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• Trump escalates impeachment fight, barring envoy’s testimony

  08-10-2019 23:21
  Washington • Escalating his fight against Congress’ impeachment inquiry, President Donald Trump flouted Democratic warnings about impeachable conduct Tuesday in blocking a U.S. diplomat from testifying about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. House committee chairmen quickly declared they would subpoena the envoy to force him to appear.Gordon Sondland, the U.S. European Union ambassador, was barred by the administration from appearing in a closed-door session with three House panels
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jeff Green reveals Quin Snyder wants him to take on more ball-handling and playmaking responsibility

  08-10-2019 23:14 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz small forward Jeff Green says head coach Quin Snyder wants him to take on more ball-handling and playmaking responsibility. Green is a very versatile player for his height, so Snyder and the Jazz want to use him in different roles this...
  
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• Injury report for #UTAatMIL: Danté Exum (right knee rehab) is OUT. Emmanuel Mudiay (left hamstring soreness) is OUT.

  08-10-2019 22:51 via twitter.com
  Injury report for #UTAatMIL:
  Danté Exum (right knee rehab) is OUT.Emmanuel Mudiay (left hamstring soreness) is OUT.
  
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• House pushes for release of Mueller grand jury testimony

  08-10-2019 22:38
  Washington • Lawyers for House Democrats urged a judge Tuesday to release secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as Congress conducts an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.The Justice Department is opposing the request, and Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell did not immediately rule after hearing arguments from both sides.The arguments tie together the two most consequential investigations to shadow the Trump administration &md
  
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• Profit, not politics: Trump allies sought Ukraine gas deal

  08-10-2019 22:08
  Kyiv, Ukraine • As Rudy Giuliani was pushing Ukrainian officials last spring to investigate one of Donald Trump’s main political rivals, a group of individuals with ties to the president and his personal lawyer were also active in the former Soviet republic.Their aims were profit, not politics. This circle of businessmen and Republican donors touted connections to Giuliani and Trump while trying to install new management at the top of Ukraine's massive state gas company. Their plan wa
  
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• Is it time for the first "wheels up" post? It's time for the first "wheels up" post. pic.twitter.com/yVxydVVt2Z

  08-10-2019 21:34 via twitter.com
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Gordon Monson: No pressure here. Jazz coach Quin Snyder eager, not anxious, to coach this team, amid raised expectations

  08-10-2019 21:32 via sportspyder.com
  Let’s get rid of a popular but misguided notion that currently circulates around the Jazz, buzzing everywhere except for inside their own circle, as it pertains to their head coach.
  
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• Gordon Monson: No pressure here. Jazz coach Quin Snyder eager, not anxious, to coach this team, amid raised expectations

  08-10-2019 21:19
  Let’s get rid of a popular but misguided notion that currently circulates around the Jazz, buzzing everywhere except for inside their own circle, as it pertains to their head coach.No. Quin Snyder is not feeling extra pressure entering a season of high expectations for his team, no more than he places on himself every season. It is true that he constantly tears things apart and puts them back together again, working all types of roundball combinations and equations, hatching hoop novels in
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz fans may have to wait longer for Mike Conley’s on-court debut

  08-10-2019 20:48 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz have not decided whether Mike Conley will play tomorrow in Milwaukee.
  
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• With an increase in biking in natural areas, what are the impacts to wildlife?

  08-10-2019 20:22
  Helena, Mont. • The death of a ranger, Brad Treat, in 2016 was a wake-up call for grizzly bear biologists.Treat, an avid mountain biker, was zipping along at about 25 mph through dense forest near Glacier National Park on a summer afternoon when he collided with a large male grizzly bear.Apparently startled, the bear reacted defensively and quickly killed him. A witness couldn’t see what happened but could hear it. “I heard a thud and an ‘argh,’” the unnamed wi
  
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• How will the BYU offense look with Jaren Hall at quarterback? If there are changes, they will be at the margins.

  08-10-2019 20:10
  Even though the BYU Cougars have put the Toledo game behind them, Jaren Hall hasn’t stopped thinking about the moment his name got called in the final moments of the game.Zach Wilson left the contest with an injury to his right (throwing) hand, which led to surgery the following week and a 6-8 week recovery period. Hall came in and strung together a series of plays that crisply moved the Cougars 43 yards. He then threw to Talon Shumway in the end zone as time expired, but the pass was just
  
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• Dana Milbank: You can’t impeach me. I impeach you.

  08-10-2019 20:09
  Washington -- The U.S. Constitution, as written by the framers, contains seven articles.President Trump's version goes to 12.Trump informed lawmakers of his "Spinal Tap" approach to constitutional law three years ago, but current events make it more ominous in the retelling. Asked what he would do to protect the Constitution's Article I powers -- the powers of Congress -- he reportedly responded, "I want to protect Article I, Article II, Article XII."We now know he had no intention of protecting
  
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• NBA MVP Watch 2019-20: Preseason Edition

  08-10-2019 20:03 via basketballinsiders.com
  With a week of NBA Training Camps in the books, David Weissman dives into potential candidates to win the NBA's Most Valuable Player Award.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jeff Green is a known quantity at this point in his NBA career, but he could end up being the Jazz’s secret weapon. Here’s why.

  08-10-2019 19:59 via sportspyder.com
  Asked following Monday’s practice how the team might generate frontcourt scoring on the second unit now that pick-and-roll finisher extraordinaire Derrick Favors is gone, coach Quin Snyder deflected a bit by quickly retorting, “I don’t know — who...
  
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• Utah mom pushing stroller with her two kids struck by a car; one toddler is critically injured

  08-10-2019 19:43
  A Sandy mother was pushing her two toddlers in a stroller when they were struck by a car on Tuesday morning, critically injuring one of the children.The woman was in a crosswalk near 1850 E. Sego Lily Drive about 9:10 a.m. when she and her children were struck by a car going east, said Sandy Police Sgt. Jason Nielsen. All three were transported to Alta View Hospital; the younger of the children — who Nielsen said was between 18 months and 3 years old — was then flown by helicopter to
  
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• Jeff Green is a known quantity at this point in his NBA career, but he could end up being the Jazz’s secret weapon. Here’s why.

  08-10-2019 19:42
  Asked following Monday’s practice how the team might generate frontcourt scoring on the second unit now that pick-and-roll finisher extraordinaire Derrick Favors is gone, coach Quin Snyder deflected a bit by quickly retorting, “I don’t know — who are we playing on the second unit?”Fair point.How that group ultimately shakes out remains in flux for now, owing to the trickle-down effect of not yet having a clear frontrunner for the starting four position. Still, while
  
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• 13-year-old Salt Lake City boy with autism is missing; police ask for help locating him

  08-10-2019 19:23
  Draper Police are asking for the public's help to locate a 13-year-old boy who walked away from the Salt Lake County Juvenile Receiving Center.Benjamin Heber was last seen Monday at about 8 p.m., walking east from the crisis center at 177 Price Ave., South Salt Lake. According to police, the boy has been diagnosed with autism, depression and anxiety.Heber is described as white, male, 5-feet-8, 250 pounds with brown hair, green eyes and glasses. He has two triangle tattoos on his left hand, and i
  
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• GIVEAWAY — Let's celebrate October birthdays!  FIVE lucky winners will receive: - 2 tickets to the home opener on 10/23 - A box of #reeseschip cookies Follow @utahjazz + @chipcookiesco Enter here: http://bit.ly/2p2JfKK pic.twitter.com

  08-10-2019 19:12 via twitter.com
  GIVEAWAY — Let's celebrate October birthdays!
  
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• Youthful, rebuilding Utes picked ninth in Pac-12 men’s basketball media poll; can they beat expectations once again?

  08-10-2019 19:05
  San Francisco • Another Pac-12 Conference preseason men’s basketball media poll, another low ranking for the University of Utah.The Utes probably expect it by now.Despite placing third in the conference last season behind Washington and Arizona State, respectively, Utah was picked ninth in the preseason poll released Tuesday. They had been picked eighth in the 2018-19 poll, marking the seventh straight season the Utes (17-4, 11-7) blew away the preseason expectations.This year’s
  
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• Utah’s tax burden has decreased significantly in past quarter century, report says

  08-10-2019 19:03
  Utah’s state and local tax burden decreased significantly in recent years — and is at its lowest point in a quarter century, according to a Utah Foundation report released Tuesday.It looked at data from 1993 through 2016 (the most current available) and calculated how much state and local governments spend as a percentage of overall personal income.Utah’s tax burden in 2016 was $103.86 per $1,000 of personal income. About a decade earlier, in 2007, it was $126.71 per $1,000.The
  
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• LDS Church releases rendering of its new Layton Temple

  08-10-2019 19:01
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released and artist’s rendering of the Layton Temple — a three-story, 87,000-square-foot structure.The new temple, announced by church President Russell M. Nelson in April 2018, will be built on an 11.8-acre site at the corner of Oak Hills Drive and Rosewood Lane. No date has been set for the groundbreaking.The Layton Temple, along with five announced for Orem, Taylorsville, Tooele Valley, Saratoga Springs and Washington County, wil
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Trump sabotages our health care and immigration systems

  08-10-2019 19:01
  President Trump sabotaged the health care system. Separately, he's sabotaged the immigration system.And now, in a presidential twofer, on Friday night the administration found a way to sabotage both simultaneously.Unable to repeal Obamacare, the Trump administration has worked to make it less functional and more expensive. It has done this by zeroing out the individual mandate, expanding the availability of cheap but worthless junk insurance and curtailing the annual open-enrollment period, amon
  
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• With China rift ongoing, NBA commissioner Adam Silver says free speech remains vital

  08-10-2019 18:56
  Tokyo • NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league is not apologizing for Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s since-deleted tweet showing support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, even after China’s state broadcaster canceled plans to show a pair of preseason games in that country later this week.Silver, speaking Tuesday at a news conference in Tokyo before a preseason game between the Rockets and NBA champion Toronto Raptors, went as far as to say that he
  
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• Simone Biles sets new record as U.S. wins world gymnastics team gold

  08-10-2019 18:42
  Stuttgart, Germany • Simone Biles won a record 21st medal at the world gymnastics championships on Tuesday as the United States retained its women’s team all-around title.It was Biles' 15th career gold and broke a tie with Russian gymnast Svetlana Khorkina for the most medals overall by a woman at the world championships. She's now two short of Vitaly Scherbo's all-time record of 23 among men or women."Every year it feels better and better just because we're adding to the legacy," Bil
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Mike Conley: 3 numbers to target for the Jazz point guard this season

  08-10-2019 18:04 via sportspyder.com
  For the first time in his NBA career, Mike Conley will be suiting up for a team other than the Memphis Grizzlies. He will be forming an impressive backcourt duo with Donovan Mitchell on the Utah Jazz. Last season, Conley played in 70 games and...
  
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• Here’s how Salt Lake City mayoral candidates say they would improve workers conditions and attract businesses

  08-10-2019 17:58
  Boosting economic development has been a hallmark of Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s administration, which fostered a billion dollars in new investment over three years and attracted more than 9,000 new jobs through the first city department dedicated to the task.Still, the two candidates running to replace her in the upcoming November election say they see opportunities to do even more. Each is promising, if elected, to cut red tape to make it easier for businesses to locate in th
  
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• Paul Krugman: Events break through the wall of centrist denial

  08-10-2019 17:46
  It’s hard to believe that barely three weeks have passed since Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, issued a mysterious subpoena to the acting director of national intelligence, demanding that he produce a whistleblower complaint filed by someone in the intelligence community.Since that subpoena was issued, the impeachment of Donald Trump has gone from implausibility to near certainty; I at least find it hard to see how the House can fail to impeach given what we
  
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• 13-year-old autistic boy is missing; police ask for help locating him

  08-10-2019 17:41
  Draper Police are asking for the public's help to locate a 13-year-old boy who walked away from the Salt Lake County Juvenile Receiving Center.Benjamin Heber was last seen Monday at about 8 p.m., walking east from the crisis center at 177 Price Ave., South Salt Lake. According to police, the boy has been diagnosed with autism, depression and anxiety.Heber is described as white, male, 5-feet-8, 250 pounds with brown hair, green eyes and glasses. He has two triangle tattoos on his left hand, and i
  
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• Utah universities fail to follow law meant to help students pick a school and a major

  08-10-2019 17:28
  The following story was written in partnership with The Utah Investigative Journalism Project, The Salt Lake Tribune, The UVU Review and The Signpost.You can always tell when a new school year has started at Utah’s public universities and colleges by the apprehensive, sometimes confused looks on the faces of students wandering campus.While freshmen are bombarded with information about registration, student success and involvement in campus life, they often are left with a big unanswered qu
  
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• Provo teenager killed in rollover may have been racing

  08-10-2019 17:26
  An 18-year-old Provo man was killed when the truck he was driving rolled over— reportedly after it collided with another vehicle while the two were racing.Eric E. Blackham was ejected from his 1975 Ford pickup truck and died at the scene, according to the Utah Highway Patrol.According to a UHP news release, witnesses said Blackburn’s truck and a 2004 Chevrolet Silverado were both traveling north on State Road 147 about 5:15 p.m. when “the driver of the Chevy pulled up alongside
  
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• Zion National Park visitation continues to climb, sets summer record

  08-10-2019 17:18
  St. George • Zion National Park visitation set records this summer, averaging more than a half-million visitors per month.The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reports that yearly park visitors have more than doubled over the last decade at the southern Utah park known for its red-rock cliffs and narrow slot canyons.Park officials have been struggling how to handle the crowds, and this year limited the number of people who could hike two of the most popular trails on holidays. Park spokesman
  
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• Study finds a quarter of all U.S. health spending is wasteful

  08-10-2019 16:09
  Even a divided America can agree on this goal: a health system that is cheaper but doesn’t sacrifice quality. In other words, just get rid of the waste.A new study, published Monday morning in JAMA, finds that roughly 20% to 25% of U.S. health care spending is wasteful. It’s a startling number but not a new finding. What is surprising is how little we know about how to prevent it.William Shrank, a physician who is chief medical officer of the health insurer Humana and the lead author
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Jazz Rank: Nigel Williams-Goss voted 14th

  08-10-2019 15:37 via sportspyder.com
  Has he progressed enough overseas?
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz ready to move up in Western Conference hierarchy

  08-10-2019 15:31 via sportspyder.com
  With the NBA season drawing closer, it's a perfect time to take a look at the Utah Jazz, a strong contender in the Western Conference. The Utah Jazz are re...
  
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• Letter: Election is about the future of white supremacy

  08-10-2019 15:26
  To solve a problem, you must understand its roots. Racism in the United State is based on the concept of white supremacy. White supremacy is a way for one group to have power over another using laws. During slavery, blacks were not allowed to be educated, could not own land, were bought and sold and their families were broken up. During Jim Crow, there were laws segregating hotels and lunch counters, obstructing the right to vote by blacks, etc. This made blacks poor in a capitalist society.The
  
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• Letter: This is not the place for an inland port

  08-10-2019 15:25
  Much has been written about the inland port. While the increased pollution and decreased tax revenue will hit Salt Lake City the hardest, surrounding communities will also be impacted.This idea of an inland port, a model that has failed to deliver the promised economic benefits across the country, is now being resurrected and forced upon the Wasatch Front residents. Our communities will only feel the negative health effects of the increased traffic and pollution.The Wasatch Front needs to get in
  
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• Letter: Not the White Rim Trail

  08-10-2019 15:25
  For Utahns and people around the United States — and, I suppose, the world — mountain biking the roughly 100-mile White Rim Trail loop along the confluence of the Green and Colorado rivers in Canyonlands National Park is life-altering.Surrounded by wilderness and the awesome effect it has, especially when one can bicycle and camp in it over a two- to four-day period of time, is irreplaceable in today’s modern world.Under President Trump’s acting director of the National P
  
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• Letter: An assault on our public lands

  08-10-2019 15:22
  Can it be true that the National Park Service, with no analysis or input from citizens or national park visitors, is planning to open all primary access and back roads in Utah’s national parks to OHVs for the ostensible reason that this will align policy in the parks with a Utah law passed in 2008, which allows OHVs on state and county roads if these vehicles are street legal?This is crazy.The roads in Utah’s national parks are not just any roads. They travel through spectacular and
  
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• Letter: The Holocaust was not a communist horror

  08-10-2019 15:21
  In the age of Trump, ignoring ignorance is almost required for survival. But when it reaches into our own state Legislature, I will continue to resist.In a front-page article in the Oct. 2 Tribune, “China’s big day: Trump, Romney at odds,” it was revealed that a Utah legislator, Rep. Lee Christofferson R-Lehi, had sponsored a law declaring Nov. 7 to be “Victims of Communism Memorial Day.” It passed without a dissenting vote.In Christofferson’s words, “Fo
  
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• Letter: Try to forgive the president

  08-10-2019 15:20
  As President Trump is under threat of impeachment, strong feelings on the subject naturally arise. While one may or may not agree with the president, let’s try to be considerate. There are rightly consequences to choices.Although it may be hard for some not to harbor unkind feelings against President Trump, let’s try to remember to forgive.Holding a grudge, even against people who sometimes make poor decisions, will only make us angry and unhappy. Everyone can do better than they are
  
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• Letter: Have you no sense of decency?

  08-10-2019 15:18
  Last March, in a private meeting with advisors in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump said he wanted to close off our southern border to all would-be entrants, legal or not. He said he wanted his wall electrified, with a moat at its base filled with snakes or alligators. He said U.S. border guards should shoot migrants in the legs “to slow them down.” When informed that such actions were illegal, he said he would pardon anyone convicted. Fortunately, his advisers talked him out o
  
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• Letter: The angry creamsicle in the White House

  08-10-2019 15:10
  In the Public Forum on Oct. 1 John Ferenz stated that Mitt Romney is a disgrace. I couldn’t agree more with John.Ferenz also believes that the president shouldn’t be degraded. It’s the president who is degrading our country by cozying up to dictators and wishing he could be just like them.The angry creamsicle that occupies the White House is self-serving, annoying, a narcissist and lies every time his jaw moves!It makes me wonder what Ferenz thinks about lying Sen. Mike Lee?Ric
  
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• Utah brewers win 6 medals — including one gold — at Great American Beer Fest

  08-10-2019 15:09
  Utah’s breweries brought home six medals — one gold, three silvers and two bronze — from the last week’s Great American Beer Festival in Denver.Four of the state’s award-winning brews contain more than 6% alcohol by volume, defying the state’s “weak beer” stereotypes, especially as Utah moves to higher alcohol beer in grocery and convenience stores come Nov. 1.Shades Brewing took top honors at the event — considered the country’s premie
  
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• [Forbes] - Steven Adams, Oklahoma City’s Rebounding Engine, Is Now Untethered

  08-10-2019 15:05 via sportspyder.com
  Oklahoma City Thunder center Steven Adams has never been able to showcase his full value as a rebounder playing next to Russell Westbrook. With Russ now in Houston, Adams has a chance to showcase his skills.
  
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• Political Cornflakes: George W. Bush’s former chief of staff endorses impeachment inquiry

  08-10-2019 14:31
  Happy Tuesday!Andrew Card, who served as White House chief of staff for George W. Bush, supported Monday the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, saying that “clearly lines have been crossed.” But he cautioned, "I do want the impeachment process if it’s going to go forward to be done deliberately without hyperbole, without exaggeration, based on the facts.” [TheHill]Topping the news: Incumbent Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski endorsed
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Atlantic Division

  08-10-2019 14:04 via sportspyder.com
  Continuing our most intriguing individual matchup series, today we look at how the Utah Jazz will compare to their foes in the Atlantic Division. With a pr...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Atlantic Division

  08-10-2019 14:00
  Continuing our most intriguing individual matchup series, today we look at how the Utah Jazz will compare to their foes in the Atlantic Division. With a preseason game now under our belts, the anticipation for the long-awaited 2019-20 Utah Jazz season is at an all-time high. Although most of Utah’s top players rested, it was […]
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• Robert Kirby: Of mice and men and bait hunting

  08-10-2019 14:00
  I killed six animals in the past two days. I lured them in with bait and then callously snuffed them out.It gets worse. Not only did I not bother eating what I killed, but I also tossed their nasty carcasses into a garbage can.Sounds awful, I know. But the subject is a timely one, given that the baiting of big game is becoming an issue in Utah. Deer hunters, for example, will put out a supply of apples to draw in the game and then kill whichever one they want.Killing an animal while it’s e
  
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