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• Utah staffer at facility for troubled youth charged for allowing boys to play ‘choking game’

  26-11-2019 23:20
  
  An employee at a Utah facility for troubled youth has been charged with child abuse after authorities say he allowed teens to choke each other as part of a game.Tuakimoana Leota, 20, was charged Tuesday with two counts of third-degree felony child abuse.Prosecutors allege that Leota had been working at Oxbow Academy East, and had looked on as several residents choked each other to the point of unconsciousness Friday as part of a game called “Cloud 9” or the “choking game.&rdquo
  
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• Salt Lake City serves The Leonardo museum with notice of default over hundreds of thousands in unpaid debts

  26-11-2019 22:30
  
  Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s office served The Leonardo, a nonprofit science and technology museum on Library Square, a formal notice of default last month — marking an uncertain future for an organization that has had a rocky financial past.The nonprofit owes around $600,000 in unpaid loan and utility service bills to Salt Lake City, which owns its building, according to the default letter. The letter, which the city shared with The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday afternoon,
  
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• Hawaii man arrested in Utah ‘extreme stalking’ case

  26-11-2019 22:28
  
  U.S. prosecutors have arrested a Hawaii man they accuse of sending hundreds of unwanted service providers to a Utah home, including plumbers and prostitutes.Loren Okamura was arrested Friday in Hawaii following his indictment last month on charges of cyberstalking, interstate threats and transporting people for prostitution, court documents show.Okamura, 44, targeted a father and her adult daughter, sending the woman threatening messages and posting her picture and address online, authorities sa
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Jazz are out of town this Thanksgiving; what is the team doing during the holiday?

  26-11-2019 22:27 via sportspyder.com
  
  Indianapolis • There’s just one Jazzman who is home for the holidays — at least, where Thanksgiving is concerned — Mike Conley.
  
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• Matthew Weinstein: The Holy Grail of tax reform. Getting non-Utahns to pay for things that Utahns need

  26-11-2019 22:27
  
  If someone told you that the key to the success of the Utah Tax Restructuring and Equalization Task Force may well be found in an examination of the in-state vs out-of-state effects of the current draft proposal, your eyes would probably glaze over and you might suddenly recall a dentist appointment that you had forgotten.But wait! Please tell the dentist you’ll reschedule and take a few minutes to read on.It is probably safe to say that the public in Utah would like to see two things comi
  
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• Religious freedom law plays key role in migrant-aid case

  26-11-2019 22:15
  
  Religious liberty is often a high priority for conservatives, but last week’s acquittal of an Arizona man prosecuted for aiding migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border is spotlighting the ability of religious freedom law to shield people of faith regardless of political ideology.The case of Scott Warren, a college instructor and volunteer with a humanitarian group that helps migrants, gained nationwide notice as he challenged what he called the government's "attempt to criminalize basic huma
  
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• The Jazz are out of town this Thanksgiving; what is the team doing during the holiday?

  26-11-2019 22:02
  
  Indianapolis • There’s just one Jazzman who is home for the holidays — at least, where Thanksgiving is concerned — Mike Conley.That’s because the Jazz will spend the Thanksgiving holiday in Memphis this year, a day ahead of when they play their second contest in two weeks at the FedEx Forum. And that game comes after Wednesday’s matchup in Indianapolis, where Conley went to high school at Lawrence North. So many of his friends and family will attend the Jazz&rs
  
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• Paul Krugman: Trump is giving U.S. businesses the Ukraine treatment

  26-11-2019 22:00
  
  The story that has emerged in the impeachment hearings is one of extortion and bribery. Donald Trump withheld crucial aid — aid Ukraine needed to defend itself against Russian aggression — and refused to release it unless Ukraine publicly said it was investigating one of his political rivals. Even Republicans understand this; they just think it’s OK.And remember, the Ukraine scandal made it into the public eye only because a single whistleblower set an investigation in motion.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - NBA Power Rankings: Continued offensive woes cause slip for Utah Jazz

  26-11-2019 21:20 via sportspyder.com
  
  The defense is still there, the offense... Still coming around. It’s affecting the power rankings
  
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• Jana Riess: Why the BYU-Idaho disaster is a signal of positive change in the LDS Church

  26-11-2019 21:20
  
  Brigham Young University-Idaho made the welcome announcement Monday that it has reversed its controversial decision to disallow Medicaid as an acceptable form of health insurance for current students.The reversal will return the university, owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to the previous status quo, in which Medicaid was considered an acceptable form of insurance to satisfy the university’s requirement that all students have health insurance, but was
  
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• BYU and San Diego State were fierce rivals in the WAC and Mountain West; now they meet again

  26-11-2019 21:11
  
  Provo • As a former BYU fullback, coach Kalani Sitake is all too familiar with the old rivalry against San Diego State, which will be revived Saturday in the regular season finale for both teams in San Diego.During the years that Sitake played for BYU (1994, 1997-2000), the Cougars went 3-1 against the Aztecs. And what stood out to the fourth-year coach most back then was the weather.The team always played in late October or November, so the warmer southern California weather was a nice bre
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Dunks of the Week - 11.26.19

  26-11-2019 20:46 via sportspyder.com
  
  Dunks of the Week presented by: Wasatch Front Ford Dealerships
  
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• Gordon Monson: At last, Andy Ludwig has made offense a thing at Utah — a thing that Kyle Whittingham doesn’t hate.

  26-11-2019 20:25
  
  Of all the things Kyle Whittingham did to prepare for what’s happening in Utah’s glorious 2019 football season, a season in which the Utes are not just poised to qualify for the Pac-12 championship game, but to actually win it, one stands above the rest.Getting Andy Ludwig.The veteran offensive coordinator has stepped right in and groomed an attack this season that needed a shave and a haircut. It needed a sound mind, a steady hand and a savvy approach — and by savvy, we mean a
  
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• Utah court upholds stop-and-frisk after challenge from Neo-Nazi

  26-11-2019 19:22
  
  A neo-Nazi gang member in Utah has lost his legal challenge to the practice of stop-and-frisk in the state, after an appeals court ruled that police officers had justifiable cause to search him after he behaved belligerently during a traffic stop in 2017.The man, Bryant Robert Mitchell, was arrested in July 2017 after the police searched him during a traffic stop and found he was carrying heroin and a knife, which he was barred from having because he was a felon. He later pleaded guilty to drug
  
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• The Leonardo owes $400,000 and is not maintaining the building, Salt Lake City mayor says

  26-11-2019 19:13
  
  The Leonardo museum, which has long struggled to fulfill its financial obligations, has received a “notice of default” from Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s office that outlines nearly $400,000 in unpaid utility bills and a long list of “life-safety hazards” at the former city library.The letter, obtained by FOX 13, states that “The Leonardo currently owes $398,717.16 for the cost of utility service to the building and the majority of that balance is ov
  
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• Thanks to Utah’s efficient offense, the Utes’ punting job now requires only minimal work

  26-11-2019 19:09
  
  Utah’s history of having Australian punters thrive in the program influenced freshman Ben Lennon’s choice of the Utes, although he’s not getting the same opportunities that national award winners Tom Hackett and Mitch Wishnowsky received.How could Lennon have known Utah's offense would be this good?In three of Utah’s games this season, Lennon has punted only once. He might have gone the entire game last Saturday without kicking, except the Utes were stopped on a 3rd-and-1
  
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• Inland port opponents rally in Salt Lake City before heading into court to face rioting charges

  26-11-2019 19:01
  
  The 10 people charged with starting a riot in the lobby of the Salt Lake Chamber offices during an inland port protest that turned violent this summer made their first appearances in court Tuesday.Each faces a charge of rioting, nine of them carrying a third-degree felony count with a possible sentence of up to five years in prison; nine of them also face a charge of criminal trespass, a class B misdemeanor.Ahead of their first appearances in 3rd District Court — where the defendants were
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Jazz Miss DPOY in Loss to MVP

  26-11-2019 18:55 via sportspyder.com
  
  As much as Goberts defensive presence was sorely missing, the Jazz offense showed up and provided a glimmer of hope. He was +14 in the Bucks 4-point win. All Rights Reserved.
  
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• No thanks: Native Americans to hold 50th gathering of grief

  26-11-2019 18:51
  
  Plymouth, Mass. • Happy Thanksgiving to you in the land your forefathers stole.That's the in-your-feast message Native Americans are preparing to send as they convene their 50th annual National Day of Mourning in the seaside town where the Pilgrims settled.United American Indians of New England has held the solemn remembrance on every Thanksgiving Day since 1970 to recall what organizers describe as "the genocide of millions of native people, the theft of native lands and the relentless ass
  
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• The Leonardo owes $1 million and is not maintaining the building, Salt Lake City mayor says

  26-11-2019 18:45
  
  The Leonardo museum, which has long struggled to fulfill its financial obligations, has received a “notice of default” from Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s office that outlines nearly $400,000 in unpaid utility bills and a long list of “life-safety hazards” at the former city library.The letter, obtained by FOX 13, states that “The Leonardo currently owes $398,717.16 for the cost of utility service to the building and the majority of that balance is ov
  
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• More snow will hit Utah before Thanksgiving

  26-11-2019 18:40
  
  (Courtesy of the National Weather Service) A fast-moving storm will bring snow to Utah on Monday.A wintry storm brought several inches of snow to parts of the Wasatch Front on Monday, the first salvo in what’s expected to be a snowy Thanksgiving week.The National Weather Service reported 6 inches of snow fell Monday in South Jordan, with more than 5 inches in Tooele and 4.8 inches in Sandy. North Salt Lake and South Ogden saw 4.2 and 4.3 inches, respectively, with 4 inches in Brigham City
  
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• Suicides by K-Pop stars prompt soul-searching in South Korea

  26-11-2019 18:00
  
  Seoul, South Korea • When K-pop star Sulli ended her own life last month, her fellow K-pop singer Goo Hara was heartbroken, bidding a farewell to her best friend in a livestreaming video. With tears running down her cheeks, Goo expressed hope that Sulli would live “as she pleases” in heaven.“I will live twice more diligently now that you are gone,” she said. “Dear fans, I will be fine. Don’t worry about me.”But Sunday, six weeks after Sulli’s
  
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• Inland port opponents charged with rioting in Salt Lake City rally before heading into court

  26-11-2019 17:23
  
  The 10 people charged with starting a riot in the lobby of the Salt Lake Chamber offices during an inland port protest that turned violent this summer made their first appearances in court Tuesday.Each faces a charge of rioting, a third-degree felony with a possible sentence of up to five years in prison; nine of them also face a charge of criminal trespass, a class B misdemeanor.Ahead of their first appearances in 3rd District Court — where the defendants will be advised of charges, appoi
  
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• BYU-Idaho will allow students to use Medicaid, apologizes for causing “turmoil”

  26-11-2019 17:17
  
  In a surprising reversal and with an apology “for the turmoil caused by our earlier decision,” Brigham Young University’s campus in Idaho announced Monday night that it will retract its new policy on health insurance and return to allowing students to use Medicaid.The change came in an email sent campuswide less than two weeks after the school originally publicized the decision on Nov. 12. Shortly after that, hundreds of students had immediately and loudly criticized the univer
  
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• Community activist Michael Clara arrested after firing a gun at a car that hit him

  26-11-2019 17:13
  
  Community activist and former Salt Lake City School Board of Education member Michael Clara was arrested Saturday night and booked into the Salt Lake County jail for allegedly firing a gun several times at a car that hit his vehicle.Clara, 55, was traveling north on 900 West from 200 South when the car he was driving was struck “multiple times” by another vehicle, according to a probable cause affidavit. He then allegedly exited his car, “drew a firearm from his holster" and fi
  
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• Salt Lake City goes after The Leonardo for owing $1 million and not maintaining the building

  26-11-2019 17:10
  
  The Leonardo museum, which has long struggled to fulfill its financial obligations, has received a “notice of default” from Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s office that outlines nearly $400,000 in unpaid utility bills and a long list of “life-safety hazards” at the former city library.The letter, obtained by FOX 13, states that “The Leonardo currently owes $398,717.16 for the cost of utility service to the building and the majority of that balance is ov
  
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• Wintry weather threatens to snarl U.S. holiday travel

  26-11-2019 16:47
  
  Denver • A strong storm expected to drop up to a foot of snow in parts of Colorado and Wyoming on Tuesday prompted airlines to announce travel alerts and the National Weather Service to issue blizzard and wintry weather warnings from the Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes.About a quarter of Denver International Airport's 1,500 flights on Tuesday were canceled, and airport officials said more cancellations were likely."There's still a lot of uncertainty with this storm," said airport spokesw
  
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• Sheriff: Woman killed by feral hogs outside Texas home

  26-11-2019 16:28
  
  Anahuac, Texas • Authorities say feral hogs attacked and killed a woman outside a Southeast Texas home where she worked as a caretaker.Christine Rollins cared for an elderly couple at their home in the small town of Anahuac. Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said Monday the 84-year-old woman she cared for was waiting for Rollins to arrive on Sunday. The woman went outside and found the 59-year-old Rollins in the front yard between her car and the front door.Hawthorne says Rollins had
  
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• Supreme Court temporarily blocks disclosure of Trump’s financial records

  26-11-2019 16:20
  
  Washington • The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked an appeals court ruling that required President Donald Trump’s accounting firm to turn over financial records to a House committee.The court’s brief order gave no reasons, and there were no noted dissents.The court’s stay was in one sense routine, maintaining the status quo while the court decides whether to hear Trump’s appeal in the case. But it also suggested, given that it takes five votes to grant a st
  
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• Bingham High coach John Lambourne is retiring after 20 years with the Miners

  26-11-2019 16:15
  
  Longtime Bingham High football coach John Lambourne is stepping down, though he will remain at the school as a faculty member.“John has decided after 36 years of coaching high school football, 20 at Bingham, to retire from coaching," Bingham High principal Rodney Shaw said in an e-mail to The Salt Lake Tribune. “He will still be teaching health at Bingham High School."Initial reports suggested that at least some of Lambourne’s staff might be leaving with him, but Shaw said that
  
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• David Leonhardt: Turn off your phone for Thanksgiving

  26-11-2019 16:00
  
  This week, Americans will endure flight delays, traffic jams and other logistical miseries to spend time with family and friends. And when the holiday weekend is ending, many will lament that they don’t get to spend enough time with those relatives and friends.But during the weekend itself, these same lamenters will spend a lot of time ignoring the people around them and distractedly staring into their phones. They will get a notification and disappear down a digital rabbit hole of Faceboo
  
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• Christopher Smart: Rep. Stewart, Sen. Lee and a real nightmare

  26-11-2019 16:00
  
  I had a bad dream — a real nightmare. I dreamed I saw a Salt Lake Tribune headline that read: “Mike Lee says Trump is a gift.”Why in the world would my Utah senator say something as repugnant as that, I thought. A gift? I must be dreaming.Then I saw myself in a little row boat headed for Niagara Falls. And there on the bank was Utah Congressman Chris Stewart, with an American flag pin on his lapel, yelling something.“You don’t have any evidence that President Trump
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Giannis Antetokounmpo joins exclusive club with 50-point game vs. Jazz

  26-11-2019 15:59 via sportspyder.com
  
  Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo became the fourth player to record 50 points, 10 rebounds and not commit a single turnover in a game since the latter became an official during the 1977-78 season, according to ESPN Stats & Info. The Milwaukee Bucks...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Bojan Bogdanovic has morphed into the Boogey-Man this season

  26-11-2019 15:47 via sportspyder.com
  
  He’s been the perfect addition to Utah’s roster
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - NBA 2K20 Updates: All quiet on the Utah Jazz front

  26-11-2019 15:40 via sportspyder.com
  
  Last week NBA 2K20 released their second update of player ratings for the season. How did they rank the current and former members of the Utah Jazz? The Ut...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Are the Utah Jazz turning the corner?

  26-11-2019 15:40 via sportspyder.com
  
  Despite not having Rudy Gobert the past couple of games, the Utah Jazz have embraced the next-man-up mentality and turned a few heads, including mine. When...
  
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• Are the Utah Jazz turning the corner?

  26-11-2019 15:32
  
  Despite not having Rudy Gobert the past couple of games, the Utah Jazz have embraced the next-man-up mentality and turned a few heads, including mine. When I first caught wind that Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert sprained his ankle on Friday night, I was a little worried. The Jazz were already struggling in minutes played […]
  Are the Utah Jazz turning the corner? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• NBA 2K20 Updates: All quiet on the Utah Jazz front

  26-11-2019 15:15
  
  Last week NBA 2K20 released their second update of player ratings for the season. How did they rank the current and former members of the Utah Jazz? The Utah Jazz are off to an 11-6 start, which is not bad considering how many new pieces they are integrating into the offense. Add in the fact […]
  NBA 2K20 Updates: All quiet on the Utah Jazz front - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Letter: The deal with the devil is done

  26-11-2019 15:15
  
  Democrats, progressives, atheists, agnostics, along with a few religious outliers: Now that you have claimed the moral high ground, quit trying to convince Republicans of right, decency and patriotism or to do the right thing.No amount of fact or evidence will matter. They made a deal with the devil when they sold their soul to the name-calling, woman-grabbing, porn star-bribing, racist essence of pride.They have cemented their deal with this corrupt man. They will defend bribery, investigating
  
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• Letter: School Breakfast Program would help all students

  26-11-2019 15:15
  
  Over the last 30 years, child obesity has doubled and tripled for adolescents. The prevalence of this epidemic is growing at an alarming rate in the United States with multi-generational consequences.Studies conclusively prove eating breakfast has positive effects on cognitive performance, academic achievements, quality of life, well-being and morbidity risk factors.In 2010, the Hunger-Free Kids Act was implemented in the United States. The act created stricter guidelines for well-balanced meals
  
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• Letter: Money for student mental health is welcome, but not enough

  26-11-2019 15:15
  
  In 2019, the Utah Legislature passed HB373, Student Support Amendments. The bill will fund $26 million toward mental health services in schools. This is a huge win not only for education but for the future of our state.However, HB373 contains some concerning restrictions. For example, the funding will only match the amount of money that individual school districts come up with for the mental health providers. Accordingly, if a district is unable to come up with the funding for a mental health pr
  
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• Letter: Don’t cut one scholarship fund to support another

  26-11-2019 15:15
  
  How ironic is it that on the same day when The Salt Lake Tribune publishes an excellent op-ed about an innovative and necessary program of stimulating and rewarding high achieving students at Farmington High School, there is a front page article about the Utah Board of Regents reducing the merit-based scholarships offered in the Regents and New Century programs in order to provide more financial need-based scholarships for disadvantaged youth.As delighted as I am that youngsters in financial nee
  
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• Letter: Accurate sex education is ‘pro-family’

  26-11-2019 15:15
  
  In October, Utah Democrats proposed a number of “pro-family” bills. One of these bills pertains to sex education in schools. This past March, Utah began its stride in the right direction with the passing of HB71. School districts may now allow instruction on contraception while still strongly emphasizing abstinence.While this is a small change in sex education, Utah is progressing. The pro-family bills proposed would allow more information about safe sex as part of the curriculum. Ma
  
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• Robert Kirby: Keeping our heads during the holiday shopping season

  26-11-2019 15:05
  
  Thanksgiving is 48 hours away. The big day of gratitude and gravy will soon be upon us … and in us. Meat, potatoes, vegetables and pie. Lots of pie.Call it gluttony, but we’ll need that food for strength to get us through the long, cold, dark slide toward Christmas. Even while we’re still bleary from gorging, it’s time to shop.The day after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday, when the annual holiday pillaging season kicks off. People storm the stores for holiday barga
  
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• Susan R. Madsen: Women face the danger of ‘either/or’ and the power of ‘and’

  26-11-2019 15:00
  
  Society gives women two conflicting messages about life choices that I want to illustrate using food metaphors because, with Thanksgiving around the corner, and I’ve got turkey and pumpkin pie on my mind.One philosophy is that life is a buffet and we can pile our plates high and have it all. The other is that we can have it all, but only one thing at a time, like the various courses served at a meal.Personally, I have found the most nourishing times of my life have not been either/or, but
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Trump honors military dog injured in Baghdadi raid

  26-11-2019 15:00
  
  President Donald Trump made an appearance Monday to honor a dog he called the “world’s most famous” — Conan, the Belgian Malinois that was injured during the raid that took down Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last month. The dog’s identity was briefly considered classified but has since been revealed. On Monday, Trump called Conan a “tough cookie.” [WaPost]Happy Tuesday!Topping the news: After some students said they’d have to drop out i
  
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• Letter: Trump and the Seven Deadly Sins

  26-11-2019 15:00
  
  I would like to congratulate Donald Trump by faithfully committing all of the Seven Deadly Sins:Pride: I am a very stable genius.Envy: Sleepy Joe is smarter than me and after my job.Sloth: I like watching TV and sleeping through meetingsGluttony: I love lots of cheeseburgers, fries and Cokes.Lust: I desire good looking hookers.Wrath: Kill all the immigrants!Greed: I want to buy Greenland and build a Trump Tower there.Alan F. Heap, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: More room for comics

  26-11-2019 15:00
  
  When you can’t read the text of “Doonesbury” with a magnifying glass, and Sarge and Otto are skinny so they will fit in a side panel, it’s time to give your comic strips a little more room.Mary Walton, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Can’t more people walk to church?

  26-11-2019 15:00
  
  The LDS Church has plans to uproot a neighborhood community garden in order to expand its parking lot.This garden has been used by neighbors for nearly 50 years to work the land, plant small crops, and give bees a place to be. Sustenance and self-reliance — isn't this more in line with what their God intended?Why can’t the faithful use fewer cars? Why can’t they, as families, walk to church on Sunday mornings? Are they inconvenienced by a slight hill or waiting for the light to
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Thunder’s Hamidou Diallo out 4-to-6 weeks with sprained right elbow

  26-11-2019 14:19 via sportspyder.com
  
  Oklahoma City guard Hamidou Diallo will be sidelined for four to six weeks with a hyperextension sprain in his right elbow.
  
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