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• Paul Krugman: Why Trump should hate Thanksgiving

  29-11-2019 23:52
  
  So the imaginary “war on Christmas” wasn’t enough. Donald Trump and Fox News are now accusing progressives of waging a war on Thanksgiving, too, based on, well, nothing. But do Trump and his band of bigots even understand what Thanksgiving is about? If they did, they would hate this most American of holidays.After all, the Pilgrims were refugees fleeing persecution by the English monarchy, which at the time was still an autocratic regime. They were, in other words, exactly the
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz revisit the Grizzlies again in the Grindhouse

  29-11-2019 23:27 via sportspyder.com
  
  Can Mike Conley exact revenge on his successor?
  
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• [NBA] - Shootaround notebook: Ed Davis nearing return for the Utah Jazz; Q&A with Grizzlies forward Jae Crowder

  29-11-2019 23:24 via sportspyder.com
  
  MEMPHIS — It was Mike Conley’s homecoming to the Bluff City that dominated the headlines last time the Utah Jazz were here. This time around, it could be the return of Ed Davis.Four weeks after
  
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• BYU is surging, while San Diego State is beat up as the rivalry renews

  29-11-2019 22:59
  
  There was a stretch of four games where BYU’s starting quarterback was a contested topic leading up to game time, that’s no longer the case. Zach Wilson has returned from injury and reclaimed his job. He’ll helm the offense as the regular season comes to a close at San Diego State on Saturday.And his backups, Jaren Hall and Baylor Romney, proved they were more than capable of taking over the gig if necessary, although they got banged up in the process.But does San Diego State h
  
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• [Basketball Insiders] - NBA Daily: Raptors’ Defense Flummoxing The League’s Elite

  29-11-2019 22:52 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Toronto Raptors have developed an identity with their team defense. Multiple NBA stars, most notably Joel Embiid, have been bothered by their swarming mentality. Quinn Davis takes a look at how they have been successful.
  
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• A Utah substitute told 5th graders that ‘homosexuality is wrong.’ She was escorted out after 3 students spoke up.

  29-11-2019 22:38
  
  When it was finally his turn to answer, the fifth grade boy knew exactly what he wanted to say.It was the week before Thanksgiving, and the substitute teacher had asked the boy’s class: “What are you thankful for this year?” Some of the kids had said turkey and mashed potatoes. One girl mentioned her dog. Another student joked about not having to go to school over the holiday.The boy’s response was a bit more serious. “I’m thankful that I’m finally going
  
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• Woman accused of killing husband for fear he’d turn her in for fraud

  29-11-2019 22:23
  
  North Salt Lake • Authorities say a 55-year-old North Salt Lake woman is accused of killing her husband in 2018 because she feared he’d turn her into authorities for fraud.Cynthia Knight-Christensen was jailed Tuesday on suspicion of aggravated murder and obstruction of justice in the shooting death of 67-year-old Reed Christensen at their home.A probable cause affidavit said Knight-Christensen gave conflicting statements to investigators and that witnesses said the couple argued befo
  
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• Meet the Utah native loosening bank regulation, one detail at a time

  29-11-2019 22:19
  
  Washington • In his first 21 months on the job, Randal K. Quarles, the Federal Reserve’s vice chairman for supervision and regulation, met at least 22 times with partners at his former law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell, which represents many of the nation’s largest banks.Those meetings, disclosed in public schedules and other releases, suggest a closeness between America’s most important bank regulator and the industry he watches over. Quarles was a bank lawyer at Davis
  
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• Is this the cast of ‘The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’?

  29-11-2019 22:11
  
  Bravo hasn’t announced who will be in the cast of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” but that hasn’t stopped the speculation. And the Showbiz Cheat Sheet claims to have a complete list of cast members.I can't vouch for the accuracy of the list. I can't vouch for Showbiz Cheat Cheat, which describes itself as “a pop media company dedicated to providing audiences the information they want in an entertaining way.”About the only thing I can tell you is that
  
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• Activists protest plan to double the size of proposed jail for Utah immigration detainees

  29-11-2019 22:05
  
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has doubled the proposed size of a potential detention center — from 500 to 1,000 — for people awaiting immigration court appearances in West Valley City.Also, its modified request for proposals continues to allow locating that private prison facility up to 90 miles away — and officials in Evanston, Wyo., are pushing for its construction there to bring jobs.Activists in Utah and Wyoming are protesting the larger long-distance prison &mda
  
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• Tim Berners-Lee: I invented the World Wide Web. Here’s how we can fix it.

  29-11-2019 22:00
  
  My parents were mathematicians. My mother helped code one of the first stored-program computers — the Manchester Mark 1. They taught me that when you program a computer, what you can do is limited only by your imagination. That excitement for experimentation and change helped me build the World Wide Web.I had hoped that 30 years from its creation, we would be using the web foremost for the purpose of serving humanity. Projects like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and the world of open source soft
  
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• Sundance and Deer Valley each named as America’s top ski resort

  29-11-2019 21:58
  
  Sundance is not just the best ski resort in Utah, it’s the best ski resort in North America, according to Condé Nast readers. That comes just days after Deer Valley Resort — No. 4 on the Condé Nast list — was named the top ski resort in the United States at the World Ski Awards in Austria, for the seventh year in a row. (The Stein Eriksen Lodge at Deer Valley was named the best U.S. ski hotel at the awards.)According to Condé Nast, a “record 600,000 r
  
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• [NBA] - Roundball Roundup: Aaron Falk checks in from Memphis

  29-11-2019 21:42 via sportspyder.com
  
  Jazz are coming off a pair of road losses ahead of a matchup in Memphis. UtahJazz.com’s JP Chunga looks at what went wrong. Philly and Toronto are a combined 16-0 at home. Plus, Aaron Falk gives a
  
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• 2 killed in London stabbings; police fatally shoot suspect

  29-11-2019 21:40
  
  London • A man wearing a fake explosive vest stabbed several people Friday in London, killing two, in what police are treating as a terrorist attack before he was tackled by members of the public and then fatally shot by officers on London Bridge, police and the city’s mayor said.Metropolitan Police Chief Cressida Dick said two stabbing victims had died and three injured people were being treated in a hospital.She said police were working “at full tilt” to determine whethe
  
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• [Forbes] - Royce O’Neale Thriving In Role As 5th Starter For Utah Jazz

  29-11-2019 21:29 via sportspyder.com
  
  Offensively, [Royce] O’Neale isn’t asked to do a ton, but he’s effective in his limited role. Defensively, he likely has more responsibility than any Jazz player not named [Rudy] Gobert. But he excels there too.
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: MAGA Hatters

  29-11-2019 21:09
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/11/27/bagley-cartoon-chosen-one/" target=_blank>The Chosen One</a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/11/22/bagley-cartoon/">Unimpeachable Testimony </a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/11/21/bagley-cartoon-tax/">Tax Talking Point</a>
  
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• Woman accused of killing husband for fear he’d turn her in

  29-11-2019 20:41
  
  North Salt Lake • Authorities say a 55-year-old North Salt Lake woman is accused of killing her husband in 2018 because she feared he’d turn her into authorities for fraud.Cynthia Knight-Christensen was jailed Tuesday on suspicion of aggravated murder and obstruction of justice in the shooting death of 67-year-old Reed Christensen at their home.A probable cause affidavit said Knight-Christensen gave conflicting statements to investigators and that witnesses said the couple argued befo
  
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• A Utah substitute told 5th graders that ‘homosexuality is wrong.' She was escorted out after 3 students spoke up.

  29-11-2019 20:17
  
  When it was finally his turn to answer, the fifth grade boy knew exactly what he wanted to say.It was the week before Thanksgiving, and the substitute teacher had asked his class: “What are you thankful for this year?” Some of the kids had said turkey and mashed potatoes. One girl mentioned her dog. Another student joked about not having to go to school over the holiday.The boy’s response was a bit more serious. “I’m thankful that I’m finally going to be adopt
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Lookin' Live: Episode 14

  29-11-2019 20:14 via sportspyder.com
  
  Mike Conley makes his return to Memphis in an emotional homecoming. Go behind the scenes and see how it all happened.
  
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• Community radio station KRCL marks 40 years with a concert Wednesday

  29-11-2019 20:00
  
  Salt Lake City’s community radio station KRCL-FM 90.9 — the place to hear eclectic music during the day and issue-oriented talk in the evenings — is turning 40 years old on Tuesday, Dec. 3, and is celebrating with a live concert the next night.The show is set for Wednesday, Dec. 4, starting at 7 p.m., at the Union Event Center, 235 N. 500 West, Salt Lake City. The bill features three local bands: Joshy Soul & The Cool, Talia Keys & The Love, and Mokie.The Gallery of Fin
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee says the American Bar Association has a ‘systemic political bias’

  29-11-2019 19:54
  
  Washington • Conservatives have long believed that the ratings given by the American Bar Association to judicial nominees skew more positive for liberal-leaning picks, and now Sen. Mike Lee says the group shouldn’t have any outsized role in the Senate confirmation process.The Utah Republican says the association, which has evaluated judicial nominees since 1953, has a “systemic political bias” and shouldn’t be given any more consideration than other groups such as th
  
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• UTA’s new on-demand service shows it’s high-tech, easy, cheap — and underused

  29-11-2019 19:46
  
  Herriman • It was my driver’s first day on the job. I was his second-ever passenger on the Utah Transit Authority’s new “UTA On Demand by Via” microtransit service. We were driving in an area that the driver admitted he does not know well. What could go wrong?Not much actually.I found it relatively smooth sailing (and inexpensive) with some fascinating technology that makes it easy and fun to use. I can see why UTA Chairman Carlton Christensen figures microtransit mi
  
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• Utah’s annual Festival of Trees offers thousands of sweet treats

  29-11-2019 19:44
  
  Three things fuel Utah’s annual Festival of Trees: an army of 30,000 dedicated volunteers, a generous community that donates more than 800 heartfelt and whimsically decorated Christmas trees, and a ton — literally — of sugar.Here’s just a sampling of the treats sold inside the festival’s Sweet Shoppe from Dec. 4 through 7 at theMountain America Expo Center in Sandy:5,000 pounds of fudge in 49 flavors from traditional chocolate and mint swirl to the two newest concoc
  
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• Black Friday frenzy goes global - and not everyone’s happy

  29-11-2019 19:44
  
  Paris • People don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in France, or Russia, or South Africa - but they do shop on Black Friday.The U.S. sales phenomenon has spread to retailers across the world in recent years with such force that it's prompting a backlash from some activists, politicians and even consumers.Near Paris, climate demonstrators blocked a shopping mall and gathered in from of Amazon's headquarters to protest over-production they say is killing the planet. Workers at Amazon in German
  
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• South Salt Lake police find missing and endangered man

  29-11-2019 19:31
  
  South Salt Lake police have located a missing and endangered man who walked away from the Meadow Brook Rehabilitation Center on Thursday afternoon.Johnie Ray Turner, 56, was considered endangered because of a speech disability, his “mental state” and the fact that he left the facility at 2700 S. 433 East without proper clothing for the cold, snowy weather — he was only wearing one shoe and was not wearing a coat.According to police, Turner was found safe at 10:20 a.m. on Friday
  
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• Utah State Aggies need to beat New Mexico to nail down a bowl berth

  29-11-2019 19:20
  
  A pretty good Utah State football team still has a shot at greatness, according to coach Gary Andersen. It just needs to win its final two games of the season, including Saturday’s road tilt against a New Mexico team that is winless in the Mountain West Conference this year.Two more wins would give the Aggies an 8-5 overall record and a bowl game victory.“It’s like I always say, six and seven is good, and there’s a reward potentially. With seven wins, there will be a rewa
  
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• London police shoot suspect dead after ‘terrorist’ stabbings

  29-11-2019 18:44
  
  London • A man wearing a fake explosive vest stabbed several people in what police are treating as a terrorist attack Friday before being tackled by members of the public and then fatally shot by officers on London Bridge, police and the city’s mayor said.The Metropolitan Police said “a number” of people were wounded but gave no information on how many or their conditions. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said some of the injured were in serious condition.Khan said police weren&rsq
  
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• BYU’s Yoeli Childs has made an impact, even during his suspension

  29-11-2019 18:42
  
  Senior Yoeli Childs has to wait one more game before he can suit up for the Cougars, but he’s still found ways to contribute.He’s finishing a nine-game suspension, handed down by the NCAA when Childs didn’t file the appropriate paperwork after he decided to withdraw from the NBA draft and return to BYU. During this forced absence, the talented 6-foot-8 forward has been practicing on the Cougars’ scout team.BYU coach Mark Pope believes having him there has helped the team
  
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• [Basketball Insiders] - Miye Oni — A Rare Breed

  29-11-2019 18:03 via sportspyder.com
  
  Matt John has a chat with Utah Jazz rookie Miye Oni about being the only Ivy League player currently in the NBA, the importance of education and adjusting to a new city.
  
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• Ruga and Kanter: We’re rich Utahns and we don’t need a tax cut

  29-11-2019 18:00
  
  As upper-income Utahns, we want to say loudly and clearly to the Utah Legislature: We did not ask for, we do not want and we do not need a tax cut.Over the past year, legislative leaders have proposed modifying the Utah tax code to raise the sales tax on groceries and gas, while applying it to many previously exempt products. Because these legislative leaders want to claim that tax reform will be revenue neutral, they propose offsetting new sales tax revenue with an income tax cut.This change is
  
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• Miye Oni — A Rare Breed

  29-11-2019 18:00 via basketballinsiders.com
  Matt John has a chat with Utah Jazz rookie Miye Oni about being the only Ivy League player currently in the NBA, the importance of education and adjusting to a new city.
  
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• Utes play Colorado with a lot at stake and the coach wants fans there early

  29-11-2019 17:43
  
  Utah coach Kyle Whittingham interrupted his own answer to an unrelated question, working in a request for fans to arrive at Rice-Eccles Stadium in time for the Senior Day ceremony prior to Saturday’s 5:30 p.m. kickoff vs. Colorado.That's fair, as long as the Utes don't make them agonize until the end of the game on a cold night in late November.No. 6 Utah (10-1) is positioned to celebrate a second straight Pac-12 South championship and advance to the conference title game vs. Oregon, with
  
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• The Salt Lake Tribune publisher says he’s hearing interest in the newspaper’s turn to nonprofit

  29-11-2019 16:54
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is the first legacy newspaper to get IRS approval to transform into a nonprofit public charity. The Tribune has explained the reasoning behind this important shift and owner Paul Huntsman has weighed in too. This story, from The Associated Press, provides an outside perspective.New York • The publisher of the nation’s first daily newspaper to be granted nonprofit status says he’s since heard from a “few dozen” lawyers and ne
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Grizzlies vs. Jazz: How to watch NBA online, TV channel, live stream info, game time - CBSSports.com

  29-11-2019 16:49 via sportspyder.com
  
  How to watch Grizzlies vs. Jazz basketball game
  
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• Several stabbed near London Bridge; man detained

  29-11-2019 16:11
  
  London • British police say several people have stabbed near to London Bridge, and a man has been detained.The news came after witnesses reported hearing gunshots in the area. Sky News reported that police had shot the apparent attacker.The Metropolitan Police force said officers were called Friday afternoon “to a stabbing at premises near to London Bridge.”They say “a man has been detained by police. We believe a number of people have been injured.”Police were calle
  
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• South Salt Lake police searching for a missing and endangered man

  29-11-2019 16:02
  
  South Salt Lake police are asking for the public’s help to locate a missing and endangered man who walked away from the Meadow Brook Rehabilitation Center on Thursday afternoon.Johnie Ray Turner, 56, is considered endangered because of a speech disability — his speech is “very garbled and is not understandable” — his “mental issues” and the fact that he left the facility at 2700 S. 433 East without proper clothing for the cold, snowy weather.Turner is de
  
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• Trump thanks troops on Afghan visit, says Taliban want deal

  29-11-2019 15:56
  
  Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan • President Donald Trump paid a surprise Thanksgiving visit to Afghanistan, where he announced the U.S. and the Taliban have been engaged in ongoing peace talks and said he believes the Taliban want a cease-fire.Trump arrived at Bagram Air Field shortly after 8:30 p.m. local time Thursday and spent 3½ hours on the ground during his first trip to the site of America’s longest war. He served turkey and thanked the troops, delivered a speech and sat d
  
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• [Forbes] - No More Second Chances: Digging Into The Utah Jazz’s Issues With Offensive Rebounds

  29-11-2019 15:13 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz have been an elite defensive rebounding team, but they're giving up a shocking rate of second-chance points. How is this happening, and can it be corrected?
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee claims ’systemic political bias’ in American Bar Association judicial ratings

  29-11-2019 15:03
  
  Washington • Conservatives have long believed that the ratings given by the American Bar Association to judicial nominees skew more positive for liberal-leaning picks, and now Sen. Mike Lee says the group shouldn’t have any outsized role in the Senate confirmation process.The Utah Republican says the association, which has evaluated judicial nominees since 1953, has a “systemic political bias” and shouldn’t be given any more consideration than other groups such as th
  
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• Letter: You poor little martyrs

  29-11-2019 15:00
  
  It is Christmas season, the magical time of the year. But here comes the annual "War on Christmas."Already the liberal media, atheists, leftists are screaming at us to stop saying, “Merry Christmas.” “Happy holidays” is politically correct.I am, of course, being sarcastically mocking. Nobody left of center cares if you say Merry Christmas. Oh, you poor little martyrs.Michael P. Greer, Cottonwood HeightsSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: The voters have spoken

  29-11-2019 15:00
  
  The TV ad now running against Rep. Ben McAdams states, “Let voters decide elections.”If this were the case, Donald Trump lost the election by 3 million votes.Even if the Electoral College voted him in the popular vote in American should be the one that counts, period.L.J. Cummings, BeaverSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: The very definition of bribery

  29-11-2019 15:00
  
  Bribery is defined by Black's Law Library as: “the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official or other person in charge of a public or legal duty.”The Constitution of the United States of America, Article II, Section 4, says, “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or high Crimes and Misdemeanors.&
  
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• Letter: It’s high time to ban plastic bags

  29-11-2019 15:00
  
  Plastic needs to be regulated. In Salt Lake City, we’ve “banned” plastic straws by only allowing their use upon request, but more needs to be done. Banning plastic straws has helped, but they only account for the .025 percent of the eight million tons of plastic that flows into the ocean every year. However, close to 150 million plastic bags end up in the oceans annually. This needs to change. Plastic bags are not biodegradable and are extremely hazardous to the environment. Th
  
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• Letter: How can some people be so cruel?

  29-11-2019 15:00
  
  We are a group of seniors, living on fixed incomes. But we have talents and sometimes are able to use those talents to make lovely and useful items. Most of the senior centers in the valley give us an opportunity to earn some money by holding boutiques once or twice a year, benefiting the public with items to use themselves or give as gifts.This year, one of the ladies had started packing up at the end of the sale. Someone came up to her and started asking some questions and. while her attention
  
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• Letter: Food tax is a whole hour’s wage

  29-11-2019 15:00
  
  As reported in numerous Salt Lake Tribune articles, many legislators and groups are opposed to the increase in the grocery tax that is part of the tax reform bill being crafted by the Tax Restructuring and Equalization Task Force. I also oppose this regressive measure, given how many Utah residents are barely getting by as is, due to the failure of wages to keep up with rent and cost of living increases.As shared in a press conference recently by Utahns Against Hunger, the Coalition of Religious
  
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• Don Gale: Don’t blame the universities for society’s mistakes

  29-11-2019 15:00
  
  In 2017, a University of Utah student was shot and killed on campus. The victim was a foreign national. The killer was caught, tried and convicted. We heard and read about the killing, the trial and the conviction.A year later – October 2018 – another student was shot and killed on campus. The victim was a young woman from out of state. The killer took his own life the same night. We continue to hear and read about the killing. The Salt Lake Tribune – supposedly short-staffed &
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Game thread: Utah Jazz aim to avoid result of last contest in Memphis

  29-11-2019 14:05 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz will return to Memphis on Friday to do battle with the Grizzlies who defeated them in disappointing fashion just two weeks ago. The Utah Jazz...
  
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• Walk through Utah women’s history at new exhibit in LDS Church History Museum

  29-11-2019 14:04
  
  See a bookcase and desk used by Utah’s first female state senator. Read Utah’s 1870 suffrage legislation. Check out a ballot box like the one Seraph Young made history with when she placed the first ballot cast by a Utah woman inside nearly 150 years ago.Each of these are included in the Church History Museum’s new exhibit “Sisters for Suffrage: How Utah Women Won the Vote,” which is now on display in Salt Lake City until January 2021.“We started talking about
  
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• My experience on UTA’s new on-demand service shows it’s high-tech, easy, cheap — and underused for now

  29-11-2019 14:03
  
  Herriman • It was my driver’s first day on the job. I was his second-ever passenger on the Utah Transit Authority’s new “UTA On Demand by Via” microtransit service. We were driving in an area that the driver admitted he does not know well. What could go wrong?Not much actually.I found it relatively smooth sailing (and inexpensive) with some fascinating technology that makes it easy and fun to use. I can see why UTA Chairman Carlton Christensen figures microtransit mi
  
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• Utah County’s top prosecutor is moving away from drug cases — but not everyone is on board

  29-11-2019 14:00
  
  Provo • In his first year in office, Utah County Attorney David Leavitt examined what cases his prosecutors pursued and decided to make some changes.He wanted to place less effort on drug possession cases and what he considered to be smaller crimes, and focus more effort on elder abuse and financial crimes.But implementing these changes hasn’t been easy. He’s already walked back one proposal after city prosecutors pushed back. And there’s concern from some in law enforceme
  
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