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• Trump wears mask in public for first time during pandemic

  11-07-2020 23:52
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday, the first time the president has been seen in public with the type of facial covering recommended by health officials as a precaution against spreading or becoming infected by the novel coronavirus.Trump flew by helicopter to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in suburban Washington to meet wounded servicemembers and health care providers caring for COVID-19 patients. As he left the
  
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• 3 players with local connections advance to semifinals of The Basketball Tournament with Overseas Elite

  11-07-2020 23:24
  
  Utah Jazz forward Joe Johnson (6) drives on LA Clippers forward Luc Mbah a Moute (12) as the Utah Jazz and the LA Clippers compete in Game 6 of the NBA playoffs at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, April 28, 2017. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — The Basketball Tournament, the annual summer hoops showcase featuring players from around the country, has historically had some notable local flair. Teams comprised of alums from local schools have played in
  
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• 5 more die from coronavirus as Utah’s case trend lowers slightly

  11-07-2020 21:21
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. Five more Utahns have died from COVID-19 and the state added 632 coronavirus cases to its ledger Saturday.The new cases a are big drop from the record 867 the state set Friday. Utah’s seven-day average is 614, according to the Uta
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 10 additional deaths from COVID-19

  11-07-2020 19:52
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation officials reported 10 additional deaths from COVID-19 as the tribe’s sprawling reservation remained under the latest weekend lockdown imposed to combat the coronavirus outbreak.Tribal officials reported 56 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases that increased the total to nearly 8,100. The death toll rose to 396 as of Friday.The number of infections is thought to be far higher because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be i
  
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• Gordon Monson: Utah football is doing what it can to stay afloat in a stormy sea

  11-07-2020 19:17
  
  In a recent interview centered generally on whether college football would be played this fall and specifically on Utah football and its prospects for playing within an altered framework, Utes AD Mark Harlan uttered comforting words that only seemed obvious, but that in the middle of a pandemic were reassuring, nonetheless.Harlan said he had, in a complicated mix, one primary swing thought, and one thought only:“Is it safe? Is it safe for [athletes] to practice? Is if safe for them to play
  
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• Utah Royals look to regain mojo in final Challenge Cup preliminary game

  11-07-2020 18:43
  
  The Utah Royals FC head into Sunday’s game against the Chicago Red Stars coming off a disappointing loss.They gave up a goal in stoppage time to Sky Blue FC and failed to score themselves for the first time in the tournament. The game against the Red Stars is Utah’s final game before the quarterfinal round of the National Women’s Soccer League Challenge Cup, and the last chance to regain some mojo.Because after that game, it’s win or go home.Chicago has yet to win a game
  
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• RSL locked in to start of MLS is Back tournament after four-month layoff

  11-07-2020 18:35
  
  Real Salt Lake is about to start its 2020 season against Colorado Rapids on Sunday after four months of navigating a COVID-19 pandemic that suspended the Major League Soccer season and forced the entire league into minimal opportunities to train until relatively recently.Such a long layoff is bound to have affects on the field, and in some ways, already has. The MLS is Back Tournament kicked off Wednesday at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida, and the four games played so
  
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• Tribes struggle to meet deadline to spend virus relief aid

  11-07-2020 17:47
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • As the coronavirus ripped through the Navajo Nation, it spotlighted longstanding inequities on the reservation where thousands of tribal members travel long distances for medical care, internet service is spotty at best and many homes lack electricity and even running water.Now, the tribe, facing severe issues and fractured priorities, must decide how to spend more than $714 million in federal virus relief money. And they must do it quickly to meet a deadline that also re
  
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• Hobble Creek Wranglers target love of firearms and Old West

  11-07-2020 17:44
  
  Provo • It’s a hot, summer afternoon, and a posse of cowboys and cowgirls with aliases such as Lonesome Hart, Tamarack, Anita Gunn and Colt Colton are gathering at the mouth of Hobble Creek Canyon in Springville. Dressed in Old West attire, with single-action six-shooters, rifles and shotguns in hand, they’ve come to see who has the keenest eye and fastest trigger finger of the bunch on this side of the Wasatch.No, this isn’t a rerun of some old Western movie, this is a mo
  
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• Letter: Birth control should be affordable for all women

  11-07-2020 17:29
  
  I finished reading Melinda Gates’ excellent book, “The Moment of Lift,” around the same time the Supreme Court unfortunately upheld Trump’s order exempting certain employers from the requirement to provide insurance coverage for birth control.I am absolutely for religious liberty. But when our health care system relies substantially on employers, we continue to allow domination and discrimination of women by those who can exert this power.Contraceptives should be affordab
  
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• You’ve seen the Salt Lake City mural with the faces of people killed by Utah police. Here are their stories.

  11-07-2020 17:19
  
  The mural started with George Floyd, the Black man whose slow death was captured on camera as a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.The video catalyzed a movement against police violence, inspiring marches and mass demonstrations across the U.S. and near-daily protests in Salt Lake City, despite a deadly pandemic.It also brought together a group of anonymous artists who painted an image of Floyd’s face, in pink and red hues, on the fleet building at t
  
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• Sen. Mitt Romney calls Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone: ‘Unprecedented, historic corruption’

  11-07-2020 17:02
  
  Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney on Saturday morning blasted President Donald Trump’s commutation of longtime confidant Roger Stone, calling it “historic corruption.”Trump on Friday night commuted the prison sentence of Stone, who was unanimously convicted by a federal jury of lying to Congress and obstructing justice. Stone was set to begin a 40-month prison sentence TuesdayRomney, a Utah Republican who voted to convict Trump of abuse of power in the Senate impeachment trial
  
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• Utah’s expensive coronavirus app won’t track people’s movements anymore, it’s key feature

  11-07-2020 16:48
  
  State officials debuted Healthy Together in April as a tool for augmenting contact tracing, the painstaking work of identifying people who might’ve come into contact with coronavirus patients.The mobile application — created via a no-bid contract worth up to $6.35 million — would track residents’ movements and, if they become ill, help public health workers figure out where they crossed paths with others.The problem is, almost no one has used it that way.“We’v
  
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• Sen. Mitt Romney calls Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone: ’Unprecedented, historic corruption'

  11-07-2020 16:02
  
  Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney on Saturday morning blasted President Donald Trump’s commutation of longtime confidant Roger Stone, calling it “historic corruption.”Trump on Friday night commuted the prison sentence of Stone, who was unanimously convicted by a federal jury of lying to Congress and obstructing justice. Stone was set to begin a 40-month prison sentence TuesdayRomney, a Utah Republican who voted to convict Trump of abuse of power in the Senate impeachment trial
  
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• With humans sparking more than 80% of Utah wildfires, officials step up restrictions

  11-07-2020 14:00
  
  Fire restrictions are spreading like, well, wildfire across Utah in the face of a busy season that has seen record numbers of human-caused blazes, now exceeding 520.More than 4 in 5 of the 644 fires that have so far charred 150,000 acres were caused by human carelessness, as was the case with two fires Thursday in Tooele County, according to Kaitlyn Webb of the state Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands.Those two were contained before burning a combined 20 acres, but they illustrate the pe
  
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• State’s $2.75M Healthy Together app might no longer contact trace

  11-07-2020 14:00
  
  State officials debuted Healthy Together in April as a tool for augmenting contact tracing, the painstaking work of identifying people who might’ve come into contact with coronavirus patients.The mobile application — created via a no-bid contract worth up to $6.35 million — would track residents’ movements and, if they become ill, help public health workers figure out where they crossed paths with others.The problem is, almost no one has used it that way.“We’v
  
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• Salt Lake City’s Gilgal Sculpture Garden earns honor from national historic group

  11-07-2020 14:00
  
  Salt Lake City’s Gilgal Sculpture Garden is the first Utah site to enter the Distinctive Destinations program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, officials announced this week.The designation, part of a new marketing program, showcases Gilgal as “a unique and special place in Utah,” said Kirk Huffaker, a Utah board member for the nonprofit in Washington, D.C.Gilgal, a magical urban oasis and botanical garden, is tucked away in the center of a city block at 749 E. 5
  
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• Rich Lowry: Mark Zuckerberg is right about free speech

  11-07-2020 14:00
  
  Mark Zuckerberg clearly hasn't gotten the memo.The founder of Facebook persists in defending free expression, even though free speech has fallen decidedly out of fashion.His reward for adhering to what once would have been a commonsensical, if not banal, view of the value of the free exchange of ideas is to get vilified for running a hate-speech machine and to get boycotted by major American companies.In a speech at Georgetown University last fall, Zuckerberg stated that it’s important &ld
  
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• Over 20 years ago, Utah aimed for ‘quality growth’ as its population boomed. How has that turned out?

  11-07-2020 14:00
  
  How should Utah handle a growing population? Especially as people fill up roads and neighborhoods, adding to worries about congestion, air pollution and what Utah might look like decades from now?With its booming birthrate and recurring influxes of new residents, the state faces these hard questions, but it’s hardly the first time.More than 20 years ago, Utah took the equivalent of a big statewide huddle to debate rampant growth and what it meant for the state’s way of life. The ende
  
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• Letter: When we see ourselves as others, we rise

  11-07-2020 14:00
  
  I finished reading Melinda Gates’ excellent book, “The Moment of Lift,” around the same time the Supreme Court unfortunately upheld Trump’s order exempting certain employers from the requirement to provide insurance coverage for birth control.I am absolutely for religious liberty. But when our health care system relies substantially on employers, we continue to allow domination and discrimination of women by those who can exert this power.Contraceptives should be affordab
  
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• Letter: Trump shows no empathy

  11-07-2020 14:00
  
  There are more than 1 million international students enrolled in U.S. universities. In 2018, as per the U.S. Department of Commerce, they contributed $45 billion to our economy.Far more importantly, they bring richness and cultural diversity to the student population. This by itself enables U.S. students to gain insight into the philosophies and practices of multiple countries. It fosters a unique type of camaraderie.Now, Donald Trump is using these students as pawns by threatening to deport the
  
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• Letter: Protect yourself by wearing a mask

  11-07-2020 14:00
  
  There has been a lot of publicity about wearing a mask while in public. The “experts” say it slows the spread of COVID-19.There have been numerous letters to the editor these past few months about wearing a mask and the general theme of these letters is always an altruistic reason: It shows you care about your fellow man; you are showing respect for others by not spreading the virus; you wear the mask to protect others.That is not why I wear a mask in public. I have both the K95 and
  
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• Letter: Learn how to be an anti-racist

  11-07-2020 14:00
  
  I am a white person who wants to become more educated, figure out what I can do to help and figure out my own relationship with racism and racial equity.The YWCA has started a 21-day challenge “to create dedicated time and space to learn about racial equity and build more effective social justice habits.” Every day I receive an email with new resources centering around a different topic.The first day focused on personal racial identity, the second on implicit bias and the third on ho
  
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• Letter: Dixie is part of Utah’s history

  11-07-2020 14:00
  
  The pressure is upon us once again about removing the name of Dixie from our longtime mainstays in the south of Utah.To do this would be like forsaking much of the history of St. George and the entire area we know as Utah’s Dixie. It is foolish just to bend to the demands of a few that say they are offended by a word, even though some may make threats.It is offensive to me that some of our people would be led to cater to the extremist views of the protesters, rioters and terrorists of some
  
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• The ax falls: Utah slashes its athletics budget by $8 million, Kyle Whittingham and Larry Krystkowiak take pay cuts

  11-07-2020 07:12
  
  Like so many of its Power Five and college athletics brethren, the University of Utah athletic department is readying to experience some financial belt tightening in the new fiscal year.On a conference call with beat reporters Friday morning, Utes athletic director Mark Harlan said his athletic department budget for fiscal 2021, which began on July 1, has been slashed by $8 million.That decision, according to Harlan, was made last week as the COVID-19 pandemic was threatening to alter, potential
  
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• Frei, Vega stand out as Seattle and San Jose play to 0-0 draw

  11-07-2020 06:49
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • Seattle goalkeeper Stefan Frei made eight saves, including a diving stop on a deflected shot in the 70th minute, and the Sounders and San Jose played to a 0-0 draw in the MLS is Back tournament on Friday night.The West Coast squads seemed to wilt in the heat and humidity of Central Florida as they combined for 28 total shots but could not beat either goalkeeper.“You saw a team with soul, a team with chances,” San Jose coach Matias Almeyda said. “I&
  
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• Morikawa builds big lead at Muirfield Village before storms

  11-07-2020 06:42
  
  Dublin, Ohio • Among the lessons Collin Morikawa took away from missing his first cut as a pro was that his reliable cut shot had left him. He found at it Muirfield Village, and it sent him to a three-shot lead going into the weekend at the Workday Charity Open.Morikawa ran off four straight birdies after making the turn Friday, finished with another birdie after the first of two storm delays and shot 6-under 66.He was six shots ahead when he finished. He was four shots ahead over Sam Burns
  
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• Wear masks, Latter-day Saint leaders urge Utahns

  11-07-2020 06:08
  
  After witnessing an alarming spike in coronavirus cases, top leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah amped up their support for masks Friday night by asking all members in the Beehive State “to be good citizens by wearing face coverings when in public.”“Doing so will help promote the health and general welfare of all,” wrote the faith’s Utah Area Presidency. " ... Please join with us now in common purpose for the blessing and benefit of al
  
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• Utah Jazz practice in Orlando becomes more structured as players acclimate to bubble

  11-07-2020 04:52
  
  In this file photo, Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder and other staff members watch as Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) practices. Current practices in the Orlando bubble are a far cry from their usual practice times that often falls between 10 a.m. and noon. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — There is a lot that the Utah Jazz players are getting used to in Orlando.Isolated from the rest of the world inside the NBA’s Disney-based bubble, the players are beginning
  
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• Utah Jazz are pleased with how their ‘bubble’ stay is going, with playbook IQ and restaurant takeout now proven

  11-07-2020 04:34
  
  Joe Ingles said that “the first 48 hours sucked” because of the self-isolation, and lamented that with his hotel room window sealed shut, “it’s gonna get a bit stanky at times” over the next couple months. Donovan Mitchell, meanwhile, already found himself fighting the “temptation to have snacks.”Those small inconveniences aside, though, both Utah Jazz starters are pretty happy with how the team’s first few days in the NBA ‘bubble’ have
  
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• David Brooks: Two cheers (maybe one and a half) for liberalism

  11-07-2020 04:00
  
  This is a hard, exhausting time. But it’s also a pivot point. An idealistic generation is rising on the scene hungering to fill the spiritual vacuum their parents left them. There is a palpable desire for solidarity, to shake off an excessively individualistic culture.In periods of tumult and confusion many people lose faith in systems of change. They feel it’s necessary to take the extraordinary action to tear down systems of power. For example, a Senate investigation concluded that
  
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• BYU loses three more games, and Utah State two with Pac-12’s move to conference-only schedule

  11-07-2020 02:45
  
  BYU football was already down two games after the Big Ten announced Thursday it would go to a conference-only format. The Pac-12 following suit late Friday afternoon only made things worse.With the Pac-12 announcing it would go conference-only this fall, that means the Cougars’ scheduled games at Utah (Sept. 3), at Arizona State (Sept. 19) and at Stanford (Nov. 28) are canceled. BYU lost a home game vs. Michigan State (Sept. 12) and a trip to Minnesota (Sept. 26) on Thursday.For now, BYU&r
  
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• Salt Lake County district attorney decries protest that damaged building. Two organizers were arrested.

  11-07-2020 02:22
  
  The morning after protesters damaged the building that houses his offices, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill vowed to “encourage robust civic dialogue” while decrying the violence that seriously injured one police officer and at least two demonstrators.“More than just paint was spilled and windows were broken,” Gill said in a statement, scolding the “few people” who broke windows and covered the entrance of his office building in red paint for their
  
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• U.S. appeals to proceed with 1st federal execution in 17 years

  11-07-2020 02:11
  
  Washington • Determined to proceed with the first federal execution in nearly two decades, the Justice Department plans to appeal a judge’s ruling that would halt authorities from carrying it out on Monday.The family of the victims in the case had requested that it be called off because their fear of the coronavirus would keep them from attending. Not that they wanted to see the killer die; they have long asked that he be given a life sentence instead, and their pandemic objection cou
  
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• Trump commutes longtime friend Roger Stone’s sentence

  11-07-2020 02:07
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump called Roger Stone to inform his longtime political confidant that he would commute his sentence for crimes related to the Russia investigation, Stone told The Associated Press on Friday, just days before he was set to report to prison.The White House later confirmed the commuting of the sentence in a statement, saying Stone was a victim of the Russia “hoax.”The move, though short of a full pardon, is sure to alarm critics who have long railed
  
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• Tammy Duckworth: Tucker Carlson doesn’t know what patriotism is

  11-07-2020 02:00
  
  A little over 240 years ago, two of my ancestors put on the uniform of George Washington’s Continental Army and marched into battle, willing to die if it meant bringing their fledgling nation inches closer to independence. Centuries later, in 1992, I followed in their footsteps and joined the Army.Even knowing how my tour in Iraq would turn out, even knowing that I’d lose both my legs in a battlefield just north of Baghdad in late 2004, I would do it all over again. Because if there&
  
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• RSL is firmly ensconced in the Orlando bubble, and it’s ‘been better than what we thought’

  11-07-2020 01:24
  
  Golf. Soccer tennis. Around-the-clock video gaming. Such is “bubble” life for Real Salt Lake in Orlando, Florida.All 26 Major League Soccer teams have arrived to the sprawling ESPN sports complex where the MLS is Back Tournament is being held. Games started Wednesday, and RSL plays its first game Sunday against the Colorado Rapids.But after arriving to Florida on Saturday, the team has had to keep itself busy in between training sessions and team meetings. Players have been doing jus
  
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• Pac-12 pulling the plug on non-conference games for fall sports; Utah-BYU football game is kaput

  11-07-2020 01:12
  
  One day after the Big Ten announced it was moving to a conference-only format for fall sports, the Pac-12 is following suit.The Pac-12 announced late Friday afternoon that it will go conference-only in all fall sports, including football. The decision came after the league’s athletic directors, presidents and chancellors met on a conference call earlier in the day.From a Utah perspective, it loses non-conference games vs. BYU (Sept. 3), Montana State (Sept. 12), and at Wyoming (Sept. 19).
  
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• Holly Richardson: The lessons of 1918. Will we learn them?

  11-07-2020 01:00
  
  In the spring of 1918, influenza hit the United States, beginning, later historians would theorize, in a small town in Kansas and spreading through military barracks and then via troops to the battlefields of Europe.The “first wave” was relatively mild, with the illness often lasting just a few days. Deaths attributed to the disease were only slightly above the average — some 75,000 instead of the 63,000 seen in 1915. (Today, by contrast, influenza deaths in the United States l
  
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• 31 test positive for the coronavirus at long-term care center in Blanding

  11-07-2020 00:21
  
  For nearly two months, San Juan County has maintained its unfortunate lead among Utah health districts for the highest coronavirus case rate in the state.As of Friday, 11 San Juan County residents had died, 60 had been hospitalized and 440 had tested positive for the disease. The 15,500-person county, which accounts for less 0.5% of Utah’s population, has seen more than 5% of the state’s 205 total deaths.But Blanding, the county’s most populous town, had largely been spared the
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Heard Immunity

  11-07-2020 00:10
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, July 12, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Help WantedSchooled by COVIDMonkey BusinessFreedumb FourthPlaying Dice With DeathPalling Around With PutinUtah Goes ViralThe BaseCriminal AccompliceWho Was That Masked Man?From Estonia With LoveWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Donald Trump Jr. touts the shrinking of Utah’s Bears Ears as opening land to public

  11-07-2020 00:06
  
  Washington • While presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden vows to restore the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and curtail oil and gas leasing on public lands, President Donald Trump’s son says his dad’s efforts to open up access to federal tracts and fix up national parks is a better selling point for reelection.“The Democrats have been able to spin the Bears Ears notion as, ‘Oh, my God, they’re getting rid of a national monument,’&rdq
  
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• George Pyle: Utahns love making rules that apply to other people

  11-07-2020 00:00
  
  “At this time, I choose not to make this a [statewide] mandate. I’m going to give the people of Utah the opportunity to show what kind of people they are.”— Utah Gov. Gary HerbertWe are sooooo dead.The kind of people we have in Utah -- the kind who make the decisions, anyway -- like to make rules that limit the behavior of other people. Powerless people. People who don’t belong to the club.So when logic and science strongly suggest that there should be statewide ord
  
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