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• Judi Hilman and Lisa Diamond: Luz Escamilla is the best choice for mayor

  18-10-2019 23:00
  In about one month, Salt Lake City residents will be voting for their next mayor.As supporters of Luz Escamilla, we have been happy to observe how many voters actively support her policy proposals. We have also noticed voters weighing two particular issues that we would like to address here. The first concerns her membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the second concerns her depth of experience for the job of mayor.Let’s start with her church affiliation (which
  
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• New ‘High School Musical’ renewed for Season 2, which will shoot in Utah

  18-10-2019 22:48
  The made-in-Utah series “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” doesn't premiere for three weeks, but the Disney+ streaming service has already ordered a second season.Production will resume in early 2020 — and, yes, the cast and crew will return to Salt Lake’s East High. The school became pop-culture iconic as the setting for the three original “High School Musical” movies, which made Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens stars.The movies were filmed in Utah,
  
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• Shifting explanations for withholding aid draw GOP alarm

  18-10-2019 22:45
  Washington •The shifting White House explanation for President Donald Trump's decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine drew alarm Friday from Republicans as the impeachment inquiry brought a new test of their alliance.Trump, in remarks at the White House, stood by his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, whose earlier comments undermined the administration's defense in the impeachment probe. Speaking Thursday at a news conference, Mulvaney essentially acknowledged a quid pro quo with
  
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• [The Score] - Jazz exercise Mitchell's $5.1M team option for 2020-21

  18-10-2019 22:06 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz have exercised Donovan Mitchell's $5.1-million team option for the 2020-21 season, the team announced Friday.Mitchell is coming off an impressive sophomore campaign, during which he averaged 23.8 points, 4.2 assists, 4.1 boards, and 1.4
  
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• [Forbes] - Zion Williamson Will Miss Start Of NBA Season With Right Knee Soreness

  18-10-2019 21:52 via sportspyder.com
  Zion Williamson will miss more than Friday night’s preseason game against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden because of soreness in his right knee.
  
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• First all-female spacewalking team makes history

  18-10-2019 21:46
  Cape Canaveral, Fla. • The world's first all-female spacewalking team made history high above Earth on Friday, replacing a broken part of the International Space Station's power grid.As NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir successfully completed the job with wrenches, screwdrivers and power-grip tools, it marked the first time in a half-century of spacewalking that men weren't part of the action. They insisted they were just doing their job after years of training, following in t
  
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• BYU lands first commit of 2020 recruiting class in former Weber and UVU transfer Spencer Johnson

  18-10-2019 21:21
  Spencer Johnson announced his commitment to BYU Friday morning, making the 6-foot-5 redshirt sophomore the first commit of the Cougars’ 2020 recruiting class.Johnson started his collegiate career at Weber State, which he signed to before his church mission. After half of his freshman season in Ogden, Johnson transferred to Utah Valley, where he redshirted. Last summer, Johnson transferred to Salt Lake Community College.Cougar Nation, let’s go!! Blessed to say that I’ve committe
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz Exercise 2020/21 Options On Mitchell, Bradley

  18-10-2019 21:19 via sportspyder.com
  Utah has formally picked up its fourth-year rookie scale options on Donovan Mitchell and Tony Bradley.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Andy Larsen breaks down 10 key games on the Jazz’s 2019-20 schedule

  18-10-2019 21:16 via sportspyder.com
  There’s nothing like opening day: the whole team is introduced, everything feels new, and it’s the first chance to test your team in a game that matters. This isn’t the same OKC as old, with Paul George and Russell Westbrook both gone, but the...
  
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• Utah goes from No. 1 to No. 3 in job creation

  18-10-2019 21:14
  Utah is no longer No. 1 among the states for creating jobs. But it is No. 3.The number of jobs in Utah grew by 3% in the 12-month period between September 2018 and September 2019, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.That ranked behind only Nevada at 3.2% and Idaho at 3.1%. Utah had ranked No. 1 for the period from July 2018 to July 2019.Utah’s nonfarm payroll employment grew by 45,500 jobs in the September-to-September period.“Utah is moving into
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz exercise team options on Bradley and Mitchell

  18-10-2019 21:14 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has exercised its team options for the 2020-21 season on center Tony Bradley and guard Donovan Mitchell.Bradley (6-11, 248, North Carolina) is entering his
  
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• Andy Larsen breaks down 10 key games on the Jazz’s 2019-20 schedule

  18-10-2019 21:00
  Jazz vs. OKC Oct. 23There’s nothing like opening day: the whole team is introduced, everything feels new, and it’s the first chance to test your team in a game that matters. This isn’t the same OKC as old, with Paul George and Russell Westbrook both gone, but the Steven Adams v. Rudy Gobert matchup is always fun, and Chris Paul still antagonizes.Jazz at Memphis Nov. 15The Grizzlies won’t be good this year, but Mike Conley spent 12 years for that franchise, and is now it&r
  
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• We have exercised our team options on @spidadmitchell & @ToBrad1 »https://on.nba.com/2MtfX1l 

  18-10-2019 20:59 via twitter.com
  We have exercised our team options on @spidadmitchell & @ToBrad1
  »https://on.nba.com/2MtfX1l 
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Tony Bradley secures fourth-year contract option

  18-10-2019 20:56 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz big man Tony Bradley has shown enough progress through preseason play for his team to pick up the fourth-year option on his deal. When the Utah J...
  
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• Trump grants extension for nuclear fuel recommendations

  18-10-2019 20:47
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • A U.S. task force has been given more time to recommend ways to revive domestic uranium mining as it lags amid low prices and global competition.The Nuclear Fuel Working Group had been expected to deliver recommendations to President Donald Trump last week. But the Commerce Department says Trump granted a 30-day extension.Uranium mining interests say the global market for uranium ore is vulnerable to political turmoil.They want Trump to boost U.S. demand to help domestic
  
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• Homeless service providers call for donations moving into cold winter months

  18-10-2019 20:45
  As temperatures drop and winter draws nearer, service providers for the Salt Lake County area’s three new homeless resource centers are asking the community for donations to support people experiencing homelessness.They need things like underwear, socks, hats, coats, gloves, travel size hygiene items and first-aid kits. They’re also asking for volunteer hours and monetary donations, according to Matthew Melville, homeless services director for Catholic Community Services of Utah.&ldq
  
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• Utah Jazz: Tony Bradley secures fourth-year contract option

  18-10-2019 20:37
  Utah Jazz big man Tony Bradley has shown enough progress through preseason play for his team to pick up the fourth-year option on his deal. When the Utah Jazz selected North Carolina big man Tony Bradley with the 28th pick in the 2017 NBA Draft (via the LA Lakers), they knew he was a project […]
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• The Jazz shook up their roster to contend for an NBA championship. Now we’ll see if it works.

  18-10-2019 20:34
  Two seasons ago, the Jazz falling to the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference semifinals was the culmination of an unexpectedly successful season, given the dire outcome many had assumed was in store after a certain someone rode some Fourth of July fireworks all the way to Boston.This past season, falling to the Houston Rockets in the opening round of the playoffs represented a disappointing underachievement, considering the front office had brought back nearly the entire roster from the pr
  
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• Legacy Parkway will see higher speed limit and trucks Jan. 1 despite last minute pleas

  18-10-2019 20:24
  Brigham City • Neighbors of Legacy Parkway lost a last-ditch attempt Friday to extend a 15-year deal designed to protect adjacent Great Salt Lake nature preserves by banning big-rig trucks and allowing just a 55-mph speed limit and only two lanes in each direction.As they made pleas to the Utah Transportation Commission, the Utah Department of Transportation announced that it has legal power over that decision — not the commission — and said the truck ban will disappear on Jan.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Gordon Monson: Can the Jazz win a title? The answer is yes, if they will.

  18-10-2019 20:13 via sportspyder.com
  They’ve been thinking about it for months now.
  
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• Gordon Monson: Can the Jazz win a title? The answer is yes, if they will.

  18-10-2019 20:00
  They’ve been thinking about it for months now.Mike Conley brought it up at a recent fan gala.Other newcomers, like Jeff Green, said it was a major reason he came to Utah.Team owner Gail Miller identified it as the Jazz’s main emphasis and primary goal.Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell got a running start at it, underscoring the intention all the way back to last season.Winning a championship.That’s what the Jazz say, in whispers now, they are centered on these days.But as the re
  
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• [Last Word On Sports: Last Word On Pro Basketball] - Zion Williamson to Miss a “Period of Weeks” to Start the Season

  18-10-2019 19:56 via sportspyder.com
  Zion Williamson to miss a "period of weeks." The New Orleans Pelicans will be with out their star number one pick for the beginning of the season.
  
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• [NBA] - Utah Jazz raise $400K for charity at annual Game Night event

  18-10-2019 19:45 via sportspyder.com
  Joe Ingles took some losses on Thursday night. The Utah Jazz veteran got scored on by an 11-year-old boy, lost to Donovan Mitchell and Georges Niang in a game of Family Feud, and got caught using his
  
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• Johnson & Johnson agrees to $117M settlement over pelvic mesh devices

  18-10-2019 19:43
  Trenton, N.J. • Johnson & Johnson has agreed to a $117 million multistate settlement over allegations it deceptively marketed its pelvic mesh products, which support women’s sagging pelvic organs.Ohio's attorney general said Thursday an investigation found that J&J, the world's biggest health products maker, violated state consumer protection laws by not fully disclosing the devices' risks.Numerous women who had the once-popular, hammock-like devices implanted claim they cause
  
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• Commentary: How Mister Rogers’ faith shaped his idea of children’s television

  18-10-2019 19:43
  The beloved children’s television icon Fred Rogers — who is played by actor Tom Hanks in the upcoming film “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” — entered the world of children’s programming during an era of massive political and cultural upheaval.In the 1960s, Americans were witnessing the horrors of war from within their homes for the first time, on television screens. Civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. were fighting for racial and economi
  
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• Older U.S. Christians being replaced by young ‘nones’ while Mormons still make up 2% of population

  18-10-2019 19:29
  The United States is steadily becoming less Christian and the number of people with no religion is rising. Those are the twin headlines from the latest Pew Research report released Thursday, which shows a dramatic decline in American religious habits over the course of a decade.The report, an aggregation of yearly political surveys that ask about religion, shows rapid changes in generational attitudes toward religion.It finds that two-thirds (65%) of Americans describe themselves as Christians,
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Going for it: The Jazz shook up their roster to contend for an NBA championship. Now we’ll see if it works.

  18-10-2019 19:11 via sportspyder.com
  Two seasons ago, the Jazz falling to the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference semifinals was the culmination of an unexpectedly successful season, given the dire outcome many had assumed was in store after a certain someone rode some Fourth of...
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Michael Carter-Williams ejected for multiple incidents with Tyler Herro (video)

  18-10-2019 19:01 via sportspyder.com
  Tyler Herro is having an impressive preseason.
  
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• John Lithgow: Trump is a bad president. He’s an even worse entertainer.

  18-10-2019 19:00
  Readers of this page have every reason to be suspicious of the political musings of an actor. I’m suspicious of them myself. But consider this: Our politics and our press are completely dominated by an entertainer president. In recent weeks we’ve even read about our ex-reality-show host president discussing foreign policy over the phone with the ex-TV comedian president of Ukraine.Entertainment and politics have become bizarrely intertwined. Perhaps it’s time for a working ente
  
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• Watch live: First all-female spacewalking team makes history

  18-10-2019 18:45
  Cape Canaveral, Fla. • The world’s first all-female spacewalking team made history high above Earth on Friday, replacing a broken part of the International Space Station’s power grid.As NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed the job with wrenches, screwdrivers and power-grip tools, it marked the first time in a half-century of spacewalking that men weren't part of the action.America's first female spacewalker from 35 years ago, Kathy Sullivan, was delighted. S
  
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• George Pyle: It will be good for religion to give up power

  18-10-2019 18:44
  “It is finished.”— John 19:30A long time ago, at a newspaper far away, I was transferred from a job I really liked to a job I truly didn’t want (though I was happy to still have a job), helping out on a desk that found itself short-handed due to a wave of corporate buy-outs.I guess I did OK. My new editor said he appreciated that I was professional enough not to act out by messing up.“You haven’t broken any dishes,” he said.When I gave him a quizzical lo
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: A rediscovered African American Last Supper and Romney’s lonely battle

  18-10-2019 18:29
  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.Lost art … foundLatter-day Saint scriptures talk about hidden treasures, and one recently was found in a former church meetinghouse.Crews transforming a Baptist-turned-Mormon-church into an acting conservatory in
  
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• BYU animated student film ‘Grendel’ wins gold at Student Academy Awards

  18-10-2019 18:25
  Kalee McCollaum laughed a bit when she got to use the phrase all filmmakers hope they’ll get to say one day.“I would like to thank the Academy — I never thought those words would come out of my mouth, seriously,” the Brigham Young University grad said Thursday night as the short film she directed, “Grendel,” won the Gold Medal in the animation category of the 46th annual Student Academy Awards.Students and faculty at BYU’s Center for Animation learned la
  
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• [NBA] - Roundball Roundup: Bryon Russell relives Stockton's Shot + Preseason ends

  18-10-2019 18:06 via sportspyder.com
  Two preseason games to review on Roundball Roundup. UtahJazz.com’s JP Chunga looks at how the preseason rounded up. It registers in the standings on Wednesday. Plus, JP caught up with 90’s defensive
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Report: Zion Williamson to miss weeks to begin regular season

  18-10-2019 18:05 via sportspyder.com
  The Pelicans ruled out No. 1 pick Zion Williamson from their final exhibition game with “right knee soreness.”
  
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• Arizona State has been a Pac-12 nemesis for Utah. Is this the year the tables turn?

  18-10-2019 18:00
  The promotions people in Utah’s athletic department have created a theme for every home football game this season, except Saturday’s meeting with Arizona State at Rice-Eccles Stadium.Beating the Sun Devils might be a sufficiently novel concept. ASU has proven to be Utah’s toughest opponent in the Pac-12 South, while tormenting Ute quarterback Tyler Huntley the past two seasons and shredding a proud defense last November, winning for the sixth time in eight games.“Every ye
  
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• Also, the size difference in John and Karls shorts is shocking to witness IRL https://twitter.com/utahjazz/status/1184943416125411331 …

  18-10-2019 17:53 via twitter.com
  Also, the size difference in John and Karls shorts is shocking to witness IRL https://twitter.com/utahjazz/status/1184943416125411331 …
  
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• [The Ringer] - Five Reasons to Watch the Utah Jazz This Season

  18-10-2019 17:51 via sportspyder.com
  Mountain Mike joins Donovan, Joe, Royce, and the Stifle Tower for a good-looking squad that will look even better in the purple majesty throwbacks
  
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• With Warren’s rise, Biden faces Dems’ anxiety about 2020 bid

  18-10-2019 17:43
  Washington • Joe Biden is confronting growing anxiety among would-be allies in the Democratic establishment about his ability to win the presidential nomination following underwhelming debate performances, lagging fundraising and withering attacks from rivals in his own party and from President Donald Trump.The former vice president's bank account is better suited for a city council race than a presidential election, warns Terry McAuliffe, a former Virginia governor and top Democratic fundr
  
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• Utah State heading into sticky situation against visiting Nevada

  18-10-2019 17:33
  When Nevada football coach Jay Norvell and his staff look back at the offensive plays they call Saturday during their Mountain West Conference showdown against Utah State, it may look a little like this:Peanut butter. Peanut butter. Jelly. Peanut butter. Peanut butter. Jelly.The Wolf Pack will have two running backs at their disposal Saturday night in Logan who were unavailable or held to limited action earlier this season. One is sophomore Toa Taua, who according to Norvell hadn’t been he
  
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• [NBC Sports] - China denies asking for Rockets GM Daryl Morey to be fired

  18-10-2019 17:29 via sportspyder.com
  The rift between the NBA and China appeared to widen again Friday, as the fallout over Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet in support of anti-government protesters in Hong Kon…
  
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• New Utah tax plan: Consumers pay more on groceries, gas, veterinarian bills, save money on children

  18-10-2019 17:24
  A plan to overhaul the Utah’s tax code would deliver a $75 million tax cut benefitting all wage brackets — although households above the median income would see the biggest windfall.The sales tax on groceries would go up under the proposal made public Friday by legislative leaders, and the state would tack on the sales tax to motor fuel purchases. These and other revenue-generating changes would be offset by income tax credits and an overall rate cut from 4.95% to 4.7% or lower.A fam
  
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• Street battles break out in Culiacán, Mexico, after attempted arrest of El Chapo’s son

  18-10-2019 17:18
  Mexico City • Cartel gunmen paralyzed a major Mexican city Thursday, unleashing hails of automatic gunfire in broad daylight in a staggering show of force after soldiers arrested and then released Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of infamous drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera.The violence began shortly after 3:30 p.m. in the city of Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state, when a patrol of 30 soldiers came under attack by individuals in a home in the neighborhood o
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Luka Doncic Terance Mann land fists, but not necessarily punches, on each other (video)

  18-10-2019 16:26 via sportspyder.com
  How much force is required for a punch?
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Where could the new Utah Jazz play some of the wrong notes?

  18-10-2019 16:20 via sportspyder.com
  We’ve talked about all the ways the Jazz have improved. Where are the weaknesses to Utah’s roster?
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - What’s next to come in the rise of Royce O’Neale?

  18-10-2019 16:20 via sportspyder.com
  What is the next step in his NBA journey, and will he take it?
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah’s Spida-Man Donovan Mitchell has backup ... finally

  18-10-2019 16:20 via sportspyder.com
  Utah has an offensive arsenal now. How will Donovan Mitchell take advantage of the added space?
  
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