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• Labor Day ties a record high temperature in Salt Lake City

  02-09-2019 23:13
  Salt Lake City tied a record temperature on Monday.The thermometer at Salt Lake City International Airport reached 98 degrees at 2:45 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. That matched a record high set in 1947.It was the second day in a row the city made new entries in the record books. The 100 degrees on Sunday beat the old record of 98 degrees set in 1995, the National Weather Service said.That was also just the second time Salt Lake City reached triple digits in the month of Septe
  
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• How a tax break to help poor communities became a bonanza for the rich

  02-09-2019 22:07
  New Orleans • President Donald Trump has portrayed U.S. cities as wastelands, ravaged by crime and homelessness, infested by rats.But the Trump administration’s signature plan to lift them — a multibillion-dollar tax break that is supposed to help low-income areas — has fueled a wave of developments financed by and built for the wealthiest Americans.Among the early beneficiaries of the tax incentive are billionaire financiers like Leon Cooperman and business magnates like
  
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• Man found dead at Zion National Park after medical emergency

  02-09-2019 22:00
  Zion National Park • Authorities say a man has died at Zion National Park in Utah after suffering a medical emergency.Park spokeswoman Alyssa Baltrus said Monday that the 59-year old California resident was canyoneering in Orderville Canyon when the incident occurred Saturday afternoon.He died as rescue crews were trying to reach him.The man's identity has not been released.Baltrus said she did not have more information on the man's cause of death.In April a 35-year old hiker from Salt Lake
  
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• Bret Stephens: World War II and the ingredients of slaughter

  02-09-2019 22:00
  World War II began 80 years ago this Sunday after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a “nonaggression” pact that was, in fact, a mutual aggression pact. Adolf Hitler invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. Russia’s invasion of Poland, no less murderous, followed two weeks later.On Nov. 3 of that year, Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister, gave Hitler a report of his trip to Poland. “Above all, my description of the Jewish problem gets [Hitler’s] full approval,&rd
  
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• Authorities recover 4 bodies near California dive-boat fire

  02-09-2019 21:53
  Oxnard, Calif. • The bodies of four people who died when a raging fire swept through a dive-boat off the Southern California coast were recovered Monday as authorities said more than two dozen others remained missing and feared dead.Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Kroll says the four bodies had injuries consistent with drowning.Searchers continued to look for more than two dozen other people who were aboard the vessel Conception, which burned while anchored off Santa Cruz Island."Right now th
  
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• Gun Range Fire is 100% contained, and it may not pose mudslide danger

  02-09-2019 21:49
  Residents near the Gun Range Fire may continue to see some smoke or ash blowing in the wind, but it has been 100% contained and the fire danger is over.The U.S. Forest Service has not determined if the burned area will create a mudslide threat, but the initial reports indicate that may not be a problem, according to the South Davis Metro Fire.The 320-acre fire, which was reported about 1 a.m. Friday and burned on the mountain on the east side of Bountiful and Centerville, destroyed three homes,
  
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• After four words about BYU, Kyle Whittingham turns the page to Northern Illinois

  02-09-2019 21:09
  Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham’s opening statement in his weekly news conference Monday included four words about his team’s 30-12 win over BYU.“The rivalry game's over,” Whittingham said. “Time to move on to the next opponent.”Whittingham took a similar approach on the Monday after Utah’s defeat of the Cougars last season, although that was mainly a case of the Utes preparing for the Pac-12 championship game vs. Washington four days later. His out
  
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• With summer enters the home stretch, Gov’t Mule brings a blend of classic rock and jam band chops to Red Butte show

  02-09-2019 20:54
  Labor Day means we’re unofficially in the final days of summer and in the homestretch of the Red Butte summer concert series, but the season is finishing with a flurry, with seven concerts in the next three weeks.First up is something of a throwback, with Gov’t Mule returning Wednesday night to the amphitheater they last visited in 2017.Mule is a band that has exhibited surprising staying power, with more than 25 years in the business, springing up in the early days of the ‘90s
  
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• Letter: This is what a free press is for

  02-09-2019 20:49
  For once, I’m on Robert Gehrke’s side.His well-written Aug. 24 column unmasking Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory’s shenanigans while in office was sadly disturbing as it laid bare the type of backstory that so often accompanies Utah politics.Having gained the public’s trust, Ivory seems now to have given yield to temptation, abandoned his elected post and gone off to enjoy the spoils of his insider privileges.As shameful as this story is, Gehrke’s narrative points to the c
  
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• Letter: LDS Church is wise to ban guns

  02-09-2019 20:49
  Following the wisdom of the Episcopal Church and others, I commend The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for disallowing firearms in their churches.Hopefully this will extend to seminary buildings at schools, and my granddaughters who are nonmembers can find safe haven there.William Littig, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Grand Old National Socialist Party

  02-09-2019 20:49
  Nationalism is “a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations.”Trumpism is, of course, a blatantly nationalist movement.Socialism is “any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.”In practical terms, in today’s worl
  
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• Letter: Artificial turf can coexist with grass and shrubs

  02-09-2019 20:49
  Recent letters to the Public Forum from Ted Wilson and two others recently spoke out against artificial turf and rock slabs in response to the complaint of a homeowner in the Salt Lake City area required to remove artificial turf.Wilson specifically noted that turf and rock slabs prevent ground water infiltration and are bad for bees and butterflies because there would be fewer plants and flowers.I am a retired engineer who did groundwater modeling (not a hydrologist) and delayed this response u
  
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• Letter: The Trump administration is a hazard to global health

  02-09-2019 20:48
  The Trump administration is a hazard to U.S. and global public health. This adds to the “Ten reasons Republicans should vote Democrat” in the Aug. 18 commentary by Bob Rees and Cliff Jolley, and others in subsequent letters from readers.Trump, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler and many Republican members of Congress are actively pursuing measures and fostering policies with potential for major injury to human health, particularly the health of children, pat
  
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• Officials say Bountiful wildfire is 100% contained

  02-09-2019 20:42
  A wildfire in northern Utah that destroyed three homes and damaged eight others is 100% contained as of Sunday evening.U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Kim Osborn said Monday the fire caused by an abandoned campfire is estimated to have burned about 321 acres.Officials on Saturday announced the lifting of evacuation orders for 240 homes in Bountiful. Evacuation orders for 160 homes in adjacent Centerville were lifted earlier.Osborn said authorities are still looking for two people who were last s
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Rudy Gobert complains of being ‘woke up’ early for drug test by FIBA

  02-09-2019 18:38 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz center says there is ‘no respect’ for player’s recovery.
  
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• Officials: Dozens feared dead in California dive-boat fire

  02-09-2019 18:29
  Los Angeles • As many as 33 people are feared dead, according to the Coast Guard, after a dive boat caught fire before dawn Monday off the Southern California coast.Five people were rescued and Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Kroll told The Associated Press the Coast Guard was searching for others who may have been able to escape the fire by jumping from the boat.He added, however, that 33 were feared dead. Two of the crew suffered minor injuries, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Mark Barney.Capt. Brian Mc
  
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• Yellowstone Park river to close area for exotic fish removal

  02-09-2019 18:20
  Jackson, Wyo. • Yellowstone National Park biologists have announced plans to release toxins into a river to remove exotic fish.The Jackson Hole News & Guide reported Friday that the poisons are expected to be discharged Monday into the upper Gibbon River drainage in northwest Wyoming.Park officials say the project targets rainbow trout and brook trout native to the Yellowstone River watershed, but not to the upper Gibbon ecosystem.The region is expected to remain closed until Sept. 13.P
  
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• Gun groups see opportunity in NRA turmoil

  02-09-2019 16:54
  Bob Mokos is a passionate gun owner who on the surface would seem like a card-carrying National Rifle Association member.The retired airline pilot has been shooting guns since he was a child. The Vietnam veteran got more serious about firearms as a civilian after one of his sisters was fatally shot during a mugging in Chicago. After the 9/11 terror attacks, he became qualified to carry a gun in the cockpit.But Mokos has grown so disillusioned with the NRA over the years that he has joined forces
  
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• Officials: Some deaths, 34 missing in California boat fire

  02-09-2019 16:47
  Los Angeles • Some people have died and rescuers were searching for 34 more Monday morning after a fire broke out aboard a dive boat off the Southern California Coast.Capt. Brian McGrath of the Ventura County Fire Department confirmed some deaths to The Daily Beast but said he could not give an exact number.Five crewmembers sleeping on the top deck of the 75-foot commercial scuba diving vessel were rescued, according to Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Kroll of the U.S. Coast Guard. But he said 34 passeng
  
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• Frank Bruni: Dogs will fix our broken democracy

  02-09-2019 16:30
  When I adopted my dog, Regan, six months ago, I made a few promises to myself. First, I would never skimp on her exercise. Second, I would never feed her from the table or allow groveling in its vicinity. Third, I would never get lazy and use her as column fodder.Two out of three ain’t bad.She’s 5-1/2 years old, about 48 pounds and mostly black, but with blazes of white in all the right places: her paws, her chest, the tip of her tail. “Border collie?” ask people who know
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: In Hong Kong, playing tennis with tear-gas grenades

  02-09-2019 15:00
  Hong Kong - President Donald Trump has called the pro-democracy protests here “riots,” and China has in effect denounced participants as terrorists.Yet even when chaos reigns during clashes with the police, protesters clean up litter from the battlefield. Medics stand by to assist those injured. Crowds part like the Red Sea to let ambulances through. Tennis players bring their rackets: When the police fire tear-gas grenades, they lob them back.Television footage may focus on angry yo
  
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• San Juan County spent $360K on high-priced, first-class-flying attorneys for Recapture Canyon right of way

  02-09-2019 14:00
  Blanding • Just east of Blanding, White Mesa drops into a sandstone canyon dotted with juniper trees, home to ancient cliff dwellings. It’s a peaceful place most of the time, but over the past 15 years Recapture Canyon has become a flashpoint in San Juan County, the site of a high-profile armed protest and multiple criminal charges.And, more recently, it has been a drain on county coffers.According to documents obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune, San Juan County taxpayers funded a high
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Pence’s visit to Merit Medical highlights the complexity of prickly policy problems and political fandom

  02-09-2019 14:00
  When Vice President Mike Pence rolled through town, the main stop on his list — aside from a campaign fundraiser — was his visit to Merit Medical, where he spoke in glowing terms about the homegrown medical device manufacturer.The vice president praised the company’s steady growth, its innovation, and its founder and CEO Fred Lampropoulos’ optimism and faith.“Merit Medical is a great company,” Pence said. “But Fred would be the first one to say Merit Med
  
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• Polygamy would be on par with a traffic ticket under pitch to Utah legislators

  02-09-2019 14:00
  Utah’s long dance with plural marriage is poised for another tango as a state senator seeks support to greatly reduce the penalties for polygamy while making it easier to pursue the worst polygamists.Sen. Deidre Henderson, R-Spanish Fork, plans to file a bill in the 2020 legislative session, which begins in January.She declined to discuss specifics, saying the text is still being negotiated. But she said the measure would encourage people in plural families to report frauds and abuse witho
  
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• Letter: Remember the ‘well regulated’ part of the Second Amendment

  02-09-2019 14:00
  In the military, I was trained and certified to safely and effectively operate weapons of war, including handguns, machine guns and 3,000-rounds-per-minute powered Gatling guns for use in combat.But I certainly was not allowed to take them home or employ them recreationally, or even access them unless authorized and issued by armory specialists under command directives.The compelling experience related by Lynn S. Higgins in his Aug. 23 letter to the Public Forum, “Handling weapons of war,&
  
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• Letter: LDS Church remains silent on real threats to health

  02-09-2019 14:00
  A new study confirms again that air pollution is as bad as smoking. Co-author Joel Kaufman from the University of Washington told NPR.com that “an increase of about 3 parts per billion [of ground level ozone] outside your home was equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for 29 years.”Given the recent clarification of substances banned by the Word of Wisdom by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one has to wonder why the church chooses to remain silent on the hea
  
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• Letter: Jews have no obligation to be ‘loyal’ to Trump

  02-09-2019 14:00
  Once again, President Donald Trump has shown callous disregard for some of the things that actually make America great: our diversity of thought, freedom of religion and separation of church and state.His statement that any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat is either ignorant or disloyal was stunning and should be deeply offensive to all Americans, not just Jews. Disloyal to whom? To President Trump? To the Republican Party? To Israel? I never took a loyalty oath to any of them.I am proudly
  
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• Letter: It takes a village to care for someone

  02-09-2019 14:00
  After reading the Tribune story, “Utah care facility employee charged with abusing patient,” I was physically sick.How did this “monster” get away with abusing this patient for two months? If the patient does not have family, why doesn’t the state have a legal guardian assigned to him? Vulnerable individuals such as this man deserve to have someone looking out for them and their best interests. This man suffered terribly, all at the hands of someone who was supposed
  
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• Letter: Deal with the scourge of the homeless

  02-09-2019 14:00
  When will we get a mayor in Salt Lake City who is willing to confront and deal with our homeless problem? The current mayor has failed this city by letting them run amok, defiling and contaminating any area they reside in.The amount of empathy you feel for them is probably in direct proportion to your proximity to them. In my area, they seem to rule the streets. I think it’s time we take this city back from them, aggressively keeping them on the move, maybe have roundups and a bounty on th
  
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• Teach your kids, LDS Church President Russell Nelson tells the largest crowd ever to hear him speak outside the U.S.

  02-09-2019 05:21
  Speaking to his largest gathering ever outside the United States, President Russell M. Nelson urged more than 37,000 Brazilians on Sunday to teach their children and help them achieve the “highest blessings” in Latter-day Saint temples.“Some of these children you have are some of the brightest children that the Lord has ever let come to planet Earth,” the 94-year-old head of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said in his final sermon of a five-nation Latin Am
  
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• USC quarterback J.T. Daniels out for season with knee injury

  02-09-2019 04:25
  Los Angeles • Southern California quarterback J.T. Daniels will miss the rest of the season after tearing a ligament and the meniscus in his right knee during the Trojans’ opener.Coach Clay Helton confirmed the severity of his sophomore starter’s injury Sunday night. USC (1-0) plans to start freshman quarterback Kedon Slovis against Stanford (1-0) at the Coliseum on Saturday.Daniels will redshirt this season, Helton said. With an estimated nine to 12 months of recovery from surg
  
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• Dorian strikes Bahamas with record fury as Category 5 storm

  02-09-2019 03:01
  McLean’s Town Cay, Bahamas • Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas as a catastrophic Category 5 storm Sunday, its record 185 mph winds ripping off roofs, overturning cars and tearing down power lines as hundreds hunkered down in schools, churches and shelters.Dorian slammed into Elbow Cay in Abaco island at 12:40 p.m., and then made a second landfall near Marsh Harbour at 2 p.m., after authorities made last-minute pleas for those in low-lying areas to evacuate."It's devastating
  
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• E.J. Dionne: Remembering the point of Labor Day

  02-09-2019 02:00
  Washington • It was known as the “Treaty of Detroit,” but it did not end a shooting war. In 1950, Walter Reuther, the legendary leader of the United Auto Workers union, and Charlie Wilson, the CEO of General Motors, agreed to a historic labor contract that bought the automaker five years of labor peace.After more than a decade of sometimes violent conflict and short-term contracts, Wilson wanted stability so he could expand his company. The result was a trend-setting deal that i
  
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• Family, friends pay tribute to former Utah first lady Norma Matheson

  02-09-2019 01:17
  At least 200 well-wishers gathered at This is the Place Heritage Park Sunday to honor the late Norma Matheson, long considered the matriarch of Utah’s Democratic Party and a beacon of political civility. She died on July 28 at age 89.For nearly three decades following the untimely death of her husband, Gov. Scott Matheson Sr., Norma Matheson served on the boards of numerous organizations dedicated to social justice and environmental protection.No speeches were given Sunday; instead family,
  
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• Feds’ top land manager remains the attorney for two Utah counties in a Grand-Staircase monument lawsuit

  02-09-2019 00:27
  The Bureau of Land Management’s recently named acting director, William Perry Pendley, remains the attorney of record for two Utah counties seeking to intervene in opposition to a lawsuit aimed at restoring the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, one of the two expansive monuments President Donald Trump reduced.Pendley, a Colorado attorney, is the former head of the nonprofit Mountain States Legal Foundation, which has a long history of challenging federal oversight of the West&rs
  
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