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• Escamilla, Mendenhall express support for micro-apartments spread across Salt Lake City

  24-08-2019 23:27
  The two candidates running for Salt Lake City mayor vowed Saturday to make affordable housing a priority if elected and expressed support for single-room occupancy units as one tool to alleviate rising rental rates.But they said the burden of those dorm-style units and of other affordable-housing solutions need to be shouldered across the city — not centralized only in westside communities.“It’s not going to be an easy task,” state Sen. Luz Escamilla said.Escamilla and he
  
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• Officer shoots, kills DUI suspect in West Valley City Hall

  24-08-2019 23:25
  An officer shot and killed a man Friday night inside the West Valley City Hall in the DUI processing area.An altercation occurred when the man, who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, was brought to a processing area, police spokesperson Roxeanne Vainuku said just after midnight Saturday at a news conference broadcast live by a KUTV photographer. An officer then fatally shot the man.Officer involved critical incident in West Valley city https://t.co/tzTZFKZrxY— runni&
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Two big things left and right can agree on

  24-08-2019 23:00
  The rivalry of left and right, Democrat and Republican, has its uses.The need to either build alliances with members of the other side or overcome their opposition at the polls, or on the floor of the Legislature, pushes us to refine and improve our ideas. The unexamined bill, as Socrates might have said, is not worth passing.But, too often these days, in Utah and in Washington, what could be a healthy friction that hones our ideas into sharper plans has become a blockade. Neither side wants to
  
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• George F. Will: Trade war shows reality of ‘America First’ in action

  24-08-2019 23:00
  Washington • In a trade war, as in a real one, people are wounded by friendly fire from their side. Consider some casualties in Donald Trump’s “easy to win” — his promise — trade war. Begin with the company whose green machines bear the name of the blacksmith who, in the 1830s in Grand Detour, Illinois, invented a self-scouring plow that could turn the Midwest’s heavy black topsoil.Is the John Deere corporation “tired of winning,” as Trump pro
  
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• ESPN’s Lee Corso predicts Utah vs. Alabama in the national championship game

  24-08-2019 22:43
  Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham accepted the endorsement of his team as a College Football Playoff finalist, after ESPN analyst Lee Corso showed his projected bracket Saturday on the first “GameDay” program of the 2019 season, staged in Orlando, Fla.Corso forecasted Utah as the No. 3 seed, upsetting No. 2 Clemson and then facing No. 1 Alabama in the championship game, Jan. 13 in New Orleans. That would be a rematch in the Superdome, the site of Utah’s 31-17 victory in the
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Former Ute Kyle Kuzma out of World Cup with ankle injury; Team USA roster set

  24-08-2019 22:15 via sportspyder.com
  Melbourne, Australia • USA Basketball said Saturday that Kyle Kuzma of the Los Angeles Lakers has a left ankle injury that will keep him from playing in the FIBA World Cup.
  
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• Former Ute Kyle Kuzma out of World Cup with ankle injury; Team USA roster set

  24-08-2019 21:53
  Melbourne, Australia • USA Basketball said Saturday that Kyle Kuzma of the Los Angeles Lakers has a left ankle injury that will keep him from playing in the FIBA World Cup.Kuzma's absence finalized the U.S. roster for the tournament, which starts Aug. 31 in China. The Americans had 13 players and needed to get down to 12 for the World Cup.Kuzma was initially ruled out of USA Basketball's 98-94 exhibition loss at Australia on Saturday with left ankle soreness.Kuzma told team officials Saturd
  
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• Brazil military mobilizes to fight Amazon fires, and restore ‘positive perception’

  24-08-2019 21:41
  Rio de Janeiro • Rocked by global outrage and threats of economic losses over its handling of fires raging in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil on Saturday began a hastily planned military operation to battle the blazes and generate a “positive perception” of the country.As of Saturday, at least four Brazilian states had formally requested military assistance to contain hundreds of fires, which have been burning for several weeks but plunged President Jair Bolsonaro’s administ
  
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• Gordon Monson: Salutations and goodbye to the Rockmonster

  24-08-2019 20:51
  I once almost killed Brad Rock.After a Jazz game on a dark winter night, after the crowd had departed, after his column had been written and his deadline met, he was traversing a street corner outside the Vivint Arena, firmly in a crosswalk, moving toward his parked car. I sped around a corner and nearly planted the badge on my SUV hood into his midsection.That would have made for one helluva headline: “Tribune columnist kills Deseret News columnist after Jazz game.”We laughed about
  
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• Bret Stephens: Among the red rocks, America the more perfect

  24-08-2019 20:01
  Sedona, Ariz. • As a government official in World War II, Hamilton Warren was outraged to learn that a black colleague made half as much as his white peers. So, after the war, the wealthy Harvard graduate and his wife, Barbara, pitched up a tent in a remote corner of northern Arizona. Working together with the Hopi people, they built a school open to every race, creed, orientation and nationality, and dedicated to values of environmental stewardship, physical labor and cultural understandin
  
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• Hunter Ronald Bortner: The price of medicines is a crime

  24-08-2019 20:00
  The greed of pharmaceutical companies and the cost of life-saving drugs in this country is truly is a crime, nothing less.Coming from a family with a long line of health problems, I can attest to the fact that the cost of life-saving medicine in this country is absurd. To the pharmaceutical companies that charge an outrageous amount of money for life-saving drugs, not only is it wrong, it is completely immoral.The price pharmaceutical companies charge for life-saving drugs reminds me of that old
  
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• Dixie State takes a final shot at a RMAC title, before moving to Division I

  24-08-2019 20:00
  Richard Williams, Dixie State University's president, understandably is looking forward to the St. George school's move into NCAA Division I athletics in 2020. DSU defensive back Alex Lilliard had to remind the president to not get too far ahead of himself.Lilliard and the Trailblazers' other seniors have one more season to play in the Division II Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, before the program becomes an FCS independent. So as Williams addressed the team and talked about the future, Lill
  
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• The rookies do the 50-yard dash pic.twitter.com/JQofIduUJD

  24-08-2019 19:46 via twitter.com
  The rookies do the 50-yard dash pic.twitter.com/JQofIduUJD
  
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• [NBC Sports] - NBCsports.com’s “50 best players in 5 years” recap: Players 50-26, including LeBron, Durant

  24-08-2019 19:06 via sportspyder.com
  The top five on this list: Paul George, Kevin Durant, D’Angelo Russell, Jaylen Brown, and Myles Turner.
  
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• Weber State now thinks of itself as a perennial playoff team in the FCS; no one’s arguing with the Wildcats

  24-08-2019 19:00
  Ogden • Entering his sixth season as Weber State’s football coach, Jay Hill is starting to sense what one of his old bosses experienced at Ohio State.Hill’s being able to relate to former Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer is a good illustration of how far the Wildcats have come since 2014, when they lost the first nine games of Hill’s head coaching career. Formerly a longtime assistant coach and support staff member at Utah, where he worked for Meyer and Kyle Whittingham, Hill ha
  
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• Hong Kong protesters, calling for direct elections, join hands across city

  24-08-2019 18:30
  Hong Kong • Hong Kong residents Friday night formed human chains across large parts of the city in a call for direct elections, a test of the continuing strength of the months-long protest movement and a display that recalled a major anti-Soviet demonstration 30 years ago.Participants fanned out across three routes over densely populated sections of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories. Organizers said on Saturday that more than 210,000 people had participated, covering a total
  
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• Handicapping the Pac-12: Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming season.

  24-08-2019 18:00
  MVPJustin Herbert, Oregon Herbert’s visit to Rice-Eccles Stadium last November will be remembered partly for Utah’s four sacks of him and Jaylon Johnson’s fourth-down pass deflection that saved the Utes’ victory.Yet even in defeat, Herbert did some remarkable things, completing 20 of 33 passes for 288 yards and three touchdowns against one of the Pac-12′s best secondaries. An overlooked element of that game was how Oregon center Jake Hanson missed the first half, du
  
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• Obi-Wan, Lizzie McGuire join new Disney Plus platform

  24-08-2019 17:51
  Anaheim, Calif. • Ewan McGregor is reprising his “Star Wars” role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a new series, one of the many splashy projects that Disney is banking on to make its new streaming platform competitive.The as-yet untitled Disney Plus show drew big cheers when it was announced Friday at the D23 Expo fan event, as did a "Lizzie McGuire" reboot with original star Hilary Duff playing a grown-up version of the title character.The audience of about 6,000 at a convention center ad
  
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• The secret is out about who was behind a nasty mailer in West Jordan’s mayoral race

  24-08-2019 17:11
  Exactly who was behind a nasty mailer attacking West Jordan Mayor Jim Riding was secret, even though election laws require disclosure. But now the secret, at least part of it, is out.The person responsible is West Jordan Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Aisza Wilde. The city recently cut funding for her chamber and canceled its City Hall lease in the wake of criticism from her group.She also is the daughter of former Salt Lake County Mayor Nancy Workman — who was charged, but acquitte
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Report: Dwight Howard gives back $2.6 million in buyout with Memphis; what he will make in L.A.?

  24-08-2019 17:08 via sportspyder.com
  Dwight Howard is still getting his money, the full $5.6 million he opted into this summer.
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Former NBA, ABA coach Tom Nissalke dies at 87

  24-08-2019 17:08 via sportspyder.com
  Tom Nissalke, who was the first coach of the Jazz in Utah, has died. He was 87.
  
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• High expectations give the Utes a lot to live up to in 2019, but the potential rewards are unprecedented

  24-08-2019 17:00
  The clip sounds quaint, five years later. “Two words,” Utah coach Kyle Whittingham says, addressing his team after an important victory. “Bowl eligible!”It's true. Merely winning a sixth game of the season was a breakthrough for the Utes in 2014, following two seasons of staying home from bowl games. The landscape looks different now. The baseline expectation for Utah is repeating as Pac-12 South champion, and that brings the Rose Bowl clearly into view.That’s the g
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Cavaliers’ owner Gilbert back home following stroke

  24-08-2019 16:29 via sportspyder.com
  Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has been home for nearly a week in Detroit as he continues to recover from a stroke.
  
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• San Juan County frustrations spill out in the open with ballot drive and allegations of racism

  24-08-2019 15:00
  Back-to-back town halls held on opposite ends of San Juan County last week highlighted the deep, raw divisions in a community still reeling from voting-rights lawsuits and a court-ordered special election resulting in San Juan’s first majority-Navajo commission.More than 110 people packed into the Monticello High School auditorium Wednesday night to air complaints and discuss an array of possible changes to the local government, including a proposal to divide the county and a ballot initia
  
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• Parents scrambling for last-minute child care after staffing shortage reduces Salt Lake district’s after-school programs

  24-08-2019 15:00
  Some Salt Lake City parents say they are scrambling for child care after learning barely three weeks before the school year began that a popular after-school program was understaffed and would not have room for their kids.“I really don’t know what I’m going to do,” said Ting Ting Pang, whose 7-year-old daughter previously attended Salt Lake City School District’s Afterschool program at Bonneville Elementary, where she is a first grader.The program allowed Pang and h
  
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• Book ‘stole’ Mormon historian’s work, but publisher offers a settlement to 'make it right’

  24-08-2019 15:00
  After more than a decade of digging out anecdotes about the Mormon past — drawing a line from an elder’s letter here, a paragraph from a Sunday school report there — historian Ardis E. Parshall has grown accustomed to seeing her original work pop up in unfamiliar places.It often appears without attribution or even a courtesy call.But when Parshall opened a copy of Kathryn Jenkins’ latest volume, “Did You Know ... 501 Fascinating Facts From Church History,” she
  
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• Ben McAdams: What the world will see in Utah on responding to climate change

  24-08-2019 15:00
  At the end of the month, Salt Lake City will host the 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference, an event that attracts over 300 nonprofit organizations, representing 80 countries with the goal of “building inclusive and sustainable cities.” As the former Salt Lake County mayor and current representative of Utah’s 4th Congressional District, I am proud to see our state host such an important and collaborative event.Addressing climate change is the greatest challenge of our t
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - 3 Jazz players facing the most pressure in the 2019-20 NBA season

  24-08-2019 14:13 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz fell short of their desired outcome last season. With then-sophomore rising star Donovan Mitchell, the Jazz were ousted in the first round of the 2019 NBA playoffs by the Houston Rockets in a gentleman’s sweep. This came one year after...
  
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• Letter: We must contain the environmental disaster of the inland port

  24-08-2019 14:00
  It was reported in local media that the inland port meeting held last week was shut down due to protesters. The verbal exchange that reportedly caused the termination involved a concerned citizen requesting chairs for those present.No one I saw was there to disrupt the meeting. No one appeared to be trying to make others feel unsafe, which was why the board moved the venue to a police precinct. If anything, the venue was intimidating for those wanting to participate and become better informed.Ma
  
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• Letter: The irony of a religious state where money talks

  24-08-2019 14:00
  A tragic irony: Dr. Brian Moench, president of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, has fallen victim to the adversary he has valiantly opposed — Wasatch Valley air pollution.I thank Dr. Moench for his service to our community. As a fellow “member of a sensitive group” — I suffer from cardiomyopathy — I sympathize with him and wish him well.A lamentable irony: The vast majority of Utah state legislators would never so much as consider smoking a cigarette, but
  
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• Letter: The great negotiator?

  24-08-2019 14:00
  President Trump’s negotiating skills are incredibly disappointing. When a kingdom says that your proposal to buy Greenland is absurd, you don’t complain that their response was nasty. That’s weak!A great negotiator counters with the possibility of buying Antarctica, or Russia, or maybe the moon. He’s the worst negotiator ... ever. Sad!William P. Johnson, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Gun control diatribe misses the point

  24-08-2019 14:00
  Larry Cox submitted a diatribe about gun control that really misses the point.He claims that controlling fire arms in a civilian society constitutes punishment of the innocent people. He does not seem to believe that we have a problem with all the mass killings we have been cursed with.Our society does have many problems, as he stated, but most of those problems are present in all human societies, and always have been. It is admirable to address them all, but they will not be resolved any time s
  
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• Letter: A state of taxation

  24-08-2019 14:00
  With all the recent proposed tax hikes, maybe we should change the spelling of the state from Utah to Utax.Molly Baird, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Gregg Popovich on USA loss: “You can learn as much or more from losing as winning”

  24-08-2019 13:58 via sportspyder.com
  “We scored 94 and that’s good enough, but we didn’t hold them the way we needed to defensively.”—Gregg Popovich
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Led in part by Jazzman Joe Ingles, Australia upsets Donovan Mitchell, Team USA for first-ever win over Americans

  24-08-2019 10:59 via sportspyder.com
  Melbourne, Australia • It was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of experience.
  
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• Led in part by Jazzman Joe Ingles, Australia upsets Donovan Mitchell, Team USA for first-ever win over Americans

  24-08-2019 10:55
  Melbourne, Australia • It was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of experience.Team USA hadn’t lost a competitive senior game since 2006, in the semis of the FIBA World Championship. Australia hadn’t ever defeated the US in a senior game, having lost 25 times in a row.But in front of 52,000 chanting and cheering fans in a packed Aussie-rules football stadium, the Boomers pulled off a stunning 98-94 upset of Team USA, making exactly clear how much more work this weakened version of the Am
  
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• [NBC Sports] - USA’s 78-game international win streak ends at hands of Australia, Patty Mills, 98-94

  24-08-2019 10:22 via sportspyder.com
  Gregg Popovich wanted his USA team to face some adversity. For them to be challenged and see how they’d respond. He got his wish on a Saturday afternoon in Australia and has to be disturbed by the …
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Joe Ingles and Patty Mills lead Australia to upset victory over team USA

  24-08-2019 10:16 via sportspyder.com
  Team USA got Jingled
  
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• [NBA] - Joe Ingles & the Boomers stun Team USA in historic win

  24-08-2019 09:51 via sportspyder.com
  Facing each other for the second time in the span of a week, the Australian National Team made history by winning their first-ever game against Team USA on Saturday, 98-94.Despite his previous
  
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• | “You keep building … we’ll enjoy it tonight but obviously, back to work tomorrow.” #JazzWorldCup »https://on.nba.com/2L6gtjJ 

  24-08-2019 09:30 via twitter.com
  | “You keep building … we’ll enjoy it tonight but obviously, back to work tomorrow.”#JazzWorldCup
  »https://on.nba.com/2L6gtjJ 
  
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• Police officer shoots, kills DUI suspect in West Valley City Hall

  24-08-2019 09:01
  West Valley City • An officer shot and killed a man Saturday night inside the West Valley City Hall in the DUI processing area, according to FOX 13.An altercation occurred when the man was brought to the DUI processing area, police spokesperson Roxeanne Vainuku said, and an officer fatally shot the man.Authorities first posted on the West Valley City Police Department twitter account that an incident occurred in the police department building, then sent another tweet correcting the location
  
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• MORE LIKE JAB-STEPPING UP WHAT TIME IS ITpic.twitter.com/GdhEiKTHU9

  24-08-2019 08:23 via twitter.com
  MORE LIKE JAB-STEPPING UP WHAT TIME IS ITpic.twitter.com/GdhEiKTHU9
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz notes: Tom Nissalke has passed away, throwback court leaked?

  24-08-2019 07:34 via sportspyder.com
  Tom Nissalke, the first ever coach of the Utah Jazz and a longtime fixture in the state, has passed away. Also -- another throwback court leak hits the net...
  
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• Utah Jazz notes: Tom Nissalke has passed away, throwback court leaked?

  24-08-2019 07:07
  Tom Nissalke, the first ever coach of the Utah Jazz and a longtime fixture in the state, has passed away. Also — another throwback court leak hits the net. The Utah Jazz lost an important member of their family this week; a foundational piece for the franchise and a person who was key in the […]
  Utah Jazz notes: Tom Nissalke has passed away, throwback court leaked? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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  24-08-2019 06:51 via twitter.com
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