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• Tribune Editorial: Lower driver alcohol limit? Fears of apocalypse were all wet

  04-01-2020 23:00
  
  A year into the nation’s strictest limit on alcohol in drivers, the most noticeable thing is how unnoticeable it’s been.“Come for vacation. Leave on probation,” was the headline the beverage industry used in full-page ads three years ago in its campaign against reducing Utah’s legal blood alcohol limit from 0.08% to 0.05%. Critics in the hospitality business joined the chorus, claiming the law would damage Utah’s multi-billion-dollar tourism stake.Members of t
  
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• Joanne Slotnik: Romney is free to do the right thing

  04-01-2020 23:00
  
  It’s hard to get a one-on-one with a U.S. senator but, if our paths happened to cross — say, at Hires Big H — here’s what I’d say to Mitt Romney over a burger and fries.You and I could not be more different, yet we are on the same page when it comes to the character of the president and the havoc he is wreaking on the American soul.We were, I learned recently, born three weeks apart. We grew up in the same era, absorbing the same American spirit. We both became lawy
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Game thread: Utah Jazz will face true challenge in Orlando

  04-01-2020 22:58 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz will put their four-game win streak on the line as they face a tough opponent in the Orlando Magic on Saturday. After a turbulent start to th...
  
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• Game thread: Utah Jazz will face true challenge in Orlando

  04-01-2020 22:09
  
  The Utah Jazz will put their four-game win streak on the line as they face a tough opponent in the Orlando Magic on Saturday. After a turbulent start to the season, the Utah Jazz have looked significantly more solid of late. They’ve won four straight games and nine of their last 10, with their only […]
  Game thread: Utah Jazz will face true challenge in Orlando - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz travel to happiest place on earth to take on Orlando Magic

  04-01-2020 22:08 via sportspyder.com
  
  Can the Jazz continue to stay undefeated in this decade?
  
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• State Rep. Kim Coleman makes it official: She’s challenging Democrat Ben McAdams for Utah’s 4th Congressional seat

  04-01-2020 21:53
  
  West Jordan • Three-term Republican state legislator Kim Coleman officially announced Saturday morning that she’s running for the 4th Congressional District, hoping to unseat Ben McAdams — who is currently the only Utah Democrat in Congress.In announcing her campaign, Coleman came out critical of McAdams’ vote to impeach President Donald Trump and aligned herself as someone who is a full-fledged Trump supporter. Those who came to her West Jordan campaign headquarters on Sa
  
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• Gary Andersen wants his Utah State football team to be more physical on both sides of the ball next season

  04-01-2020 21:44
  
  Utah State football coach Gary Andersen described his Christmas and New Year holidays as “anticlimactic.” But that doesn’t mean he’s been chill about assessing what he wants to see from the Aggies in 2020. Two weeks after USU lost to Kent State in the Frisco Bowl — a game that saw quarterback Jordan Love say goodbye to the Aggies and left the team shy of eight total wins — Andersen spoke earnestly about what was lacking with his team last season, and how to ad
  
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• Deborah Gatrell: Voters can put the breaks on this regressive tax overhaul

  04-01-2020 21:00
  
  In physics, you oversimplify objects by reducing them to a single point in space or a simple shape. A cow is reduced to a uniform sphere of milk. (That’s the running joke.)This is what Utah legislators pushing the SB2001 tax reform package have done: reduced a complex 238-page tax overhaul to broad statements detached from the realities of life.There is a seven-page summary of the law available. The scheme has three components: an income tax cut (reducing Education Fund revenue), new sales
  
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• Utah’s unaffiliated voters need to act quickly to participate in Super Tuesday

  04-01-2020 20:16
  
  More than one of every three Utah voters — 619,000 of them — are unaffiliated with any political party. They may not receive a by-mail ballot for the quickly approaching Super Tuesday presidential primary on March 3 unless they take some action soon.Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen sent letters to unaffiliated voters this week warning that they will not receive by-mail ballots unless they do one of three things.If they want to vote by mail in the Republican primary, its party r
  
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• Small cracks have appeared in GOP unity on impeachment trial

  04-01-2020 20:00
  
  Washington • The Senate seems certain to keep President Donald Trump in office thanks to the overwhelming GOP support expected in his impeachment trial. But how that trial will proceed — and when it will begin — remains to be seen.Democrats are pushing for the Senate to issue subpoenas for witnesses and documents, pointing to reports that they say have raised new questions about Trump's decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine.Once the House transmits the articles of impea
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Joe Ingles is making it hard for the Utah Jazz to keep him out of the starting lineup when Mike Conley returns - CBSSports.com

  04-01-2020 19:01 via sportspyder.com
  
  Ingles has been shining in the starting lineup since stepping in for the injured Conley
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Eric Walden: It’s the silly season. Pay no attention to those NBA fans voting for the All-Star starters.

  04-01-2020 18:23 via sportspyder.com
  
  The outrage is both inevitable and predictable.
  
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• Eric Walden: It’s the silly season. Pay no attention to those NBA fans voting for the All-Star starters.

  04-01-2020 18:00
  
  The outrage is both inevitable and predictable.Ah yes, it’s time for the annual initial NBA All-Star fan vote tallies.Nothing inspires more vitriolic disappointment from a passionate fan base … except maybe for 21st century Star Wars movies.Still, the hysterics parade is honestly amusing at this point. Seriously, why bother?Lest you think I don’t understand, actually, I understand completely.In Thursday’s first returns, Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (you know, the guy aver
  
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• Thousands in Baghdad mourn Iranian general killed by U.S.

  04-01-2020 17:49
  
  Baghdad • Thousands of mourners chanting “America is the Great Satan” marched in a funeral procession Saturday through Baghdad for Iran’s top general and Iraqi militant leaders, who were killed in a U.S. airstrike.Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force and mastermind of its regional security strategy, was killed in an airstrike early Friday near the Iraqi capital’s international airport. The attack has caused regional tensions to soar.Iran h
  
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• Utah gymnastics defeat Kentucky in season opener as the Tom Farden era begins

  04-01-2020 17:08
  
  With all the newness surrounding the 2020 Utah gymnastics team, it was a familiar face who led the fifth-ranked Utes past No. 12 Kentucky on Friday at the Huntsman Center.Senior Kim Tessen won both the vault (9.9) and the uneven bars (9.925) and tied teammate Sydney Soloski for the floor honors (9.9) as the Utes defeated the Wildcats 196.425-195.35 in front of 14,417 fans.The Utes return just 10 of the routines from their 2019 NCAA Championships lineup and have begun the post-Marsden era of coac
  
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• Salt Lake City’s new 26-story convention hotel to begin construction soon

  04-01-2020 17:05
  
  Salt Lake County officials and developer Portman Holdings said work will begin next Friday on a long-sought 26-story convention center hotel downtown.The new 700-room tower is going up at the northwest corner of 200 South and West Temple in Utah’s capital and will be operated by Hyatt Hotels, they said.The $377 million skyscraper — one of a half-dozen new high-rises now being pursued in the city’s central business district — will be called the Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City
  
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• Utah gymnastics defeat Kentucky in season opener

  04-01-2020 17:02
  
  With all the newness surrounding the 2020 Utah gymnastics team, it was a familiar face who led the fifth-ranked Utes past No. 12 Kentucky on Friday at the Huntsman Center.Senior Kim Tessen won both the vault (9.9) and the uneven bars (9.925) and tied teammate Sydney Soloski for the floor honors (9.9) as the Utes defeated the Wildcats 196.425-195.35 in front of 14,417 fans.The Utes return just 10 of the routines from their 2019 NCAA Championships lineup and have begun the post-Marsden era of coac
  
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• Terry Marasco: State liquor stores are a loss by our leaders

  04-01-2020 17:00
  
  The Utah Legislature is a misguided business operator. While the Utah state-controlled liquor stores have been high earners, the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (created and regulated by Legislature) has a knack for losing money, and more importantly, preventing making serious money.The change to 5.0 beer caused the DABC to dump $10,500 worth of beer into the landfill as a result of state law. The loss was wholesale cost. However, the retail value was over $15,000 if sold in the market. A
  
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• Gordon Monson: Bronco Mendenhall did some strange things at BYU. He’s doing something stranger at Virginia. Winning.

  04-01-2020 16:30
  
  There was the clunky verbiage. The awkward demeanor. The reliance on principles of modern management. The mixing of scripture with the playbook, the Stripling Warriors with the tackles and tight ends. The spoken-but-silly aim for a national championship. There was Honor, Spirit, Tradition. The insistence on his players lying on the field, way back at the beginning, allowing visions of by-gone triumphs to dance in their heads, stirring their souls and stoking their motivation. There was the band
  
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• Utahns didn’t win, but ‘America’s Got Talent’ changed their lives. They’re back on the show on Monday.

  04-01-2020 15:00
  
  Utahns Tyce Nielsen and Mary Ellen Wolfe made the finals of “America’s Got Talent” in 2018, but they didn’t take home the title or the $1 million prize. Yet the trapeze artists/acrobats who perform as Duo Transcend turned out to be huge winners after all.“It changed our lives,” Nielsen told The Salt Lake Tribune — first, in a way they had hoped, and then in a way doctors had told Nielsen to never expect.The married couple almost decided not to audition f
  
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• Utah has 600K unaffiliated voters. They need to act quickly to vote on Super Tuesday.

  04-01-2020 15:00
  
  More than one of every three Utah voters — 619,000 of them — are unaffiliated with any political party. They may not receive a by-mail ballot for the quickly approaching Super Tuesday presidential primary on March 3 unless they take some action soon.Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen sent letters to unaffiliated voters this week warning that they will not receive by-mail ballots unless they do one of three things.If they want to vote by mail in the Republican primary, its party r
  
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• TV reviews: New ‘Party of Five’ tackles immigration; musical ‘Zoey’ is (sort of) fun

  04-01-2020 15:00
  
  The producers of “Party of Five” insist they’re not courting controversy despite the fact that their rebooted series is smack in the middle of the debate over illegal immigration.From 1994-2000, the original “Party of Five” was about the five Salinger siblings — one in his 20s, the other four minors — after they lost their parents in a car accident. The new “Party of Five” (Wednesday, 7 p.m., Freeform) is about the five Acosta siblings, who a
  
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• Kurt Kragthorpe: A football coach’s kid who wound up as a sportswriter would never happen now, but it worked out all right for me

  04-01-2020 15:00
  
  On the second-to-last day of my full-time work in the newspaper business, Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham publicly, and graciously, mentioned our slice of shared history as teenagers whose fathers coached together. That's when it hit me again: This whole thing never should have happened.In what universe could a college football coach's son become a sportswriter, chronicling and critiquing the performances of … coaches?Whatever minor distinction I may have carved out in 42 years and e
  
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• Construction on Salt Lake City’s new 26-story convention hotel to start soon

  04-01-2020 15:00
  
  Salt Lake County officials and developer Portman Holdings said work will begin next Friday on a long-sought 26-story convention center hotel downtown.The new 700-room tower is going up at the northwest corner of 200 South and West Temple in Utah’s capital and will be operated by Hyatt Hotels, they said.The $377 million skyscraper — one of a half-dozen new high-rises now being pursued in the city’s central business district — will be called the Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City
  
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• Letter: You work for me, Sen. Lee

  04-01-2020 14:00
  
  An open letter to Sen. Mike Lee:I would like a specific response to my concerns. This is from your Facebook page:"President Trump has done nothing wrong. All he did was ask the Ukrainian government to investigate a corrupt Ukrainian energy company. There was nothing wrong with that request. In fact, the Obama administration tried to get Ukraine to investigate the exact same energy company."So I looked at the memorandum of the call to verify your claim.The first thing he mentioned was “Crow
  
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• Letter: Why does anyone still support Trump?

  04-01-2020 14:00
  
  After reading Bill Press’ op-ed in the Dec. 29 Tribune, titled “A few of the things I hate about Trump” and watching “Meet the Press” Sunday morning about all the lies Donald Trump has told (over 15,000, at last count), I can’t help but wonder why people still support him.Yes, the economy is good and unemployment is low. But, if I remember right, all these things started happening in the last few years of Barack Obama’s presidency, and he didn’t ha
  
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• Letter: Questions for Sen. Romney

  04-01-2020 14:00
  
  Questions for Sen. Mitt Romney:Do you want to be one of the frightened sheep or a principled and thoughtful leader?Do you want the legacy to your grandchildren to be an autocracy or a democracy?What has happened to the Republican Party? I heard someone say recently that it is rotten to the core. You are proving that every day that you do not demand that Sen. Mitch McConnell hold a fair and open impeachment trial with credible witnesses and documents that the president has blocked.We already know
  
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• Letter: ‘Hate mail’ represents a majority of Americans

  04-01-2020 14:00
  
  In his Dec. 29 letter to The Salt Lake Tribune, Ken Miller writes of feeling underrepresented by The Tribune’s Public Forum publishing an “avalanche” (his word) of letters from the Trib’s readers concerning, no, “demanding” (his word again) the impeachment, conviction and removal of President Donald Trump from office. He describes these letters as “impassioned hate mail.”An interesting interpretation. Now I’ll be impertinent and point out tha
  
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• A New York Times column on ‘Jewish genius’ draws criticism for linking to a debunked University of Utah study

  04-01-2020 14:00
  
  When it was first published last week, a controversial New York Times column about “the secrets of Jewish genius” linked to a 2005 study from a researcher labeled “an extremist,” revered by white supremacists and discredited by scientists — and who, for years, worked as a distinguished professor at the University of Utah.Citing the late U. anthropologist Henry Harpending, expectedly, touched off criticism. Hours after it appeared online, The Times’ commentary
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Jazz face the Magic, seek 5th straight win

  04-01-2020 09:42 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah looks to keep its four-game win streak alive when the Jazz take on Orlando
  
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• Veteran Tessen leads young Utah gymnasts past Kentucky in season opener

  04-01-2020 04:55
  
  With all the newness surrounding the 2020 Utah gymnastics team, it was a familiar face who led the fifth-ranked Utes past No. 12 Kentucky on Friday at the Huntsman Center.Senior Kim Tessen won both the vault (9.9) and the uneven bars (9.925) and tied teammate Sydney Soloski for the floor honors (9.9) as the Utes defeated the Wildcats 196.425-195.35 in front of 14,417 fans.The Utes return just 10 of the routines from their 2019 NCAA Championships lineup and have begun the post-Marsden era of coac
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Free Agent Stock Watch 2020: Northwest Division

  04-01-2020 04:36 via sportspyder.com
  
  Every week, Hoops Rumors takes a closer look at players who will be free agents or could become free agents …
  
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• [Deseret News] - Utah Jazz showed strength in ball movement against Bulls. They’ll need it again against Magic

  04-01-2020 04:11 via sportspyder.com
  
  ORLANDO — The Jazz are at their best when they are moving the ball. That might seem like a bit of an obvious statement, but Thursday’s 102-98 win over the Bulls was a great example of what it looks...
  
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• Skier found injured at Alta Ski Area dies

  04-01-2020 03:35
  
  A 37-year-old man died Thursday after he was found unconscious and unresponsive on a black diamond-rated run at Alta Ski Area.Authorities found the man in deep snow near a tree in the Sunspot trail-area, according to a Friday news release from Alta Marshal’s Office.Ski patrol rescued the man from the mountain and took him to Alta Medical Clinic, where he later died.Police have not yet notified the man’s family of his death and didn’t release his name.The state medical examiner
  
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• Hungry BYU basketball hosts Loyola Marymount in WCC men’s opener

  04-01-2020 03:20
  
  Although BYU is riding a five-game winning streak, the Cougars aren’t ready to ease up on the gas. If anything, they’re ready to go harder now that the West Coast Conference portion of their schedule is starting.On Saturday, BYU will host Loyola Marymount to open WCC play.However, this won’t be the first WCC game for the Lions. LMU played its first conference opponent Thursday, beating San Diego 64-58.Senior Yoeli Childs wished his Cougars could have been among the WCC teams th
  
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• Jesse Cox: Empire is not compatible with our Constitution

  04-01-2020 03:00
  
  Regarding our current crisis in U.S. democracy, let’s step back and take a global view.We set the pace in many or most things political and moral, even when we get it wrong. As motivated students of Western Empire, Japanese nobility and intelligentsia of the late 1800s closely followed art movements of Berlin, Paris and Los Angeles, imported architects, philosophers and professors from the West and studied best practices for infrastructure and public utilities (such as factories, railroads
  
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• Iran vows revenge for U.S. attack that killed powerful general

  04-01-2020 02:56
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran promised to seek revenge for a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad’s airport that killed the mastermind of its interventions across the Middle East, and the U.S. said Friday that it was sending thousands more troops to the region as tensions soared in the wake of the targeted killing.The death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, marks a major escalation in the standoff between Washington and Tehran, which has careened from one crisis to anothe
  
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• Hungry BYU hosts Loyola Marymount in WCC men’s basketball opener

  04-01-2020 02:30
  
  Although BYU is riding a five-game winning streak, the Cougars aren’t ready to ease up on the gas. If anything, they’re ready to go harder now that the West Coast Conference portion of their schedule is starting.On Saturday, BYU will host Loyola Marymount to open WCC play.However, this won’t be the first WCC game for the Lions. LMU played its first conference opponent Thursday, beating San Diego 64-58.Senior Yoeli Childs wished his Cougars could have been among the WCC teams th
  
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• Utah’s medical marijuana pharmacy locations chosen

  04-01-2020 02:15
  
  The hunt for one of 14 licenses to operate a medical cannabis pharmacy in Utah is over.State health officials on Friday announced the 10 companies that are on track for permission to operate the retail locations, more than half of them strung along the Wasatch Front.Three cannabis retailers are proposed for Salt Lake City, with others slated for Provo, Park City, Ogden and West Bountiful, the Utah Department of Health announced. The agency sorted through more than 130 applications submitted by a
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz need Mike Conley

  04-01-2020 02:14 via sportspyder.com
  
  Duh
  
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• Utah football’s secondary takes another hit: Javelin Guidry declares for the NFL Draft

  04-01-2020 01:15
  
  The depth in Utah’s defensive backfield got a little thinner on Friday afternoon.Junior nickelback Javelin Guidry announced via Twitter his intention to enter the 2020 NFL Draft. Guidry was twice an All-Pac-12 honorable mention selection as a nickelback for the Utes.Guidry was earmarked as the lone returning starter on the backend of Utah’s secondary. He would have been a reasonable choice to play outside as a cornerback, potentially across from high-profile 2020 recruit Clark Philli
  
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• State names operators for Utah’s 14 medical cannabis pharmacies

  04-01-2020 01:08
  
  The hunt for one of 14 licenses to operate a medical cannabis pharmacy in Utah is over.State health officials on Friday announced the 10 companies that are on track for permission to operate the retail locations, more than half of them strung along the Wasatch Front.Three cannabis retailers are proposed for Salt Lake City, with others slated for Provo, Park City, Ogden and West Bountiful, the Utah Department of Health announced. The agency sorted through more than 130 applications submitted by a
  
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• Nila Bala: Why are you publicly sharing your child’s DNA information?

  04-01-2020 01:00
  
  A few years ago, Angela Evans decided she wanted to test the DNA of her 10-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son. She was interested in knowing whether they had a mutation of the MTHFR gene, as she does. The mutation is linked to a number of disorders — women with the mutation may have a higher risk of having babies with defects like spina bifida — and Ms. Evans wanted to make life changes for her children based on the results.When doctors told her they didn’t think there was a
  
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• David Brooks: A ridiculously optimistic history of the next decade

  04-01-2020 01:00
  
  Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. As the former Republican consultant Mike Murphy had noticed, there were roughly 300 state and federal elections during the Trump years and Republicans did horribly in most of them. The 2020 vote was a continuation of that trend. Trump’s landslide defeat left him humiliated, and the Republicans lost their Senate majority.Trump cried fraud and
  
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• Post-Olympics depression nearly forced Ryan Pivirotto off the ice, but coach’s faith has speedskater back on his blades

  04-01-2020 00:45
  
  Kearns • To say Ryan Pivirotto experienced a letdown after the 2018 Olympic games would be a gross mischaracterization. It felt more akin to a freefall.The only USA Speedskating athlete on the Olympic team who didn’t get to compete — he served as an alternate in the men’s relay and the 1,000 meters — Pivirotto experienced a crisis of confidence in PyeongChang, South Korea, and beyond. Ten times last season, at least, the 24-year-old said he entertained notions of pac
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Fool Me Twice...

  04-01-2020 00:28
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/12/30/bagley-cartoon-warriors/" target=_blank><u>Warriors for Democracy</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/12/27/bagley-cartoon-baring/"><u>Baring Witness</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/12/23/bagley-ca
  
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• The Fremont boys basketball team has gotten a little better each year; this looks like its breakout season

  04-01-2020 00:22
  
  Plain City • Talmage Mitchell still remembers a time he and three friends played against Dallin Hall. It was well before all five were teammates on the Fremont High School boys basketball team.Mitchell, Tige Voorhees, Mitch Stratford and Harrison Stimpson — then in first or second grade — all played on the same Select AAU team. And they all rued the day Hall was on the opposite side of the court.“He ate our lunch,” Mitchell recalled.Hall is on their side now, leading
  
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• Trump: Aim of killing Iranian general was to ‘stop a war’

  04-01-2020 00:15
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Friday he ordered the killing of a top Iranian general “to stop a war,” not start one, but in the tense aftermath the Pentagon braced for retaliation by sending more troops to the Middle East. Democrats complained that Trump hadn’t consulted Congress, and some worried that the strike made war more likely.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo argued the U.S. case with allies in the Middle East and beyond, asserting that Thursday's drone str
  
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• Utah pastors at LGBTQ-friendly churches see Methodist split as ‘best solution’

  04-01-2020 00:13
  
  The proposal to allow opponents of LGBTQ marriage and ordination to split from the United Methodist denomination and form their own group is “probably the best solution at this point,” Utah’s Rev. Rusty Butler said Friday. Powerful representatives of traditional and progressive wings of the church have been meeting for several months and concluded it would be best to divide into separate denominations, said Butler, pastor at the 600-member Christ United Methodist Church in Salt
  
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• [NBA] - Roundball Roundup: Two-for-1 All-Star voting

  04-01-2020 00:10 via sportspyder.com
  
  Did you take a look at the All-Star voting? VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! https://t.co/4H8GX6Y3lS— Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) January 2, 2020
  
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