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• BYU study says Trump is wrong, voting by mail doesn’t help Democrats nationally, nor hurt them

  26-08-2020 23:52
  
  Voting by mail neither helps nor hurts Democrats or Republicans, according to a new study co-written by a Brigham Young University political scientist that evaluated 28 years of results in counties across the country that use the system.“We ran dozens of analyses and every single time we found no impact in partisan vote shares,” BYU political science professor Michael Barber said in a news release.“So, whether you’re advocating for vote-by-mail because you think it’
  
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• Provo City Council approved a mask mandate with fines. The mayor plans to veto.

  26-08-2020 23:42
  
  In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, the Provo City Council approved a citywide mask mandate.The mandate requires people to wear face masks in public spaces, public buildings and public events where social distancing is not possible. Any outdoor gathering with more than 25 people requires mask wearing if people can’t socially distance. It also requires face coverings at any indoor gathering of 50 people or more, regardless of whether social distancing is possible. The City Council also calle
  
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• Before Republicans’ night 3, scant mention of brewing crises

  26-08-2020 23:36
  
  Washington • Turbulent reality is clashing with the smooth, steady image Republicans are hoping to paint of President Donald Trump and his leadership on the third night of the GOP’s convention.The opening two nights of the Republican National Convention saw scant mention of a whirlwind of crises as the planners sought to deliver a glossy TV infomercial. However, as the convention approaches its climax with Trump’s acceptance speech Thursday night, the hazards outside are becomin
  
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• Salt Lake City schools working to get all 22,000 students enrolled and logged on

  26-08-2020 23:33
  
  As the only district in the state with classes that will start entirely online, Salt Lake City schools face a major task: making sure all 22,000 students can actually log on.That was a challenge this spring when schools shut down because of the coronavirus and had to shift quickly to remote instruction. About 15% of students at West High, for instance, never checked in for virtual learning.“We know that there are gaps in our school district with families not having access to internet or ev
  
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• Category 4 Laura gains strength, could bring ‘unsurvivable’ storm surge

  26-08-2020 23:31
  
  Delcambre, La. • Laura strengthened Wednesday into a menacing Category 4 hurricane, raising fears of a 20-foot storm surge that forecasters said would be “unsurvivable” and capable of sinking entire communities. Authorities implored coastal residents of Texas and Louisiana to evacuate and worried that not enough had fled.The storm grew nearly 70% in power in just 24 hours to a size the National Hurricane Center called "extremely dangerous." Drawing energy from the warm Gulf of M
  
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• NBA playoff games called off amid player protest

  26-08-2020 23:28
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • All three NBA playoff games scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed, with players around the league choosing to boycott in their strongest statement yet against racial injustice.Called off: Games between Milwaukee and Orlando, Houston and Oklahoma City and the Los Angeles Lakers and Portland. The NBA said all three games would be rescheduled, yet did not say when.The dramatic series of moves began when the Bucks — the NBA’s team from Wisconsin, a sta
  
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• ‘When will it stop?’ Donovan Mitchell, Utah Jazz teammates support Bucks’ boycott in wake of Jacob Blake shooting.

  26-08-2020 23:27
  
  The shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin made it clear to NBA players: black, unarmed Americans are still being harmed by police in America, even after the Black Lives Matter protests.So on Wednesday, the Milwaukee Bucks decided not to play around. They boycotted their Game 5 against the Orlando Magic, never coming out on the floor. The Magic did shoot briefly, then returned to their locker room once they learned what the Bucks were doing. The NBA’s referees left the court minutes
  
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• ‘When will it stop?’ Donovan Mitchell and Utah Jazz teammates support Bucks in wake of Jacob Blake shooting.

  26-08-2020 23:20
  
  The shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin made it clear to NBA players: black, unarmed Americans are still being harmed by police in America, even after the Black Lives Matter protests.So on Wednesday, the Milwaukee Bucks decided not to play around. They boycotted their Game 5 against the Orlando Magic, never coming out on the floor. The Magic did shoot briefly, then returned to their locker room once they learned what the Bucks were doing. The NBA’s referees left the court minutes
  
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• Kenosha unrest results in 2 killed, 17-year-old arrested

  26-08-2020 23:20
  
  Kenosha, Wis. • A white, 17-year-old police admirer was arrested Wednesday after two people were shot to death during a third straight night of protests in Kenosha over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake.Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, was taken into custody in Illinois on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide. Antioch is about 15 miles from Kenosha.Two people were killed Tuesday night and a third was wounded in an attack apparently carried out by a young white
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Two politicos make their pitch for why Latter-day Saints should vote for Biden or Trump

  26-08-2020 23:04
  
  As the U.S. presidential race heats up, Latter-day Saints, like all Americans, are starting to choose sides. And both campaigns have begun courting members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, especially in battleground states with significant LDS voting blocs.In recent decades, Latter-day Saints have overwhelmingly cast ballots for Republican candidates, though their support of Donald Trump in 2016 was not nearly as enthusiastic. Four years later, both camps see a chance to win o
  
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• After Jacob Blake shooting, Bucks protest playoff game. Utah Jazz players can’t understand why things haven’t changed.

  26-08-2020 22:54
  
  The shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin made it clear to NBA players: black, unarmed Americans are still being harmed by police in America, even after the Black Lives Matter protests.So on Wednesday, the Milwaukee Bucks decided not to play around. They boycotted their Game 5 against the Orlando Magic, never coming out on the floor. The Magic did shoot briefly, then returned to their locker room once they learned what the Bucks were doing. The NBA’s referees left the court minutes
  
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• Milwaukee Bucks players don’t take the court for NBA playoff game

  26-08-2020 22:49
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • NBA players made their strongest statement yet against racial injustice Wednesday when the Milwaukee Bucks didn’t take the floor for their playoff game against the Orlando Magic.The teams were set to begin Game 5 of their series shortly after 2 p.m. MDT, with the Bucks needing a win to advance to the second round.Players had been discussing boycotting games in the bubble after the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. More disc
  
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• Reports: Bucks, Rockets, Thunder boycotting playoff games in wake of Jacob Blake shooting

  26-08-2020 22:33
  
  Officials stand beside an empty court before the scheduled start of an NBA basketball first round playoff game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The Milwaukee Bucks are boycotting Game 5 of their first-round series against the Orlando Magic, and the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder are jointly boycotting Game 5 of their series, according to reports from ESPN and Th
  
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• Report: Milwaukee Bucks boycott Game 5 vs. Orlando Magic in wake of Jacob Blake shooting

  26-08-2020 22:33
  
  Officials stand beside an empty court before the scheduled start of an NBA basketball first round playoff game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The Milwaukee Bucks are boycotting Game 5 of their first-round series against the Orlando Magic, according to reports from ESPN.
  As the warm-up clock ticked away the Bucks never arrived on the court. The game was scheduled to begin
  
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• Bucks boycott sparks complete postponement of Wednesday’s NBA playoff games in wake of Jacob Blake shooting

  26-08-2020 22:33
  
  Officials stand beside an empty court before the scheduled start of an NBA basketball first round playoff game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The Milwaukee Bucks staged a boycott of Game 5 of their first-round series against the Orlando Magic in the wake of the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, sparking the rest of the teams scheduled to play on Wednesday, includ
  
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• Utah tops 50,000 COVID-19 cases and 400 deaths as governor points to decline in hospitalizations

  26-08-2020 22:28
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. The number of Utahns infected with the coronavirus has crossed the 50,000 mark — more people than could fit in a sold-out University of Utah football game — and the state’s death toll now exceeds 400.The state passed t
  
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• Indiana Pacers fire Nate McMillan following 1st-round sweep

  26-08-2020 22:13
  
  Indianapolis • Nate McMillan won dozens of regular-season games despite the Indiana Pacers’ continual injuries.The playoff losses cost him his job: On Wednesday, two days after enduring a second straight first-round sweep, president of basketball operations Kevin Pritchard fired McMillan."This was a very hard decision for us to make; but we feel it's in the best interest of the organization to move in a different direction," said Pritchard, whose relationship with McMillan dates to th
  
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• Josh T. Smith: The U.S. (and Utah) should give Hongkongers a new home

  26-08-2020 22:00
  
  Hong Kong police released pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai on bail 48 hours after being arrested under China’s new security law. As he told Fox Business, Lai is accused of “colluding with foreign powers.” The Hong Kong media tycoon’s arrest should concern even those of us here in the U.S.The new security law is an opportunity for the U.S. to assert its place as a bastion of exactly these freedoms that China is limiting. The U.S. should offer refuge and asylum for those wh
  
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• Son tells father he won’t go on LDS mission; father arrested after choking son

  26-08-2020 21:57
  
  A Utah man has been arrested after he reportedly assaulted and choked his 18-year-old son, who said he was not planning to serve an LDS mission.The 49-year-old Ogden man was booked into the Weber County jail on Friday for investigation of aggravated assault and domestic violence in the presence of a child. As of Wednesday afternoon, he remained in custody in lieu of $3,900 bail.According to a probable cause statement, the father told police he “attempted to remove his son from the home aft
  
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• Inland port foes turn their attention to Kennecott and its Salt Lake City land holdings

  26-08-2020 21:29
  
  A coalition of Utahns opposed to the inland port is calling on Rio Tinto Kennecott to agree to not develop any more land it owns in Salt Lake City’s northwest side.Putting the property instead into a permanent conservation easement, they argue, would help protect wildlife, air and water quality in the area near the Great Salt Lake and would safeguard the Salt Lake Valley from an increase in traffic and adverse health impacts from the future distribution hub.“Our request they make the
  
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• The last time the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets played in the playoffs looks eerily similar to this year

  26-08-2020 21:09
  
  FILE: Utah Jazz’s Carlos Boozer shoots under pressure as the Jazz beat the Nuggets 112-104 in Game 6 of the NBA playoffs at the EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday, April 30, 2010. The Jazz beat the Nuggets in six games in their last postseason series back in 2010.| T.J. Kirkpatrick, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Despite their home cities being separated by just over 500 miles, the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets don’t have a rich playoff history, having square
  
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• Utah reaches 400 coronavirus deaths, and this West Valley family has paid twice over

  26-08-2020 21:07
  
  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. West Valley City • Julio Sanchez-Cervantes had only lived in Utah about a month before he died of COVID-19. His ashes were sent to his son in California.Sanchez-Cervantes’ sister, Judith Martinez, died from the virus six week
  
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• George Pyle: The senator in the iron mask

  26-08-2020 20:49
  
  Data had his Lore. Samantha had her Serena. Jeannie had her, well, Jeannie’s sister. President George H.W. Bush’s evil twin, in Doonesbury, was named Skippy.Then there was Spock and Spock with a Beard. And Patty and Cathy Lane. But Spock with a Beard was just cooler than regular Spock, and perhaps the most decent person in an otherwise evil Mirror Universe. And neither cousin on “The Patty Duke Show” could be considered the evil one. Same with both the prince and his paup
  
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• Gordon Monson: Donovan Mitchell vs. Jamal Murray. Which star will burn brighter?

  26-08-2020 20:30
  
  It’s complicated. If we’re going to get all technical and tell the whole truth, there’s more to the Jazz-Nuggets playoff series than just two opposing brilliant young stars, each of them just 23 years old, who areplaying at a ridiculous level.But the latter is more of a gas to highlight than trudging through, breaking down transition defense or the lack thereof and studying hedges on the pick and roll, examining points in the paint and asking why more pedestrian players are hes
  
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• Utah hits two COVID-19 milestones: more than 50,000 total cases and 400 deaths

  26-08-2020 19:47
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. The number of Utahns who have been infected with the coronavirus crossed the 50,000 mark Wednesday, and the state’s death toll exceeded 400 people.Another 407 Utahns have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to 50,174,
  
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• Justice Department is set to execute Navajo prisoner Wednesday

  26-08-2020 19:41
  
  Washington • The Justice Department intends on Wednesday to execute the only Native American man on federal death row, despite urgent pleas from more than a dozen tribes to respect Navajo culture and spare his life.The inmate, Lezmond Mitchell, 38, faces the death penalty for his part in the 2001 murder of a Navajo woman, Alyce Slim, and her 9-year-old granddaughter, Tiffany Lee. Barring any last-minute stays, his execution would be the first time a Native American man has been put to death
  
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• Meet the National Parks’ ‘ranger of the lost art’

  26-08-2020 18:29
  
  Hundreds of thousands of sweaty, athleisure-clad national park visitors have entered the park gift shop after a hike and immediately gravitated toward one particular display: the vintage-looking magnets, postcards and posters with the park’s name in blocky lettering, its best-known vista or features rendered in simple contours and pastels.The style, which has become shorthand for old-school travel posters, can be traced back to one series of 14 posters, created for 13 parks and monuments i
  
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• Britain Covey, Utah football’s ‘old man,’ is prepared to wait out the pandemic to play again

  26-08-2020 18:21
  
  Britain Covey hears the jokes, but in fairness, jokes about how old he is and how long he has been at the University of Utah are probably valid.Still only a redshirt junior at the age of 23 after taking a two-year LDS mission during the 2016 and 2017 seasons, Covey’s first collegiate game was against the University of Michigan in 2015. The game stands out because it was Jim Harbaugh’s head-coaching debut with the Wolverines, which, on a college football timeline, feels like a lifetim
  
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• Navajo President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer address the Democratic, GOP conventions

  26-08-2020 18:04
  
  Washington • If anyone thought it strange that the top two elected officials in the Navajo Nation were speaking at competing political conventions, Navajo Vice President Myron Lizer said they have not been paying attention.“There’s no secret we are a split ticket,” Lizer said during a Navajo town hall Tuesday with President Jonathan Nez. “We are working both sides, and we are well represented in Washington.”Lizer’s comments came as he was gettin
  
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• Fate of California condors unknown after sanctuary burns in wildfire

  26-08-2020 17:51
  
  San Jose, Calif. • A California wildfire has destroyed a sanctuary for the endangered California condor and the fates of several condors, including a chick, remain unknown.A blaze began last Wednesday in Los Padres National Forest northwest of Los Angeles. By Friday, it had destroyed the 80-acre sanctuary in Big Sur that since 1997 has been used to release captive-bred condors into the wild, the San Jose Mercury News reported.The sanctuary lost pens, a research building and other facilities
  
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• John Stockton’s daughter ready for point guard duty in Germany

  26-08-2020 17:44
  
  Laura Stockton sounds perfectly happy to ride buses around Germany if it means she gets to play professional basketball.The 23-year-old daughter of retired Utah Jazz great John Stockton spent the past year-plus rehabbing an ACL injury that ended her collegiate career at Gonzaga."I'm not picky," she told The Associated Press. "I'm just ready for whatever."This kind of optimism must have been what John Stockton was referring to in his Hall of Fame induction speech in 2009 when he described Laura a
  
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• Suspect arrested in shooting death of man in Ballpark neighborhood

  26-08-2020 16:52
  
  Two weeks after a man was shot to death in Salt Lake City, a suspect has been arrested.The 23-year-old man has been booked into the Salt Lake County jail for investigation of murder. He is being held without bail.On Aug. 12, Luis Melendez, 49, was found dead near a bicycle in the middle of the street at 54 E. Harrison Ave. According to a probable cause statement, a witness told police he saw three men arguing, and one of them raised a handgun, “pointed it at the victim’s head and fir
  
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• Suspect arrested after shooting one man and shooting at police in Midvale

  26-08-2020 16:10
  
  A suspect who reportedly shot and critically wounded one man early Wednesday and then shot at police — and missed — is in custody.According to a spokeswoman for the Unified Police Department, an officer was in the area of 7200 South and 300 West in Midvale about 2:30 a.m. on an unrelated call when he was told there had been a shooting at the nearby Motel 6. When the officer investigated, a man fled from the hotel, and the officer ran after him.In a nearby parking lot, the suspect rep
  
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• Simplicity is the secret ingredient at Salt Lake City’s new Streusel bakery

  26-08-2020 15:12
  
  Andrew Corrao and Marissa Bean were at an airport in New York — on their way home from a business trip — when the idea for Streusel bakery was born.It wasn’t in the streets of the concrete jungle or within the walls of the fine bakeries where they found inspiration. Rather, the concept is summed up in one word: simplicity — just like a streusel crumb that elevates a muffin or danish to a next level while keeping the beauty intact.Streusel opened its first store inside Sal
  
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• In this scary time for restaurants, ‘ghost kitchens’ are appearing in Salt Lake City

  26-08-2020 15:12
  
  Danny Cheng grew up in a restaurant family, so he knows the dedication — and the 70-hour workweek — needed to make a food business succeed.Not willing to make such a huge commitment, though, he searched for a new restaurant vision. That’s when the idea of a “ghost kitchen” appeared.There’s nothing supernatural about this relatively new dining concept — in which customers order food for pickup or delivery from a “virtual” restaurant with no st
  
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• Utah mother was first to vote for son to become U.S. president

  26-08-2020 15:00
  
  On Election Day 1920, a Utah family made history. Not only was Parley P. Christensen the first presidential candidate from the Beehive State, but Sophia Christensen also became the first woman in the U.S. to vote for her son to hold the country’s highest office.A hundred years later, this moment from Utah’s history has been long forgotten. It’s a “fun” story to revive this month, though, as the nation celebrates the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment, said
  
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• Utah County, where voters spurned Prop 2, is home to nearly half the state’s cannabis cardholders

  26-08-2020 15:00
  
  Megan Keller, an Orem massage therapist, was preparing for a client last week when exhaustion washed over her along with the sensation she recognized as an “aura,” the telltale sign that a seizure was building in her body.She’s been through this thousands of times and knew exactly what would happen next.Her right leg would go numb. Then, her right hand would tremble. Her speech would disappear and, with it, her ability to ask anyone for help. The feeling, she says, is like bein
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah needs Donovan Mitchell’s voice on racial violence more than 50 points in a game

  26-08-2020 15:00
  
  Donovan Mitchell is stringing together what could be the greatest playoff series performance in Utah Jazz history if his team advances to the second round.But in the midst of it all, he drew intense hatred from some so-called Jazz fans for speaking out, as he has for several months now, about racial injustice and police violence. It hasn’t stopped him.After police in Kenosha, Wis., shot an unarmed Black man, Jacob Blake, in the back seven times after he tried to climb into his car despite
  
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• Letter: Write in Huntsman for governor

  26-08-2020 14:00
  
  About the article written in the Aug. 8 Salt Lake Tribune, the headline read “Jon Huntsman’s family floats idea of a write-in campaign for governor.”In it, it was stated by the Republican Party Chairman Derek Brown, "The Republican Party Is 100% supportive of our party's nominee, Spencer Cox."Well, don't be so sure, because I just became a Republican (I was unaffiliated) to be able to vote for who I thought was the lesser evil of your candidates in the Republican Party and, unf
  
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• Letter: Trump’s Social Security plan makes no sense

  26-08-2020 14:00
  
  How can Donald Trump even think about eliminating payroll taxes?Instead of eliminating the payroll tax, which will affect Social Security, the tax should be increased on high wage earners instead of stopping at $9,499 as it does now.Trump stated last week he would eliminate the tax if he reelected, without undercutting the retirement program or greatly adding to the deficit, arguing the economic growth would offset the revenue losses. Who is he kidding? That just doesn't make sense.Please call y
  
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• Letter: Thanks to public library staff

  26-08-2020 14:00
  
  There are many in our community who are going the extra mile in order to serve. Among these are workers at our public libraries.As a patron of the Holladay Branch, I have so appreciated the efforts of the staff to make books available in a safe and convenient manner. Allowing patrons to make a reservation for designated pickup times of books is so appreciated in this time of COVID-19, when books can be a welcome boon, especially to bibliophiles who would suffer greatly without access.The dedicat
  
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• Letter: Lee cares about shower heads, not the Postal Service

  26-08-2020 14:00
  
  Our Trump-loving Sen. Mike Lee is so happy that our president is attacking shower heads.Living in the second driest state in the Union, you would think that water conservation would be of much more importance than the president’s hair. Water conservation in light of climate change should be of the highest priority. I seem to get a fine shower out of my 2.5 gallon a minute head as I would think most would.Maybe Mike could do something important like save the Postal Service.Gordie Harmston,
  
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• Letter: I fear for America

  26-08-2020 14:00
  
  I'm sick, from chemotherapy and radiation treatments.I'm far more sick — actually heartsick — over President Trump's unconscionable dismantling the U.S. Postal Service amid a pandemic and on the eve of the most pivotal election of my lifetime. It's a desperate act more akin to that of a two-bit banana republic dictator than the leader of America and the free world.If he succeeds in corrupting the ballot box, I fear for the survival of America as we know her.Lance S. Gudmundsen, Salt
  
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• Letter: Fixing Postal Service is the most important issue

  26-08-2020 14:00
  
  Yes, the COVID-19 pandemic is our nation’s number one concern but, despite lack of timely, intelligent administrative leadership and refusers to adopt safety protocols, we will (one day) be successful in its defeat. It’s not optional.Yes, the Black Lives Matter movement is creating a greater urgency to more fully address still persisting minority inequalities and policing reevaluations.And yes, climate change is real with growing consequences of delayed inaction leading to irreversib
  
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• Great Salt Lake can be saved, but only with some big changes, report says

  26-08-2020 14:00
  
  Bold water conservation strategies and changes in long-standing law and water policies are needed to slow the alarming shrinking of the Great Salt Lake, according to recommendation released Tuesday by an advisory panel.Upstream diversions have long prevented vast quantities from replenishing the lake, reducing the lake by half its normal size with further declines predicted.The Great Salt Lake Advisory Council, empaneled by the Utah Legislature in 2010, fears the lake’s steady contraction
  
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• Jazz lose their composure in crucial stretch of Game 5 loss to the Nuggets

  26-08-2020 06:24
  
  Denver Nuggets’ Jamal Murray drives against the Utah Jazz during the first quarter of Game 5 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Mike Ehrmann, AP The Jazz blew a 15-point, third-quarter lead Tuesday, and rather than sail into the second round of the playoffs with a gentleman’s sweep, they fell apart in the final minutes of the fourth quarter. KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The Utah Jazz blew a 15-point, third-quarter lead on
  
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• Can the Utah Jazz keep relying so heavily on the 3-pointer against the Denver Nuggets?

  26-08-2020 05:52
  
  Utah Jazz’s Joe Ingles shoots against the Denver Nuggets during the third quarter of Game 5 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Mike Ehrmann, Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz finished the 2019-2020 regular season with the highest 3-point percentage in the NBA, making exactly 38% of their shots from distance.Even without sharpshooting forward Bojan Bogdanovic in the Orlando bubble, it made sense that the
  
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• Utah Jazz again have no answer for Nuggets’ Jamal Murray, and it kills them in Game 5

  26-08-2020 05:37
  
  The Jazz couldn’t stop Jamal Murray.That’s been the story in both of Utah’s losses — and, to be fair, in one of their wins — in this series: Murray getting nearly anything he wants en route to a high-scoring performance. On Tuesday night, it was 42 points total for Murray, adding eight assists. He also had a flawless game from a turnover perspective, just as he did in his 50-point performance in Game 4.Once again, his scoring was tilted towards the second half, when
  
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• The Triple Team: Jazz lose double-digit lead with sloppy, careless, and even some lazy play to keep Nuggets in series

  26-08-2020 05:25
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 117-107 loss to the Denver Nuggets from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Jazz let a 15-point lead slip away with careless playPresented with an obvious opportunity to win the series, the Jazz let it slip. A 15-point lead midway through the 3rd quarter should be sufficient, but instead, the Jazz made numerous mistakes on both ends of the floor to lose Game 5.It felt like a miniature version of the last time the Jazz were in this spot. Two y
  
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• Donovan Mitchell on Jacob Blake shooting: ‘It’s inexcusable to see stuff like that’

  26-08-2020 05:20
  
  People gather Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, to protest in Kenosha, Wis. Anger over the Sunday shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police spilled into the streets for a third night. | Morry Gash, Associated Press KISSIMMEE, Fla. — On Tuesday after the Denver Nuggets beat the Utah Jazz in Game 5 of the first-round of the playoffs, cutting the Jazz’s lead to 3-2 in the series, Donovan Mitchell spoke about the recent officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin.Here are his comm
  
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