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• Join The Tribune and KCPW to recap the week’s news on ‘Behind the Headlines’

  20-08-2020 23:53
  
  This week in Utah news:Lawmakers meet for a special session to address ongoing coronavirus relief, tweaks to election plans, and more.After the Utah Legislature refused to extend the state of emergency for the pandemic, Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday he will issue a new emergency declaration himself.And have Salt Lake City homeless encampments gotten out of control? People experiencing homelessness are less likely to go to a shelter because of the coronavirus and that has led to more people cam
  
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• Rise in jobless claims reflects still-struggling U.S., Utah economies

  20-08-2020 23:40
  
  The coronavirus recession struck swiftly and violently. Now, with the U.S. economy still in the grip of the outbreak five months later, the recovery looks fitful and uneven — and painfully slow.The latest evidence came Thursday, when the Labor Department reported that the number of workers applying for unemployment climbed back over 1 million last week after two weeks of declines. Utah’s new applications ticked up as well, although ongoing claims for aid dropped by far more as many r
  
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• RSL glad to get Nedum Onuoha back after he opted out of MLS tournament in Orlando

  20-08-2020 23:35
  
  While Real Salt Lake played four games in Orlando, Florida for the MLS is Back Tournament, defender Nedum Onuoha spent time with his wife and three children back at home in Utah. His decision to opt out of the tournament was supported by his teammates and the organization.But now that Major League Soccer prepares for what is ostensibly a third start to the 2020 season, Onuoha is back with his teammates, who have welcomed him with open arms.“I’m personally happy that he’s going
  
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• University of Utah Health will start using saliva tests for COVID-19

  20-08-2020 23:00
  
  Some Utahns getting tested for COVID-19 soon will be able to spit into a tube instead of having a swab shoved up their noses.Doctors from University of Utah Health and ARUP Laboratories announced Thursday that they will offer saliva testing for COVID-19 by September — after completing a study that found the spit test detected the virus as well as the traditional, and famously uncomfortable, nasal swab.“In over a thousand samples, we were able to show with pretty robust confidence in
  
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• BYU football coach Kalani Sitake got ‘exactly what we wanted’ from final preseason scrimmage

  20-08-2020 22:56
  
  After a couple of weeks of BYU’s offense overpowering the defense, it looks like the things finally evened out on Thursday in the Cougars’ final scrimmage of preseason camp.However, it wasn’t a complete performance. There were still mistakes that will need to be fixed.The Cougars plowed through approximately 85 reps — of which only about 30 were full contact— during the scrimmage. Even with the slight change in plans, BYU coach Kalani Sitake said he got “exact
  
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• High-ranking member of Gov. Herbert’s Cabinet to leave post

  20-08-2020 22:40
  
  Kristen Cox, among the most powerful members of Gov. Gary Herbert’s Cabinet, is leaving her post at the helm of the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget.A spokeswoman for Herbert’s office confirmed that Cox will be exiting her post in early September.The state Senate on Thursday presented Cox with a citation honoring her for her years of service and her efforts to create a more efficient state workforce.Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle praised Cox’s work in th
  
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• Utah governor calls parents ‘irrational’ for refusing to have their kids wear masks at school

  20-08-2020 22:13
  
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday that parents who don’t want to follow his mandate and send their kids to school wearing masks are “a little bit irrational” — and he questioned what other sensible safety practices they’d protest.“I think these same people might get on an airplane and say they’re not going to fasten their seat belts,” he added. “And they may be invited to get off the plane if that’s the case.”Likewise, Herbert
  
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• Riverton’s Mountain View Village to expand, adding restaurants, parks and a movie theater

  20-08-2020 21:40
  
  California developers announced plans Thursday for building an additional phase of Riverton’s Mountain View Village, the open-air shopping center along 134th South now anchored by Harmons Grocery that opened in 2018.The expansion will include several new multi-story office buildings, retail shops and restaurants as well as five pocket parks and a 14-screen Cinemark Theaters outlet, officials with CenterCal Properties said.Plans also call for a new plaza with a state-of-the-art show fountai
  
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• Utah adopts a new pandemic crisis plan to remove disability bias

  20-08-2020 21:38
  
  Utah overhauled crisis guidelines Thursday that could have put people with disabilities at the back of the line if hospitals become overwhelmed during the coronavirus pandemic, adopting a new plan that federal officials said should serve as a national model for removing bias from life-or-death decisions.The changes settle a complaint from disability advocates and set a new standard for other states in removing bias from making potentially agonizing decisions, said Roger Severino, director of the
  
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• Utah’s coronavirus numbers rise Thursday, with 461 new cases

  20-08-2020 21:14
  
  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. With 461 new coronavirus cases reported on Thursday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses went up slightly, but for more than a week it has stayed under the governor’s target of fewer than 400 cases per day.For the past seven days,
  
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• Gordon Monson: Donovan Mitchell set 3 goals for himself before the season. Now he’s realizing them.

  20-08-2020 21:05
  
  Before this season started, if anybody can remember anything that happenedthat far back in what seems like an entirely different existence,Donovan Mitchell said there were three “biggest things” he had worked onand wanted to accomplish in his individual game.The first was seeing the floor better.The second was becoming more efficient.The third was getting to the free-throw line more often.In the initial games of the Jazz’s playoff series with the Nuggets, the effects of those g
  
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• I-15 to close Saturday night in Orem for construction on state’s longest pedestrian bridge

  20-08-2020 20:59
  
  To allow work on what will soon be Utah’s longest pedestrian bridge, Interstate 15 will close in both directions in Orem from Saturday at 10:30 p.m. to Sunday at 10 a.m.It will close between University Parkway and 800 North, and traffic will be detoured onto local roads during that time. The Utah Department of Transportation expects significant traffic delays during that time.The closure will allow pouring concrete for the walking surface of a 1,000 foot-long pedestrian bridge between the
  
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• Billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief cash to be exempt from Utah income taxes

  20-08-2020 20:53
  
  Utahns won’t pay state income taxes on billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief, under a new bill advanced Thursday at a special session of the state Legislature.SB6005 gives a tax exemption for a host of forgivable business loans, grants and individual stimulus checks paid out by federal, state and county governments since late March, including relief funded under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, or CARES Act.The bill passed 28-0 in the Utah Senate early Thursday a
  
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• Teachers get an extra $500 for protective equipment in Jordan School District

  20-08-2020 20:49
  
  Teachers in Jordan School District will be given an extra $500 each to buy masks, sanitizer and any additional protective equipment they need before returning to the classroom next week. The move comes after educators across the state had expressed concerns that they didn’t have enough supplies for the school year — including the PPE promised by the state. Some said that they’d resorted to buying their own soap and shields.“They didn’t feel comfortable, and that was
  
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• Facebook boots Utah Citizens’ Alarm, group that has opposed Black Lives Matter protests

  20-08-2020 20:08
  
  A Facebook page where thousands of Utahns coordinated armed responses to anti-police protests was removed from the social media platform on Wednesday.Utah Citizens’ Alarm founder Casey Roberston said in a video statement that group was taken offline, and said, chuckling, that Wednesday was “a day that will live in infamy.”The group, which quickly amassed thousands of members, started after protesters fired at a motorist who drove through a crowd in the streets during a July 29
  
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• Trump praises QAnon conspiracists, appreciates support

  20-08-2020 20:00
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Wednesday praised the supporters of QAnon, a convoluted, pro-Trump conspiracy theory, and suggested he appreciates their support of his candidacy.Speaking during a press conference at the White House, Trump courted the support of those who put stock in the conspiracy theory, saying, “I heard that these are people that love our country.” It was Trump’s first public comment on the subject and continued a pattern of president appearing u
  
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• Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is declaring a new state of emergency

  20-08-2020 19:40
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert announced plans to declare a new state of emergency in Utah to be able to quickly deal with issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.The current emergency declaration expires at midnight and Herbert said he will issue the new declaration before that happens.Details were scare but he indicated not all of the executive orders he previously issued under the emergency declaration will be extended. He said specifics will be forthcoming.The Tribune will update this story.
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Pros and cons of ‘social justice ideology’; a pledge to keep politics out of the pews; new poetry about Heavenly Mother

  20-08-2020 19:03
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Finding Heavenly Mother
  (Tribune file photo)Author Carol Lynn Pearson (Steve Griffin/)Latter-day Saint poet-playwright Carol Lynn Pearson has a new volume of verses coming out next month.“Finding Mother God: Poems
  
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• Utah Citizens’ Alarm removed from Facebook

  20-08-2020 18:53
  
  A Facebook page where thousands of Utahns coordinated armed responses to anti-police protests was removed from the social media platform on Wednesday.Utah Citizens’ Alarm founder Casey Roberston said in a video statement that group was taken offline, and said, chuckling, that Wednesday was “a day that will live in infamy.”The group, which quickly amassed thousands of members, started after protesters fired at a motorist who drove through a crowd in the streets during a July 29
  
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• Steve Bannon is charged with fraud in ‘We Build the Wall’ campaign

  20-08-2020 18:41
  
  Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former top adviser, was charged Thursday in New York with fraud for his role in a scheme related to “We Build the Wall,” an online fundraising effort that collected more than $25 million for the president’s much-touted plan to erect a barrier on the Mexican border, officials said.Bannon and three other defendants “defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise million
  
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• Logan mask mandate to be replaced by education resolution

  20-08-2020 18:36
  
  Logan • City officials in Logan, Utah have passed a resolution meant to educate residents about the benefits of wearing masks during the pandemic instead of extending a citywide mask mandate.The Logan Municipal Council voted 4-1 on Tuesday not to extend the mask mandate, which is set to expire Aug. 30 when the state of emergency order ends, The Herald Journal reported. The resolution is scheduled to go into effect until Oct. 15.Councilmember Jess Bradfield said many residents are willing to
  
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• Watch Utah Gov. Gary Herbert’s news conference here at 11 a.m.

  20-08-2020 18:33
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert plans to hold his monthly news conference at 11 a.m., where he is expected to field questions about his responses to the COVID-19 pandemic — including controversial orders for school students and staff to wear masks or potentially face misdemeanor charges.It will be an unusual news conference because of the pandemic. Some reporters will be in the PBS Utah TV studios at the University of Utah asking questions to the governor who will speak remotely and appear in the studio
  
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• Red All Over: Cancelling football made sense, but Pac-12 basketball?

  20-08-2020 18:26
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.I would love to be able to tell you all that I am genuinely surprised that we are in this position, with no fall football in the Pac-12 and no Pac-12 sports of any kind until at least Jan. 1.I’m not going to tell you all that, because that would be very disingenuous. Instead, I’m here to say that, unfortunately, I am not surprised at all, and I have months and months of writing and reporting as to why.From th
  
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• Report: BYU to play UTSA Oct. 10

  20-08-2020 17:42
  
  BYU still may not play a full football schedule in 2020, but the Cougars seem to be getting closer to that, almost on a daily basis.According to Brett McMurphy of Stadium, BYU has come to an agreement with UTSA to play Oct. 10. The report comes a day after Keff Ciardello, Texas State football beat reporter for the Austin Statesman, tweeted that BYU would be playing Texas State Oct. 3.The addition of both games would fill out the Cougars’ schedule to seven games.BYU has been scrambling to f
  
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• Utahns donate twice as much to Trump as Biden. That’s seen as a sign of weak, hesitant GOP support.

  20-08-2020 16:31
  
  Political scientist David Magleby — who has written books about fundraising by presidential candidates — is actually surprised that President Donald Trump is raising twice as much money from donors in heavily Republican Utah as Democrat Joe Biden.Why?“The surprise is that he’s not outdistancing Biden four-to-one,” says Magleby, an emeritus BYU professor. “Seriously, I’m not making that up. I mean, this is a state that’s overwhelmingly Republican an
  
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• Utah man charged with stabbing woman to death and pushing her out of a moving car

  20-08-2020 16:28
  
  An 18-year-old Utah man has charged with murder after he allegedly stabbed a woman to death and pushed her out of a moving car on Interstate 15 on Sunday night.Oscar Cuevas-Landa, of West Valley City, is being held without bail in the Davis County jail. He was charged in 2nd District Court with murder, a first-degree felony, in the death of Shilo Marie Stewart, 34, of Fruit Heights.Stewart was driving north on I-15 just south of the 200 West off-ramp in Farmington shortly before 10 p.m. on Sunda
  
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• Most of Utah faces threat of dry thunderstorms on top of near record high temperatures

  20-08-2020 16:27
  
  With no break in sight from the hotter temperatures across Utah, the Wasatch Front will see another possible threat Thursday evening, extending through the weekend and into early next week.Dry thunderstorms are expected Thursday afternoon across areas east of I-15, with isolated storms across western Utah, according to the National Weather Service.Most areas east of I-15 are under a Red Flag Warning through late Thursday for dry thunderstorms and gusty winds. There’s a chance of lightning,
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Pros and cons of ‘social justice ideology'; a pledge to keep politics out of the pews; new poetry about Heavenly Mother

  20-08-2020 16:05
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Finding Heavenly Mother
  (Tribune file photo)Author Carol Lynn Pearson (Steve Griffin/)Latter-day Saint poet-playwright Carol Lynn Pearson has a new volume of verses coming out next month.“Finding Mother God: Poems
  
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• Real Monarchs fall to New Mexico at Zions Bank Stadium

  20-08-2020 15:25
  
  Herriman • Real Monarchs fell 2-0 to New Mexico United at home on Wednesday night, dropping their second consecutive match.New Mexico United saw goals from former Monarchs defender Kalen Ryden and midfielder Amando Moreno in the victory.The two sides started the match aggressively, with both clubs looking dangerous throughout the first half. In the 25th minute, New Mexico United midfielder David Najem broke free down the left side of the field and found himself in a one on one with the goal
  
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• Utah seeks new contact tracing technology, even as it keeps paying for existing app

  20-08-2020 15:21
  
  Utah is accepting applications from companies that can supply a Bluetooth contact tracing technology to track the spread of COVID-19.That’s not because state leaders want to scrap Healthy Together, the multimillion-dollar app they already have, according to the Governor’s Office. They just want to see what else is out there.“Since the contract with Healthy Together was negotiated under emergency [no bid] procurement, we’re simply doing our due diligence to ensure that we&
  
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• Goodbye to Salt Lake City’s Red Butte Cafe and Martine

  20-08-2020 15:13
  
  It’s goodbye for two more long-time Salt Lake City eateries.The Red Butte Cafe — which shuttered in March because of the pandemic — will remain closed, the owners announced Thursday.Martine Cafe, also appears to have closed, as its website is non-existent and its telephone has been disconnected.They were owned by the Pub Group of Restaurants, which also operate Desert Edge Brewery at Trolley Square and Stella Grill — both of which have reopened with abbreviated menus.&ldq
  
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• Molly Davis: How Utah just expanded access to justice

  20-08-2020 15:10
  
  The Utah Supreme Court just allowed for a lot more justice in the state.Last week, the court unanimously approved a first-in-the-nation pilot program to expand access to legal help by allowing Utahns to begin offering non-traditional legal services. Now, as approved on an individual basis by the courts, non-lawyers will be able to practice law in some capacity.The two-year pilot program is the first step toward removing government barriers and opening the legal sphere to a marketplace of ideas a
  
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• Leonard Pitts: ‘Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country’

  20-08-2020 15:09
  
  Well, that’s one speech Melania Trump won’t be plagiarizing.Donald Trump's wife, who famously stole parts of her 2016 address to the Republican National Convention from a speech Michelle Obama gave before the Democrats in 2008, won't find much to work with in Obama's latest oration. That's because the speech, a galvanizing capstone to the surprisingly effective first night of the Democrats' virtual convention, prosecuted the case against Melania's husband with withering power.Enumera
  
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• Katie Langston: ‘Worthiness interviews’ are not healthy for young people

  20-08-2020 15:09
  
  When I was 13 years old, an LDS bishop pulled me into his office and asked me an extensive series of questions as part of a routine practice called worthiness interviews.Did I think impure thoughts? Did I consume impure media? Did I touch myself?I wasn’t interested in talking with him about any of this. My instincts told me to run, but since he was my church leader, presented to me as a Judge in Israel who had the authority to determine my worthiness before God, I felt I had no choice but
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: Will 2020’s election be the end of democracy in America?

  20-08-2020 15:07
  
  Here is a sentence I never in a million years thought that I would ever write or read: This November, for the first time in our history, the United States of America may not be able to conduct a free and fair election and, should President Donald Trump be defeated by Joe Biden, have a legitimate and peaceful transfer of power.Because if half the country thinks their votes were not fully counted due to deliberate sabotaging of the U.S. Postal Service by this administration, and if the other half
  
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• Todd Jensen: Among Utah’s challenges, a golden opportunity to emerge stronger

  20-08-2020 15:06
  
  As we navigate these unprecedented times, thinking about the future can bring much-needed comfort. We might envision the next trip we’ll take, the next time we’ll attend a concert or sporting event, the next time our families and loved ones gather together in the same place. The future is full of promise, even under these challenging circumstances.Fortunately, Utah understands challenges. Together, we can emerge stronger and more connected. Thinking past tomorrow is more than simple
  
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• Letter: Utah should pass the ERA

  20-08-2020 15:05
  
  Utah can make history by passing the Equal Rights Amendment in 2021. Here’s why we should.Seventy-two percent of American adults believe the Constitution explicitly protects equal rights of women and men. It does not. For example, courts have justified firing pregnant women and justified less pay for the same position and performance in the workplace. Let’s call this what is it: discrimination because of sex.In 2011, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia astoundingly asserted, “
  
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• Letter: Schools are not prepared to deal with COVID-19

  20-08-2020 15:05
  
  I missed Dr. Brian Moench’s commentary of Aug. 3 regarding the realities of COVID-19 the state is facing. Two quotes are worth repeating:• “In order to have even a small chance to open up safely, schools must have a huge new source of funds to upgrade filtering and ventilation systems, to keep class sizes small, buy new air purifiers, plexiglass barriers, and ensure supplies of masks, gloves and disinfectants.”• “Among persons aged 18–34 years with no chro
  
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• Letter: This pandemic may last years

  20-08-2020 15:04
  
  A recent interview with the noted epidemiologist Laurie Garrett likened the current pandemic to a fire whose flames and embers are constantly being fanned and spread like a wind crossing states, nations and continents. And its infection rate is far higher, more lethal and its disbursement more efficient than past epidemics.She said we need to acknowledge that this pandemic may extend for several years and that following the guidance of medical experts is essential.This is a daunting outlook but
  
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• Letter: This is about health, not liberty

  20-08-2020 15:04
  
  A few days ago I read an article by The Associated Press about the “Rally for Liberty” in Orem. It honestly left me speechless. People were protesting the wearing of masks during this pandemic of the super contagious COVID-19. One of the featured speakers was Ammon Bundy."We are entering the greatest battle to defend individual rights that has ever been waged before," he orated. He went on to say, "If we lose this battle, then we and our children will be plunged into the depths of da
  
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• Letter: The implosion of the nation

  20-08-2020 15:04
  
  It is astonishing that Americans are being treated in 2020 to the rupture of so many sacred institutions of this country that have functioned so well for so long. We knew it could, even would, happen. But this fast?It is not just America’s burgeoning mistrust of national and state government. It’s not just the freefall of science into utter irrelevance right before our eyes. It’s not just the failure of humane law enforcement and the endless delay of justice in our courts. It&r
  
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• ‘We’ve already survived an apocalypse’: Indigenous writers are changing sci-fi

  20-08-2020 15:00
  
  When Cherie Dimaline was growing up near Penetanguishene, a small town on the Georgian Bay in Ontario, her grandmother and great-aunts told her stories about a werewolf-like monster called the rogarou. It wasn’t spoken of as a mythical creature but as an actual threat, the embodiment of danger in a place where Indigenous women face heightened risk of violence.“This wasn’t like, here’s a metaphor,” she said. “They would say, ‘The rogarou’s out, and
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Why Jon Huntsman shouldn’t run a write-in campaign for governor

  20-08-2020 15:00
  
  To say that staging a successful write-in campaign for governor is a remote possibility is a pretty major understatement.It’s kind of like saying that rapper Kanye West’s presidential run amid his erratic behavior and public struggles with bipolar disorder and his campaign rallies for President Donald Trump is a bit of an uphill battle.Yet here we are. This week, Kanye filed the necessary papers to be on the Utah ballot and former Gov. Jon Huntsman is under continued pressure by supp
  
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• Heber City Council approves banner restrictions in response to outcry over LGBTQ pride flags

  20-08-2020 15:00
  
  When Jamie and Ben Belnap bought a home in Heber City three years ago, their son had just come out as gay. The parents worried about the response he would receive in the conservative mountain valley town.But then in June 2019, the family noticed rainbow-colored pride flags hanging from the street lights along Main Street.“It was comforting at the time,” Jamie Belnap said. “It made us feel like, ‘OK, this is a more accepting community than we thought.‘”Then cam
  
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• California wildfires chase people from homes into smoky air

  20-08-2020 05:56
  
  Vacaville, Calif. • Crews worked in blistering heat Wednesday to beat back wildfires that ignited across Northern California, sending thousands of people from their homes into smoky air, briefly halting traffic on an interstate and killing a pilot on a firefighting mission.Hundreds of fires were burning across California, including 23 major fires or groups of fires that Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed on "this extraordinary weather that we're experiencing and all of these lightning strikes." He sa
  
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• State senator under investigation for allegedly donating money for paint used in district attorney’s office protest

  20-08-2020 05:49
  
  A Utah state senator and four others are being investigated for small donations they made to a protester accused of buying paint spilled outside the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office during anti-police violence demonstrations.Sen. Derek Kitchen, D-Salt Lake City, told The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday that he did donate to Madalena McNeil’s Venmo account, a platform used for mobile payments. McNeil has been charged with a first-degree felony in connection with the July 9 p
  
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• Jazz’s multiple ball handlers causing problems for Nuggets, and Mike Conley’s return could hurt Denver even more

  20-08-2020 05:23
  
  AP SALT LAKE CITY — So long as his COVID-19 results come back negative, Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley will be released from his four-day quarantine in the NBA bubble on Friday, and there is a very high chance that those results will come back in time for him to rejoin his team before Game 3 of their playoff series against the Denver Nuggets, which tips off at 2 p.m. MT.
  The Nuggets, now tied with Jazz 1-1 in the series, are already contending with the fact that Utah’s multiple ball ha
  
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• Kamala Harris accepts historic Democratic vice president nomination

  20-08-2020 05:22
  
  Wilmington, Del. •Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president Wednesday night, cementing her status as a leader in a party staking its future on building a diverse coalition of voters as the first Black woman on a major party ticket.She addressed the Democratic National Convention's third night after former President Barack Obama, another barrier breaker, warned that American democracy itself was at risk if President Donald Trump wins reelection this fall.Harris, a 5
  
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• Utah Jazz play unselfishly with a convincing Game 2 win over the Nuggets to tie the series

  20-08-2020 04:38
  
  Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale (23) high-fives center Rudy Gobert (27) after a made basket against the Denver Nuggets in Game 2 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Kim Klement/Pool Photo via AP) | AP SALT LAKE CITY — No Bojan Bogdanovic. No Mike Conley. No problem.
  The Utah Jazz beat the Denver Nuggets in Game 2 of their playoff series 124-105 Wednesday in a contest that was largely decided by midway through the thir
  
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• Democrats pound their message: To oust Trump, you must vote

  20-08-2020 04:28
  
  Wilmington, Del. • The Democrats’ historic boundary breakers joined forces Wednesday night at the party’s national convention, pleading for Joe Biden’s diverse coalition to put voting ahead of everything else this fall to save the nation from the chaotic leadership of President Donald Trump.Their overriding message: Don't just complain about Trump; vote because your lives and democracy itself may be at stake.Hillary Clinton, the first woman nominated for president by a maj
  
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