes]Topping the news:Utah Rep. Chris Stewart accused former special co
  
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• 12 Utah breweries join food trucks at Aug. 3 battle

  25-07-2019 15:30
  Utah’s beer industry has exploded in recent years, jumping from 18 brewers in 2013 to 30 today. And more are in the works.A dozen of those Utah producers will serve their best ales and lagers Aug. 3, during the Third Annual Salt Lake City Food Truck and Brewery Battle at The Gateway.Joining the brewers will be 18 food trucks — serving everything from stuffed flatbread from Afghanistan to elk burgers — and live entertainment on two stages. The all-ages event runs from 4 to 10 p.
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Term limits are a neat idea that won’t solve the problems its proponents hope it will

  25-07-2019 15:23
  This week, the United Utah Party launched an initiative drive to let voters decide whether to limit state legislators to 12 years in office and hold the governor and other executive officers to two four-year terms.The last time we had a real debate about term limits was 25 years ago (a short-lived effort in 2015 aside), when voters rose up to put the favorite populist proposal on the ballot. Back then, the Legislature stepped in and passed their own term limits, taking the wind out of the sails
  
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• UTA’s big choice: increase bus frequency or cover more areas

  25-07-2019 15:21
  The Utah Transit Authority Board faces a big question that could refocus its bus service for years, and create a new set of winners and losers among taxpayers.Should it increase bus frequency in busy, densely populated areas to increase ridership, or should it spend its money instead to cover more geographic areas — including in sparsely populated neighborhoods?The board has a self-imposed deadline to decide by the end of the monthhow to balance those competing interests. No matter what, t
  
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• Kanab residents are fractured over a proposed Utah sand mine

  25-07-2019 15:19
  Proponents of a sand mine outside Kanab won support from two local boards last week, but they have a long way to go before persuading many residents — particularly those who moved there to retire or run tourism businesses — that their project won’t harm the community and undermine an economy dependent on the the geological wonders that abound in this corner of southern Utah.Dozens of people crammed into a July 9 meeting of the Kanab City Council in a display of intense oppositi
  
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• Letter: The United States is falling behind

  25-07-2019 15:00
  Politicians, don’t you realize that the rest of the world is progressing into the 21st century, while the United States is stagnating.The rest of the industrial countries have some form of universal health care. They have developed safety nets for their elderly and infirm, while we chip away at our safety net programs. Those countries also have longer life spans than we do.They are developing modern, high speed transportation and support facilities, while we have progressively deterioratin
  
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