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• Bagley Cartoon: Fake Smoking Gun!!!

  25-09-2019 23:59
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/09/24/bagley-cartoon-starting/" target=_blank><u>Starting Flag</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/09/23/bagley-cartoon-bus-stop/"><u>Bus Stop</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/09/20/bagley-cartoon-fo
  
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• Andrew G. Bjelland: If Trump does not deserve to be impeached, who ever will?

  25-09-2019 23:57
  Our nation’s founders derived the phrase “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” from the basis for impeachment utilized by the British Parliament.In the original intent of the founders, impeachment was not solely a remedy for an office holder’s commission of a felony. The framers of the U.S. Constitution viewed impeachment as the remedy for a public official’s “abuse or violation of some public trust” (Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 65).The founders rightly fear
  
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• Brian Moench: Trump’s greatest crime is his destruction of the environment

  25-09-2019 23:56
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has finally dropped the “I” bomb on Washington. Democrats, long outraged at everything Trump says and does, are already feeling vindicated. Republicans, long feeling vindicated by everything Trump says and does, are outraged.Almost all of the pressure to impeach swirls around whether President Trump obstructed justice, invited interference in our election by our number one foreign enemy, or whether he is now guilty of extorting another foreign government us
  
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• 20 Utah cops disciplined, including one officer who shot a woman in the knee and one who thought duck hunters shot at him

  25-09-2019 23:16
  Sandy • Jeremy Dunn says he didn’t want to kill her.But Dunn, who was an officer in Enoch’s police department, also thought the woman was a threat. She had a screwdriver and wasn’t responding to commands to put it down. The prongs of his Taser couldn’t penetrate the woman’s coat.So Dunn drew his pistol and fired three shots at her legs, striking her twice in the right knee.“I saw her as an imminent threat,” Dunn told the Utah Peace Officer Standards
  
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• Report: Opioids settlement won’t fix areas hardest hit

  25-09-2019 23:15
  OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s tentative legal settlement over the toll of the nation’s opioid crisis is unlikely to reverse the consequences of the epidemic in the hardest-hit towns and regions, according to a report released Wednesday.Purdue reached a tentative deal this month to resolve the lawsuits it faces. It could be worth up to $12 billion over time, with a portion of the benefits coming in savings on opioid antidotes for governments rather than cash. It would be up to a ban
  
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• In major move, Utah pulls hydropower out of Lake Powell pipeline

  25-09-2019 22:45
  Utah’s proposed Lake Powell pipeline will cost less to build and be easier to permit under a decision announced Wednesday to cut major hydropower components from the controversial project that would move 86,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water to St. George.At the same time, the Utah Division of Water Resources withdrew its application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which had been the lead permitting agency on the project.The division’s new plan for the 142-mile pipeli
  
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• Utah Symphony | Utah Opera chief resigns

  25-09-2019 22:39
  The president and CEO of the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera announced Wednesday that he’s resigning.Paul Meecham, who has served in the position since July 2016, said his last day will be Monday. He’ll be replaced on an interim basis by Patrica A. Richard, a former chair of the USUO board (2005-14) who previously served as interim CEO in 2015-16.In a statement, Meecham said he “enjoyed immensely my time with the USUO,” and called his decision to leave “definitely a bitt
  
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  25-09-2019 22:18 via twitter.com
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• [NBA] - Utah Jazz have five players on ESPN, Sports Illustrated Top 100 lists

  25-09-2019 22:03 via sportspyder.com
  When Bojan Bogdanovic weighed his options over the summer, one thing drew him to the Utah Jazz.“I saw their roster,” the forward said.
  
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• Prosecutor: Man claiming insanity knew killing 6 was wrong

  25-09-2019 21:47
  Houston • A man who claims he was insane when he traveled to suburban Houston and then fatally shot six members of his ex-wife’s family, including four children, clearly understood that he was doing wrong, a prosecutor told jurors at the man’s capital murder trial Wednesday.Ronald Lee Haskell had been scheming for months to carry out the "cold-blooded execution" of the Stay family at their home in 2014, prosecutor Samantha Knecht said during closing arguments.Authorities say Has
  
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• ‘We’re all in big trouble’: Climate panel sees a dire future

  25-09-2019 21:44
  New York • Earth is in more hot water than ever before, and so are we, an expert United Nations climate panel warned in a grim new report Wednesday.Sea levels are rising at an ever-faster rate as ice and snow shrink, and oceans are getting more acidic and losing oxygen, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report issued as world leaders met at the United Nations.It warned that if steps aren't taken to reduce emissions and slow global warming, seas will rise 3 feet by the
  
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  25-09-2019 21:39 via twitter.com
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• Proposed Lake Powell pipeline cost estimate lowered by $100M

  25-09-2019 21:39
  Utah officials say they have shaved $100 million off the estimated price of a proposed pipeline that would pull water from Lake Powell.The Utah Division of Water Resources said in a news release Wednesday the cost savings come from scrapping plans for two reservoirs that would have generated hydropower at peak demand times.Division spokeswoman Marcie Larson says the project is estimated to cost $1-1.7 billion, down from as much as $1.8 billion. It would be repaid over 50 years.A legislative audi
  
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• ‘They’ve seen it all:’ Utah searches for strategy vs. pass-happy Washington State

  25-09-2019 21:38
  Utah coach Kyle Whittingham thoroughly enjoyed five plays of last September's loss to Washington State.That’s how many times the Cougars’ tailback took a handoff and ran for modest yardage, in something resembling the style of football that Whittingham seemingly was born to play and coach. Having defended WSU’s 56 passing attempts that afternoon, accounting for 445 yards, Whittingham remembered a bygone era of the sport.Asked this week if he wished football consisted strictly o
  
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• Jana Riess: Book of Mormon names only six women, but new videos aim to bolster female voices

  25-09-2019 21:37
  Kymberly Mellen wasn’t sure whether she wanted to take the part of Sariah in the Book of Mormon Videos being produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The audition material she’d been given depicted a Sariah who was a stronger and more developed character than simply “Lehi’s wife” in the early chapters of the Book of Mormon. Mellen, a professional actor for three decades who teaches acting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was intrigued enoug
  
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• Frank Bruni: Why a Trump impeachment terrifies me

  25-09-2019 21:30
  President Donald Trump deserves to be impeached. But the prospect terrifies me, and it should terrify you, too.That’s not to say that it’s the wrong move. Arguably, it’s the only move, at least in terms of fidelity to the Constitution and to basic decency. From the moment that Trump stepped into the office of the presidency, he has degraded it — with words that a president has no business speaking (or tweeting); with ceaseless lies; with infantile and often unhinged behav
  
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• Dana Milbank: On impeachment, the worm has turned

  25-09-2019 20:49
  Video: Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) says reports that President Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate his political rival, former vice president Joe Biden, have raised a new level of concern. If true, Coons says the action would be impeachable. (Joshua Carroll/The Washington Post)(REF:carrollj/The Washington Post)Washington • The worm has turned.For months, Democrats agonized over whether to impeach President Trump. Would it cause them to lose House seats? Would it hurt their chances of wi
  
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• Passengers give Salt Lake City International Airport high ratings, despite ‘intense overcrowding’

  25-09-2019 20:34
  The current Salt Lake City International Airport was designed to handle just 10 million passengers a year — but now serves 25 million. Still, it performed better than average in annual J.D. Power rankings of customer satisfaction for airports in North America released Wednesday.Salt Lake finished at No. 11 among 27 large airports. Its overall score was 779 out of a possible 1,000 — a bit above the average 765 score for large airports.That score could easily rise in the future. The fi
  
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• Yup—here’s the link for that contest:http://bit.ly/2mJPIcg 

  25-09-2019 20:32 via twitter.com
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• Public invited to speak at October briefing on Utah’s gender wage gap

  25-09-2019 20:21
  Utahns will have an opportunity next month to share how they’ve been affected by the gender wage gap in the state.The Utah Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is holding a public briefing Oct. 3 on the topic at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law in Salt Lake City.The committee is “tasked with conducting a qualitative study on a civil rights topic unique to their state and voted in a previous meeting to focus on the gender wage gap,”
  
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• Text of the memo of Trump’s conversation with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy

  25-09-2019 20:02
  The White House released a memo of President Donald Trump’s July 25 telephone conversation with Ukraine’s newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.The White House says a "memorandum of a telephone conversation" is not a verbatim transcript; it records the notes and recollections of Situation Room duty officers and National Security Council staff "assigned to listen and memorialize the conversation in written form as the conversation takes place." The White House says "a number of
  
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• Sen. Mitt Romney calls Trump-Ukraine transcript ‘deeply troubling’

  25-09-2019 19:34
  Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney said President Donald Trump’s request that Ukraine’s president investigate a political opponent was “deeply troubling” but shied away from saying whether it rose to the level of impeachment.“My reaction was the same as I had a few days ago which is that this remains deeply troubling,” the Utah Republican said Wednesday at The Atlantic Festival in Washington. “And we’ll see where it leads.”Romney spoke at the
  
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• ‘They’ve seen it all:’ Utes searches for strategy vs. pass-happy Washington State

  25-09-2019 19:20
  Utah coach Kyle Whittingham thoroughly enjoyed five plays of last September's loss to Washington State.That’s how many times the Cougars’ tailback took a handoff and ran for modest yardage, in something resembling the style of football that Whittingham seemingly was born to play and coach. Having defended WSU’s 56 passing attempts that afternoon, accounting for 445 yards, Whittingham remembered a bygone era of the sport.Asked this week if he wished football consisted strictly o
  
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• Gordon Monson: Let’s cut through the BS — Utah and BYU should play football against each other every year

  25-09-2019 18:28
  Tradition is being disrespected by the powers that be at the University of Utah.There are all kinds of excuses to make for that disrespect, a few even that sound semi-logical, but they are excuses, still.Utah and BYU should play every year in football.Period.Why?Because they always have.That’s a good enough reason right there, overriding any rationale for doing otherwise, any self-aggrandizing smart thinking by some Johnny Come Lately who believes he’s smarter than everyone who came
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Dunk Night Out: Hang out with SLC Dunk on October 25th at Trolley Wing Co!

  25-09-2019 18:21 via sportspyder.com
  Watch the Utah Jazz take on the Los Angeles Lakers with all of your soon to be close friends.
  
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• LDS Church will build its Tooele Valley Temple in Erda

  25-09-2019 17:46
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced that it will build its new Tooele Valley Temple in Erda — on property northwest of the intersection of Erda Way and Highway 36.Church President Russell M. Nelson announced the temple in April.The temple will be located near the Motor Vu Drive In and Virg's Diner.According to a church news release, the 70,000-square-foot temple will be three stories tall. A 20,000-square-foot meetinghouse will be built nearby.The temple plans &ld
  
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• Juul to end product advertising and replace CEO

  25-09-2019 17:30
  Juul Labs will no longer promote its e-cigarettes in print, digital and TV advertisements and is replacing its CEO amid an escalating backlash against vaping nationwide.The nation's largest e-cigarette maker also pledged Wednesday not to lobby against a sweeping ban on vaping flavors proposed by the Trump administration earlier this month.Juul announced its CEO, Kevin Burns, will step down and be replaced by a senior executive from Altria, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes. Altria took a 35% stak
  
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• Memo: Trump prodded Ukraine leader on Biden claims

  25-09-2019 17:10
  Washington • President Donald Trump repeatedly prodded Ukraine’s new leader to work with Rudy Giuliani and the U.S. attorney general to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, according to a summary of the call released Wednesday.In the call, Trump raised unsubstantiated allegations that the former vice president sought to interfere with a Ukrainian prosecutor's investigation of his son Hunter."There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a
  
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• Army Corps delays plan to charge for U.S. reservoir water

  25-09-2019 17:06
  Bismarck, N.D. • The Trump administration has delayed an Obama-era proposal that could allow the federal government to charge for water drawn from reservoirs it manages.Army Assistant Secretary for Civil Works R.D. James says in a memo Monday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will delay the Water Supply Rule “for a minimum of six months to better integrate input from stakeholders.”Attorneys general from a dozen western states sent a letter last month to the Trump administrat
  
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• Inmate who killed Utah Highway Patrol trooper in 1978 granted parole

  25-09-2019 16:55
  A man who murdered a Utah Highway Patrol trooper in 1978 is scheduled to be paroled next year.Brian Keith Stack shot Ray Lynn Pierson, 29, on Highway 20 near Panguitch. A note on the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole website says Stack will be granted parole on Feb. 17.Pierson’s son, Garfield County Sheriff’s Deputy Clint Pierson, on Tuesday argued what he has for years — that the judge who sentenced Stack never intended for him to be freed. The judge, on the sentencing order, c
  
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• Letter: Utah clings to worn-out industries

  25-09-2019 16:46
  How many people, states and counties somewhat more enlightened than Emery County would think it a good thing for a long-closed coal mine to reopen, offering 400 jobs to further degrade the environment?Utah stubbornly embraces the past while bypassing chances to create a better future with new jobs in clean energy.Voters, it is you who enable Utah’s dismal death grip on the past and worn-out industries when you elect the same old, same old politicians who continue to lead by promoting indus
  
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• White House seeks deal for whistleblower to speak to Congress

  25-09-2019 16:33
  White House and intelligence officials were working out a plan Tuesday to release a redacted version of the whistleblower complaint that helped ignite the impeachment drive against President Donald Trump and to allow the whistleblower to speak with congressional investigators, people briefed on the matter said.The move toward disclosing more information demanded by Democrats was part of a broader effort by the administration to quell the growing calls for Trump’s impeachment, and became pu
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - What happens when a blogger tries out for the NBA G League?

  25-09-2019 16:14 via sportspyder.com
  I tried out for the Salt Lake City Stars and here’s what happened
  
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• Top UK court: Johnson’s suspension of Parliament was illegal

  25-09-2019 15:56
  London • In a decision that badly undermines Boris Johnson’s authority, Britain’s highest court ruled unanimously Tuesday that the prime minister broke the law by suspending Parliament in a way that squelched legitimate scrutiny of his Brexit plan.The historic move by the U.K. Supreme Court offered a ringing endorsement of Parliament's sovereignty and slapped down what justices viewed as the legislature's silencing by the executive.The ruling upended the prime minister’s p
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Americans didn’t want to impeach President Trump over Russia. Will Ukraine be different?

  25-09-2019 15:18
  Happy Wednesday!If Democrats are on track to impeach President Donald Trump, they had better hope that public opinion on the Ukraine matter is different than it was on obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation, says poll analyst Nate Silver.That is because while most Americans believed Trump obstructed justice, they opposed impeaching him for it — by a solid margin. [fivethirtyeight]Topping the news: Rep. Ben McAdams, Utah’s lone Democrat in Congress, has not jumped on the i
  
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• [ESPN] - NBA rankings debate: Which stars are about to crash the top 10?

  25-09-2019 15:15 via sportspyder.com
  Our experts debate the latest NBArank results, including rising stars and established vets in new homes.
  
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• Draper mayor defends Riverton mayor in a bizarre lawsuit that also involved the Salt Lake County sheriff

  25-09-2019 15:15
  Riverton City Mayor Trent Staggs found himself ensnared in a bizarre legal mess recently. To disentangle himself, upon his lawyer’s advice, Staggs drove more than six hours round trip to Vernal to pay his own $500 bail and resolve an outstanding warrant for his arrest.Staggs didn’t stop there. Earlier this month he filed suit for a wrongful warrant with the help of attorney and Draper Mayor Troy Walker.Tuesday, Walker said the suit had been settled for what he deemed a “fair am
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Ambitious development near Moab provides a chance to avoid creating another Moab

  25-09-2019 15:14
  It’s not exactly breaking news that Moab has some sticky problems to deal with.The hippest base camp for recreation in Utah’s scenic redrock drew more than 3 million visitors last year, undoubtedly a booming summertime tourist economy. On busy days during the peak season, the population of the town literally quadruples.It’s been a victim of its own success — not to mention some poor planning — leaving the town of just more than 5,200 grappling with a feast-or-famine
  
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• Polygamy foes go door to door in a Utah neighborhood with polygamists to talk ‘bigamy reform’

  25-09-2019 15:13
  Eagle Mountain • The salt-and-pepper-haired man who answered the door said he knows some polygamists and has respect for them.But he also said that he knows there are some people who have had to leave their polygamous homes and that he’d like a system in place for them to report crimes within the households. Before closing the door, the man said one more thing: He complimented Angela Kelly and Melissa Ellis for coming to his neighborhood.“I’m impressed you came here,&rdquo
  
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• Salt Lake City approves $3.3 million loan for new condo project near Pioneer Park

  25-09-2019 15:12
  Salt Lake City has agreed to loan $3.3 million to a Centerville-based developer to help build new condominiums just northwest of Pioneer Park.The five-story project at 378 W. 300 South, dubbed TheOlive, would include 120 condos with one-bedroom, two-bedroom and penthouse units selling for between $270,000 and $500,000, according to city documents.C.W. Urban expects to break ground in November at the 0.69-acre corner lot, currently occupied by fabric retailer Kravit Fabrics and four other commerc
  
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• RSL to honor Javier Morales during halftime of L.A. Galaxy game

  25-09-2019 15:00
  Sandy • The departure of Javier Morales from Real Salt Lake in 2016 was acrimonious to say the least. He initially announced he was leaving in a lengthy Twitter post and, just eight days later, detailed a contact dispute that left him deeply upset at the organization for not picking up his option in 2017.But that situation didn’t change how RSL fans felt about his tenure there. Or his legacy as one of the best midfielders in club history. Or how famous “The Javi and Kyle”
  
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• Letter: Young activists are often the engine of change

  25-09-2019 15:00
  I had the privilege this past weekend of marching behind more than 2,000 climate change activists who converged on Utah’s Capitol, seeking immediate action on climate change.Most of these protesters were high school age, but they were supported by people of all ages gathered together to demand that our elected officials act now to address climate change. It was thrilling to be among these leaders who are so passionate about saving our planet from catastrophic global warming.While some may
  
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• Letter: It’s good to be the president

  25-09-2019 15:00
  How extremely fun to be President Trump today!He gleefully runs off to events like the UN Climate Actions Summit and disrupts them with his authority and whimsical speeches. He knows several things about life on planet America that serve him well.First, the President is immune from the law. The people can't sue him (not yet), and the Congress can't impeach him (because party loyalty has replaced loyalty to rule of law).Second, presidents have gotten away with more and more each successive admini
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Northwest Division

  25-09-2019 14:15 via sportspyder.com
  This is part one of a multi-part series observing the best individual matchups the Utah Jazz will face on every team in the NBA beginning with the Northwes...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz GM Justin Zanik heaps praise on ‘unselfish’ Rudy Gobert

  25-09-2019 14:06 via sportspyder.com
  People see Rudy Gobert as one of the top defensive players in the NBA and concurrently, the Utah Jazz’s defensive anchor. But for an insider like general manager Justin Zanik, who sees his players under a microscope, Gobert is the most unselfish...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Northwest Division

  25-09-2019 14:00
  This is part one of a multi-part series observing the best individual matchups the Utah Jazz will face on every team in the NBA beginning with the Northwest Division. The 2019-20 NBA season is ever-so-close upon us. Utah Jazz Media Day is set for September 30th with training camp to start thereafter as well. Shortly […]
  Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Northwest Division - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• More Utah students are taking the AP test — but, this year, a smaller percentage passed

  25-09-2019 14:00
  More Utah students took an Advanced Placement exam this year than last — but, overall, the percentage of those who passed and earned college credit is down slightly.Roughly two out of three test-takers earned a passing score in 2019, for an overall rate of 67.4%. In 2018, 68.6% of Utah students passed, getting a score of three or higher on the five-point AP scale.That small dip is not completely unexpected with the growing participation rate in public schools, but it is the first time in r
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz GM Justin Zanik raves about Mike Conley’s leadership, ability to ‘uplift’ the team

  25-09-2019 07:28 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz general manager Justin Zanik is in awe of Mike Conley’s leadership and his capacity to uplift the team. Speaking with Jasen Lee of the Deseret News, Zanik shared tidbits of their scouting report on the veteran point guard. Apart from his...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - GM Justin Zanik optimistic Jazz can compete for the title

  25-09-2019 07:28 via sportspyder.com
  For newly-minted Utah Jazz general manager Justin Zanik, his team can compete for the title in the 2019-20 season. Speaking with Jasen Lee of Deseret News, Zanik is optimistic in his first year as the Jazz’s general manager. To recall, the...
  
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• MLS lifts ban on anti-Nazi symbol following fan protests

  25-09-2019 07:14
  Major League Soccer is lifting its ban on signs and banners featuring an anti-Nazi symbol for the remainder of the season and the playoffs.A handful of fans in Portland were prohibited from attending matches this season after challenging a ban on the Iron Front, a symbol with three arrows pointed downward and to the left that was first used by an anti-Nazi paramilitary group in the 1930s. The league had said the emblem violated a ban on political displays included in the MLS fan code of conduct
  
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