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• Tribune Editorial: Impeachment must go forward, more in sorrow than in anger

  28-09-2019 23:00
  “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”- Winston ChurchillLeaders of the U.S. House of Representatives have made a correct decision to do their constitutional duty and look into credible evidence that the president of the United States has been abusing his power for personal and political gain.This is not a cause for celebration or condemnation. It is just what they should be doing. Calmly and with all deliberate s
  
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• Running and reading combined in northern Utah refugee support group

  28-09-2019 21:25
  Logan, Utah • Running and reading go hand in hand in a northern Utah nonprofit aimed at helping refugees learn English while developing a love for athletics.Athletics United was launched three years ago as a running club and evolved to include two nights per week of tutoring, said founders Mike and Kristi Spence of Logan. They created the group with friend Glynn Hadley to create a safe space for the children to make friends and learn English."We didn't know exactly what form that would take
  
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• Live: Toledo beats BYU 28-21, dropping Cougars to 2-3 for season

  28-09-2019 21:20
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - How will the Utah Jazz struggle against the East?

  28-09-2019 20:45 via sportspyder.com
  Let's take a look at every team in the East and discuss how they could make victory a struggle for the Utah Jazz. There is plenty of excitement in Jazzland...
  
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• How will the Utah Jazz struggle against the East?

  28-09-2019 20:26
  Let’s take a look at every team in the East and discuss how they could make victory a struggle for the Utah Jazz. There is plenty of excitement in Jazzland about how deep of a playoff run this team can make. Recently with ESPN’s top 100 player rankings being released, fans can easily justify calling […]
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• Sam Young: March to End Child Abuse coming to Salt Lake City

  28-09-2019 20:00
  An open letter to all religious and children’s organization leaders:First, I’d like to commend those of you who, every day, fight for the necessary changes in our society and organizations that directly benefit so many children and families.On Oct. 5, a significant event will take place in Salt Lake City – the very first March for the Children to End Child Abuse. The messages delivered during the march will be of momentous import to hundreds of millions, including every faith,
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - The 2019-20 Projected Starting Lineup For The Utah Jazz

  28-09-2019 19:18 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz's front office made a lot of bold moves in the summer, and even though people continue to sleep on
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - Donovan Mitchell Tries To Slide Into Zendaya’s DMs, Gets Roasted By Rudy Gobert

  28-09-2019 19:18 via sportspyder.com
  Every now and then, a new celebrity takes the world for assault and athletes from all major sports try their best to
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Gordon Monson: The Jazz believe they will punch their way through to the promised land. The reason? ‘A fist is stronger than a finger.’

  28-09-2019 18:53 via sportspyder.com
  The single-mindedness of the Jazz regarding their aim and purpose this season, a season for which camp opens this week, has permeated from Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert and Mike Conley straight through to Georges Niang and everyone else.
  
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• Ex-official: Trump’s past phone-call memos also concealed

  28-09-2019 18:35
  Washington • The White House severely restricted distribution of memos detailing President Donald Trump’s calls with foreign leaders, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, after embarrassing leaks of his conversations early in his tenure, a former White House official said.The White House’s handling of Trump’s calls with foreign leaders is at the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. A whistleblower alleges the
  
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• Gordon Monson: The Jazz believe they will punch their way through to the promised land. The reason? ‘A fist is stronger than a finger.’

  28-09-2019 18:30
  The single-mindedness of the Jazz regarding their aim and purpose this season, a season for which camp opens this week, has permeated from Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert and Mike Conley straight through to Georges Niang and everyone else.It’s one thing for outsiders to have great expectations. But, turns out, the Jazz themselves have them, too.Asked recently about those towering intentions during an interview for my radio show, Niang said precisely what his teammates have already said. I
  
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• RSL’s Nick Rimando is retiring after this season. Here’s how he became the greatest goalkeeper in MLS history — and how Utah became home.

  28-09-2019 17:45
  A teenage Nick Rimando kicks the soccer ball around his house when he accidentally punts it into his family’s entertainment center. It slams into the glass doors, shattering them and showering the floor in little shards.He’d already broken several lamps, so his parents weren’t entirely surprised. And his mom, Rose, was constantly telling him, “Not in the house. Not in the house.”But growing up, Rimando couldn’t help it. Soccer was all he wanted to do. All he w
  
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• Nevada Congressman is first House Republican to support impeachment inquiry

  28-09-2019 17:44
  Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada on Friday became the first Republican member of the House to back the rapidly escalating impeachment inquiry — but he said he was reserving judgment on whether President Donald Trump should be impeached.Amodei, 61, a four-term congressman from Carson City, is the chairman of Trump’s re-election campaign in Nevada, a swing state that the president lost by 27,000 votes to Hillary Clinton in 2016.He said it made sense for Congress to investigate a whistleblowe
  
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• Prof points to gender, sexual fluidity in religious writings as blueprint to build bridges between LDS-LGBTQ communities

  28-09-2019 17:10
  A religion professor dove into Mormon doctrine Friday night and dissected its historical interpretations of gender and sexuality in a speech to kick off a forum on LGBTQ issues within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Taylor Petrey, chairman of Kalamazoo College’s religion department in Michigan, examined how the church’s views around gender and sexuality have changed over time, evolving from a patriarchal one to a heterosexual one and how that change could set a preced
  
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• Live: BYU takes on Toledo at the Glass Bowl

  28-09-2019 17:09
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• Ten compelling questions as the Jazz get ready to open preseason camp

  28-09-2019 17:08
  The time has come.The moment has arrived for this new vaunted Jazz lineup, the one that Jazz fans have been eagerly awaiting to see in action for months now, to step out on the floor together and get a sense of what they’re capable of.Returnees like Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, Joe Ingles, and the four other Jazzmen who have been through a Quin Snyder training camp before will know what to expect from their head coach. But for new signees Mike Conley, Bojan Bogdanovic, Ed Davis, Jeff Gre
  
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• Prophet of peace: Gandhi’s nonviolent message needed now as much as ever, say Utahns as they mark 150 years since his birth

  28-09-2019 17:08
  Mahatma Gandhi was a Hindu peace activist in India who was assassinated 71 years ago, so why would a young Muslim a world and several generations away want to help commemorate the 150th birthday of such a distant figure?“I have always been fond of Gandhi and in favor of nonviolent action,” explains Sergazy Nurbavliyev, a graduate student at the University of Utah. “I see a real similarity with our Prophet Muhammad.”Lately, the Muslim world “seems violent and chaotic
  
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• Feds to open Utah’s national parks to ATVs; advocates fear damage, noise they may bring

  28-09-2019 17:07
  The roar of ATVs could be coming to a Utah national park backcountry road near you under a major policy shift initiated by the National Park Service without public input.Across the country, off-road vehicles like ATVs and UTVs are generally barred from national parks. For Utah’s famed parks, however, that all changes starting Nov. 1, when these vehicles may be allowed on both main access roads and back roads like Canyonlands National Park’s White Rim and Arches’ entry points fr
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Ten compelling questions as the Jazz get ready to open preseason camp

  28-09-2019 16:59 via sportspyder.com
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• Holly Richardson: Find a good mentor, and you’ll both rise together

  28-09-2019 16:57
  On Jan. 23, 2011, Rebecca Lockhart was sworn in as the first female Speaker of the House. One week later, Jan. 30, 2011, I became the first Representative to be sworn by her. But it wasn’t the first time I had met Becky. In fact, I had known her for a decade and she had been a mentor and a friend to me as I got involved in politics for the very first time.She helped me meet new people, learn the ropes of Utah’s electoral process and in many ways how to navigate the Utah Legislature.
  
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• Patricia Sadoski: How can our leaders stay still for these outrages?

  28-09-2019 16:00
  Every day is a new horror, revelation, lie or mortifyingly embarrassing behavior not fitting the leader of a democracy.I wonder how we have come to this vile juncture that causes me regular misgivings. I wonder what my father would say about his lifelong membership in the once proud “Party of Lincoln.”Dad was a principled citizen who believed in people and in the democratic process. He gave four years of his life to fighting for it in the European Theatre of World War II. Humanity, c
  
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• [Forbes] - Contract Seasons For Young Spurs Teases Potentially Pricey Future

  28-09-2019 15:11 via sportspyder.com
  A handful of San Antonio Spurs in contract seasons are playing for their financial future, impacting what the next payroll may look like.
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Pacific Division

  28-09-2019 14:30 via sportspyder.com
  The 'most intriguing individual matchup' series continues with a look at how the Utah Jazz will compare to some of the top opposing players in the Pacific ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Pacific Division

  28-09-2019 14:00
  The ‘most intriguing individual matchup’ series continues with a look at how the Utah Jazz will compare to some of the top opposing players in the Pacific Division. With the commencement of the 2019-20 Utah Jazz season quickly drawing near as Jazz Media Day will take place on Monday and the first preseason game is […]
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• Letter: The powerful don’t suffer from their own bad decisions

  28-09-2019 14:00
  Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative, claims that the first step to resolving a concern is to “get proximate.” Getting up close with unfamiliar people and issues and realities is an essential part of promoting solutions. This principle extends to climate change and environmental protection.Our current legislature, on both the state and federal levels, is old and affluent. They live far from the heaviest polluters and, due to age or wealth, they will not reap the
  
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• Letter: Read the rules for annual area cleanups

  28-09-2019 14:00
  People, learn to read. The annual area cleanup within the Wasatch Front Waste and Recycling District is a chance to clean up your yards. To trim trees, bushes and other miscellaneous yard stuff. To get rid of unwanted furniture, mattress and appliances — but not everything needs to go into the dumpster.Read the card that Wasatch Front Waste sends out.Green waste-tree trimmings, branches, etc., can be shredded. All you have to do is call Wasatch and they will have a truck come on your sched
  
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• Letter: More Mormon-centric, slanted news coverage

  28-09-2019 14:00
  Here’s a quick question the folks at The Salt Lake Tribune: Can you imagine picking up a copy of The Boston Globe and reading this headline, “Trump taps Catholic as new national security adviser?”I’m pretty sure your answer is “no,” as well it should be.So why do I have to read this headline in the Thursday edition of The Tribune, “Trump taps Latter-day Saint as new national security adviser?” What is the relevance of O'Brien’s religion? I su
  
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• Letter: Greta Thunberg’s U.N. speech is something to behold

  28-09-2019 14:00
  This week has been astounding.Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who took time off from school to devote herself to the climate crisis, gave a compellingly erudite speech before the U.N. this week.President Trump addressed the U.N. the next day. It was boring and tedious. His delivery was predictable, extolling the virtues of his presidency. His demeanor was dour and he delivered every sentence ending each phrase in an inaudible fade.If you would like to have your spirits l
  
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• Letter: A matter of record

  28-09-2019 14:00
  “I’ve got this thing and it’s effing golden!” — Rod Blagojevich, governor of Illinois impeached and removed from office in 2009 for abuse of power and now serving 14 years in federal prison.History is repeating itself, except that congressional Republicans are proving their cowardice by sticking to their weak defense of the president and using deflection of the real issues to false equivalence arguments. Contrast that with Illinois Democrat members of the assembly w
  
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• Letter: A case of the irresponsible letting evil triumph

  28-09-2019 14:00
  Now that we see Trump trashing the Constitution once again by colluding with another foreign government to get dirt on an opponent, it should behoove everyone to defend the Constitution and forget politics but, once again, we see Republicans putting party and Trump ahead of country.The only appropriate response for us that still value our democratic republic is to vote every single one of these Republicans out of office because they are all complicit in violating their oath of office and trashin
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz officially announce their ’19-20 camp roster

  28-09-2019 06:24 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz have revealed the 20 players that will make up the squad when NBA training camps tip-off next week. NBA basketball is nearly upon us; for the...
  
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• Real Salt Lake and GM Craig Waibel agree to part ways

  28-09-2019 04:22
  Craig Waibel is no longer the general manager of Real Salt Lake.The club announced late Friday that RSL and Waibel agreed to part ways, and that the remainder of his contract was terminated. The news comes after a lawsuit levied by former head coach Mike Petke made reference to a conversation in which Waibel was critical of RSL owner Dell Loy Hansen and said he was making plans to leave the organization at the end of the 2019 season.Assistant GM Elliot Fall was named interim general manager. The
  
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• Nolan Karras: Utah education needs to preserve its guaranteed source of revenue

  28-09-2019 04:00
  Almost 90 years ago, Utah voters approved the state’s first income tax, with a constitutional guarantee that the money would fund our schools. That school funding guarantee has been a cornerstone of education and tax policy in our state, but it’s now at risk as a legislative task force considers recommending a repeal.Now is precisely not the time to gut the funding guarantee for our schools. In fact, leaving the guarantee in place could finally generate the political will to invest m
  
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• Utah Jazz officially announce their ’19-20 camp roster

  28-09-2019 03:42
  The Utah Jazz have revealed the 20 players that will make up the squad when NBA training camps tip-off next week. NBA basketball is nearly upon us; for the Utah Jazz, that means the most important season in a decade-plus is finally on the horizon after the team rocked the free agent frenzy this summer. Jazz […]
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• Judge blocks Trump rules for detained migrant kids

  28-09-2019 03:09
  Los Angeles • A U.S. judge on Friday blocked new Trump administration rules that would enable the government to keep immigrant children in detention facilities with their parents indefinitely.U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles said the rules conflict with a 1997 settlement agreement that requires the government to release immigrant children caught on the border as quickly as possible to relatives in the U.S. and says they can only be held in facilities licensed by a state.Ge
  
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• The Utah attorney general’s office defends its motion to dismiss the McCluskey lawsuit

  28-09-2019 02:09
  It's a standard response to a lawsuit, and nothing more.It’s not a blanket statement about how the University of Utah feels about track star Lauren McCluskey’s killing, they say. And it’s not a statement about how the U. police see their job.That’s what the Utah attorney general’s office said in a Friday afternoon statement as it waded into the controversy surrounding a $56 million lawsuit lodged against the university by McCluskey’s parents.The university has
  
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• Trey Elvis Hansen: Is our sympathy for the younger generation over?

  28-09-2019 02:00
  For many years, I have been fond of a quote by Scottish novelist, George MacDonald. MacDonald said, “When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”I ask you to think on that before you read on.I liked to believe that this quote would appeal to Utahns, a notoriously family-friendly group of people, but I don’t believe this any more. Let me tell you why.Just the other day, the president of the United States of America, a vitriolic man by
  
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• Utah man who was sprayed in the face with a fire extinguisher plans to sue

  28-09-2019 01:55
  A Utah man is suing a former Salt Lake City business owner, saying he was assaulted when the man sprayed him in the face with a fire extinguisher for smoking near the man’s restaurant.Jon Bird told FOX 13 he continues to suffer from respiratory issues and eye problems a week after he was attacked by Alex Jamison.Bird lit a cigarette near the Gallivan Center while volunteering for the Urban Arts Festival on Sept. 20. He was asked to put out the cigarette because he was close to a vegan eate
  
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• Salt Lake City has met a clean-air goal, EPA says, if maybe you don’t count some wildfires and fireworks

  28-09-2019 01:17
  Over three years, the Salt Lake Valley reduced the amount of fine particulate matter in its air, the Environmental Protection Agency has determined, and it will allow Utah regulators to move to a new stage in controlling one of the state’s biggest health problems.That next stage is what could be 20 years of continued monitoring of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area to ensure there’s no increase in PM 2.5 — the dangerous wintertime pollution that can be so thick residents feel
  
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• Prosecutor say Unified officer is justified in shooting Riverton man who held mother at knifepoint

  28-09-2019 01:08
  Prosecutors have decided that a Unified police officer was legally justified to shoot and kill a mentally ill and apparently intoxicated Riverton man who was threatening to harm his mother. Though the officer involved declined to participate in the investigation.Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill released his decision in a written statement Friday. He wrote that even without Officer Darrell Broadhead’s statement, other evidence investigators collected indicated that Broadhead shot
  
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