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Nudged along by state House Speaker Greg Hughes, Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski and the City Council ended an increasingly bitter stalemate Friday over the size and number of new homeless shelters to be built in the coming years. Instead of constructing two new resource centers with 250 beds each as the mayor wanted, city leaders agreed to build four shelters with no more than 150 beds each. They cut the deal the day after a coordinated crackdown on drug dealing around the Rio Grande ... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>

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