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• ‘Headband Joe’ Ingles is eager to see how Utah Jazz’s ‘new stuff’ works against opponents

  19-07-2020 23:08
  
  Joe Ingles sat down in front of a Utah Jazz logo backdrop on Sunday morning, sweaty from a just-concluded practice, notably adorned by a solid-blue headband.And right on cue, a few minutes into his latest media session came the inevitable question: Is “Headband Joe” back for good?“My hair’s been so luxurious and long that I was just trying to keep it out of my eyes today,” he deadpanned in response.Ingles was apparently in a playful mood Sunday, as evidenced by him
  
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• Timothy Egan: My quarantine house holds three generations

  19-07-2020 23:00
  
  When we lived in Italy some years ago, our family of four would sometimes visit a family of more — a married couple and nonna playing with her grandkids in the garden, an uncle with a mental disability, and the brother who never launched, all living in a modest house of weathered stone.They argued without filter, finished each other’s stories, and each took a turn at cooking, cleaning or bringing money and food into the home. It was charming, particularly at the big afternoon meal on
  
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• After a slow start to the week, coronavirus cases balloon back up; 785 reported Sunday

  19-07-2020 21:47
  
  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. After a decline in new cases at the start of the week, cases ballooned back up on Thursday when the state saw 954 new cases reported. Sunday saw an additional 785 cases, bringing the state’s weekly total at 3,848, as reported by t
  
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• Virus rebounds around the world as deaths top 600,000

  19-07-2020 21:01
  
  Berlin • The coronavirus pandemic has found fresh legs around the world, as confirmed deaths pass 600,000 and countries from the U.S. to South Africa to India struggle to contain a surge of new infections. Hong Kong issued tougher new rules on wearing face masks, Spain closed overcrowded beaches and Germany reported another outbreak at a slaughterhouse.Pope Francis said “the pandemic is showing no sign of stopping” and urged compassion for those whose suffering during the outbre
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: Do progressives have a free speech problem?

  19-07-2020 20:00
  
  An acquaintance came to me a few weeks ago with the rough draft of a letter about free speech and asked me to sign. I declined, in part because it denounced “cancel culture.” As I wrote in an email, the phrase “‘cancel culture,' while it describes something real, has been rendered sort of useless because it’s so often used by right-wing whiners like Ivanka Trump who think protests against them violate their free speech.”A little later my acquaintance came back
  
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• Lehi motorcyclist found dead near landfill

  19-07-2020 20:00
  
  While off-roading in their utility terrain vehicle on Saturday night, a father and son discovered a man’s body along a dirt road next to a landfill in the Cedar Valley/Lake Mountain area.The deceased was a 50-year-old man from Lehi who had gone on a motorcycle ride Saturday morning and never returned home, according to Sgt. Spencer Cannon, spokesperson for the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.Cannon said the man had been expected home by noon. The accident likely took place about 11 a.m.
  
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• Maureen Dowd: The doctor versus the denier

  19-07-2020 18:56
  
  Washington • Never mind Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.You want to see a real can’t-look-away train wreck of a relationship? Look to the nation’s capital, where a messy falling out is chronicled everywhere from the tabloids to a glossy fashion magazine, replete with a photo shoot by a swimming pool.The saga has enough betrayal, backstabbing, recrimination, indignation and ostracization to impress Edith Wharton.The press breathlessly covers how much time has passed since the pair la
  
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• Ogden weighs Historic 25th Street closure to help struggling restaurant and bar industry

  19-07-2020 18:39
  
  Ogden • Though it’s far from done, Ogden City officials are kicking the tires on an idea that would involve closing off Historic 25th Street to vehicular traffic.As the restaurant and bar industry continue to be hard hit by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with many Ogden-area establishments still closed to dine-in service, Ogden Mayor Mike Caldwell says the city is open to any and all ideas that might help local eateries and taverns.One idea that appears to be gaining some traction in
  
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• Utah crews seeing improvement in battle against wildfires

  19-07-2020 18:35
  
  Although multiple wildfires continue burning throughout the state and an evacuation order remains in place for the Great Basin area, fire crews saw improvement Saturday night into Sunday morning.The state’s biggest fire, the Big Summit Fire, burning along the Nevada-Utah border, was 34% contained as of Sunday morning and has burned 8,453 acres. Firefighters will continue to put a line around the fire’s edge and rehab the dozer line on the south end of the fire, according to Utah Wild
  
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• Paul Krugman: Republicans keep flunking microbe economics

  19-07-2020 18:19
  
  Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said something remarkably stupid the other day. I know, I know: It’s probably harder to find a day on which DeSantis didn’t say something stupid than a day on which he did. But this particular piece of thickheadedness, I’d argue, helps us understand why America’s response to the coronavirus has been so disastrous compared with other wealthy nations.Florida has, of course, become a COVID-19 epicenter, with soaring case totals and a daily death
  
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• Gina Cornia: Utah’s senators should support help for Utah’s hungry

  19-07-2020 17:00
  
  It’s been a long time since I’ve felt food insecure. I remember a conversation with power company, making payment arrangements so I could still buy food for myself and son Jacob, tossing and turn at night with a knot in my stomach wondering if I would be able to pay the rent. I can still feel the hot flush of shame for being poor.Today, there are tens of thousands of Utah families and individuals experiencing that same dread. The pandemic has revealed for all of us what many of us ha
  
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• Robert Kirby: I miss going to church. Who would have guessed?

  19-07-2020 15:00
  
  The pandemic has changed things in ways I never saw coming.Quarantine, food shortages, conspiracy loons, hoarding, death (including maybe my own) — all were things I considered possible.It’s what I didn’t expect that has me wondering what’s wrong with me and whether I’ll be able to ever fully trust myself again.The revelation came during a phone conversation with a good friend, whose name I won’t mention because of his position in The Church of Jesus Christ of
  
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• As we get ready to reopen schools, here is what we can learn from other countries

  19-07-2020 15:00
  
  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. We are between a rock and a hard place.If we open schools in Utah and throughout the nation, we are taking a huge risk with the health of our citizens. Because of limited data, we truly do not know how opening will affect the likelihood
  
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• Utah senator, a top lawyer for landlords, draws heavily from a state ‘slush fund’

  19-07-2020 14:05
  
  A Utah senator, among the state’s most aggressive lawyers for landlords, has shifted gears in recent months, seeking a burst of small taxpayer-funded grants. And when the money dried up, he argued for the state to add more to what his firm and others call the “slush fund.”Housing advocates are questioning the moves, which he says are simply efforts to help landlords recoup losses and keep rentals available for the poor.The law offices of Sen. Kirk Cullimore have received roughl
  
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• University of Utah researchers team up to study gender-based violence in state

  19-07-2020 14:00
  
  Researchers at the University of Utah are creating a resource for Utahns to see how the state has been affected by gender-based violence in recent decades and help them better address the issue in the future.The Gender-Based Violence Consortium launched in March at the U. While it has been tricky starting during the coronavirus pandemic, Annie Isabel Fukushima, who’s the project lead and co-principal investigator, said she hopes to start piloting some of the work by spring.Gender-based vio
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: ‘Holey Moley’ is dopey — and very entertaining

  19-07-2020 14:00
  
  “Holey Moley” is one of the dumbest shows on TV. I like it. A lot.No, this combination of miniature golf and an over-the-top Japanese game show is never going to win any Emmys. It’s silly in the extreme. Downright dopey. Absurdly fun. Which is exactly what the show intends.
  (Photo courtesy of Christopher Willard/ABC) Utahn Mei Brennan competes on "Holey Moley." (Christopher Willard/)Each episode of “Holey Moley” (Thursdays, 7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4) features eight contesta
  
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• Millennials, teens are Utah’s biggest sources of COVID-19 infections, and the state hasn’t been able to stop that

  19-07-2020 14:00
  
  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. The coronavirus killed Zander Moody’s grandmother. It hospitalized his grandfather and sickened his parents and uncles.So 16-year-old Zander was careful to not contract the virus — until he wasn’t.The teen acknowledged
  
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• Letter: Show some Christian compassion

  19-07-2020 14:00
  
  To the room full of angry Utah County parents,I wear a mask nearly every day for several hours, as a requirement for the kind of work I do (even before the pandemic). I assure you, I have not had an anoxic brain injury, nor do I have too much carbon dioxide in my body as a result. However, I have seen what happens to a vulnerable person when this virus infects them. I have watched the devastation it causes family members of loved ones lost. There’s scientific data that suggests wearing mas
  
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• Letter: Now is our only chance to quell the virus

  19-07-2020 14:00
  
  Education of our young people is vital. We must open schools as soon as we can do it safely. However, even doing it as safely as possible is likely going to complicate and slow the process of fighting the coronavirus. So the window of opportunity, perhaps the last one, in which to battle the virus as hard as we can and defeat it is between right now and the opening of schools (which should maybe be pushed back a month or so). This will be the easiest time in which to battle the enemy; it will on
  
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• Letter: Maybe it’s time to cut our losses on Trump

  19-07-2020 14:00
  
  Fellow Republicans, since the 2016 election, our leader has been an embarrassment here and abroad. We’ve made excuses; covered up his failings; ignored his bullying, bragging, vulgarity and vindictiveness; his constant lying, racist dog whistles and never-ending preoccupation with his own self-interest.If the economy was doing well and we were getting the right judges, it seemed worth the price. Our Republican congressmen, except for Sen. Mitt Romney, have, by their silence, enabled all of
  
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• Letter: A nation in distress

  19-07-2020 14:00
  
  In a recent letter, Erik Nystul argues that liberal-minded Americans should make more use of the American flag, including at protests and demonstrations.As he notes, the American flag is meant to symbolize equality and freedom for everyone. Those liberal ideals are engraved in the Declaration of Independence itself.Indeed, since the issuing of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, those same ideals — spelled out in great detail — have become widely
  
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• Leonard Pitts: What ruined Donald Trump?

  19-07-2020 14:00
  
  If the Trump family had never existed, someone would have invented them.Indeed, they’d have been right at home in some over-the-top TV soap produced by Aaron Spelling. As depicted in “Too Much and Never Enough,” Mary L. Trump’s lacerating new portrait of her uncle Donald and the loveless clan that produced him, they are nearly operatic in their villainy.Many stories from the book might suffice to paint the picture. There is, for instance, the Thanksgiving meal where grand
  
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• Delivery fees: The double-edged sword that is slashing into Utah restaurants’ shaky profits

  19-07-2020 14:00
  
  When he signed on with Grubhub and Uber Eats, Osama Khader didn’t despise the 30% commission he paid to the online food ordering and delivery platforms.In 2018, delivery was a small part of his overall business, said the owner of Salt Lake City’s O’Falafel Middle Eastern restaurant, and the financial impact seemed minimal.“The technology service offered some marketing, which increased sales a bit,” Khader said, “and it was cheaper than hiring my own drivers an
  
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• Utahn Tony Finau falls four strokes back as Jon Rahm surges at Memorial

  19-07-2020 07:13
  
  Jon Rahm, of Spain, watches his chip to the 18th green during the third round of the Memorial golf tournament, Saturday, July 18, 2020, in Dublin, Ohio. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) (Darron Cummings/)Dublin, Ohio • Jon Rahm showed Saturday in the Memorial why he’s one of the most explosive players in golf.With his clubs.A back nine that capped off what he considers one of the best rounds of his careers gave Rahm a 4-under 68, turned a four-shot deficit into a four-shot lead and put the
  
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• Dress rehearsal: MLB holds first COVID-era exhibitions

  19-07-2020 06:58
  
  New York • Didi Gregorius watched over the top of his face mask as his drive off Washington ace Max Scherzer sailed into empty outfield seats.Fake cheers — meant to encourage the hometown Nationals — accidentally piped through the stadium as the Philadelphia Phillies shortstop rounded the bases. After touching home plate, he pantomimed air-fives to teammates.“This is 2020 baseball,” Scherzer said. “Embrace it and have fun with it.”Exhibition games in Wash
  
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• Protesters march to the Governor’s Mansion, want civilian control of police

  19-07-2020 06:33
  
  Protesters came out Saturday night in the hundreds for a demonstration at the Capitol that ended after a march to the Governor’s Mansion.Attendees were out as part of a national day of action against police violence, coordinated by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and Utah Against Police Brutality.The gathering was meant to promote community control — defined as civilians with the authority to hire and fire, as well as other regulatory control — of
  
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• Addison Graham: It didn’t begin with Trump, and won’t end with him

  19-07-2020 03:00
  
  What happened to my country? What happened to my party? What happened to my church? George Will is not a happy camper. And rightfully so. Because the party he set up camp with for nearly his entire career as a conservative commentator was taken over by a large portion of his fellow campers. So, Will left camp.Lindsey Graham played a large role in that takeover. Just weeks ago, Will’s colleague at the Washington Post, David Von Drehle, wrote specifically about Graham’s off and on rela
  
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• Utah reports 760 new cases and 8 new deaths from COVID-19; Utah County emerging as new hot spot

  19-07-2020 01:35
  
  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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• Homes evacuated in southern Utah because of Big Summit Fire; weather helps firefighters in northern Utah

  19-07-2020 01:17
  
  Fire officials have evacuated homes in the Great Basin-area because of a more than 8,600-acre wildfire burning along the Nevada-Utah border.The Big Summit Fire had burned 8,602 acres in Utah and Nevada on Saturday when officials called for evacuations in the Great Basin’s Hamlin Valley, which includes the Wilderness West subdivision in Iron County. Some roads were also closed.#BigSummitFire is 8,602 acres and 15% contained. The fire is burning along the NV-UT state line near Hamlin Valley,
  
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• Utah Jazz looking to strike the perfect balance in the NBA bubble

  19-07-2020 01:00
  
  Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder talks to Utah Jazz guard Joe Ingles (2) on an inbounds play as the Utah Jazz and the Miami Heat play in an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. Utah won 116-101. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz arrived at the NBA bubble on July 7, isolated in their hotel rooms for two days, then held their first practice in nearly four months. After six consecutive days on the court t
  
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