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• Cases of vaping illnesses in Utah continue to rise, health officials say

  16-09-2019 23:56
  Seven more cases of vaping-related lung disease were confirmed last week in Utah, bringing the total number of patients to 42, state health officials said.As of Monday, Utah health officials were still investigating another 14 potential cases of the mysterious illnesses, identified by doctors as part of nationwide outbreak this summer.Nationally, health officials have identified 380 confirmed or probable cases of vaping-related illness, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported last week. Th
  
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• | “We’re rooting for each other.” #NBARookieWeek »https://on.nba.com/2mj10Ej 

  16-09-2019 23:19 via twitter.com
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• Psychiatrist: Former Utah man accused of killing 6 controlled by voices

  16-09-2019 23:12
  Houston • A forensic psychiatrist told jurors Monday that a man accused of fatally shooting six members of his ex-wife’s family in 2014 at their suburban Houston home wasn’t responsible for his actions because his severe mental illness that made him believe voices in his head were telling him to carry out the killings.Prosecutors allege Ronald Lee Haskell, 39, created a meticulous plot in which he traveled from California to suburban Houston in 2014 and stalked his ex-wife's fam
  
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• Utah journalism essay contest offers $8,000 to students in grade 6 through college

  16-09-2019 23:11
  Students in grades 6 through 12 and at Utah colleges can win a share of $8,000 in cash awards by entering the McCarthey Family Foundation’s annual journalism essay contest.Entries are due Friday, Sept. 27. The winning essayist in each age category will be recognized at the foundation’s 14th annual lecture In Praise of Independent Journalism, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Jon Meacham, on Saturday, Nov. 9. The 7 p.m. lecture is open to the public at
  
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• GIVEAWAY — Shout out to all the September birthdays!  One lucky winner will receive: - 2 tickets to the pre-season game on October 14th - 1 $50 team store gift card - A box of #samoachip cookies Follow @utahjazz + @chipcookiesco Enter he

  16-09-2019 22:16 via twitter.com
  GIVEAWAY — Shout out to all the September birthdays!
  One lucky winner will receive:
  - 2 tickets to the pre-season game on October 14th
  - 1 $50 team store gift card
  - A box of #samoachip cookies
  Follow @utahjazz + @chipcookiescoEnter here: http://bit.ly/2kCV74w pic.twitter.com/9hNsG7YsGv
  
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• Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski welcomes refugees and immigrants — but not Trump policies

  16-09-2019 22:14
  Mayor Jackie Biskupski said Monday that Salt Lake City is a welcoming refuge for everyone — except maybe President Donald Trump and his immigration and refugee policies.Trump “sees immigrants and refugees as a threat to America," she said, “rather than what they truly are: humans who bring rich diversity and economic stability.”That came as the mayor kicked off an annual “Welcoming Week” of concerts, parades and exhibits to celebrate new immigrants and refugee
  
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• 1 in 6 U.S. women say first sexual experience was rape in their teen years

  16-09-2019 22:00
  Chicago • The first sexual experience for 1 in 16 U.S. women was forced or coerced intercourse in their early teens, encounters that for some may have had lasting health repercussions, a study suggests.The experiences amount to rape, the authors say, although they relied on a national survey that didn't use the word in asking women about forced sex.Almost 7 percent of women surveyed said their first sexual intercourse experience was involuntary; it happened at age 15 on average and the man
  
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• Utes play slowly on purpose and that has them feeling fresh as they prepare to face USC

  16-09-2019 21:43
  A comedian once described football as short segments of violence, in between committee meetings. The description was more accurate when huddling was a standard part of the game.Utah coach Kyle Whittingham believes in that old-school approach. In an era of fast-paced football, with many offenses designed to run plays as quickly as possible, the No. 10 Utes are defying the trend. They huddle frequently, effectively shortening games for both their offensive and defensive players.Whittingham is conv
  
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• Jana Riess: 5 tips for churches on how to hold onto millennials and Gen Z

  16-09-2019 21:30
  A former colleague got in touch this week to ask me a question I’ve heard often since my book “The Next Mormons” was published earlier this year. He understands the problems we’re all facing with religious retention in America; now he would like to be pointed to solutions, especially for millennials and Generation Z.What ideas or practices are actually “working to mitigate or reverse those trends,” and is there solid research about what can help?His timing is
  
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• Bret Stephens: Those who have known tyranny make the most of liberty

  16-09-2019 21:00
  A woman and her young daughter, no older than 6 or 7, are shopping for groceries in a corner store of a bombed-out city. It’s sometime around 1947. The war is over, the Germans are gone, the Gestapo is no longer hunting Jews. Some of their local henchmen have been imprisoned or shot. Many just took off their uniforms and returned to their former lives.The mother speaks with the trace of a foreign accent. As she reaches for her wallet to pay, the grocer says: “Why don’t you peop
  
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• Utah to award grants for electric car charging stations

  16-09-2019 20:24
  Utah groups can apply for state funding for electric vehicle charging stations.The Utah Department of Environmental Quality will begin accepting applications for grants to buy and install stations starting Monday.Under this program, the agency will disperse nearly $5 million total in funding on a first-come, first-serve basis. The stations must be up and running within two years of receiving a grant.Businesses and nonprofits are eligible to get up to 50% of costs, or $75,000, reimbursed for buyi
  
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• CBD vapes spiked with dangerous drugs for sale in Utah and across U.S.

  16-09-2019 20:20
  Jay Jenkins says he hesitated when a buddy suggested they vape CBD."It'll relax you," the friend assured.The vapor that Jenkins inhaled didn't relax him. After two puffs, he ended up in a coma.That's because what he was vaping didn't have any CBD, the suddenly popular compound extracted from the cannabis plant that marketers say can treat a range of ailments without getting users high. Instead, the oil was spiked with a powerful street drug.Some operators are cashing in on the CBD craze by subst
  
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• CBD vapes spiked with dangerous drugs for sale across U.S.

  16-09-2019 19:52
  Jay Jenkins says he hesitated when a buddy suggested they vape CBD."It'll relax you," the friend assured.The vapor that Jenkins inhaled didn't relax him. After two puffs, he ended up in a coma.That's because what he was vaping didn't have any CBD, the suddenly popular compound extracted from the cannabis plant that marketers say can treat a range of ailments without getting users high. Instead, the oil was spiked with a powerful street drug.Some operators are cashing in on the CBD craze by subst
  
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• The Great Salt Lake is drying up, and a Utah scientist is trying to figure out the danger of the dust

  16-09-2019 19:40
  The exposed, encrusted bed of the depleted Great Salt Lake stretches for miles and miles, merging with Utah’s West Desert somewhere off in a distance defined by mountain ridgelines rising above the horizon like jagged clouds.Few know this rarely visited terrain better than Kevin Perry, an atmospheric sciences professor with the University of Utah who spent more than 125 days pedaling 2,300 miles of playa on a one-man data-gathering mission. His goal was to characterize the potential for th
  
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• Utah political parties are fighting for access to voters’ registration data

  16-09-2019 19:39
  Visiting Republican National Committee officials could not believe it: One of every eight Utah voters now uses a new law to prevent public release of voter registration data.“Their jaws dropped,” said Derek Brown, chairman of the Utah Republican Party. “They said, ‘Are you serious? You can literally elect to have your data private? Well, at least you must know their names and whether they’re Republican, right?’”No. In fact, when those who opt for such pr
  
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• Utah educators say tax reform efforts could target school funding

  16-09-2019 19:39
  Nearly three hours into a recent legislative hearing on tax reform, state Rep. Tim Quinn suggested to his colleagues that they stop playing “shell games” and come clean to constituents about their desire to eliminate the Education Fund.“Let’s just be honest with the people and say, ‘This is what we want to do and this is why we want to do it,’ because [schools] truly have no guarantees,” Quinn said. “Let’s just be honest — that Educatio
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Politicians should let facts guide their response to vaping illnesses

  16-09-2019 19:38
  The recent warnings against e-cigarettes haven’t stopped politicians from blowing fat clouds.But instead of vapor puffs, officials are seizing the opportunity presented by six deaths and 380 vaping-related illnesses to cloud and conflate two mostly unrelated issues: how to respond to a health crisis and their own ongoing crusade to crack down, if not eliminate, e-cigarette use.One of the more absurd spectacles I’ve seen took place last week, when state Rep. Paul Ray trotted out concr
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: Margaret Atwood’s dystopia, and ours

  16-09-2019 18:00
  After Donald Trump’s election, sales of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Margaret Atwood’s canonical 1985 novel of theocratic totalitarianism, spiked, along with other dystopian classics like George Orwell’s “1984.” Atwood’s book takes place in a world where a clique of Christian fundamentalists have overthrown the U.S. government and instituted the rigidly patriarchal Republic of Gilead. Environmental calamity has left many people infertile, and an un
  
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• A former BYU football player is dropping his concussion-related lawsuit

  16-09-2019 17:59
  Former BYU linebacker Larry Carr intends to drop his lawsuit against the school, because he’s encouraged about the brain treatment he’s receiving and the athletic department’s potential interest in joining a study designed to help athletes.Having met recently with BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe and the department's medical staff, Carr said, “I'm comfortable that Tom is very concerned about the health and safety of the athletes.”Carr is hoping to facilitate researc
  
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• BYU grad Patrick Fishburn wins a Canadian golf event, advancing to the Korn Ferry Tour in 2020

  16-09-2019 17:53
  Ever since he posted two top-three finishes in the first five tournaments of the Mackenzie Tour-PGA Tour Canada season, former BYU golfer Patrick Fishburn has given himself an opportunity to advance to the Korn Ferry Tour in 2020.Fishburn made it happen Sunday by winning the last of the tour's 12 events this season. His 21-under-par total (66-65-64-65) was good for a three-stroke victory in the Canada Life Championship at London, Ontario.Fishburn, an Ogden native and Fremont High School graduate
  
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• Happy birthday, Nigel pic.twitter.com/JVwmfof7c1

  16-09-2019 17:07 via twitter.com
  Happy birthday, Nigel pic.twitter.com/JVwmfof7c1
  
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• Veteran Cory Green announces candidacy for Utah’s 1st Congressional District

  16-09-2019 17:04
  Syracuse resident Cory Green, a political newcomer who served in both the U.S. Army Reserve and the U.S. Navy, is running to represent Utah’s 1st Congressional District, Green announced last week.Green, who describes himself as a “constitutional conservative,” said he is the most qualified candidate right now to replace outgoing Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, who has represented the northernmost portions of the state in the U.S. House since 2003.“I voted for President [Donald]
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Injury-Resistant Jazz? Surviving Through Bumps & Bruises With Versatile Depth

  16-09-2019 16:35 via sportspyder.com
  Injury-Resistant Jazz? That much we have pretty well estbalished after their splashy offseason acquisitions. OK fine, lets dial that backinjury-resistant. Dont believe me?
  
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• Purdue Pharma files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

  16-09-2019 16:20
  Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, the drug widely seen as igniting the opioid crisis, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday night, a move at the center of the company’s efforts to shield itself and its owners from more than 2,600 federal and state lawsuits.The terms of the filing, which include a proposed resolution of most of those cases, are expected to be fiercely contested by a group of 26 states that have refused to settle with Purdue and are intent on pursuing the company’
  
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• U. scientist goes the extra mile — 2,300 miles — by bike to track the dust dangers posed from a drying Great Salt Lake

  16-09-2019 16:19
  The exposed, encrusted bed of the depleted Great Salt Lake stretches for miles and miles, merging with Utah’s West Desert somewhere off in a distance defined by mountain ridgelines rising above the horizon like jagged clouds.Few know this rarely visited terrain better than Kevin Perry, an atmospheric sciences professor with the University of Utah who spent more than 125 days pedaling 2,300 miles of playa on a one-man data-gathering mission. His goal was to characterize the potential for th
  
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• TEDxSaltLakeCity has majority of female speakers for the first time. Here’s what four will talk about.

  16-09-2019 16:19
  Denise Druce has a self-described TED addiction. “I would rather listen to TED than just about anything else, morning, noon and night, when I’m getting ready in the shower, when I’m driving my car,” she said.Druce applied and was rejected, twice, to speak at TEDxSaltLakeCity. This year, for the first time, the event has a majority of female speakers, and Druce is one of them.“The last couple of years, we’ve been so close to 50/50, to gender equity in our lineu
  
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• Utah educators are nervous that tax reform efforts could target the traditional earmark for school funding

  16-09-2019 16:18
  Nearly three hours into a recent legislative hearing on tax reform, state Rep. Tim Quinn suggested to his colleagues that they stop playing “shell games” and come clean to constituents about their desire to eliminate the Education Fund.“Let’s just be honest with the people and say, ‘This is what we want to do and this is why we want to do it,’ because [schools] truly have no guarantees,” Quinn said. “Let’s just be honest — that Educatio
  
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• ‘Damaging winds’ possible in Utah. National Weather Service issues advisory

  16-09-2019 16:18
  A cold front will bring not just a big drop in temperatures but strong winds to much of Utah on Monday and Tuesday.The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory from 10 a.m. Monday-4 a.m. Tuesday for the Wasatch Front, Cache Valley, Sanpete and Sevier Valleys and southern Utah.Strong southerly winds will develop Monday morning ahead of the front, with gusts of up to 55 mph possible across the Wasatch Front and Utah's western valleys. And when the front arrives on Monday afternoon/eveni
  
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• 1 in 8 Utah voters uses new law to make registration data private — but a fight to reverse it looms

  16-09-2019 16:18
  Visiting Republican National Committee officials could not believe it: One of every eight Utah voters now uses a new law to prevent public release of voter registration data.“Their jaws dropped,” said Derek Brown, chairman of the Utah Republican Party. “They said, ‘Are you serious? You can literally elect to have your data private? Well, at least you must know their names and whether they’re Republican, right?’”No. In fact, when those who opt for such pr
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Politicians like Mitt Romney should let facts, not hysteria, guide their response to vaping illnesses

  16-09-2019 16:17
  The recent warnings against e-cigarettes haven’t stopped politicians from blowing fat clouds.But instead of vapor puffs, officials are seizing the opportunity presented by six deaths and 380 vaping-related illnesses to cloud and conflate two mostly unrelated issues: how to respond to a health crisis and their own ongoing crusade to crack down, if not eliminate, e-cigarette use.One of the more absurd spectacles I’ve seen took place last week, when state Rep. Paul Ray trotted out concr
  
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• Maureen Dowd: Let’s debate: Are the Democrats doomed?

  16-09-2019 16:05
  Washington • He’s in our heads.Even more than we knew.It isn’t just that he hovered over the Democratic debate Thursday night: Should the candidates attack him or leave him to self-destruct? Were they talking about him too much or not enough?It’s more profound than that.Donald Trump has fundamentally altered the way we experience politics.We’ve been trying to figure out for three years if he is a mad aberration, doomed to fade, or if he is rewiring the game in some p
  
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• 3 takeaways from RSL’s loss to Minnesota

  16-09-2019 15:56
  Here are three takeaways from Real Salt Lake’s 3-1 loss to Minnesota United.1. Killed on the counter attackIn the last few seasons, RSL has been known as a team that likes to possess the ball. And this season especially, it’s been working more on building out of the back and controlling tempo by making sure it makes accurate passes.But Minnesota came into Sunday’s game with on obvious game plan: just let RSL have it as much as it wants. That’s exactly what led to RSL&rsqu
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Air Force crews have stayed at Trump’s Scotland resort up to 40 times

  16-09-2019 15:30
  The United States Air Force has lodged crews at President Donald Trump’s Scotland resort up to 40 times over the last four years, according to preliminary results of an internal review. While the Air Force says the overnight stays are within Pentagon guidelines, some congressional Democrats counter that the practice raises conflict-of-interest concerns and might violate the Constitution’s prohibitions against the president receiving money other than his salary from the federal govern
  
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• Letter: Who can heal this nation?

  16-09-2019 15:17
  During Thursday’s Democratic debate, I had this revelation: This election is not about who can “take on” Donald Trump. It’s not important who can back talk a crazy person in any setting.What’s important is who can heal this nation, repair the injuries domestically and internationally.For truly, whether you are too busy to notice or too focused on a single issue to care, our country is like a patient in the ICU. Our institutions, our alliances, our moral fiber, all h
  
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• [Forbes] - On The Right Track: Joe Ingles Continues His Late-Career Improvement During Summer FIBA Play

  16-09-2019 15:00 via sportspyder.com
  Joe Ingles, the poster boy for late-career development with the Utah Jazz, had a chance to further refine his skills during summer FIBA play. Here's where he made strides.
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz tweets: O’Neale wants a dog, Williams-Goss goes Greek

  16-09-2019 14:15 via sportspyder.com
  A snapshot of Utah Jazz player Twitter randomness, including Royce O'Neale looking for a dog (too bad he's busy playing 2K) and Nigel Williams-Goss dining ...
  
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• [Last Word On Sports: Last Word On Pro Basketball] - Phoenix Suns All-Time Team

  16-09-2019 14:03 via sportspyder.com
  The Phoenix Suns have had greats walk through the door. But, who are the best to play at each position? The All-Time Phoenix Suns team.
  
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• Utah Jazz tweets: O’Neale wants a dog, Williams-Goss goes Greek

  16-09-2019 14:00
  A snapshot of Utah Jazz player Twitter randomness, including Royce O’Neale looking for a dog (too bad he’s busy playing 2K) and Nigel Williams-Goss dining SLC. Utah Jazz fans, rejoice — after a rough week of FIBA World Cup play, Jazzmen past and present redeemed themselves to close out the big tourney. Rudy Gobert and […]
  Utah Jazz tweets: O’Neale wants a dog, Williams-Goss goes Greek - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and Mor
  
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• Letter: We need Neighborhood Watch in schools

  16-09-2019 14:00
  Who better to protect and ensure the safety of our children in our schools but their parents? With all the mass shootings going on in our country, our schools are at the top of the list for being a soft target for predators.There is presently a patchwork of security protecting our schools. It encompassess little to none, or whatever the community can afford.As parents, we cannot afford to let this continue. The time is now to act and begin to build a safety net to secure a safe environment in ou
  
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• Letter: Republicans complete their takeover of Utah government

  16-09-2019 14:00
  Well, it’s finally complete.For generations, the State Board of Education had been the lone bastion of non-partisanship in Utah government. For years, one political party has been able to control all levels of government, from judicial appointments to overruling efforts of citizen initiatives.But the Board of Education elections have historically been nonpartisan. What a thorn that must have been in the party’s side.As a result of Wednesday’s State Supreme Court’s decisio
  
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• Letter: I don’t want to be seen as a Utah Republican

  16-09-2019 14:00
  Occasionally, I and one of my sons enjoy(?) a political conversation. And it is not uncommon for me to have to remind him that I am not a Democrat, that I am registered unaffiliated.To which he usually replies, “But others perceive you to be a Democrat” (possibly the result of the political signs in my front yard, usually for Democrats running for office).How do I want others to perceive me? Good question. But a better question would be, how do I not want others to perceive me? Sure,
  
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