Snelgrove ice cream brand to melt away
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The once-popular Snelgrove Ice Cream brand will be melting away over the next few weeks.
Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, which acquired the Snelgrove operations and brand in 1989, said this week that it will stop producing Snelgrove-brand products, and consumers likely have only until March or [...]
Boylen silent on freethrow disparity
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PROVO With a couple of dozen media types huddled around him, Jim Boylen didn’t answer the first question in the post-game press conference about whether anything stood out to him as the difference in the game.
Boylen looked down and didn’t say a word for nearly [...]
All quiet on the Jazz trade front
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The NBA’s trading deadline is at 1 p.m. MST today.
Most swap ideas heat up as the deadline approaches, but as of Wednesday, some Utah Jazz players and coach Jerry Sloan didn’t seem to have any inkling of anything going on.
Of course, that’s [...]
Cougars still safe at home
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PROVO One way or another, it figured to be a historic night at the Marriott Center.
Either BYU was going to extend its homecourt winning streak, and its overall winning streak, or Utah was going to snap both simultaneously before a crowd of 19,460.
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Buttars says hell run for reelection in November
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Sen. Chris Buttars said Monday he’s running for re-election in November and hopes to persuade the NAACP to withdraw its call for his resignation once he explains why his references to a bill as black, dark and ugly weren’t racist.
“I’m not resigning. I never intended [...]
Buttars skips NAACP meeting
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An embattled state senator says he’s being unfairly characterized as “the bad guy” and as unwilling to meet with the NAACP after negatively using the word black to describe a bill.
“I reached out to them, I said I’d like to meet with them,” Sen. Chris [...]
Softer on immigration Poll shows Utahns are split on giving instate tuition rates to undocumented
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It appears Utahns are softening up on a get-tough approach to immigration.
Just last month, 63 percent favored repealing a law that gives in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants at Utah’s public colleges and universities. But a new poll shows that now Utahns are pretty evenly split on the [...]
Public education health care will benefit most from budget surplus Gov. says
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Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. said Thursday that Utah can still meet the budget needs of public education despite a shortfall in state revenue growth but there won’t be another tax cut this year.
“We have to remember that we’re still looking at a $775 million surplus,” Huntsman said during [...]
New legislation addresses incorporation of new towns.
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New legislation could stop developers from rushing to incorporate new towns.
But the two bills will do little to quell the concerns of residents of the proposed town of Powder Mountain.
Both HB164 and SB25 will not retroactively fix the problems created by the [...]
Salt Lake City chief says quake again shows need for new building
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Thursday’s earthquake didn’t hit Salt Lake City with near the same intensity as Wells, Nev., but it still gave some a bit of a scare, especially those in the city’s public safety building.
A couple of dozen people voluntarily evacuated from Salt Lake police headquarters, on [...]
