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• University of Utah’s South Korea campus takes precautions against coronavirus spread

  24-02-2020 23:33
  
  All classes at the University of Utah’s campus in South Korea will be held online while the country faces a major outbreak of the coronavirus — and any students who may have been exposed to the illness are being asked to ‘self-quarantine’ in the dorms. The measures are, so far, precautionary. But they come as cases of the virus in South Korea skyrocketed over the weekend to more than 800 with at least seven deaths. The U.’s South Korea campus, located in Incheon, is
  
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• Katie Matheson: Gatekeepers at the Capitol stop popular bills

  24-02-2020 23:00
  
  There are gatekeepers at work in Utah’s government, working behind the scenes to make or break legislation. Some of the bills being held back by these gatekeepers are broadly supported by Utahns, but the guardians of conservative ideology on the Hill are keeping these bills from seeing the light of day and receiving a fair hearing in the public square.These gatekeepers — the House and Senate Rules Committees — are the funnel through which all bills must pass. And if they or maj
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Threes of the Week - 2.24.2

  24-02-2020 22:51 via sportspyder.com
  
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• Navajo Nation signs road maintenance agreement with San Juan County to improve rural bus routes

  24-02-2020 22:49
  Teec Nos Pos, Ariz. • Long school bus rides for Diné (Navajo) students in San Juan County may get a little smoother in the coming months thanks to an agreement signed Monday between county and tribal officials that partially resolved a rights of way dispute.Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez traveled to the Teec Nos Pos Chapter House just south of the Utah state line for a signing ceremony with the Navajo Department of Transportation (NDOT) and San Juan County officials that will p
  
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• Navajo, Hopi tribes turn to other heat sources after coal mine closure

  24-02-2020 22:36
  
  Polacca, Ariz. • Navajo and Hopi families in northeastern Arizona that have long relied on coal to heat their homes are looking to other sources after last year’s closure of a coal mine.The Kayenta Mine shut down after decades of supplying the Navajo Generating Station near Page along the Arizona-Utah border. The Navajo and Hopi tribes shared in the coal royalties.Tribal members also had access to the coal, regularly loading the long-burning fossil fuel into pickup trucks or buying it
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Woeful week drops team in power rankings

  24-02-2020 22:29 via sportspyder.com
  
  A woeful week that included lots of rest and two losses dropped the Utah Jazz in this week's power rankings across the country. What do they need to do in ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Woeful week drops team in power rankings

  24-02-2020 22:27
  
  A woeful week that included lots of rest and two losses dropped the Utah Jazz in this week’s power rankings across the country. What do they need to do in order to bounce back? In case you haven’t noticed, things have gone south for the Utah Jazz very quickly. A lot of fans on social […]
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• Utah lawmaker says his anti-protest bill is meant to promote ‘civility’

  24-02-2020 21:53
  
  Disrupting the Utah Legislature or other government meetings would quickly escalate from a slap on the wrist to up to six months’ jail time under a bill that was made public Friday.Sponsored by Sen. Don Ipson, R-St. George, SB173 makes it an infraction to intentionally cause a “minor" disruption at an official meeting — defined as “a single, loud outburst, absent other disruptive conduct, that does not exceed five seconds in length” — with more serious disrupt
  
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• The Hurd has come back to life at Utah State basketball games

  24-02-2020 21:32
  
  Logan • The coach of Air Force men’s basketball team was wearing dark suit pants at Utah State last month. Dave Pilipovich probably worn those same pants dozens of times. The legs were arguably a bit on the long side, appearing to slightly drag on the court as he paced up and down the sideline.All of a sudden, during the first half, a small contingent of Aggies fans noticed and let him know about it. It sounded faint at first, but then more fans joined in.“Hem those pants! Hem t
  
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• Poll: Most Utahns would oppose tighter abortion restrictions

  24-02-2020 21:28
  
  Newly released polling data suggests most Utahns are against tightening restrictions on abortion in the state, even as lawmakers consider measures aimed at virtually eliminating the procedure.Seventy percent of those surveyed initially said they either supported loosening the state’s abortion laws or leaving them the same, according to the statewide survey commissioned by Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, Alliance for a Better Utah and the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah. That
  
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• Report: Utah Utes’ Jaylon Johnson played through a torn labrum, will have surgery after NFL Combine

  24-02-2020 21:25
  
  The University of Utah’s highest-profile NFL prospect reportedly played most of his junior season with a torn right labrum.Jaylon Johnson, a 2019 All-American and two-time All-Pac-12 first-team cornerback, hurt his shoulder in September and played through the tear for the rest of the season, according to an NFL.com report on Monday. Johnson, currently a projected third-round pick by NFL.com, will go through the entire NFL Combine this week, then have surgery on March 4.Johnson’s on-f
  
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• Utah gymnasts’ reward after big win over UCLA: They fall behind the Bruins in the rankings

  24-02-2020 21:23
  
  The maddening thing about statistics in collegiate gymnastics is the numbers don’t always tell the story.Take this week, for instance. The Utes just beat UCLA on the Bruins’ home floor but instead of being ranked ahead of the Pac-12 foe, Utah is ranked No. 4 with a 197.2 average. That’s a spot behind the Bruins, who are in third with a 197.335 average. Last week, the teams were tied, so what gives?Welcome to the new set of rankings. Instead of going off season averages, in whic
  
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• Worried about coronavirus, the University of Utah’s South Korea campus is shifting to online classes and asking some to ‘self-quarantine’

  24-02-2020 21:01
  
  All classes at the University of Utah’s campus in South Korea will be held online while the country faces a major outbreak of the coronavirus — and any students who may have been exposed to the illness are being asked to ‘self-quarantine’ in the dorms. The measures are, so far, precautionary. But they come as cases of the virus in South Korea skyrocketed over the weekend to more than 800 with at least seven deaths. The U.’s South Korea campus, located in Incheon, is
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Salt City Seven: It’s the Defense, Did Utah Overcorrect Their Identity, Playoff Race & More

  24-02-2020 20:46 via sportspyder.com
  
  Check in every week for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that tell the stories from the last 168 hours in the world of the Jazz. They just havent been bothering people.
  
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• Tribes turn to other heat sources after coal mine closure

  24-02-2020 20:05
  
  Polacca, Ariz. • Navajo and Hopi families in northeastern Arizona that have long relied on coal to heat their homes are looking to other sources after last year’s closure of a coal mine.The Kayenta Mine shut down after decades of supplying the Navajo Generating Station near Page along the Arizona-Utah border. The Navajo and Hopi tribes shared in the coal royalties.Tribal members also had access to the coal, regularly loading the long-burning fossil fuel into pickup trucks or buying it
  
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• Kanye, out West. What is the superstar doing in Wyoming?

  24-02-2020 20:00
  
  Cody, Wyo. • It’s surprising that a global celebrity who frequently self-identifies as the greatest artist living or dead has become an everyday presence in a tightly connected town of about 10,000 people. It’s more surprising just how much the town’s leaders want him to stay.There Kanye West is at the McDonald’s, the Best Western and the Boot Barn. He hangs out at the Cody Steakhouse on the main drag, where he met one of his intern videographers, a student at Cody H
  
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• Los Angeles honors Kobe, Gianna Bryant with public memorial

  24-02-2020 19:41
  
  Los Angeles • Mourners gathered Monday in downtown Los Angeles to say farewell to Kobe and Gianna Bryant, hours before a sold-out memorial service for the basketball superstar and his 13-year-old daughter was scheduled to start.The service was to take place at the Staples Center, the arena where Bryant played for the Los Angeles Lakers for two decades. The two were among nine people killed in a Jan. 26 helicopter crash.Among the early arriving fans was Alyssa Shapiro, 27, of Huntington Beac
  
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• Pope Francis OKs beatification for Salvadoran martyr

  24-02-2020 19:37
  
  Vatican City • Pope Francis has moved the Rev. Rutilio Grande, a Jesuit priest who inspired St. Oscar Romero and was himself a victim of El Salvador’s right-wing death squads, a step closer to possible sainthood.Francis approved a decree Friday proclaiming Grande a martyr for the Catholic faith, as well as two Salvadorans who were killed along with him. That means they can be beatified without having to have a miracle attributed to his intercession. A miracle is necessary for canoniza
  
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• Utah lawmakers advance yurt deregulation bill

  24-02-2020 19:28
  
  After stumbling during its first public hearing last week, a somewhat watered-down yurt deregulation bill passed through a legislative committee Monday and is headed to the House floor for further consideration.HB297, proposed by Rep. Brady Brammer, R-Pleasant Grove, exempts from the state construction code, fire code and water-quality provisions remote yurts built on unincorporated county land that isn’t zoned for residential, commercial, industrial or agricultural use.The amended bill na
  
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• Jana Riess: Polygamy, politics and frontier justice — Why Mormon Nauvoo still matters

  24-02-2020 19:25
  
  Historian Benjamin Park, an assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University, has written a compelling and accessible history of Mormonism in the 1840s. “Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier” comes out Tuesday from W. W. Norton’s Liveright imprint, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to better understand Joseph Smith, polygamy, politics and how profoundly this chapter of Mormon history affected everything that came
  
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• [THE SPORTSRUSH] - UTA vs PHX Dream11 Prediction : Utah Jazz Vs Phoenix Suns Best Dream 11 Team for NBA 2019-20 Match

  24-02-2020 18:51 via sportspyder.com
  
  UTA Vs PHX Dream11 Team Overview, Match Centre And Probable Playing 5: Resurgent Phoenix Suns stand in the way of Utah Jazz today.  
  
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• BYU now No. 17 in the AP Poll after beating Gonzaga

  24-02-2020 18:33
  
  Provo • The regular season may be one week away from wrapping up, but BYU is still just getting started. The Cougars are not just NCAA Tournament bound for the first time since 2015, but the team is a dark horse as a Sweet 16 or Final Four contender, some bracketologists are arguing.After upsetting Gonzaga 91-78 on Saturday, BYU found itself bumped up from last week’s No. 23 ranking to No. 17. In turn, the Zags got knocked down from their previous No. 2 ranking to No. 3 in the latest
  
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• Harvey Weinstein found guilty on two charges in landmark #MeToo moment

  24-02-2020 18:09
  
  New York • Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday at his sexual assault trial, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement.He was found guilty of criminal sex act for assaulting production assistant Mimi Haleyi at his apartment in 2006 and third-degree rape of a woman in 2013. The jury found him not guilty on the most serious charge, predatory sexual assault, that could have resulted in a life sentence.The verdict followed weeks of ofte
  
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• Harvey Weinstein found guilty in landmark #MeToo moment

  24-02-2020 17:58
  
  New York • Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday at his sexual assault trial, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement.He was found guilty of criminal sex act for assaulting production assistant Mimi Haleyi at his apartment in 2006 and third-degree rape of a woman in 2013. The jury found him not guilty on the most serious charge, predatory sexual assault, that could have resulted in a life sentence.The verdict followed weeks of ofte
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Jazz vs. Suns odds, line, spread: 2020 NBA picks, Feb. 24 predictions from advanced computer model - CBSSports.com

  24-02-2020 17:55 via sportspyder.com
  
  The SportsLine Projection Model has a pick for the clash between the Suns and Jazz.
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Game thread: Utah Jazz face lottery-bound Phoenix Suns

  24-02-2020 17:51 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz host the Phoenix Suns tonight in an effort to stop the cold spell coming out of the All-Star break. They'll get a good opportunity to take ca...
  
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• Westwater, a Navajo community in rural Utah, might finally get running water and electricity

  24-02-2020 17:38
  
  Westwater • When San Juan County updated its general plan in 2018, it included an official annexation map prepared by Blanding that indicated land the city was hoping to incorporate at a future date.The proposed annexation wrapped to the west of the city in a horseshoe shape, enveloping the Blanding City Reservoir that supplies municipal water to residents, but avoiding the 120-acre community of Westwater — a dirt road lined with roughly two dozen homes along a high ridge that overloo
  
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• Utah Utes’ Rylan Jones is willing to take a charge, but that led to an injury against USC

  24-02-2020 17:32
  
  Rylan Jones, probably more so than anyone else on the Utes men’s basketball team, is willing to step into traffic, give up his body, and get crushed by an oncoming offensive player.And coach Larry Krystkowiak isn’t about to ask his freshman point guard to stop drawing charges.On first glance, Jones doesn’t look like a fearsome defensive player, but he’s been exactly that for the Utes, who earned a weekend split of the Los Angeles schools thanks to a 79-65 win over USC on
  
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• Utah WWII veteran turns 100 with memories of her war service

  24-02-2020 17:25
  
  Provo • A veteran turning 100 in Utah has recalled her service in World War II working as an engineer and in confidential communications, which gave her access to one of the war’s final secrets.Olive O’Mara was 21 years old when Japanese planes attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, The Daily Herald reported Friday.At the time, the coal-miner’s daughter was a school teacher living in the small town of Scottdale, Pennsylvania, 45 miles southeast of Pittsburgh
  
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• Game thread: Utah Jazz face lottery-bound Phoenix Suns

  24-02-2020 17:24
  
  The Utah Jazz host the Phoenix Suns tonight in an effort to stop the cold spell coming out of the All-Star break. They’ll get a good opportunity to take care of business against the lottery-bound Phoenix Suns. The Utah Jazz are one of the coldest teams in the league right now, and that’s not an […]
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• Trump’s India visit prioritizes pageantry over policy

  24-02-2020 17:19
  
  Ahmedabad, India • Prioritizing pageantry over policy, President Donald Trump basked in India’s welcoming embrace on a day that featured a mega-rally with cheering crowds, a mutual admiration show with his counterpart and a sunset tour of the famed Taj Mahal.Trump used Day One of his whirlwind 36-hour visit to India to reaffirm close ties with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and tease progress on a trade deal down the road. But the day was largely devoted to a trio of enviable photo-ops:
  
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• Virus pushes beyond Asia, taking aim at Europe, Mideast

  24-02-2020 17:08
  
  Seoul, South Korea • The new virus took aim at a broadening swath of the globe Monday, with officials in Europe and the Middle East scrambling to limit the spread of an outbreak that showed signs of stabilizing at its Chinese epicenter but posed new threats far beyond.In Italy, authorities set up roadblocks, called off soccer matches and shuttered sites including the famed La Scala opera house. In Iran, a report of dozens of deaths in a single city emerged as infections were reported to hav
  
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• [CBS Sports] - How to watch Jazz vs. Suns: Live stream, TV channel, start time for Monday's NBA game - CBSSports.com

  24-02-2020 16:08 via sportspyder.com
  
  How to watch Jazz vs. Suns basketball game
  
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• Utah 5-year-old dies after being hit by a car while he was riding a scooter

  24-02-2020 15:46
  
  A 5-year-old boy died after he was run over by a car while he was riding a scooter Sunday in Millcreek.The boy was with his brother sometime after sunset on Neffs Lane, about 3600 South near 2300 East, FOX 13 reported. He was riding a scooter, while his brother rode a bicycle, Unified Police said.A neighbor was driving on the road and spotted the boy on the bike — but not the one on the scooter, police said.“He was run over and he was killed,” UPD Lt. Mike Schoenfeld told FOX 1
  
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• Utah woman dies in fire

  24-02-2020 15:30
  
  A woman died in a weekend fire at her Roy house, fire crews said.The fire broke out early Sunday near 2875 West and 4975 South, FOX 13 reported. It took fire crews hours to stabilize the building and find the woman, whose body was toward the back of the home, firefighters said. She lived alone and had four cats, which haven’t been found.Fire officials hadn’t released the woman’s name as of Sunday.The Tribune will update this story.See more at FOX 13.Editor’s note: The Sal
  
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• A Navajo community just outside of Blanding, is on track to finally get running water and electricity

  24-02-2020 15:00
  
  Westwater • When San Juan County updated its general plan in 2018, it included an official annexation map prepared by Blanding that indicated land the city was hoping to incorporate at a future date.The proposed annexation wrapped to the west of the city in a horseshoe shape, enveloping the Blanding City Reservoir that supplies municipal water to residents, but avoiding the 120-acre community of Westwater — a dirt road lined with roughly two dozen homes along a high ridge that overloo
  
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• Reid Ewing: Questionable donations should not derail Olympia Hills approval

  24-02-2020 14:58
  
  I teach land use and transportation planning in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. I have not had any involvement with the Olympia Hills development, but have watched the debate over Olympia Hills from a distance, reading periodic articles in The Salt Lake Tribune.I have not studied this development from a professional standpoint, but have seen it compared to Daybreak (one of the finest examples of master planned communities in the U.S.). It is smaller an
  
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• Paul Krugman: Bernie Sanders is not the Trump of the left

  24-02-2020 14:58
  
  Look, I know the primaries aren’t over, and it’s still possible that Democratic centrists will get their act together. But Bernie Sanders is now the clear favorite for the Democratic nomination. There are many things to say about that, but the most important is that he is NOT a left-leaning version of President Donald Trump. Even if you disagree with his ideas, he’s not a wannabe authoritarian ruler.America under a Sanders presidency would still be America, both because Sanders
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Jazz vs. Suns: How to watch live stream, TV channel, NBA start time - CBSSports.com

  24-02-2020 14:28 via sportspyder.com
  
  How to watch Jazz vs. Suns basketball game
  
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• One Utah senator’s votes align more with President Trump. It’s not Mike Lee.

  24-02-2020 14:20
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump knows there’s one Utah senator whose vote he can’t always count on.“Whenever I sign bills — you know, we do sign a lot of legislation that’s big and ... powerful,” Trump said earlier this month. “Everybody has to approve it. And I see [a] 99 to one [vote]. I say, ‘Don’t tell me who’s the one.’”Because Trump already knows.It's Mike Lee.While Trump is angry at Sen. Mitt Romney over his
  
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• Utah’s attorney general is fighting Salt Lake County over efforts to review cases where convicts say they are innocent

  24-02-2020 14:00
  
  In the room are heavy-hitters in Utah’s legal world: There’s former Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Christine Durham and retired 3rd District Judge Judith Atherton. Longtime Utah defense attorney Gil Athay sits at one end of the table, with former federal prosecutor David Schwendiman next to him.This is the team tapped to create Salt Lake County’s conviction integrity unit, a panel that reviews the cases of people who say they are innocent despite being found guilty in court.T
  
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• Robert Gehrke: It’s not that legislators don’t hear voters, it’s that they don’t care

  24-02-2020 14:00
  
  Republican legislators have decided to tinker with the 2018 Better Boundaries ballot initiative, but perhaps “gut” is a more accurate term.The aim of the initiative is to create a nonpartisan commission to make nonbinding recommendations to the Legislature as to what boundaries would make for the most representative legislative and congressional districts, from a partisan basis and a racial standpoint.As you’ll recall, it is the third time the Legislature has rewritten voter in
  
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• Letter: Who does this remind you of?

  24-02-2020 14:00
  
  I’ve been reading a biography of Napoleon and came across a passage that brought to mind a certain American president:“So great was Napoleon’s megalomania, and so vast his actual power, that he no longer cared what other countries might think about any of his actions.”At this point we can only hope that the Greeks were right about hubris.Michael Sikora, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Trump down the path of demagoguery

  24-02-2020 14:00
  
  “I’m actually, I guess, the chief law enforcement officer of the country. But I’ve chosen not to be involved.”So said Donald Trump after he pardoned friends and campaign contributors, blasted prosecutors, verbally attacked a federal judge and tweeted for a more lenient sentence.Hel-lo? Anybody home in the Republican Party? Mitch and his minions had to know that their vote would catapult Trump further down his path of demagoguery and autocracy.I am anxious to see how the c
  
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• Letter: Help Rep. Curtis face climate change

  24-02-2020 14:00
  
  When was the last time you talked with your congressional representatives about climate change? If you’re like most people, you never have. Yet the decisions members of Congress are making will affect our lives, the lives of our children, and future generations.If you happen to live in Rep. John Curtis’ district, you are fortunate. He has made it very easy to engage with him about climate. Three weeks ago he began giving two-minute “Climate Chats” on Facebook and Twitter
  
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• Letter: Grant money has been squandered on foolish studies

  24-02-2020 14:00
  
  The Seven County Infrastructure Coalition (SCIC) was created to help the counties of eastern Utah get complicated projects done. At least that was how it was framed.Instead, the SCIC is taking money away from our rural towns and counties and accomplishing very little. The SCIC has been funded almost exclusively by $34 million in Community Impact Board grants. This money would otherwise go directly to our rural communities for fire stations, road work, libraries, and water projects.Instead, the S
  
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• Letter: Forcing young women into marriage is a crime

  24-02-2020 14:00
  
  Lindsay Hansen Park disputes anti-polygamist activist Angela Kelly’s contention that polygamy is like slavery. That the use of the term disparages black people and Park apparently feels its use by Kelly borders on racism.State Sen. Deidre Henderson is pushing SB102 through the Utah Legislature to what she contends should be lowering the criminality of polygamy to some type of misdemeanor — possibly ranking just below a lesser traffic ticket.If the word slavery is so offensive, perhap
  
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• Letter: Democrats recognize climate change

  24-02-2020 14:00
  
  At the most recent Democratic debate there was a full half-hour discussion of climate change, which Joe Biden described as “an existential crisis” — which, according to the global scientific community, it is.On their respective websites, all six candidates go into detail regarding what they would do about this crisis, which may well affect future generations even more than it will themselves or the rest of us.In contrast, the current president of the United States says nothing
  
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• Amid hog farm controversies, petition drive and lawsuit, Utah legislator abandons bill to preempt county restrictions

  24-02-2020 14:00
  
  When a developer came to the Millard County Commission in November with a proposal to build seven farms with as many as 30,800 pigs total in an area 9 miles west of the town of Hinckley, residents in the central Utah community came out in droves to oppose the idea.During a three-hour public hearing, they raised concerns about water contamination, odors and decreased property values as a result of the project. And the three-member county commission heard them loud and clear, voting unanimously th
  
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• Trump says he was not told that Russia was helping Sanders

  24-02-2020 05:32
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has never been briefed about Russian efforts to help Bernie Sanders win the Democratic presidential nomination and he accused the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee of leaking election security information from a classified briefing.Sanders acknowledged on Friday that he was briefed last month by U.S. officials about Russian efforts to boost his chances to be the nominee against Trump in November.“I read wher
  
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