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• West Wendover one step closer to selling recreational marijuana

  21-09-2019 23:53
  West Wendover’s city council approved licenses for two cannabis grow sites in advance of the border town potentially launching recreational marijuana sales by the end of the year, FOX 13 reports.The Nevada city — just across Utah’s western border — approved permits for a cannabis cultivation facility for Harvest of Nevada, expected to begin operations next year. The council also recently approved an expansion for Deep Roots Harvest, which is building a marijuana grow site
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Three players the Utah Jazz most need to have a breakout season in 2019-20

  21-09-2019 23:06 via sportspyder.com
  In order for the Utah Jazz to reach their utmost potential in 2019-20, there are three players in particular from whom they'll need a major breakout season...
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Utah should help California keep its fuel efficiency standards

  21-09-2019 23:00
  Utah politicians like three things.Business. Standing up to the federal government. Not being California.Here’s a situation where two out of three ain’t bad. It is a situation where Utah should stand with the automobile industry, with California — and against the administration in Washington — by objecting to recent efforts to halt the march toward clearer cars across the United States.The state of California has the power, under the Clean Air Act of 1970, to set standard
  
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• Three players the Utah Jazz most need to have a breakout season in 2019-20

  21-09-2019 22:53
  In order for the Utah Jazz to reach their utmost potential in 2019-20, there are three players in particular from whom they’ll need a major breakout season. The Utah Jazz are facing the most elevated expectations that they’ve faced since the days of John Stockton, Karl Malone and Jerry Sloan. Sure, they’ve had some good […]
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• Katie Matheson: Legislature’s misrule is shifting the political winds in Utah

  21-09-2019 22:25
  My kids are currently 2 and 4. My youngest son had his first political experience when he was an infant and I strapped him to my torso so we could march in the blustery Women’s March.One day, when they’re older, I imagine we’ll discuss Utah politics in depth, and included in those conversations will be the story of how Utah shifted from from a conservative state to a swing state. We’ll talk about how it was a shift that, ironically, was hastened by the conservative Legisl
  
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• Live: No. 22 Washington turns Zach Wilson fumble into TD, takes 21-3 lead over BYU late in the first quarter

  21-09-2019 22:13
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• Gordon Monson: Before its wheels spun off, Utah was the hunted, not the hunter. Now, it’s both.

  21-09-2019 22:05
  Los Angeles • Even in the fog of the aftermath of Utah’s disappointing loss to USC, the reasons for the defeat were clear to see — mistakes.“The wheels came off,” Kyle Whittingham said in the postgame.That’s good news, in a twisted sort of way, for the Utes.Mistakes are fixable. Wheels are re-attachable. Lack of ability is neither.It sounds awful then, condemning even, while also covered in excuse, to say Utah was good enough to win here, but didn’t. That
  
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• Jason Isbell’s age and experience make for a more polished, perfected musician and songwriter in latest Red Butte visit

  21-09-2019 21:33
  Jason Isbell capped his Red Butte set (pre-encore) Thursday night with one of his old standards — “Never Gonna Change” — a song he recorded way back in 2004 with the Drive-by Truckers’ debut album “The Dirty South.”And while Isbell is known for the truth in his lyrics, he most definitely has changed.The first time I saw a Jason Isbell play solo was back in 2008, a free show up at Snowbird. Back then he as a pudgy 29-year-old, a renowned songwriter alread
  
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• Man sentenced for killing University of Utah student pleads guilty in second death

  21-09-2019 20:25
  Denver • A man who was previously convicted of fatally shooting a University of Utah student has pleaded guilty to killing a Colorado man.Austin Jeffrey Boutain pleaded guilty Friday to murder and aggravated robbery in the death of 67-year-old Mitchell Ingle of Golden In October 2017.Authorities say the 25-year-old Boutain and his wife, Kathleen, were drinking and smoking marijuana with Ingle in an RV park, when Boutain became angry at Ingle's suggestion the three have sex.Police say Austin
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Martin Schiller is the guy behind the scenes turning SLC Stars players into Utah Jazz players

  21-09-2019 19:18 via sportspyder.com
  Georges Niang is one of the NBA’s best rags-to-riches success stories of the past few seasons, a guy who, in a year, went from a fringe prospect to legitimate rotation guy.
  
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• Martin Schiller is the guy behind the scenes turning SLC Stars players into Utah Jazz players

  21-09-2019 19:00
  Georges Niang is one of the NBA’s best rags-to-riches success stories of the past few seasons, a guy who, in a year, went from a fringe prospect to legitimate rotation guy.So, what exactly occurred in that year? What made his leap happen?Well, first of all, Niang put in a ton of work. More specifically, though, he put in work with Martin Schiller.Schiller is the head coach of the Jazz’s G League affiliate, the Salt Lake City Stars. That title, however, does not really do justice to e
  
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• Hong Kong protesters, police face off in renewed clashes

  21-09-2019 18:40
  Hong Kong • Protesters in Hong Kong threw gasoline bombs and police fired tear gas Saturday in renewed clashes over anti-government grievances.Reporters saw at least one person arrested after violence erupted following an afternoon march by several thousand people in Tuen Mun, a district in the northwest of the Chinese territory.Hong Kong is in the fourth month of sometimes violent protests that occur every weekend. They started with opposition to a proposed extradition law and have expande
  
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• Utes in review: Players say they will regroup, but a lot was lost at USC

  21-09-2019 18:14
  Los Angeles • The last two minutes of Friday night’s game ticked off the Los Angeles Coliseum clock with Utah’s defensive players standing on the field, powerless to do anything about a 30-23 loss to USC. The slow, painful ending of the Utes’ Pac-12 opener gave safety Julian Blackmon time to turn the page.In the interview room in the tunnel, Blackmon said, “We're over this game already, immediately.”Is it really that easy, though? The list of what Utah lost is
  
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• The University of Utah’s response to the lawsuit filed by the parents of Lauren McCluskey: Dismiss everything

  21-09-2019 18:12
  The University of Utah is asking a judge to dismiss the lawsuit filed against it by the parents of slain track star Lauren McCluskey, suggesting that — “no matter how heartbreaking” — its officers had no obligation to protect McCluskey from her attacker.In court papers filed late Friday, the school’s attorneys argue that her killer wasn’t a U. employee or student and had no connection to the university, so it is not responsible for his actions. And, they add,
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Royce O’Neale is the key to unlocking Utah Jazz’s star potential

  21-09-2019 18:11 via sportspyder.com
  Can Royce O’Neale become Utah’s next Joe Ingles glow up story?
  
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• Utah unemployment rate remains steady at 2.8% in August

  21-09-2019 17:38
  Utah's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has held steady at 2.8% for three straight months.The Department of Workforce Service's monthly report released Friday also says nonfarm payroll employment for August grew by an estimated 3 percent, with 45,900 jobs added to the economy since August 2018.Senior Economist Mark Knold says the state economy's job growth remains as one of the nation's best and that the growth is generally across the industrial spectrum.According to the department, an exce
  
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• Jeanette Rusk Sefcik: Coffee or soda. Which is really ‘wiser’?

  21-09-2019 16:00
  It is time for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to take a new look at its dated Word of Wisdom.If church leadership prioritizes the health of its members, it must consider new contravening evidence that the demonized “hot drink” coffee is way better for you than the tremendous quantities of soda that members drink as a caffeine substitute.Full disclosure before I continue, I am of “Mormon” heritage (it’s OK to say Mormon because that’s what my a
  
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• Here’s what the Democratic presidential hopefuls plan to do with public lands if they defeat Trump

  21-09-2019 15:00
  Washington • If a Democrat lands in the White House after next year’s election, Americans should expect a wholesale reversal of the Trump administration’s approach to public lands.Most of the Democratic hopefuls are promising to prohibit new leases for oil and gas drilling on federal acreage — or phase it out altogether — as well as spend billions to fix aging national park structures and restore the original boundaries of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante
  
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• David Bywater: For a ‘Life Elevated’ tomorrow, Utah needs clean energy today

  21-09-2019 15:00
  If someone asked you to name the top cities for solar in the U.S., you’d probably think of cities in warm, sunny states like Hawaii, California or Arizona. Yet, in my role heading one of the country’s largest residential solar companies, which happens to be headquartered in Lehi, I wasn’t surprised to read that Salt Lake City ranked 11th among top solar cities in the United States. That’s higher than Los Angeles, San Francisco and Austin.Utah has made great strides in rec
  
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• Letter: Utah’s path to a clean energy future

  21-09-2019 14:00
  Our path to a clean energy future is being pried open with the help of local government leadership, as told in the July Issue of SIERRA magazine in an article by Emma Penrod titled “The Utah Way to Achieving 100 Percent Clean Energy.”Park City, Salt Lake City and Moab have each passed resolutions committing their city to transitioning 100 percent of its energy to renewable sources by 2030 to 2040. Most recently, Salt Lake suburbs such as Cottonwood Heights have joined, and now Ogden
  
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• Letter: Put the education ‘specialists’ in the classroom

  21-09-2019 14:00
  I wonder what would happen if public education took all the specialists, coaches, administrators, directors, assistants, board members, state wonks, consultants and other miscellaneous experts and put them in classrooms to help kids?I wonder what would happen if we took a year moratorium on testing and got students back from charter schools?What if the Utah State Board of Education had continued to offer free professional development to teachers? Would we still need to be coached, and co-plan an
  
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• Letter: Put our health before industry’s

  21-09-2019 14:00
  By this time a year ago, the Trump administration had been sued 93 times over environmental rollbacks and policies that endanger the health of all Americans. Though the lawsuits are often filed by nonprofits, taxpayers usually foot the bill.Imagine, if these dollars were spent on actual environmental protections, how much further ahead we would be on addressing climate change. Instead, our president (though I choose not to claim him) challenges policies that protect us, that reduce greenhouse em
  
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• Letter: Marxists hiding in plain sight

  21-09-2019 14:00
  The Aug. 31 Salt Lake Tribune story regarding Cecilia Figueroa’s deportation includes an image of protest signs with Che Guevara and reference to website pslweb.org (Party for Socialism and Liberation).Che Guevara was a Marxist revolutionary, not a socialist. During his time in Cuba after the Marxist revolution, he oversaw establishment of a concentration camp for enemies of the state, including priests, intellectuals, former military, homosexuals and business owners. He also directed exec
  
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• Letter: Cars and streets, not scooters, are the problem

  21-09-2019 14:00
  Robert Gehrke recently wrote that politicians should let facts guide their response to the vaping crisis. He should take his own advice on scooter regulations.To be sure, scooter companies should bear responsibility for clutter and broken devices, and scooters on the sidewalk can feel unsafe for pedestrians.But the article Gehrke cites about scooter hospitalizations does not indicate that pedestrian collisions aren’t the problem, but that falls from bumpy roads and sidewalks are. And most
  
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• Utah remains winless at the L.A. Coliseum, falls 30-23 to USC in its Pac-12 opener

  21-09-2019 08:43
  Los Angeles • Utah’s Coliseum Curse lives.The No. 10 Utes hopes of a breakthrough victory unraveled from start to finish Friday night, as USC rode three touchdown passes from former third-string quarterback Matt Fink to a 30-23 win.Disregarding how Utah's last victory in Los Angeles came in 1916, predating the Coliseum, five losses in the historic venue in this decade all have been devastating in different ways. The latest episode leaves Utah (3-1, 0-1 Pac-12) fighting to catch USC (3
  
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• With coach Clay Helton under pressure and Urban Meyer in the building, the Trojans come out swinging

  21-09-2019 08:42
  Los Angeles • USC once fired a basketball coach two days after the Trojans’ 17-point victory over Utah. The Ute football team’s visit to the Los Angeles Coliseum couldn’t possibly match that sequence of events in USC history, but Friday night’s game did bring some unusual circumstances into play.Urban Meyer's presence in the west zone was a good illustration of all the speculation swirling around USC coach Clay Helton's future, on a day when USC inaugurated a new pre
  
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• Gordon Monson: Utah crumbles at USC, complicating its plans for Pac-12 glory

  21-09-2019 08:29
  Los AngelesAs Utah’s Utes moved to the middle of the field here at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum on Friday night after losing to USC, their minds and bodies slumped, their heads hung low, their spirits dragged anchor, even while the Trojans patted them upside their helmets and half-heartedly encouraged them to carry on.And later, in the visitors’ locker room, they looked for answers to difficult questions, they searched for reasons to dig deeper.Why wouldn’t they? Why shouldn&rsqu
  
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• Utah’s defense was exposed both early and late against USC

  21-09-2019 08:26
  Los Angeles • This is a tale of a Utah defense that on Friday night against USC sagged early, then steadied, then sagged again, then soared, then sagged, then lost, 30-23.At first, that D demonstrated bad intentions, when Leki Fotu hit Kedon Slovis on the Trojans’ second play, knocking him out of the game. Matt Fink replaced the freshman SC quarterback, and … well, he thrived, throwing for 351 yards and three touchdowns.“We won a huge ballgame against a very good team,&rd
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz alums: Thabo Sefolosha joins Harden, Rockets

  21-09-2019 07:43 via sportspyder.com
  Former Utah Jazz forward Thabo Sefolosha is set to rejoin his old teammates James Harden and Russell Westbrook in Houston. Another former Utah Jazz player ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Best and worst case scenarios for Jazz players in 2019: part 1

  21-09-2019 07:28 via sportspyder.com
  What can we expect from some of the prominent players on the Utah Jazz
  
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• During BYU appearance, Justice Gorsuch rebuts the notion that judges are just ‘like politicians with robes’

  21-09-2019 06:38
  Provo • Justice Neil Gorsuch says he doesn’t recognize the Supreme Court reflected in news stories hinting at deep divisions and tensions among the nine jurists.As he tells it, members of the nation’s highest court eat packed lunches together while Justice Stephen Breyer tests out knock-knock jokes that his grandchildren taught him. They sing happy birthday to each other, grill burgers at employee picnics and play practical jokes.“That’s the Supreme Court I know,&rdq
  
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• Tour bus crash near Bryce Canyon National Park leaves 4 Chinese tourists dead, 27 others injured

  21-09-2019 06:02
  Robert Driedonks’ voice broke as he described what he saw Friday along State Road 12, after a tour bus carrying Chinese-speaking tourists crashed next to his business."We just tried to help,” he said. “Put blankets on. Taped them up. I tried to comfort a guy who was sitting next to his dead wife. It’s pretty tough to [check] people’s wrists and necks and they’re not breathing.”The crash, about 3 ½ miles west of Bryce Canyon National Park, killed a
  
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• Cedar City asks public to be vigilant after reported rape

  21-09-2019 04:15
  Cedar City police are asking residents to be aware of their surroundings after authorities received a report of a rape earlier this week and determined the suspect is a public safety risk.The rape is alleged to have occurred near 570 West and 1045 North on Wednesday night, according to a police department news release.The release didn’t include additional details of the alleged rape, which Sgt. Clint Pollock said was department policy for rape cases.The suspect is described as a white man,
  
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• Utah Jazz alums: Thabo Sefolosha joins Harden, Rockets

  21-09-2019 04:08
  Former Utah Jazz forward Thabo Sefolosha is set to rejoin his old teammates James Harden and Russell Westbrook in Houston. Another former Utah Jazz player looks to have found a new basketball home on Friday. Thabo Sefolosha, who just wrapped up a two-year stint in Jazzland, will reportedly pursue a championship ring with James Harden, […]
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• Live: Backup Trojan QB Matt Fink burns Ute secondary, USC leads Utah 14-7 in wild first quarter

  21-09-2019 03:30
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• Tour bus crash near Bryce Canyon National Park leaves 4 Chinese tourists dead, 26 injured

  21-09-2019 03:23
  Robert Driedonks’ voice broke as he described what he saw Friday along State Road 12, after a tour bus carrying Chinese-speaking tourists crashed next to his business."We just tried to help,” he said. “Put blankets on. Taped them up. I tried to comfort a guy who was sitting next to his dead wife. It’s pretty tough to [check] people’s wrists and necks and they’re not breathing.”The crash, about 3 ½ miles west of Bryce Canyon National Park, killed a
  
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• 'Winter is not coming’ — Hundreds of young Utahns protest, demand action on climate change

  21-09-2019 03:14
  These kids are not all right.They want to see change, and they want to see it now — before it’s too late to preserve the planet as a livable place.Hundreds of Salt Lake City area high schoolers bailed on classes on a cloudy and soggy Friday to speak out against official indifference to climate change, joining a global protest demanding that elected leaders wake up to the potentially catastrophic consequences of worldwide warming.Utahns young and not-so-young flooded the grounds outsi
  
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• Utah leaders unveil design of new Martha Hughes Cannon statue heading to D.C. next year

  21-09-2019 03:13
  The sculptor behind the new statue of Martha Hughes Cannon that will be sent to Washington, D.C., next year unveiled his design Friday at a Salt Lake City celebration of the ratification of women’s right to vote in Utah.The state Legislature voted last year to send the statue of Cannon, the first female state senator in Utah and the nation, to represent Utah in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol, where two figures of historic significance represent each state.Artist
  
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• U.S. to send troops to Saudi Arabia, hold off on striking Iran

  21-09-2019 02:56
  Washington • The Pentagon on Friday announced it will deploy additional U.S. troops and missile defense equipment to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as President Donald Trump has at least for now put off any immediate military strike on Iran in response to the attack on the Saudi oil industry.Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Pentagon reporters this is a first step to beef up security and he would not rule out additional moves down the road. Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the J
  
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• Trump Pressed Ukraine’s Leader as Giuliani Pushed for Biden Inquiry

  21-09-2019 02:01
  Washington • President Donald Trump repeatedly pressed his Ukrainian counterpart in a call to talk with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who had been urging the government in Kyiv for months to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family, according to people briefed on the call.Trump’s desire for a Ukrainian investigation of Biden, a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, is part of the secret whistleblower complaint that is said to be about Tru
  
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• U.S. to deploy more troops to Saudi Arabia, UAE

  21-09-2019 01:13
  The Pentagon says the U.S. will deploy additional troops and military equipment to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to beef up security, as President Donald Trump has at least for now decided against any immediate military strike on Iran in response to the attack on the Saudi oil industry.Defense Secretary Mark Esper says this is a first step, and he is not ruling out additional moves down the road. He says it's a response to requests from the Saudis and the UAE to help improve their ai
  
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• BYU got pummeled last year at Washington. The Cougars have not forgotten it going into the Provo rematch.

  21-09-2019 00:29
  Provo • BYU was 3-1 and rolling last year — its best start since going 4-0 in 2014 — when it paid the Washington Huskies a visit. And though the Cougars were brimming with confidence, the result was a 35-7 Washington beatdown that sent them back home with their tail between their legs.For the BYU players who were on the sideline that day in Seattle, that loss still stings, and the Cougars are determined to get a different outcome when BYU hosts the No. 22 Huskies on Saturday aft
  
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• Holly Richardson: Autumn is the perfect time to set new goals

  21-09-2019 00:00
  A drop in temperature, snow on the mountain peaks and leaves changing color? Yes, please! This weekend’s weather change is most welcome, as it signals the end of energy-draining heat and the advent of my favorite season of the year. In the beautiful but fading colors of fall, people often sees reminders to slow down, to reflect, to appreciate nature’s “grand finale” and appreciate the lessons of the trees on how healthy it can be to just “let go.”But have you
  
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