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• Utah Opera’s upcoming season features three classics and a contemporary production

  28-01-2020 23:53
  
  The Utah Opera's 2020-21 season will feature productions by Wagner, Puccini and Gilbert and Sullivan as well as a more recent opera, “Flight,” set in an airport.“Presenting contemporary works is both important and necessary for the health of opera,” said artistic director Christopher McBeth. “If one looks at the regularly performed cherished classics, one sees that the music and stories had relevance to their audience.”The upcoming Utah Opera productions are:&
  
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• Man suspected of abducting and raping teenage girl in West Valley City

  28-01-2020 23:43
  
  A 15-year-old girl who was abducted on her way home from school said a man forced her at knifepoint to get into his car, gave her pills and raped her before police found her running and crying Monday in West Valley City.The girl’s mother called police after the teen did not arrive home from Hunter High School on Monday afternoon. The family had tracked her cellphone to near 3600 South 6470 West, where they found the phone on the street, police wrote.A neighbor near the abandoned phone had
  
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• Sen. Mitt Romney downs BYU chocolate milk as impeachment trial drags on

  28-01-2020 23:34
  
  Washington • During the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, senators are allowed to drink only two things: water or milk.Sen. Mitt Romney spiced things up a bit on Tuesday by bringing his own chocolate milk to consume.Romney, R-Utah, brought a bottle of chocolate milk — from the BYU Creamery, for the record — into the Senate chamber just before the impeachment trial resumed on Tuesday but was quickly reminded that his beverage of choice needed to be poured into a glass.
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Beehive Elites

  28-01-2020 23:23
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/01/24/bagley-cartoon-head-count/" target=_blank><u>Head Count</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/01/24/bagley-cartoon-gift"><u>Gift Return</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/01/22/bagley-cartoon-devil-
  
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• Trump peace plan delights Israelis, enrages Palestinians

  28-01-2020 22:58
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East plan Tuesday, winning immediate praise from a beaming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but a swift rejection from the Palestinians, who called it “nonsense.”Trump's plan calls for the eventual creation of a Palestinian state, but it falls far short of minimal Palestinian demands and would leave sizable chunks of the occupied West Bank in Israeli hands.Netanyahu said he would move forward on Sunday
  
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• ‘Minari,’ a Korean immigrant drama, breaks out at Sundance

  28-01-2020 22:47
  
  Park City • After the premiere of “Minari” at the Sundance Film Festival, while many in the audience were still drying their eyes, director Lee Isaac Chung quoted the author Willa Cather to explain how he had come to write a film based on his childhood, when his Korean family moved to rural Arkansas.“Life began for me when I ceased to admire and began to remember.”Chung’s memories, he said, started pouring out of him. A family drama began to form for the 41-yea
  
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• Nearly 14,000 foreign students studied in Utah in 2018

  28-01-2020 22:37
  
  Utah’s colleges and schools hosted 13,917 nonimmigrant foreign students in 2018, roughly equivalent to the population of Millard County or the city of Bluffdale.That was an increase of 199 students over the previous year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, an arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.About 1 of every 111 foreign students in the nation studied in Utah. About 1.55 million foreign students were in the United States that y
  
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• Trump team concludes defense, argues against calling Bolton

  28-01-2020 22:34
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump's legal team argued forcefully against the relevance of testimony from John Bolton Tuesday as they concluded their impeachment trial defense and the Senate braced for debate on whether to summon Trump's former national security adviser and other witnesses into the trial.“This should end now, as quickly as possible," White House counsel Pat Cipollone declared, capping a defense presentation that painted Trump as a victim and took dismissive swipes at
  
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• Real Salt Lake looking at three candidates to replace goalkeeper Nick Rimando

  28-01-2020 22:23
  
  Herriman • Nick Rimando retired from Major League Soccer as the unequivocal best goalkeeper to ever play. He played 20 years in the league and finished with the record in wins, shutouts, saves, games played and minutes.He spent 13 of those years with Real Salt Lake, where many say he cemented his legacy. But now that he’s gone, there’s a vacant position at goalkeeper that hasn’t been up for grabs since Rimando joined the Claret and Cobalt.Heading into the 2020 season, thre
  
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• Ross Douthat: The many polarizations of America

  28-01-2020 22:00
  
  This month has brought a surfeit of interesting new books about American politics, most of them attempts to explain exactly how we reached our current era of gridlock and demagogy, in which disliked establishments and disreputable populists clash by night.This task means that they are necessarily studies in polarization, in the roots of partisan hatred and ideological mistrust. And it means they usefully be read together, and against one another, to try to get a holistic sense of the forces tear
  
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• Man suspected of abducting and raping teenage girl in West Valley City has a history of violent crime

  28-01-2020 21:56
  
  A 15-year-old girl who was abducted on her way home from school said a man forced her at knifepoint to get into his car, gave her pills and raped her before police found her running and crying Monday in West Valley City.The girl’s mother called police after the teen did not arrive home from Hunter High School on Monday afternoon. The family had tracked her cellphone to near 3600 South 6470 West, where they found the phone laying unattended on the street, police wrote.A neighbor near the ab
  
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• George Pyle: Salt Lakers can afford to be choosy with our development suitors

  28-01-2020 21:54
  
  There is — there better be — a sweet spot. A tipping point. A place along the continuum of socialist planning to laissez-faire economics where a community has the right and the ability to say, Enough.Or to say, More.The two are not mutually exclusive.Anyone paying any attention to The Salt Lake Tribune over the last several weeks, or just looking around, is aware that a whole lot of people want to live here. Which means a whole lot of money is about to be spent to make room for them.
  
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• RSL has three candidates vying for the chance to replace goalkeeping legend Nick Rimando

  28-01-2020 21:44
  
  Herriman • Nick Rimando retired from Major League Soccer as the unequivocal best goalkeeper to ever play. He played 20 years in the league and finished with the record in wins, shutouts, saves, games played and minutes.He spent 13 of those years with Real Salt Lake, where many say he cemented his legacy. But now that he’s gone, there’s a vacant position at goalkeeper that hasn’t been up for grabs since Rimando joined the Claret and Cobalt.Heading into the 2020 season, thre
  
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• Utah Legislature repeals tax reform in pair of overwhelming votes

  28-01-2020 21:37
  
  It took less than an hour Tuesday for the Utah House and Senate to undo a year of work on tax reform, with the two chambers voting nearly unanimously to repeal a divisive piece of legislation and go back to square one.The twin votes — 70-1 in the House and 27-0 in the Senate — were held back-to-back shortly after the state elections office announced that a referendum campaign targeting the controversial reforms had secured at least 117,154 signatures, enough to qualify for the Novemb
  
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• RSL’s task of trying to replace goalkeeping legend Nick Rimando has begun

  28-01-2020 21:22
  
  Herriman • Nick Rimando retired from Major League Soccer as the unequivocal best goalkeeper to ever play. He played 20 years in the league and finished with the record in wins, shutouts, saves, games played and minutes. He spent 13 of those years with Real Salt Lake, where many say he cemented his legacy. But now that he’s gone, there’s a vacant position at goalkeeper that hasn’t been up for grabs since Rimando joined the Claret and Cobalt.Heading into the 2020 season, thr
  
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• George Pyle: Salt Lakers should hold out for development that works for everyone

  28-01-2020 21:00
  
  There is — there better be — a sweet spot. A tipping point. A place along the continuum of socialist planning to laissez-faire economics where a community has the right and the ability to say, Enough.Or to say, More.The two are not mutually exclusive.Anyone paying any attention to The Salt Lake Tribune over the last several weeks, or just looking around, is aware that a whole lot of people want to live here. Which means a whole lot of money is about to be spent to make room for them.
  
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• Nearly 14K foreign students studied in Utah in 2018

  28-01-2020 20:58
  
  Utah’s colleges and schools hosted 13,917 nonimmigrant foreign students in 2018, roughly equivalent to the population of Millard County or the city of Bluffdale.That was an increase of 199 students over the previous year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, an arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.About one of every 111 foreign students in the nation studied in Utah. About 1.55 million foreign students were in the United States that
  
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• Trump team argues against relevancy of Bolton testimony

  28-01-2020 20:56
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump's legal team argued forcefully against the relevance of testimony from Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday as the lawyers neared the end of their defense and the Senate braced for debate on whether to summon Bolton and other witnesses into the impeachment trial.Attorney Jay Sekulow took a dismissive swipe at an unpublished book by Bolton that is said to contradict a key defense argument about Trump's dealings with Ukraine. Reve
  
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• Kobe Bryant made an impact on Utah men’s basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak

  28-01-2020 20:52
  
  With a Kobe Bryant No. 24 jersey in tow, and with a pair of Bryant’s signature Nike sneakers on his feet, Utah head coach Larry Krystkowiak spent much of his usual Tuesday press conference speaking about the global icon. After about 20 minutes, Utes Associate Director of Communications John Vu made a last call for questions. It was then that Krystkowiak really started talking. “Last time I felt like this was 9/11, where it really just hits you in the gut,” Krystkowiak said. &ld
  
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• Two-foot replica debuts of Martha Hughes Cannon statue planned for U.S. Capitol

  28-01-2020 20:38
  
  A small replica of a planned statue of former Utah state Sen. Martha Hughes Cannon made its debut at the Utah Legislature Tuesday, giving lawmakers a preview of the 7-foot-6-inch version that is expected to be placed in the nation’s Capitol campus later this year.Cannon, who was elected in 1896 as the country’s first female state senator, was a doctor, a polygamous wife and a leader in Utah’s suffrage movement. The larger statue, designed by Utah sculptor Ben Hammond, will be p
  
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• Man suspected of abducting and raping teenage girl in West Valley City abduction has a history of violent crime

  28-01-2020 20:35
  
  A 15-year-old girl who was abducted on her way home from school said a man forced her at knifepoint to get into his car, gave her pills and raped her before police found her running and crying Monday in West Valley City.The girl’s mother called police after the teen did not arrive home from Hunter High School on Monday afternoon. The family had tracked her cell phone to near 3600 South 6470 West, where they found the phone laying unattended on the street, police wrote.A neighbor near the a
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Threes of the Week - 1.28.20

  28-01-2020 20:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  Threes of the Week presented by Mountain America Credit Union
  
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• Trump unveils Mideast plan, proposing two-state solution

  28-01-2020 20:12
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled his long-awaited Middle East plan, which was celebrated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “vision for peace” but is likely to continue to be opposed by Palestinians who say it favors Israel and falls short of their goal of creating a viable independent state.Trump's plan calls for the creation of a State of Palestine with its capital in east Jerusalem while recognizing Israeli sovereignty over major settleme
  
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• Gordon Monson: Great athletes from Kobe Bryant to Donovan Mitchell to Rudy Gobert share this single key attribute. Maybe you share it, too.

  28-01-2020 20:09
  
  In the wake of Kobe Bryant’s passing, it’s been noted he was the ultimate competitor, a player who would not relent or shrink away. And that celebration, if that’s the right word, of fierceness, if that’s the right word, brought to mind the larger concept of competition and competitiveness.It’s what accomplished athletes of all kinds — junior, amateur, college, pro — rely on to ascend to greatness, whether it’s an NBA title or the country club cham
  
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• Paul Krugman: At Davos, Greta vs. the greedy grifters

  28-01-2020 20:03
  
  I’ve never been a fan of Davos, that annual gathering of the rich and fatuous. One virtue of the pageant of preening and self-importance, however, is that it brings out the worst in some people, leading them to say things that reveal their vileness for all to see.And so it was for Steven Mnuchin, Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary. First, Mnuchin doubled down on his claim that the 2017 tax cut will pay for itself — just days after his own department confirmed that the budget def
  
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• Tax referendum hits signature threshold ahead of repeal vote

  28-01-2020 19:15
  
  A campaign to let voters decide the fate of a controversial tax law reached a major milestone on Tuesday, just hours before Utah lawmakers were scheduled to vote to repeal the law.At a little before 8 a.m., the state elections office announced that 117,154 tax referendum signatures had been verified by county clerks — exceeding minimum signatures thresholds in 24 counties — indicating the campaign was successful in its petition drive and positioned to qualify for the November ballot.
  
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• U.S., others prepare evacuations as virus spreads from China

  28-01-2020 18:52
  
  Beijing • The United States and several other nations prepared Tuesday to airlift citizens out of a Chinese city at the center of a virus outbreak that has killed more than 100 people.Hong Kong's leader said it will cut all rail links to mainland China and halve the number of flights as authorities in China and overseas sought to stem the spread of the new virus. The number of confirmed cases rose to more than 4,500.The U.S. government-chartered a plane to fly out diplomats from the U.S. Co
  
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• Man suspected of abducting teenage girl in West Valley City abduction has history of violent crime

  28-01-2020 18:24
  
  Police arrested a suspect in the reported abduction of a teenage girl who says she was forced into a vehicle as she walked home Monday from Hunter High School in West Valley City and escaped after a few hours.The 43-year-old man who was arrested pleaded guilty to a first-degree felony charge of attempted murder in 2009, according to court records. An aggravated kidnapping charge from the same case was dismissed.The girl was taken near her home and later was found by friends near the school at 42
  
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• A circus show in Utah won’t feature exotic animals for the first time

  28-01-2020 17:42
  
  Amid community concern about its treatment of exotic animals, this year’s Jordan World Circus performance at Salt Lake County’s Equestrian Center will feature dogs, pigeons, ponies and a domesticated camel — but no tigers and elephants.That’s a win for the Utah Animal Rights Coalition, which has been protesting the traveling show for years, calling it “outdated” and a “cruel spectacle.” Now, the organization is pushing the county to create a formal
  
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• Trump team wrapping up trial defense as senators mull Bolton

  28-01-2020 17:27
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s legal team prepared to wrap up arguments in his impeachment trial Tuesday as Senate Republicans wrestled with whether to allow witnesses, including John Bolton who appears poised to contradict a key Trump claim.The arguments from defense lawyers have jostled for public attention with revelations from a forthcoming book by former national security adviser Bolton, who says Trump wanted to withhold military aid from Ukraine until it committed to help
  
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• Brent Israelsen: Mike Pompeo is a threat to national security and should resign

  28-01-2020 17:23
  
  When Mike Pompeo took the helm at the Department of State in April 2018, American diplomats, aka foreign service officers, held some hope that all might be well again at Foggy Bottom.The diplomatic corps – the unsung and little understood civilian army that builds foreign relations, assists Americans abroad, and tries to keep us out of wars – had taken some hits from the bully pulpit of our president.Pompeo, many of us believed, would restore diplomacy’s footing, or “swag
  
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• The Triple Team: Utah Jazz’s perimeter defense woeful in loss to Houston Rockets, allowing Eric Gordon to score 50

  28-01-2020 17:22
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 126-117 loss to the Houston Rockets from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Jazz send Rockets to the line 49 timesYou can’t give a team 49 free throws and win a game. Admittedly, the Jazz fouled intentionally a few times at the end, and so it was really about 41 free throws... and yet 41 free throws would tie the Rockets’ season high this year, and the Rockets famously draw a lot of fouls.But tonight, they were without their main foul
  
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• Letter: Pro-life commentary outclassed George Pyle’s

  28-01-2020 17:20
  
  Thank you for printing Danielle Divis’ commentary responding to the column by George Pyle.As a fellow non-professional writer, it was enjoyable to read her effective destruction of Pyle’s arguments. Not one of his anti pro-life tropes withstood the logic and force of her piece.Thank you, Ms. Divis, for writing. And thank you, editors, for printing a commentary that outclassed one of your own editors.Ken Timboe, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Grandson’s pitch coaxes Robert Redford out of retirement, briefly

  28-01-2020 17:17
  
  Park City • Midway through the film festival he founded more than four decades ago, Robert Redford hopped out of a car and hollered to his grandson. The 28-year-old Dylan Redford was later that evening going to premiere at Sundance a film he co-directed."OK, Dylan. This is your moment," Redford said with a grin. "Don't blow it."Redford, 83, created the Sundance Institute, which puts on the annual Park City festival, to give young filmmakers their moment — a platform to showcase someth
  
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• ‘Palm Springs’ sets a Sundance record in $17.5M sale

  28-01-2020 17:08
  
  Park City • The “Groundhog Day”-esque comedy “Palm Springs,” by Andy Samberg and the Lonely Island, has set an acquisition record at the Sundance Film Festival by 69 cents.The indie distributor Neon and the streaming service Hulu bought "Palm Springs" for exactly $17,500,000.69 in a sale announced Monday evening at the Park City festival. The previous record Sundance sale was the $17.5 million Fox Searchlight paid for Nate Parker's "The Birth of a Nation" in 2016.In
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Kobe Bryant final game: Gordon Hayward responds to Mike Tirico's claim regarding Lakers icon's 60-point finale - CBSSports.com

  28-01-2020 17:07 via sportspyder.com
  
  Bryant dropped 60 points on Hayward and the Utah Jazz in his final game in the NBA
  
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• Letter: New plan to deal with climate change in Utah is a breath of fresh air

  28-01-2020 16:34
  
  I awoke on a recent January morning to a dense inversion of smog — fog combined with the too familiar visible haze of pollution we all see in the Salt Lake and most Utah valleys year round, winter and summer.We all know the sequence. A storm typically washes out our soup bowl but, within 24 hours, we can see the haze of polluted gunk, ozone, nitrous oxide, pm 2.5 particulates and, of course, the invisible CO2 emissions.But, a breath of fresh air. The Jan. 25 article by Judy Fahys in The Sa
  
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• [Deseret News] - Did Gordon Hayward purposefully try to help Kobe on his last free throw ever? The former Jazzman clears it up in touching tribute

  28-01-2020 16:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  Kobe Bryant’s final NBA game, against the Utah Jazz, was the kind of ending that seemed like it was a Hollywood script. Entering his final game of the 2015-16 season, Bryant had averaged 16.9...
  
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• On the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, a dispute over rights of way means rough roads, long bus rides

  28-01-2020 15:12
  
  Montezuma Creek • “Whoa! There’s a rut,” said San Juan County Commissioner Kenneth Maryboy as coffee sloshed from a gas station cup wedged between the front seats of his pickup.Maryboy had gradually increased his speed to reduce the rattle from the badly washboarded Navajo Nation road south of Montezuma Creek, Utah, before the deep rut in hardened mud forced him to slam on the brakes.The incident made Maryboy’s point. He had planned a press tour of dirt roads on the
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Bojan Bogdanovic deserves some All Star buzz

  28-01-2020 15:09 via sportspyder.com
  
  Because he’s played like one
  
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• William Perry Pendley: America’s wild horses and burros need our help

  28-01-2020 14:00
  
  The Bureau of Land Management, which administers 245 million acres of public land, primarily in the 11 Western states and Alaska, has the federal government’s most difficult mission. Under its statutory “multiple-use, sustained yield” mandate, the BLM manages a breathtaking array of uses of federal lands. Given the passion with which the public embraces those uses, folks sometimes disagree about the decisions the BLM makes.There is, however, one matter for which the BLM is resp
  
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• Salt Lake City’s air quality is nation’s 7th worst among large metro areas

  28-01-2020 14:00
  
  The air over the Salt Lake Valley has become cleaner in recent years, even as Utah’s urban core gets more crowded and covered in more asphalt, with more cars driving more miles.So it is no surprise that Salt Lake City still has some of the worst air quality in the nation. The capital is listed at No. 7 among large metro areas in a new analysis that compares air-quality metrics for hundreds of U.S. cities.The analysis, released Monday by the California-based digital media firm Quote 360, ex
  
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• Robert Kirby: I mean no ill will, but if you’re sick, I don’t want to see you

  28-01-2020 14:00
  
  No one has ever accused me of being a hypochondriac. Quite the opposite. I once worked construction for three days with a sore leg before my wife made me go to the doctor. An X-ray revealed a fracture.It wasn’t a bad one. No bones sticking out. Didn’t matter. The wife and the doctor diagnosed idiocy on the spot. I ended up in a cast.I was supposed to wear the cast for 30 days, then go back to the doctor. But by Day 11, things had started to worsen.During that time, a paper clip, two
  
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• Letter: When the president needs a favor

  28-01-2020 14:00
  
  Why Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney must vote to remove President Trump:Because if the president is allowed to interfere in the presidential election, he will have no compunction about interfering in your elections either.The next time you need something from the president — say, disaster aid for Utah, or the nomination of a federal judge — the president will eagerly agree to help:“Of course,” he will say. “But, first, I need a favor…”Bradley Katz, Salt
  
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• Letter: Support universal background checks

  28-01-2020 14:00
  
  Edwin Rutan’s recent letter in The Salt Lake Tribune regarding universal background checks for the purchase of guns made good sense.Since the vast majority of Utahns, including responsible gun owners, support this initiative, I hope that our Utah legislators will listen to their constituents this year and support a House bill that will help to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, and still support our Second Amendment rights.Rep. Lee Perry chairs the Law Enforcement and Criminal
  
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• Letter: New plan is a breath of fresh air

  28-01-2020 14:00
  
  I awoke on a recent January morning to a dense inversion of smog — fog combined with the too familiar visible haze of pollution we all see in the Salt Lake and most Utah valleys year round, winter and summer.We all know the sequence. A storm typically washes out our soup bowl but, within 24 hours, we can see the haze of polluted gunk, ozone, nitrous oxide, pm 2.5 particulates and, of course, the invisible CO2 emissions.But, a breath of fresh air. The Jan. 25 article by Judy Fahys in The Sa
  
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• Letter: Hold Utah lawmakers accountable

  28-01-2020 14:00
  
  After wasting taxpayer dollars to hold a special legislative session, against prudent advice otherwise, and then put the citizenry through a painstaking referendum signature collection, Gov. Gary Herbert and the rest of the legislators who voted in favor of the widely unpopular, regressive tax reform bill must be held accountable.When election season comes around, don’t forget it was Herbert and his party that put us through this mess. Herbert may not be up for reelection, but his kind are
  
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• Letter: Congress obsessed with attacking president

  28-01-2020 14:00
  
  “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who … at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.” — Teddy RooseveltThis describes many situations in our history, but no more so than those undermining and trying to bring down our current president. Is his imm
  
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• Letter: Commentary outclassed your own

  28-01-2020 14:00
  
  Thank you for printing Danielle Divis’ commentary responding to the column by George Pyle.As a fellow non-professional writer, it was enjoyable to read her effective destruction of Pyle’s arguments. Not one of his anti pro-life tropes withstood the logic and force of her piece.Thank you, Ms. Divis, for writing. And thank you, editors, for printing a commentary that outclassed one of your own editors.Ken Timboe, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: A place for ‘ugly’ food

  28-01-2020 14:00
  
  America wastes a lot of food. I’ve read many recent articles about the produce that isn’t “pretty enough” for the grocery stores. Unfortunately there is not yet a good place for the public to buy this produce, except some farmers markets with a conscience.Here’s an idea. Instead of rolling back Michelle Obama’s healthy school food programs due to the high cost of healthy fresh food, let the government work with farmers directly to utilize the “ugly&rdquo
  
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