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• Price of new Salt Lake City International Airport grows another half billion to $4.1B

  15-01-2020 23:48
  
  The price tag on the new Salt Lake City International Airport has flown up by another half-billion dollars, and now stands at $4.1 billion.The Airport Advisory Board discussed reasons behind that on Wednesday, as it also received an update on a new master plan that is looking at long-term needs even after the new airport is completed.Officials said the increase comes largely from facilities that have been added or expanded to handle extra growth that occurred since the new airport was initially
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - 10 numbers from the Utah Jazz’s 10 game winning streak

  15-01-2020 23:11 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz have won ten games in a row because of exceptional team play and individual stand-out performers, like Joe Ingles and Rudy Gobert. Whoever as...
  
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• Risque Utah-themed condoms, chosen by state health officials, are raising awareness of HIV

  15-01-2020 23:04
  
  State health officials are distributing condoms with suggestive Utah-themed packaging as part of a new HIV awareness campaign.The wrappers riff on various Utah memes, with labels such as “Greatest Sex on Earth,” “SL,UT,” an image of a highway sign that displays the number of miles to towns “Fillmore” and “Beaver,” and “This is the Place” over a drawing of a bed.“It’s really just to destigmatize HIV in Utah, and get everybody
  
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• Wendell Potter: How I invented the false ‘choice’ talking point

  15-01-2020 23:00
  
  When the candidates discuss health care, you’re bound to hear some of them talk about consumer “choice.” If the nation adopts systemic health reform, this idea goes, it would restrict the ability of Americans to choose their plans or doctors, or have a say in their care.It’s a good little talking point, in that it makes the idea of changing the current system sound scary and limiting. The problem? It’s a P.R. concoction. And right now, somewhere in their plush corpo
  
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• [Forbes] - In Defense Of The “Screen Assist” In The NBA

  15-01-2020 22:33 via sportspyder.com
  
  Rudy Gobert's a screen-assisting machine. It's OK to point that out.
  
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• 10 numbers from the Utah Jazz’s 10 game winning streak

  15-01-2020 22:32
  
  The Utah Jazz have won ten games in a row because of exceptional team play and individual stand-out performers, like Joe Ingles and Rudy Gobert. Whoever asked Santa for the Utah Jazz never lose a game again, thank you. Since December 26, the Utah Jazz have won ten straight games, a run that has shot […]
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• [Deseret News] - Utah Jazz avoid facing New Orleans Pelicans debut of Zion Williamson

  15-01-2020 22:29 via sportspyder.com
  
  NEW YORK CITY — There were rumors that it could happen, that the Utah Jazz could be the team facing Zion Williamson in his NBA regular season debut, but that won’t be the case. The Pelicans...
  
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• Risque Utah-themed condoms are raising awareness of HIV

  15-01-2020 22:00
  
  State officials are distributing Utah-themed condoms statewide as part of a new HIV awareness campaign. The wrappers riff on various Utah memes, with labels such as “Greatest Sex on Earth,” “SL,UT,” an image of a highway sign that displays the number of miles to towns “Fillmore” and “Beaver,” and “This is the Place” over a drawing of a bed.The state began distributing the condoms earlier this month as part of the “H is for Human&r
  
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• VOA of Utah says it’s desperately in need of volunteers

  15-01-2020 21:52
  
  Volunteers of America, Utah says it’s in dire need of volunteers, whose ranks have thinned now that the holidays are over.“We’re immensely grateful for volunteers’ support through the holiday season and cold weather months, and we hope to see many of the same kind faces and generous volunteer efforts throughout the year,” Alexis Brown Brotherton, VOA’s corporate relations and volunteer engagement director, said in a prepared statement released Wednesday.A VOA
  
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• Virginia moves to brink of becoming 38th state to ratify ERA

  15-01-2020 21:51
  
  Richmond, Va. • Virginia on Wednesday moved to the brink of becoming the crucial 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in what was seen as a momentous victory by women’s rights advocates even though it is far from certain the measure will ever be added to the U.S. Constitution.The state House and Senate approved the proposed amendment with bipartisan support, well over a generation after Congress sent the ERA to the states for ratification in 1972. Each chamber now must pass
  
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• Utah’s governor asked boys in juvenile detention how the state could help. Here’s what they said.

  15-01-2020 21:50
  
  West Valley City • Gov. Gary Herbert had a big question for the five young people who sat in front of him Wednesday morning at Decker Lake Youth Center: How could Utah have helped them before they were sent to this place?The five boys had broken the law and a judge determined they should serve some time in this secure care facility. Herbert wanted to know whether they wished something in their lives had been different, something that would have caused them to make different decisions.One bo
  
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• Struggling prep football programs opting for independence as they try to buy time, rebuild their rosters and stay healthier

  15-01-2020 21:42
  
  Judge Memorial High School athletic director Scott Platz drove to the school principal’s house after the football team’s game against Summit Academy. It was an October night at around 9:30 p.m., and Platz had an idea: moving the football program to an independent schedule.The Bulldogs had just lost to a Summit Academy team that finished 2019 with a losing record. Just two weeks earlier, Judge Memorial forfeited its game against Morgan. Both events had something in common. The Bulldog
  
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• [Sports Keeda] - Utah Jazz vs New Orleans Pelicans: Match Preview and Predictions - 16th January 2020

  15-01-2020 21:41 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz are likely to take advantage of the Pelicans' injury-ravaged squad and extend their 10-game winning streak.
  
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• Provo police warn residents to watch out for sick raccoons

  15-01-2020 21:31
  
  Provo police are warning residents to stay away from raccoons and update their pets’ shots after a spate of canine distemper cases in recent months."Over the past six months we have received a number of reports of sick or injured raccoons in the city," police wrote on Wednesday. "Almost all of these raccoons have been sick with canine distemper."Police asked residents to keep an eye out for raccoons with symptoms: runny noses and eyes, disorientation, and scaly or cracked paws. The raccoon
  
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• Big setback for Utah mines as Bay Area port city bans coal

  15-01-2020 21:29
  
  A Bay Area city that has been a key export gateway for Utah coal has approved a ban on the storage and handling of coal, potentially severing a vital link to the global marketplace for a commodity that is rapidly losing domestic customers.In a unanimous vote Tuesday and despite fierce resistance from industry and labor unions, the Richmond City Council adopted the measure that allows a three-year phaseout for the city’s one coal handler, the Levin-Richmond Terminal, where about 1 million t
  
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• [Forbes] - Zion Williamson Expected To Make NBA Debut On Jan. 22 Against Spurs

  15-01-2020 21:24 via sportspyder.com
  
  After suffering a torn right meniscus in October, the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft is now practicing with the Pelicans but he didn’t make his season debut Friday night when the Pelicans beat his old Duke buddy R. J. Barrett and the Knicks, 123-111,...
  
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• BYU basketball’s fourth-year walk-on Evan Troy is the teams’ motor — from the bench

  15-01-2020 21:05
  
  Provo • Although not a starter, Evan Troy is in the spotlight at the start of each BYU game when the starting lineup gets announced. The senior stands at the end of the line ready with a personalized handshake or jig with each of the starting players.Troy serves as the glue that helps the team work so well together, yet, most surprisingly, he's a fourth-year walk-on for the Cougars. And he almost didn't play for BYU at all.Coach Mark Pope doesn’t believe it’s that common for a p
  
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• After cabin project, Jackson eyeing restoration incentives

  15-01-2020 21:00
  
  Jackson, Wyo. • Throughout the restoration of the Sweetwater Restaurant, any time developer John Holland visited the site passersby would pause to admire the century-old log cabin and recall memories of it over the decades.“They just kept telling stories that came out of those walls,” Holland said, gesturing to the wooden exterior on a recent morning.After 18 months of careful remodeling the historic building — erected in 1915, a holdover from Jackson’s earliest year
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - What should we make of Jazz’s 10-game winning streak?

  15-01-2020 20:56 via sportspyder.com
  
  With their 11-point win over the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night, the Utah Jazz have now won 10 straight games to improve to 28-12 and vault themselves into contention for a top-two seed in the Western Conference. While this is the type of...
  
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• BYU’s fourth-year walk-on Evan Troy is the teams’ motor — from the bench

  15-01-2020 20:45
  
  Provo • Although not a starter, Evan Troy is in the spotlight at the start of each BYU game when the starting lineup gets announced. The senior stands at the end of the line ready with a personalized handshake or jig with each of the starting players.Troy serves as the glue that helps the team work so well together, yet, most surprisingly, he's a fourth-year walk-on for the Cougars. And he almost didn't play for BYU at all.Coach Mark Pope doesn’t believe it’s that common for a p
  
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• “He’s been a gift.” Fourth-year walk-on Evan Troy is the BYU men’s basktball team’s motor — mostly from the bench.

  15-01-2020 20:39
  
  Provo • Although not a starter, Evan Troy is in the spotlight at the start of each BYU game when the starting lineup gets announced. The senior stands at the end of the line ready with a personalized handshake or jig with each of the starting players.Troy serves as the glue that helps the team work so well together, yet, most surprisingly, he's a fourth-year walk-on for the Cougars. And he almost didn't play for BYU at all.Coach Mark Pope doesn’t believe it’s that common for a p
  
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• Stephen G. Handy: Romney is a standard-bearer on climate in the GOP

  15-01-2020 20:30
  
  Utah has been transforming its energy sector in recent years, a trend that will become even more dramatic over the next decade as policies are put into place to accelerate the development of new technology. Our state has cut our carbon emissions by 15 percent over the last decade and, at the same time, we have some of the most affordable electricity in the nation. Clean and renewable energy now supports 6,000 jobs for Utah workers, and the state ranks in the top ten in the nation for both solar
  
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• Utah basketball’s Timmy Allen is finding success away from his Arizona home

  15-01-2020 20:04
  
  Tucson, Ariz. • Timmy Allen is from Mesa, Arizona, which is about 20 minutes from Tempe and Arizona State University, and less than two hours from Tucson and the University of Arizona.A four-star wing, Allen starred for Red Mountain High School in Mesa as a senior, 247sports.com labeling him the top prospect in the state from the class of 2018.As his recruitment started to ramp up as a junior, he had a boatload of scholarship offers. In the recruiting world, though, there are offers, and th
  
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• Wyoming firm settles religious discrimination suit

  15-01-2020 20:00
  
  Casper, Wyo. • A Wyoming company has settled a federal lawsuit by a former employee who claimed she was pressured to take Scientology courses as a condition of her employment.Julie A. Rohrbacher filed the lawsuit in 2018 against Teton Therapy, which operates physical and occupational therapy offices in four Wyoming locations.Rohrbacher claimed that owner Jeff McMenamy declined to promote her and then forced her to resign in 2013 after she refused to enroll in Church of Scientology courses.S
  
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• Pelosi names House votes to send Trump impeachment to Senate for trial

  15-01-2020 19:46
  
  Washington • The U.S. House voted Wednesday to send two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate and approve House prosecutors for only the third impeachment trial in American history.The nearly party-line vote moved Trump's impeachment from Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Democratic-run House to the Republican-majority Senate, where Trump expects acquittal, even as new evidence is raising fresh questions about his Ukraine dealings.The vote was 228-193, coming at the star
  
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• Utah’s Timmy Allen is finding success away from his Arizona home

  15-01-2020 19:22
  
  Tucson, Ariz. • Timmy Allen is from Mesa, Arizona, which is about 20 minutes from Tempe and Arizona State University, and less than two hours from Tucson and the University of Arizona.A four-star wing, Allen starred for Red Mountain High School in Mesa as a senior, 247sports.com labeling him the top prospect in the state from the class of 2018.As his recruitment started to ramp up as a junior, he had a boatload of scholarship offers. In the recruiting world, though, there are offers, and th
  
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• Pelosi names Schiff, Nadler as prosecutors for Trump trial

  15-01-2020 18:51
  
  Washington • Speaker Nancy Pelosi named House prosecutors for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Wednesday ahead of votes to send the charges to the Senate, even as new information about the president’s Ukraine efforts intensified pressure for more witnesses.The seven-member prosecution team will be led by the chairmen of the House impeachment proceedings, Reps. Adam Schiff of the Intelligence Committee and Jerry Nadler of the Judiciary Committee, two of Pelosi's top
  
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• [Deseret News] - It’s all Joe Ingles all the time

  15-01-2020 18:48 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — Joe Ingles, all the time. That kind of turned out to be the theme of Tuesday. Hours before the Utah Jazz visited Barclays Center to take on the Brooklyn Nets, an ESPN podcast...
  
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• Salt Lake City’s Spy Hop Productions receives $25,000 award

  15-01-2020 18:39
  
  The Lewis Prize for Music, a new philanthropic organization focused on fostering music education and career development in young people, announced its first slate of winners Tuesday. The $1.75 million will be awarded to the leaders of nine organizations in eight states.The prize, which is split into three categories and includes both long-term and single-year support, was founded in 2019 by philanthropist Daniel Lewis.“My vision is to ensure opportunities to learn, perform and create music
  
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• Minimum wage raises could lower suicide rates, study says

  15-01-2020 18:38
  
  Raising the minimum wage could lower the suicide rate, according to a study published last week, delivering labor advocates a tantalizing new finding about the broader effects of wage changes even as some experts said other factors could explain the decrease.More than 47,000 Americans died by suicide in 2017, and with other so-called deaths of despair — drug overdoses and alcoholism — it has grown into a slow-motion public health crisis. The phenomenon is difficult to study, and rese
  
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• Utah’s Timmy Allen, an Arizona native, didn’t wind up at an in-state school, but everything has worked out just fine

  15-01-2020 17:56
  
  Tucson, Ariz. • Timmy Allen is from Mesa, Arizona, which is about 20 minutes from Tempe and Arizona State University, and less than two hours from Tucson and the University of Arizona.A four-star wing, Allen starred for Red Mountain High School in Mesa as a senior, 247sports.com labeling him the top prospect in the state from the class of 2018.As his recruitment started to ramp up as a junior, he had a boatload of scholarship offers. In the recruiting world, though, there are offers, and th
  
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• [NBA] - Donovan Mitchell and Kyrie Irving trade baskets and then jerseys in Brooklyn

  15-01-2020 17:37 via sportspyder.com
  
  BROOKLYN, N.Y. — When it matters most, the best take over.Donovan Mitchell has seen Kyrie Irving do it plenty of times.On Tuesday night, it was Mitchell who flipped a switch in crunch time. The Utah
  
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• LDS Church will spare a Salt Lake City community garden

  15-01-2020 16:17
  
  One of Salt Lake City’s oldest community gardens has won at least a partial reprieve from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ plans to pave the 1.5-acre field for a parking lot.Those plans sparked fierce pushback from residents of the historic neighborhood near the University of Utah.Church officials believe the 33rd Ward meetinghouse, which is home to three Latter-day Saint congregations under a recent reorganization, can get by with far fewer parking stalls than they o
  
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• [Franchise Sports] - Five players who deserve to make their first NBA All-Star appearance in 2020

  15-01-2020 16:10 via sportspyder.com
  
  The NBA All-Star break is fast approaching but who deserves to make their first All-Star appearance alongaside LeBron James and Giannis?
  
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• [Fansided: Sir Charles In Charge] - Feeling Jazzy: Utah is rolling right now

  15-01-2020 16:09 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz is on a 10-game winning streak and the offense is looking unstoppable in the loaded Western Conference The Utah Jazz is on fire right now. On...
  
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• The Triple Team: Utah Jazz win 10th straight thanks especially to Donovan Mitchell, Joe Ingles

  15-01-2020 15:55
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 118-107 win over the Brooklyn Nets from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. 10 in a rowQuin Snyder doesn’t like answering questions about winning streaks. I know this from years of covering him, and have watched as other reporters ask about winning streaks and get the question reframed back in their faces. Snyder likes winning, of course, but what he really cares about is improvement. If the team improves, the wins should come. If they
  
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• New video shows two Iranian missiles hit Ukrainian plane

  15-01-2020 15:53
  
  The New York Times has verified security camera footage Tuesday that shows, for the first time, that two missiles hit Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 on Jan. 8. The missiles were launched from an Iranian military site around 8 miles from the plane.The new video fills a gap about why the plane’s transponder stopped working, seconds before it was hit by a second missile.An earlier Times analysis confirmed what Iran later admitted: that an Iranian missile did strike the plane. The T
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell react to Jazz’s 10-game winning streak after win vs. Nets

  15-01-2020 15:46 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz have turned malady into opportunity, racing to a league-best 10 straight wins after Tuesday’s win over the Brooklyn Nets. Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, two of the staples of this win streak, admit they wouldn’t like to mess with a...
  
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• New version of Olympia Hills faces criticism at first public hearing

  15-01-2020 15:30
  
  Opposition to Olympia Hills is running high among residents and elected leaders in cities near the proposed development, judging from its first public hearing.Nearly 100 people turned out to Salt Lake County Council chambers Tuesday evening — amid a heavy snowstorm — to voice concerns that the new 933-acre, 6,330-home residential and commercial development being planned on county-governed land west of Herriman threatens their quality of life.In spite of the region’s ongoing nee
  
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• NBA Daily: Welcomed Returns Loom Large in January

  15-01-2020 15:30 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  Injuries are a part of the game and this season has been no exception. Chad Smith looks at four teams who will get a nice boost with key players who are expected to return the floor this month.
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Trump, his advisers focused on two rivals in the Democratic presidential primary

  15-01-2020 15:00
  
  President Donald Trump and his advisers are focused on two of his rivals in the Democratic presidential primary — and neither is the frontrunner. His campaign staff sees Senator Bernie Sanders as their ideal opponent in November, while the president is closely watching Michael Bloomberg, unnerved by his campaign spending and suggestion that he might spend $1 billion of his own fortune opposing Trump. [NYTimes]Happy Wednesday!Topping the news: Trump’s top homelessness official, Robert
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Three thoughts from the hard-fought win in Brooklyn

  15-01-2020 14:32 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz picked up their 10th straight win against the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night. Here are three things that stood out from the victory The Utah ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Three thoughts from the hard-fought win in Brooklyn

  15-01-2020 14:00
  
  The Utah Jazz picked up their 10th straight win against the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night. Here are three things that stood out from the victory The Utah Jazz continue to roll. They came into Brooklyn last night against a rejuvenated Nets squad just getting Kyrie Irving back after a 26 game absence. The three […]
  Utah Jazz: Three thoughts from the hard-fought win in Brooklyn - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Stronger beer in Utah has weakened sales at the border

  15-01-2020 14:00
  
  Liquor businesses in bordering communities — which for many years have profited from Utah’s strict alcohol laws — say they have been hit hard by the Beehive State’s new allowance for stronger beer.Since Nov. 1 — when Utah began letting grocery and convenience stores sell brews with 5% alcohol by volume — beer sales have dropped anywhere from 20% to 30% at outlets in Evanston, Wyo.; Malad, Idaho; West Wendover, Nev.; and Dove Creek, Colo.“We have seen qui
  
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• Robert Gehrke: We need to make this radical change to Utah’s school board

  15-01-2020 14:00
  
  Pop quiz: Name the governor, your congressman and your state attorney general.You can probably get most of these, right? Now name your representative on the State School Board.Take your time. But if you’re like most Utahns — I’d be willing to bet 90% or more — you can’t name any of the 27 members.See, I got you again. There are only 15 members on the board, but chances are you didn’t know that, either.These are critical positions, with more direct control than
  
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• Rep. Rob Bishop blames Democratic ‘jerks’ for forcing Trump to use military money to build border wall

  15-01-2020 14:00
  
  Washington • Rep. Rob Bishop, a Utah Republican whose district includes Hill Air Force Base, said Tuesday he wasn’t concerned that President Donald Trump was once again going to siphon money from military projects and counternarcotics efforts to pay for building a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, laying the blame on Democratic “jerks” who refuse to fund border security.Bishop said money taken from the Pentagon that had been slated for military construction would ultimat
  
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• New inland port legislation could include sustainability pledge, restoration of some city land-use authority

  15-01-2020 14:00
  
  In the upcoming state legislative session, Utah Inland Port Authority Executive Director Jack Hedge wants to codify the state’s commitment to sustainable development and give cities back a measure of their land use authority within the boundaries of the project area.The changes, identified by inland port staff, could help assuage fears from environmentalists who worry about the massive development project’s impact on air quality and ease tensions with Salt Lake City leaders, who have
  
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• Letter: Our wussy Congress

  15-01-2020 14:00
  
  The wussy Congress is one of the biggest reasons Mr. Trump has gone further rogue than most presidents before him. The war powers assertion made recently by the House of Representatives is an impeccably reasonable request related to national security and White House war-making.And yet eight Democrats, including our own peach-fuzzed Ben McAdams, refused to vote for this minimal, scared-of-our-shadow, concurrent resolution. All this non-binding vote does is beg the executive department of governme
  
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• Letter: Limit the power of the president

  15-01-2020 14:00
  
  The Constitution starts “We the people…”, not “I the president…”.Part of the wisdom of the founders was their understanding that the best wisdom comes from the cumulative voice of the many; and that no single person (whether king, philosopher or saint) can have by himself enough knowledge, enough experience, enough wisdom to always make the best choice.This understanding lead the founders to institute citizen voting, and a secular government structured to ha
  
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• Letter: JetBlue is turning green

  15-01-2020 14:00
  
  Recently, I was pleased to see an article announcing JetBlue’s plan to go carbon neutral on all U.S. flights. JetBlue will achieve this through enhancing fuel efficiencies and investment offsets in green industries for the fuel that they actually expend.Well done, JetBlue!However, I should note that this decision was not the sole result of an altruistic board of directors. It was driven by the cold, hard reality of capitalism — and a board that realizes that the buying public is incr
  
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