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• Tribune Editorial: Flatten the curve. The one at the polls.

  15-08-2020 23:00
  
  Since the first day we all heard the word “coronavirus,” our immediate goal has been to “flatten the curve.”If we make it that much less likely that the coronavirus will jump from one person to another at any one time, we may avoid the most frightening possibility, that we would have so many cases at the same time that the the health care system would become overwhelmed and collapse.Now it is time to apply that same logic, and at least as much effort, into saving, not our
  
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• Letter: Donald Trump’s large handicap

  15-08-2020 23:00
  
  Donald Trump made political history this past month: governing while golfing.He teed off on Friday night with an astounding press conference, one never held by any previous president in history. He invited several wealthy members of his golf resort in New Jersey (Bedminster) as an audience at his press conference. It included few children. The appreciative audience responded with clapping and exhortations at appropriate points.Later in the weekend, he issued four executive orders (probably uncon
  
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• Here’s what performing arts classes will look like in Utah high schools during the COVID-19 pandemic

  15-08-2020 23:00
  
  When Woods Cross High School students return to band class, the classroom will look different than the way they left it.Chairs are spaced 6 feet apart to ensure social distancing, and students will be required to cover the bell (the flared opening) of brass and wind instruments such as trumpets, French horns, tubas, saxophones and clarinets. Music stands and chairs will be sterilized.And students will be required to wear a face mask while playing — by cutting a slit in masks for the mouthp
  
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• Denver Nuggets’ season has been marred by injury and depth issues, which have cropped up once again in the NBA bubble

  15-08-2020 23:00
  
  Members of the Denver Nuggets bench react against the Miami Heat during an NBA basketball game, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP) | AP SALT LAKE CITY — This was supposed to be the year the Denver Nuggets became a legitimate contender.
  The Nuggets, who finished the season as the No. 3 seed in the NBA’s Western Conference, feel like they have all the necessary pieces, but concerns that plagued them in the postseason last season —
  
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• Neither pro-police nor anti-police rallies like Mayor Erin Mendenhall’s reform orders

  15-08-2020 21:57
  
  Protestors at competing rallies for and against the police on Saturday managed to agree on one thing: neither likes the reforms imposed by Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall.Police supporters say they go too far, while critics of police violence say they are too weak.“They definitely don’t go far enough,” said Dave Newlin, an organizer of a Utahns Against Police Brutality rally at the Salt Lake City Police station. It attracted about 100 protestors on Saturday.Alternatively,
  
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• Postal Service crisis ripples across the nation as an election looms

  15-08-2020 21:55
  
  Darby, Pa. • Each day, when Nick Casselli, president of a Philadelphia postal workers union, sits down at his desk on Main Street in the historic town of Darby, where trolley cars still run and the post office is a source of civic pride, his phone is full of alarmed messages about increasing delays in mail delivery.Casselli and his 1,600 members have been in a state of high alert since Louis DeJoy, a Republican megadonor and an ally of President Donald Trump, took over as postmaster general
  
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• State reports 345 new COVID-19 cases, and three more deaths

  15-08-2020 21:10
  
  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. Another 345 Utahns have tested positive for COVID-19, while three more have died from the disease, the Utah Department of Health said Saturday in its daily report.The new deaths bring the state’s overall death toll to 363 people.T
  
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• The Utah Jazz started the season with sights set on a title. Now they’re searching for an identity

  15-08-2020 21:00
  
  Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell (45) pumps up teammate Rudy Gobert during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Denver Nuggets, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP) | APSALT LAKE CITY — A trade for Mike Conley, grabbing Bojan Bogdanovic off the free-agent market, adding Ed Davis and Jeff Green. These were all moves by the Utah Jazz last summer that were heralded throughout the NBA community.
  The Jazz were keeping their co
  
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• 2 Utah men say ‘I Quit’ on TV — and then have to tell their wives

  15-08-2020 20:00
  
  Marcus Sorensen and Chris Studdert certainly aren’t the only husbands who ever told their wives they were quitting their jobs to start their own business. But the two Utah men are among the few who’ve done it on national television.“It took some convincing,” Sorensen said. “I told her, ‘I’m quitting my job, and I’m doing this TV show.’ That’s sort of a recipe for — my husband has lost his mind.”The TV show “I Quit&rdqu
  
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• New Orleans Pelicans fire Alvin Gentry after 5 seasons as team’s coach

  15-08-2020 19:24
  
  New Orleans • The New Orleans Pelicans fired coach Alvin Gentry on Saturday after the club missed the playoffs for the fourth time in five seasons.The Pelicans went 30-42 this season, finishing with just two victories in their final eight games despite the presence of top overall draft choice Zion Williamson and first-time All-Star Brandon Ingram in the lineup.Gentry was hired by former Pelicans general manager Dell Demps after the club fired Monte Williams following the 2014-15 season, whe
  
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• One dead, two arrested following SLC nightclub shooting

  15-08-2020 18:32
  
  One person is dead and two others were arrested after a shooting at a club in downtown Salt Lake City earlySaturday morning.According to Salt Lake City Police, the shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. at “Echo,”located at 134 West Pierpont Avenue, according to FOX 13 News.A male patron was reportedly frisked, then left and re-entered through another door.Witnesses confirmed that individual fired multiple rounds into the ceiling, at which point a bouncer fired his weapon at the suspect.
  
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• Navajo woman sues tribal government over canceled primary

  15-08-2020 18:15
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • A member of the Navajo Nation is suing the tribal government to try to force a primary election that was canceled because of the coronavirus.Eloise Brown alleged in the complaint filed in Window Rock District Court that tribal lawmakers don't have the authority to change election dates. She said that power is reserved for the Navajo people."We have to stand up for the people, otherwise they (elected officials) are just going to go out of control," she said Friday. "We nee
  
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• Zion National Park’s shuttles are old, but there’s no money to replace them

  15-08-2020 18:12
  
  St. George • Every day, packed shuttles chug through Zion National Park carrying thousands of hikers, bikers, tourists and locals into the country’s third most visited National Park.The nearly 40 buses they have on hand have carried passengers since 2000, and haven’t been replaced since, much to the dismay of visitors and park officials alike, The Spectrum newspaper reports.Between the upkeep and many repairs, 79% of all park entrance fees go toward just keeping the shuttles run
  
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• Police arrest teen for Payson sledgehammer and day care center attack

  15-08-2020 18:02
  
  Payson Police arrested a 17-year-old early Saturday and charged him with attacking a man with a sledgehammer, and then entering a day care center and punching several childrenThat attack had led to a shelter-in-place order for much of Friday in Payson.A news release said the teen turned himself in at 4 a.m. on Saturday, after poice were able to identify him with leads provided by the public after many residents provided home surveillance videos to helpThe teen has been booked into the Slate Cany
  
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• George Pyle: Protect Ben Franklin’s gift to America

  15-08-2020 17:00
  
  Can there be anything more American than the Post Office?It helps that the history of what is now officially known as the United States Postal Service basically begins as the handiwork of the most American of us all, Benjamin Franklin.Franklin worked for a long time to wangle himself the appointment, first as postmaster of Philadelphia, then as postmaster general of the colonies under the British crown and then, in 1775, as the first postmaster general of the United States.It was a position he h
  
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• Scores of immigration documents allegedly destroyed by Salt Lake City postal worker

  15-08-2020 14:45
  
  A former Salt Lake City postal employee is awaiting trial on federal charges she destroyed or discarded mail in connection with the disappearance of at least 60 federal immigration documents bound for residents of eastern Nevada.Diana K. Molyneux was indicted by a grand jury in 2019 on two counts of destruction or delay of the mail. The crime, a violation of Title 18 Section 1703 of the United States Code, is punishable by a fine or up to five years in prison.An April 6 hearing was canceled beca
  
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• Utah will still have its annual state fair during the pandemic — with some changes

  15-08-2020 14:30
  
  COVID-19 has forced cancellation of many events in 2020, but Utahns still have an annual state fair to look forward to — although it will be modified for safety during the pandemic.In a State Fairpark Committee meeting Friday, lawmakers passed a motion to allow a modified version of the state fair to take place from Sept. 10 through Sept. 20.“One of the ways that we can mitigate some of the risk and exposure,” said Larry Mullenax, state Fairpark executive director, “is by
  
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• San Juan School District working to expand internet access to students on the Navajo Nation

  15-08-2020 14:15
  
  Months before COVID-19 was discovered in China in late 2019, Aaron Brewer, the technology director for the San Juan School District in southeast Utah, was working to connect more students to home internet.A lack of broadband and internet service providers on the northern Navajo Nation in San Juan County meant many students could only access the internet at school, limiting home learning opportunities and constraining the types of homework teachers were able to assign.“We started to work on
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: A geopolitical earthquake just struck the Middle East

  15-08-2020 14:00
  
  For once, I am going to agree with President Donald Trump in his use of his favorite adjective: “huge.”The agreement brokered by the Trump administration for the United Arab Emirates to establish full normalization of relations with Israel, in return for the Jewish state forgoing, for now, any annexation of the West Bank, was exactly what Trump said it was in his tweet: a “HUGE breakthrough.”It is not Anwar Sadat going to Jerusalem — nothing could match that first b
  
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• Salt Lake City street redesign guide draws praise, complaints

  15-08-2020 14:00
  
  People spend a lot of time traveling public streets, and Salt Lake City is working on major redesigns that better reflect what its residents value.Streets typically make up about 80% of a city’s public spaces, but they’re lumped into three broad categories — local streets, arterial streets (such as high-speed highways) and collector streets that funnel traffic between the two.Salt Lake City is in the process of diversifying its streets into 15 different designs, or “typol
  
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• Letter: President turns people against one another

  15-08-2020 14:00
  
  Recently, President Donald Trump tweeted to all the “suburban housewives of America.”While the meaning of the term “housewife” is unclear, I am going to assume Trump was tweeting to me. Trump’s tweet declares that his opposing presidential candidate, Joe Biden, if elected, would “destroy [my] neighborhood and [my] American Dream.”Shocked by Trump’s concern for my neighborhood and dreams, I investigated Biden’s plans to destroy them. If I unde
  
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• Letter: Police officers are not ‘thugs’

  15-08-2020 14:00
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune editorial of Aug. 9 noted that the officers of Cottonwood Heights were armed when responding to the protest in the neighborhood of their city.As a retired peace officer, I had to note there was some indication that officers being armed was out of character — to the extent of calling them “thugs.”After serving some 40 years — many in supervisory and command positions — and belonging to several national police organizations, I have never heard of
  
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• Holly Richardson: Zucchini, weeds and a new normal

  15-08-2020 14:00
  
  This morning, I spent two and a half hours in the garden, mostly pulling the very overgrown weeds but also harvesting zucchini and tomatoes. I now have 18 good-sized zucchini on my counter from this morning’s pickings, added to the dozen picked three days ago and the gigantic ones we fed to the chickens.It struck me that this is normal. Like pre-pandemic normal. Zucchini and weeds growing prolifically is just ... normal. And I was grateful.I also started to think about the “new norma
  
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• Letter: Remote learning can work for many families

  15-08-2020 13:00
  
  With COVID-19 positive cases in Utah increasing, many school districts have announced that they will be starting school one to two weeks later than normal, and many others are still working to come up with a plan. School districts are struggling to find the right solution to reopen schools.Sadly, no one solution will work for every family. Finding a balance between the need to provide students with good education and their safety and wellbeing is proving to be difficult. We need a variety of opt
  
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• Geezerfest 2020 brings the rock to Orem this weekend, despite the pandemic

  15-08-2020 06:46
  
  At Geezerfest on Friday in Orem, a variety of bands — Thunderbuck Ram, Rock Daddy and more — played a selection of music from the ‘60s and ‘70s, with covers from the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Doors, U2, The Rolling Stones and more.Geezerfest started in 2005 as a backyard concert, with a bunch of bands from the Provo area that played together back in the 1970s. Geezerfest organizer Alan Breeze said the numbers have grown since partnering with Orem City in the
  
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• Letter: Senators support Trump’s illegal acts

  15-08-2020 05:30
  
  You are aware that Donald Trump has formerly, and is presently, soliciting aid in his upcoming reelection campaign from Russia.Two United States Senators are presently accused of spreading false information on Joe Biden on line provided by Russia. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is one of them. Both senators know those are facts.Why are they supporting Trump in that illegal act, the reason he was impeached? Why have they not personally questioned Grassley’s participation? Why do they allow Tru
  
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• Paul Krugman: Trump’s racist, statist suburban dream

  15-08-2020 05:00
  
  Conservatives do love their phony wars. Remember the war on Christmas? Remember the “war on coal”? (Donald Trump promised to end that war, but in the third year of his presidency coal production fell to its lowest level since 1978, and the Department of Energy expects it to keep falling.)Now, as the Trump campaign desperately searches for political avenues of attack, we’re hearing a lot about the “war on the suburbs.”It’s probably not a line that will play wel
  
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• Levi Hilton: A dangerous fallacy facing my generation

  15-08-2020 05:00
  
  As a 19-year-old, I am too young to be a millennial. I am a so-called Generation Z. Among my peers — and also among older generations — logical fallacies are commonplace, and it is easy to fall for them.One of the most dangerous fallacies I have seen recently is that a statistical disparity between two groups must be the result of a single cause, usually discrimination. This fallacy makes frequent appearances on social media, especially when it comes to disparities among races or sex
  
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• Payson shelter-in-place order lifted, but police are still looking for man who attacked someone with a sledgehammer

  15-08-2020 04:46
  
  Police in Payson asked residents to shelter in place while they looked for a man who attacked someone with a sledgehammer and then entered a day care center and started punching children.The order was lifted Friday evening — although by that time, police still hadn’t caught the suspect.Payson police, in a statement, said that the attack happened around 10:30 a.m., when a woman reported that the man was attacking one of her neighbors with a sledgehammer, near the intersection of 600 E
  
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• Letter: We all want the best for our children

  15-08-2020 04:30
  
  I write to speak from my heart as a parent, community member and as a candidate for the Salt Lake City School Board. Listening to a recent school board meeting online, my heart broke.First, for our teachers, who we should thank for everything they have been doing to educate our children. I feel their pain, frustration and concerns, especially when what everyone wants to do is keep your families, our children and our community safe from this deadly virus that has infected and claimed the lives of
  
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• Senate confirms native Utahn as deputy U.S. trade representative and ambassador

  15-08-2020 04:18
  
  The U.S. Senate this week confirmed native Utahn Michael Nemelka as a new deputy U.S. trade representative, with the rank of ambassador.He will succeed C.J. Mahoney as deputy trade representative for investment, services, labor, environment, Africa, China and the Western Hemisphere.During his confirmation hearing last month, Nemelka promised to help ensure that China does not violate trade agreements. “We must ensure that China lives up to its commitments. And we have an agreement that is
  
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• Former BYU star Peter Kuest takes the Utah Open lead

  15-08-2020 04:15
  
  Provo • Walking the fairways of Riverside Country Club and carrying a BYU golf bag, Peter Kuest acted like he was just performing in another Cougar Classic.Except he played even better than usual. Even with two bogeys, Kuest’s 9-under-par 63 topped his best competitive round in Provo and gave him the first-round lead in the Siegfried & Jensen Utah Open.The rookie pro made four birdies and an eagle in a five-hole stretch of the back nine. He’ll start Saturday’s second r
  
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• Austin Ryan-Mas: Pandemic raises the threat of domestic violence

  15-08-2020 04:00
  
  Utah has seen a rise in domestic violence with the onset and escalation of COVID-19. COVID has exposed many stressed systems in this country — from unemployment to health care access. I’ve found that the intricate system of domestic violence services belongs on that list.Currently, I’m working as a therapist at a counseling center that specializes in providing therapy to individuals who have experienced domestic violence. Since the beginning of COVID’s spread, I’ve
  
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• Geezerfest 2020 continues despite pandemic.

  15-08-2020 03:51
  
  Friday bands played a selection of music from the 60s and 70s, with covers from the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Doors, U2, The Rolling Stones and more. Geezer Fest started in 2005 as a backyard concert, with a bunch of bands from the Provo area that played together back in the 1970s. Geezerfest organizer, Alan Breeze, said the numbers have grown since partnering with Orem City in the past 5 years, with a crowd estimated as 1,700 last year. Due to the coronavirus, the festival is opera
  
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• Utah says students must wear face masks — not shields — this fall, and clarifies its color-coded virus response

  15-08-2020 03:24
  
  Students returning to school this fall must wear face masks, the state clarified Friday in a new public health order, adding that face shields aren’t as effective in stopping the spread of coronavirus.The order said that every person on school property, including on busses, must wear a mask that covers their nose and mouth. These covering most not have see-thru openings, be secure under the chin and fit snugly against the sides of one’s face and nose.“Recent studies are showing
  
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• Popular tourist sites on the Navajo Nation can reopen soon

  15-08-2020 02:45
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Popular tourist destinations on the Navajo Nation, including Canyon de Chelly, can welcome back tourists Monday under the tribe’s reopening plan.Much of the Navajo Nation has been closed since March as the coronavirus swept through the reservation that extends into New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. The tribe released a plan this week that allows hair salons and barber shops to open by appointment only, businesses to operate at 25% of maximum capacity, and the reopening
  
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• Salt Lake City can move to less restrictive yellow coronavirus level, says state panel, led by lawmakers

  15-08-2020 02:07
  
  The state’s public health and economic recovery committee told FOX 13 on Friday that data shows Salt Lake City could move from the orange, moderate-risk coronavirus stage to the less-restrictive yellow.But SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall says she won’t make the move just yet.“While Salt Lake City data is showing improvement, known hot spots continue to be elevated and the recommendation from public health experts continues to be keeping Salt Lake City in the orange phase until there
  
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• Delayed lab report leads to ‘artificially high’ report of 552 new COVID-19 cases in Utah

  15-08-2020 02:01
  
  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. Roberto Perez Valencia and his family tried to be careful. They didn’t go out except when they had to, and if they did go out, they wore masks to reduce their chances of contracting COVID-19, says Valencia’s widow, Gabriela
  
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• David Brooks: On the right-wing edge of the left-wing movement

  15-08-2020 02:00
  
  Radicals are not my cup of tea, but I’m grateful for them. The radicals who brought us Occupy Wall Street and the Bernie Sanders campaign gave the problem of income inequality a prominence it wouldn’t have had without them.The founders of the Black Lives Matter organization put racial injustice at the top of the national conversation. The radical populists who ultimately produced Donald Trump showed us how much alienation there is in Middle America.Radicals are good at opening our ey
  
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• State public health, economic commission says data shows Salt Lake City can move to yellow COVID-19 risk level

  15-08-2020 01:52
  
  The state’s public health and economic recovery committee told FOX 13 on Friday that data shows Salt Lake City could move from the orange, moderate-risk coronavirus stage to the less-restrictive yellow.But SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall says she won’t make the move just yet.“While Salt Lake City data is showing improvement, known hot spots continue to be elevated and the recommendation from public health experts continues to be keeping Salt Lake City in the orange phase until there
  
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• Cottonwood High girls’ soccer team must quarantine after player tests positive for COVID-19

  15-08-2020 01:30
  
  A girls’ soccer team lost at least two upcoming games on its schedule after a player tested positive for COVID-19, forcing the entire squad to quarantine, per the Granite School District. The Cottonwood High player participated in Wednesday’s game against Murray High. The team will be quarantined through at least Aug. 23. That means the Colts will not be able to play the game against East on Tuesday or against Hillcrest on Thursday. Practices have also been canceled. P
  
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• The Utah Jazz wanted the Denver Nuggets and got them. But was that such a good idea?

  15-08-2020 01:01
  
  If it seems curious for the Utah Jazz to have specifically targeted a postseason series against the Denver Nuggets after going 0-3 against them during the regular season/seeding games schedule, well it is.And yet apparently, that seemed like the best option, considering the alternatives.Namely, no more Houston Rockets, please and thank you.The Jazz clearly felt Houston’s five-out offensive style would be a bad matchup, given how thoroughly it diminishes the impact of Rudy Gobert. And so th
  
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• The Jazz wanted the Nuggets and got them. But was that such a good idea?

  15-08-2020 00:48
  
  If it seems curious for the Utah Jazz to have specifically targeted a postseason series against the Denver Nuggets after going 0-3 against them during the regular season/seeding games schedule, well it is.And yet apparently, that seemed like the best option, considering the alternatives.Namely, no more Houston Rockets, please and thank you.The Jazz clearly felt Houston’s five-out offensive style would be a bad matchup, given how thoroughly it diminishes the impact of Rudy Gobert. And so th
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Long National Nightmare

  15-08-2020 00:12
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Fire FighterVeepQuality vs. QanonBlowing Up the MessengerGoes to ElevenDr. Donald’s DevoteesCottonwood Heights LowsBusiness DocsJohn LewisMaking Moscow Great AgainWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Rich Lowry: Trump-era GOP lacks antibodies against Q kookery

  15-08-2020 00:00
  
  QAnon is getting its first congresswoman.Marjorie Taylor Greene won a runoff in a Republican primary Tuesday in Georgia, all but assuring her victory in November in a heavily GOP district.She is thus set to become the highest officeholder in the land who takes seriously the lunatic theories of QAnon, the anonymous internet poster who says, among other ludicrous and poisonous things, that there's a global network of pedophiles about to be exposed and undone by President Donald Trump.Greene's asce
  
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