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• Ute women’s basketball star Daneesha Provo will have a sixth college year

  20-08-2019 23:35
  Utah women's basketball player Daneesha Provo has received a sixth year of eligibility from the NCAA, enabling her to play for the Utes in 2019-20 after her college career apparently had ended with a knee injury in January.Provo played for Clemson in the 2014-15 season, so her standard five-year clock expired in 2019, counting the year she sat out after transferring. A combination of having withdrawn from Clemson for personal reasons in January of her freshman year and being injured in Utah&rsqu
  
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• Trump steadily fulfills goals on religious right wish list

  20-08-2019 23:25
  New York • When Donald Trump assumed the presidency, conservative religious leaders drew up “wish lists’ of steps they hoped he’d take to oppose abortion and rein in the LGBTQ-rights movement. With a flurry of recent actions, Trump’s administration is now winning their praise for aggressively fulfilling many of their goals.Mat Staver, president of the legal advocacy organization Liberty Counsel, said Trump has fulfilled about 90% of the goals on a list that Staver an
  
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• Despite the loss to LAFC, RSL is in high spirits, owing to its late-summer surge

  20-08-2019 23:19
  Herriman • It would be easy for RSL to look back at Saturday’s 2-0 loss to league-leading LAFC and view it as a squandered opportunity, considering the home side went a man up for a time and had a few chances to put some pressure on.And while there was, indeed, a little bit of lingering woulda, coulda, shoulda at Tuesday’s practice at the Zions Banks Training Center on the RSL Academy campus, there was a lot more encouragement, a great deal more positivity that a team which has
  
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• Jana Riess: A year later, how successful is the war on the word ‘Mormon’?

  20-08-2019 23:06
  It has now been a full year since Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, began insisting that the world stop using the word “Mormon” to refer to the institution or its members.After his August announcement last year, the denomination began systematically purging the word “Mormon” from its messaging, a process that is still ongoing.It has renamed its famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir as “The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square,&rdq
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: A toxic nostalgia breeds mass derangement

  20-08-2019 22:10
  In 2014, Peter Pomerantsev, a British journalist born in the Soviet Union, published “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,” which drew on his years working in Russian television to describe a society in giddy, hysterical flight from enlightenment empiricism. He wrote of how state-controlled Russian broadcasting “became ever more twisted, the need to incite panic and fear ever more urgent; rationality was tuned out, and Kremlin-friendly cults and hatemongers were put on p
  
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• A Jazz legend swatting some NBA legends @markeaton7ft4 | #NBABlockWeekpic.twitter.com/fEQfpLqfRd

  20-08-2019 21:56 via twitter.com
  A Jazz legend swatting some NBA legends
  @markeaton7ft4 | #NBABlockWeekpic.twitter.com/fEQfpLqfRd
  
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• As wildfires get worse, insurers pull back from riskiest areas

  20-08-2019 21:51
  Washington • Insurers are quietly reducing their exposure to fire-prone regions across the Western United States, putting new pressure on homeowners and raising concerns that climate change could eventually make insurance unaffordable in some areas.Officials in California, Washington, Montana and Colorado are getting more complaints from people whose insurance companies have refused to renew their coverage. The complaints follow years of record-setting wildfires in both size and cost, a tre
  
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• Appeals court upholds firing of West Valley City police officer who killed Danielle Willard in 2012

  20-08-2019 21:47
  A federal appellate court rejected an appeal Tuesday by former West Valley City narcotics detective Shaun Cowley, who was fired after he shot and killed Danielle Willard during an investigation in 2012.The ruling by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said West Valley City gave Cowley due process when it terminated him and that Cowley couldn’t show evidence that he was retaliated against for exposing misconduct in the narcotics unit. The Denver-based court also denied Cowley’s req
  
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• Area 51 events in Nevada prompt emergency crowd planning

  20-08-2019 21:43
  Las Vegas • Fearing they could be overwhelmed with visitors, officials in the remote Nevada county that’s home to the Area 51 military base have drafted an emergency declaration and a plan to team resources with neighboring counties and the state ahead of events next month tied to the “Storm Area 51” internet drive.The elected board governing the county with about 5,200 residents conditionally approved two events Monday for tiny desert towns near the once top-secret U.S. A
  
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• Utah ranked worst for women’s equality — again — with a long way to go to catch No. 49

  20-08-2019 21:24
  Utah has been named the worst state for women’s equality, again. And it’s not even close to the state ranked 49th — its neighbor, Idaho.WalletHub released its “2019’s Best & Worst States for Women’s Equality” on Tuesday, evaluating states on workplace environment, education, health and political empowerment. There was more than a 50-point gap in the total scores between the top state — Maine — at 75.75, and Utah’s score of 25.10.Ida
  
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• Utah private prison company has bowed out of planned Evanston immigration detention center

  20-08-2019 21:09
  This story was produced by WyoFile.com, an independent nonprofit news organization. It is republished here.The for-profit Utah prison company that proposed building an immigration jail in Evanston, Wyo., has withdrawn its interest, but a Uinta County, Wyo., commissioner says a different prison company will keep the project alive.County officials were notified of the development in the contentious initiative weeks ago, but chose not to issue a drafted press release to notify the public, according
  
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• Alexandra Petri: The Emperor’s New Island, a tale of Trump buying Greenland

  20-08-2019 21:00
  Hans Christian Andersen and Greenland have something in common: They are both Danish national treasures! Amazingly, this story was discovered this week among the unpublished works of the former:The Emperor was sad.(He was not, in fact, an emperor, but his advisers were too craven and self-interested to remind him of this fact except on special occasions, because they knew it would upset him.)The Emperor had many beautiful things, but they no longer gladdened his heart. He had ordered many fine t
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Joe Ingles recalls how his hometown team once misspelled his name, offered him less than minimum wage

  20-08-2019 20:28 via sportspyder.com
  Joe Ingles has had a long road to his current seat as a starter for the Utah Jazz, recalling his humble beginnings hoping to play for his hometown Adelaide 36ers, but receiving quite the underwhelming and bordering on insulting offer: “There’s a few...
  
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• Utah awards scholarships to walk-on players in entertaining ways — and shares it with everyone

  20-08-2019 20:08
  Utah coach Kyle Whittingham looked surprised when the name of offensive lineman Kyle Lanterman's mother flashed on the phone as he addressed the team after a spring football practice session.Running back Mason Woodward’s wife disguised her face beneath a cap and sunglasses, blending into the row of athletic trainers standing in front of the players.Ken Niumatalolo pretended to have forgotten to mention something else when he appeared in a video with his Navy football team during preseason
  
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• [KSL] - Donovan Mitchell's offseason with USA basketball should help the Jazz | KSL.com

  20-08-2019 19:37 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell quickly won the respect of his Jazz teammates — he's doing the same with Team USA.
  
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• Dana Milbank: The U.S. must take Greenland by force

  20-08-2019 19:30
  Washington • In the Trump era, no moment of tranquility can be taken for granted.I went to the beach for what I thought would be a quiet August break. I returned to find President Trump plotting to annex Greenland.On Sunday, Trump confirmed that he would be interested in buying the territory from Denmark and that “we’ll talk to them” about it. “Essentially, it’s a large real estate deal,” Trump explained, reasoning that Denmark might be willing to part wi
  
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• Suspect in slaying of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck charged with kidnapping, sexually abusing another woman

  20-08-2019 19:12
  The man accused of killing MacKenzie Lueck, a 23-year-old University of Utah student, has been charged with four new felony counts of kidnapping and sexually abusing another woman in March 2018.This is the second set of new charges filed against 31-year-old Ayoola Ajayi since he was booked into jail in connection with Lueck’s alleged murder. Last week, prosecutors charged Ajayi with 19 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor after they found numerous pornographic photos of children on his
  
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• Gordon Monson: Who has the state’s best quarterback? It’s not Utah and it’s not BYU.

  20-08-2019 19:05
  It’s hard to believe now, but there was a time when nobody wanted Jordan Love, when he got love in name only. Not a single Division I team in the land recruited him — except for the one in Logan. No other talent evaluator from any other school thought he could play, at least not enough to actually offer him a scholarship.“I got overlooked,” Love says, “by all of the others.”The others were mistaken.Utah State was not.The others are sorry now.Utah State is not.
  
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• Judge tosses out Utah filmmaker’s lawsuit, which accused ‘Nightcrawler’ of stealing from LDS-themed story

  20-08-2019 19:03
  A federal judge has dismissed a Utah filmmaker’s lawsuit against several Hollywood production companies, which had accused them of stealing the idea for his movie.Richard Dutcher claimed the companies stole the idea for his 2007 drama “Falling” to make the 2014 drama “Nightcrawler.” But U.S. District Judge Dee Benson dismissed the claims, filed against Bold Films, Open Road Films, NBCUniversal Media and Universal Studios Home Entertainment. “[T]he court determ
  
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• Big grass fire shuts down I-80 near the airport

  20-08-2019 18:57
  A large grass fire near Salt Lake International Airport is restricting traffic on Interstate 80.Large grass fire: I-80 WN between 5600 W. and 4000 W. Several spot fires along the freeway. Visibility is reduced on I-80 pic.twitter.com/QAu5fLTqjX— Salt Lake City Fire Department (@slcfire) August 20, 2019The fire, between 4000 West and 5600 West, includes several spot fires beside the freeway, according to the Salt Lake City Fire Department. The blazes are pouring out black smoke, and the red
  
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• Paul Krugman: The world economy has a Germany problem

  20-08-2019 18:29
  You might think that recent events — market turmoil, weakening growth, declining manufacturing production — must be producing some soul-searching in the White House, particularly over Donald Trump’s view that “trade wars are good, and easy to win.” That is, you might think that if you haven’t paid any attention to Trump’s past behavior.What he’s actually doing, of course, is attributing the economy’s troubles to a vast conspiracy of people ou
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Joe Ingles jokes about dunking on Donovan Mitchell during Team USA-Australia exhibition

  20-08-2019 18:20 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles couldn’t help but clown on Donovan Mitchell, adding salt to the wound left by Rudy Gobert’s warning as the 2019 FIBA World Cup looms closer. The Aussie wing prompted he might just get his first dunk over another player...
  
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• [NBA] - Bragging rights on the line when Donovan Mitchell and Joe Ingles face off this week in Australia

  20-08-2019 18:18 via sportspyder.com
  They’re only exhibition games. But for Donovan Mitchell, there is a lot on the line in Team USA’s final tune-up games against the Aussie Boomers before the World Cup. The winner will have bragging
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Move over, Illuminati. The conspiracy against Trump’s economy is massive.

  20-08-2019 18:15
  When Barack Obama was president and the economic statistics were good, then-candidate Donald Trump said they were fake. When Trump became president and inherited the exact same stats, they suddenly became real.Now that they're turning south, they're apparently fake once more.Trump, aided by his economic brain trust of cranks and sycophants, believes any indicator showing the U.S. economy could be in trouble must be fabricated. It's all part of an anti-Trump conspiracy, he rants, according to rep
  
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• | “I’m looking forward to it,” Mitchell said, “and being able to have bragging rights throughout the entire season.”https://www.nba.com/jazz/news/whats-line-when-donovan-mitchell-and-joe-ingles-face-week-australia-bragging-ri

  20-08-2019 18:15 via twitter.com
  | “I’m looking forward to it,” Mitchell said, “and being able to have bragging rights throughout the entire season.”https://www.nba.com/jazz/news/whats-line-when-donovan-mitchell-and-joe-ingles-face-week-australia-bragging-rights-entire …
  
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• Charles Blow: Where went my empty nest?

  20-08-2019 18:00
  Parenting is rewarding, but it is also challenging. It is a full-time, rest-of-your life job.You always think — hope — that whatever difficulty you are facing with one period of a child’s life and development will simply be solved when he or she grows out of that phase. Soon, they’ll be potty trained, or be able to retrieve their own snacks, or walk home from school alone, or whatever.But, what one soon discovers is that one phase of difficulties is only replaced by the d
  
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• Earth’s future in being written in fast-melting Greenland

  20-08-2019 17:48
  Helheim Glacier, Greenland • This is where Earth’s refrigerator door is left open, where glaciers dwindle and seas begin to rise.New York University air and ocean scientist David Holland, who is tracking what's happening in Greenland from both above and below, calls it "the end of the planet." He is referring to geography more than the future. Yet in many ways this place is where the planet's warmer and watery future is being written.It is so warm here, just inside the Arctic Circle,
  
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• Letter: The big boy in the White House

  20-08-2019 16:47
  In an Aug. 7 letter to the editor, Jonna Ramey suggests white parents teach their teen and young adult sons not to kill people with guns. Good idea.However, I would suggest those parents begin even sooner to teach their boys that in life they won’t always get what they want, that they must frequently learn to live with disappointment and yet know this is not the end of the world, they can still move on.Girls of necessity learn this lesson early, but it seems too many boys do not.Just look
  
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• Letter: Utah public lands are a great risk

  20-08-2019 16:46
  I’m a Utah public lands enthusiast. I’ve enjoyed many adventures on Utah’s spectacular landscapes.Whatever your political leanings we all love our public lands—including hunters, hikers, rafters, four wheelers, ranchers, wilderness and wildlife advocates, etc. It’s the ultimate nonpartisan issue. Or should be. I’ve never heard anyone say, “I don’t like public lands.”But be sure of one thing, our public lands remain at great risk. The Trump ad
  
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• Letter: Trump jerking the country around for personal gain

  20-08-2019 16:45
  I do not pretend to be any kind of expert when it comes to economics. I actually use the services of a financial counselor to navigate through my retirement spending and budget.However if, as Donald Trump has stated on multiple occasions, China will pay for tariffs instead of American consumers or businesses, why is he delaying implementation until after the prime Christmas shopping season? Is this just another of his half-baked ideas or is there some actual merit?I'm thinking maybe I know just
  
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• Letter: A ‘well regulated militia’ for gun owners

  20-08-2019 16:45
  In addition to background checks, federal, state and local governments should use their taxing authority to control gun violence. This could be accomplished with taxes on weapons, and especially on ammunition. These taxes could be graduated, with the heaviest tax on ammunition used with military-style assault weapons.Taxes collected in this manner could be used to fund anti-crime measures. Legitimate gun owners could avoid these taxes by joining and purchasing their arms and ammunition through l
  
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• A Draper City Council candidate says a city official misstated the deadline to make a campaign filing

  20-08-2019 16:39
  He was booted from last week’s primary election for Draper City Council after officials said he was one minute late to make a campaign filing.Now, Hubert Huh is suing the city, saying the clock in their administrative office was more than two minutes fast, and the city recorder provided the wrong date in a notification of the campaign finance disclosure deadline.On July 19, city recorder Laura Oscarson sent an email to all City Council candidates, telling them to disregard a letter she had
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Will Donovan Mitchell have a Dwyane Wade-like Jump in Year 3?

  20-08-2019 16:07 via sportspyder.com
  Will Team USA Basketball have played a part?
  
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• Letter: Openness, diversity and nonsense

  20-08-2019 16:05
  This newspaper’s invitation to submit opinion pieces for potential publication reflects both an interest in openness and in diversity. It does not require that submissions be sensical, and it even publishes such.Two examples appeared in recent editions — one by Phil Lyman, a member of the Utah Legislature (Aug. 16), and the second by W.W. Clyde III, a corporate and civic leader (Aug. 18).In his eagerness to appear wronged, Lyman mistook the issue at hand. It was never about the cause
  
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• Letter: Is Trump racist or evil?

  20-08-2019 16:05
  For generations, any variation of “go back where they came from” was used to advance a racist/nationalist agenda. It was applied to the Irish, Poles, and Jews more than 150 years ago and it is now applied to Hispanics, indigenous Central and South Americans and African and Middle Eastern immigrants.There are only two reasons that a statesman or politician would use this phrase. One is that the speaker is a racist who believes that certain ethnic, religious or political groups are suc
  
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• Letter: Chris Stewart’s long hibernation on guns

  20-08-2019 16:04
  On March 21, 2013, I urged Rep. Chris Stewart to actively support common sense gun control measures that had been proposed by the Senate Judiciary Committee and Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif.Stewart's reply mentioned the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court's ruling, McDonald v. Chicago, affirming the right of citizens to own firearms. He inadvertently (or perhaps intentionally) overlooked the court's affirmation of "laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms."Six years have p
  
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• Letter: San Juan County spent $1 million opposing fairness for the Navajo

  20-08-2019 16:03
  Utah state Rep. Phil Lyman writes, "San Juan County didn’t create institutionalized discrimination of Native Americans” (Aug. 16).That may be. But San Juan County spent $1.1 million of taxpayer dollars aggressively defending a system that disenfranchised the Navajo and disproportionately favored white candidates.There have been three lawsuits against the county, each with the goal to allow the Navajo residents in San Juan County to meaningfully participate in government. About 52% of
  
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• Ross Douthat: A recession would give the center another chance to govern. But it won’t be pretty.

  20-08-2019 16:00
  This column is not in the business of forecasting recessions, based on inverted yield curves or any other form of augury. But when enough credentialed auguries suddenly think one might be possible, it seems prudent to speculate about the consequences if they turn out to be correct. So let’s imagine what might follow if, sometime this winter, our post-2008 economic expansion finally ends.First, the easy part: Donald Trump loses reelection. It will be ugly and flailing and desperate and &mda
  
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• Utah’s tax reform push likely won’t yield ‘20-year solution,’ legislative leader says

  20-08-2019 15:39
  Utah officials have held up their ongoing tax reform effort as a generational opportunity to revamp the state’s revenue structure so it can keep government coffers well-supplied for years to come.But as a legislative tax task force turns to potential solutions, one of its leaders is sounding a different note about the endeavor, which has already consumed a good deal of time and political capital.“I don’t think that whatever solution we come to now is going to be the 20-year sol
  
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• Salt Lake City International Airport releases time-lapse of ongoing construction

  20-08-2019 15:23
  Ever heard of National Aviation Day? It’s real. And Salt Lake City International Airport celebrated it Monday by releasing a time-lapse video of some of the ongoing construction of its new $3.6 billion replacement facility.“It’s to help educate the public and passengers about different aspects of the construction,” says airport spokeswoman Nancy Volmer.The airport hired Avalanche Productions to produce vignettes of the construction over time, which Volmer says eventually
  
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• Letter: More nuisances on the sidewalks?

  20-08-2019 15:21
  Amsterdam, known for bikes and bike lanes, now has electric bikes, motorcycles and electric scooters zipping past the bicycles.I read the GREENbikes in Salt Lake City will soon be electric powered. More nuisances on the sidewalks?Would it be too much to ask for all powered vehicles to have a high-visibility sticker on the handlebars that says, “For Street Use”?William Littig, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: The venomous catechism of Phil Lyman

  20-08-2019 15:19
  Thank you, Salt Lake Tribune, for printing the venomous catechism of Phil Lyman in the Aug. 16 issue, a recitation of the catalog of rationales he can think of for persecuting the Indigenous Peoples of the Four Corners Area, particularly Navajos, so he and his buddies can harvest “natural resources” from Sacred Lands.His county may not have invented discrimination against Native Americans, but it surely has approached perfecting it.Emulating his ideal in today’s White House, no
  
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• Letter: Skullduggery in West Jordan

  20-08-2019 15:18
  You would think that government leaders would have learned a lesson by now.One of the biggest of biggest “red flags” is the non-disclosure agreements. Any time you get involved in a contract that legally forces you to keep a secret, it is bound to give you headaches down the road when it is discovered that you are keeping secrets from those who elected you.Those who elected you are not stupid. If you try to tell them that you were not able to tell them about it due to legalities, you
  
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• Letter: Stewart made it easier for the mentally ill to get a gun

  20-08-2019 15:17
  In your Wednesday front page story, “Romney, Stewart and Curtis back ‘red flag’ laws,” Rep. Chris Stewart said: ”For two years, I have supported legislation that would have taken weapons out of the hands of those who are mentally incompetent.”Perhaps the report should have mentioned that on Feb. 2, 2017, Stewart did exactly the opposite by voting “yes” to a bill co-sponsored by Reps. Rob Bishop and Mia Love to remove all gun restrictions on people
  
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• Letter: Limits on rights are not ‘punishment’

  20-08-2019 15:17
  Larry Cox, in his Feb. 19 commentary about limits on firearms, shows a very odd notion of “punishment.”A punishment is something that works a hardship. It's not punishment to limit the number of cats you can own, or the number of broken cars in your driveway. Nobody is punished by a limit on the number of chickens you can raise in town, or on the height of a fence you can build, or on the types of vegetation you can plant in your yard, or on the time in the morning before you can run
  
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• Mark Smith, longest-serving sexton and ‘champion’ of the Salt Lake City municipal cemetery, dies at 55

  20-08-2019 15:00
  For 20 years, Mark Smith was a near-constant presence at the historic Salt Lake City Cemetery, where he served as its 31st and longest-serving sexton.He was often the first one in each day at the old caretaker’s house he’d renovated into an office. After drinking coffee on the porch and watching the morning sunlight filter through the trees, he’d get to work managing operations, budgets, staffing, customer service and more for the 120-acre cemetery tucked in the Avenues neighbo
  
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• Elizabeth Joy: We need a public health approach to firearm violence

  20-08-2019 15:00
  The deadly firearm events over the past month are a stain on America.Events such as this will not be prevented through legislation alone. It will take the collective will and efforts of many stakeholders, both public and private, to prevent future tragedies.The World Health Organization’s Violence Prevention Alliance describes a public health approach to addressing firearm violence and firearm deaths. This approach includes four steps:Define the problem through the systematic collection of
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz alumni: Iso Joe, Big Al grab top seed in BIG3 playoffs

  20-08-2019 14:10 via sportspyder.com
  Former Utah Jazz players Joe Johnson and Al Jefferson, along with the rest of their teammates on Triplets, have grabbed the top overall seed in the BIG3 pl...
  
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• Utah Jazz alumni: Iso Joe, Big Al grab top seed in BIG3 playoffs

  20-08-2019 14:00
  Former Utah Jazz players Joe Johnson and Al Jefferson, along with the rest of their teammates on Triplets, have grabbed the top overall seed in the BIG3 playoffs. If you haven’t been keeping up with the BIG3 this summer, you’ve really been missing out. That’s particularly true for Utah Jazz fans due to the fact […]
  Utah Jazz alumni: Iso Joe, Big Al grab top seed in BIG3 playoffs - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Robert Kirby: Why some water stunts no longer float my boat

  20-08-2019 14:00
  My family and friends went boating last weekend on Utah Lake. Great day for it. Winds were gentle, sun was warm, and nobody got hurt badly enough to warrant calling an ambulance or hiding a body.It was the first time I’ve been out on the water in a couple of years. It’s also the first time I stayed in the boat the entire time. I was content just to watch my grandkids have fun.My family came late to the water. Being in the military wasn’t conducive to being boat owners. Most of
  
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