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• Leonard Pitts: The ‘peculiar institution’ is no artifact of the dead past

  18-08-2019 23:00
  Perhaps you’ve heard of white fragility.The term was popularized by sociologist Robin DiAngelo in her 2018 book of the same name that seeks to explain why white people often find it so hard to discuss race, why the subject frequently makes them angry and defensive. Well, a textbook example of that fragility recently roiled social media.We're indebted to Saira Rao, a former candidate for Congress from Colorado. She tweeted a screenshot of an online review from a tourist who was "extremely d
  
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• Mother hopes Utah police find killer in child’s 1995 murder

  18-08-2019 22:39
  A Utah mother has spoken out days after the 24th anniversary of her child’s death saying she still hopes to look her daughter’s killer in the face one day, a report said.Rosie Tapia, 6, was raped and killed after being abducted from her family’s Salt Lake City apartment in August 1995, KUTV-TV reported Thursday.The girl's body was discovered hours later floating in a canal off the Jordan River, authorities said. The killer was never found.Her mother, Lewine Tapia struggled to t
  
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• Police keep low profile at huge, peaceful Hong Kong protest

  18-08-2019 22:22
  Hong Kong • Streets were turned into rivers of umbrellas on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people marched through heavy rain down a major road in the Chinese territory, where massive pro-democracy demonstrations have become a regular weekend activity. Organizers said at least 1.7 million participated, though the police estimate was far lower.The assembly was peaceful, with no reports of violence, making for a rare calm weekend in a protest movement that has been marked by violent clashe
  
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• Islamic State claims bombing at Afghanistan wedding that killed 63

  18-08-2019 22:09
  Kabul, Afghanistan • The suicide bomber stood in the middle of the dancing, clapping crowd as hundreds of Afghan children and adults celebrated a wedding in a joyous release from Kabul’s strain of war. Then, in a flash, he detonated his explosives-filled vest, killing dozens — and Afghanistan grieved again.The local Islamic State affiliate claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack in the capital this year, with 63 killed and 182 wounded, while outraged Afghans questioned j
  
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• Tom Butine: Does southern Utah need the Lake Powell Pipeline?

  18-08-2019 18:00
  The Lake Powell Pipeline (LPP) proposal arose from a belief that Utah has an unused share of the Colorado River and a fear of water shortages stifling Washington County’s rapid population growth. Although many leaders across the state say southern Utah needs the LPP, this statement is not based on facts. Decisions about the LPP should be driven by a strategic plan, based on verified facts rather than beliefs and fears, answering the following questions in sequence:• Can the Colorado R
  
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• How changing positions three times made Utah State running back Gerold Bright the player he is

  18-08-2019 18:00
  Logan • Gerold Bright is a football chameleon.Throughout his career, the Utah State fifth-year senior has played three different positions — and he’s shined at each one. It’s no wonder his 247Sports recruiting profile listed him as an “athlete.”“I just embraced every position change,” Bright told The Salt Lake Tribune. “I just like being a guy that can be productive in whatever I do for the team and I like to have the ball in my hands.”B
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell: 5 biggest performances from Utah Jazz star last season

  18-08-2019 17:59 via sportspyder.com
  After a stellar rookie campaign wherein he came very close to taking Rookie of the Year honors, much was expected from Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell entering his second year in the league. The 22-year-old certainly did not disappoint, as he came...
  
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• 3 takeaways from RSL’s loss to LAFC

  18-08-2019 17:37
  Here are three takeaways from Real Salt Lake’s 2-0 loss to Los Angeles FC.1. LAFC clinched a playoff spot, but RSL didn’t jeopardize its positionHere are the Major League Soccer standings above the playoff line after the slate of games on Saturday.
  Major League Soccer standings above the playoff line after Saturday's games.Notice anything? The second-year expansion team from Los Angeles, with a whopping 58 points, is guaranteed a spot in the playoffs — even with nine games left
  
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• John Seaman: Time to give the Geico gecko the old heave-ho

  18-08-2019 17:00
  Advertising is surely big business. So big that a whopping $311.6 billion was spent in the U.S. on advertising in 2015.Insurance companies led the way in expenditure, beating other sectors of the economy by over 8%. Collectively, insurance companies spent about $6 billion on advertising in 2015. As anyone who has watched an evening of television knows, auto insurance saturates the air waves. Geico, State Farm, Allstate and Progressive collectively spent $3.7 billion on advertising in 2015. Geico
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - NBA Trade Rumors: Jazz Could Target Robert Covington

  18-08-2019 16:57 via sportspyder.com
  In the loaded Western Conference, one move has the potential to make significant waves. For the Jazz, they're a team squarely in
  
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• Utah’s fatal courthouse shooting might never have happened if the drapes had arrived earlier

  18-08-2019 16:46
  When Siale Angilau arrived in April 2014 as the first defendant to stand trial at the sparkling new federal courthouse in downtown Salt Lake City, he was led into a state-of-the-art, metallic-and-glass building with security features designed to protect jurists and juries, the accused and the accusers, civil servants and citizens.One thing hadn’t arrived yet.“No drapes were available to cover the tables in the courtroom,” an FBI agent later wrote, “and the tables could no
  
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• This 1912 play once comforted children facing death. Now Utah students will perform a new adaptation.

  18-08-2019 16:00
  Ash is dying. Confined to a tiny bedroom, the girl can only look at the world she would like to visit.But through her window, she strikes up conversations with passing strangers — and her innocent optimism changes them each in some way.Olympus High School student Alexis Bitner was surprised to learn she had been cast as Ash for Plan-B Theatre Company’s Aug. 24-26 presentation of “The Post Office.”“I put my phone down and said, ‘Mom, Mom, I think I’m drea
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Dozens of murals are making Salt Lake City ‘a free outdoor museum’

  18-08-2019 15:27 via sportspyder.com
  For Jann Haworth, executing her latest mural depends on how fast she can lay down paint.
  
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• Dozens of murals are making Salt Lake City ‘a free outdoor museum’

  18-08-2019 15:00
  For Jann Haworth, executing her latest mural depends on how fast she can lay down paint.Haworth and her crew spent a recent Sunday morning rolling out magenta paint on asphalt, then adding a layer of tiny glass beads — “This is more like ground glass; it’s really terrifying,” she said — then pressing another roller over it to make sure the beads embed themselves in the paint.All this had to be done within two minutes, she added, before the paint dried in the August
  
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• Commentary: Endangered Species Act reforms improve Incentives for landowners to recover species

  18-08-2019 15:00
  This week, the departments of the Interior and Commerce issued significant reforms to their implementation of the Endangered Species Act. Although any change concerning this popular law generates understandable concern, many of these changes will benefit on-the-ground conservation by reducing conflict between regulators, property owners, and conservationists in favor of greater cooperation.The Endangered Species Act has an impressive record of preventing extinction; 99% of protected species are
  
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• Why Utah restaurants close — from food to finances to family

  18-08-2019 14:00
  She opened the dessert shop four years ago, offering customers a chance to design their own doughnuts and brownies with gooey glazes, candy sprinkles and dollops of fruit and whipped cream.Parents brought their children for afternoon treats and birthday parties. Couples came for date nights. And sweet-toothed folks of all stripes came for the gelato-sampling classes.Behind the sugar-coated exterior of Create Donuts, LaDonnia Jones was tasting the bitter realities of being an independent restaura
  
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• Utah’s fatal courthouse shooting may never have happened if the drapes arrived earlier

  18-08-2019 14:00
  When Siale Angilau arrived in April 2014 as the first defendant to stand trial at the sparkling new federal courthouse in downtown Salt Lake City, he was led into a state-of-the-art, metallic-and-glass building with security features designed to protect jurists and juries, the accused and the accusers, civil servants and citizens.One thing hadn’t arrived yet.“No drapes were available to cover the tables in the courtroom,” an FBI agent later wrote, “and the tables could no
  
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• Robert Kirby: Our bodies are temples? Well, why is mine — and yours — so busted up?

  18-08-2019 14:00
  For as long as I can remember, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has taught that our bodies are a magnificent gift to be cherished because they allow us to experience life and thus the great plan of salvation.Indeed, our bodies are akin to amazing tabernacles of flesh that supply us with everything we need to worship the creator who gave them to us.Hmm. I don’t know. If having a body is a prerequisite for appreciating the plan of salvation, we should probably call it the plan
  
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• Millions of opioid pills poured into southeast Utah’s sparsely populated coal country

  18-08-2019 14:00
  Boyd’s Family Pharmacy in Castle Dale shares a cinder block building with regional health officials. Until this year, it was the only pharmacy in Emery County, which is home to about 11,000 people in Utah’s coal country.But the small Main Street shop ordered 4.8 million oxycodone and hydrocodone pills to dispense from 2006 to 2012, according to data recently obtained by The Washington Post.That’s the fourth highest number of pills delivered to more than 1,000 pharmacies statewi
  
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• Letter: What’s happening to the Democratic Party?

  18-08-2019 14:00
  What’s happening to the Democratic Party? I’m 79 years old and was born and raised as a Democrat. My father, who was a product of “the greatest generation,” had to deal with the Great Depression in the 1930s without government welfare, because there wasn’t any at that time, fought and won a war in the 1940s, then came home and not only built the greatest economy the world has ever known, but helped rebuild the countries the U.S. defeated in that war.He was a lifelon
  
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• Letter: We ban infant beds but not assault weapons

  18-08-2019 14:00
  I found the national news’ juxtaposition earlier this week of the consumer warning regarding a defective infant bed and the president’s unwillingness to consider an assault weapon ban unsettling and hypocritical.Our government regularly issues warnings and recalls when products cause death or serious injury. Why can’t we expect a similar response when firearms, weapons of mass destruction, are used to kill dozens of people?We need better background checks to identify those who
  
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• Letter: The president’s rhetoric is not just toxic, it is deadly

  18-08-2019 14:00
  After 9/11, several of my coworkers with teenage boys talked about how their young sons were passionately expressing their desire to “sign up.” After Pearl Harbor, young men all over the country were clamoring to “sign up.” Our country had been “invaded.”In response to refugees seeking asylum at our border, President Trump has been characterizing this humanitarian crisis as caravans of rapists, murderers and gangs “invading” our country.His behavio
  
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• Letter: Huntsman for Senate, Cox for governor

  18-08-2019 14:00
  There seems to be some speculation hereabouts that Ambassador Jon Huntsman should “run for Utah Governor.”I have a better suggestion. The Republican Party would have a double winner if they would put him up for Mike Lee’s U.S. Senate seat and leave Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox to run for the “first seat.”Mr. Huntsman’s knowledge and experience would be better used in the Senate, just as Mr. Cox’s knowledge, experience and charisma would benefit us all best as go
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: My wife needs hearing aids, but she won’t go there

  18-08-2019 14:00
  Dear Ann Cannon • I think my wife needs hearing aids, but she won’t listen to me … and not because she can’t hear. What can I say or do to convince her to have her hearing tested?— Tired of Repeating MyselfDear Tired • WAIT? IS THIS MY HUSBAND WRITING THIS LETTER? (I’m shouting because people who went to a lot of concerts at the Salt Palace when they were in high school can’t hear anymore.) Anyway, keep telling your wife what I need to tell myself &
  
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• Utah’s Tony Finau tied for second as Justin Thomas sets course record with 61 in third round at Medinah

  18-08-2019 07:59
  Medinah, Ill. • Winless over the last 12 months, Justin Thomas knew he was playing well and he was due for a low round.Saturday at the BMW Championship was more than he might have imagined.Thomas smashed the course record at Medinah with an 11-under 61 that gave him a six-shot lead over Patrick Cantlay and Tony Finau.He opened with five birdies, and none was worthy of a highlight reel because of what followed. He hit a 5-wood from 260 yards on the par-5 10th that was so pure he twirled his
  
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• Salt Lake Bees hold off El Paso Chihuahuas 5-4

  18-08-2019 07:48
  The Salt Lake Bees used three home runs to defeat the El Paso Chihuahuas 5-4 in a PCL game Saturday night at Smith’s Ballpark.Justin Bour put the Bees on the board first with a two-run shot in the first inning, and Jose Rojas hit a solo shot in the second to give Salt Lake a 3-0 lead.El Paso used an RBI-triple in the third to cut the lead to 3-1.In the fifth, Salt Lake’s Taylor Ward hit a two-run homer to extend the lead 5-1.The Chihuahuas scored two runs in the sixth inning and got
  
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• RSL’s man advantage against LAFC counterintuitively leads to its loss

  18-08-2019 07:44
  Sandy • It’s a rare feat for a soccer player to get red-carded twice in the same game, but RSL’s Aaron Herrera managed his first career ejection on two separate occasions Saturday night at Rio Tinto Stadium.The first one, of course, didn’t stick.On the second go-round, however, it not only held up, it effectively decided the outcome in the 2-0 loss against Western Conference-leading LAFC.Beyond the simple impact of L.A. getting a penalty kick out of it, the card eliminated
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell, USA Basketball World Cup roster update

  18-08-2019 06:50 via sportspyder.com
  USA Basketball is zeroing in on its final World Cup roster as Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell and the rest of the crew head Down Under. Less than 24 hours ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell, USA Basketball World Cup roster update

  18-08-2019 06:26
  USA Basketball is zeroing in on its final World Cup roster as Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell and the rest of the crew head Down Under. Less than 24 hours after leading Team USA to a relatively easy win over Ricky Rubio, Marc Gasol and Spain, Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell and his cohorts in […]
  Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell, USA Basketball World Cup roster update - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• RSL has three-game winning streak snapped in 2-0 loss to LAFC

  18-08-2019 06:11
  Sandy • For a Real Salt Lake team that had only lost once in its previous 10 games, the opportunity presented Saturday night to earn a result against the league-leading Los Angeles FC was unmistakeable.From the moment of kickoff, RSL’s players were flying. They fought for loose balls. They made borderline miraculous saves and blocks to prevent goals. They kept Carlos Vela, Major League Soccer’s leading scorer and assister, at bay.And it only took two bad plays for RSL to fall 2-
  
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• Police arrest at least 13 at Portland right-wing rally, counterprotests

  18-08-2019 05:33
  Portland, Ore. • Police arrested at least 13 people and seized metal poles, bear spray and other weapons Saturday as hundreds of far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators swarmed downtown Portland, Ore.Authorities closed bridges and streets to try to keep the rival groups apart. They were largely successful.“This was a dynamic event with demonstrators frequently moving from one part of the city to another,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said at an evening news conference.A
  
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• Teenager dies at Strawberry Reservoir

  18-08-2019 05:26
  A 15-year-old boy died Saturday afternoon at Strawberry Reservoir, and officials believe he likely drowned, FOX 13 reports.Wasatch County Sheriff Jared Rigby told FOX 13 that divers found the teenager’s body in 15 feet of water. He theorized the boy had been underwater for about an hour. Officials first learned of the possible drowning around 3:30 p.m.Rigby did not release the boy’s name.Rigby told FOX 13 that after three recent deaths at the reservoir — two brothers were found
  
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• 3 takeaways from the Utah Royals FC win over Orlando Pride

  18-08-2019 05:24
  Here are three takeaways from the Utah Royals FC’s 2-0 road win over the Orlando Pride.1. Utah’s scoring has officially become a trendThere’s a saying: Once is chance, twice is coincidence, third time it’s a pattern.That can now be how his run for the Royals can be described. A strong start turned into an abysmal six-game winless streak, raising questions about whether the team could score and defend in the same game. But in the last three, the Royals are doing just that.
  
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• Morton wins Stage 5 of Tour of Utah with final sprint

  18-08-2019 04:47
  Australian Lachlan Morton of EF Education First outsprinted his breakaway companion at the line to win Stage 5 of the Tour of Utah in a thrilling photo finish at Canyons Village at Park City Mountain. Morton, who won the 2016 Tour of Utah, scored his fourth career stage win in Utah in a time of 3 hours, 5 minutes and 54 seconds. Morton made his way into the 11-rider breakaway, which escaped early in the 85.1-mile stage. The steep slopes of Olympic Parkway at Utah Olympic Park are where Morton an
  
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• George F. Will: Amash’s independence shows voters they don’t have to settle for binary choice

  18-08-2019 04:00
  Grand Rapids, Mich. • It is difficult to discourage and impossible to manage Justin Amash because he, unusual among politicians, does not want much and wants nothing inordinately. He would like to win a sixth term as congressman from this culturally distinctive slice of the Midwest. He does not, however, want it enough to remain in today’s Republican Party, which he has left because that neighborhood has become blighted. Amash, 39, a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, also h
  
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• Utah Royals FC win third straight game with 2-0 shutout of Orlando Pride

  18-08-2019 03:51
  Christen Press and Amy Rodriguez will need a nickname for their pairing if they keep performing like this.Press and Rodriguez each scored a goal for the second straight game in the Utah Royals FC’s win over the Orlando Pride on Saturday. It was Utah’s third consecutive win overall and it completed a season sweep of the Pride.Press started the scoring for the Royals in the 60th minute. Lo’eau Labonta chipped a ball over the defense to Press, who took it out of the air and finish
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Jazz coach Quin Snyder tells Donovan Mitchell to ‘be a sponge’ around Gregg Popovich

  18-08-2019 03:45 via sportspyder.com
  Quin Snyder tells Donovan Mitchell to ‘just try to throw yourself completely into it.”
  
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• BYU golfer Kelton Hirsch moves into the Utah Open lead in Provo

  18-08-2019 03:30
  BYU golfer Kelton Hirsch is not eligible to claim the $20,000 first prize in the Siegfried & Jensen Utah Open and former PGA Tour player Dean Wilson doesn't need the money.That helps explain why each of them played so well in Saturday's second round at Riverside Country Club in Provo.Hirsch moved into the lead with a 7-under-par 65, good for a 12-under total and a two-stroke advantage over New Mexico pro Samuel Saunders and Blake Cannon, a former Colorado State golfer who has played PGA Tour
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Jazz coach Quin Snyder told Donovan Mitchell to “be a sponge” around Gregg Popovich

  18-08-2019 03:17 via sportspyder.com
  Snyder told Mitchell to “Just try to throw yourself completely into it.”
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz star Donovan Mitchell thinks Kyle Kuzma is a ‘defensive player now’

  18-08-2019 03:16 via sportspyder.com
  The Los Angeles Lakers’ stubborn insistence that Anthony Davis won’t play major minutes at center this season complicates matters for his teammates and coaching staff, especially in wake of a torn ACL that will rob DeMarcus Cousins of an opportunity...
  
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• Bob Rees and Clifton Jolley: Ten reasons Republicans should vote Democrat

  18-08-2019 02:00
  The reason for Republicans to vote Democrat in the next presidential election is that Donald Trump is the likeliest Republican nominee. And a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for the dissolution of the Republican Party.The two of us like to think of ourselves as progressives. But we have family who are Republicans (or, at least, distant acquaintances). So, we respect the fundamentals of a Republican capitalism: a self-reliant, debt-free republic protected by a military budget big enough to guard
  
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