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• Another Utahn catches West Nile virus, which is spreading

  29-08-2019 23:58
  A third person has been infected with the West Nile virus in Grand County, and the virus has been been found in mosquitoes in Utah County — although there have been no reports of human cases there.The infected person in Grand County — whose identity was not revealed — has not been hospitalized and does not appear to have the more serious neuroinvasive form of the virus, which is potentially fatal, according to the Southeast Utah Health DepartmentSo far in 2019, human cases have
  
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• Leader of murky group attacking West Jordan mayor steps forward, says no need to register PAC

  29-08-2019 23:46
  The murky group behind a nasty flyer that attacked West Jordan Mayor Jim Riding — which he blames for his second-place finish in this month’s primary election — is emerging a bit more from the shadows.John Calveri, a five-year resident of Utah’s fourth-largest city, called The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday to say he is the leader of an anonymous group that calls itself the “West Jordan Citizens Alliance.” But he is hesitant to reveal others who are involved.&l
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Rob Bishop Chews Things Over

  29-08-2019 23:29
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Aug. 30, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/08/28/bagley-cartoon-midas/" target=_blank><u>Midas, but the Opposite</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/08/28/bagley-cartoon-welcome/"><u>Welcome Mat Mitch</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/08/23/bagley
  
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• More Salt Lake County move-ins now come from Asia and Latin America than many nearby counties

  29-08-2019 22:58
  More people now move to Salt Lake County from Asia each year than from nearby Weber County, new U.S. Census Bureau estimates show.That’s not all. More move here from South America than Utah’s Cache or Washington counties. And more come from Central America than adjacent Tooele or Summit counties.That shows the county’s “universities and jobs are a magnet not only for the state and nation, but the world,” said Pam Perlich, senior demographer at the University of Utah
  
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• Gail Collins: Is Trump, um, slipping even more?

  29-08-2019 22:44
  My favorite moment in Donald Trump’s trip to France came when our president was doing a little riff about North Korea and Kim Jong Un. Not only had he come to know Kim well, Trump told reporters, “the first lady has gotten to know Kim Jong Un, and I think she’d agree with me, he is a man with a country that has tremendous potential.”Melania Trump has never met Kim Jong Un. Paging the cleanup crew.“President Trump confides in his wife on many issues including the det
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Why Emmanuel Mudiay, Utah Jazz are a match made in heaven

  29-08-2019 22:15 via sportspyder.com
  With the Utah Jazz adding five players from other NBA teams this offseason, perhaps the Emmanuel Mudiay signing has been overshadowed. Nevertheless, it cou...
  
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• The Originals #MountainTime : https://on.nba.com/2zxZNwh pic.twitter.com/zdokNdkto7

  29-08-2019 22:13 via twitter.com
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• Why Emmanuel Mudiay, Utah Jazz are a match made in heaven

  29-08-2019 22:02
  With the Utah Jazz adding five players from other NBA teams this offseason, perhaps the Emmanuel Mudiay signing has been overshadowed. Nevertheless, it could turn out to be as intriguing as any. Through no fault of his own, Emmanuel Mudiay‘s career hasn’t lived up to his draft stock thus far. Coming into the NBA, Mudiay […]
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• Dana Milbank: Why can’t we use nuclear weapons against hurricanes?

  29-08-2019 22:00
  Washington • Have you heard the one about the lawbreaker who got pardoned by President Trump?It's so funny it's criminal.As The Washington Post’s Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey report, Trump has told his subordinates to seize private land and disregard environmental rules as they build a border wall, offering to pardon them for breaking the law. The White House response? Trump is joking.Hahahahahahaha. My sides are totally splitting.That was almost as funny as the time when — stop
  
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• Johnny Depp walks in southern Utah’s red rocks for a fragrance ad

  29-08-2019 21:50
  What is movie star Johnny Depp doing playing guitar amid the red rocks of southern Utah? Selling a men’s fragrance.The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star is featured in a 60-second spot for Dior Sauvage, released Thursday. It was recently shot in Utah’s portion of the Mojave Desert, in the state’s far southwest corner, a publicist for House of Dior said.The commercial bears the title “We Are the Land,” which is also Depp’s only line of narration aside
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - No RoCo: Why the Jazz Won’t Be Major Trade Players For Now

  29-08-2019 21:38 via sportspyder.com
  Under the current collective bargaining agreement, NBA teams cannot trade players who they sign as free agents until at least December 15 of the current NBA season. With the...
  
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• Justice Department: James Comey violated FBI policies in handling of memos

  29-08-2019 21:07
  Washington • Former FBI Director James Comey violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Donald Trump, the Justice Department’s inspector general said Thursday.The watchdog office said Comey broke bureau rules by giving one memo containing unclassified information to a friend with instructions to share the contents with a reporter. Comey also failed to notify the FBI after he was dismissed in May 2017 that he had retained some of the
  
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• Red All Over: Utes moved their football game vs. Idaho State to open the season against BYU

  29-08-2019 20:54
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here. In seven of the first eight years since joining the Pac-12, Utah opened the football season against a Big Sky Conference opponent. It would have happened again in 2019, but the first weekend of the year became the Utes’ only opportunity to meet BYU.The Utes originally scheduled Idaho State for the Aug. 29 opener, according to a contract The Salt Lake Tribune obtained via an open records request. That
  
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• What to watch for when Utah, BYU meet Thursday night at LaVell Edwards Stadium

  29-08-2019 20:53
  Utah and BYU tee it up on Thursday at 8:15 p.m. at LaVell Edwards Stadium. Here are a few things to watch for as the Cougars and Utes meet for the first time ever in a season opener:When BYU has the ball• Cougar running back Ty’Son Williams will bring a new dimension to the rivalry game as a graduate transfer from South Carolina. Utah also will be conscious of BYU quarterback Zach Wilson’s scrambling ability, after he hurt the Utes with his running in a 35-27 loss last November.
  
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• Report: U.S. Native American health agency at crossroads

  29-08-2019 20:52
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Emergency rooms shut down for months. Hospital policies put patients at risk for opioid abuse and overdoses. A longtime pediatrician was charged with sexually abusing children.The federal agency that administers health care for Native Americans has long been plagued with problems that have kept it from improving health care delivery to the more than 2.5 million people who depend on it. Money, staffing, infrastructure, health disparities and a general lack of accountabilit
  
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• Utah State opens its second Andersen Era on Friday night at Wake Forest, and the Demon Deacons will be a tough out

  29-08-2019 20:49
  Zero and zero — it’s positively filled with possibilities, isn’t it? The Utah State football team will kick off its 2019 season opener against Wake Forest, an ACC opponent, in Winston-Salem, N.C., at 6 p.m. MT on Friday night. But up until that point, it’s all just questions without answers.Can USU possibly improve upon an 11-2 finish of a year ago that saw the team average 47.5 points and 497.4 yards per game? Can junior quarterback Jordan Love build on his outstanding c
  
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• Utah man facing multiple child sex abuse charges uses a razor to mutilate himself in jail

  29-08-2019 20:04
  A Grantsville man who is facing two dozen felony charges after he allegedly sexually abused several children — including an autistic boy — is back in the Tooele County jail after he “mutilated” himself with a razor blade.Mark A. Swan, 48, “self-mutilated” on Sunday with a razor that had been “secreted” into his jail cell, said Tooele County Sheriff's Lt. Ray Clinton. “He received treatment for his wounds at a local hospital and returned to th
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Hong Kong’s eerie parallels with Tiananmen Square

  29-08-2019 20:03
  Hong Kong • Across the street that was about to become a battlefield, forces massed on each side tensely adjusted their gas masks, nervously fiddled with their weapons.The riot police, with pistols at their hips, were ready with tear-gas grenade launchers and guns loaded with rubber bullets. Down the street, young pro-democracy protesters set up barriers to slow the police and stretched fishing line across the road to trip them.Both sides wore helmets and gas masks, and both clutched sticks
  
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• Satellite photos show burning Iran space center launch pad

  29-08-2019 19:58
  Dubai, United Arab Emirates • A rocket at an Iranian space center that was to conduct a satellite launch criticized by the U.S. apparently exploded on its launch pad Thursday, satellite images show, suggesting the Islamic Republic suffered its third failed launch this year alone.State media and officials did not immediately acknowledge the incident at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province.However, satellite images by Planet Labs Inc. showed a black plume of smoke rising a
  
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• Utah launches firearms safety video for schools, confronting ‘the reality that guns are part of our society’

  29-08-2019 19:47
  Utah officials unveiled a new firearm safety campaign for public schools Thursday, coincidentally a day after a Salt Lake City high school went on lockdown because a student brought a handgun into the building.In announcing Thursday’s launch of the L.E.T.S. Stay Safe video at the state Capitol, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes noted Wednesday’s incident at West High School — and praised students there for reporting the threat to school officials, one of the lessons the new vide
  
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• Utah National Guard salutes its first female general as she steps into retirement

  29-08-2019 19:38
  The Utah National Guard’s first female general will officially retire Sunday, but she received a send-off Thursday.Brig. Gen. Christine Burckle, of the Utah Air National Guard, received the Legion of Merit, the seventh highest award for the U.S. Air Force.The 53-year-old Burckle received the honor during a brief ceremony at Wright Air National Guard Base — the same place she earned her star in 2016 and took command of the 1,400 airmen in the Utah Air National Guard. Mostly, that cons
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Salt Lake City Council approves Inland Port incentive, United Nations conference in Salt Lake

  29-08-2019 18:52
  This week in news: the Salt Lake City Council approves a tax incentive for a developer to build on 3,000 acres inside the Utah Inland Port; the former Salt Lake City police officer who handcuffed nurse Alex Wubbels gets a job at the Weber County jail; and a United Nations conference descends on Utah’s capital.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Jessica Miller and Taylor Stevens, and columnist George Pyle join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stor
  
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• Alexandra Petri: I am a bedbug and would like to be kept out of this mess

  29-08-2019 18:31
  To Whom It May Concern and Bosses of Whom It May Concern,Please, I would like to be kept out of this mess.I know that, as a bedbug, this is not a phrase you would expect to hear vibrate forth through my rostrum, but hear me out.I am just trying to live my life. Instead, I have been thrust into a story I never asked to be part of. This is not my fight, and I don't know any of the people involved. Please, stop using me to insult people. I don't know these people. I don't know anything other than t
  
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• This Salt Lake City play was designed as one-on-one acting at point-blank range — inside 10 small rooms

  29-08-2019 18:30
  In the back of the Urban Arts Gallery at The Gateway, there are 10 small rooms — remnants of a closed Anthropologie — that weren’t being used for much. Until one of the founders of Sackerson theater saw them.Producer Dave Mortensen was on a tour to find a spot to stage a play the company was planning. “I walked into those rooms and I’m like, ‘Well, this is its own show.’”But what should that show be? The Sackerson team — four writers, three d
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run podcast: Tony Jones returns to address the criticism of Donovan Mitchell on Team USA, and to share his dubious parenting tactics

  29-08-2019 17:58 via sportspyder.com
  With Andy B. Larsen still on vacation, Eric Walden brings in former TribJazz-turned-Athletic reporter Tony Jones for hosting help this week.
  
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• Weekly Run podcast: Tony Jones returns to address the criticism of Donovan Mitchell on Team USA, and to share his dubious parenting tactics

  29-08-2019 17:54
  With Andy B. Larsen still on vacation, Eric Walden brings in former TribJazz-turned-Athletic reporter Tony Jones for hosting help this week.And, in true TJ fashion, the conversation goes off the rails pretty quickly, including such topics as pitting his daughters against one another, addressing the criticism of Donovan Mitchell’s play with Team USA, what Jazz fans should be excited about this season, and the absolute worst attempt at an embarrassing Andy story you’ve ever heard.At 7:
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: The Latter-day Saint behind ‘Debbie’s Law,’ ‘forgotten’ spouses and a strike against guns

  29-08-2019 17:06
  (Courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
  Sharon Eubank, center, director of Latter-day Saint Charities and first counselor in the church’s Relief Society general presidency, at the G20 Interfaith Forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 27, 2018. (Tracie Cayford Cudworth/)The church continues to nick the nicknames “LDS” and “Mormon” from its operations and entities.The latest to fall: LDS Charities and LDS Family Services.The church’s glob
  
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• Latter-day Saint President Russell Nelson recalls close call on plane and why he ‘remained calm’

  29-08-2019 16:54
  President Russell M. Nelson was on a small plane several years ago when an engine caught fire, sending the aircraft into a perilous plunge toward earth.During the frightening nosedive, Nelson said Wednesday, he was at peace.“Part of the tranquility I felt as death approached came from my knowledge of the gospel,” the leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints told thousands of Argentine members gathered at Tecnópolis Arena in Buenos Aires.“I was falling to
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Trump’s anti-journalism hit squad

  29-08-2019 16:50
  “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”So says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare's "Henry VI, Part 2." Though often regarded as a Renaissance-era lawyer joke, the line is actually a backhanded compliment to the legal profession. Dick, a follower of the rebel Jack Cade, knows that before their insurrection can succeed, they have to get rid of the defenders of law and order.We are seeing a disturbingly similar strategy unfold in American politics. Except that this time
  
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• Letter: We are talking about concentration camps

  29-08-2019 16:48
  The current administration has announced that it will begin holding migrants and their children indefinitely, in violation of long-standing precedent approved by the Supreme Court in the 1997 Reno v Flores agreement.This is not a new concept in America or around the world. We could even likely rebuild holding facilities on past sites and resurrect names like Topaz, Manzanar and Gila River. That is what we are talking about: concentration camps. Until now those camps were rightly regarded as crim
  
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• EPA to roll back regulations on methane, a potent greenhouse gas

  29-08-2019 16:47
  Washington • The Trump administration is set to announce Thursday that it intends to sharply curtail the regulation of methane emissions, a major contributor to climate change, according to an industry official with knowledge of the plan.The Environmental Protection Agency, in a proposed rule, will aim to eliminate federal requirements that oil and gas companies install technology to inspect for and fix methane leaks from wells, pipelines and storage facilities.The proposed rollback is part
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - All you need to know about the FIBA World Cup

  29-08-2019 16:44 via sportspyder.com
  Game times, odds, format, streaming, and more
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah’s sex education failure would be hilarious if it weren’t horrifying

  29-08-2019 16:36
  I have a friend who teaches sex education for junior high students and the questions she hears on a daily basis could make for a best-selling book.What is sex? Can I get pregnant if there’s sperm in a swimming pool? What does vagina mean? Can you get pregnant through underwear? Can I catch pubic lice on my head? Birth control prevents sexually transmitted diseases, right?One student gave her an entire handwritten list, two pages in all, with pretty much every inquiry under the sun.Some of
  
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• Utah sets new goals to cut water use, but critics say it goes too easy on Washington County

  29-08-2019 16:35
  Utah’s water conservation goals got a big makeover this week with the release of a revised plan for reducing municipal water use, identifying different targets for different parts of the state.Critics say the plan, out for public comment through Sept. 25 before final adoption by the Utah Division of Water Resources, goes too easy on the surging St. George metro area, where daily per-capita water use exceeds 300 gallons — a high number some officials say is deceiving.The plan looks fo
  
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• Sting, Utah Symphony to play benefit for Zion National Park’s centennial

  29-08-2019 16:31
  If you want to take a trip back in time, says Lyman Hafen, venturing into Zion Canyon — the heart of Zion National Park — will do it.“It’s really awesome to go up canyon,” said Hafen, executive director the Zion National Park Forever Project, the nonprofit that supports the federally maintained park in southwestern Utah. “You’re seeing vistas and experiences up canyon that might have been what like it was 100 years ago.”Zion National Park marks the
  
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• Utah getting its 47th liquor store Friday, this one in surging southern Salt Lake County

  29-08-2019 16:29
  A new 13,000-square-foot state liquor store in Herriman near 11800 South and the Mountain View Corridor will open Friday, helping to meet the growing demand for beer, wine and spirits in the surging southern part of Salt Lake County.Utah’s 47th state-run store — at 5278 W. Anthem Peak Lane — is in an area of significant growth with several residential and commercial developments planned or underway, said Cade Meier, deputy director of the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage C
  
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• Tom Cotton: We should buy Greenland

  29-08-2019 16:20
  After news leaked last week that President Trump had expressed interest in acquiring Greenland from Denmark, his critics predictably derided him as crazy. But once again, the president is crazy like a fox. The acquisition of Greenland would secure vital strategic interests for the United States, economically benefit both us and Greenlanders, and would be in keeping with American — and Danish — diplomatic traditions.Strategically positioned in the Arctic Circle, Greenland has long att
  
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• Boris Johnson’s surprise Brexit ploy: delay Parliament

  29-08-2019 16:10
  London • Normally, in times of national crisis, British leaders convene Parliament. But as the country confronts its biggest crisis in many decades, Prime Minister Boris Johnson seems intent on doing the opposite.On Wednesday, Johnson threw the Brexit debate into new turmoil by shortening the already dwindling time Parliament has left to try to prevent a potentially chaotic no-deal departure from the European Union. Opposition politicians denounced the move to limit the time for debate as u
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Five years ago, Obama’s tan suit choice was a source of controversy

  29-08-2019 15:30
  Happy Thursday!It’s been five years since President Barack Obama’s famous tan suit “scandal.” On Aug. 28, 2014, Obama held a press conference to discuss the Islamic State in Syria. But the takeaway for most viewers was the color of his suit, with one Republican congressman complaining that it showed a “lack of seriousness” from the president. [WaPo]Topping the news: The same former Salt Lake City police officer who handcuffed nursed Alex Wubbels has been hired
  
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• Letter: Why does Ivory want to appraise lands that are not for sale?

  29-08-2019 15:27
  Why is Ken Ivory interested in getting an appraisal for public lands in Utah? (“Ken Ivory is going to work for a consulting firm he recently secured thousands of state dollars to hire,” Tribune, Aug. 22)They are jointly owned and administered by 300 million American citizens, and those lands are not for sale for any amount of money.Kent Wilson, American ForkSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Are we ready for imported threats at inland port?

  29-08-2019 15:27
  The environmental concerns regarding the inland port noted in Susan Corth’s letter of Aug. 24, are serious and legitimate.An additional environmental concern not yet raised is this: According to Jack Hedge, former director of cargo and industrial real estate at the Port of Los Angeles, and newly named executive director of the Utah Inland Port, the metal shipping containers will arrive at Utah’s port from their country of origin, “most often,” unopened. This means a conta
  
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• Letter: To the GOP, ‘everyone’ doesn’t mean everyone

  29-08-2019 15:21
  To properly understand the headline in Friday’s paper (“Pence pitches trade pact: New U.S.-Mexico-Canada deal ‘a win’ for everyone, the vice president says”), one must understand GOP-ese.“Everyone” doesn’t mean “everyone.” It means “everyone who counts,” that is, the GOP’s big donors.The proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Donald Trump and Mike Pence want approved would hurt everyone else, by giving dru
  
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• Letter: John Curtis and his pipe dream about the rule of law

  29-08-2019 15:19
  The article in Saturday’s paper titled, “Rep. John Curtis says Utah shows how to protect both gay rights and religious liberty” raised hopes and dashed them quickly.He correctly outlined how behavior changes when the heart changes. He crafted emotional and caring statements about how everyone matters, such as, “that our North Star in this debate is the notion that the worth of every soul is great, that every person has intrinsic value and the right to be who they want to
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: My Facebook friends are not friends right now

  29-08-2019 15:16
  Dear Ann Cannon • What do you do when the list of Facebook people you want to kill becomes unmanageable? Is there a service that handles this sort of thing?— Harried in HerrimanDear Harried • Dude. It’s called your “delete button.” Good luck with that!Dear Ann Cannon • My newly adult daughter has just passed two years cancer free. My husband and I are so grateful and happy for her restored health, but sadly she’s really stuck in a place of defining he
  
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• [KSL] - They're back: Jazz bringing back purple mountain jerseys, court for 2019-20 season | KSL.com

  29-08-2019 15:15 via sportspyder.com
  The same jersey that John Stockton wore when he The Shot is returning.
  
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• Court records give new details about the former student-athlete’s case that led to University of Utah detective’s firing

  29-08-2019 15:15
  While University of Utah police Detective Kayla Dallof was fired for not immediately arresting a male student, the school has refused to release the police report describing her response — besides one sentence on an otherwise redacted page — or discuss any details of it.But court records show that the student, who she investigated for threatening a 17-year-old girl and allegedly locking her in his dorm room, was later arrested and charged with two misdemeanor counts. The case is stil
  
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• Letter: Nothing is more important than the burning rainforest

  29-08-2019 15:14
  The burning Amazon rainforest is equivalent to a mass shooting of the entire Earth. It is bigger than any social, political or economic issue. It is bigger than any genocide. It is a shot straight into the very lungs of our planet. It is the impending inability to sustain life.Brazil is intentionally burning the Amazon for profit. There is profit to be made in soybean sales, now that tariffs on China make it too costly to buy from the U.S. There is profit to be made on beef sales as well.Brazil&
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - What should be expected from Jazz point guard Mike Conley in fantasy basketball?

  29-08-2019 14:58 via sportspyder.com
  Over the 2010s, there have not been many players who have defined what it means to be underrated as well as Mike Conley of the Utah Jazz. While the star point guard was a model of consistency and key piece to the “Grit-and-Grind” Grizzlies, the...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: New throwback jerseys aren’t just super cool, they’re a sign of things to come

  29-08-2019 14:13 via sportspyder.com
  The reveal of the throwback Utah Jazz jerseys and court are more than a cool marketing ploy, they're a sign of heightened expectations for the 2019-20 Jazz...
  
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