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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 31: Spelling Bee contestant Nicholas Rushlow (L) of Pickerington, Ohio, celebrates with fellow competitors Mark De Los Santos (2nd R) of Arlington, Texas, and Vismaya Jui Kharkar (R) of Bountiful, Utah, after he correctly spelled his word during round 6 of the 84th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee competition May 31, 2012 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Nine spellers have advanced to compete in the final of the competition.
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To me, if you are Upton, you either react like John McCain in Arizona or maybe Orrin Hatch in Utah, and you just get out early and you spend money massively, and you just beat the crap out of your challenger
The real Big Three of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili will crush Utah. It won’t even be close.
I think it’s great to have Mitt Romney in town and the $50,000 lunch is just the kind of thing that will appeal to most Utah working familiesMore quotes »
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Bus driver taking kids to Disneyland arrested
alert police officer who boarded a bus full of recent Utah high school graduates headed to Disneyland averted what could have been a deadly road trip after arresting the driver for suspicion of being under the influence of drugs, authorities said Friday."There's Read more »
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Thomas: The news media's religion deficit
the opposite of the way he votes doesn't appear to concern him. Senator Orrin Hatch , also a Mormon, is running for re-election in Utah. Hatch is less scary to the media because he made friends with the late Senator Ted Kennedy with whom he occasionally cooperated Read more »
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Pouha donates $50K to alma mater
alum Sione Pouha and his wife Keiti have contributed $50,000 to the universitys Invest in Excellence campaign for the new Utah football complex.The alumni locker room of the center, which is scheduled to open for the 2013 season, will bear Pouhas name. A four-year Read more »
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Ariz. gov. vetoes bill that demanded federal land
-- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed legislation Monday that would have had the state join Utah in demanding that the federal government surrender control of millions of acres of public land.Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed similar states' rights legislation in Read more »
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Utah parks to celebrate May 20 eclipse
-- Some of southern Utah's national parks will offer programs for viewing an annular solar eclipse later this month.Rangers at Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Natural Bridges National Monument will offer activities for the May 20 eclipse.The full Read more »
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Why privatize education?
difficult prisoners are sent back to public confinement. Utah paid $6,356 to educate each public student in 2009 (http://www.utahfoundation.org/img/pdfs/rr700.pdf) . We have no proof this type of money could buy a better or worse private education, but we 3:01 AM from Salt Lake Tribune Read more »
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Marriage loop
with the state of Utah — yes, by interacting with Utah’s government. It’s not appropriate for churches to be involved with any Utah government matters, including marriage. If all citizens — irrespective of sexual orientation — obtained legal rights for their 3:01 AM from Salt Lake Tribune Read more »
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Polygamy policy
The county attorney there stated in the legal filing, "The purpose of this policy is to prevent the future prosecution in Utah County of bigamist marriages entered into for religious reasons." Again, absent any fraud or abuse, it makes sense for prosecutors 3:01 AM from Salt Lake Tribune Read more »
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Utah’s leaky budget bucket
Utah’s budget each year should involve carefully weighing all competing priorities for scarce resources. Unfortunately, this time-honored method of allocating state dollars among competing needs has been quietly undermined in recent years. Each step in the 3:01 AM from Salt Lake Tribune Read more »
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Gun and car regs
gun lobbies not only argue against sensible regulations, they seek fewer restrictions. Speaking of extreme measures, our 2012 Utah Legislature sought to enact a law telling people not to respond with alarm to an openly carried firearm. When elected officials 3:01 AM from Salt Lake Tribune Read more »
