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• Behind the Headlines: Join Tribune journalists and discuss the news of the week

  23-01-2020 23:46
  
  Lawmakers and the governor announce that they’ll repeal the tax reform law passed in last month’s special legislative session. Utah becomes the 19th state to ban so-called conversion therapy. And Sean Reyes joins fellow GOP attorneys general to urge acquittal of president Donald Trump in his his senate impeachment trial.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune Washington bureau chief Thomas Burr, reporter Bethany Rodgers and editorial page editor George Pyle join KCPW’s Roger McD
  
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• [KSL] - Has there ever been a better decade of draft picks than the 80s for the Jazz? | KSL.com

  23-01-2020 23:32 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz draft picks in the 1980's are among the top in history.
  
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• George Pyle: He’s not the messiah. He’s a very naughty boy.

  23-01-2020 23:30
  
  The death Tuesday of Terry Jones — the actor, writer, director and scholar best known as member of Monty Python’s Flying Circus — brought to mind a few bits of wisdom that apply to our current unpleasantness.Among the many of his TV and movie lines people were quoting on social media was a particularly useful one from 1979′s “Monty Python’s Life of Brian,” a film that Jones directed and that was widely condemned as anti-Christian or anti-religious, thoug
  
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• ‘Bogus’ Ukraine theory led to Trump’s abuse, Dems tell trial

  23-01-2020 22:54
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump was swept up by a “completely bogus” Ukraine theory pushed by attorney Rudy Giuliani that led to his shocking abuse of presidential power and then impeachment, Democratic House prosecutors argued Thursday before Senate trial jurors.As the Democrats pressed their case for a second day before skeptical Republican senators, they displayed video images of the nation's top FBI and Homeland Security officials warning the public off the theory that i
  
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• Utah couple charged in case linked to NH couple’s deaths

  23-01-2020 22:53
  
  Kingsville, Texas • New charges have been filed against a Utah couple arrested last year in connection with the deaths of a New Hampshire couple found buried at a South Texas beach.Amanda Noverr, 33, and Adam Curtis Williams, 33, were indicted on charges of tampering with evidence, felony theft, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, Kleburg County District Attorney John Hubert said Wednesday.Noverr and Williams were arrested following the deaths of 48-year-old James Butler and 46
  
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• Utah man sentenced to 25 years to life for strangling woman

  23-01-2020 22:50
  
  Provo • A Utah man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison without parole for the strangulation death of a woman in her home.Jerad Gourdin was sentenced for first-degree felony homicide for pecuniary gain, The Daily Herald reported Wednesday.Belen Perez, 60, returned home and surprised Gourdin in the middle of trying to rob her Provo residence in May 2014, authorities said.Gourdin strangled Perez with a stereo cord and poured bleach and other chemicals on her before leaving the bod
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert is again taking his game to another level — an All-Star level

  23-01-2020 22:48 via sportspyder.com
  
  There’s this idea among fans of the NBA that tall guys don’t have to work hard.
  
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• BYU women’s basketball team cruises past San Francisco, 57-44

  23-01-2020 22:33
  
  The BYU women’s basketball team routed San Francisco 57-44 at the Marriott Center on Thursday.Jasmine Moody led the Cougars with 11 points after shooting five of seven from the field before a Kids Day crowd of 2,203 — BYU’s biggest home crowd of the season.Sara Hamson added 10 points, but made her presence most felt by blocking seven shots and pulling down six boards. Brenna Chase Drollinger filled the box score recording eight points, four rebounds, four assists, three steals
  
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• Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert is again taking his game to another level — an All-Star level

  23-01-2020 22:21
  
  There’s this idea among fans of the NBA that tall guys don’t have to work hard.It’s an understandable notion, actually. There’s an oft-quoted analysis that, if you’re a 7-foot-tall American male between the ages of 20 and 40, there’s a 17% chance that you’re a current NBA player. Those numbers are a little dubious — for one, the author believed NBA players’ listed heights, before the “measure everyone in socks” days — but it
  
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• Get a selfie in your Guinness at Flanagan’s in Park City

  23-01-2020 22:18
  
  Fans of Guinness stout can get their mug in their mug at Flanagan’s on Main.The Park City bar, 438 Main St., will sell “STOUTies” — a selfie in the foam of your beer — this Friday, Saturday and Sunday during the opening weekend of the Sundance Film Festival.STOUTies are made using natural malt extract and added to the top of a traditional Guinness pint, according to a news release. It’s drinkable and does not hinder the beer’s flavor. The cost is $12 eac
  
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• Democrats focus Day 2 of trial on Trump’s ‘dangerous’ abuse

  23-01-2020 22:11
  
  Washington • Pressing through a second day of impeachment arguments, House Democrats scoffed at President Donald Trump's claims that he had good reasons for pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political foes.It was Trump who engaged in a shocking abuse of power, not former Vice President Joe Biden or other Trump foes, said Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Texas. There is "no evidence, nothing, nada"' to suggest that Biden did anything improper in dealings with Ukraine, said the former judge.The Demo
  
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• Feds propose oil and gas leasing on Moab’s Slickrock trail

  23-01-2020 22:03
  
  For decades, mountain bikers have flocked to southern Utah’s Sand Flats to ride and camp among the undulating sandstone formations extending just east of Moab.The Bureau of Land Management now proposes leasing the world-famous outdoor recreation hot spot for oil and gas drilling, even though this land has very low potential for producing energy. Under a plan to be opened for public comment on Feb. 20, the agency would auction two parcels on Sand Flats, one of which is barely a mile form Ar
  
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• Group demands Hogle Zoo give up its elephants. Zoo has plans to add more.

  23-01-2020 21:55
  
  A group called Defense of Animals has placed Utah’s Hogle Zoo on its list of the 10 Worst Zoos for Elephants — and zoo officials strongly disagree.Defense of Animals ranked Hogle eighth on its list, the first time the Salt Lake City zoo has been included. “We urge Utah’s Hogle Zoo to stop dominating elephants, shut down its cruel exhibit, and send its herd to accredited sanctuaries,” said group spokeswoman Fleur Dawes.Hogle spokeswoman Erica Hansen pointed to the zo
  
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• Ken Sanders’ Salt Lake City bookstore will likely close next year

  23-01-2020 21:52
  
  Barring a downtown real estate miracle, one of Salt Lake City’s best known and most colorful bookstores is likely to close sometime next year.Ken Sanders, proprietor of Ken Sanders Rare Books at 268 S. 200 East, has known since mid-2014 that his shop’s run of more than two decades at that location was nearing an end, as the city center continues to see rampant growth.But Sanders, now 68 and an icon of hippie counterculture in the Intermountain West, said his ongoing search for a new
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Dunks of the Week - 1.23.20

  23-01-2020 21:41 via sportspyder.com
  
  #dunksoftheweek presented by Wasatch Front Ford Dealers
  
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• Kristina Baskett gained fame as a Ute gymnast, then found the spotlight again as a ‘Game of Thrones’ stunt double. Now she’s a Sun Devil.

  23-01-2020 21:37
  
  One of the last times most Utah gymnastics fans saw Kristina Baskett in a public capacity it was in the widely popular Game of Thrones series as she starred as the stunt double for the character Arya, the heroine who kills the Night King in the show’s climax.Now Baskett is serving in a more traditional role for the former Utah gymnast, as an assistant coach for Arizona State.Baskett, who was a 12-time All-American for the Utes from 2006-09, will be back in the Huntsman Center on Friday whe
  
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• Lawmaker launches website to help Utahns find where to buy lower-polluting Tier 3 gasoline

  23-01-2020 21:30
  
  Rep. Suzanne Harrison, D-Draper, says constituents tell her a top concern is Utah’s air pollution, an assessment backed up by public opinion polls. She says their eyes always light up when they hear that new Tier 3 gasoline can reduce pollution from cars by up to 80% — which is like taking four of every five cars off the road.“Then naturally their questions come to: ‘OK, I’m sold, I want to do this. Where do I buy it?'” she said. “In researching this, I
  
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• Utah State quarterback Jordan Love’s citation for marijuana possession dismissed

  23-01-2020 21:22
  
  A judge on Thursday dismissed the marijuana possession charge filed against former Utah State quarterback Jordan Love.Four USU athletes, including Love, were cited for the misdemeanor last month after Logan police responded to a complaint at a housing complex near the campus.They all received a spot drug test, which revealed marijuana was in their system. All four athletes were released at the scene.Love’s attorney, Skye Lazaro, maintained at the time that Love was innocent and felt confid
  
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• Gov. Gary Herbert defends his decision to halt release of ‘crass’ Utah-themed condoms

  23-01-2020 21:21
  
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert doubled-down Thursday on his decision to halt the release of a series of provocative Utah-themed condoms, which were produced as part of a federally-funded HIV awareness campaign.Herbert said everyone recognizes the importance of HIV and AIDS prevention, but that there is a right way and a wrong way to engage with the public.“As I read the sexual innuendos and the double entendres and, kind of, the crass messages on the packages, I thought ‘I don’t know t
  
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• Catholic Community Services won’t renew its contract this summer to operate one of three new homeless resource centers

  23-01-2020 21:09
  
  Catholic Community Services announced Thursday that it will not renew its contract this June to operate one of the three new homeless resource centers located in the Salt Lake City area.Jean Hill, director of the Office of Life, Justice and Peace at the Catholic Diocese, told The Salt Lake Tribune in an email that the decision comes after an “in-depth look” at its services and resources.“We fully support the new model, but based on the budgetary constraints and our mission of s
  
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• Chris Longhurst: Taxation without representation in Utah

  23-01-2020 21:00
  
  I wonder how many Utahns are aware of a quiet problem of taxation without representation that exists in this state?According to the American Immigration Council, over 8% of Utah’s population are immigrants. Immigrant-led households pay over $700 million in federal and over $400 million in state taxes each year. Immigrants pump over $4 billion in spending into the Utah economy every year. Yet, because of a 1996 federal law (the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act), a
  
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• Survey aims to count entire Utah homeless population

  23-01-2020 20:58
  
  Jeremy Youngren’s home, cat and nearly everything he owned burned to the ground in 2018 in the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif., while he was having open-heart surgery some 15 miles away. It was the nation’s deadliest blaze in more than a century.Now homeless, Youngren spends most of his nights in a parking lot near the tennis courts in Salt Lake City’s Liberty Park, where the temperatures are so cold his breath fogs up the windows of his car.“It’s not too bad,”
  
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• Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg to visit Salt Lake City

  23-01-2020 20:44
  
  Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg, known to supporters as Mayor Pete, is the latest presidential hopeful to announce a visit to Utah.Campaigners for the 38-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana said he will visit Salt Lake City on Feb. 18 for a two-hour fundraising breakfast meeting at a yet-to-be named location.Donors buying seats at the event’s top prices of $1,500 and $2,800 will be able to meet Buttigieg in person, according to an invitation to the 8:30 a.m. event. The smallest donat
  
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• How many are homeless in Utah? An annual survey aims to count them all.

  23-01-2020 20:41
  
  Jeremy Youngren’s home, cat and nearly everything he owned burned to the ground in 2018 in the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif., while he was having open-heart surgery some 15 miles away. It was the nation’s deadliest blaze in more than a century.Now homeless, Youngren spends most of his nights in a parking lot near the tennis courts in Salt Lake City’s Liberty Park, where the temperatures are so cold his breath fogs up the windows of his car.“It’s not too bad,”
  
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• Audit slaps Utah prison system for poor oversight of jails where it sends inmates

  23-01-2020 20:01
  
  Utah’s prison system poorly monitors the jails where it sends state inmates and has no standards for those lockups, according to a state audit released Thursday.The audit also cast blame on the Utah Department of Corrections for inmate abuses at the now-closed Daggett County jail. Corrections did not detect problems such as guards torturing inmates until they were so apparent that the department removed all 80 inmates it housed there, the audit said.Then-Sheriff Jerry Torgersen and four of
  
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• Eye on the Y: BYU’s Dayan Ghanwoloku made the most of his NFLPA Collegiate Bowl opportunity

  23-01-2020 19:57
  
  Eye on the Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter covering BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Even though the football season is over, it really isn’t. Six Cougars were invited to play in postseason events in January — four of which have wrapped up already.Wide receiver Micah Simon and defensive back Beau Tanner participated in the College Gridiron Showcase and Symposium Jan. 3-8 in Fort Worth, Texas. Last Saturday, defensive back Austin Lee played in the East-West Shrine Bo
  
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• China locks down cities with 18 million to stop virus

  23-01-2020 19:38
  
  Beijing • Chinese authorities Thursday moved to lock down three cities with a combined population of more than 18 million in an unprecedented effort to contain the deadly new virus that has sickened hundreds of people and spread to other parts of the world during the busy Lunar New Year travel period.The open-ended lockdowns are unmatched in size, embracing more people than New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago put together.The train station and airport in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbr
  
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• Democrats’ impeachment challenge: Making a case with no new facts

  23-01-2020 19:34
  
  Washington • House Democrats pressed into the second day of arguments in President Donald Trump's impeachment case focused intently on the charge of abuse of power, which top prosecutor Adam Schiff said would leave senators with no choice but a finding of “guilt and conviction.”Schiff, the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, acknowledged as he stood before restless senators forced to sit silently for another long day there would be “some repetition of
  
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• Muslim millennial’s website dispels stereotypes for millions

  23-01-2020 19:31
  
  New York • Today she travels the world, attends a red-carpet movie premiere and sits on panels with astronauts, former presidents and feminist icons.But in the years after 9/11, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh was just a New Jersey teenager, writing a blog from her bedroom. She used the blog to connect with other young Muslim girls and defy stereotypes. At the time, the only reflections of herself in the news seemed to be men in orange jumpsuits who looked like her father and women who seemed silent an
  
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• Red All Over: Having Utah and USC meet on short rest next football season is a mistake by the Pac-12

  23-01-2020 19:29
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.When the Pac-12 released its 2020 football schedule last Thursday, a few things jumped out regarding Utah.The Utes open at Cal, which some project as a preseason top-25 team. They host USC on a Friday night (again), play UCLA at the Rose Bowl on a Thursday night and close with road games at Arizona State and Colorado.It wasn’t until the second or third time going through the schedule that something struck me as odd
  
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• [KSL] - 'When did he add that?' Gobert's offensive game has been there for awhile, but it's improving | KSL.com

  23-01-2020 19:29 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Rudy Gobert
  
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• Groundbreaking for LDS Church’s Layton temple is set for May 30

  23-01-2020 19:24
  
  Ground will be broken on May 30 for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ new temple in Layton, church officials announced Thursday.The three-story, 87,000-square-foot temple will be built on an 11.8-acre site on the corner of Oak Hills Drive and Rosewood Lane in Layton. The site was announced in July, and drawings of the new temple were released in October.The church has 17 temples in Utah, and has six more in some stage of development: Layton, Orem, Saratoga Springs, Taylorsvi
  
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• Jana Riess: It’s time for me to fast. It may be time for you, too.

  23-01-2020 19:20
  
  I started out this year on a Caribbean cruise as my husband and I celebrated our 50th birthdays together. We zoomed around Bonaire on a motor scooter, snorkeled in Aruba, and lounged on deck chairs reading massive books. (I finally finished “Middlemarch,” which has been on my TBR list since college.)And we ate. Oh my heavens, did we eat.Being on a cruise is an exercise in overindulgence. Everything is delicious and almost everything is already included in the price, so it’s har
  
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• Red All Over: Having Utah and USC to meet on short rest next football season is a mistake by the Pac-12

  23-01-2020 19:16
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.When the Pac-12 released its 2020 football schedule last Thursday, a few things jumped out regarding Utah.The Utes open at Cal, which some project as a preseason top-25 team. They host USC on a Friday night (again), play UCLA at the Rose Bowl on a Thursday night and close with road games at Arizona State and Colorado.It wasn’t until the second or third time going through the schedule that something struck me as odd
  
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• Dems’ impeachment challenge: Making a case with no new facts

  23-01-2020 19:11
  
  Washington • The Senate headed into the second day of arguments in President Donald Trump’s impeachment case as House Democrats argue that he abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress for personal political gain ahead of the 2020 election.The challenge for the prosecution led by Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of House Intelligence Committee, is clear as Democrats try to convince not just fidgety senators but an American public divided over the Republican president in an e
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: Trump, impeachment and catching Frisbees

  23-01-2020 19:09
  
  As the country embarks on only the third impeachment trial of a president in its history, there are many unique features about this moment, but one stands out for me: Never before have we had to confront a president who lies as he breathes and is backed by a political party and an entire cable TV-led ecosystem able and enthusiastic to create an alternative cognitive universe that propagates those lies on an unlimited scale.It is disheartening, disorienting and debilitating.How can the truth &mda
  
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• Gov. Gary Herbert holds press conference after announcing repeal of tax reform

  23-01-2020 18:59
  
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert will take questions from the media on Thursday during his monthly televised news conference at PBS Utah.The regularly scheduled event coincides with the unexpected announcement Thursday morning that Herbert and legislative leaders had agreed to quickly repeal a divisive piece of tax legislation during the initial days of the 2020 legislative session, which convenes next week.Critics of the tax plan mounted a referendum campaign aimed at overturning the law through a public
  
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• Audit says Utah’s prison system poorly monitors the jails where it sends inmates

  23-01-2020 18:25
  
  Utah’s prison system poorly monitors the jails where it sends inmates and has no standards for those jails, according to a state audit released Thursday.The audit also cast blame on the Utah Department of Corrections for inmate abuses at the Daggett County Jail. The Department of Corrections did not detect things such as guards torturing inmates until the problems were so apparent that the department removed all 80 inmates it housed there, the audit said.Daggett County Sheriff Jerry Torger
  
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• Former Utah Valley University employee sentenced for stealing $380,000

  23-01-2020 18:15
  
  Provo • A former Utah Valley University employee was sentenced to four months in county jail after she pleaded guilty to stealing more than $380,000 from the university to pay for travel expenses and a private theater business, a judge said.Jennifer Clegg, 43, pleaded guilty to communications fraud and attempted communications fraud in November, The Daily Herald reported Tuesday.Clegg was also sentenced to serve 60 days on a GPS monitor, pay restitution and complete 100 hours of community s
  
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• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to headline Salt Lake City tech conference

  23-01-2020 18:14
  
  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be the keynote speaker at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit next week in Salt Lake City.The conference will take place Jan. 30 and 31 at the Salt Palace Convention Center downtown. Sessions will feature speakers from Adobe, US Bank, Zions Bank, Nu Skin, the University of Utah, Spotify, Intel, Overstock, Wells Fargo, WeWork and others.Zuckerberg was identified as the keynote speaker as of Thursday morning.Tickets to the conference cost $195.
  
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• Watch live: Gov. Gary Herbert to hold press conference after announcing repeal of tax reform

  23-01-2020 18:02
  
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert will take questions from the media on Thursday during his monthly televised news conference at PBS Utah.The regularly scheduled event coincides with the unexpected announcement Thursday morning that Herbert and legislative leaders had agreed to quickly repeal a divisive piece of tax legislation during the initial days of the 2020 legislative session, which convenes next week.Critics of the tax plan mounted a referendum campaign aimed at overturning the law through a public
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Ups and downs of church growth, the brothers behind the $100B complaint, disavowing the ‘curse’ — again

  23-01-2020 17:48
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.
  (Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
  A Latter-day Saint baptism in New Zealand.The ups and downs of church growthIndependent demographer Matt Martinich finds the good, the bad and the int
  
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• Utah’s Legislature, governor announce plan to repeal controversial tax reform law

  23-01-2020 17:31
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert and the state’s legislative leaders announced Thursday they are repealing the massive and controversial tax reform plan they passed just last month in a special session.The decision comes after a bipartisan group declared they’d gathered more than 152,000 signatures from Utahns in favor of putting the tax legislation on the ballot for potential repeal.“In recent weeks, it has become clear that many people have strong concerns regarding legislation passed in De
  
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• Devin D. Thorpe: Utah’s innovative fees for electric vehicles reflect flawed priorities

  23-01-2020 17:25
  
  The state of Utah imposed fees on electric vehicles beginning in 2020 to make up for the fact that their owners pay no gasoline taxes, which are used to support road construction. A new, Big Brother-inspired, voluntary system for onboard tracking of the miles driven by electric car owners could reduce their annual fees. These efforts reflect the state’s flawed priorities.It is correct, of course, that electric vehicles do not contribute to the state’s coffers through fuel taxes. Ther
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The next 10 games will test the Utah Jazz

  23-01-2020 16:51 via sportspyder.com
  
  How will the Jazz make it through their toughest stretch of the season?
  
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• Utah Jazz crush Golden State Warriors 129-96 to move up to second in the West

  23-01-2020 16:37
  
  San Francisco • Second in the West. Third in the NBA.After a thoroughly easy 129-96 win against the wilting Golden State Warriors — remember them? — on Wednesday night, the Jazz moved up the standings again.The Jazz’s win against the Warriors was perfunctory. What may not have been were the other results in the Western Conference.In particular, the Clippers losing in Atlanta, albeit without Kawhi Leonard and Paul George — the Hawks were missing Trae Young — was
  
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• Utah man charged with murdering his grandfather, then setting the body on fire

  23-01-2020 16:28
  
  A Utah man has been charged with stabbing his grandfather to death and then trying to cover up the crime by setting the victim’s body — and his house — on fire.Maxwell Wolcott, 28, of Murray, has been charged in 3rd District Court with aggravated murder, aggravated arson and aggravated burglary, all first-degree felonies; and obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony.On Jan. 10, firefighters battling a house fire at 717 E. Logan Ave. discovered the body of John Peel, 74, i
  
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• [Deseret News] - The Utah Jazz’s starting lineup of Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell, Joe Ingles, Bojan Bogdanovic and Royce O’Neale is the NBA’s best

  23-01-2020 16:19 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah’s starting lineup of Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell, Bojan Bogdanovic, Joe Ingles and Royce O’Neale have outscored opponents by 178 points this year, which is far and away the best mark in the NBA
  
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• Zuckerberg to headline Salt Lake City tech conference

  23-01-2020 16:12
  
  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be the keynote speaker at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit next week in Salt Lake City.The conference will take place Jan. 30 and 31 at the Salt Palace Convention Center downtown. Sessions will feature speakers from Adobe, US Bank, Zions Bank, Nu Skin, the University of Utah, Spotify, Intel, Overstock, Wells Fargo, WeWork and others.Zuckerberg was identified as the keynote speaker as of Thursday morning.Tickets to the conference cost $195.
  
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• Chinese city stops outbound flights, trains to fight virus

  23-01-2020 15:46
  
  Beijing • A Chinese city of more than 11 million people planned to shut down outbound flights and trains Thursday as the world’s most populous country battled the spread of a new virus that has sickened hundreds of people and killed 17, state media reported.Everyone in the city of Wuhan was to be restricted to some degree. The state-owned People's Daily newspaper said no one would be allowed to leave. The official Xinhua News Agency said no one would be permitted to leave without a sp
  
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