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Deep Roots Harvest is ready to open its doors after receiving final approval from Nevada’s Department of Taxation.
West Wendover Mayor Daniel Corona told FOX 13 he has welcomed Deep Roots to the community, predicting an economic boom for the area.
Being the first dispensary to open in West Wendover also makes Deep Roots Harvest the closest marijuana dispensary to Utah — just 90 minutes west — but don’t be tempted to bring your purchases back across the border. It’s illegal to transport marijuana across state lines, and recreational cannabis use is still illegal in Utah.
The Utah Highway Patrol told FOX 13 it doesn’t plan to implement any special enforcement along Interstate 80, but it will be monitoring drivers for signs of impairment, as it does with alcohol.
2:00 PM Sunday, December 29, 2019
Over salting driveways and sidewalks is a common problem according to the city of New Hope.
City staff are promoting the Salt Smart program designed to educate residents and businesses to use less salt.
Megan Hedstrom with the New Hope Public Works said if you see clumps of salt sitting in driveways, there’s probably too much.
She added that melting snow and ice can carry salt into storm drains that flow into bodies of water.
“One teaspoon of salt permanently can contaminate five gallons of water. So, it takes a very small amount of salt to go a very long way. Once there’s salt in a water body, it’s nearly impossible to get that out without a very expensive process to treat the water on the tail end,” explained Hedstrom.
Tips to reduce salt use include sweep and reuse excess salt, shovel early and often, and salt sparingly.
Utah’s dining scene is always evolving.
In 2019, it welcomed dozens of new restaurants and food trucks while also saying goodbye to several longtime favorites. And two iconic eateries — The Five Alls and Robintino’s — were gone but are in the process of being resurrected.
Here’s an alphabetical list of some notable restaurant closures of the past 12 months.
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(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) LaDonnia Jones, center, and her employees Sophi Jefferson and Chloe Crandall, right,... (Danny Chan La | Tribune file photo) The Five Alls restaurant — pictured here in 2007 — has closed. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Chinese dragons stand guard outside the Kowloon Cafe, at 2055 W. 3500 South, ... Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune The Oaks in Ogden Canyon has a long history that dates back to 1907. It is one of Utah... (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Paris Bistro, on the southwest corner of 1500 South and 1500 East, in Salt Lake Cit... (Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) LaDonnia Jones, center, and her employees Sophi Jefferson and Chloe Crandall, right, share a laugh with customers a day before the dessert shop closed its doors, Saturday, July 27, 2019. Health is the reason that LaDonnia Jones, center, the owner of Create Donuts Ñ a design your own dessert shop Ñ in Sandy, is closing her shop. Jones, 49, was recently diagnosed with Fibromuscular dysplasia, a rare condition that causes narrowing of the medium-sized arteries, which results in blood clots and aneurysms. (Danny Chan La | Tribune file photo) The Five Alls restaurant — pictured here in 2007 — has closed. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Chinese dragons stand guard outside the Kowloon Cafe, at 2055 W. 3500 South, in West Valley City. Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune The Oaks in Ogden Canyon has a long history that dates back to 1907. It is one of Utah's oldest operating restaurants. Years later, it moved to its current location and was a grocery store and a place to get moonshine during Prohibition. But around 1933 it became a seasonal restaurant where guests could walk up and order milk shakes and hamburgers. In 1981, it was purchased by Keith and Belinda Rounkles who expanded and made it a full-service restaurant. Its shady tables in the trees above the Ogden River make for a unique and peaceful dining experience. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Paris Bistro, on the southwest corner of 1500 South and 1500 East, in Salt Lake City. Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019.Billy B’s Hash House • Restaurant owner Glen Overton closed this Midvale eatery in May after only a few months in business. Overton called it “a great concept and a great location,” but he discovered shortly after opening that the partner running the day-to-day operations had not been paying the bills. When the utilities were turned off and the state called about back taxes, Overton and the remaining partners decided they could not bail out a sinking ship.
Cafe Anh Hong • This popular dim sum restaurant — located in a strip mall on State Street — shuttered in October after more than 25 years in business. A Facebook post said it would be closed “until we find a new location.”
Cakewalk Baking Co. • When owner Kelly Green launched her bakery in 2009, it became one of the first vegan eateries in the state, quickly becoming known for the signature Twinkie-like snack cakes, called Dillos. She closed in April to pursue other passions.
Create Donuts Co. • This 4-year-old dessert shop — which offered customers a chance to design their own doughnuts and brownies with gooey glazes, candy sprinkles and dollops of fruit and whipped cream — shut down in July. The owner’s health problems prompted the closure.
The Five Alls • This 50-year-old restaurant shut down in April when founder Richard Halliday became ill and was unable to continue working. A former employee has been renovating the spot on Foothill Drive and, in early 2020, plans to bring back the Scottish menu as well as the signature clam dip and breadstick appetizer. Stay tuned.
Kowloon Cafe • After 60 years in business, owner Raymond Wang sold this quintessential Chinese American restaurant and retired. His daughter and co-owner has since opened two fast-casual restaurants, called Tokyo Teriyaki, in Midvale and Salt Lake City.
The Oaks • Owners Keith and Belinda Rounkles operated one of Utah’s oldest restaurants for nearly four decades before deciding earlier this year to close and sell the property. It remains on the market. The building up Ogden Canyon was one of several sites used in the new Lifetime TV movie “The Road Home for Christmas,” which stars Marie Osmond.
Paris Bistro • The abrupt departure of this French-inspired restaurant and bar in January shocked residents in Salt Lake City’s 15th and 15th neighborhood, where it had operated since 2001. Even employees were caught off guard. The space has since been remodeled and is now La Trattoria di Francesco, a new concept by the owners of Sicilia Mia restaurants.
The knee-jerk reaction of us fuzzy-headed liberals to news that a country, state or city is good for business is to assume that it is bad for people.
There are good reasons for that. Reasons that are apparent in Utah and becoming more so.
Those Forbes magazine and other surveys that rank states by their business friendliness (Utah has been first and now is third) are openly based on things like a permissive regulatory environment and low levels of corporate or individual income taxes, especially for individuals who have a lot of income to tax. At the same time, those doing the rankings may also award points for an educated workforce or good transportation and other public infrastructure.
A formula that gets low taxes for the rich and decent levels of public services in the same equation only balances if the tax burden — and other burdens — fall disproportionately on the working class. Which was indisputably the point of the tax reform bill that passed in a special session of the Legislature earlier this month.
Our lawmakers could not possibly have been more transparent. Reducing an already low, and flat, personal income tax rate while boosting consumer taxes on basic survival items like groceries and gasoline has only one conceivable goal: Make life easier for the rich and harder for the poor.
The really maddening thing is that there is no particular reason to believe that, even if such evil is the goal, that the tax plan will actually work.
Upper-income Utahns probably won’t even notice their lower income tax bills when the rate drops from 4.95% to 4.66%. And it is difficult to imagine a Fortune 500 company that would take that tiny change into consideration when deciding whether to locate or expand here.
What such worthies might notice, if over a longer period of time, is that the point of this measure and other bills that loom on the horizon is that the state is effectively slashing the wrists of its education funding bloodstream.
Changing the per-child income tax exemption from from $565 to $2,500 may help balance other tax hikes that the working class will pay, especially if they have large families, but it will also make it harder for those families to educate their children — and for existing and future businesses to find workers with the necessary skills.
The bill is so bad that only people who are not running for reelection — like Gov. Gary Herbert — and those who expect to be retuned to office as long as they can sit up and take nourishment — every Republican in the Legislature — are for it. People who are trying to win contested elections — like everyone running for governor (even the Republicans) — are campaigning against it.
The theory that the goal of the Republican leadership of Utah is to make life harder for working people even if it doesn’t really improve the lot of the rich is further supported by the length of time that was required to bring the expansion of Medicaid health care coverage, authorized by the passage of the Affordable Care Act almost a decade ago.
First the Legislature put its hands over its collective ears, sang “Polly-Wolly Doodle” really loudly, and pretended there was no such animal. Then Herbert floated an alternative that, he had reason to believe, might fly here because it dealt back in the private health insurance operatives that are the single largest contributor to unaffordable health care and early death the civilized world knows.
The Legislature shot that down, too.
Then the people of Utah passed Proposition 3, which not only demanded the implementation of Medicaid expansion under the ACA, it also raised taxes to pay for it. The Legislature repealed that and put forward a collection of alternatives that had as its sole purpose the desire to make sure that health care in Utah remains a privilege rather than the basic public good it is in any nation on earth that anyone would consider civilized.
As a fig leaf, the Legislature tried to extend Medicaid coverage to a few of the poorest of the poor, even though the sharp limits were bureaucratically cumbersome and unacceptable to the federal agencies that rule on such things. And even as it undermined the stated goals of Utah’s political class to reduce homelessness and divert the addicted and the mentally ill away from the criminal justice system.
Finally, right before Christmas, the Ghost of Health and Human Services approved an alternative Utah Medicaid plan that covers just about everyone Obamacare is supposed to cover, but leaves the state the ability to claim a victory by allowing what the anti-anti-poverty folks call a “work requirement.”
Which means that, in order to claim something that should be just as much your due as the ability to call the fire department, you have to prove you are working, looking for work, training for work, too disabled to work or too young or too old to work.
The only reason this proviso makes any sense is that those promoting it think those eligible for Medicaid are otherwise likely to be smelly bums who will crowd the deserving rich out of doctor’s offices and MRI waiting rooms. If the point really were to help people be self-sufficient, those making the rules would realize that the way to independence is to provide health care first and expect gainful employment later.
Speaking of being visited by three ghosts. Utah — and the whole United States — should take a hint from the young, female prime ministers of New Zealand, Iceland and Scotland who are setting up plans to measure the success of a nation by the well-being of its people, not the bottom line of its gross national product.
George Pyle, editorial page editor of The Salt Lake Tribune, measures his well-being by looking at the stack of books that he really, truly, honestly is going to read this year.
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The Jazz came into the fourth quarter up just one point. The bench bled a few more points, meaning the Jazz were down 3 before Jordan Clarkson was fouled on a 3-point attempt. And from there, the starters took over and played brilliantly, especially on the defensive end.
This play is two-man pick-and-roll defense at its finest. Royce O’Neale goes over the screen, dissuading Paul George from taking the 3-point shot he’s excellent at. So he goes into the paint, and Rudy Gobert successfully delays George: he jabs toward him to prevent the shot, and steps back to prevent the lob. Then, O’Neale can get back in front to contest the mid-range jump shot, thus forcing the bad pass to Ivica Zubac.
Another thing the Jazz did well: finishing out possessions with defensive rebounds. The Clippers had two offensive rebounds in the fourth quarter, while the Jazz had 13 defensive rebounds. That’s an excellent ratio. I do wonder what would have happened if Montrezl Harrell would have been available, but he wasn’t, and the Jazz rarely gave the Clippers second life.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think the Clippers executed especially well late, either. Some of that was plain-old shotmaking: you’d bet on Kawhi Leonard to make most of his 10 foot shots over Jordan Clarkson, but he missed the one he took tonight in the fourth. But I also thought they settled. Leonard was happy to take contested shots, and George took some quickly. The Jazz got a little bit lucky that those star players didn’t make those shots they’re capable of, but they also weren’t great looks.
Still, it’s another late win for the Jazz. Last year, the Jazz were 15-18 when a game was within five points with five or fewer minutes to go. This year, they’re 15-6. That makes a huge difference in overall record, obviously: last year on this date, they were 17-19, now they’re 20-12.
Jordan Clarkson was a lot better in his second game than his first one. Who would have imagined that having practices help basketball players?
For the second consecutive game, he was the Jazz’s leading bench-scorer and minutes-getter. Tonight, he scored 19 points in 24 minutes, and was the only bench player with a positive plus-minus.
His ability to score really helps this second unit, I think. Tonight, he had a personal 10-0 run in the 2nd quarter where all of the points were either assisted by or scored by Clarkson. Salt City Hoops’ Dan Clayton had a good point on Clarkson, I thought, when he tweeted that he thought Clarkson was one of the Jazz’s best players at using screens. Given how screen-heavy the Jazz’s offense is, that could be really helpful.
One big reason Clarkson is a good scorer is his intelligence in pick and roll. He can run around it, obviously, but his first-step quickness also means he’s more dangerous in rejecting the screen to force rotations than anyone on the Jazz.
What I think is interesting is how adamant Quin Snyder is that Clarkson is more than a scorer. This is one of Snyder’s press conference specialties, where he’ll be asked a question about a player’s best ability and turn it into an answer about how he can develop in one of his weaknesses.
Tonight, Snyder answered a question about Clarkson by saying "You see some things fundamentally in him defensively that are important to him,” Snyder said. “He switched onto big guys rolling in pick and roll, and really worked hard on getting into their legs, getting them off the boards. He’s chasing people in screening actions.”
If Snyder can turn Clarkson into a guy that can consistently do that, it’ll be great for the Jazz. On the other hand, when asked about whether he’s going to change his style of play for a winning team, Clarkson said that he focuses on “playing freely.” So we’ll see what happens.
This game could have been a blowout, if it weren’t for a ugly first-quarter start that was entirely about the Jazz forcing misses and then not getting the rebound on them.
Responsible party one: Rudy Gobert. He admitted as much after the game, saying “I was too passive. You know, every guy comes in to kick my a--,” Gobert said. “So I’m gonna be I’m gonna be ready to respond to that.”
He said the biggest problem that he continued to find himself in no-man’s land: neither really contesting the shot nor making sure to get the board. This is the perfect example.
Yes, at some point, Gobert gets hit in the face, but he doesn’t do a whole lot of anything here. He doesn’t contest, doesn’t block the shot, doesn’t eliminate Zubac from his zone, nothing.
The result was 12 (!) first-quarter offensive rebounds for the Clippers, and 13 second-chance points.
Now the good news is that it turned around: the Clippers only had four offensive rebounds from that point on. It became a priority for Gobert to win his matchup against Zubac, and he did. Gobert’s ability to own the paint from that point forward was the building block for the Jazz’s success.
Generally, Gobert is pretty good on the glass, so I’m not sure this is anything to worry about, much like Clipper fans shouldn’t be too concerned about Kawhi and PG shooting 27% on the night. But I always like it when players identify their own shortcomings and repair them quickly.
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