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• Another 391 cases of COVID-19 in Utah and four deaths

  28-08-2020 23:50
  
  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 391 new coronavirus cases reported on Friday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to decline, and for more than two weeks has stayed under the governor’s target of less than 400 cases per day.For the past seven days,
  
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• Utahns march on anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ’I Have A Dream’ speech

  28-08-2020 23:44
  
  Nearly six decades after he first delivered the famous address, Nevaeh Parker stood in front of the Utah Capitol early Friday and recited part of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech.“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ’We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ ... I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will no
  
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• Social initiatives agreement brings NBA back; Utah Jazz will face Denver Nuggets in Game 6 on Sunday

  28-08-2020 23:32
  
  When the Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court on Wednesday afternoon for their NBA playoff game, and other teams subsequently followed suit by joining their strike for racial justice, many people wondered, “To what end?”What substantive, meaningful outcome could these players hope to accomplish by sitting out some basketball games?On Friday morning came some of the answers.The NBA and National Basketball Players Association released a joint statement in which it was announced th
  
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• Jason Stevenson: Welcome to the new United States of America

  28-08-2020 23:26
  
  How do you know if something is going terribly wrong with your country?You can scan headlines and watch cable news, or you could examine how your everyday life has changed in big and small ways.For example: Do you consider how crowded a store might be when you shop for groceries? Do you still stockpile food and other essentials, or ask your social media network where to find scarce items like cleaning supplies? Would you trust the U.S. Postal Service to deliver a time-sensitive payment? Do you n
  
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• Six Unified police officers deemed justified in fatally shooting a man during a standoff

  28-08-2020 23:10
  
  Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced Friday that six Unified police officers were justified in shooting and killing a man who pointed an air pistol at them in February.The officers fired a total of 19 times at Marc Dominic Neal, killing the 57-year-old man.Police were sent to a home in Millcreek after Neal’s mother called 911 on Feb. 3 to report that her son was “acting strangely” and had a gun, according to a summary from the district attorney’s office.
  
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• Salt Lake City mural features 250 Utah women from past, present in honor of suffrage milestones

  28-08-2020 22:59
  
  Holly Yocom crouched down next to her 5-year-old daughter as they looked through opera glasses at the new mural unveiled Wednesday morning in downtown Salt Lake City.Three generations of their family are represented in the 5,000-square-foot piece. Front and center, Harper can be seen handing a drawing she made of her mother to Holly, who is kneeling and looking into her daughter’s eyes. Above them is Holly’s mother, Bille Jean Martak.“It took my breath away,” said Holly Y
  
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• NBA announces season resumption schedule

  28-08-2020 22:55
  
  Shams Charania: NBA playoff schedule for Saturday and Sunday. pic.twitter.com/9PhPYn5tIC
  
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• Joe Biden campaign to expand faith outreach as election heats up

  28-08-2020 22:50
  
  With the conventions over, Joe Biden’s team is rolling out an array of new religious outreach efforts targeting a diverse set of communities as his campaign vies with President Donald Trump’s for faith-motivated voters.The Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign is holding a trio of virtual events in the swing state of Florida this weekend that focus on engaging Christian, Jewish and Muslim voters. Those will be followed in the days to come by events focused on other faith c
  
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• COVID-19 has Utah’s fall sports athletes and coaches playing things by ear

  28-08-2020 22:49
  
  Ballpoint pens have begun to gather dust on Rich Manning’s desk on the University of Utah campus. The Utes women’s soccer coach doesn’t have much use for them these days.“The themes have been, like: write everything in pencil, take it one day at a time, be ready to change and do the best you can to reach out to your athletes and keep them on a positive path,” he said. “That’s really been kind of my motto.”COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the fall coll
  
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• The college coronavirus experience far away from campus

  28-08-2020 22:36
  
  As the fall semester begins, many college students will be attending classes from the relative safety of their family homes. Others have arrived to live on university campuses, with varying amounts of success; even schools that enforce strict social distancing guidelines are seeing outbreaks of the coronavirus.But some students are pursuing a third option: Renting giant houses with friends — sometimes in far-flung locales — and doing school remotely, together. Call it the rise of the
  
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• Game on: RSL travels to Portland to play Timbers Saturday, as scheduled

  28-08-2020 22:34
  
  Real Salt Lake will play Saturday against the Portland Timbers, as originally scheduled.RSLsent a news release Friday afternoon informing that the team willtravel to Portland for the game. These releases are normal, but Friday’swas notable because of the uncertainty surrounding whether the game would occur after RSL and LAFC decided not to play their game Wednesday to show solidarity with other sports leagues not playing their games to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake.Itwas still
  
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• Utah vape shops threaten to sue state over law forcing them away from schools

  28-08-2020 22:23
  
  The deadline for established vape shops to move away from Utah grade schools came and went earlier this month, with a number of retailers threatening to sue the state rather than budge from their current locations.The brewing struggle between e-cigarette businesses and state lawmakers has also pulled city and health officials into its orbit — with attorneys for vape shops urging local regulators to sign agreements not to enforce state law for the time being.Despite the Legislature’s
  
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• Donovan Mitchell to donate proceeds from new sneakers sales to college fund for Jacob Blake’s children

  28-08-2020 22:19
  
  Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell reacts after Mike Conley made a 3-point basket against the Denver Nuggets during the third quarter in Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Donovan Mitchell’s latest signature sneaker dropped on Friday and in conjunctions with the release Mitchell announced that he and Adidas will be making a sizable donation to an education fund for
  
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• Utah Jazz provide arena as Election Day voting center

  28-08-2020 22:08
  
  After NBA players have been speaking out about racial justice — and even postponing some playoff games this week in protest — the Utah Jazz are trying to show that voting matters, too.The team is providing its Vivint Smart Home Arena as an Election Day voting center for those who are unable to vote by mail — offering vast space for safe social distancing during the pandemic, the team announced Friday.Also, three Megaplex theaters owned by Larry H. Miller Sports & Entertainm
  
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• Can RSL owner Dell Loy Hansen be forced to sell his team? Yes. And Utah Jazz owners are just one potential buyer.

  28-08-2020 21:32
  
  After the most tumultuous 24-hour period in franchise history, the next era in Real Salt Lake history could be coming.Team owner Dell Loy Hansen was the focus of the sporting world Thursday after he went on a local radio show and castigated RSL players for not playing Wednesday’s match against LAFC, a protest of police violence that echoed through the NBA, WNBA, MLB and MLS. However, it was a bombshell report from The Athletic that caused the biggest problems for Hansen.RSL scout Andy Will
  
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• Another 391 cases of COVID-19 in Utah Friday, and four deaths

  28-08-2020 21:31
  
  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 391 new coronavirus cases reported on Friday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to decline, and for more than two weeks has stayed under the governor’s target of less than 400 cases per day.For the past seven days,
  
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• Fugitive killed by police in Salt Lake City on Thursday is identified

  28-08-2020 21:27
  
  Authorities have identified the man killed by police in a confrontation on Thursday as Damien Evers, 38, of West Valley City.According to authorities, officers from the U.S. Marshals Service and the West Valley City Police Department attempted to arrest Evers — who they identified as “a violent parole fugitive” wanted by the Utah Department of Correction and Adult Probation and Parole — at about 5:15 p.m. on Thursday near 1000 S. Main Street in Salt Lake City.According to
  
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• Holly Richardson: A swing and many misses on mural of Utah women

  28-08-2020 21:26
  
  I was excited to see the huge, 5,000-square-foot Zions Bank mural of 270 influential Utah women. What a way to celebrate women’s contributions on the 100th anniversary of ratifying the 19th Amendment! What a way to elevate women’s voices and their accomplishments!There are some great women on there, women who have worked hard in and for Utah. Women like university presidents Astrid Tuminez and Ruth Watkins, authors Virginia Pearce and Ann Cannon and Salt Lake City Mayors Jackie Bisku
  
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• Vape shops threaten to sue state over law forcing them away from schools

  28-08-2020 21:18
  
  The deadline for established vape shops to move away from Utah grade schools came and went earlier this month, with a number of retailers threatening to sue the state rather than budge from their current locations.The brewing struggle between e-cigarette businesses and state lawmakers has also pulled city and health officials into its orbit — with attorneys for vape shops urging local regulators to sign agreements not to enforce state law for the time being.And despite the Legislature&rsqu
  
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• The NCAA has frozen the eligibility clock for fall athletes, so how is Utah supposed to manage its football roster?

  28-08-2020 20:55
  
  The NCAA has come under scrutiny this month for the way FBS conferences have handled trying to get a football played, but one piece of critical legislation earlier this month shows the college sports governing body is trying to do its part.On Aug. 19, the NCAA Division I Council recommended that fall sport student-athletes can compete in any amount of competitions this year and it will not count as a season of eligibility. Under NCAA rules, four or more football games played counts as a season o
  
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• Utah Jazz provides arena as Election Day voting center

  28-08-2020 19:28
  
  After NBA players have been speaking out about racial justice — and even canceling some playoff games this week in protest — the Utah Jazz is trying to show that voting matters, too.It is providing its Vivint Smart Home Arena as an Election Day voting center for those who are unable to vote by mail — offering vast space for safe social distancing during the pandemic, the team announced on Friday.Also, three Megaplex theaters owned by Larry H. Miller Sports & Entertainment w
  
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• Gordon Monson: Dell Loy Hansen should be removed as owner of RSL

  28-08-2020 19:15
  
  Dell Loy Hansen has done some good things, and a whole lot of dumb things as it pertains to the team he owns, a proud Utah club that has many proudplayers, managers and other employees. It used to have many more, before they started leaving the club, like sailors jumping a doomed ship. And now he’s threatening to fire additional staff.When I asked one of them, a smart, gifted soccer pro, if he was going tokeep working for the team when his contract was ending, he said: “Ican’t
  
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• East Canyon State Park given international ‘dark sky’ recognition

  28-08-2020 19:07
  
  Add East Canyon State Park to the list of Utah places where one can look up at the stars with little or no interference from human-made light pollution.The park, encompassing East Canyon Reservoir about 15 miles southeast of Morgan, is the latest Utah location to be receive recognition as an International Dark Sky Park.The honor is given by the International Dark Sky Association, an advocacy group that aims to protect natural places from light pollution caused by human activity.According to a ne
  
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• NBA will resume playoffs Saturday, with Jazz-Nuggets Game 6 on Sunday; efforts to support social justice announced

  28-08-2020 19:05
  
  A general view outside of The Field House before Game 5 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The game was eventually postponed. | Kim Klement, Associated Press KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Symbolic gesture had not been enough. Players inside the NBA’s bubble in Florida wanted to make real change, to take real action.
  After three days of postponed games, sparked by protest from
  
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• NBA will resume playoffs Saturday; efforts to support social justice announced

  28-08-2020 19:05
  
  A general view outside of The Field House before Game 5 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The game was eventually postponed. | Kim Klement, Associated Press KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The NBA officially announced that the 2019-20 playoffs will resume on Saturday, and released a joint statement with the National Basketball Players Association detailing some of the ways the leagu
  
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• Salt Lake County sees manufacturing, retail, construction workers getting caught in COVID-19 outbreaks

  28-08-2020 18:31
  
  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.They’re the occupations that make America run — jobs in manufacturing, retail, construction, transportation and food service.In Salt Lake County, they’re also the jobs that have gotten people sick. New data released by
  
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• After federal execution, Navajo Nation wants more say over criminal justice matters

  28-08-2020 18:16
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Shortly after the only Native American man on federal death row took his last breath, his tribe blasted the federal government and accused it of violating the spirit of a law that allows tribes to decide whether to subject their citizens to capital punishment.Lezmond Mitchell, 38, was executed Wednesday at a federal prison in Indiana where he was being held. The Navajo Nation had asked President Donald Trump to reduce Mitchell’s punishment to life in prison. As the
  
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• Two Christian bodies urge unity to fight pandemic injustices

  28-08-2020 18:08
  
  Vatican City • Two authoritative religious bodies on Thursday called on Christians to band together to fight “sins” laid bare or aggravated by the pandemic, including racism and economic injustice.The Vatican and the World Council of Churches, which is based in Switzerland, issued a joint document noting that the COVID-19 outbreak has drawn attention to “the scandalous gap between the rich and the poor.” The document declared that Christians are compelled to work to
  
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• Richard E. Kendell: Vote to keep funding promise for Utah schools

  28-08-2020 18:00
  
  The Utah Legislature proposed major tax reforms during the last several legislative sessions. Tax reform proposals collapsed and were abandoned or rescinded due in large measure to widespread public resistance.One element of the tax reform effort remains, namely amending the Utah Constitution to allow for expenditures other than public and higher education from Utah’s Education Fund. This will be listed as Constitutional Amendment G on your November 2020 ballot.Historically the income tax
  
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• Carol Bold: Stop the plow first, think later highway plan in Washington County

  28-08-2020 18:00
  
  Since moving to St. George in 2010, I have voiced my objection many times to the proposed Northern Corridor Highway. You may be wondering why I am so concerned by this highway, as I myself am a transplant to the area.While I may not have grown up here, I have been coming to St. George my entire life. My grandparents lived within walking distance of Dixie Rock (aka the Sugarloaf), which you could literally see from their back porch. My grandmother was born and raised here, having grown up in one
  
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• LDS Church announces location of its Syracuse temple

  28-08-2020 17:56
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced it will build its Syracuse temple on a 12-acre site at the intersection of 2500 West and 1025 South in that Davis County city.The three-story, 89,000-square-foot temple, which was announced by church President Russell M. Nelson at the church’s April 2020 General Conference, will be the 24th in Utah. Two, in Layton and Saratoga Springs, are under construction; five more — Syracuse, Orem, St. George, Tooele Valley and T
  
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• Vivint Arena, some Megaplex Theatres to be used as voting locations on Election Day

  28-08-2020 17:44
  
  Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City is pictured on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. | Steve Griffin, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Following the lead of some other NBA teams, the Utah Jazz announced on Friday morning that Vivint Arena, as well as some Megaplex Theatres (both of which are owned by Gail Miller) will be used as voting locations on Election Day, Nov. 3.
  The move is part of an NBA-wide effort to encourage people to vote.
  “Our sports and entertainment venues are familiar co
  
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• Utah inmate gets life sentence for stabbing another prisoner to death

  28-08-2020 17:37
  
  A Utah inmate will spend the rest of his life in prison for stabbing and stomping a fellow prisoner and rival gang member to death at the Utah State Prison in 2016.Ramon Rivera, now 34, pleaded guilty Thursday to aggravated murder, admitting he beat and stabbed 24-year-old Jeffrey Vigil to death while at the Draper prison. A judge then sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Rivera’s plea spared him the death penalty, and prosecutors also agreed to dismiss two oth
  
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• Robert Kirby: OK, look alive as we explore tales of the waking dead

  28-08-2020 15:00
  
  Lots of things about life are scary these days — disease, crime, the economy, politics. While I find the latter one more boring than frightening, it’s still something to fret about.But when it comes to the inarguable science of the freak-o-meter, waking up dead has to rank at least a 9.5 out of 10.Just such a thing happened to a 20-year-old Michigan woman who woke to find herself zipped up in a body bag at a funeral home.She was dead, at least according to the paramedics who responde
  
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• A dad asked the internet if he was a jerk for not buying his daughter tampons and Marina Gomberg responds

  28-08-2020 14:07
  
  Dear Tampon-Apprehensive Dad,I saw your inquiry on Twitter asking if you were wrong for not wanting your daughter to use tampons and my knee-jerk reaction was, “Thank you for asking. Indeed, you are. Please let your daughter access the hygiene products she needs.”I saw you were already getting a heavy flow of responses, though, so I decided to let it go. But it’s been on my mind, and as I’ve thought more about it, I’ve realized the answer to your question is more co
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: America needs ‘The West Wing’ now more than ever

  28-08-2020 14:00
  
  I miss “The West Wing.”That’s a massive understatement. Every time I hear a bit of the show’s theme song, I start to get emotional. I long for the good ol’ days, when President Jed Bartlet was in the White House and we could — for an hour a week — feel proud to be Americans.I know, I know. Bartlet was a fictional character played by Martin Sheen, and “The West Wing” operated in a parallel universe where pretty much everybody tried to do the r
  
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• Call it Bricks or In the Venue. Soon, the Salt Lake City nightclub and LGBTQ hangout will be history.

  28-08-2020 14:00
  
  For some Utah music fans, Bricks — later called In the Venue and Club Sound — was the place to hear acts on the cusp of making it big.You might have seen Katy Perry play there in 2009, when she was breaking out with “I Kissed a Girl.” Or Janelle Monae in 2011, promoting her first album. Or Neon Trees in 2011, transitioning from the Provo club scene to national fame. Or Twenty One Pilots in 2013, well before the song “Stressed Out” made “Blurryface”
  
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• Brent Baranko: Don’t make excuses for institutional racism

  28-08-2020 14:00
  
  The recipe for ongoing institutional racism in this country begins with a healthy dose of Levi Hilton’s commentary “A dangerous fallacy facing my generation” published in The Salt Lake Tribune Aug. 14.He states that a Black man is 2.6 times more likely to be shot by a police officer than a white man. Yet Black men only comprise 7% of the population. He closes with “Black Americans are responsible for 36% of violent crime and 51% of homicides.”His inference is: Black
  
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• Ben Rolly: What if you are the Saint to recognize the signs?

  28-08-2020 14:00
  
  For the Latter-day Saint, life is a test of faith. Saints continuously face tests of faith, which challenge them to choose their faith first, over worldly matters.Sen. Mitt Romney recently faced such a test. After swearing an oath, before God, to exercise impartial justice in the impeachment trial of his own party leader, Romney concluded that the president was guilty of the first article, abuse of power.His conclusion placed him in a difficult position. To be true to his oath – and hence,
  
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• Letter: Domestic violence is not something to joke about

  28-08-2020 13:45
  
  I am curious how funny the victim of domestic violence referred to in Robert Kirby’s article on Aug. 21, “Love means putting up with a lot — even broccoli for dinner” finds it?Kirby posits that the logical cause for this incident must have been that the victim tried to serve her husband broccoli, based upon his intense dislike for the vegetable. According to the police report, the man was arrested and jailed for injuring his wife while dragging her from a campsite to the
  
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• Letter: Constituents must not be a priority for Rep. Chris Stewart

  28-08-2020 13:30
  
  I’ve written and called Sen. Mitt Romney and received substantive replies, agreeing or disagreeing. I’ve written and called Sen. Mike Lee and received acknowledgements.I’ve called Rep. Chris Stewart and received “Rep. Stewart is not available; mailbox is full.”I’m sure there are many demands on a representative’s time, but constituents are apparently not Stewart’s priority.Henry Whiteside, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: The voters should choose the president

  28-08-2020 07:15
  
  During the past several years, we have had two presidential candidates lose the popular vote yet win the presidency because of the Electoral College votes. Heaven forbid that this happens again this coming November and Donald Trump is reelected president.My family and I are completely against the Electoral College determining who should be our president. It should be those citizens who cast their ballots.One last thing: Please someone save the post office!Stan Jacobson, OgdenSubmit a letter to t
  
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• Lute Olson, Hall of Fame coach, Arizona icon, dies at 85

  28-08-2020 07:02
  
  Tucson, Ariz. • Lute Olson, the Hall of Fame coach who turned Arizona into a college basketball powerhouse, has died. He was 85.Olson’s family said he died Thursday evening. The cause of death wasn’t given.“Coach Olson is the absolute best, one of the greatest coaches ever and one of the greatest human beings ever,” Georgia Tech coach and former Arizona player Josh Pasnter tweeted. “My feelings of gratitude and appreciation cannot be put in words. I love him de
  
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• Letter: Flora and fauna and proofreading

  28-08-2020 06:15
  
  I realize that eliminating proofreaders was a cost cutting measure, but isn’t there someone on The Salt Lake Tribune staff that at least reads the bold print in articles before publication?I’m referring to the article about bees on the Aug. 23 front page, “All abuzz in the forest.”Honeybees do not pollinate “fauna” (animal kingdom) on Utah public lands, they pollinate flora (plant kingdom).Warren Majerus, SandySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• NBA players show their love of life and equality are greater than their love for a game

  28-08-2020 05:42
  
  An empty court and bench are shown with the #WholeNewGame signage following the scheduled start time of Game 5 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in 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. | Kevin C. Cox, Pool photo via The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — I rarely experience writer&
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: ‘We did the exact right thing,’ says our Glorious Leader

  28-08-2020 05:16
  
  What a relief!I’d worried about the coronavirus, but we’re fine! I’ve been watching the Republican National Convention, and it turns out that while everyone else stood helpless before the pandemic, our national lodestar, President Donald Trump, stepped up and saved millions of lives. Whew!“From the very beginning, Democrats, the media and the World Health Organization got the coronavirus wrong,” according to a GOP propaganda film shown at the convention. Fortunately
  
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• Letter: True civility and kindness

  28-08-2020 05:15
  
  In his letter here on Aug. 22, Phillip C. Smith attempts to protect free speech. He referred to a Salt Lake City School District yearbook which included the statement, “There are two genders and a lot of mental illness,” and how an administrator took umbrage from it.Mr. Smith lays out a case against using the term “hate speech,” yet he states the administrator’s criticism is hate speech. He states hate speech is name-calling. He overlooks how people using the term h
  
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• Trump accepts Republican renomination on huge White House stage

  28-08-2020 04:55
  
  Washington • Facing a moment fraught with national crises, President Donald Trump accepted his party’s renomination on a massive White House South Lawn stage Thursday night, breaking with tradition by using the executive mansion as a political backdrop and defying pandemic guidelines to address a tightly packed, largely maskless crowd.As troubles churned outside the gates, Trump painted an optimistic vision of America’s future, including an eventual triumph over the coronavirus
  
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• Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes praises Trump as ’warrior’ against human trafficking

  28-08-2020 04:26
  
  Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes used the stage of the Republican National Convention on Thursday night to promote his signature issue — the fight against human trafficking — and lauded the Trump administration for making historic strides in combating it.“President Donald Trump is a warrior against human trafficking,” Reyes declared, saying as a “proud descendant of warriors” he recognizes a kindred spirit.Reyes, the first Utah minority elected to statewide of
  
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• Letter: The Postal Service is not a business

  28-08-2020 04:15
  
  Why do we perpetually hear about the United States Postal Service running out of money? Why does the current administration continue to frame the Postal Service as a money-making (or in their view, money-losing) business rather than an independent agency of the federal government that provides a service to the American people supported by tax dollars?When the Defense Department loses F-16 planes due to crashes, do we make them raise any fees and cut services? For years our Postal Service, as wel
  
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