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• Census to come knocking in Utah: Can it finish fair count with shortened deadline?

  11-08-2020 23:45 via sltrib.com
  
  The Census Bureau has launched its six-week sprint in Utah to knock on the doors of hundreds of thousands of people who have yet to respond to its once-every-decade count before the Trump administration says it must stop on Sept. 30.That came as Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., called for a probe into why the administration is ending the count a month early. Democrats argue it is for GOP political gain to undercount tough-to-enumerate areas with immigrants or low-income people more likely to be Demo
  
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• Pac-12 cancels all sports, including football and hoops, through Jan. 1

  11-08-2020 22:33 via sltrib.com
  
  Whether it was the Pacific Coast Conference, Pac-8, Pac-10, Pac-12, the league has played football each fall dating back to 1916.Through World Wars and any number of global events in between and afterwards, the preeminent collegiate athletics league in the Western United States has persevered. As of Tuesday, that is all over.The Pac-12 announced on Tuesday afternoon that it will not only play fall sports in 2020, but that it is cancelling all sports through at least Jan. 1, 2021.The Pac-12 has s
  
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• Joe Biden selects California Senator Kamala Harris as running mate

  11-08-2020 22:26 via sltrib.com
  
  Wilmington, Del. • Joe Biden named California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday, making history by selecting the first Black woman to compete on a major party’s presidential ticket and acknowledging the vital role Black voters will play in his bid to defeat President Donald Trump.In choosing Harris, Biden is embracing a former rival from the Democratic primary who is familiar with the unique rigor of a national campaign. Harris, a 55-year-old first-term senator, is als
  
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• Navajo Nation president asks Trump to halt execution of Navajo man

  11-08-2020 22:15 via sltrib.com
  
  Phoenix • Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez has asked President Donald Trump to commute the death sentence of a Navajo man convicted in the 2001 killing of a fellow tribal member and her 9-year-old granddaughter.Nez cited the tribe’s longstanding opposition to the death penalty in a July 31 letter to Trump that asks for the sentence of Lezmond Mitchell, the only Native American on federal death row, to be reduced to life in prison. Tribal officials and even the victims’ famil
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Quality vs. Qanon

  11-08-2020 22:08 via sltrib.com
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Blowing Up the MessengerGoes to ElevenDr. Donald’s DevoteesCottonwood Heights LowsBusiness DocsJohn LewisMaking Moscow Great AgainLow BarrDidn’t See That ComingStorm TrumpersWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Report: Pac-12 joins Big Ten in canceling fall football

  11-08-2020 22:03 via sltrib.com
  
  The Pac-12 will not be playing football this fall.The league opted to cancel football and other fall sports on Tuesday afternoon, according to a Yahoo! Sports report.The Pac-12 has scheduled a media webinar for Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., in which the league will make an announcement, followed by league commissioner Larry Scott answering questions. Michael Schill, (University of Oregon President and Chair of the Pac-12 CEO Group), Ray Anderson (Arizona State Vice President for University Athletics) an
  
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• Raymond A. Hult: Corrupting the presidency for personal financial gain

  11-08-2020 22:00 via sltrib.com
  
  The foreign Emoluments Clause is a provision in Article 1, section 9, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting members of the federal government from receiving emoluments from foreign states without the consent of Congress. Emoluments are defined as personal financial gains.President Trump has not only violated the Emoluments Clause on numerous occasions, but has regularly misused campaign donor and taxpayer funds to pad his financial portfolio.Concerning the misuse of donor’s money
  
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• Salt Lake City bar owners sue former employees for defamation and fraud

  11-08-2020 21:42 via sltrib.com
  
  The wife of a Salt Lake City bar owner launched a social media explosion last month when she posted a racially-charged comment about the Black Lives Matter movement.Brandi LeCates later removed the post and apologized, saying her comment that " Black lives don’t matter more than anyone else’s” was taken out of context and the three Salt Lake City bars her husband co-owns were being unnecessarily targeted.Jason LeCates and the other owners of the Bourbon House Group — whic
  
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• Big Ten cancels fall football, Pac-12 expected to follow suit later Tuesday

  11-08-2020 21:42 via sltrib.com
  
  The 14-team, 11-state Big Ten, which has played football each year since 1896 and through both World Wars, opted to cancel fall sports on Tuesday afternoon. The Pac-12 is expected to follow suit. The league has scheduled a media webinar for Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., in which the league will make an announcement, followed by league commissioner Larry Scott will answer questions. Michael Schill, (University of Oregon President and Chair of the Pac-12 CEO Group), Ray Anderson (Arizona State Vice Presid
  
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• Gordon Monson: College football didn’t have to collapse, but now that it’s happening, it’s in the best interest of those who play it

  11-08-2020 21:27 via sltrib.com
  
  College football is collapsing.That’s a sentence which, prior to March, I never thought I’d write.Ever.But since then, sadly, it’s no big surprise.And, sure enough, here we are, already having seen some leagues kill football in 2020 and waiting for others to soon join the dead-and-dyingseason.Better football, though, than more human beings.That’swhat this all should be about, saving lives, keeping student-athletesas healthy and safe as possible, not simply dodging more ex
  
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• Utah beats governor’s Sept. 1 deadline for fewer than 400 average daily diagnoses

  11-08-2020 21:15 via sltrib.com
  
  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 day after Utah reported the lowest number of new coronavirus cases in months, new diagnoses remained relatively low again on Tuesday, with 362 cases reported.For the past week, Utah has averaged 399 new confirmed cases per day &mdas
  
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• Big Ten cancels fall football, Pac-12 expected to follow suit

  11-08-2020 21:00 via sltrib.com
  
  The Big Ten has cancelled fall football, and the Pac-12 is expected to follow suit.The 14-team, 11-state Big Ten, which has played each year since 1896 and through both World Wars, opted to cancel Tuesday afternoon, according to Yahoo! Sports. An official announcement was expected from the league a short time later.With that massive piece of news, the Pac-12 is expected to do the same later Tuesday, but full details of the Pac-12′s plan are not yet known.Both leagues plan to play in the sp
  
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• Pac-12, Big Ten ponder fall football as schools, leagues around them cancel

  11-08-2020 20:36 via sltrib.com
  
  Officials in the Big Ten and Pac-12 resumed discussions Tuesday about whether college football should be played this fall as another program decided to punt on its coming season because of the pandemic. Massachusetts became the second Northeast independent program in the highest tier of NCAA football to cancel the fall season, joining Connecticut. UMass is the 27th Bowl Subdivision program to put off fall sports in hopes of a spring season.At the top of major college football, the Big Ten and Pa
  
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• FBS independent UMass cancels fall football

  11-08-2020 20:28 via sltrib.com
  
  Massachusetts is the latest school from the Football Bowl Subdivision, college football’s highest level, to cancel its fall season.UMass is an independent in football and its decision affects only that sport. Most of UMass' athletic teams compete in the Atlantic 10. Athletic director Ryan Bamford said the school will try to conduct a football spring season if possible."Our job as coaches and mentors is to provide opportunities for our players, and do everything in our power to not take the
  
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• New hub will stop unsafe parade of trucks inside Salt Lake City airport

  11-08-2020 20:11 via sltrib.com
  
  Officials at the Salt Lake City International Airport say the situation wasn’t all that safe and it wasn’t secure.“You would see beer trucks, pop trucks and food trucks and all kinds of other trucks driving back and forth from the gate where they entered the airfield to the terminal” to make deliveries to concourse restaurants and stores, said airport director Bill Wyatt.“That is not an optimal situation,” he added. “You don’t really know who the d
  
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• Timothy J. Funk: City’s latest affordable housing proposal won’t be enough

  11-08-2020 20:09 via sltrib.com
  
  For more than two decades, local advocates of lower income affordable housing have offered legitimate proposals to Salt Lake City mayors and City Councils to no avail. With great determination, we try here once again.We are concerned the Affordable Housing Overlay and the rezoning proposals therein now before the City Council will be insufficient. It will produce few if any affordable units if implemented as is.Unless and until the following issues and concerns are addressed by policy-makers, th
  
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• Police in South Salt Lake searching for multiple victims after similar sex assault reports

  11-08-2020 19:42 via sltrib.com
  
  Police in South Salt Lake say a man has assaulted at least three women after luring them to his car — and investigators believe there may be other victims.Officers were investigating a January report from a woman who said a man sexually assaulted her after offering to give her a ride when they found two similar reports that women filed in November 2016 and September 2017.In each report, the woman said a man offered her a ride, but once she was in the car the man took her behind a building,
  
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• Coronavirus surge makes U.S. the weak link in global economic recovery

  11-08-2020 19:34 via sltrib.com
  
  Frankfurt, Germany • People in China are back to buying German luxury cars. Europe’s assembly lines are accelerating. Now the global economy is waiting for the United States to get its coronavirus outbreak under control and boost the recovery, but there’s little sign of that.The United States’ fumbling response to the pandemic and its dithering over a new aid package is casting doubt on its economic prospects and making it one of the chief risks to a global rebound.After s
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: COVID-19 outbreaks at Utah child care centers

  11-08-2020 19:13 via sltrib.com
  
  Fifty-seven child care facilities in Utah have reported coronavirus cases so far — but responses to the disease have varied greatly from one to another.Today at noon, reporter Taylor Stevens will talk to Karla Pardini of the I.J. and Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center and Simon Bolivar with the Child Care Licensing Program for the Utah Department of Health about COVID-19 outbreaks at Utah child care facilities.Tweet your questions using #tribtalk, or email them to tribtalk@sltrib
  
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• Utah women hold 40% of leadership posts in state government, new study finds

  11-08-2020 17:35 via sltrib.com
  
  Women hold less than 40% of leadership positions across state government in Utah, according to a new study that found the divide in labor falls largely along gendered lines.They are most often working in jobs that are on the front line and in departments that are considered more “feminine,” like education, social services and health. And they are less likely to be represented as leaders in “masculine” agencies that more often set policies and determine budgets, according
  
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• Will Utah lawmakers bail out beleaguered coal-export terminal?

  11-08-2020 15:16 via sltrib.com
  
  The bankrupt proponents of an export terminal, intended to ship Utah coal overseas through Oakland, Calif., need a $20 million bailout and fast.Relief could come as soon as Aug. 20 when the Utah Legislature votes on whether to advance state money to pay off the project’s creditors, according to lawyers for Insight Terminal Solutions, the beleaguered company now at the center of the Oakland controversy.At least that’s what lawyer Andrew Stosberg told a Kentucky bankruptcy judge Friday
  
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• Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson talks about federal coronavirus aid and future pandemic needs

  11-08-2020 15:16 via sltrib.com
  
  Early on in the pandemic, Congress came together in a rare act of bipartisanship to pass the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES, a staggering $2 trillion effort to counteract the economic fallout of the global public health crisis.But economic strife continues, COVID-19 is spreading, and Washington, D.C., is back to its usual gridlock. On the local level, Utahns are adjusting to new routines.“In a strange way, it’s starting to feel normal to wear masks every
  
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• Earthquake damage forced Salt Lake air traffic controllers to walk up 25 stories in tower for 4 months

  11-08-2020 15:16 via sltrib.com
  
  Air traffic controllers at Salt Lake City International Airport are now probably very physically fit. Because of damage from the 5.7 earthquake on March 18, they had to walk up 25 stories worth of stairs in the tower every workday for four months.But its once-damaged elevator is finally repaired and in good working order, according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration in response to questions from The Salt Lake Tribune.“The repairs took almost four months to complete, wh
  
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• Salt Lake City police dog ordered to attack a Black man on his knees with his hands in the air

  11-08-2020 15:11 via sltrib.com
  
  When the police arrived at the home of Jeffery Ryans early one morning in April, the 36-year-old was startled, but said his reaction was almost instinctive.Growing up as a Black man in Alabama, he said, you’re taught to cooperate. Put your hands up when you’re told. Get on the ground if they say so.That’s what he was trying to do on April 24 when Salt Lake City police were called to his house after someone heard him arguing with his wife.Body camera footage from the officers sh
  
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• Pandemic doesn’t stop the rise of flexible and shared office spaces in downtown Salt Lake City

  11-08-2020 15:08 via sltrib.com
  
  Three quirky and flexible work spaces debuting in Salt Lake City’s downtown offer one possibility of what office life could look like in a world transformed by the pandemic.The new hubs inside Main Street’s Kearns Building, a huge overhauled foundry in the Granary District and a revamped produce warehouse on 500 South were all planned or underway before the coronavirus hit.They are intended as varieties of less traditional shared offices, where businesses or individuals might lease a
  
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• Rico bean and tortilla plant may dodge closure after finding new digs in Salt Lake City

  11-08-2020 14:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Jorge Fierro, owner of Rico Brand Mexican products, has found a new Salt Lake City production facility and — if all goes well — could avoid eviction and the closure of his business.Fierro said Monday he has signed a short-term lease to move into the 7,000-square-foot former Western Food Service building at 945 W. Folsom Ave.“Even though it is a lot smaller” than Rico’s current digs, Fierro said, “it’s perfect for me.”The new space will allow him to
  
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• Robert Kirby: Warning — old guy at play; do not expose to direct sunlight

  11-08-2020 14:15 via sltrib.com
  
  We arrived home Sunday night from a four-day family vacation in southern Utah. I thought I knew hot. If I ever did, I must have forgotten what it was like.So when my son-in-law suggested that we pull his boat to Sand Hollow down in hell … I mean southern Utah … for a few days in August, I was all for it.I have lived in some of the hottest places in the United States — Las Vegas, then Fort Irwin and Barstow in Southern California. Summer in all three of those places routinely
  
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• Women hold 40% of leadership posts in state government, new study finds

  11-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Women hold less than 40% of leadership positions across state government in Utah, according to a new study that found the divide in labor falls largely along gendered lines.They are most often working in jobs that are on the front line and in departments that are considered more “feminine,” like education, social services and health. And they are less likely to be represented as leaders in “masculine” agencies that more often set policies and determine budgets, according
  
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• Letter: We need police reform

  11-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  We all must stop and look.The Sunday night police response in Cottonwood Heights to people singing and dancing in the streets is an eye opener for all our communities. It’s clear we need our elected leaders to step up and represent the public response to this kind of police action.We can do this by supporting officials such as Tali Bruce, a councilwoman in Cottonwood Heights who was reportedly punched in the throat and knocked to the ground during an encounter with a police officer. Her in
  
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• Jeff Saunders: Teachers have gone from heroes to zeroes

  11-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  I have been dreading the end of summer.Good news! I was near the out-of-pocket maximum on my family’s health insurance, so I decided to get some work done. I had a tonsillectomy, and fixed a deviated septum to help correct my severe obstructive sleep apnea. I also have to get “something” done on the “other end” in a week. Got to take advantage of the insurance while we can.I teach high school and we are supposed to go back to class in a couple of weeks. My school di
  
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• David Brooks: Where do Republicans go from here?

  11-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Jonathan V. Last thinks President Donald Trump is here forever. Last, the editor of The Bulwark, a conservative site that’s been hostile to Trump, argues that if Trump loses in November, he’ll claim he was cheated out of the election. He’ll force other Republicans to back up his claim. He’ll get a TV show, hold rallies, be coy about running again in 2024.He’ll still be the center of everything Republican. Ambitious Republicans will have to lash themselves to the hus
  
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• Letter: Our voting system is outdated

  11-08-2020 13:04 via sltrib.com
  
  We hear every day that we live in a country divided along distinct ideologies, and that has reached a boiling point this year. Yet most Americans share the same goal of making this country better. Often the pursuit of truth becomes drowned out by the pursuit of political victory. Look back in United States’ history and you will find time after time where this rings true, and this makes clear where the problem lies: how we elect our politicians.It is important to start at the beginning, and
  
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• Shooting near White House interrupts Trump’s briefing on TV

  11-08-2020 06:55 via sltrib.com
  
  Washington • A uniformed Secret Service officer shot and wounded a man during a confrontation near the White House that led to President Donald Trump being abruptly escorted out of a briefing room during a televised news conference Monday, authorities said.The White House complex was not breached and no one under Secret Service protection was in danger, said Tom Sullivan, chief of the Secret Service Uniformed Division.The name of the man, 51, and his condition were not released by Sullivan.
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: Beirut’s blast is a warning for America

  11-08-2020 06:00 via sltrib.com
  
  When I first heard the news of the terrible explosion in Beirut, and then the rampant speculation about who might have set it off, my mind drifted back some 40 years to a dinner party I attended at the residence of Malcolm Kerr, then president of the American University of Beirut.During the course of the dinner, someone mentioned the unusual hailstorms that had pelted Beirut the previous two nights. Everyone offered their explanations for this extreme weather event, before Malcolm, tongue in che
  
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• Westminster students must use phone app warning of coronavirus spread

  11-08-2020 04:44 via sltrib.com
  
  Students at Westminster College must download a phone app that will warn them when they’ve come in contact with someone on campus who has contracted COVID-19, the college announced Monday.The app will be called Westminster Safe. It was one of a number of pandemic precautions announced Monday by Daniel K. Cairo, the college’s interim dean of students, and emailed to students and posted to a campus website.Westminster Safe tracks whom the user has been close to for 15 minutes or more.
  
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• Trump abruptly escorted from briefing after shooting near White House

  11-08-2020 04:23 via sltrib.com
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted by a U.S. Secret Service agent out of the White House briefing room as he was beginning a coronavirus briefing Monday afternoon. He returned minutes later, saying there was a “shooting” outside the White House that was “under control.”“There was an actual shooting and somebody’s been taken to the hospital,” Trump said. The president said the shots were fired by law enforcement, saying he beli
  
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• Letter: How many teachers will we say goodbye to?

  11-08-2020 04:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Our daughter came to say goodbye to us today. No, she is not moving far away. She’s a teacher.Teachers go back to school Monday with all the other teachers and their contacts. The students join them the next Monday, with their myriad of extra contacts. She came to say good-bye because we are older, and have some risk factors. She cannot bear the thought of bringing a potentially deadly virus over here and infecting us. I’m sure this scenario is playing out in many homes across the co
  
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• Charles M. Blow: In the wake of protests

  11-08-2020 04:00 via sltrib.com
  
  We are in a period of post-mortem reflection following the time during which racial justice protests were at their most intense. We now must ask ourselves: What has changed and what hasn’t? Have power and privilege truly been disrupted? Has oppression been alleviated? What will be the legacy of this moment?The historic protests in the wake of George Floyd’s killing were met with high hopes and soaring rhetoric. The protests were called a racial reckoning, a long-overdue racial accoun
  
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• Lebanese government resigns after Beirut explosion, public anger

  11-08-2020 03:40 via sltrib.com
  
  Beirut • Lebanon’s prime minister stepped down from his job Monday in the wake of the catastrophic explosion in Beirut that has triggered public outrage, saying he has come to the conclusion that corruption in the country is “bigger than the state.”The move risks opening the way to dragged-out negotiations over a new Cabinet amid urgent calls for reform. It follows a weekend of anti-government protests after the Aug. 4 explosion in Beirut’s port that decimated the fa
  
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• Utah Jazz finally feel like they’ve got it together from 3-point range

  11-08-2020 03:37 via sltrib.com
  
  Granted, it was subsequently buried amid the rubble of the Utah Jazz’s epic fourth-quarter collapse, but there actually was some good within Monday’s loss to the Mavericks.Notably, the team’s cadre of shooters (non-Bojan Bogdanovic edition) now appears to be fully weaponized.Considering the way they started off shooting in the bubble, it’s no small thing that they’ve finally found their range.After being among the league’s top two teams from beyond the arc thr
  
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• Teen dies after a car flips into a Jordan River canal

  11-08-2020 03:35 via sltrib.com
  
  A 15-year-old boy died Monday — two days after police and firefighters dove into a Salt Lake City canal to save him and a toddler.The city’s police and fire chiefs praised their personnel Monday for diving into the Jordan River canal to retrieve the kids from a submerged car.“With no thought to personal safety, officers immediately stripped their gear and attempted a daring rescue of these two children,” said Police Chief Mike Brown in a news release. “It was dark.
  
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• Utah athletics had positive COVID-19 tests, but not lately

  11-08-2020 03:10 via sltrib.com
  
  The University of Utah has been testing student-athletes for COVID-19 since before voluntary workouts began on June 15.Only now do we have some idea of what those tests yielded.Speaking on ESPN700 late Monday afternoon, Dr. David Petron, the team doctor for the Utes as well as the Jazz, said 12 student-athletes tested positive before returning to campus. Of the 540 tests conducted once student-athletes arrived on campus, three of them yielded positive results.Petron went on to say that of the 18
  
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• Pat and Sharon O’Toole: If you like birds and fish, hug a cow

  11-08-2020 03:00 via sltrib.com
  
  You don’t hear this from former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt or the usual suspects whose goal is to end many water diversions from the Colorado River, but it’s true. Rural landscapes and wildlife need ranching and irrigated agriculture to survive.Without irrigation, think high desert. Without irrigation in this time of extended drought, less late water will be there for fish, birds and other riparian-dependent species. Wildlife habitat would be traded for urban growth if groups l
  
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• ‘His legacy is so vast’: Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder honors Rep. John Lewis with shirt, says voting has been emphasized in NBA bubble

  11-08-2020 02:48
  
  The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis. | Provided by U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ office SALT LAKE CITY — As the NBA community works to keep dialogue open regarding racial justice while in the league’s bubble at Disney World, Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder regularly wears shirts or shares messages during his Zoom media availabilities related to the topic.
  On Monday at his pregame availability before the Jazz played the Dallas Mavericks, Snyder donned a shirt with a quote from the late Rep.
  
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• ‘His legacy is so vast’: Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder honors Rep. John Lewis with shirt

  11-08-2020 02:48
  
  The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis. | Provided by U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ office SALT LAKE CITY — As the NBA community works to keep dialogue open regarding racial justice while in the league’s bubble at Disney World, Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder regularly wears shirts or shares messages during his Zoom media availabilities related to the topic.
  On Monday at his pregame availability before the Jazz played the Dallas Mavericks, Snyder donned a shirt with a quote from the late Rep.
  
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• Utah Jazz prioritizing health, bench development as seeding games wind down

  11-08-2020 02:40
  
  Dallas Mavericks Trey Burke (32) shoots under Utah Jazz’s Rayjon Tucker (6) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | AP Photo/Ashley Landis, PoolSALT LAKE CITY — Bojan Bogdanovic’s season-ending wrist surgery is so much more impactful than just asking for more production from the already heavy-usage players. There are ripple effects.
  When Jordan Clarkson came to the Utah Jazz in a trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers in
  
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• Firefighters gain on blazes that closed Utah roads

  11-08-2020 02:27 via sltrib.com
  
  A fire briefly closed U.S. Highway 40 in eastern Utah on Sunday, but Monday firefighters came close to containing the blaze.What’s been dubbed the 6400 Fire was 75% contained Monday, according to a tweet from Utah’s wildfire managers. The blaze was 225 acres.Humans sparked the fire about noon Sunday southeast of Fruitland, according to a news release from the Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, though investigators are trying to determine who and how. The division gave credit
  
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• Schools mull outdoor classes amid worries about poor air ventilation

  11-08-2020 02:19 via sltrib.com
  
  It has been seven years since the central air conditioning system worked at the New York City middle school where Lisa Fitzgerald O’Connor teaches. As a new school year approaches amid the coronavirus pandemic, she and her colleagues are threatening not to return unless it’s repaired.Her classroom has a window air conditioning unit, but she fears the stagnant air will increase the chances that an infected student could spread the virus.“Window units just aren’t going to c
  
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• Letter: The ‘cult of selfishness’

  11-08-2020 01:58 via sltrib.com
  
  I recently finished reading Mary Trump’s book “Too Much and Never Enough,” in which the author portrays a family consumed by an almost unbelievable degree of selfishness. She explains that her aunts and uncles learned selfishness as a mechanism for coping with dysfunctional parents, but none learned it as well as Donald Trump, with strong encouragement from his father.As a result, we now have a president who is unable to think of anyone but himself. He is in constant need of be
  
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• The college football season starts to crumble. Here is how it is affecting teams in Utah.

  11-08-2020 01:52 via sltrib.com
  
  The 2020 college football season is on the brink of a complete collapse, with conferences apparently ready to succumb to the pandemic that has already transformed so much.The Mountain West, which houses Utah State University and 11 other schools, canceled all fall sports on Monday, saying they may play football in the spring.That move had a direct effect on independent Brigham Young University, which had scheduled games against the Aggies, Boise State and San Diego State. Combine the loss of Mou
  
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