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• Payson man turns himself in after hit-and-run injures 9-year-old

  20-02-2020 23:53 via sltrib.com
  
  Police in Payson said Thursday that a man turned himself in amid reports that authorities were searching for a driver who fled after hitting a 9-year-old boy on a sidewalk in Payson.The boy was taken to a hospital Wednesday afternoon in serious condition. His mother posted on Facebook Thursday that he is OK, but is in pain and has facial swelling. She estimated his recovery will take several weeks.A photograph of the boy published by KUTV-TV shows him in a neck brace with cuts and bruises across
  
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• Russia backs Trump’s reelection, and he fears Democrats will exploit its support

  20-02-2020 23:42 via sltrib.com
  
  Washington • Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Donald Trump reelected, five people familiar with the matter said, in a disclosure that angered Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him.The day after the Feb. 13 briefing to lawmakers, Trump berated Joseph Maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place, people familiar with the excha
  
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• Serial rapist pleads guilty to 17 felonies for attacking three Utah women

  20-02-2020 23:37 via sltrib.com
  
  A Utah man pleaded guilty Thursday to 17 felony charges, admitting that he sexually assaulted multiple women in Davis County two decades ago.Mark Douglas Burns, 69, pleaded guilty to eight charges of aggravated sexual assault, six counts of aggravated kidnapping, two charges of aggravated burglary and one count of aggravated robbery. All are first-degree felonies.Burns faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced on April 6.Burns admitted to sexually assaulting three women in Davis County bet
  
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• Eye on the Y: BYU’s basketball ranking is special, considering what Cougars have endured this season

  20-02-2020 23:28 via sltrib.com
  
  Cougar Nation was ecstatic on Monday, seeing BYU get ranked in the AP Poll for the first time in nine years. Although it’s just the No. 23 spot, it’s indicative of the progress the program is making.But what's most impressive is the fact that the Cougars were able to grow so much this season with a new coach.I know it can feel like Mark Pope isn’t new. He was an assistant coach at BYU four years (2011-2015) and then was down the road at Utah Valley the next four years (2015-19)
  
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• BYU pole vaulter Zach McWhorter suffers excruciating scrotum injury while practicing, shares video

  20-02-2020 23:28 via sltrib.com
  
  Provo • TikTok is home to all types of videos. Whether funny or cringey, people can find all types of addicting posts on the video-sharing social network.Earlier this week, BYU pole vaulter Zach McWhorter shared a TikTok that falls into the latter category.In the post, which as of Thursday has more than 5.3 million views, the 21-year-old is practicing a routine jump, but is impaled in his scrotum by the pole on his way down after he clears the bar.McWhorter shared a photo of his punctured s
  
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• A bill to tighten UDOT restrictions on eminent domain is killed in committee

  20-02-2020 23:26 via sltrib.com
  
  A plan by Blanding Republican Rep. Phil Lyman to tighten rules for government takeover of private property through eminent domain — including barring its use for public parks, trails and bike paths or sporting facilities — was shot down at its first hearing Wednesday.HB261 was rejected by an 8-3 margin in the House Political Subdivisions Committee following opposition by the Utah League of Cities and Towns and the state Department of Transportation.UDOT was particularly critical of t
  
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• What should replace cars in the clogged Cottonwood canyons? A panel discusses the options.

  20-02-2020 23:24 via sltrib.com
  
  Americans’ reliance on personal automobiles poses a paradox that plays out most acutely in places like Utah’s Big and Little Cottonwood canyons — rugged, scenic and natural settings that have become powerful magnets of recreation and drivers of economic development.The Cottonwoods are now plagued with traffic year-round but particularly on powdery winter days, when thousands of skiers stream up the canyons in hopes of being first on the chairlifts. But anyone with eyes has been
  
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• Red All Over: Utah basketball fans are getting restless with Larry Krystkowiak, at least in my mentions, but patience is warranted here

  20-02-2020 22:57 via sltrib.com
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.It is late-February and there is fan angst happening all over college basketball.Some teams are on the bubble, others are off the bubble, still more are a good win or two away from being bubblicious. Teams are bad, others are middling, still more are careening towards one or the other. Somewhere within bad and middling, fans want the coach fired and they want him fired yesterday.Welcome to Salt Lake City, home of the Uni
  
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• West Valley City Council creates new zone to spur sustainable housing

  20-02-2020 22:30 via sltrib.com
  
  The West Valley City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to create a new city tool to encourage developers to build sustainable homes.Under the first-of-its-kind-in-Utah “Residential Sustainability Zone,” interested developers would agree to meet a number of highly specific requirements aimed at ensuring homes conserve water, are energy efficient and generate their own power — such as including Energy Star-rated appliances to decrease energy use and providing an electric car char
  
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• Utah’s House, Senate leaders honor Trump with citation

  20-02-2020 22:10 via sltrib.com
  
  Utah’s legislative leaders have sent President Donald Trump a citation letter that commends him for everything from his efforts to “secure our national borders" to his move to relocate a U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.The message concludes by exhorting Congress to “do what state legislatures across the country are doing and get back to work for the American people.”Senate President Stuart Adams and House Speaker Brad Wilson wrote the commendation as the dust sett
  
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• Derek Monson: Entrepreneurs in the marketplace help health care reform in Utah

  20-02-2020 22:03 via sltrib.com
  
  Utah legislators are hard at work debating a range of health care policy reforms intended to make healthcare more affordable, from reducing pharmaceutical costs to eliminating wasteful health care spending. As these debates progress, legislators should keep in mind the entrepreneurial approach that has brought Utah the prosperity we enjoy today.Utah has a longstanding tradition of entrepreneurship. Those who journeyed here in the 1800s risked everything on a religious entrepreneurial venture, la
  
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• Utes gymnast Sydney Soloski enjoys the role of the vocal leader

  20-02-2020 21:33 via sltrib.com
  
  During a recent meet, Utah gymnastics coach Tom Farden planned to have Jillian Hoffman warm up with the team even though she only was performing an exhibition routine.Utah junior Sydney Soloski sensed some of her teammates were concerned that this might limit their warm up time, so she approached Farden and suggested he move Hoffman’s warmup to last, after the rest of the athletes had done what they needed to do.Farden made the switch and the team went on to deliver one of its best perform
  
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• Utah plans to retire late basketball great Wat Misaka’s number next season

  20-02-2020 21:24 via sltrib.com
  
  A University of Utah basketball legend will get his just due next season. Utah Athletic Director Mark Harlan announced on Thursday that the late Wat Misaka will have his No. 21 jersey retired next season at the Huntsman Center. Harlan’s announcement was made on the floor of the Utah State Senate Thursday morning in conjunction with the State Legislature honoring Misaka, who passed away on Nov. 20 at the age of 95. Misaka, who is recognized as the first non-caucasian to play in the NBA afte
  
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• RSL tapped again to compete in 2020 Leagues Cup

  20-02-2020 21:17 via sltrib.com
  
  Real Salt Lake will once again compete in the Leagues Cup.The second annual tournament between Major League Soccer and Liga MX teams returns for 2020 with double the teams in both leagues. RSL was one of the four teams chosen in 2019’s inaugural installment of the tournament. “It’s special when you can compete against someone from outside MLS,” RSL coach Freddy Juarez said in a statement. “It’s important for us to compete for trophies, and Leagues Cup gives us
  
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• New Breeze Airways opens national headquarters in Utah

  20-02-2020 21:16 via sltrib.com
  
  The nation’s soon-to-be newest airline — Breeze Airways — just opened its new headquarters in Utah as it aims to launch operations later this year.It is the fifth airline formed by Utah native David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue Airways, Morris Air (which was bought by Southwest Airlines), Canada’s WestJet and Brazil’s Azul.The new headquarters is in an office building in Cottonwood Heights that is across the parking lot from JetBlue’s reservations and customer
  
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• Panel discusses solutions to clogged Cottonwood canyons. Cars are out. But should there be more buses, a gondola or a train?

  20-02-2020 21:03 via sltrib.com
  
  Americans’ reliance on personal automobiles poses a paradox that plays out most acutely in places like Utah’s Big and Little Cottonwood canyons — rugged, scenic and natural settings that have become powerful magnets of recreation and drivers of economic development.The Cottonwoods are now plagued with traffic year-round but particularly on powdery winter days, when thousands of skiers stream up the canyons in hopes of being first on the chairlifts. But anyone with eyes has been
  
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• Franchesca Lopez: Students of color face racial abuse at BYU

  20-02-2020 21:01 via sltrib.com
  
  Students of color face daily racial abuse at Brigham Young University, and BYU is responsible.As a freshman in a career explorations class, I heard a white, male student joke that I ate rice and beans every day. Despite making these comments in front of several other students and a professor, he was not held accountable.My friend is an international student from Ecuador who had a professor tell her and another student that they wouldn’t learn English if they continued to speak Spanish befo
  
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• The Utah Legislature has more money to spend, as long as it’s on education

  20-02-2020 20:57 via sltrib.com
  
  Utah lawmakers got some good news on Thursday as their latest revenue estimates for the current legislative session were updated to show an additional $238 million in state coffers.The new figures bring the state’s total surplus to $921 million, but the bulk of that money comes from income tax collections and is constitutionally walled off for spending only on public and higher education.Hurricane Republican Rep. Brad Last presented the new numbers to his colleagues on the House floor, say
  
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• Report: Work to reduce wildfire risks has economic benefits

  20-02-2020 20:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Albuquerque, N.M. • Projects to reduce the risk of wildfires and protect water sources in the U.S. West have created jobs and infused more money in local economies, researchers say, and they were funded by a partnership between governments and businesses that has become a model in other countries.A team from the U.S. Geological Survey reviewed work being done in several counties along the New Mexico-Colorado border that make up the watershed of one of North America's longest rivers, the Rio
  
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• Missing Utah teen may be with a man more than twice her age, authorities say

  20-02-2020 19:56 via sltrib.com
  
  A Utah teenager considered missing and endangered may be traveling to Oklahoma with a 36-year-old man — and the Utah Department of Public Safety is asking for the public’s help to find them.Aliyah Lyn Cutler, 17 — who authorities consider a runaway — may be with Mose Tim Murphy, according to police. And they may be traveling to Murphy's mother's home in Oklahoma.Cutler is white, 5-feet-2, 130 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. Murphy is white, 5-feet-6, 135 pounds wit
  
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• Red All Over: Utah basketball fans are getting restless with Larry Krystkowiak, at least in my mentions

  20-02-2020 19:55 via sltrib.com
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.It is late-February and there is fan angst happening all over college basketball.Some teams are on the bubble, others are off the bubble, still more are a good win or two away from being bubblicious. Teams are bad, others are middling, still more are careening towards one or the other. Somewhere within bad and middling, fans want the coach fired and they want him fired yesterday.Welcome to Salt Lake City, home of the Uni
  
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• Gordon Monson: BYU and its Honor Code are learning from schools such as Notre Dame and Baylor about how to open their arms to the future

  20-02-2020 19:53 via sltrib.com
  
  There are reasons to celebrate the recent changes to BYU’s Honor Code — specifically, the changes regarding “Homosexual Behavior” — that are the length of 10 football fields beyond sports. But those changes could have an important future impact on sports at the school.When BYU attempted to get into the Big 12 a few years ago, significant resistance cropped up that had little to do with the value and attractiveness of Cougars football, the size and reach of its fan b
  
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• Dean of Weber State’s College of Arts and Humanities leaving to lead a university in Rome

  20-02-2020 19:38 via sltrib.com
  
  The dean in charge of one of Weber State University’s larger divisions, the College of Arts and Humanities, is leaving for a job in Rome.Scott Sprenger, dean of the college since 2016, is leaving the Ogden campus to become president of the American University of Rome, the school in Italy announced Thursday. He starts his new job on July 1.Sprenger “had the demonstrated track record as an innovative, strategic leader, with the energy and vision that uniquely qualified him to lead us b
  
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• Red All Over: Some of the natives are getting restless with Larry Krystkowiak, at least in my mentions

  20-02-2020 19:36 via sltrib.com
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.It is late-February and there is fan angst happening all over college basketball.Some teams are on the bubble, others are off the bubble, still more are a good win or two away from being bubblicious. Teams are bad, others are middling, still more are careening towards one or the other. Somewhere within bad and middling, fans want the coach fired and they want him fired yesterday.Welcome to Salt Lake City, home of the Uni
  
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• [Deseret News] - Why the Elam Ending, which the NBA All-Star Game brought into the spotlight, would make the sport — at every level — better

  20-02-2020 19:13 via sportspyder.com
  
  The NBA tried a new rule during Sunday’s All-Star Game, adopting the so-called Elam Ending, which, to put it in its simplest terms, consists of one thing: The winner is decided by a predetermined point total — first one to reach that number wins.
  
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• New threats emerge in outbreak while China voices optimism

  20-02-2020 19:03 via sltrib.com
  
  Beijing • Chinese health officials expressed new optimism Thursday over a deadly virus outbreak while authorities in South Korea’s fourth-largest city urged residents to hunker down as fears nagged communities far from the illness’ epicenter.The confidence voiced by China's government came as it reported a reduced number of new infections. But doubts remained about the true trajectory of the epidemic as China again changed its method of counting and new threats emerged outside t
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Just stating the obvious; Jarrell Brantley looks too good for the G-League

  20-02-2020 18:56 via sportspyder.com
  
  Jarrell Brantley, a Two-Way player for the Utah Jazz, looks dominate as ever with the Salt Lake City Stars in the G-League. When does he get his NBA shot? ...
  
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• Wildlife managers investigate deaths of 3 Mexican wolves

  20-02-2020 18:12 via sltrib.com
  
  Albuquerque, N.M. • State and federal wildlife managers are investigating the death of three endangered Mexican gray wolves found last month in Arizona.Officials with the wolf recovery team did not release any details about the circumstances of the animals' deaths or the specific areas where they were found. One of the wolves was a female that belonged to the Saffel Pack. The other two were single females.Officials also reported that wolves were found to be responsible for seven livestock k
  
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• Utah Jazz: Just stating the obvious; Jarrell Brantley looks too good for the G-League

  20-02-2020 18:00
  
  Jarrell Brantley, a Two-Way player for the Utah Jazz, looks dominate as ever with the Salt Lake City Stars in the G-League. When does he get his NBA shot? One of the more intriguing prospects on the Utah Jazz roster is Jarrell Brantley. The 50th pick in the 2019 NBA Draft has the physical tools, […]
  Utah Jazz: Just stating the obvious; Jarrell Brantley looks too good for the G-League - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Trump names Richard Grenell as acting head of intelligence

  20-02-2020 17:50 via sltrib.com
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Wednesday named Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany who quickly antagonized the establishment after arriving in Berlin in 2018, to be the acting director of national intelligence overseeing the nation’s 17 spy agencies.By choosing Grenell, who has little experience in intelligence or in running a large bureaucracy, the president signaled that he wants a trusted, aggressive leader atop an intelligence community that he has long viewed with
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Rainy day funds for a recession, a handbook for all, a temple exhibit for kids

  20-02-2020 17:21 via sltrib.com
  
  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.Handier handbook
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  The church has released a new General Handbook.The new one-size-fits-all handbook is here.It replaces Handbook 1 (for stake presidents
  
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• Jana Riess: New LDS handbook softens some stances on sexuality, doubles down on transgender members, but bet on more changes

  20-02-2020 16:58 via sltrib.com
  
  A preliminary perusal of the 2020 General Handbook, released Wednesday and weighing in at 806 pages, reveals some areas where The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has apparently softened its approach on sexual issues, and others where it is taking a harder line.On the side of tempering its position, take surrogacy. The 2010 Handbook stated that “the church strongly discourages surrogate motherhood. If parents want a child who was born to a surrogate mother to be sealed to them,
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - The West keeps getting better, but the Utah Jazz remain legit contenders

  20-02-2020 16:50 via sportspyder.com
  
  While other Western Conference teams are loading up for a playoff run with key additions, the Utah Jazz have kept things intact, which shouldn't change the...
  
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• Mike Bloomberg returns to Utah after taking fire in tense debate

  20-02-2020 16:44 via sltrib.com
  
  On the heels of his debate-stage debut in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, former New York City mayor and billionaire presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg prepared to make his second appeal to Utah voters that they fill in the bubble next to his name on Super Tuesday.The event, held Thursday in downtown Salt Lake City, comes as the 77-year-old rises in the polls, despite his unconventional route to gain the Democratic nomination. But the candidate is also facing increased scrutiny over his comm
  
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• The West keeps getting better, but the Utah Jazz remain legit contenders

  20-02-2020 16:00
  
  While other Western Conference teams are loading up for a playoff run with key additions, the Utah Jazz have kept things intact, which shouldn’t change their contender status. Over the years, we have seen countless instances where a playoff team makes a huge upgrade(s) leading into the final stretch of the regular season. The trade […]
  The West keeps getting better, but the Utah Jazz remain legit contenders - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion an
  
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• Salt Lake City teachers plan walkout for increased funding

  20-02-2020 15:43 via sltrib.com
  
  Teachers in Salt Lake City are planning a walkout next week — a protest to apply pressure to the Utah State Legislature as it decides how much money it will allocate to the state’s education system.The Salt Lake Education Association, the city’s teachers’ union, is planning the walkout for Friday, Feb. 28, according to a post on the SLEA’s Facebook page.A rally is set for 1 p.m. at the Federal Building, 125 S. State St. Teachers will then walk up Capitol Hill to the
  
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• Committee kills eminent domain restrictions plan after UDOT warns of massive road cost increases

  20-02-2020 14:50 via sltrib.com
  
  A plan by Blanding Republican Rep. Phil Lyman to tighten rules for government takeover of private property through eminent domain — including barring its use for public parks, trails and bike paths or sporting facilities — was shot down at its first hearing Wednesday.HB261 was rejected by an 8-3 margin in the House Political Subdivisions Committee following opposition by the Utah League of Cities and Towns and the state Department of Transportation.UDOT was particularly critical of t
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I’m getting rid of tchotchkes, but don’t want to offend my friend

  20-02-2020 14:49 via sltrib.com
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • I received a gift that was a surprise. After befriending a friend’s mom, we communicated here and there. My mom is not around, and I enjoy the friendship of older people in my life. She and I do not live close to each other. Recently, she passed away and her daughter, my friend, gave me something that belonged to her mom. I had never seen it before, so it does not hold any memories for me. It is not something that I enjoy or want to display. In fact, we are trying to
  
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• Utah bill would impose a pre-abortion ultrasound requirement

  20-02-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Women in Utah would have to undergo an ultrasound as a prerequisite to an abortion under a bill unveiled Wednesday in the Legislature.Moreover, the physician or technician performing the ultrasound would have to describe “the presence and location of each unborn child in the uterus," display the images so that a woman can see them and make the fetal heartbeat audible to the woman, if possible, the legislation states.The bill, sponsored by freshman Rep. Steve Christiansen, stipulates that n
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Expensive insulin is costing some Utahns their lives, and one legislator may have a solution

  20-02-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  David Domgaard was born in Roosevelt, graduated from high school in Nevada and worked as a wildland firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management.He was also diabetic, and in 2015 went blind. His insulin was costing him $800 each month, his sister, Tiffany Warren, told a legislative committee recently, and he sold everything he owned to pay for it.Last month, he told a friend that he was stretching insulin but thought he had it under control. He died the next day. He was just 36.With insulin cos
  
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• Letter: We must learn from our mistakes

  20-02-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  What future good can come from Donald Trump? The angst prevalent in anti-Trumpers like me is ubiquitous as we see traditions crumble, like the Department of Justice tampering with sentencing of the guilty Roger Stone or a Medal of Freedom bestowed upon the racist homophobe Rush Limbaugh by a narcissist president trashing our democracy through attacks on our laws and values.This president’s power is strangling our democracy; he is destroying our country!We are out of balance between the exe
  
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• Letter: Replacement plan is not fair

  20-02-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Imagine an alternative world for a minute. Here’s the setup. Utah has two Republican senators in Washington, but the Utah Legislature is dominated by another party, let’s say, hmmm, Democrats.OK, now let’s say one of those Senate seats suddenly becomes vacant.Would it be fair that the Democratic-controlled Legislature is allowed to shortlist three candidates from which, by law, the governor must select our replacement senator? Isn’t it just possible that all three of thos
  
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• Letter: Porn labeling bill is a waste of time

  20-02-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  A bill in the Utah Legislature to label pornography circulating in the state, sponsored by Rep. Brady Brammer, R-Highland, is just another example of a waste of time, cockamamie idea that would have been more appropriate before the advent of the cellphone.(I thought I was the last of the dinosaurs when I traded in my flip-top cell for an iPhone.)Maybe Brammer is referring to the old days, when you could find a Playboy or Penthouse magazine in plain view at the Circle K. Does he not know that thi
  
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• Letter: Keep daylight saving time

  20-02-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Regarding the current measure before the state Legislature to do away with daylight saving time: Historically it was first proposed by Ben Franklin in 1784. It was implemented during World War I to conserve fuel, but abolished after the war.The Federal Uniform Time Act of 1966 established consistent time zones and daylight saving time, being amended in 1974, 1986 and 2005.The benefits of daylight saving time are increased daylight hours in the summer evenings, more time for recreation, shopping,
  
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• Letter: ERA coverage is ridiculous

  20-02-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune's coverage of the Equal Rights Amendment is just ridiculous.The amendment died in 1982. The U.S. Supreme Court has made that clear in cases regarding other proposed amendments because of the time limit set in the original amendment and then because of the extension. A reader would never know that based on your coverage.The Supreme Court will rule on all of this likely next summer, where I expect them to say, “You'll have to go back to square one if you want the ERA pa
  
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• Letter: A person was killed, too

  20-02-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Reading the paper recently I was filled with dismay to read about the police dog shot and killed during a police scuffle.But, hey, guys, there was also a man shot and killed. A human being. Where is the moment of pause, the bowing of the head? The acknowledgment of unspeakable horror?Mieke Schoenberg, MillcreekSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• [Franchise Sports] - The NBA MVP Award: Dark horses

  20-02-2020 09:37 via sportspyder.com
  
  Giannis Antetokounmpo is favourite to win a consecutive NBA MVP award. Luka Doncic and Pascal Siakam lead the chasing pack along with LeBron James.
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Utah takes on San Antonio, looks for 5th straight win

  20-02-2020 09:37 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah hosts San Antonio aiming to prolong its four-game win streak
  
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• Salt Lake City teachers planning Feb. 28 walkout to march to Utah State Capitol

  20-02-2020 06:52 via sltrib.com
  
  Teachers in Salt Lake City are planning a walkout next week — a protest to apply pressure to the Utah State Legislature as it decides how much money it will allocate to the state’s education system.The Salt Lake Education Association, the city’s teachers’ union, is planning the walkout for Friday, Feb. 28, according to a post on the SLEA’s Facebook page.A rally is set for 1 p.m. at the Federal Building, 125 S. State St. Teachers will then walk up Capitol Hill to the
  
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• Utah man found guilty of hate crimes in beating of Latino father and son

  20-02-2020 05:49 via sltrib.com
  
  A federal jury has found a Utah man guilty of three hate crimes for brutally beating a Latino father and his son outside their family tire shop while screaming that he was there to “kill Mexicans.”The verdict to convict Alan Dale Covington came after five hours of deliberation and five days of emotional testimony in the case that drew national attention when it first happened in November 2018. When the decision was read Wednesday, Jose Lopez, the owner of the tire shop, and his son,
  
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