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• Utah Jazz not worried that ‘big ol’ AAU tournament for grown men’ will kill their competitive fire

  20-07-2020 23:50
  
  In the early days of the NBA’s bubble, Yahoo reporter Chris Haynes was live-streaming himself eating at one of the restaurants open to the basketball personnel staying at Disney World, when Utah Jazz All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell and Lakers sixth man Kyle Kuzma suddenly appeared together for a quick cameo.The Jazz’s own sixth man, Jordan Clarkson, meanwhile, was an internet sensation for a day as a result of the videos filmed of him shotgunning beers — first with teammate Roy
  
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• Study: Rich Americans spew more carbon pollution at home than poor

  20-07-2020 23:29
  
  Rich Americans produce nearly 25% more heat-trapping gases than poorer people at home, according to a comprehensive study of U.S. residential carbon footprints.Scientists studied 93 million housing units in the nation to analyze how much greenhouse gases are being spewed in different locations and by income, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Residential carbon emissions comprise close to one-fifth of global warming gases emitted by the
  
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• NBA players will become NBA fans in crowdless bubble arenas at Disney World

  20-07-2020 23:10
  
  Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles (2) and Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) enjoy the game from the bench as the Jazz and the Sacramento Kings play an NBA game at VivintArena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020. The Jazz won 123-101. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — A hot topic over the last few weeks has been what NBA games will look, sound and feel like with no fans in the building. There’s definitely merit in having that discussion, and we’ll get to
  
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• As LDS Church prepares to open up more temples, leaders make more changes to endowment rite

  20-07-2020 23:10
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Monday that 12 of its temples — including four in the U.S. — will resume performing temple “endowments,” or ritual teachings about the origin and purpose of mortality.Because of the coronavirus, the faith’s temples shut down in late March and began to reopen in May for marriages (known as “sealings”) of couples under a Phase 1 plan, with stringent space limitations and mask requirements.Shifting i
  
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• Hanna Saltzman: Let kids be kids. With masks on.

  20-07-2020 23:00
  
  “It’s kind-of like a fashion statement,” my adolescent patient said, proudly sporting her pink, floral face covering.As a pediatric resident physician, I’ve been curious about how children view wearing masks. So, I’ve been asking my patients.“I mean, I wish I didn’t have to wear it,” she continued. “But it’s way better than sitting around at home all day!”When the pandemic started, I worried that my new getup might scare my patien
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Taking a Knee to Voting Rights

  20-07-2020 22:41
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Trump’s Secret PoliceEyes on The BeehiveSecond WaveAll in the FamilyGame Name ChangeHeard ImmunityHelp WantedSchooled by COVIDMonkey BusinessFreedumb FourthWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Democrat AGs try again to block coal sales that Trump revived

  20-07-2020 21:49
  
  Billings, Mont. • A coalition of states on Monday renewed its push to stop the Trump administration from selling coal from public lands after a previous effort to halt the lease sales was dismissed by a federal judge.Joined by environmentalists and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Democratic attorneys general from California, New York, New Mexico and Washington state filed a lawsuit challenging the administration's coal program in U.S. District Court in Montana.They alleged the administration a
  
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• Utah records 409 new coronavirus cases on Monday, but new hospitalizations high

  20-07-2020 21:28
  
  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. Utah on Monday reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases for nearly a month, with 409 confirmed diagnoses.But the Utah Department of Health also reported 33 new hospital admissions and four new deaths, bringing the state&rsquo
  
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• Joseph Q. Jarvis: Health care for all is cheaper than arresting the ill

  20-07-2020 21:00
  
  Years ago I cared for a patient on a mental health ward who threw a rock through a fire department window intentionally hoping that he would be noticed and arrested.Why? He had a history of schizophrenia but couldn’t get the care he needed as an outpatient. He could feel himself falling into an acute psychotic state, but did not have needed mental health services, because of underfunding. But he knew that the police had the funding to respond to a broken window and arrest him, which would
  
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• Police searching for driver who hit bicyclist twice, killing him

  20-07-2020 20:53
  
  West Valley City police are looking for the driver of a car that struck a bicyclist on Sunday evening, turned around and struck him again. The victim died at the scene.Police were called to 3661 S. Market St. (2820 West) shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday and found the victim dead in the road; his bicycle was nearby. According to witnesses, the driver of a white, four-door car headed north on the residential street appeared to intentionally hit the bicyclist before turning around and hitting him a sec
  
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• BYU’s Tom Holmoe is trying to salvage the football season

  20-07-2020 20:33
  
  BYU Athletic Director Tom Holmoe is on the phone constantly, talking with people at different universities and conferences trying to salvage the 2020 football season. But at this stage the decision is largely out of his hands.He’ll have to wait for the remaining Power Five conferences — and even the Group of 5 — to make some big decisions. Then Holmoe can start looking at where BYU fits in and what kind of season the independent Cougars could have.On Monday morning, Holmoe appe
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Indigenous mascots in Utah and across the U.S.

  20-07-2020 20:15
  
  Communities across the country are reconsidering whether to change mascots and place names that some consider offensive. In Utah, Bountiful High School is grappling with renaming its mascot while Intermountain Healthcare announced it’s removing Dixie from its St. George hospital.On Tuesday at noon, reporter Courtney Tanner will speak with Utah Division Director of Indian Affairs Dustin Jansen and BYU Professor Roni Jo Draper about the use of Indigenous mascots in Utah and across the countr
  
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• As LDS Church prepares to open up more temples, leaders adjust endowment ceremony

  20-07-2020 19:26
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Monday that 12 of its temples — including four in the U.S. — will resume performing temple “endowments,” or ritual teachings about the origin and purpose of mortality.Because of the coronavirus, the faith’s temples shut down in late March and began to reopen in May for marriages (known as “sealings”) of couples under a Phase 1 plan, with stringent space limitations and mask requirements.Shifting i
  
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• A petition in Flagstaff looks to remove name of anti-Navajo military leader

  20-07-2020 18:18
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • A petition to change the name of a Flagstaff RV park named for explorer Kit Carson is gaining momentum in the wake of public conversations on systemic racism and white supremacy.The petition calling for a name change for Kit Carson RV Park has garnered more than 800 signatures since its creation last month, the Arizona Daily Sun reported.Serving in the Union Army, Carson spearheaded a campaign in 1863 to force the Navajo from their land in the Four Corners region to Bosqu
  
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• As Trump ignores virus crisis, Republicans start to contradict him

  20-07-2020 17:46
  
  President Donald Trump’s failure to contain the coronavirus outbreak and his refusal to promote clear public-health guidelines have left many senior Republicans despairing that he will ever play a constructive role in addressing the crisis, with some concluding they must work around Trump and ignore or even contradict his pronouncements.In recent days, some of the most prominent figures in the GOP outside the White House have broken with Trump over issues like the value of wearing a mask i
  
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• Kendrick Perkins says Donovan Mitchell doesn’t have to leave Utah to win a title

  20-07-2020 17:45
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) eyes the basket as the Jazz and the Boston Celtics play an NBA game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Boston won 114-103. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — During a recent episode of ESPN’s“First Take,” former NBA player Kendrick Perkins was asked if Donovan Mitchell needs to leave the Utah Jazz to win a title.
  Perkins emphatically replied, “No.”
  “He better sit still and
  
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• I-15 reopened as wildfire continues in Washington County

  20-07-2020 16:35
  
  Parts of Washington County reopened late Sunday after a 3,000-acre wildfire forced evacuations and road closures.The Cottonwood Trail Fire, which was burning along Interstate 15 after sparks from a tire blowout ignited the roadside brush on a windy day, forced evacuations and shut down the highway on Sunday afternoon.But I-15 reopened — to 90-minute delays — late Sunday, according to the Utah Department of Transportation. Meanwhile, evacuations in Harrisburg and Leeds were lifted, th
  
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• Searchers find body of Utah man who drowned in Bear Lake

  20-07-2020 16:17
  
  Searchers recovered the body of a Utah man from Bear Lake on Sunday, a day after he fell from an inflatable tube on the Idaho side of the lake.According to the Bear Lake County Sheriff’s Office, search teams located the body of Martin T. Garcia, 27, of Logan, at 1:05 p.m. on Sunday. On Saturday evening kayakers saw Garcia fall from the tube, struggle in the water and go under, and their attempts to rescue him were unsuccessful.Search and rescue crews began looking for Garcia’s body t
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah County’s unreal face mask protest? This commissioner deserves the blame.

  20-07-2020 14:30
  
  You’ve got to hand it to Utah County. They know how to make an impression on a national audience.This time it was a group of about 100 anti-maskers who made the county a national laughingstock by jamming the commission meeting to rail against the evils of wearing masks to protect their neighbors.I’m sure you saw it. They ripped down the tape intended to enforce social distancing and plopped down in the seats — “cheek to jowl,” as Gov. Gary Herbert put it last week i
  
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• Congressional candidate Darren Parry says experience addressing Shoshone-LDS rifts can help him heal a divided nation

  20-07-2020 14:15
  
  Darren Parry says he’s learned some ways to help heal a divided America through his decades of trying to build understanding and forgiveness between his Shoshone tribe and the Utahns and Mormons he says are responsible for the Bear River Massacre of his ancestors back in 1863.“I don’t approach the table and say, ‘I’m angry. You owe me. Promises were made by treaty. You guys owe us,‘” says Parry, 60, former chairman of the tribe’s Northwestern Band
  
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• Utah lawmakers who obtained federal PPP loans say they were legitimately needed to save jobs

  20-07-2020 14:00
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic is a terrible time to own a chain of dry cleaning stores.“When you don’t go to the office, when you don’t go to church, when you don’t go to weddings or funerals, etc., you don’t wear any clothes that you need to pay someone else to clean for you,” said Utah Senate Majority Whip Dan Hemmert, manager and vice president of the Red Hanger chain.“Our revenues declined 80% over a four-week period,” said the Orem Republican, so his
  
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• Letter: Where in the world is Mike Lee?

  20-07-2020 14:00
  
  Where the hell is Sen. Mike Lee? He touted in November that he was co-chair of Trump's reelection campaign, yet his silence is deafening. Is he cowering in a bunker, working on a COVID-19 vaccine, developing criteria to home-school his own kids or perhaps making face masks in an Orwellian effort to send our kids on a death march heading back to school?Lucy White, South Salt LakeSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: The economy does better under Democrats

  20-07-2020 14:00
  
  I recently asked a family member if he thought now was a good time to invest in the stock market because it is significantly lower than it was earlier in the year. His response was, “Not if Democrats get elected this fall.”Given his response, I thought it would be interesting to research stock market returns over Republican and Democratic administrations. Once I started looking, I found that there is a lot of very easily accessible non-politicized data about this topic.I looked at da
  
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• Letter: Stereotype less. Learn more.

  20-07-2020 14:00
  
  As an old white guy who graduated from Bountiful High School in 1971, I offer a historical anecdote that illustrates why the high school’s mascot, the Braves, must go.When I was a student, our cheerleaders adopted the coup stick as a device to rally the fans. When a cheerleader held the stick aloft, the fans exploded with noise. This continued until one day Principal Donald Wright came over the intercom, explained that he had been informed that the coup stick is a sacred religious symbol i
  
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• Letter: School mascot should be the Bountiful Cowards

  20-07-2020 14:00
  
  True proof that humans aren’t rational: If I were another high school playing Bountiful in sports, I’d love nothing more than saying that where once they were “Brave,” from now on they will be the Bountiful Cowards.Changing the name of the school's mascot to something else is metastasized cultural sensitivity.Burton S. Johnson, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Cox ignores the majority of Utah

  20-07-2020 14:00
  
  This is an open letter to Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox:I am writing this letter to let you know that I am insulted and disappointed in the statement you issued when you were announced the apparent winner of the Republican primary for governor of Utah.You imply that “rural values of hard work, honesty, and responsibility” are distinctive to people with small-town upbringings. Please know that most residents of the state are not farmers, and most of us live in urban areas. Based on your statem
  
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• Letter: A deep state conspiracy

  20-07-2020 14:00
  
  I just spent a few days in the mountains of Colorado and in Denver. It's easy to see why their COVID-19 infections are growing so much more slowly than they are here in Utah: They wear masks in Colorado, while we fight it tooth and nail in Utah.Apparently, the evil, deep state conspiracy to deprive us of our freedoms doesn't exist there in Colorado. Which leaves me wondering: Does an even more evil conspiracy exist here that's targeting not just our rights, but our very lives?Kendall Robins, San
  
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• Trump says he won’t commit to accepting election results if he loses

  20-07-2020 05:57
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump is refusing to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming White House election, recalling a similar threat he made weeks before the 2016 vote, as he scoffs at polls showing him lagging behind Democrat Joe Biden. Trump says it’s too early to make such an ironclad guarantee.“I have to see. Look ... I have to see,” Trump told moderator Chris Wallace during a wide-ranging interview on “Fox News Sunday.” “No, I
  
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• Utah Jazz mailbag: Media in the NBA bubble, will Rudy Gobert make an All-NBA team and more

  20-07-2020 04:00
  
  A sign at the entrance to ESPN’s Wide World of Sports at Walt Disney World is seen Wednesday, June 3, 2020, in Kissimmee, Fla. | AP SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz basketball will be played this week.
  The Jazz begin their three scrimmages on Thursday and one week after that the real games begin. This time next week we’ll have actual basketball to talk, which is incredibly exciting.
  To start off this week’s mailbag article, I want to share some news with you.If you were invite
  
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• GOP leaders, Trump to discuss virus aid as crisis deepens

  20-07-2020 03:30
  
  Washington • Top Republicans in Congress were expecting to meet Monday with President Donald Trump on the next COVID-19 aid package as the administration panned more virus testing money and interjected other priorities that could complicate quick passage.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was prepared to roll out the $1 trillion package in a matter of days. But divisions between the Senate GOP majority and the White House posed fresh challenges. Congress was returning to session this we
  
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• Governments around world eye tougher steps to fight virus

  20-07-2020 03:21
  
  Signs of governments reassessing their coronavirus response were scattered around the world Sunday, with the mayor of Los Angeles saying the city was reopened too quickly, Ohio’s governor warning his state is “going the wrong way,” Hong Kong issuing tougher new rules on wearing face masks and Spain closing overcrowded beaches.Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Los Angeles was “on the brink” of new widespread stay-at-home orders as Los Angeles County continued to s
  
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• Jack Nicklaus says he tested positive for the coronavirus

  20-07-2020 03:16
  
  Dublin, Ohio • Jack Nicklaus revealed Sunday during the CBS telecast of the Memorial that he and his wife tested positive for the coronavirus at the onset of the pandemic.Nicklaus and his wife, Barbara, turned 80 a month apart at the start of the year.He said his wife had no COVID-19 symptoms, while Nicklaus had a sore throat and a cough. Nicklaus said they were home in North Palm Beach, Fla., from March 13 “until we were done with it” on about April 20.“It didn’t l
  
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• Fast-moving fire burns 3,000 acres, closes I-15, forces evacuations in Washington County

  20-07-2020 03:09
  
  Although fire crews saw improvement Saturday night into Sunday morning as they battled multiple wildfires through the state, a new fire in Washington County forced evacuations and closed down the highway Sunday afternoon.The Cottonwood Trail Fire — which had burned about 3,000 acres along I-15 in Washington County as of 6:30 p.m. Sunday and was sparked by a blown tire — was spreading rapidly due to windy conditions.The fire forced the Utah Department of Transportation to close I-15 i
  
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• Man’s body pulled from Bear Lake after he possibly drowned

  20-07-2020 03:03
  
  Searchers recovered a man’s body in Bear Lake on Sunday afternoon after he may have drowned Saturday, according to FOX 13.On Saturday evening, the Bear Lake County Sheriff’s Office was notified of a possible drowning after kayakers saw a man — later identified as 27-year-old Martin T. Garcia of Logan — fall off an inflatable tube and go into the water near the lake’s North Beach. The kayakers attempted to help Garcia but were unsuccessful.Search and rescue crews beg
  
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• Rahm wins Memorial, claims No. 1 ranking; Utahn Finau settles for eighth

  20-07-2020 03:02
  
  Dublin, Ohio • Jon Rahm won the Memorial to join Seve Ballesteros as the only Spaniards to reach No. 1 in the world, a victory he finally wrapped up with a magical shot that would have made his idol proud.Rahm built an eight-shot lead at the turn, only to see it reduced to three shots with three holes to play Sunday on a Muirfield Village course playing its toughest in 42 years.In trouble behind the green on the par-3 16th, with Ryan Palmer facing a 12-foot birdie putt from the fringe, Rahm
  
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• New fire closes I-15, forces evacuations in Washington County

  20-07-2020 02:40
  
  Although fire crews saw improvement Saturday night into Sunday morning as they battled multiple wildfires through the state, a new fire in Washington County forced evacuations and closed down the highway Sunday afternoon.The Cottonwood Trail Fire — which had burned about 3,000 acres along I-15 in Washington County as of 6:30 p.m. Sunday and was sparked by a blown tire — was spreading rapidly due to windy conditions. The fire forced the Utah Department of Transportation to close I-15
  
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• New fire closes I-15 in Washington County; crews gain ground on blazes across Utah

  20-07-2020 01:07
  
  Although multiple wildfires continue to burn 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, which is burning along the Nevada-Utah border, was 34% contained as of Sunday morning. It has burned 8,453 acres. Firefighters will continue to put a line around the fire’s edge and remake the bulldozer line on the south end of the fire, accordin
  
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• ‘Headband’ Joe Ingles lobbies for Rudy Gobert as DPOY, says upcoming scrimmages crucial for Utah Jazz

  20-07-2020 00:00
  
  Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles (2) drives around New York Knicks guard Damyean Dotson (21) with Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) trailing as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — A makeshift headband, crafted to be a bandage for Joe Ingles after a collision with MarShon Brooks in Memphis on Nov. 12, 2018, left Ingles with a laceration above
  
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