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• $260 million deal averts 1st federal trial on opioid crisis

  21-10-2019 23:57
  Cleveland • The nation’s three biggest drug distributors and a major drugmaker agreed to an 11th-hour, $260 million settlement Monday over the terrible toll taken by opioids in two Ohio counties, averting the first federal trial over the crisis.The trial, involving Cleveland's Cuyahoga County and Akron's Summit County, was seen as a critical test case that could have gauged the strength of the opposing sides' arguments and prodded the industry and its foes toward a nationwide resoluti
  
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• “We are here to announce that the jersey patch for the next four years until 2023 will remain @5ForTheFight_.” -Ryan Smith, @Qualtrics

  21-10-2019 23:43 via twitter.com
  “We are here to announce that the jersey patch for the next four years until 2023 will remain @5ForTheFight_.”-Ryan Smith, @Qualtrics
  
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• 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀 “This is the only cause-related jersey patch worn in the NBA and proudly worn by our Jazz players." »https://on.nba.com/2W5AYlF 

  21-10-2019 23:41 via twitter.com
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  “This is the only cause-related jersey patch worn in the NBA and proudly worn by our Jazz players."»https://on.nba.com/2W5AYlF 
  
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• [Forbes] - Zion Williamson Out 6-8 Weeks After Meniscus Surgery

  21-10-2019 23:37 via sportspyder.com
  The news is a blow not only to Williamson but to the Pelicans, who are slated to open the regular season Tuesday on TNT against the defending NBA champion Toronto Raptors and are considered a borderline playoff team in the rugged Western Conference.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell to Royce O’Neale: ‘YOUR A LIAR BRO FLAT OUT LIAR’

  21-10-2019 23:21 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell reacts to Royce O’Neale’s update height measurement.
  
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• | “I think I’d be sick to my stomach if I saw someone else coaching this team. That’s how I feel about those guys.” #ZionsBank | #PracticeInterviews »http://on.nba.com/32ynlhi 

  21-10-2019 23:09 via twitter.com
  | “I think I’d be sick to my stomach if I saw someone else coaching this team. That’s how I feel about those guys.”#ZionsBank | #PracticeInterviews
  »http://on.nba.com/32ynlhi 
  
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• | “It’s just all a part of the process of developing and improving my game.” #ZionsBank | #PracticeInterviews »https://on.nba.com/2p56S5R 

  21-10-2019 23:08 via twitter.com
  | “It’s just all a part of the process of developing and improving my game.”#ZionsBank | #PracticeInterviews»https://on.nba.com/2p56S5R 
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz Release William Howard

  21-10-2019 22:59 via sportspyder.com
  Stanton Kidd beat out Howard for the final spot on Utah's regular season roster.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz release updated player heights: Donovan Mitchell now listed at 6’1

  21-10-2019 22:51 via sportspyder.com
  Everyone is at as tall as we thought they were.
  
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• 100 University of Utah students walk out of class in protest of how their school has handled Lauren McCluskey’s case

  21-10-2019 22:39
  The students stood outside for an hour, passing around a heavy gray megaphone and taking turns shouting into it about the times they’ve felt unsafe and unprotected on campus.“I was raped as a freshman,” one woman read from an anonymous account. “And university police did nothing to help.”Another recounted: “I asked for an advocate. They denied this. I asked to have a woman in the room while I was interviewed by police. They also denied this.”“The o
  
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• Utes’ Bradlee Anae earns two Pac-12 defensive awards

  21-10-2019 22:12
  Utah's football program is known for producing outstanding defensive linemen, and the Utes have claimed their first Pac-12 weekly award for that position group.Senior end Bradlee Anae earned that distinction Monday, being named both the Defensive Player of the Week and the Defensive Lineman of the Week in the conference after he recorded three sacks in Utah’s 21-3 defeat of Arizona State. The Pac-12 added offensive and defensive lineman awards this season in weekly voting by media members.
  
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• David Leonardt: It’s time for a march of the Americans

  21-10-2019 22:11
  On Nov. 9, 2016, the day after Donald Trump’s election, Obamacare looked to be doomed. Millions of Americans, it seemed, were going to lose their health insurance.Trump had campaigned on a promise to repeal the law, as had many other Republicans, and their party was about to control every branch of the federal government. All Republicans had to do was pass a law that Trump would sign. Democrats had no way to stop it.Or at least they had no way to stop it using only the inside game of polit
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz waive William Howard

  21-10-2019 22:05 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has waived forward William Howard.Howard (6-8, 207, France) played in three Jazz preseason games, averaging 6.7 points on 57.1 percent shooting and 2.0
  
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• We have waived William Howard. »https://on.nba.com/2P6meS5 

  21-10-2019 22:00 via twitter.com
  We have waived William Howard.»https://on.nba.com/2P6meS5 
  
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• Each NBA team's best chance at winning an award for the 2019-20 season

  21-10-2019 21:51
  This is arguably the most exciting time of the year for basketball as each team, player, coach and even the fans begin the season with hope.
  We let our imagination run wild for each franchise across the NBA and tried to predict an award that someone from each organization can earn once the season comes to a conclusion. This optimistic exercise, which we also did last season, also reminded us just how much talent there is across the league and just how many exciting players there are heading into
  
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• Unsung diplomat is unlikely hero in impeachment inquiry

  21-10-2019 21:36
  Kyiv, Ukraine • William Taylor has emerged as an unlikely hero in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.The former Army officer and retired career civil servant holds a position many Americans can't even pronounce as charge d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. But he was drawn into a Trump administration effort to leverage U.S. military aid for Ukraine, an effort Taylor believed was improper and tried to stop.He is scheduled to appear Tuesday before impeachment investigato
  
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• George F. Will: ‘Texodus’ bodes badly for Republicans

  21-10-2019 21:00
  Washington • “I am a classically trained engineer,” says Rep. Will Hurd, a Texas Republican, “and I firmly believe in regression to the mean.” Applying a concept from statistics to the randomness of today’s politics is problematic. In any case, Hurd, 42, is not waiting for the regression of our politics from the extreme ends of the ideological spectrum to something like temperate normality. He is leaving Congress at the end of this, his third term. And he sees
  
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• [NBA] - Preseason defensive issues were a 'wakeup call', but Rudy Gobert and the Utah Jazz aren't worried

  21-10-2019 20:58 via sportspyder.com
  On each possession, Mike Conley makes dozens of split-second decisions with the basketball in his hands. These reads are second nature for the point guard after 12 years in the NBA. But there are
  
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• IT'S ALMOST HERRRREpic.twitter.com/S0zzfRGPWh

  21-10-2019 20:49 via twitter.com
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• Thieves steal Amazon fertility statues as Vatican synod nears end

  21-10-2019 20:14
  Vatican City • Pope Francis’ controversial meeting on the Amazon took a criminal twist Monday after thieves stole indigenous fertility statues from a Vatican-area church and tossed them into the Tiber River.Video of the pre-dawn theft from the Santa Maria in Traspontina church was shared and celebrated on conservative social media. The Vatican’s communications czar, Paolo Ruffini, termed it a “stunt” that violated the idea of dialogue.Even before the three-week Amazo
  
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• Utes’ Whittingham accepts Arizona State’s apology and doesn’t provide an update on Tyler Huntley’s injury

  21-10-2019 20:04
  Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham addressed his players' health Monday by saying only that no season-ending injuries occurred in Saturday's 21-3 victory over Arizona State.Utah quarterback Tyler Huntley and offensive tackle Darrin Paulo didn’t finish the game, due to apparent leg injuries, raising questions about their status for Saturday’s contest vs. California at Rice-Eccles Stadium.During his weekly news conference, Whittingham also applauded ASU coach Herm Edwards for apologi
  
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• Addressing growing fan behavior problem top priority for NBA

  21-10-2019 19:31
  About a dozen NBA players gathered for a teleconference with officials in the league office this summer, making their case about what they believe is one of the biggest problems in the game.Fan behavior, they said, is getting worse.The numbers show they're right, and if that isn't troubling enough race only adds to the complexity of the issue: Most NBA players are black, and it seems like most of those in the closest seats are white. Not every incident is racially motivated, though some clearly
  
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• As homelessness surges in California, so does a backlash

  21-10-2019 19:22
  Oakland, Calif. • Insults like “financial parasites” and “bums” have been hurled at them. Fences, potted plants and other barriers have been erected to keep them off sidewalks. Citizen patrols have been organized, vigilante style, to walk the streets and push them out.California may pride itself on its commitment to tolerance and liberal values, but across the state, record levels of homelessness have spurred a backlash against those who live on the streets.Gene Gore
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz release updated player heights: Tony Bradley grew an inch

  21-10-2019 19:12 via sportspyder.com
  Everyone is at as tall as we thought they were.
  
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• Utah’s cross country team is deploying an unconventional strategy and enjoying a breakout season

  21-10-2019 18:43
  The Utah women’s cross country program has followed the example of the Utes’ national champion ski program by recruiting internationally. That explains how Utah’s top five runners include three from England, one from Australia and one from Ogden.The comparison to skiing ends there. Or could you picture five skiers racing down the slopes in a pack?Coach Kyle Kepler’s strategy is to make cross country a genuine team sport, and he’s succeeding. With their top five runn
  
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• Pray for our nation and its leaders, senior apostle Ballard urges Latter-day Saints — ‘we need prayer again’

  21-10-2019 18:01
  At a time when the American president faces impeachment proceedings and a potential constitutional clash looms, a senior apostle is urging members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to pray for the country and its leaders.“Our nation was founded on prayer, it was preserved by prayer, and we need prayer again,” M. Russell Ballard, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, told thousands of members at a devotional Sunday in Worcester, Mass. "... I invite yo
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump has turned White House into quid pro freak show

  21-10-2019 18:00
  Washington • Et tu, Mulvaney?Three weeks ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled the impeachment inquiry with a Latin phrase spoken by Julius Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon. "Alea iacta est," she said. The die is cast.Since then, President Trump has absolved himself by repeating — ad infinitum — some Latin of his own: "There was no quid pro quo." No this for that.Enter Mick Mulvaney, deus ex machina, to destroy Trump’s defense. The president’s (still) acting chi
  
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• A Utah woman refused to sell her vacant house to a neighbor. Police say he moved in anyway.

  21-10-2019 17:42
  A Salt Lake City man who refused to take no for an answer when a woman declined his low-ball offer to buy her house is facing multiple charges after he claimed the property as his own.In charges filed last week, prosecutors wrote that police first were called to the house at 737 E. Roosevelt on Aug. 30 when someone reported a “belligerent person” was inside and was taking things without the owner’s permission. The officer told the man not to re-enter or make modifications to th
  
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• Vape pioneer peddled street drugs that sickened dozens in Utah

  21-10-2019 16:49
  Carlsbad, Calif. • Some of the people rushing to emergency rooms thought the CBD vape they inhaled would help like a gentle medicine. Others puffed it for fun.What the vapors delivered instead was a jolt of synthetic marijuana, and with it an intense high of hallucinations and even seizures.More than 50 people around Salt Lake City had been poisoned by the time the outbreak ended early last year, most by a vape called Yolo! — the acronym for “you only live once.”In recent
  
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• Alexandra Petri: Trump’s Doral resort for the G-7? Yes, please!

  21-10-2019 16:20
  Please, naysayers! Trump National Doral is the one and only possible place to host the Group of Seven summit, and it is great luck for the country that it happens to be owned by our generous president, Donald J. Trump. What are the odds of that? Once again, Donald Trump comes through!We are so blessed in this man. A miracle, truly, that not only is this man willing to be president, but that he happened to own the best possible venue for holiday parties for the attorney general, for visits by the
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Perhaps Sanders and Warren are the ones being politically expedient

  21-10-2019 15:33
  Another Democratic debate, another argument about how anyone who questions the merits of various lefty ideas just doesn’t have “the guts” (to use Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ preferred term) to “dream big and fight hard” (quoth Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren).The moderates, allegedly, are prioritizing political expediency over principle. They're in thrall to polls and focus groups. They're terrified of alienating independent voters perpetually camped out
  
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• E.J Dionne: Warren’s plan worked. Now she needs another one.

  21-10-2019 15:32
  Washington • For Elizabeth Warren, the hard part begins now.The Massachusetts senator is unquestionably the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, which made her the focal point of attacks from her rivals in Tuesday’s Democratic debate. Former Vice President Joe Biden had an easier time of it, but this was not good news for him. At various points in the three-hour marathon, he faded away. His rivals no longer see him as the person to beat.Beneath the jostling for pos
  
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• Frank Bruni: It was the best of Warren. It was the worst of Warren.

  21-10-2019 15:31
  If you had any question before Tuesday night’s debate about which Democratic presidential candidate is effectively the front-runner, the first half-hour answered it.Pete Buttigieg went after Elizabeth Warren, wondering why she was so intent on abolishing private health insurance and suggesting that her stance would dangerously intensify political polarization in America.Amy Klobuchar went after Warren, describing her “Medicare for All” plan as one big fat Republican talking poi
  
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• Ross Douthat: It was a night for the Not-Bidens

  21-10-2019 15:30
  The ridiculous number of candidates on the Democratic stage Tuesday night created a fundamentally misleading aural and visual impression. Watching without access to polling data, you might have imagined that this was some sort of wild careening mess of a primary race, when really it’s remarkably consolidated.There is a Joe Biden constituency that seems stable at around 30% of the primary electorate. There is an Elizabeth Warren constituency that has expanded swiftly enough, especially in e
  
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• Dana Milbank: Democrats flip the script on a cut-and-run president

  21-10-2019 15:30
  Washington • At Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Democrats flipped the script on national security.For several decades — since the early Cold War, really — Republicans have usually been able to convince the country that they were the ones to be trusted to keep Americans safe. But, as with so much else, President Trump has squandered that durable advantage.In Ohio on Tuesday, Democrats sounded very much like Republicans of yore in denouncing Trump for jeopardizing natio
  
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• Letter: Causing more suicides

  21-10-2019 15:27
  If the LDS Church along with Gayle Ruzicka have their way with stopping the state from making conversion therapy illegal, that will just cause more suicides in this so-called family state.Paul Jerominski, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Mixed emotions about impeachment

  21-10-2019 15:24
  I have mixed emotions about having our president impeached. On the one hand, I think it would be best for the country if he were removed from office. On the other hand, I think it has to be a joint effort of both parties or we will be further divided.We can tolerate poor treatment of asylum seekers at our border. Most will be inconvenienced, but few will actually die.Making abortions harder to obtain will result in more unwanted children, most being born into poverty, but some, I suppose, will t
  
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• Letter: Corporate steps to clean energy are good, but not enough

  21-10-2019 15:17
  I was heartened to read Brian Maffly’s Oct. 4 Tribune article reporting that PacifiCorp will retire its 16 most costly coal-fired power plants by 2030, resulting in reduced carbon emissions by 43% by 2025 and 59% by 2030. I was disappointed, however, about their expectation of getting 20 more years of production from Emery County’s Hunter and Huntington plants.Impressively, 3,500 megawatts of new wind generation are expected from Wyoming and Idaho sites, boosted by 3,000 megawatts of
  
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• Join The Salt Lake Tribune in an ongoing conversation about the dynamic west side

  21-10-2019 15:14
  Utah is one of the fastest-growing states in the nation and, particularly in Salt Lake County, the population is changing.So, what does the future of Utah look like? How will the economy, people, landscape and even the recreation change?We can find some of those answers by exploring the Salt Lake Valley’s dynamic west side.This area is the most racially diverse in our historically homogenous state. And it is growing fast. Many of the schools are majority minority, the businesses cater to p
  
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• Letter: A presidential nickname

  21-10-2019 15:11
  It’s time to assign a nickname to the president.After all, he has given us “Crooked Hillary, “Pocahontas” and “Sleepy Joe.”Let’s assign him one that is 100% accurate.“Treasonous Trump.”Steven Nowack, DraperSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Salt Lake City mayoral candidates have exchanged barbs on the inland port. Let’s look at what really happened.

  21-10-2019 15:00
  Who is to blame for the inland port?It’s probably the most incendiary issue in the Salt Lake City mayoral campaign. And, if you listen to any of the 714 debates between Erin Mendenhall and Luz Escamilla, you’ve heard vastly divergent narratives about how the port came into being.That was driven home listening to last week’s debate hosted by The Salt Lake Tribune and FOX 13.So I thought I’d take a little time to unravel some of the competing viewpoints — not so much
  
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• Illegal vapes that sickened Utahns traced to California woman who was CBD pioneer

  21-10-2019 14:43
  Carlsbad, Calif. • Some of the people rushing to emergency rooms thought the CBD vape they inhaled would help like a gentle medicine. Others puffed it for fun.What the vapors delivered instead was a jolt of synthetic marijuana, and with it an intense high of hallucinations and even seizures.More than 50 people around Salt Lake City had been poisoned by the time the outbreak ended early last year, most by a vape called Yolo! — the acronym for “you only live once.”In recent
  
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• E.J. Dionne: Stick-it-to-the-libs is all Trump has left

  21-10-2019 14:16
  Washington • The Fifth Avenue Murder Theory now faces its toughest test.This bold hypothesis was put forward in 2016 by Professor Donald Trump, who claimed that he could "stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody" and not "lose any voters."His proposition is by no means implausible. He won his Electoral College majority despite his louche and obscene admissions to sexual assault in the "Access Hollywood" tape. He has survived revelations of hush-money payments to alleged paramo
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Mitt Romney’s secret alter ego, ‘conversion therapy’ and payday loans

  21-10-2019 14:14
  In an interview with The Atlantic, Utah Senator Mitt Romney revealed that he uses a secret Twitter account to keep tabs on political conversation. His screen name? Pierre Delecto. [Trib]Happy Monday!Topping the news: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is suggesting that a proposed ban on “conversion therapy” for minors would put a muzzle on therapists attempting to help youth; advocates argue it would simply prohibit a widely discredited practice that harms members of th
  
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• Myron Willson: University of Utah can lead the way toward ‘electrifying everything’

  21-10-2019 14:02
  I enjoyed reading the Oct. 6 commentary about improving air quality by University of Utah Senior Vice Presidents Michael Good and Dan Reed and I am happy the U.’s leadership is taking the problem seriously. I agree that higher education can help take a leading role to combat the issue through interdisciplinary research and collaboration.The U. is doing even more to solve air quality and climate change than was shared in their brief piece. In 2009, the U. made major strides in reducing buil
  
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• Utah police are subscribing to new digital technologies — but at what cost to people’s privacy?

  21-10-2019 14:00
  On an overcast evening in August, a homeowner’s doorbell camera catches a man dressed in a fluorescent orange T-shirt standing on the front porch.He’s wearing sunglasses, and his neck tattoo is visible as he looks over his shoulder before he stoops down to pick up a package. He walks to a silver two-door car with red mirrors and drives away.
  (Photo courtesy video footage on Neighbors app) A screen grab from an alleged August package theft in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City police, who
  
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• ‘Next great expansion’ of Salt Lake City’s downtown could help beautify its blighted entrance and exit from I-15

  21-10-2019 14:00
  In what backers call the “next great expansion” of Salt Lake City’s downtown, an entire urban neighborhood is set to rise a block south of Pioneer Park on what is now an ugly spread of run-down properties that many Utah motorists glance over daily.Developers plan to build a nearly 13-acre residential and commercial project along sections of the city’s main entry and exit from Interstate 15, on land located around 500 South and 600 South between 300 West and 400 West.To be
  
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• Letter: Leaving Syria was the right decision

  21-10-2019 14:00
  I can’t believe I am about to type this next sentence. Donald Trump got it right.I don’t care much for the current POTUS. This newspaper’s editorials and letters to the editor have all documented his behaviors, so I won’t use this space to go into what’s wrong with the man.I will, however, give him credit when credit is due. He pulled our troops and our continued financial assistance out of the Syrian conflict. He basically said, “It’s not our problem, l
  
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• Letter: Fascism is the greatest threat in America

  21-10-2019 14:00
  Thanks to George Pyle (13 Oct.) for using the most accurate term to describe the mortal danger imperiling the republic: fascism.One quibble: Donald Trump is not a fascist. He’s a psychopath; his ideology is the “Donaldism.” But a fascist movement, comprising some 30% of the adult population, has coalesced around the vortex of psychopathy in the White House.American fascism is not entirely coherent ideologically, but that doesn’t matter because it’s not about ideas.
  
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• Letter: Conversion ‘therapy’ destroys lives

  21-10-2019 14:00
  As a survivor of two-and-a-half years of parent-initiated conversion “therapy” at the hands of an LDS Family Services therapist in the mid-2000s, please acknowledge my righteous anger at the LDS Church’s last-minute attempt to sabotage Utah’s long-awaited regulation barring licensed psychotherapists from employing torturous efforts to alter the God-given sexual orientation and gender identity of God’s precious LGBTQ children. Please join me in proclaiming that no on
  
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