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• BYU looks at USC and sees a benchmark for success, but the Cougars won’t be in awe of the Trojans on Saturday

  13-09-2019 23:06
  Provo • BYU offensive lineman Brady Christensen remembers watching USC when he was a kid during the Matt Leinart-Reggie Bush years.“They were the best in college football,” he said of the Trojans.Like Christensen, other BYU players have spoken of being in awe of the Trojans growing up. USC is one of those programs that, no matter the current record or recent season results, seems to be a benchmark of success.“They are a great team,” receiver Micah Simon said. “
  
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• Anna Thomas and Natalie Brush: School may start in August, but learning starts at birth

  13-09-2019 23:00
  As we watch so many Utah kids head back to school, we must remember that a child begins learning long before they ever set foot in a school classroom.Children are born learning, and by the time they turn 6 they’ve already undergone the most dramatic brain development of their lives. Positive interaction with consistent, nurturing adults maximizes growth at this important time.When we invest in programs that support the care and education of children, especially from birth through age 5, we
  
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• University of Wyoming marks 1969 ouster of black players for refusing to play vs. BYU

  13-09-2019 22:56
  Laramie, Wyo. • Fifty years after 14 black football players were kicked off the University of Wyoming football team for seeking to wear armbands to protest racism, eight of them returned to the Laramie campus to commemorate the anniversary as the school takes another step toward reconciliation.University officials planned to unveil a plaque at War Memorial Stadium commemorating the so-called Black 14 on Friday. The marker will join an alleyway mural in downtown Laramie that was dedicated la
  
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• Felicity Huffman gets 14 days behind bars in college scam

  13-09-2019 22:32
  Boston • “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman was sentenced Friday to 14 days in prison for paying $15,000 to rig her daughter’s SAT scores in the college admissions scandal that ensnared dozens of wealthy and well-connected parents.Huffman, 56, became the first of 34 parents to be sentenced in the case. She was also given a $30,000 fine, 250 hours of community service and a year of supervised release.Before sentencing, she tearfully described her daughter asking w
  
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• Airbnb hosts in Utah earned $37.3 million this summer

  13-09-2019 22:25
  Utahns offering their properties through the online lodging service Airbnb earned a total of nearly $37.3 million during the summer, the company reported Friday.The Beehive state drew some 360,900 Airbnb guest visits between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend, with properties in Salt Lake City, Moab, Park City, Hurricane and St. George among the most popular destinations, Airbnb said.Travelers booking Airbnb stays in Utah were most frequently from Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles,
  
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• The University of Utah received $3 million from foreign donors last year

  13-09-2019 22:08
  The University of Utah received more than $3 million last year from foreign investors — by far the most of any school in the state.As Utah’s flagship research institution, it isn’t unusual for the U. to consistently bring in more money from outside the country than its peers. But for the 2018-2019 school year, it raked in more in gifts than ever before.Most of the historic total came from Canada, according to an annual transparency report released Friday by the Utah System of H
  
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• Utah woman escapes attacker on Draper hiking trail

  13-09-2019 22:01
  Draper Police are searching for a man who attacked a female jogger on Thursday evening.According to a new release, a 26-year-old woman reported she was “grabbed from behind” while running on the Porter Rockwell Trail — which runs from Draper City Park to Minuteman Drive — shortly before 8:44 p.m. The man “attempted to remove the victim's clothing, but the victim used pepper spray to defend herself.”The man fled. The only description the woman provided was &ldq
  
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• Michael Patrick O’Brien: Catholics should celebrate, not ban, Harry Potter

  13-09-2019 22:00
  A recent news headline reported that a priest at a Catholic elementary in Nashville, Tennessee has banned J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books from the school library. This ban not only is bad literary judgment, but it also pointlessly attacks books full of wonderful Catholic and Christian themes and values.A Catholic criticizing the “magical” elements of the Harry Potter books is a bit like the proverbial pot calling the kettle black. Catholic priest Andrew Greeley explains in &l
  
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• 9-year-old Utah girl attacked by two dogs

  13-09-2019 21:40
  A 9-year-old Utah girl was injured Thursday when she was attacked by two dogs while riding her bike.Shortly after 4:30 p.m., the child was on her bike in the Meadow Ranch area of Eagle Mountain, when two “large dogs,” which police identified as a mastiff and a wire terrier, knocked her off her bike. The dogs bit and scratched her on her torso — front and back — and arms, said Sgt. Spencer Cannon of the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.“The wounds were serious, but
  
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• David Brooks: The meritocracy is ripping America apart

  13-09-2019 21:11
  There are at least two kinds of meritocracy in America right now. Exclusive meritocracy exists at the super-elite universities and at the industries that draw the bulk of their employees from them — Wall Street, Big Law, medicine and tech. And then there is the more open meritocracy that exists almost everywhere else.In the exclusive meritocracy, prestige is defined by how many people you can reject. The elite universities reject 85% to 95% of their applicants. Those accepted spend much of
  
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• Chaotic talks show challenge of reaching opioid settlement

  13-09-2019 21:00
  For months, the judge overseeing national litigation over the opioids crisis urged all sides to reach a settlement that could end thousands of lawsuits filed by state and local governments.But the chaotic developments this week in the case against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma underscore how difficult that goal is. By Thursday, half of the nation's state attorneys general said they would reject a tentative deal crafted by the other half, and many criticized the terms as grossly insufficient.Purd
  
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• Paul Krugman: Trump is in full-blown panic over the economy

  13-09-2019 20:52
  Donald Trump marked the anniversary of 9/11 by repeating several lies about his own actions on that day. But that wasn’t his only concern. He also spent part of the day writing a series of tweets excoriating Federal Reserve officials as “Boneheads” and demanding that they immediately put into effect emergency measures to stimulate the economy — emergency measures that are normally only implemented in the face of a severe crisis.Trump’s diatribe was revealing in two
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Trump’s plan for the economy: Make Drinking Water Dirty Again

  13-09-2019 20:28
  The Trump administration recently revealed its grand plan for turbocharging economic growth: Make Drinking Water Dirty Again.The talking heads who get trotted out to defend President Trump frequently tout his supposedly stellar economic record. He's unleashing gangbusters growth, they claim. You might not like the tweets, but you can't deny that his tax cuts and deregulation have jump-started the economy.But those tax cuts, so far, have been a bust, never delivering the sustained surge in busine
  
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• Jaylen Warren is thrilled to be an Aggie, and his emergence gives Utah State a new offensive weapon

  13-09-2019 20:15
  Asked what has been the most rewarding aspect of moving up from the junior college ranks and receiving a long-sought scholarship from a Football Bowl Subdivision program, Utah State running back Jaylen Warren’s surprisingly literal response is endearing in its honest simplicity.“In JUCO, you have to supply for yourself. … Around May, June, and again in August [the past few years], that’s the time I went shopping, when I started looking online for what kind of cleats and
  
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• The Utes will focus on Idaho State, but fans are free to look ahead to USC

  13-09-2019 19:30
  Kyle Whittingham can be forgiven for changing his mind twice in two sentences.Asked what he hoped to learn Saturday against Idaho State in his Utah football team’s last nonconference game before visiting USC next Friday, Whittingham thought immediately of wanting to see kicker Jadon Redding attempt some field goals.That makes sense, with the freshman having kicked only extra points after taking the job in the fourth quarter of the season opener. Yet those opportunities would require the Ut
  
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• Eddie Money, ‘Two Tickets to Paradise’ singer, dies at 70

  13-09-2019 19:26
  Eddie Money, who left behind a career as a New York police officer to become one of the top-selling rock stars of the 1970s and ‘80s, with hits like “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight,” has died. He was 70.Publicist Cindy Ronzoni provided a statement from the family and said Money died Friday morning in Los Angeles. Money had recently announced that he had stage 4 esophageal cancer.In 1987, the husky-voiced, blue collar performer received a best roc
  
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• "Don't get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it's your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways." - Iyanla Vanzant #

  13-09-2019 19:20 via twitter.com
  "Don't get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it's your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways."- Iyanla Vanzant
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• Fred Lampropoulos: Congress, it’s time to innovate U.S. trade deals. Pass the USMCA.

  13-09-2019 19:00
  Merit Medical Systems has been committed to improving lives in Utah and across North America since our founding in 1987. What began as a Utah-based company with one simple product has grown into a multinational company that employs more than 5,000 people in North America and does business in roughly 120 countries.Our life-saving work would not be possible without free and fair trade. Because of trade, we have the ability to move products freely across North America. Without free and fair trade,
  
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• E.J. Dionne: Democrats finally realized who their real opponent is

  13-09-2019 18:54
  Washington • After spending the first half-hour of Thursday’s debate tearing each other apart over health care — which happens to be their party’s strongest issue — the Democratic presidential candidates realized that their opponent is Donald Trump and acted accordingly.As a result, despite jabs and disagreements throughout a three-hour marathon, they offered a far less divisive performance than they (and an additional 10 contenders) turned in during the first two de
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Argentina moves to World Cup final, tops France and Rudy Gobert, 80-66

  13-09-2019 17:43 via sportspyder.com
  Beijing • Luis Scola was asked what Sunday will mean to him, and he didn’t hesitate with the answer.
  
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• Argentina moves to World Cup final, tops France and Rudy Gobert, 80-66

  13-09-2019 17:34
  Beijing • Luis Scola was asked what Sunday will mean to him, and he didn’t hesitate with the answer."Everything," he said.The veteran Argentinian forward didn't need to give more of an explanation. The World Cup is one win away, and Scola made sure his team would have a chance to hoist the trophy.Scola scored 28 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, sealing the deal with 3-pointers on consecutive possessions down the stretch, and Argentina beat France 80-66 on Friday in a World Cup semifina
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Team USA’s Donovan Mitchell upset by video analysis implying rift with Kemba Walker

  13-09-2019 17:11 via sportspyder.com
  Team USA has tumbled out of the FIBA World Cup, but they are still in China to figure out their final placement in the tournament. Given the lesser stakes, Donovan Mitchell took to Twitter to dispell some rumors involving Kemba Walker. Basktball...
  
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• Marina Gomberg: My kid is asking why he doesn’t have a dad

  13-09-2019 16:52
  As two working moms, Elenor and I can rarely pick up Harvey at daycare together, but when we can, he’s ecstatic. This was the case the other day when we both arrived to scoop him up after school.He joyously squealed to his teachers and everyone he saw on his way out that he has two moms! The stoke factor was high, friends. And it was delightful.As I buckled him into his carseat, he became more inquisitive and started what was sure to be the latest series of how-whys (he’s three).&ldq
  
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• Abravanel Hall turns 40. Betrayal and Italian gold are part of its backstory.

  13-09-2019 16:48
  The project promised to transform Salt Lake City — a distinctive new civic arena that would bolster a bid for the Winter Olympics, built alongside a new concert hall on the same downtown block.But when the Salt Palace opened in 1969, the site for Symphony Hall remained a parking lot. Construction bids had been about $4 million more than the architects’ estimates. Symphony board member Obert C. Tanner — chairman of a commission charged with getting the hall built — “
  
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• Kaysville residents want more research on a city-owned fiber optic network

  13-09-2019 16:37
  Citing high internet costs and a need to keep up with changing technology, the Kaysville City Council is poised to approve a $26 million bond this fall that would allow it to build, own and maintain a municipal fiber optic network.City leaders promoting the plan are pitching the creation of such a network as a “necessity of the 21st century” akin to roads, power lines and water pipes. They also hope the system would provide more people with faster internet and increase competition, t
  
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• Utah records board orders BYU to let them see police emails

  13-09-2019 16:36
  Utah’s Records Committee ordered Brigham Young University’s campus police Thursday to produce copies of emails between key law enforcement officers and the Provo school’s Honor Code Office.On a vote of 6-0, committee members agreed they needed to study the documents in closed session to determine whether they were law enforcement records and should be released under a public-records request filed by The Salt Lake Tribune in May.Attorneys for BYU, owned by The Church of Jesus Ch
  
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• Here’s how Utah’s new $780 million prison will help the inland port

  13-09-2019 16:36
  It’s a big spread of gravel, mud and concrete. Put another way: It’s a construction site.Look closer at the concrete box a crane lifted off a flatbed trailer Thursday, and you can see what’s being built. It’s a prison. And crews are installing the prefabricated cells one at a time.“They’re stacked in almost like Legos,” said Mike Ambre, assistant director of the Utah Division of Facilities Construction and Management.Ambre took journalists on a tour this
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: It’s time to cancel ‘Dancing with the Stars’

  13-09-2019 16:35
  After taking this spring off, “Dancing with the Stars” returns Monday (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4) for its 28th season. As was the case with the previous 27 seasons, I don’t care who wins. I do, however, care who loses.I’m hoping that former Trump spokesman Sean Spicer is ousted first, and “Queer Eye” star Karamo Brown goes second. And, given ABC’s behavior, I’m rooting for ratings so low that the show is canceled.Spicer is, of course, a documented liar. In
  
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• Marco Rubio: A red-flag law will reduce bloodshed and respect the rights of gun owners

  13-09-2019 16:30
  After a string of mass shootings this summer, Americans are demanding a response to curtail the violence. If we are looking to deliver a solution that reduces bloodshed and respects the rights of responsible gun owners, the only realistic action must be bipartisan.This is why the recent focus on red-flag proposals from our Senate colleagues and the president is welcome. The most effective step Congress can take right now to prevent tragedies like those in Parkland, Fla.; Newtown, Conn.; and Dayt
  
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• Trump administration drops Obama-era water protection rule

  13-09-2019 16:05
  Traverse City, Mich. • The Trump administration on Thursday revoked an Obama-era regulation that shielded many U.S. wetlands and streams from pollution but was opposed by developers and farmers who said it hurt economic development and infringed on property rights.Environmental groups criticized the administration's action, the latest in a series of moves to roll back environmental protections put into place under President Barack Obama.The 2015 Waters of the United States rule defined the
  
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• George Pyle: Church and state and the shoe on the other foot

  13-09-2019 16:00
  “Religion ... is the opium of the people.”-- Karl MarxThe irony, of course, is thick.The Salt Lake Tribune’s ace religion reporter, Peggy Fletcher Stack (Twitter handle, @religiongal), recently returned from a trip to Russia with an extensive report on how difficult it is for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, among other Western religions, to establish a foothold there.Why? Because of the effective merger there of the Russian state and the Russian Orthodox Church.
  
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• Spain and Ricky Rubio beat Australia and Joe Ingles, 95-88 in 2OT to reach World Cup final

  13-09-2019 15:44
  Beijing • No one on Spain’s basketball team is looking past Sunday’s World Cup final.Certainly not Marc Gasol, who scored 33 points to lead the Spanish over Australia 95-88 in double overtime on Friday in the semifinals. Ricky Rubio scored 19 points and Sergio Llull added 17.Gasol won the NBA title a few months ago with the Toronto Raptors. And now he can do the double by winning with Spain, which won this title 13 years ago when it was called the world championship.What would g
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Spain and Ricky Rubio beat Australia and Joe Ingles, 95-88 in 2OT to reach World Cup final

  13-09-2019 15:40 via sportspyder.com
  Beijing • No one on Spain’s basketball team is looking past Sunday’s World Cup final.
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Joe Biden holds his own in latest Democratic debate even if he doesn’t make waves

  13-09-2019 15:10
  Happy Friday! It was actually a debate -- all the leading Democratic contenders on stage in Houston last night went back and forth on actual issues. With the candidates polling 1 percent largely excluded from the debate, there were fewer bomb-throwing attacks (there still were some). Former Vice President Joe Biden may not have gained any new ground but he didn’t falter either. [Politico]Topping the news: Nearly 280 square miles of federal land in Utah could be open to new oil and gas deve
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz alumni: Joe Johnson gets a shot at NBA redemption

  13-09-2019 14:30 via sportspyder.com
  Former beloved Utah Jazz player Joe Johnson is set to make his NBA return after signing a one-year contract with the Detroit Pistons. Joe Johnson's exit fr...
  
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• Utah Jazz alumni: Joe Johnson gets a shot at NBA redemption

  13-09-2019 14:00
  Former beloved Utah Jazz player Joe Johnson is set to make his NBA return after signing a one-year contract with the Detroit Pistons. Joe Johnson‘s exit from the NBA was a sad and disappointing one. It’s almost hard to think that in the 2017 NBA Playoffs, he was playing a major role as a veteran […]
  Utah Jazz alumni: Joe Johnson gets a shot at NBA redemption - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Robert Kirby: Sex education — more is better than not enough

  13-09-2019 14:00
  My first secular sex education came in the form of a health class at Skyline High School in 1970. Coach Robert Walker gave the lowdown on “the deed” to me and 30-plus other smart alecks who thought we already knew everything.Coach Walker was perfect for the job. In addition to an enviable set of sideburns, he had a great rapport with the class. He was believable, open and didn’t mutter when it came to explaining the details.He described the mechanics, the birth process, alarmin
  
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• Letter: Stats on border arrests were inaccurate

  13-09-2019 14:00
  According to Public Forum letter by Susan Rounds titled “About the wall,” quoting Robert Perez, Customs and Border Protection deputy commissioner, 30% of the people who are apprehended at our southern border by Border Patrol agents are members of drug cartels, human traffickers, gang members and other criminals.Those statistics are somewhat off.According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, through the end of August, border apprehensions total 738,143 (including family units an
  
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• Letter: Just paying teachers more won’t help

  13-09-2019 14:00
  Whether rural or urban, the plight of our school children receiving a world-class education is not based simply on higher pay.Look around the world at the highest scoring students. They all come from countries that regard an educator as highly as a skilled surgeon. In fact, many world nations regard teachers as highly as doctors and attorneys.In these institutions, a teacher must test at the top 10% of their class before graduating with a degree in education. World-class education starts with wo
  
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• Letter: City should look at moving 4th Avenue Well

  13-09-2019 14:00
  On June 4, the Salt Lake City Council directed the city administration to prepare a set of three alternatives designs for the proposed 4th Avenue Well that would address concerns of the Memory Grove Residential Pocket residents.On June 11, the Greater Avenues Community Council repeated it request that the local residents’ desired alternative for moving the well to a new site be considered.On July 30, the city Department of Public Utilities stated that was prepared three alternative designs
  
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• Letter: By healing the Earth, we heal ourselves

  13-09-2019 14:00
  As a person of faith, I love supporting the Climate Strikers. The movement is grounded in the values we all claim to share: love, justice and compassion.I strongly urge our elected officials to take urgent, meaningful action that reflects these values. Now is the time to start implementing real solutions to address the urgent threat of climate change.If we truly love our neighbors, we need to cut carbon emissions, invest in green infrastructure and protect vulnerable communities that suffer the
  
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• Letter: As Tribune shrinks, why does Mormon news coverage grow?

  13-09-2019 14:00
  Your three-day, multipage series on Mormonism in Russia surely was interesting to Mormons and a few others. Certainly, it was as uninteresting for many others as it was for me. Brief and succinct reporting on their church is sufficient for the rest of us.Please be the city’s newspaper that makes expenditures on in-depth journalism for the general public. At a time when The Tribune is shrinking, it seems coverage of Mormonism is expanding. If we were interested in comprehensive coverage of
  
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• As long as you leave it in the office when you're on the road

  13-09-2019 07:36 via twitter.com
  As long as you leave it in the office when you're on the road
  
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