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• DNA led to suspected Utah serial rapist, but the call is out to find more evidence, victims

  26-09-2019 23:58
  Clearfield • Detectives found the man they suspect as a serial rapist by first using DNA to locate the defendant’s half brother, a Utah police chief said Thursday.Finding that family pointed police to Mark Douglas Burns, the 69-year-old man arrested Wednesday in Ogden. Clearfield Police Chief Kelly Bennett said Burns was “calm” and asked why he was being arrested.For now, Burns is charged in two rape cases in Clearfield, but investigators say Burns, a truck driver, is susp
  
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  26-09-2019 23:36 via twitter.com
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• Texas jury convicts former Utah man of killing 6 of ex-wife’s family

  26-09-2019 23:09
  Houston • A man accused of fatally shooting six members of his ex-wife’s family, including four children, in an act of vengeance is guilty of capital murder, a jury in Houston decided Thursday.Jurors deliberated for eight hours over two days before rejecting Ronald Lee Haskell's insanity defense. His attorneys had argued that Haskell believed voices in his head were telling him to kill the Stay family at their suburban Houston home in 2014.Starting Monday, jurors hear evidence in the
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Utah lawmakers respond to the impeachment inquiry and state officials remove a costly component from proposed Lake Powell Pipeline

  26-09-2019 23:01
  Utah’s members of Congress react to the launch of an official impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. State officials significantly alter their plans for the Lake Powell Pipeline. And a Utah coal mine is expected to resume production — with an eye to overseas markets.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune Washington bureau chief Thomas Burr, reporter Brian Maffly and columnist Robert Gehrke join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stories. Ever
  
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• Utah Booze News podcast: A tavern inside a grocery store? Are Utahns not fans of White Claw?

  26-09-2019 22:58
  On this edition of Booze News, audio from the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control’s monthly meeting lets listeners hear what commissioners think about Smith’s Food & Drug’s request to build a tavern inside their store in Park City. And about that White Claw shortage — it’s happening across the nation but not in Utah. Does DABC know why?Listen to his week’s podcast with FOX 13′s Ben Winslow, who went at it solo this week because Tribune reporter
  
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• Charles M. Blow: America begins the hard work of starting to defend and redeem itself

  26-09-2019 22:41
  It is truly wondrous and arresting to see the Constitution in action, to see its ultimate tool — impeachment — employed, to see this mechanism that the drafters of the document must have considered an 11th-hour alternative be called up out of necessity.It is not a thing to be celebrated. It is a thing to be soberly considered. It is a sign that the character and behavior of the target — in this case the president — are being searched for deficiency (in this case already d
  
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• Man sentenced to 16-years-to-life for killing a Utah mother and her young son

  26-09-2019 22:29
  Provo • When Christopher Poulson killed his girlfriend and her young child, he took away more than the lives of 23-year-old Emily Quijano and her 3-year-old son, Gabriel Almiron.He took away their potential, Quijano’s family tearfully told a judge during Poulsen’s sentencing Thursday.He stole their family’s chance to see Quijano graduate from massage therapy school, to move to California to follow her dreams and to record a music project with her father and her sister.Poul
  
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• Gail Collins: Rudy is the world’s worst best friend

  26-09-2019 22:00
  Rudy Giuliani is the Trump administration’s point man on Ukraine. Just remember that, and everything else will make a lot more sense.“I think it’s incredible the way he’s done,” the president of the United States said Wednesday about his personal lawyer, who specializes in going on television and babbling incoherently.We don’t know precisely what Giuliani’s diplomatic role is, given the fact that he’s not a government employee. His job seems mainly
  
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• With Ty’son Williams’ season over, BYU now looking to Emmanuel Esukpa to help carry the rushing load

  26-09-2019 21:57
  Provo • When starting running back Ty’Son Williams went down with a knee injury during the Washington game, BYU quickly went into Plan B: Emmanuel Esukpa and Lopini Katoa.Williams is now out for the season with a ACL tear and Plan B has been bumped up to A – Esupka and Katoa are listed as co-starters for Saturday’s game at Toledo.In three games, Esukpa has rushed 80 yards on 18 carries and has 12 yards on two receptions. Katoa has 23 yards on 11 carries and 20 yards on fou
  
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• Utah senior safety Julian Blackmon, and rest of Ute secondary, is hoping for a better ending vs. Washington State

  26-09-2019 21:43
  For two weeks last September, with an open date between games vs. Washington and Washington State, everyone attached to Utah’s football team agonized about the Ute offense. That was nothing new, in a program that has searched for offensive consistency for a decade.A year later, though, the unthinkable is happening. People are worrying about Utah’s defense. Washington State’s visit Saturday night ordinarily would cause mild concern, with the Cougars’ prolific passing offen
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump’s corruption is hidden in plain sight

  26-09-2019 21:43
  Washington • The House just launched its “impeachment inquiry,” but that’s a bit of a misnomer, because it implies questions must be asked to discover whether President Trump is guilty of wrongdoing.In reality, his corruption is hidden in plain sight.Consider two events that occurred simultaneously at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.Trump, after acknowledging that he suspended military aid to Ukraine just before a phone call with the Ukrainian president in which he sought dirt on Dem
  
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• Noah Bookbinder: The Zelensky memo is all the proof needed to impeach Trump

  26-09-2019 21:39
  Facing growing momentum behind a full House impeachment inquiry, President Trump evidently concluded that releasing a memorandum of his phone call on July 25 with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine would quiet the investigative fervor. He could not have been more wrong.The memorandum, which the White House released Wednesday morning, is far worse than we could have imagined. It demonstrates that Mr. Trump sought multiple favors from a foreign leader for his personal political gain and in do
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: It’s the environment, stupid

  26-09-2019 21:00
  I don’t know who sold progressive Democrats on the idea that the way to beat Donald Trump is to abolish the private health insurance of 160 million Americans and offer instead “Medicare for All” (and Mexico will pay for it), but it’s a political loser and an easy target for Trump to feast on. A much better campaign theme is hiding in plain sight. I call it “the Earth Race.”In the 1960s, John F. Kennedy energized the country behind a “space race”: t
  
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• Whistleblower complaint takeaways about Trump’s call with Ukraine: More than a phone call

  26-09-2019 20:59
  Washington • The phone call is just a start.A whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump’s dealings with the new president of Ukraine lays out concerns about multiple actions taken by the Trump White House and its allies that suggest the president was using his office “to solicit interference from a foreign country” to boost his reelection prospects. The complaint, written by an unidentified member of the U.S. intelligence community, was released Thursday. The Ho
  
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• a little family outing thanks for having us, @realsaltlake!pic.twitter.com/aytdcQ5dJE

  26-09-2019 20:14 via twitter.com
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Royce O’Neale gathers teammates and sponsors ‘Strikes for Kids’ charity event

  26-09-2019 20:01 via sportspyder.com
  Royce O’Neale has made a name for himself in the NBA over the past two seasons. Despite the added exposure, fame, and the potential of a juicy contract extension, he is staying grounded in just...
  
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• Letter: Clever, cleaner cars needed in Utah

  26-09-2019 20:00
  A recent Salt Lake Tribune editorial recommended that Utah join California in its efforts to require car manufacturers to meet or exceed the federal mandated corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards. These require a 54 miles per gallon (mpg) average fuel efficiency for cars by 2025. The Trump administration wants all states including California to reduce the CAFE standards to a maximum of 37 mpg.Fortunately, we the Utah car buyers, do not have to wait for the political battle to be resolv
  
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• Sauce Boss Southern Kitchen aims to ‘fill people up and send them home happy, like you do with family’

  26-09-2019 19:58
  Draper • One waitress called me darlin’ and sweetie, and told me a particular sauce that accompanies lots of dishes — including the housemade pork rinds, fried green tomatoes and blackened pork chop — would be good for my soul.Like the name says, Sauce Boss Southern Kitchen serves lunch and dinner with origins far from Utah. It’s the kind of “soul food” that executive chef and owner Julius Thompson grew up eating in the kitchen of his Arkansas-born grandm
  
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• Eye on the Y: Introducing myself and the start of basketball season

  26-09-2019 19:57
  Eye on the Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter covering BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Before getting down to the nitty gritty, you may have noticed there hasn’t been an Eye on the Y newsletter since early August.In case you hadn’t noticed, the previous BYU athletics beat reporter Jay Drew has moved over to the Deseret News. In his place is, well, me.I spent the last four years in Arizona, working for the Nogales International, Today’s News-Herald and, most rece
  
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• Student leaders condemn how the University of Utah has responded to Lauren McCluskey’s murder in a surprising public statement opposing victim-blaming

  26-09-2019 19:55
  Student leaders at the University of Utah have condemned the administration in a surprising public statement — criticizing how it handled fears reported by track-star Lauren McCluskey, denied responsibility after her murder and created an atmosphere where students now worry campus police won’t protect them.The rebuke comes nearly a year after McCluskey was killed outside her dorm last October. It’s the first time the U.’s student government has put forth such a formal cri
  
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• St. George airport’s runway reopens after reconstruction

  26-09-2019 19:45
  St. George • St. George Regional Airport in southwestern Utah reopened Thursday to landings and takeoffs by airplanes after a four-month closure of its runway for reconstruction.The old runway was constructed eight years ago and was expected to last 20 years but needed to be replaced because it was very bumpy and required patching due to underlying clay that expanded at various rates.The reconstruction included digging out 17 feet (5 meters) of clay and soil, adding drainage and moisture ba
  
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• BLM boss Pendley recused from Grand Staircase planning, but he remains listed as Utah counties’ attorney in suit

  26-09-2019 19:22
  Acting Bureau of Land Management Director William Perry Pendley, until recently a prominent Western property-rights lawyer, has identified dozens of former clients — including Utah’s San Juan, Kane and Garfield counties — whose dealings with the BLM could pose conflicts of interest in his new role as a politically appointed agency leader.On Wednesday, he shared a list of 57 clients and current business associates with top BLM leadership, pledging to recuse himself from “p
  
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• Texas jurors deliberate case of former Utah man accused in slaying of 6

  26-09-2019 19:19
  Houston • A jury has resumed deliberating in the trial of a man who claims he was insane when he fatally shot six members of his ex-wife’s family, including four children, in suburban Houston.Jurors in the capital murder trial of Ronald Lee Haskell deliberated for about 3½ hours on Wednesday. They returned to deliberations on Thursday morning.The jury has been sequestered during deliberations.Haskell's lawyers told jurors he committed the killings but should be found not guilty
  
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• Infant found, vague Utah Amber Alert featuring ‘gry Toyt’ canceled

  26-09-2019 18:45
  Police in Wyoming overnight found a 3-month-old child reported abducted from South Salt Lake.At 1:45 a.m. Thursday, the Wyoming Highway Patrol stopped a car carrying the infant and the baby’s mother near Lander. The child’s father, who also was listed as a suspect in the Amber Alert, was located near downtown Salt Lake City and also is in custody, according to a news release for South Salt Lake police, who issued the Amber Alert about 10 p.m. Thursday. The alert was canceled when the
  
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• Red All Over: Kyle Whittingham likes the Florida series, says he’s ‘fine’ with skipping BYU twice.

  26-09-2019 18:37
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here. Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham is looking forward to a home-and-home series vs. Florida. “The Swamp is one of the best venues in the country,” he said, although the 2022 game with the Gators “in coaching terms, [is] so far away you can’t even fathom it.”The school has announced only that a Southeastern Conference opponent will replace BYU on the schedules in ’22 an
  
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• Utah Jazz 2019-20 NBA Season Preview

  26-09-2019 18:24 via basketballinsiders.com
  The Utah Jazz have been on an upward trend for some time, but this summer may have pushed them over the top in terms of being a serious title contender.Basketball Insiders takes a look at the Utah Jazz in this 2019-20 NBA Season Preview.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Let’s get physical: NBA teams asked to provide precise height and age for their players

  26-09-2019 17:51 via sportspyder.com
  What’s the official height for Dante Exum? Rudy Gobert?
  
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• In major move, Utah pulls most hydropower out of Lake Powell pipeline

  26-09-2019 17:19
  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 Utah had requested be the sole permitting agency on the project.The division’s new plan for the 14
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz well-represented in ESPN “NBArank” of Top 100 Players

  26-09-2019 17:18 via sportspyder.com
  Five Jazz players crack ESPN’s list of the best in the NBA
  
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• Naresh Kumar: Global Fund is saving lives in Africa and deserves continued support

  26-09-2019 17:00
  “No big deal. I’ve had malaria five or six times already,” my Ugandan colleague said as I set up her IV fluid bag.As luck would have it, she was an adult who had contracted malaria while living at a hospital. Some are not so lucky.Children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa are more than 15 times more likely to die than they are here. Simple, affordable interventions, like providing adequate nutrition and antimalarial medications, could save more than half of these children from dyi
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Trump to Ukraine: Such a shame if anything happened to your nice country

  26-09-2019 16:30
  On Fox News, Tucker Carlson agreed with a guest who said of allegations against President Donald Trump, “This is all acceptable political behavior by presidents.”Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, tweeted: “House Democrats should stop lying to the American people. They aren’t concerned with the truth. They are still focused on undoing the 2016 election.”A right-wing group, Americans for Limited Government, offered this take: “Pelosi proposes impeachi
  
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• 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 #TakeNotepic.twitter.com/p16p1Ta0HV

  26-09-2019 16:28 via twitter.com
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• Student leaders unite to condemn the University of Utah’s response to Lauren McCluskey’s murder

  26-09-2019 16:19
  Student leaders at the University of Utah have condemned the administration in a public statement — criticizing how it handled fears reported by track-star Lauren McCluskey, denied responsibility after her murder and created an atmosphere where students now worry campus police won’t protect them.The surprising rebuke comes nearly a year after McCluskey was killed outside her dorm last October. It’s the first time the U.’s student government has put forth such a formal cri
  
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• St. George has gone 101 days without rain. The drought will get longer.

  26-09-2019 16:04
  St. George may be in a desert, but it’s not usually this dry.As of Thursday morning, the southwest Utah city of about 87,000 was on day 101 without measurable precipitation, according to the National Weather Service. That’s the fourth-longest recorded streak, and there’s a chance to catch the third-longest — 104 days in winter and spring of 1972.
  (Courtesy the National Weather Service) The National Weather Service says St. George, Utah, reached 100 days without measurable
  
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• Whistleblower’s complaint says White House tried to ‘lock down’ Ukraine call records

  26-09-2019 16:00
  Washington • President Donald Trump used the power of his office to try to get Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election to investigate a political rival “for personal gain,” according to an explosive whistleblower complaint released on Thursday after days of damning revelations about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.Attorney General William P. Barr and the president’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani were central to the effort, the complaint said.In addition, the compla
  
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• Infant found, Utah Amber Alert featuring ‘gry Toyt’ canceled

  26-09-2019 15:47
  Police in Wyoming overnight found a 3-month-old child reported abducted from South Salt Lake, Utah.At 1:45 a.m. Thursday, the Wyoming Highway Patrol stopped a car carrying the infant and the baby’s mother near Lander. The child’s father, who also was listed as a suspect in the Amber Alert, was located near downtown Salt Lake City and also is in custody, according to a news release for South Salt Lake police, who issued the Amber Alert about 10 p.m. Thursday. The alert was canceled wh
  
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• Robert Gehrke: House impeachment inquiry puts Utah’s Ben McAdams between a rock and a hard place

  26-09-2019 15:37
  Given how willing the White House was to release the reconstruction of President Donald Trump’s controversial phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, I assumed it would be a dud.Far from it.What we got was the president asking a foreign leader to turn up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, right now the Democratic frontrunner for the 2020 nomination.I suppose one could believe Trump is just really concerned about allegations of corruption anywhere in the world. Maybe h
  
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• Utah’s wealth gap is smallest in the nation

  26-09-2019 15:18
  The wealth gap is a hot political issue. It led Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to propose tax hikes on the wealthiest Americans to fund programs for the middle class and poor. President Donald Trump attacks that as socialism.But amid such debate for the second straight year, Utah enjoys the nation’s smallest wealth gap — with relatively few who are ultra-rich or miserably poor, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday.“
  
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• Jim Dabakis’ next project? A media platform with ‘the stomach’ to dig into Utah government corruption

  26-09-2019 15:12
  Jim Dabakis, an outspoken former state senator and Utah Democratic Party chairman, is known for his impassioned and unapologetically liberal politics and the occasional stunt on Capitol Hill.But according to him, there’s another level that Utahns haven’t seen yet.“Believe it or not,” he said in an interview with The Tribune, “I’ve always held back a bit during the eight years that I’ve been in public life.”After falling short in the race to be the
  
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• Political Cornflakes: The Trump-Zelensky transcript contains an obscure conspiracy theory reference

  26-09-2019 15:08
  Happy Thursday!Remember the name Crowdstrike. It’s among the more bizarre aspects of the just-released rough transcript of the call between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart.It turns out Crowdstrike is the name of a U.S. cybersecurity firm that, according to a conspiracy theory propagated by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, helped Ukraine frame Russia in the 2016 hacking of a Democratic National Committee server. [NYTimes]Topping the news: Utah Sen. Mitt Romney called the rou
  
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• Utah company hopes to jump-start solar power storage for homes

  26-09-2019 15:05
  Glenn Jakins enjoys camping but discovered he can’t stand the sound of diesel-powered generators when he stayed in a campground tucked in the California redwoods several years ago.That realization put the Lindon-based entrepreneur on a path toward developing a portable, noise-free, solar-powered generator and establishing a Utah renewable energy company known as Humless, which Jakins figures means the opposite of Humvee. The firm has since developed a new product that could jump-start the
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: My gift idea for my wife made my daughter look at me like I had horns

  26-09-2019 15:04
  Dear Ann Cannon • I hope you can settle this argument between my daughter and me. My wife has gained quite a bit of weight over the past few years, which she is not happy about. In fact, she spends a lot of time complaining about how she looks and how nothing fits anymore, etc. I love her no matter how she looks, but she obviously doesn’t feel the same way about herself.Anyway, her birthday is coming up and I was wondering if I should give her a membership to something like Weight Wat
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - LaMelo Ball's hot start and other NBA podcasts of the day

  26-09-2019 15:00 via sportspyder.com
  All the top NBA podcasts compiled here on a daily basis so you don’t have to look for them. Enjoy! Sept. 25: Skal Labissiere — Season outlook from Locked On Blazers – Daily Podcast On T…
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Speak out civilly, says Primary president; another MTC to close; protests near Haiti Temple

  26-09-2019 15:00
  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.Lehi lands on video(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
  Book of Mormon Videos Season 1, Episode 1, 1 Nephi 1–2 depicts how the Lord directs Lehi (a prophet) to flee Jerusalem with hi
  
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• Letter: What’s there to hesitate about, Rep. McAdams?

  26-09-2019 15:00
  This morning’s Salt Lake Tribune reports that Rep. Ben McAdams is hesitant to support an impeachment investigation into Trump. My question for McAdams is simple. How many lies does this man have to tell and how many laws must he break before enough is enough? Robert Mueller proved obstruction of justice. Trump has violated the emoluments clause since day one. Now he is flagrantly violating the whistleblower act. It is time to remove this fake president.Kendra Houser, MillcreekSubmit a lett
  
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• Letter: Time to demand accountability, Sen. Romney

  26-09-2019 15:00
  I would ask, for the sake of our country, and all that we hold dear, that you confront with honesty and directness the unconscionable behavior of this president. At this point in time, there is no need to parse words or build a case or wait for additional information or investigations. The president's own admissions and the transcript are clear and we must say, "Enough." I can't tell you how disappointed I was to hear Senator Graham's statement this morning. A once honorable senator is losing hi
  
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• Letter: Our failures prove Greta Thunberg right

  26-09-2019 15:00
  How dare we!Greta Thunberg is right.We are failing to:• Be good stewards of the earth.• Provide a secure future (economy, jobs, and health) for our youth.• Allow our free market to make the right decisions by not accounting for the indirect costs of burning fossil fuels.• Use the technologies we now have to eliminate CO2 from our energy and transportation industries.How dare we continue to discuss climate change science validity when:• Our frog population has declined by
  
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• Letter: Mother Nature is not the enemy — we are

  26-09-2019 15:00
  I have heard good Christians claim that it doesn’t matter what we do to the Earth because the Savior will come and fix it all anyway. This is an egregious abrogation of personal responsibility, and totally unacceptable coming from people who espouse a Christ-like stewardship, ergo the Republican Party and its notorious “moral majority,” which professes Christian belief but falls short on moral and ethical conviction.Non-Christians can better comprehend the need for a personal s
  
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• Letter: It’s Utah, nothing can derail Stewart

  26-09-2019 15:00
  Rep. Chris Stewart is an embarrassment to the state. His partisanship is probably very much appreciated by the most corrupt president in history.Never fear, fellow citizens; Stewart will be re-elected. This is a Utah.Alan Peterson, MayfieldSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz GM Justin Zanik likes team’s chances for upcoming season

  26-09-2019 14:07 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz general manager Justin Zanik is feeling optimistic about his team's odds at competing for a championship next season. If you're a Utah Jazz fan t...
  
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