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• Tribune Editorial: Utah Legislature should listen to the people. They are smarter.

  03-08-2019 23:00
  The theory behind having a representative democracy, instead of the direct kind where all major decisions are put to a vote of the whole people, is that a body of elected representatives will do a better job of governing.The assumption is that a small cross-section of the populace, chosen by democratic means, can study the issues, hear from advocates and experts, weigh the pros and cons, take the long view and make better choices than would be the result of any plebiscite.That was a fairly commo
  
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• Alan Ormsby: Utahns need relief from Rx greed

  03-08-2019 23:00
  For decades, Big Pharma has raised drug prices with impunity. Here in Utah, the average annual cost of brand name prescription drug treatment increased 58% between 2012 and 2017, while the annual income for Utahns increased only 8%. Prescription drugs don’t work if patients can’t afford them.That’s why the Senate needs to pass the Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act when it returns from August recess. It’s time. We urge Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney to back this vita
  
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• Two years later, tight end Joe Tukuafu is finally ready to make an impact at BYU

  03-08-2019 22:52
  Provo • Temperatures were in the high 90s Friday afternoon as the BYU Cougars practiced for the first time in shoulder pads, but one of the newest, yet oldest, members of the team wasn’t complaining one bit.Anything beats standing on hot pavement in the Utah summer sun, holding up road construction traffic control signs as unhappy motorists whiz by.That’s what tight end Joe Tukuafu did earlier this year, while waiting to see if he would be re-admitted back into BYU. The news cam
  
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• Ute staff’s family ties: Freddie Whittingham’s players develop, as his career evolves

  03-08-2019 21:24
  Freddie Whittingham’s boss interrupted the question in its developing stage, as someone started to suggest the assistant coach was doing good work with Utah’s young tight ends.“Don't give Freddie too much credit,” Kyle Whittingham said.That's all part of the brotherly dynamic of the Ute football staff, a collaboration now in its eighth year overall and a fourth season of Freddie Whittingham's coaching on the field. The younger brother understands.“You spend a lifeti
  
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• Man accused of burglarizing Provo home, camping in backyard

  03-08-2019 20:42
  Provo, Utah • Provo police arrested a 37-year-old homeless man after residents reported returning home to find their house had been burglarized and that a man was camping in the backyard.Police said Harley Hess was arrested Thursday on suspicion of burglary of a dwelling and other crimes.Hess remained jailed Saturday and online court records don't list a defense attorney for Hess who could comment on the allegations.According to police, the residents of the house found four windows broken a
  
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• Moscow police use force to end election protest, arrest 600

  03-08-2019 19:44
  Moscow • Police cracked down hard on an unsanctioned demonstration in Moscow for a second weekend in a row, detaining about 600 people protesting the exclusion of some independent and opposition candidates from September city council elections.The issue taps growing dissatisfaction with a political environment dominated by the Kremlin-aligned United Russia party, in which dissenting voices are marginalized, ignored or repressed.An arrest-monitoring group, OVD-Info, said 685 people were deta
  
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• Dana Milbank: ‘Moscow Mitch’ McConnell’s new posture toward Russia

  03-08-2019 19:37
  "Moscow Mitch" was red hot.Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, on the Senate floor Monday, denounced critics (including me) who say his recent blocking of efforts to fortify defenses against another Russian attack on U.S. elections are aiding and abetting Vladimir Putin."For decades, I have used my Senate seat to stand up to Russia," the Kentucky Republican protested.Unfortunately for McConnell, two days later came a reminder that he has taken a rather different posture toward Russia of late. Indee
  
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• Gordon Monson: Tyler Huntley is on the edge of achieving something extraordinary for the Utes

  03-08-2019 19:36
  Spirits were soaring, and Tyler Huntley had no doubt. No burden of doubt. He was bursting with confidence, cocksure that the Utah offense, under his direction, was on its way to not just being adequate, no, no, no, no, it would be absolutely all-fired awesome. He was convinced of it.Asked to rate the upcoming Ute offense on a scale from zero-to-10, 10 being most explosive, zero being what everyone around here had come to expect from a Utah attack whose primary task had seemed in the ragged past
  
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• Michael Incze: Health care must be available without restriction

  03-08-2019 19:07
  Looking through the medical chart in the emergency department, it was clear before even seeing her that Ms. C would be admitted to the hospital today. Her blood sugar was four times the normal value, and her blood tests were starting to show signs of diabetic ketoacidosis, a dangerous condition that arises when the body does not have adequate insulin to usher carbohydrates into its cells.As I entered her room she looked up with a tired smile. I learned that she had lost her insurance two months
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - 3 Teams That Can Beat The USA In The World Cup

  03-08-2019 19:00 via sportspyder.com
  The FIBA Basketball World Cup is an often overlooked and forgotten basketball competition. For the past decade, the United States has been
  
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• See where and what all those new high-rises will be in Salt Lake City

  03-08-2019 18:10
  Downtown Salt Lake City is headed in a new direction — up.More than half a dozen new high-rises are now planned or underway in the urban core and several of them will take their place among the city’s tallest towers. Other projects will offer a new brand of luxury living high off the ground, with rooftop pools and sweeping views.“This city is in ascension economically, and that’s being manifested on the skyline,” said Dee Brewer, executive director of the Salt Lake
  
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• Idaho girl dies after she was impaled in head by steel bar

  03-08-2019 18:07
  A 9-year-old Idaho girl has died after falling out of a tree and getting impaled in the head by a steel bar, her family said Friday.Shaylyn Bergeson was playing in her backyard Monday near the city of Rexburg when she fell, Fremont County Sheriff Len Humphries said. Officers found the girl unconscious under a tree near the family's home after a piece of steel poking out of the ground impaled her. The girl was airlifted a hospital in Utah, where she underwent surgery.Shaylyn died Thursday evening
  
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• An underdog to get selected for Team USA just two weeks ago, Donovan Mitchell now looks like one of its best players

  03-08-2019 18:02
  Two weeks ago, Donovan Mitchell looked unlikely to make the Team USA roster for September’s FIBA World Cup.Mitchell ranked fourth or fifth among Team USA shooting guards in terms of experience, behind Houston’s James Harden and Eric Gordon, Washington’s Bradley Beal, and Portland’s C.J. McCollum. If the 22-year-old Jazzman was to make the 12-man squad, it needed to be on the back of his defensive efforts as a role player.“The thing that we’re looking for is de
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - An underdog to get selected for Team USA just two weeks ago, Donovan Mitchell now looks like one of its best players

  03-08-2019 17:58 via sportspyder.com
  Two weeks ago, Donovan Mitchell looked unlikely to make the Team USA roster for September’s FIBA World Cup.
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Ed Davis calls joining Utah Jazz his best opportunity to win a championship

  03-08-2019 17:09 via sportspyder.com
  Ed Davis has high confidence in the Utah Jazz's ability to help him achieve a life-long dream of winning an NBA championship. If you've been following The ...
  
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• Mia’s List: Ten overlooked figures in Utah sports

  03-08-2019 17:00
  In an op-ed piece published In The Salt Lake Tribune last August, Mia Vinding criticized The Tribune’s 2018 list of the 25 Most Influential People in Utah Sports. She cited the absence of athletes, particularly in Winter Olympic sports, and of women in important positions.The Tribune this year invited the Rowland Hall senior, a high school track and field athlete and competitive Nordic skier, to compile her own list of figures who deserve greater awareness for their influence in Utah and b
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - First look at Utah Jazz throwback “Purple Mountain” court

  03-08-2019 16:56 via sportspyder.com
  It’s finally happening.
  
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• Ed Davis calls joining Utah Jazz his best opportunity to win a championship

  03-08-2019 16:44
  Ed Davis has high confidence in the Utah Jazz’s ability to help him achieve a life-long dream of winning an NBA championship. If you’ve been following The J-Notes, or truly any Utah Jazz media coverage in general this summer, then you’ll probably have picked up on one very consistent and repetitive theme. The Jazz are […]
  Ed Davis calls joining Utah Jazz his best opportunity to win a championship - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion a
  
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• For taking a stand with her own team’s fans, Jazz owner Gail Miller is Most Influential in Utah sports in 2019

  03-08-2019 16:22
  Gail Miller is the kind of leader who speaks when something needs to be said.One of those moments came in March, when Miller took the microphone at center court prior to a Jazz game. She denounced a fan’s behavior that had triggered an exchange with then-Oklahoma City star Russell Westbrook on the sideline earlier that week.Saying she was “extremely disappointed” about the incident at Vivint Smart Home Arena, the Jazz owner began her three-minute speech by saying, “This s
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: The moderate health care message can prevail

  03-08-2019 15:21
  With the announcement that Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., has qualified for the September debate we now are guaranteed a critical mass of center-left candidates who, for example, advocate building on Obamacare rather than scraping it for a single-payer plan. In addition to Klobuchar, Beto O'Rourke, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former vice president Joe Biden favor a public option while Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., seems to want to split the difference by aiming for Medicare-for-all b
  
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• Former UTA manager says superiors unfairly reduced worker raises, while they pocketed big ones

  03-08-2019 15:15
  Mark Palmer, a former Utah Transit Authority supervisor, says his superiors there essentially acted like Robin Hood in reverse — taking from the poor to give to the rich — by ordering unfairly small raises for underlings while upper managers pocketed much larger ones.They ordered him not to tell his employees details that would suggest they were shortchanged, he said, adding that he complained to no avail. He has some documents to back his assertions.“My guys actually saved UTA
  
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• Amber Phillips: Will Hurd’s retirement is the most painful in a string of House GOP exits

  03-08-2019 15:06
  It's not a coincidence that the House's lone black Republican, Rep. Will Hurd, Texas, is retiring in the weeks after President Donald Trump significantly ramped up his racially divisive rhetoric.The Republican Party under Trump is becoming a party that is not welcoming to someone such as Hurd. He was one of four House Republicans who voted last month to condemn Trump's racist tweets that four minority lawmakers should "go back" home. That week, crowds at Trump's rally in North Carolina chanted "
  
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• Utah State student reported she was being bullied before her suicide — but staff didn’t respond, lawsuit alleges

  03-08-2019 15:00
  Editor’s note: This story discusses suicide. If you or people you know are at risk of self-harm, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides 24-hour support at 1-800-273-8255.A Utah State University student reported several times that she was being bullied by classmates over the color of her skin in the months before she died by suicide — but the professors and department chair she told never stepped in to help, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.The posthumous case focuses
  
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• New high-rises and midsize apartment complexes going up across downtown Salt Lake City

  03-08-2019 15:00
  Downtown Salt Lake City is headed in a new direction — up.More than half a dozen new high-rises are now planned or underway in the urban core and several of them will take their place among the city’s tallest towers. Other projects will offer a new brand of luxury living high off the ground, with rooftop pools and sweeping views.“This city is in ascension economically, and that’s being manifested on the skyline,” said Dee Brewer, executive director of the Salt Lake
  
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• Gary Leimback: We solve homelessness one person, or family, at a time

  03-08-2019 15:00
  The idea of seeking a “solution” to the homeless problem at the community level is meant to get people thinking about homelessness in a challenging way. If we could solve the homeless problem, what would it look like? On a grand scale?When a solution is sought at the community level, we are asking for something impossible, given the constant flow of homeless people in every city. But seeking a solution is to describe a set of ideals, some of which are achievable, some of which can on
  
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• Letter: Rep. Ben McAdams takes a stand against free speech

  03-08-2019 14:00
  Rep. Ben McAdams spoke recently at the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City. He responded to a question about his support of legislation condemning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement pressuring Israel for its human rights violations against Palestinians.McAdams condemned this nonviolent, pro-human rights movement and claimed that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.Israel most certainly is not a democracy for the non-Jewish population both in Israel (treated as second
  
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• Letter: How about ‘In the Constitution We Trust’?

  03-08-2019 14:00
  It’s amusing to see the self-serving lack of critical thinking when the topic of religious freedom is discussed. The July 28 Salt Lake Tribune article, “State has required schools to have ‘In God we Trust’ posted for 17 years” has several examples. In referring to the legislation that then-Gov. Mike Leavitt signed requiring schools to post “In God We Trust,” he’s quoted as saying, ”I thought it would be consistent with the thoughts of the cit
  
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• Letter: Debates should be on free TV channels

  03-08-2019 14:00
  Is the media interfering with our elections? The answer is, yes.I was unable to watch this week’s debates, as I had for the first set. I am trying to evaluate the candidates and, when I looked in The Tribune TV schedule for July 30 and 31, there was no mention of the debates.I discovered that an informed voter is dependent on paying to see the debate. CNN is not a free channel. I have basic cable, but it is not included. Those with only an antenna and no cable cannot watch either.Are only
  
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• Letter: Baltimore is a beautiful city

  03-08-2019 14:00
  President Trump has tweeted that Rep. Elijah Cummings’ district in Baltimore is “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place.”Our family moved from Baltimore to Salt Lake in 1991 after working and living there for 18 years. Baltimore is a vibrant and beautiful city with wonderful and hardworking people that celebrates its diversity, and we loved living there.It does have prob
  
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• Trump, Putin discuss need for new Russian ambassador because of Jon Huntsman’s expected departure, report says

  03-08-2019 06:49
  President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the need for a new U.S. ambassador to Russia during a short phone call regarding widespread wildfires in Siberia, CNN is reporting.CNN quotes two senior administration officials who said the two leaders talked about a new ambassador, but didn’t name names.Current ambassador Jon Huntsman is expected to leave his post and has been perhaps considering a return to Utah and the governor’s mansion, multiple sources told
  
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• Bicyclist sues Utah police officer who allegedly hit him with police cruiser

  03-08-2019 06:13
  A Utah man claims an officer purposely struck him with a police cruiser as retaliation for not listening to commands, but the officer said he never hit the man.Chad Scott Lockwood, 53, was riding his bicycle through an intersection July 28 when he alleges Unified Police Officer Christopher Schroeder came up behind him in his police cruiser and struck him with no warning.Lockwood has filed a lawsuit against the officer in Utah’s U.S. District Court, alleging excessive force and illegal dete
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz should be featured on Christmas Day instead of New Orleans Pelicans

  03-08-2019 04:59 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz won't appear in this season's slate of Christmas Day games even though they absolutely deserved to play in what would have been a perfect slo...
  
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• Utah Jazz should be featured on Christmas Day instead of New Orleans Pelicans

  03-08-2019 04:33
  The Utah Jazz won’t appear in this season’s slate of Christmas Day games even though they absolutely deserved to play in what would have been a perfect slot. Now that we’re in the month of August, we shouldn’t be far removed from the release of the full 2019-20 NBA schedule. That became even more evident […]
  Utah Jazz should be featured on Christmas Day instead of New Orleans Pelicans - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and Mor
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - NBA Power Rankings: Post-Free Agency Edition

  03-08-2019 03:08 via sportspyder.com
  This 2019-20 NBA season will be one for the ages. The 2019 offseason may have been one of the best in league’s history with eight 2019 All-Stars changing teams, making the league more balanced. Plus, they are at least two All-Star recovering from...
  
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• No charges filed against UPD officer with poor driving record who ran over, killed woman in parking lot

  03-08-2019 02:49
  A Unified Police officer with history of hitting large objects with her police cruiser won’t face criminal charges for running over and killing a woman who was lying down in a parking lot.Since Officer Megan Franklin was unaware 23-year-old Cindreia Europe was lying on the ground in a dark parking lot on the night of March 5 when she was investigating a report of a “man down,” Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill reasoned Franklin could not be held criminally responsible
  
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• Utah Supreme Court strikes down law banning same-sex couples from gestational agreements

  03-08-2019 02:19
  The Utah Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a portion of state law prohibiting same-sex couples from entering into a gestational agreements to have children is unconstitutional.In the ruling, Chief Justice Matthew Durrant said “same-sex couples must be afforded all of the benefits the State has linked to marriage and freely grants to opposite sex-couples.”According to FOX 13, the suit involved an unnamed same-sex couple from southern Utah and a heterosexual couple with whom a surrogac
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz news: Mike Conley returns to Memphis to face Grizzlies on Nov. 15

  03-08-2019 01:35 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley will make his much-anticipated return to Memphis to face the Grizzlies on November 15th, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reports. The Grizzlies sent their longtime point guard to Utah before the 2019 draft, where they...
  
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• Commentary: The self-centered religion shared by Marianne Williamson and Donald Trump

  03-08-2019 01:04
  On the surface, dark-horse Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson and President Donald Trump could not be more different. The president tweets insults, stokes crowds into a rage and rattles the sword. He uses the often-jingoistic language of muscular Christianity (“In America, we worship God, not government”) to evoke the vision of a middle America made “great again.” Meanwhile, Williamson, a self-help spiritualist (and onetime adviser to Oprah Winfrey), pr
  
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• In first public statement, D.C.’s new Catholic archbishop slams Trump for ‘diminishing our national life’

  03-08-2019 00:59
  Washington • The District of Columbia’s new Catholic leader — the country’s lone black archbishop — on Thursday issued his first public statement since his installation, lambasting President Donald Trump’s recent tweets about members of Congress of color as “diminishing our national life.”Wilton Gregory, who came to Washington in May, is known through his long, prominent career for being nonconfrontational on hot-button issues in public, but working
  
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• Puerto Rico governor resigns as promised, names successor

  03-08-2019 00:58
  San Juan, Puerto Rico • Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said Friday that he was resigning as promised and swearing in veteran politician Pedro Pierluisi as his replacement, a move certain to throw the U.S. territory into a period of political chaos that will be fought out in court.In an emailed announcement from his office, Rosselló said Pierluisi did not need confirmation from both houses of the territory's legislature because he was named secretary of state, the next in li
  
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• Salt Lake Community College opens Dream Center for immigrant students

  03-08-2019 00:56
  West Valley City • When Humberto Sanchez tried to sign up for classes at Salt Lake Community College, he had no idea where to start.Being undocumented, he didn’t have a Social Security number. He wasn’t sure, either, if he should put his actual name down on the application or if that would give him away. He didn’t know what scholarships he could pursue. And he didn’t know who he could trust to ask for help — or who might report him and his family to immigration
  
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• Growing cyber threats could mean ‘no one knows what is true anymore,’ national security officials say in Utah summit

  03-08-2019 00:55
  Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election amounted to a “cyber 9/11” attack, the nation’s No. 2 intelligence official told a Utah audience Friday. And the leader of U.S. House Republicans added that such efforts to make it tough to discern truth are a growing national security threat.“One of the things that people talk about a lot is what a cyber 9/11 would look like. I think that election interference was a good example of a cyber 9/11 because I can’t think of a
  
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• Katie Matheson: We’re paying the tax, we should get the benefit

  03-08-2019 00:50
  Late last week, news broke that the Trump administration will not be approving Utah’s pending Medicaid waiver. This news is kind of confusing, so let me sum it up as briefly as possible.For advocates of full Medicaid expansion, (i.e. the majority of Utahns who voted for Proposition 3 last year), this is good news! I know that praising anything the Trump administration has done on health care is a difficult concept for many — myself included — to comprehend. And in actuality, th
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Some Pig

  03-08-2019 00:38
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/08/01/bagley-cartoon-telling/#gallery-carousel-4773190" target=_blank><u>Telling Tales</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/07/31/bagley-cartoon-medicaid/"><u>Medicaid Contractions</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bag
  
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• Bojan Bogdanovic shot 49.5% from the corner last season and has improved his overall 3P% from 39.1 to 42.5 over the last three years. #TimeToLearn | @WGUpic.twitter.com/hQdV7YgDvI

  03-08-2019 00:07 via twitter.com
  Bojan Bogdanovic shot 49.5% from the corner last season and has improved his overall 3P% from 39.1 to 42.5 over the last three years.#TimeToLearn | @WGUpic.twitter.com/hQdV7YgDvI
  
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