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Political Cornflakes: Have newsrooms dropped the niceties and decided it’s OK to say the president lies?

The newsroom debate about whether it’s appropriate to report that President Donald Trump tells lies was raging as recently as last summer. Now, it is becoming more common for mainstream media outlets to drop terms like “misleading” or “false” and straight out label some of the president’s statements “lies” and/or the president a “liar.” [WaPo]

Topping the news: Protesters were removed by police officers from a meeting about the proposed Utah Inland Port, and one protester was booked into jail. [Trib] [DNews] [Fox13]

-> Utah County voters will almost surely be voting on scraping the three-member commission form of government in favor of a mayor-council model.