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• Utah reports 760 new cases and and 8 new deaths from COVID-19; Utah County emerging as new hot spot

  18-07-2020 23:58
  
  Saturday in Utah yielded another large number of new coronavirus infections, with 760 positive test results reported. This includes a record number for Utah County where opposition to mask wearing, regarded as an essential measure for containing the COVID-19 epidemic, has made national news.Utah County added 198 cases coming after seeing at least 150 new cases on each of the past two days, indicating that county may be taking over the distinction as the state's worst hot spot from Salt Lake Coun
  
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• Report: BYU, Alabama may meet in season opener

  18-07-2020 23:56
  
  After the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences announced they’d be playing conference-only games this year, BYU was left with what is currently a five-game schedule for the 2020 season.The cancelations have wiped out the entire first third of the season and the season finale. The Cougars were set to kick off the season against rival Utah Sept. 3 at Rice-Eccles Stadium, but it seems BYU may have found a way to still start the season on time — against arguably the top program in the nation.A
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Ignorance and apathy in Utah increase threat of coronavirus

  18-07-2020 23:00
  
  Utah’s political leadership in the face of the coronavirus pandemic has been timid, tentative, easily distracted and unwilling to make the firm decisions and bold directives needed to stop the spread of COVID-19, save lives and protect everything from the economy to our educational institutions.But there is reason to wonder if it would have made much difference had it been otherwise.This is Utah, after all.Gov. Gary Herbert and his state coronavirus task force have been good at holding pre
  
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• Donovan Mitchell is making every effort in Orlando to become the team leader the Utah Jazz need him to be

  18-07-2020 22:48
  
  In the handful of interviews that Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell has conducted with the media since the team reconvened, a couple of consistent themes have emerged.Maturity.And leadership.Perhaps not the most typical of topics for a 23-year-old in his third season as an NBA player. And yet, he’s made it clear, those notions are foremost on his mind, more important to him than ever before.A season from hell will do that. And, in his mind, the circumstances demand it: The forced hiatus due
  
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• Toronto Blue Jays not allowed to play games in Canada due to COVID-19

  18-07-2020 22:03
  
  Toronto • The Blue Jays have been denied approval by the Canadian government to play in Toronto amid the coronavirus pandemic.Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino announced in a statement Saturday the federal government had denied the request, confirming what an official familiar with the matter had told The Associated Press earlier. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak ahead of the announcement.The team had been given clearance by city and
  
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• Blue Jays not allowed to play games in Canada due to COVID-19

  18-07-2020 21:51
  
  Toronto • The Blue Jays have been denied approval by the Canadian government to play in Toronto amid the coronavirus pandemic.Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino announced in a statement Saturday the federal government had denied the request, confirming what an official familiar with the matter had told The Associated Press earlier. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak ahead of the announcement.The team had been given clearance by city and
  
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• No letup: Utah reports 760 new cases and and 8 new deaths from COVID-19

  18-07-2020 21:18
  
  The state Health Department on Saturday reported eight new deaths due to COVID-19 and 760 new cases from yesterday.The rolling 7-day average for new coronavirus cases is 617, with 185 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19.The eight deaths brings the state’s total to 243.The deaths announced Saturday include three in Salt Lake County, two in Weber County, two in Washington County and one in San Juan County.On the testing front, 456,240 Utahns have now been tested for COVID-19, and inc
  
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• George Pyle: Trouble, right here in Salt Lake City

  18-07-2020 21:00
  
  Sometimes, things work out OK in spite of dubious beginnings.Consider, for example, that at the end of “The Music Man,” the town of River City, Iowa, actually had itself a functioning boys’ brass band that could march down Main Street playing Beethoven’s Minuet in G.Not all that well, perhaps. But it was there.The 76 trombones, 101 cornets and rows and rows of piccolos that also appeared were a cinematic dream sequence. But, hey, you have to start somewhere.Jack Hedge is
  
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• Gordon Monson: BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe is fighting the good fight, but it’s looking like a lost cause

  18-07-2020 20:55
  
  On his way to work these days, decked out in some blue slacks and a BYU tie, Tom Holmoe might as well lie on down in his driveway and havesomeone steer the family Buick repeatedly over his kneecaps.Over and over and over.That’s pretty much what he’s enduring on the job.Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren would be first choice behind the wheel,punching the gears into reverse — thump, thump — and then the brake,opening the throttle forward — thump, thump — slammin
  
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• Breathtaking virus numbers show normal life still far away

  18-07-2020 19:38
  
  Johannesburg • South Africa was poised Saturday to join the top five countries most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, while breathtaking infection numbers around the world were a reminder that a return to normal life is still far from sight.The country’s 337,000 cases make up roughly half of all confirmed infections on the African continent and its struggles are a sign of trouble to come for nations with fewer health care resources. South Africa was on track to join the U.S., Braz
  
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• Utah’s veteran offensive line will be counted on to steady things while new QB — whoever he is — finds his footing

  18-07-2020 19:37
  
  If one views the lack of returning production at quarterback and running back as bad news at the University of Utah, the amount of returning production along the offensive line can’t be looked at as anything other than good news.All told, the Utes are slated to return 77% of the offensive line starts from last season’s 11-3, Pac-12 South winner. It now comes down to a matter of what offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig and offensive line coach Jim Harding are going to do with the person
  
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• Richard Longo: Can we please just turn it down a notch?

  18-07-2020 18:00
  
  We are heading into the home stretch of what will certainly be a contentious election cycle. We will hear yelling, insults and, quite frankly, an embarrassing exhibition of our democratic process.Can we tone down the rhetoric so we have a more informed national and local debate?These thoughts are independent of the current discussions on racial injustice, which I am proud to observe have broad positive consensus. This is aimed at the tired, internecine warfare between left and right.Each of us h
  
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• Patrick Shea: One small step in reuniting our divided country

  18-07-2020 16:07
  
  How are the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Black Lives Matter (BLM), besides the three initials, linked?By moving forward with the land management bureau, the divided, racist American culture might find at least one platform that could unite us – public lands.The bureau is responsible for 460 million surface acres of public land in America. The bureau is to be a stewart of this incalculable natural asset we as citizens own. Admittedly the bureau hasn’t always done a good job.Whe
  
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• Animal welfare activists facing prison time seek top Utah prosecutor’s donor list

  18-07-2020 15:00
  
  Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, currently under scrutiny in his reelection bid over the sources of his big fundraising dollars and allegations that he’s put the office up “for sale,” now faces similar accusations on a separate front: in the courtroom.One of two California animal welfare activists who face up to 60 years in prison for allegedly stealing pigs from a Beaver County hog farm in 2017 filed a motion in 5th District Court late last month asking a judge to compel Reye
  
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• Steve Urquhart: Time for Congress to follow Utah with LGBTQ nondiscrimination law

  18-07-2020 14:04
  
  Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling affirming that LGBTQ Americans are protected from employment discrimination under federal law. It’s a major step that brings our country toward the more perfect union that we’re forever striving for – but as we celebrate, LGBTQ people in 29 states remain vulnerable to discrimination in housing, healthcare and public places.There’s a way to end this patchwork of protections and cover LGBTQ people in every sphere of life; i
  
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• Utah ski resorts worry a Trump visa decision may leave them shorthanded

  18-07-2020 14:00
  
  Among the first questions President Donald Trump asked Colorado Gov. Jared Polis during a White House meeting in May was how ski resorts were holding up after having their spring cut short by COVID-19.“How about, ‘cause I go there, as you know, and the ski slopes are fantastic ...,” Trump said. “How are you doing with the skiing? It’s a big business for you.”Not two months later, Trump handed a ski industry already wrangling with how to safely reopen this wint
  
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• Letter: Shame on Trump

  18-07-2020 14:00
  
  Kudos to Micki Moulton for a brilliant letter July 13, chastising “Private Bone Spurs” for referring to “my military” while ignoring the fact that the Taliban receives a bounty from for the murder of American soldiers. Trump’s continuous adoration for Russia’s dictator raises a myriad of suspicions, not the least of which is blackmail.With blood on his hands, the president flew to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to meet wounded service members and
  
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• Letter: Reopening schools is a complicated matter

  18-07-2020 14:00
  
  Our politicians have been talking about reopening schools. Most of them are not professional educators, but they say schools must reopen and students and staff must wear masks.As a retired school administrator with 31 years of experience in Utah schools, I know that there are many other considerations which must be taken into account before our schools reopen.Who will pay for the masks, sanitizer, screening and any other needs associated with COVID-19? The Tribune tells us that "$60M in new viru
  
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• Letter: Our society has rules for a reason

  18-07-2020 14:00
  
  If there were but one airplane in the sky, there would be no FAA. There would be no air traffic control. If there were but one car and one driver, there would be no traffic laws. There would be no drivers license requirements.But in the real world, where we all interact with one another, there are strict rules for aviation, for driving, and for interaction with the rest of society. We agree, as a society, that stop signs, speed limits, seat belts, stopping for school buses, and one-way designati
  
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• Letter: Make yourselves heard on Nov. 3

  18-07-2020 14:00
  
  The GOP claims to be the party of “fiscal responsibility,” yet for the last 40 years federal debt has grown fastest when Republicans are in control. Under the Trump administration, the debt has exploded.The GOP claims to be the party that “supports the troops,” yet when evidence of Russian bounties paid for dead U.S. soldiers became overwhelming, the Republican response is not righteous outrage, but is instead a mixture of silence, garbled equivocation and anger that this
  
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• Letter: How to make America great again

  18-07-2020 14:00
  
  If you really want to make America great again, all you need to do is the following:Require anyone who files for public office to take a polygraph test (just like many sensitive government positions). Annually require another exam questioning the truthfulness of the last 12 months, as well as promises for the next 12 months.In addition, all members of the press should do the same. Then we will really find out who really is spreading fake news and who actually cares about America.Matt Tezak, Layt
  
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• Letter: Herbert should get out more

  18-07-2020 14:00
  
  We think Gov. Herbert needs to get out more. As we waited for our curbside cuisine Saturday evening (in the new normal, take-out food brought home has replaced dinner and a movie as a date-night activity), we noticed many of "the good people of Utah" going into several restaurants in the vicinity. Likely a third of them were not wearing masks — and this was in Sandy, where presumably we're under a Salt Lake County mask mandate.We asked the high-school age young man who delivered our dinner
  
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• BYU’s Black Student Union wants to remove the names from every building on campus

  18-07-2020 14:00
  
  The library at Brigham Young University is named after a man who said if his granddaughter got “engaged to a colored boy” while she was at the school, he would hold administrators accountable. The law school there got its name from a different man who strongly advocated for blood banks to segregate donations from Black and white people so they wouldn’t be “mixed.”The BYU chemistry building is named for Ezra Taft Benson, who suggested that civil rights for Blacks wer
  
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• Brodi Ashton: The ‘Hamilton’ inspired coronavirus poem you’ve been dying to read. Seriously.

  18-07-2020 14:00
  
  There is a great debate about what to do in the fall. I keep waiting for a definitive plan from my school district, but I have yet to see it. My oldest son works as a janitor in a school, and he disinfects and cleans and I keep asking him, “Do you know what’s going to happen?” And he keeps answering, “No.”How will schools protect our children? Would they be safer at home? What do you do when you don’t know what to do?My family is obsessed with “Hamilton&
  
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• RSL and Minnesota play to scoreless draw in second game of MLS group stage

  18-07-2020 07:25
  
  It was a good night to be a soccer net. In a snoozer of a match, Real Salt Lake and Minnesota tied 0-0 after 90 minutes in which those nets never had to be tested.The game may have started at 10:30 p.m. Eastern time in Orlando, but that didn’t mean we expected both teams to come out asleep. But that’s what we saw: neither team even had a shot on goal in the first half.Minnesota came close on the final kick of the period. Aaron Schoenfeld had a shot ping off the bar on a nice driving
  
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• Emery High School teacher charged with engaging in sexual conduct with student

  18-07-2020 07:15
  
  An Emery High School teacher was charged Friday with 13 felonies in connection with an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student.Andre Louis Pastrana, 44, is accused of grooming a 16-year-old female student and later engaging in sexual conduct with her at his home, according to charging documents filed in 7th District Court.Pastrana is listed as a language arts teacher on the high school’s website. Emery High School is in Castle Dale.Officials with Emery County School District and t
  
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• Investigators asking for help finding suspects in the Turkey Farm Road Fire

  18-07-2020 06:57
  
  Law enforcement are searching for three teenagers accused of starting the nearly 12,000-acre Turkey Farm Road Fire and think more information about a car the youths were seen in that day may offer some clues.The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands released two images of the car on Friday, saying that “[n]ew information has been discovered relating to” the fire.
  (Photo courtesy the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands) Authorities released this image on Friday,
  
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• Utah Royals lose in penalties to Houston Dash

  18-07-2020 06:29
  
  Herriman • One of these games was not like the other. Zero goals in 90 minutes must have been a bother. But in the end, just one left for summer.The Houston Dash advanced to the semifinal round of the National Women’s Soccer League Challenge Cup with a 3-2 penalty shootout win over the Utah Royals FC. Houston will play Portland next week after the Thorns earlier in the day upset the North Carolina Courage, which hadn’t lost in the tournament before Friday morning.The Dash prevai
  
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• John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80

  18-07-2020 06:22
  
  Atlanta • John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis' passing late Friday night, calling him "one of the greatest heroes of American history.""All of us were humbled to call Congressman Lewis a colleague, and are heartbroken by his passing," Pelosi said. "May his
  
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• David Brooks: The first thing you will notice is the quiet

  18-07-2020 04:00
  
  The first thing you’ll notice is the quiet. If Joe Biden wins this thing, there will be no disgraceful presidential tweets and no furious cable segments reacting to them on Inauguration Day.Donald Trump himself may fume, but hated and alone. The opportunists who make up his administration will abandon him. Republicans will pretend they never heard his name. Republican politicians are not going to hang around a guy they privately hate and who publicly destroyed their majority.But there will
  
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• Teen’s kidney transplant rescheduled after COVID-19 delays

  18-07-2020 02:33
  
  Springville • A Utah teenager’s kidney transplant that was postponed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic is now scheduled after over three months of waiting.Isabel “Izzy” Rammell, 13, of Springville, was supposed to undergo the procedure earlier this year, but it was pushed back when Utah hospitals postponed elective surgeries as the pandemic ramped up.Lara Rammell, Izzy’s mother, said the kidney transplant is scheduled for next month at Primary Children’s Ho
  
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• Brigham City man charged with hate crime after allegedly pointing gun at Black driver

  18-07-2020 02:25
  
  Davis County prosecutors on Friday filed hate crime charges against a 25-year-old man who is accused of pointing a gun at and calling a Black driver the n-word.The confrontation happened June 21 after the driver merged onto Interstate 15 in Davis County and accidentally cut off the suspect, according to court documents.The suspect is accused of driving aggressively, including getting in front of the victim’s car and suddenly braking. At one point, court documents state, the suspect pulled
  
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• Utahn Tony Finau holds on to share of lead at Memorial

  18-07-2020 01:48
  
  Dublin, Ohio • Tony Finau figured he was on the right track when he shot 59 at Victory Ranch last week in Kamas.That kind of score isn’t happening at Muirfield Village, where the greens are getting firmer by the hour. Finau still took enough confidence from playing with his kids at home during a week off, and it translated into 14 birdies over two days and a share of the 36-hole lead at the Memorial.Finau recovered from two bogeys after three holes of his second round Friday, making b
  
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• Tabernacle Choir commemorates 90 years of broadcasting with special show

  18-07-2020 01:31
  
  The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square is celebrating 90 years of broadcasting its popular Sunday show “Music and the Spoken Word” with a special Saturday episode.The episode will look back on the show’s history, particularly the last 20 years, said Heidi Swinton, choir historian, in a news release from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.“In any tradition like this, one has to reflect on many who have come before starting in July of 1929,”
  
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• Do Utah and other Pac-12 football teams owe damages after the Pac-12 canceled nonconference contests?

  18-07-2020 00:44
  
  The University of Utah will not be hosting BYU to open the college football season on Sept. 3, nor will it be welcoming FCS power Montana State to Rice-Eccles Stadium on Sept. 12. A trip to Laramie to face the University of Wyoming on Sept. 19 is also off.That much we know after the Pac-12 announced late last week that it will be going to a conference-only format for fall sports, including football. The league is expected to release a revamped football schedule, likely with nine or 10 games, no
  
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• Referendum challenging Provo brewpub license falls short

  18-07-2020 00:30
  
  Provo • A citizen referendum challenging the creation of a license for brewpubs in Provo has narrowly failed to get enough signatures to make the ballot.Organizers were stymied by the coronavirus pandemic and fell less than 200 signatures short of making the ballot in November the Daily Herald reported.A signature count announced Thursday shows organizers gathered 3,019 valid signatures. They needed 3,157 valid signatures to get on the ballot, Supporters can still file for another reco
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Trump’s Secret Police

  18-07-2020 00:16
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, July 18, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Eyes on The BeehiveSecond WaveAll in the FamilyGame Name ChangeHeard ImmunityHelp WantedSchooled by COVIDMonkey BusinessFreedumb FourthPlaying Dice With DeathWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Victor Copeland: Why is Chief Massassoit the only Capitol statue without police tape?

  18-07-2020 00:00
  
  I love our state’s Capitol grounds. I love how they sit on top a hill above downtown. I love the views of the desert to the west, the valley to the south, the Wasatch range to the east, and the City Creek foothills to the north.I love watching tourists, visitors and locals taking photographs, recreating and exercising their First Amendment rights on the hilly grass and paved plazas while I jog around the path that surrounds the Capitol.So it was ominous to see people cleared out from the g
  
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• David N. Sundwall: Give health professionals credit for pandemic work. It could have been worse.

  18-07-2020 00:00
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic has put a bright spotlight on our state’s and nation’s public health systems, demonstrating its importance, and also exposing deficiencies it its capacity to address what is perhaps the greatest threat to the public’s health since the Spanish flu of 1918.The Spanish flu pandemic was the deadliest in history, infecting an estimated 500 million people worldwide — about one-third of the planet’s population — and killed an estimated 20 millio
  
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