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• Jana Riess: On oaks (and Oaks), LGBTQ issues and the exclusive Latter-day Saint heaven

  11-10-2019 23:25
  One of my favorite Robert Frost poems, “Reluctance,” explores how difficult it is to let go of that which we have cherished. I won’t quote it here because I don’t want the Frost estate to sue the pants off me, but there’s an especially poignant moment in which the poet uses the image of an oak tree to reflect upon human beings’ natural aversion to change.In the backyard of the house where I used to live, there was a stalwart, beautiful oak tree that helped me
  
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• Commentary: Newman, the newest Catholic saint, is a model of making reason our path to God

  11-10-2019 23:24
  On Sunday, Pope Francis will canonize Cardinal John Newman, the first Englishman to be made a saint since Pope Paul VI canonized the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, who were killed for their Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation.Unlike his compatriots, who endured savage execution and ignoble burial, Newman died quietly in his bed in 1890 at the advanced age of 89. Like those earlier martyrs, however, Newman courageously followed where truth led him, even when it led through ignom
  
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• [NBA] - Roundball Roundup: Mike Conley on the transition to Utah and Derrick Favors caught up with Kristen Kenney

  11-10-2019 23:15 via sportspyder.com
  Happy Birthday to Mike Conley! He's 32. Utah’s new point guard played his first game in a Jazz uniform. The debut came in a 133-99 preseason loss to the Bucks. UtahJazz.com's JP Chunga reviews the
  
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• Retail chains are hiring now for the holidays

  11-10-2019 23:05
  Major retailers in Utah are gearing up for the holidays, which means they’re hiring.Several businesses in the state have announced plans to add seasonal workers for the holiday season, when an estimated 20 percent of the year’s retail sales are made, according to the National Retail Federation.Macy’s is planning a “hiring event” on Thursday, Oct. 24, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at locations nationwide. Three of those are in Utah: City Creek Center in downtown Salt Lake C
  
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• RSVP to the Purple Mountain Party where you can get up close and personal with the Classic court » https://on.nba.com/2poVwJL pic.twitter.com/vxpCxbQkHg

  11-10-2019 23:01 via twitter.com
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• Shepard Smith leaves Fox News Channel

  11-10-2019 22:50
  New York • Shepard Smith, whose newscast on Fox News Channel seemed increasingly an outlier on a network dominated by supporters of President Trump, abruptly quit after working at Fox since it started in 1996.Smith said at the end of his daily newscast on Friday that he had asked the network to let him out of his contract and it had agreed.Even in the current polarized environment, Smith said "it's my hope that the facts will win the day, that the facts will always matter and journalism and
  
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• Salt Lake’s ozone problem is worsening despite air cleanup efforts, and Rep. Ben McAdams wants to know why

  11-10-2019 22:46
  The Salt Lake City area has made strides in cleaning up the airborne particulate matter that cloaks the valley during winter inversions and has kept these pollution levels within federal limits in recent years.At the same time, ozone, an invisible gas that irritates the lungs and airways, has continued to plague the region.U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams is trying to figure out why and what to do about it.“We’re scratching our heads to ask ourselves why ... ground-level ozone might be rising a
  
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• U.S. forest managers want judge to revisit tree-cutting ban

  11-10-2019 22:40
  Albuquerque, N.M. • The U.S. Forest Service wants a federal judge to reconsider an order that halted tree-cutting across thousands of square miles of forest in the Southwest, saying efforts to address wildfire threats are hanging in the balance.The order was issued last month in a 2013 case that alleged the agency failed to consider the effects of thinning and logging on the threatened Mexican spotted owl and its habitat.Environmentalists say the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Fores
  
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• [KSL] - 'It's all going to come to us': Jazz see how far they still have to go against Bucks | KSL.com

  11-10-2019 22:28 via sportspyder.com
  Seasons aren’t made in the preseason — and they aren’t lost either. The Jazz simply got some feedback on Wednesday; at least, that’s how Jazz coach Quin Snyder summed up the night.
  
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• Gary Leimback: Seeking success in a two-level economy

  11-10-2019 22:00
  In 1965, a worker who made $10 an hour could afford to buy a house, buy a car and raise a family in fairly comfortable circumstances. I know, because my family did this. We felt ourselves to be part of the middle class.In 2019, this wage results in a family living in poverty. If a person makes between $20,000 to $30,000 a year today, their family essentially lives from paycheck to paycheck. The upper middle class probably make more than $50,000 a year. CBS Money Watch on Jan. 29, reported that 4
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The 5 Best Utah Jazz teams of All-Time according to FiveThirtyEight’s RAPTOR

  11-10-2019 21:44 via sportspyder.com
  FiveThirtyEight has a new metric for the NBA. Let’s use it to argue.
  
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• Men who carjacked vehicle with a Utah teen inside evade police

  11-10-2019 21:41
  West Valley City police are searching for three men who carjacked a vehicle with a 16-year-old boy inside, a crime that authorities believe was not random.Shortly after 11 p.m. Thursday near 1300 West and 3600 South, the men — at least one of whom had a gun — broke out the window of a car and dragged the female driver out, according to police. The men jumped in the car and drove off with the woman’s 16-year-old nephew still inside.According to a spokeswoman for the WVCPD, the m
  
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• The University of Utah will host a vice presidential debate next year

  11-10-2019 19:28
  America’s vice presidential candidates will debate at the University of Utah on Oct. 7, 2020,the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday.“It is a tremendous honor to host a vice presidential debate and we are delighted to have this opportunity to showcase our university and our state,” said University of Utah President Ruth Watkins.“I am excited for our students to be able to participate in in this important copnent of the political process. It will be an incr
  
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• LDS Church tells members to run, hide, report active shooters and updates other security guidelines

  11-10-2019 19:12
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has issued new safety guidelines that tell members how to react to a gunman in a meetinghouse and provide other instruction to keep them from harm.An introduction to the guidelines says they are being issued due “to changing conditions around the world." There’s one set of guidelines for safety in the United States and Canada and another for Latter-day Saints elsewhere, though the two documents are similar.Both instruct community Latter
  
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• Royals FC won’t make the playoffs, but they won at the box office, averaging over 10,000 fans a game at Rio Tinto

  11-10-2019 19:00
  For a franchise that had only a few months last year get off the ground, the Utah Royals FC managed to draw a healthy of amount of fans to its games. The club finished second in overall attendance average in its inaugural year.With just one home game left in the 2019 season, the Royals will secure the second-best average attendance in the National Women’s Soccer League for the second consecutive year. Utah has averaged 10,889 fans at Rio Tinto Stadium, up from 9,466 in 2018, per website So
  
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• Commentary: Science should shape OHV policy in national parks

  11-10-2019 19:00
  When our first national parks were established more than 110 years ago, automobiles were not allowed inside park boundaries. As thousands of cars began rolling off the assembly lines in the early 20th century, park managers faced a critical question: Should cars be allowed in?Even before the onset of automobile tourism began, conservation pioneers like John Muir knew the car would change the National Park experience. As Muir prophetically wrote, “All signs indicate automobile victory, and
  
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• Saturday’s game at Oregon State once looked like a sure ‘W’ for Utah, but it may be trickier now

  11-10-2019 18:42
  After all of the buildup to Utah’s Pac-12 football opener in mid-September, the Utes’ loss at USC felt like more than one defeat.When Utah responded the following week with a 38-13 dismantling of Washington State, the performance seemed like more than one victory – especially when the Utes were off last weekend to enjoy it.Are they truly cured, though? Oregon State, believe it or not, will help answer that question Saturday night at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, Ore.The No. 15 Ut
  
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• JOHN days until Game of pic.twitter.com/3zLHNmVRqu

  11-10-2019 18:34 via twitter.com
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• If BYU wants to stay on track for a bowl game, a win at South Florida is a must

  11-10-2019 18:00
  Tampa, Fla. • The coaches would never say it, but BYU’s Saturday’s game against South Florida has become a pretty critical milestone for the Cougars.BYU is coming into the game well-rested, off a bye-week, but has dropped its last two games. At 2-3 almost midway through the 2019 season, the Cougars will be fighting the rest of the season to remain bowl eligible.BYU coach Kalani Sitaki chose to frame it another way. Namely, that there’s an urgency to win each week.“Th
  
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• George Pyle: Let us hear no more of Greg Hughes

  11-10-2019 18:00
  It had been awhile since much was seen or heard of Greg Hughes, the former speaker of the Utah House of Representatives. Though he has been high on the list of those said, by what the late pundit William Safire always called The Great Mentioner, to be planning a run for governor next year.Hughes poked his head out the other day, the star of one of two competing rallies in front of the local office of Rep. Ben McAdams.McAdams had the good judgment to be somewhere else that afternoon, so he didn&r
  
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• Wildfire rages on Los Angeles’ northern edge, thousands evacuated

  11-10-2019 17:06
  Los Angeles • A wildfire raged out of control along the northern edge of Los Angeles early Friday, forcing thousands of people from their homes as firefighters battled flames from the air and on the ground.The blaze erupted late Thursday along the northern tier of the San Fernando Valley as powerful Santa Ana winds swept Southern California, fanning several destructive blazes.The Los Angeles Fire Department said the fire had grown to more than 6 square miles before dawn and an estimated 12,
  
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• Mine waste discolors Animas River, which saw 2015 Gold King spill

  11-10-2019 16:58
  Durango, Colo. • Wastewater from a mine in southwestern Colorado has spilled into a river that was the site of a major spill caused by a government cleanup crew four years ago.Christina Progress with the Environmental Protection Agency told The Durango Herald on Thursday the scope of the spill north of Silverton was still being determined.Progress says the agency was notified Wednesday night that the Animas River was being discolored by wastewater from the Silver Wing Mine. The mine is with
  
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• Utah woman charged with child abuse after pitbull bites her daughter in the face — again

  11-10-2019 16:18
  An 8-year-old Utah girl received 27 stitches after she was bitten in the face by her family's pitbull for “at least the second time,” and the child's mother is facing child-abuse charges.A 26-year-old Springville woman was charged in Fourth District Court with child abuse, a third-degree felony; and possession of a vicious animal, a class B misdemeanor.According to court documents, the victim was bitten on June 13 and taken to a hospital, where she received 27 stitches on her cheek,
  
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• Commentary: Luz Escamilla should be our next mayor

  11-10-2019 16:18
  The 2019 Salt Lake City mayoral primary featured a group of highly qualified candidates, almost any one of whom could have been a positive choice for the next mayor of Utah’s capital city. The two candidates who emerged — Luz Escamilla and Erin Mendenhall — have different capabilities, qualities and strengths. After careful consideration (including extensive interviews with both candidates), we believe that the candidate with the best background, experience, relationships, pers
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Philly’s favorite Latter-day Saint, conference highlights, Nelson’s next big trip

  11-10-2019 16:14
  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.Philadelphia story
  (Matt Slocum | The Associated Press) Philadelphia Phillies' Bryce Harper waves before addressing the crowd at Citizens Bank Park before a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Sunday, Sept. 29, 201
  
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• Timothy Egan: Mormons to the rescue?

  11-10-2019 16:09
  In order to understand the Republican Party today, you have to understand religion. Donald Trump may be the most unreligious president ever — an undisciplined force of corrosive evil. And yet he tweets comparisons to himself as the Messiah and bullies his way around the world with the blind support of white evangelical Christians.But the one religious faith that is the most heavily Republican is also somewhat disgusted with Trump. Barely half the members of the American-grown Church of Jes
  
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• David Brooks: What makes us all radically equal

  11-10-2019 16:07
  Around New Year’s 2017, a community organizer named Chris Lambert leased a soon-to-be-empty school building for $1 in one of Detroit’s poorer African American neighborhoods. The plan was to pour $5 million into remodeling the building, take on the $1-million-a-year operating expenses and turn the place into a vibrant hub for the surrounding community, with nonprofits, culinary training programs, after-school programs and artists.Lambert did not communicate this well to the people who
  
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• Help us wish @mconley11 his first happy birthday as a Jazzman pic.twitter.com/YYQSfE755X

  11-10-2019 16:02 via twitter.com
  Help us wish @mconley11 his first happy birthday as a Jazzman pic.twitter.com/YYQSfE755X
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz fans need this ‘Let’s Get This Ring’ t-shirt

  11-10-2019 15:38 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz have just one goal this season. To get a ring. Similarly, Utah Jazz fans have just one goal, too. To get this new BreakingT t-shirt. The Utah...
  
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• The Wasatch Studio Tour invites you to meet more than 120 artists, from Salt Lake City to Draper

  11-10-2019 15:28
  Climb up the creaky wooden staircase, wind around the narrow stairwell and discover a stash of old paintings, furniture and antiques in a colorful room. With the musty smells of cigarettes and paint, you might feel as if you’ve found your way to Paris in another era.But you’re in painter Randall Lake’s studio in downtown Salt Lake City — one of dozens across the Salt Lake Valley that will be open to the public Saturday and Sunday for the free Wasatch Studio Tour.“A
  
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• Utah Jazz fans need this ‘Let’s Get This Ring’ t-shirt

  11-10-2019 15:22
  The Utah Jazz have just one goal this season. To get a ring. Similarly, Utah Jazz fans have just one goal, too. To get this new BreakingT t-shirt. The Utah Jazz loaded up in the offseason, adding Mike Conley and Bojan Bogdanovich to a very impressive group from a year ago. Now with a starting […]
  Utah Jazz fans need this ‘Let’s Get This Ring’ t-shirt - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Robert Kirby: The voyage of a lifetime

  11-10-2019 15:17
  My life plan came off the rails exactly 44 years ago Thursday. The plan was a good one. Fresh home from a church mission, my time was now my own.I had squared everything with everyone — the police, the Army and God. It was time to start minding my own business instead of allowing other people do it for me.My goal was to see the world. Toward that end, I was waiting for just the right moment to tell my family goodbye again. Then it was off to Galveston, Texas, where a friend offered to help
  
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• Utah’s largest homebuilder marks 20,000th home milestone with new green initiatives

  11-10-2019 15:16
  After building 20,000 homes in 31 years, you’d think Ivory Homes would have settled on its approach.But as Utah’s largest homebuilder marked the construction milestone Thursday with a celebration for Ivory Homes’ employees, its CEO promised new strategies to make future dwellings more affordable, energy efficient and kinder to the environment.“We understand that if we do our job right," Clark Ivory said, “we will create neighborhoods and communities that will apprec
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Jazz Rank: 13th goes to Miye Oni

  11-10-2019 15:07 via sportspyder.com
  The Yale product has turned some heads so far
  
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• Salt Lake metro drivers improve. Now they’re just 6th worst in the nation in new rankings.

  11-10-2019 15:06
  The good news: Salt Lake metro area drivers are improving. The bad news: they still are the sixth worst in the nation among its 75 largest metro areas.That’s according to rankings released Thursday by QuoteWizard, a website for comparing car insurance.The company sometimes issues rankings by state and sometimes by cities.“Utah and Salt Lake City have always rated pretty poorly,” said Adam Johnson, a research analyst with QuoteWizard. “In our first study in 2016, Utah was
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Joe Biden strikes back at Trump after caustic rally

  11-10-2019 15:05
  Happy Friday!After President Donald Trump said Thursday that Joe Biden "was only a good vice president because he knew how to kiss Barack Obama’s ass,” Biden fought back with a tweet just before midnight. “I spent my night at the HRC forum talking about the fundamental respect every human being deserves. You spent yours showing how little respect for anyone else you have. America is so much stronger than your weakness.” [TheHill]Topping the news: Sen. Mitt Romney says eve
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Utahn who’s been ‘Dancing with the Stars’ is now making like Vanna White

  11-10-2019 14:00
  Witney Carson went straight from American Fork High School to “So You Think You Can Dance” to “Dancing with the Stars.” And now she’s headed to the Game Show Network.The Utah native is teaming up with her former “DWTS” partner Alfonso Ribeiro — they won the mirror-ball trophy in 2014 — on a revival of the game show “Catch 21.” The show, which premieres Monday on GSN (4 p.m. Dish and DirecTV; 7 p.m. Comcast), is a mixture of trivia
  
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• Letter: The pro-Trump song of Utah: ‘Gobble, gobble gobble’

  11-10-2019 14:00
  Rep. Chris Stewart does the pro-Trump song of the Utah state bird better than anyone else, short of the president himself: “Gobble, gobble, gobble!”What a turkey.We hear the gobbling constantly in these parts, from local agency and municipality administrators as they “plan” ill-planned faux communities and infrastructure; to state legislators stealing city lands in order to develop the inland port in order to poison the endangered liberals in Salt Lake City; and all the w
  
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• Letter: Republicans need to dump Trump

  11-10-2019 14:00
  Every day, President Trump, via his public comments and multiple vicious and childish tweets, reveals himself to have a very unstable personality.When will the leaders of the GOP recognize the need to dump Trump and provide a decent candidate that people can feel good about voting for in the 2020 presidential election?There are many people like myself who cannot vote for the socialist policies espoused by the Democratic Party candidates, and who cannot in all good conscience vote for Trump.Lynn
  
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• Letter: Rep. Chris Stewart is not worthy of his office

  11-10-2019 14:00
  Rep. Chris Stewart, you should resign.Your recent statement defending President Trump’s innocence in spite of mounting evidence of his guilt shows a politician more concerned with protecting his party instead of our country. Reading White House talking points (we all saw them) and suckling at the teats of Fox News pundits whose conspiracy theories are what sparked Trump’s latest madness only shows that you aren’t up to the task of representing your congressional district.Your s
  
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• Letter: Mendenhall for mayor

  11-10-2019 14:00
  Erin Mendenhall used to be my City Council representative, and I always found her to be responsive to constituent needs as well as extremely passionate about Salt Lake City. Her intimate knowledge of how the city works would be a wonderful asset to have in the mayor’s office.Regarding the inland port, she has pledged to look out for the city’s interests, but I believe she’ll also approach the issue in a measured way that acknowledges political realities and the benefits of econ
  
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• Letter: Colleges are not there to make athletes rich

  11-10-2019 14:00
  Re: Robert Gehrke’s column about allowing college athletes to make money off their names and images.Colleges and universities are supposed to be institutions of higher learning, not training programs for the NBA and NFL.These “student” athletes are already treated very differently from the average college student: special housing, food, classes, tutors, scholarships and the best medical care when needed. If they feel they are being cheated, they should give up their places in s
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Southeast Division

  11-10-2019 06:54 via sportspyder.com
  The 'Most Intriguing Individual Matchups' series wraps up with a look at which Utah Jazz players will present the most exciting battle against each team in...
  
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• Patriots force four turnovers, beat Giants 35-14 to reach 6-0

  11-10-2019 06:50
  Foxborough, Mass. • Tom Brady had two touchdown runs and moved ahead of Peyton Manning for second place on the NFL’s all-time passing yards list as the New England Patriots pulled away for a 35-14 victory over the New York Giants on Thursday night.The reigning Super Bowl champion Patriots also returned a blocked punt for a touchdown and forced four turnovers, including a fumble return for a score, to move to 6-0 for the first time since time since 2015.Brady finished 31 of 41 for 334
  
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• Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Southeast Division

  11-10-2019 06:39
  The ‘Most Intriguing Individual Matchups’ series wraps up with a look at which Utah Jazz players will present the most exciting battle against each team in the Southeast Division. We’ve almost made it, Utah Jazz fans. Oh, you thought I was talking about made it to the start of the 2019-20 NBA regular season? Well, […]
  Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Southeast Division - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion
  
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• Eugene Robinson: Removing Trump may be unlikely, but not impossible

  11-10-2019 05:30
  Washington • How much more of this can we take?That is the question Congress must now confront. How much more of the Trump administration's lawlessness, incompetence and corruption must the nation endure? If President Trump serves the full 15 months that remain in his term of office, how bad will the damage be? For the good of the country and the world, is it imperative that Trump be removed as quickly as possible?These queries may all seem moot, given the political arithmetic of the Senate
  
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• Salt Lake City mayoral candidates spar over their records on the inland port

  11-10-2019 05:21
  Both Salt Lake City Councilwoman Erin Mendenhall and state Sen. Luz Escamilla are opposed to the inland port, a future development that is among the most controversial — and complicated — policy considerations facing the capital city’s next leader.But at Thursday’s debate focused on environmental issues, the candidates running for Salt Lake City mayor attacked each other’s records on the project, a massive international distribution hub planned for Salt Lake City&rs
  
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• Delle Donne leads Mystics to first WNBA title

  11-10-2019 05:18
  Washington • The Washington Mystics won their first WNBA championship, getting 22 points from Emma Meesseman and 21 from banged-up league MVP Elena Delle Donne to beat the Connecticut Sun 89-78 in Game 5 of the Finals on Thursday night.It was a fitting conclusion to an entertaining series and WNBA season. This was the seventh series in league history that had gone to a deciding Game 5, and the home team has won five of them.Delle Donne, who has been dealing with a herniated disk in her back
  
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• Cole, Astros beat Rays 6-1 in ALDS Game 5; Yankees next

  11-10-2019 05:03
  Houston • Gerrit Cole pitched another playoff masterpiece and the Houston Astros jumped to a quick lead, turning back the Tampa Bay Rays 6-1 Thursday night in Game 5 to set up a titanic showdown with the New York Yankees in the AL Championship Series.After fellow aces Zack Greinke and Justin Verlander were unable to close out the scrappy Rays on the road, Cole made sure Houston moved on. Given a 4-0 cushion in the first inning, he dominated through the eighth in the decisive game of the AL
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - What is the greatest regular season Utah Jazz game of all time?

  11-10-2019 04:25 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz Podcast crew debates which regular season game is the best of all-time.
  
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