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• There are fewer young children in Utah than a decade ago

  03-06-2023 23:44
  
  This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commitment to identify solutions to Utah’s biggest challenges through the work of the Innovation Lab.Utah is the youngest state in the country by more than four years, but it’s getting older, according to U.S. Census data released last month.That data, which the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute analyzed, also shows Utahns are more diverse than they were in 2010 and that households are getting smaller.Here’s a look at th
  
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• Utah Pride Festival to reopen after severe weather

  03-06-2023 23:02
  
  Utah’s annual Pride Festival is expected to reopen to the public shortly after it was evacuated due to severe weather, Salt Lake City police said in a tweet Saturday afternoon.The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Salt Lake City, Millcreek and Taylorsville until 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, with hail and a tornado possible. Organizers allowed vendors to return at around 2:40 p.m. Saturday, and police estimated the public could return soon after.Utah Pride Center s
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Jimmy Butler on Nikola Jokic. He's elite on the defensive end too

  03-06-2023 22:32 via sportspyder.com
  Ryan Blackburn: Jimmy Butler on Nikola Jokić: “As much as everybody looks at what he does on the offensive end of the ball, he’s elite on the defensive end too.” Cited Jokić moving his feet well at…
  
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• [NBA Analysis Network] - Pacers, Jazz Linked To Lakers’ Austin Reaves

  03-06-2023 22:31 via sportspyder.com
  Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves is set to reach NBA free agency this summer. The Indiana Pacers and Utah Jazz are linked.
  
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• [Larry Brown Sports] - Nikola Jokic and Walker Kessler have funny NBA Finals interaction

  03-06-2023 22:30 via sportspyder.com
  Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic got an unexpected question from a fellow player during his media availability for Game 2 of the NBA Finals. Jokic had a
  
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• Utah Pride Festival temporarily evacuated due to severe weather

  03-06-2023 22:16
  
  Utah’s annual Pride Festival has been postponed due to severe weather, Salt Lake City Police said in a tweet Saturday afternoon.The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Salt Lake City, Millcreek and Taylorsville until 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, with hail and a tornado possible. A spokesperson for Salt Lake City Police said the Utah Pride Center evacuated the event due to the potential of severe weather.The Utah Pride Festival runs from June 1 to June 4.Utah Pride C
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Collin Sexton releases new docuseries covering his time with the Utah Jazz

  03-06-2023 22:13 via sportspyder.com
  The new docuseries documents Collin Sexton’s journey from injury and his time with the Utah Jazz
  
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• Utah Pride Festival evacuated due to severe weather

  03-06-2023 21:30
  
  Utah’s annual Pride Festival has been postponed due to severe weather, Salt Lake City Police said in a tweet Saturday afternoon.The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Salt Lake City, Millcreek and Taylorsville until 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, with hail and a tornado possible. A spokesperson for Salt Lake City Police said the Utah Pride Center evacuated the event due to the potential of severe weather.The Utah Pride Festival runs from June 1 to June 4.The chance o
  
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• Downtown fire in vacant building causes evacuations from nearby apartments

  03-06-2023 21:06
  
  A fire that broke out in a building downtown Friday night caused evacuations at an adjacent apartment building.Firefighters responded to a report of a fire in a vacant three-story commercial building on 220 S 200 E at about 11:20 p.m. Friday, Salt Lake City Fire Captain Sean Mumedy said. Since the structure was empty, fire crews used a defensive attack against the blaze, which means they do not send firefighters into the structure.Now, crews are working to ensure the structure doesn’t coll
  
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• Is the Book of Mormon’s sexual and physical violence enough to be banned?

  03-06-2023 19:33
  
  If the Bible needed to be banned from a number of Davis County elementary and middle schools for its passages on violence and sex, why not the scripture sacred to members of Utah’s predominant faith?After all, the Book of Mormon, the signature text of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also has troubling scenes that could be considered “pornographic” or “indecent” under the Utah Legislature’s definition.And now someone has done just that, request
  
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• Is Book of Mormon’s sexual and physical violence enough to be banned?

  03-06-2023 19:28
  
  If the Bible needed to be banned from a number of Davis County elementary and middle schools for its passages on violence and sex, why not the scripture sacred to members of Utah’s predominant faith?After all, the Book of Mormon, the signature text of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also has troubling scenes that could be considered “pornographic” or “indecent” under the Utah Legislature’s definition.And now someone has done just that, request
  
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• Popular LDS lunch spot reopens in downtown Salt Lake City

  03-06-2023 16:40
  
  There’s good news for downtown Salt Lake City’s workday lunch crowds: A popular spot, especially for Latter-day Saints, has reopened where they can wolf down their sandwiches, chips, cookies and sodas.Part of the revamped plaza south of the Church Office Building is now welcoming back visitors.It will be open every day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced in a recent news release, and can be accessed from the west side of State Street or a
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - 11 Free agents Utah Jazz must resist overpaying this summer

  03-06-2023 16:21 via sportspyder.com
  Entering year 2 of the rebuild and the first official offseason of it, this will be an important few months for the Utah Jazz. The team's future won
  
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• Eli McCann: My parents planted in me a can-do spirit. And I have the pickles to prove it.

  03-06-2023 16:06
  
  My great-grandmother’s basement was filled with dusty Ball brand jars of liquids in muted colors with floating vegetables or fruits suspended inside.The year “1991″ was scribbled across the caps in black ink, signifying these delicacies from her backyard garden had been preserved several years ago before being relegated to her musty storage room in the Salt Lake City home my great-grandfather built with his bare hands in the late 1950s.“We have a lot to learn from grandma
  
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• 11 Free agents Utah Jazz must resist overpaying this summer

  03-06-2023 16:00
  
  Entering year 2 of the rebuild and the first official offseason of it, this will be an important few months for the Utah Jazz. The team’s future won’t be made or broken by any one move that they make this offseason, but at the same time, all it takes is one bad move to cripple […]
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• Utah is the youngest state, but it’s getting older

  03-06-2023 15:11
  
  This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commitment to identify solutions to Utah’s biggest challenges through the work of the Innovation Lab.Utah is the youngest state in the country by more than four years, but it’s getting older, according to U.S. Census data released last month.That data, which the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute analyzed, also shows Utahns are more diverse than they were in 2010 and that households are getting smaller.Here’s a look at th
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Jazz offseason primer: Lauri Markkanen extension, cap space, draft picks, more

  03-06-2023 14:57 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz will continue to accumulate assets while they focus on drafting the right talent and developing their youth.
  
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• ‘We’re hurting’: Sugar House businesses call on city to offer more support during construction

  03-06-2023 14:00
  
  Some local business owners in Sugar House say they’re struggling amid road construction on Highland Drive and think the city needs to do more to mitigate their losses.Greg Gage, owner of Black Cat Comics at 2261 S. Highland Drive, said that the street “has been just a mess” by the shopping center where Black Cat is located, near the Cinemark movie theater, Target, Michaels and other shops and restaurants.The business owner said he received a $3,000 Small Business Construction M
  
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• Permit now required to float Glen Canyon Reach around Horseshoe Bend

  03-06-2023 14:00
  
  They say you have to start somewhere.For many boaters floating the Colorado River in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, that jumping off point is a place: the Glen Canyon Reach. And for the managers of that 16-mile stretch through northern Arizona to Lees Ferry, it’s a date: June 1.For the first time in the 50 years that Glen Canyon has been a national park, park managers are making an effort to empirically measure how many and what kind of users are traveling through one of its mos
  
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• No one knows how many LGBTQ Americans die by suicide

  03-06-2023 14:00
  
  Cory Russo, the chief death investigator in Utah, is used to asking strangers questions at the most excruciating moments of their lives. When she shows up at the scene of a suicide, a homicide or another type of unexpected death, her job is to interview the grievers about how the deceased had lived.How old were they? What was their race? Did they have a job? Had they ever been hospitalized for psychiatric issues? How had they been feeling that morning?Over the past couple of years, she has added
  
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• Just how graphic is the physical and sexual violence in the Book of Mormon?

  03-06-2023 14:00
  
  If the Bible needed to be banned from a number of Davis County elementary and middle schools for its passages on violence and sex, why not the scripture sacred to members of Utah’s predominant faith?After all, the Book of Mormon, the signature text of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also has troubling scenes that could be considered “pornographic” or “indecent” under the Utah Legislature’s definition.And now someone has done just that, request
  
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• How heritage breeds could rescue ranching

  03-06-2023 14:00
  
  Ranching has a problem. Specifically, ranching on the Colorado Plateau: the region was identified by the Guardian in 2022 as a hotspot for climate change, meaning its temperatures are rising even faster than those across the U.S. The heat brings with it increased aridity, plant die-offs and accelerating erosion.“We have a shorter cool season than we used to,” said Matthew Redd, who helms the Dugout Ranch in Indian Creek. He said the area is now warm for three extra months each year,
  
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• George Kevin Watt: Former LDS missionary appalled by traumatic experiences of refugee children at the U.S. border

  03-06-2023 13:48
  
  During the London blitz of 1939 the British government inaugurated “Operation Pied Piper,” a wartime policy that evacuated almost 700,000 children from London and sent them to the English countryside, while their parents stayed in London to support the war effort. The evacuated children were billeted with friends, relatives and friendly volunteers. They were well-fed, housed and cared for, but unexpected consequences attended their plight. Pulitzer Prize winning author Deborah Blum r
  
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• Utah softball team’s ‘fantastic year’ ends with two losses at Women’s College World Series

  03-06-2023 07:27
  
  The tears started flowing just a few words into their answers. The Utah Utes softball team was minutes removed from unceremoniously being eliminated from the NCAA Women’s College World Series, and the emotional toll of a historic season coming to a grinding halt was simmering just below the surface of coach Amy Hogue and senior Hayley Denning.As Hogue began her opening statement of the postgame news conference, she kept having to look away from Denning and graduate Ellessa Bonstrom. With a
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Salt Lake City Stars hire former Marquette coach Steve Wojciechowski as head coach

  03-06-2023 06:36 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz continue till fill the roles of their different coaching openings
  
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• Utah Utes softball bows out of College World Series

  03-06-2023 05:32
  
  The roaring flame with which the Utah Utes softball team entered the NCAA Women’s College World Series was quickly extinguished with back-to-back losses Friday.After losing to Washington earlier in the day, the Utes suffered a run-rule 8-0 blowout loss to Oklahoma State, ending their World Series run as quickly as it began. Utah hadn’t reached the highest stage of postseason softball since 1994.Utah was originally scheduled to face Washington on Thursday evening. But weather delays f
  
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• [ClutchPoints] - 3 best Payton Pritchard trade destinations for disgruntled Celtics guard

  03-06-2023 04:13 via sportspyder.com
  After requesting a trade from the Celtics, these 3 teams may stand to benefit from acquiring Payton Pritchard.
  
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• UTA pulls bus with pride livery from annual Pride Parade

  03-06-2023 03:37
  
  A Utah Transit Authority bus with pride livery will no longer appear in Sunday’s annual Pride Parade, a spokesperson with the transit agency confirmed Friday.UTA spokesperson Carl Arky said Friday that “the decision was made” to instead showcase one of the authority’s 20 new Gillig Electric buses in the parade. “They’ve become pretty much the flagship of our fleets,” Arky said of the UTA Gillig buses. “They wanted to emphasize the clean energy vehi
  
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• Judge orders lawyers in Kouri Richins cases to limit what they say to press

  03-06-2023 02:46
  
  A judge ruled Friday that lawyers in separate criminal and civil cases related to the 2022 death of Eric Richins — who prosecutors say was fatally drugged by his wife — are limited in what they can say to the press.Eric Richins’ wife, Kouri Richins, was charged with murder on May 8 in connection with her husband’s death. There is also an ongoing probate case over Eric Richins’ estate, as well as a separate civil dispute over his trust and an ongoing child custody ca
  
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• Utah lawmaker who wrote law that led to school district Bible ban now wants ‘all instructional materials’ reviewed

  03-06-2023 01:50
  
  After previously calling a parent’s challenge of the Bible a “mockery” and a political stunt, the Utah legislator who wrote the law the parent used to request its removal now says he agrees with a district’s decision to ban the religious text from elementary and middle schools.In a public statement reversing course that was posted to his Facebook page Thursday night, Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, said the book is a “challenging read” for younger kids. And he
  
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• [Deseret News] - Steve Wojciechowski named head coach of Salt Lake City Stars

  03-06-2023 01:21 via sportspyder.com
  Former Duke Blue Devils guard and Marquette Golden Eagles head coach Steve Wojciechowski was named head coach of the Salt Lake City Stars, the Utah Jazz NBA G League affiliate, on Friday
  
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• Utah lawmaker who wrote law that led to Bible ban in some schools now wants ‘all instructional materials’ reviewed

  03-06-2023 01:08
  
  After previously calling a parent’s challenge of the Bible a “mockery” and a political stunt, the Utah legislator who wrote the law the parent used to request its removal now says he agrees with a district’s decision to ban the religious text from elementary and middle schools.In a public statement reversing course that was posted to his Facebook page Thursday night, Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, said the book is a “challenging read” for younger kids. And he
  
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• LoveLoud Festival is coming back and hitting the road in 2023

  03-06-2023 00:07
  
  The LoveLoud Festival is returning to Utah — but not for Pride Month, and with a promise that the festival that celebrates LGBTQ+ youth and teens, will go on the road.The LoveLoud Foundation and Vivint Arena announced Friday — the first Friday of Pride Month — that the fifth edition of the festival will happen at the Delta Center on Friday, Nov. 3. The Delta Center is the once and future name for The Viv; the name change becomes official on July 1, though new signage has alread
  
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• [NBA] - Utah Jazz Mailbag | JP Chunga And Ryan Kostecka Answer Your Questions

  03-06-2023 00:04 via sportspyder.com
  Do you feel good about getting the No. 9 pick? Wish Utah wouldve lost more games for a better pick? Who should the Jazz draft? How does management feel heading into the offseason?
  
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