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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz rumors: Team adding former Idaho PG Mike Scott

  19-09-2019 23:52 via sportspyder.com
  Despite being full up for training camp, the Utah Jazz continue to make moves, reportedly coming to terms on a deal with Mike Scott (not that one). After t...
  
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• Utah Jazz rumors: Team adding former Idaho PG Mike Scott

  19-09-2019 23:21
  Despite being full up for training camp, the Utah Jazz continue to make moves, reportedly coming to terms on a deal with Mike Scott (not that one). After the Utah Jazz dealt for Mike Conley, a whole new world of possibilities opened up for the team in terms of building a roster that could compete […]
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• [CBS Sports] - Jazz singing new tune, earn higher expectations as they change their ecosystem - CBSSports.com

  19-09-2019 22:15 via sportspyder.com
  With Conley and Bojan Bogdanovic in the mix, the Jazz have freshened up their formula
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Lawmakers take cannabis private, prison update and those pesky scooter riders

  19-09-2019 22:08
  Lawmakers vote to take cannabis dispensing out of the state’s hands. Utah’s new prison runs behind schedule and over budget (and will hold fewer inmates than planned). And Salt Lake City considers a crackdown on sidewalk scooter riders.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune senior managing editor Matt Canham, reporter Taylor Stevens and columnist George Pyle join KCPW host Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stories. Every Friday at 9 a.m., stream “Behind the Hea
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Revisiting Utah’s complex power forward situation (again)

  19-09-2019 21:29 via sportspyder.com
  It’s an issue we’ve seen come up again and again and again...and again
  
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• Dana Milbank: Correction: Trump never said all those things you heard him say

  19-09-2019 21:20
  Video: While meeting with Bahrain’s crown prince Sept. 16, President Trump spoke about the recent attacks on Saudi oil installations and denied wanting war with Iran. (The Washington Post)Washington • Is President Trump losing his marbles?(Or did he not have a full bag to begin with?)On Tuesday, with characteristic inhumanity, he insulted journalist Cokie Roberts on the occasion of her death: "I never met her. She never treated me nicely. But I would like to wish her family well."On M
  
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• Gordon Monson: If anyone from the pope to the Rolling Stones can win here, why can’t Utah’s Utes? Maybe this time, they can.

  19-09-2019 21:11
  Los AngelesThe Coliseum here is symbolic of what the Utah Utes will attempt to achieve on Friday night against the USC Trojans. It is an old structure, one with all kinds of history bolted to it, but it is new, too, having just undergone a $315 million renovation, a re-do that required engineers to preserve the bones and the facade of a National Historic Landmark while altering it, updating it for modern usage.The Utes will attempt to alter, modernize, renovate their own history in the building,
  
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• Bret Stephens: Trump is locked, half-cocked and probably bluffing

  19-09-2019 21:00
  Thomas Jefferson warned against entangling alliances. John F. Kennedy was ready to pay any price and bear any burden. Teddy Roosevelt advised us to speak softly and carry a big stick.And then there’s Donald Trump. Locked, half-cocked, and probably bluffing.That’s the lesson Iran’s leaders appear to have drawn following a carefully calibrated sequence of escalatory attacks against the U.S. and its allies in recent months.In May, there were four unclaimed attacks on tankers trans
  
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• Where have the wild birds gone? 3 billion fewer than 1970

  19-09-2019 20:43
  Washington • North America’s skies are lonelier and quieter as nearly 3 billion fewer wild birds soar in the air than in 1970, a comprehensive study shows.The new study focuses on the drop in sheer numbers of birds, not extinctions. The bird population in the United States and Canada was probably around 10.1 billion nearly half a century ago and has fallen 29% to about 7.2 billion birds, according to a study in Thursday's journal Science ."People need to pay attention to the birds aro
  
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• Red All Over: ESPN’s “GameDay” may make another visit to Utah

  19-09-2019 20:41
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here.In July, the Pac-12 Networks booked a Sept. 28 visit to Utah as part of “The Pregame” show’s tour of all 12 campuses in the conference during the football season. That could turn out to be a very good choice, if the Utes and Washington State remain unbeaten through this weekend.And that homecoming game may draw even more buildup. Utah is being considered as a host site for ESPN’s &ld
  
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• Salt Lake police chief assures undocumented immigrants his officers aren’t trying to deport them

  19-09-2019 20:22
  Salt Lake City’s police chief added his signature to a letter asserting that local police want to protect, not deport, undocumented immigrants simply for being in the United States..The letter from the Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force assures immigrants that “immigration enforcement is, first and foremost, a federal responsibility” and that local officers will “cooperate with federal law enforcement” only when there are “threats in our communities”
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: American soldiers are not the Saudis’ mercenaries

  19-09-2019 20:15
  Robert Gates, the former defense secretary, once scoffed that Saudi Arabia “wants to fight the Iranians to the last American.”The danger is that we slip toward that nightmare. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that Iran has committed an “act of war” by attacking Saudi oil processing centers. Influential hawks like Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have suggested carrying out strikes on Iranian oil refineries.Meanwhile, Iran is warning that it will retaliate for any strike wi
  
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• No. 10 Utah has a chance for a special season. The visit to USC poses the first significant hurdle.

  19-09-2019 20:12
  Utah once took a No. 3 ranking into the Los Angeles Coliseum to face a USC football program in turmoil. The Utes regressed to their proper level in a three-touchdown loss that eventually gave the Trojans the Pac-12 South championship via the tiebreaker and helped interim coach Clay Helton earn the job permanently.Four years later, the Trojans again are reeling after an overtime loss at BYU, amid questions about Helton’s future. The Utes view themselves as a genuine Top 10 team, as of the m
  
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• Washington was not a good matchup for BYU last year, but this is a different season. Has anything changed?

  19-09-2019 19:58
  The Washington Huskies play in the Pac-12, wear purple and gold and are coached by Chris Petersen, who is best known for leading Boise State to two memorable BCS bowl wins.But really, who are the Huskies anyway?It’s a question that might not be answered until the Huskies play BYU Saturday.The Huskies enter the 1:30 p.m. game ranked No. 22 in the AP Top 25 and are favored to win by almost a touchdown, but are the Huskies one of the top teams in the Pac-12 or are they over-hyped?Washington i
  
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• Letter: A sad goodbye to The Tribune

  19-09-2019 19:48
  I am 71 years old, and our family has had a Salt Lake Tribune at our morning door for all of those years and more.I recognize that coverage of the LDS Church is important to the predominant culture. However, as expressed in the Sept. 16 letter from Janel Green VanDenBerghe, the persistent and dogmatic coverage of the LDS Church news, at the expense of national and international news has become too much for us.So it is with a sad goodbye that I will be canceling my subscription today and going wi
  
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• Letter: Oil prices go down, violence goes up

  19-09-2019 19:44
  Did you ever notice that, whenever oil prices dip near or below $50 a barrel, there is also a manufactured crisis in the Middle East, almost every time?Just like clockwork, there comes along some kind of crisis that benefits the oil companies and oil producing countries on all sides. It usually takes the form of a seized tanker, the taking of hostages, a bombing or the downing of an airliner, but not necessarily in that order.The powers that be stand to gain billions in windfall profits every ti
  
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• USA Bobsled pilot Elana Meyers Taylor expecting baby

  19-09-2019 19:11
  U.S. bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor announced Wednesday that she will not compete this season because she is pregnant, though she plans to return in a year to prepare for the 2022 Beijing Olympics.Meyers Taylor and her husband, fellow U.S. bobsledder Nic Taylor, are expecting their first child in March.Meyers Taylor is a three-time Olympic medalist, winning the silver medal as a driver at both the 2014 Sochi Games and the 2018 Pyeongchang Games. She also was a brakeman in the sled piloted by Eri
  
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• U.S. awards $3M to fill gaps in medical marijuana research

  19-09-2019 18:51
  The U.S. government will spend $3 million to find out if marijuana can relieve pain, but none of the money will be used to study the part of the plant that gets people high.Nine research grants announced Thursday are for work on CBD, the trendy ingredient showing up in cosmetics and foods, and hundreds of less familiar chemicals. THC research was excluded.The federal government still considers marijuana an illegal drug, but more than 30 states allow it use for a range of medical problems, some w
  
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• | Anthem auditions are TOMORROW! Details » https://on.nba.com/2mpfylU pic.twitter.com/mA86OTtBrA

  19-09-2019 18:37 via twitter.com
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• 11 things to know about Punch Bowl Social, a new ‘eater-tainment’ venue opening Saturday in Salt Lake City

  19-09-2019 18:30
  From video games to virtual reality — there’s a whole generation that could use some real, human interaction.At least that’s what Robert Thompson, founder and CEO of Punch Bowl Social, thought in 2012, when he launched his new “eater-tainment” concept in his hometown of Denver.Today, Punch Bowl Social — which was named one of the Hottest Concepts of 2018 — has 18 locations, and counting. No. 19 opens Saturday, Sept. 21, in Salt Lake City.For Utahns who h
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Despite disappointing finish, FIBA a huge success for Donovan Mitchell | KSL.com

  19-09-2019 17:47 via sportspyder.com
  Despite a surprising low finish in the tournament standings, Donovan Mitchell proved his value for the national team, which should benefit the Jazz and give him a leg up to making the Olympic roster.
  
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• From Central Park Five to beacon of hope

  19-09-2019 17:26
  In 1989, Yusef Salaam, like many African American teens growing up in New York’s Queens borough, had big dreams of being a hip-hop artist, or maybe a graphic artist. But on April 20 of that year, Salaam, then 15, and four other young black men’s lives were turned upside down. A young woman who had been jogging in Central Park in Manhattan was found early that morning raped and beaten. Salaam, hearing that the police were looking for him, turned himself in, accompanied by his friend K
  
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• Jana Riess: This is your brain on Mormon Facebook

  19-09-2019 17:09
  Over the summer in a social media group, a woman commented that most ex-Mormons leave the faith because they have read the so-called CES letter, begun exploring the underside of their religion’s history, and become convinced that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn’t true.I responded that statistically, such people are actually in the minority. Most people who leave the church do so when they are quite young; the median age for leaving in the Next Mormons research, fo
  
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• Nancy Pelosi unveils an ambitious plan to lower drug prices

  19-09-2019 16:50
  Washington • Putting her stamp on the health care issue that worries consumers the most, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to lower drug prices for seniors on Medicare and younger people with private insurance.Pelosi, D-Calif., would empower Medicare to negotiate prices for the 250 costliest drugs, including insulin. Pharmaceutical companies that refuse to negotiate could face steep penalties. Additionally, drugmakers that hike prices beyond inflation would h
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Church’s TV channel signs off — sort of; life after Scouting; and Africa rising

  19-09-2019 16:33
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.No more Mormon Channel?The next time you tune in the Mormon Channel, you’ll find that it’s now in tune with the church’s edict to banish virtually all things “Mormon.”The church station&rsq
  
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• Fire officials say containment of Davis County fire increasing

  19-09-2019 16:30
  The Francis Fire, which burned more than 350 acres and prompted evacuations in Fruit Heights on Monday, is 68% contained, state fire officials said Wednesday night.No growth on the #FrancisFire today. Containment reached 68%.— Utah Fire Info (@UtahWildfire) September 19, 2019Tuesday rains slowed the burn, which may have been ignited by lightning a week ago before high winds caused it to spread quickly.Several trails around the area of the fire, including a segment of the Bonneville Shoreli
  
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• Cherise Udell: We need 11 million people to stand up against climate change

  19-09-2019 16:30
  I am going to say it: People who get climate change, kudos to you. But if you do nothing you are almost as paralyzing to the problem as the climate deniers. We cannot continue business as usual, or there will be no business as usual. We have about 10 years to turn this climate train around before we are locked into run-away global heating that will bludgeon the basics of human civilization — how we produce our food, whether we have enough water, where we are able to live and whether we hav
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: My friend’s fiancé is rotten. Should I tell her?

  19-09-2019 16:30
  Dear Ann Cannon • A close friend of mine just got engaged to a man who is abusive. I don’t know if he is physically abusive, but he shoved her onto a scale after lunch and humiliated her for how much she weighed, claiming controlling her weight was his “right” and that “no one married to me will get fat when they’re pregnant.” He often uses every racial epithet along with pledging his allegiance to the inhabitant of the Oval Office for “telling it l
  
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• Iran diplomat warns of ‘all-out war’ if hit for Saudi attack

  19-09-2019 16:03
  Dubai, United Arab Emirates • Iran’s top diplomat said Thursday that any attack on his country over a drone-and-missile strike on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry will result in “all-out war,” further pushing up tensions across the Persian Gulf.The comments by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif represented the starkest warning yet by Iran in a long summer of mysterious attacks and incidents following the collapse of Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, more than
  
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• Robert Gehrke: It’s way past time that Salt Lake City address the downtown scooter menace

  19-09-2019 15:30
  Raise your hand if this has happened to you: You’re walking up to a crosswalk, reaching over to push the button and have to jump out of the way of a scooter zipping along the sidewalk.Or you round a corner and come face to face with a group of riders weaving between pedestrians.OK, you can put your hand down.Don’t get me wrong. I like scooters and what they provide in terms of ease, convenience, speed and frankly the fun of getting from point A to point B.
  Leah Hogsten|The Salt Lake
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Amazon to begin taking voice-controlled donations to 2020 presidential campaigns

  19-09-2019 15:15
  Next month, making a political donation to a 2020 presidential candidate will be as easy as dictating it out loud for users of the voice-controlled home assistant Amazon Alexa. Even as it increases convenience, the latest evolution in campaign technology also raises new questions about how contributions will be screened to ensure they’re legal. [WaPost]Happy Thursday!Topping the news: A candidate for Utah’s 1st Congressional District who was charged with four felonies in 2010 and ple
  
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• Solitude gets jeers and cheers for its paid-parking plan, but either way the Utah ski resort will be going it alone this winter

  19-09-2019 15:02
  Solitude is hardly Utah’s most famous ski resort, but this week it certainly is the most talked after announcing parking fees for its wintertime guests who drive to the Big Cottonwood Canyon destination.General Manager Kim Mayhew quietly developed the plan — which includes subsidies for those who take the bus to Solitude and cheaper parking rates for those who carpool — as a way to reduce emissions and the congestion clogging the central Wasatch Mountains’ ski country.Non
  
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• Murray High soccer star embraces hearing condition

  19-09-2019 15:02
  Sophie Post still has her first pair of hearings aids — the blue, glittery ones she got when she was 6.The 15-year-old junior midfielder for the Murray High girls soccer team keeps them for sentimental value among the newer, better-functioning hearing aids she wears now. In a way, they represent both her exuberant personality and a condition she’s had for as long as she can remember.“Honestly, most of my life I’ve just known I was deaf,” Post told The Salt Lake Trib
  
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• A friendly dragon earns Brigham Young University animators a student ‘Oscar’

  19-09-2019 15:02
  A friendly dragon, created out of pixels and a lot of work, could lead a group of Brigham Young University students and graduates to the Academy Awards.“Grendel,” an 8-minute computer-animated tale created by students at BYU, is one of 16 films to receive a Student Academy Award, which were announced last week by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. With the honor comes eligibility for the academy’s better-known prize, the Oscars.“Grendel” began, as the
  
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• Letter: The fox is guarding the BLM hen house

  19-09-2019 15:00
  While visiting Utah from Oregon, I saw an article in the Sept. 6 Salt Lake Tribune. Once again the Bureau of Land Management, at the behest of the Trump administration, is plowing through with an unevaluated, destructive plan with the oil and gas leasing recently awarded in San Juan County. Even many conservative organizations view this action as reckless. The area is covered with many unexplored and likely undiscovered cultural sites. To simply say there will be “no adverse effect”
  
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• Letter: Romney supports market-based climate solutions

  19-09-2019 15:00
  I am writing to commend Sen. Mitt Romney for his bold leadership on market-based climate solutions. His recent remarks highlighting the wisdom of the carbon dividends climate plan gives me great hope for the future.As a student at Brigham Young University, I know the importance of stewardship for the planet we are blessed to call home. And as a young person with my life ahead of me, I have a clear understanding of what’s at stake for my generation. Climate instability threatens to erode ec
  
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• Letter: Fortunately, God found a loophole

  19-09-2019 15:00
  So, as I listened to the explanation of the "policy" from the Sept. 17 BYU Devotional, I hear that, in 2015, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were so concerned about the church not negatively impacting same-sex families that they excluded them from membership and excommunicated their legally married parents. The logic was about how the church might negatively affect the lives and beliefs of these families, and not the other way around.Hmmmm.....God later saw how hurtful
  
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• Letter: A drop in the sea of incivility

  19-09-2019 15:00
  During a recent morning’s carpool to school, I received a ticket for not signaling a right turn. I was stopped in the turn lane while the kids crossed in front of me and then inched up around the corner to wait while they crossed again. After the crossing guard left the crosswalk, I began my turn.Lights behind me flashed! I pulled over, dropped off one of my charges, and waited while Salt Lake’s finest ticketed me for my failure to signal. No doubt, it was a bad start to the morning.
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell plans to play in 2020 Olympics, as do Dame, Curry

  19-09-2019 14:08 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell has already expressed interest in playing for Team USA in the 2020 Olympics, where he'd be joined by the recently committed...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell plans to play in 2020 Olympics, as do Dame, Curry

  19-09-2019 14:00
  Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell has already expressed interest in playing for Team USA in the 2020 Olympics, where he’d be joined by the recently committed Damian Lillard and Steph Curry. Make no mistake about it, the end result for Team USA in the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup was a disappointing one. A team […]
  Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell plans to play in 2020 Olympics, as do Dame, Curry - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Forbes] - Projecting Rudy Gobert’s 2019-20 Numbers For The Utah Jazz

  19-09-2019 13:05 via sportspyder.com
  Over the last three (or even five), Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert has been one of the NBA’s most impactful players. What will he do in 2019-20?
  
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• Great times on Great Salt Lake

  19-09-2019 08:45
  Visitors enjoy the weather and sunset on the Great Salt Lake on Wednesday. Tomorrow is expected to be a mix of sun and clouds, with rain possibly moving in the area later in the week. The first day of fall is Monday.
  
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• we're not sure why but okay

  19-09-2019 05:33 via twitter.com
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• Utah school district accidentally shared a flyer about ex-employee threatening to kill people

  19-09-2019 05:04
  The sheriff’s office sent a flyer to Davis School District officials to alert security that a former employee was threatening to kill people.The man, according to the notice, had told a coworker that he wanted to “see what it feels like” to murder someone. And if he did, he planned to attack “women or gays.”His comments technically weren’t criminal, investigators said, so the sheriff’s office couldn’t charge him with anything. But they worried he m
  
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• [Forbes] - 3 Things to Expect From The Oklahoma City Thunder Heading Into Training Camp

  19-09-2019 04:50 via sportspyder.com
  With training camp set to kick of in Oklahoma City on October 1, less than 2 weeks stand between Thunder fans and basketball ramping back up. With it getting closer, let’s look at three things to expect from the Oklahoma City Thunder as they head...
  
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• Employee accused of stealing $23K from Salt Lake City schools foundation — and spending it on perfume and prepaid credit cards

  19-09-2019 04:50
  The secretary for a nonprofit that raises money for Salt Lake City schools has been charged with stealing more than $23,000 — and spending it on perfume, a hammock stand, prepaid credit cards and her own college tuition.Lavinia Hyde, 47, faces nine felony counts including misuse of public money, identity fraud and forgery. She is accused of siphoning funds from the Salt Lake Education Foundation for more than a year starting in February 2016.Salt Lake County prosecutors, though, filed the
  
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• Broncos fed up with former Utah offensive lineman Garett Bowles’ holding penalties

  19-09-2019 03:29
  Englewood, Colo. • His teammates and even his boss have had it with Broncos grabby left tackle Garett Bolles, who suggested officials are unfairly targeting him for holding infractions.Their 2017 first-round draft pick was flagged four times for holding in Denver’s 16-14 loss to Chicago on Sunday, giving him 34 yellow flags in 34 starts, 26 of them for grabbing his opponent.The laggard left tackle exacerbated his troubles by suggesting afterward that the officials are picking on him.T
  
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• E.J. Dionne: Striking workers remind us that they saved GM

  19-09-2019 02:06
  During the debate over whether the federal government should save the American auto industry in late 2008, a driver rammed into my old Saturn in a late-night accident while it was parked in front of my house. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but I needed a new car.I strongly supported the rescue effort, so I felt an obligation to look to a Detroit-based car company organized by the United Auto Workers union for a replacement. I got a Chevy Malibu — my kids called it "Dad's Boo" — and re
  
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