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• Police supporters to protest Pat Bagley cartoon at The Salt Lake Tribune printing press

  03-09-2020 23:43
  
  Law enforcement supporters planned to rally Thursday at The Salt Lake Tribune’s shared West Valley City printing press to protest an editorial cartoon they say disrespects and endangers police.The rally — called “Back the Blue: Boycott Salt Lake Tribune!!” — came together Wednesday after the Utah Sheriffs’ Association and the leader of Utah Business Revival, a group that has held a series of protests against coronavirus restrictions, condemned the drawing.They
  
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• National consensus is the Utah Jazz’s season fell short of expectations, but there is still optimism for the future

  03-09-2020 23:42
  
  If there’s one passage from any one story about the Utah Jazz’s season that wraps it all up, it’s this:“Utah lost a series it ought to have won, and its big bet this season failed. But the story isn’t completed just yet. There’s still time for success.”That’s what NBA writer Tom Ziller said about the local team after its disappointing Game 7 defeat to the Denver Nuggets, after leading the series 3-1. And it’s accurate on every count — t
  
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• Daniel Reed: Education has the power to transform lives

  03-09-2020 23:00
  
  College freshman George Conde is an exceptional student. He was co-captain of his debate team at Granger High School and a Sterling Scholar in social science. His GPA: 3.99, unweighted.The 18-year-old from West Valley City had his pick of schools. He was accepted at UCLA and the University of Washington and wait-listed at the University of California at Berkeley. But Conde picked the University of Utah.The reason was the For Utah Scholarship.Conde’s parents are immigrants from Peru. His mo
  
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• Coronavirus outbreak hits Cache County jail, 46 test positive

  03-09-2020 22:59
  
  Forty-six people who are incarcerated at the Cache County jail have tested positive for the coronavirus, the sheriff’s office announced Wednesday.Two cell blocks are under quarantined after an inmate started showing symptoms Aug. 22, the Cache County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.Officials say that 45 of the 46 inmates tested have reported no symptoms, with only one person experiencing “mild” symptoms.Previous to this outbreak, officials said they had less than
  
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• Utah officials plan on issuing more cougar hunting permits

  03-09-2020 22:58
  
  St. George • Utah wildlife officials plan on issuing additional cougar hunting permits this fall in an attempt to reverse dwindling mule deer populations.The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources says evidence suggests that reducing the number of cougars may spur an uptick in mule deer populations.Cougar numbers tend to oscillate in sync with mule deer numbers, The Spectrum reported. An abundance of deer one year will boost cougar numbers in following years. That cougar population increase mi
  
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• More Salt Lake County move-ins come from abroad each year than from many nearby counties

  03-09-2020 22:57
  
  Salt Lake County residents now see more new neighbors arrive each year from Asia than from nearby Weber County, according to new Census Bureau data released Thursday.Those Weber move-ins also are outnumbered by new arrivals from South America.That’s not all. Central America provides more newcomers in Salt Lake County each year than nearby Cache County. Europe brings in more than Tooele County. And Africa and the Pacific Islands now each bring in more than nearby Wasatch County.While Utah l
  
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• EPA set up new ‘Western lands-focused’ office to oversee mine reclamation

  03-09-2020 22:04
  
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the creation of a “Western lands-focused” office that will oversee abandoned hardrock mines that have left a stubborn legacy of contamination that continues to plague the West.The new Office of Mountains, Deserts and Plains, headquartered in Colorado, will “address crosscutting issues unique to the region, and more effectively leverage existing EPA staff, expertise, and resources in hardrock mining cleanup,” according
  
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• EPA sets up new ‘Western lands-focused’ office to oversee mine reclamation

  03-09-2020 22:01
  
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the creation of a “Western lands-focused” office that will oversee abandoned hardrock mines that have left a stubborn legacy of contamination that continues to plague the West.The new Office of Mountains, Deserts and Plains, headquartered in Colorado, will “address crosscutting issues unique to the region, and more effectively leverage existing EPA staff, expertise, and resources in hardrock mining cleanup,” according
  
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• A massive advertising blitz is just beginning in Utah’s race between Ben McAdams and Burgess Owens

  03-09-2020 21:39
  
  If you thought the onslaught of political ads in Utah’s 4th District from 2018 was overwhelming, brace yourself, because there’s even more money targeted this time around. And the actions of party leaders, including a quick visit by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, show just how competitive this race is, at least for now.Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams, Republican nominee Burgess Owens and outside groups on both sides recently booked millions of dollars in advertising running now un
  
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• Derek Miller: Utahns deserve a panorama on pandemic data

  03-09-2020 21:18
  
  Data drives decisions. Bad data leads to bad decisions. Incomplete data, incomplete decisions. Unbalanced data, unbalanced decisions.Decisions made at a local, national and even global level regarding the coronavirus are some of the most important decisions of our lifetimes. Yet, it often seems that only a keyhole view of the pandemic panorama receives daily attention.Each day for the past six months, Utahns have received the latest number of daily infections, but case counts are only one piece
  
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• 4 students — so far — test positive for the coronavirus at Utah State University dorms

  03-09-2020 21:10
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.Four students have tested positive for the coronavirus — so far — at Utah State University’s dorms, according to the first set of results to come back since hundreds of residents there were quarantined this week.The sch
  
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• Red All Over: Here’s to you, Utah fans. I hope you fill your fall time well

  03-09-2020 20:00
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.After shadowing my predecessor, Kurt Kragthorpe, for my first month in Salt Lake City, I took over as The Tribune’s University of Utah beat writer in January.I have not yet covered a football game as the beat guy, nor have I even been inside Rice-Eccles Stadium, but I’ve talked to a lot of people on and off campus, and would like to think I’ve at least come to somewhat understand the vibe of the fan bas
  
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• Brooklyn Nets hire Hall of Famer Steve Nash as head coach

  03-09-2020 19:48
  
  Steve Nash was one of the NBA’s most entertaining point guards, the engineer of a high-scoring team that helped usher in a new era of basketball.Now the Brooklyn Nets want to see what he can do as a coach.The Nets hired Nash on Thursday, putting the Hall of Famer in charge of the team that hopes to have Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving together next season.“Coaching is something I knew I wanted to pursue when the time was right, and I am humbled to be able to work with the outstanding g
  
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• New Utah coronavirus cases up to 504 on Thursday

  03-09-2020 19:43
  
  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 504 new coronavirus cases reported on Thursday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses is rising toward 400 cases per day.For the past seven days, Utah has averaged 394 new positive test results per day, the Utah Department of Health re
  
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• Gordon Monson: Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert raise their sights toward something better with the Utah Jazz

  03-09-2020 19:34
  
  Of all the sentiments expressed deep in the emotion and competitive pain of Jazz players after their season slammed into a brick wall on Tuesday night, two sentences screamed optimism for the team’s future.Rudy Gobert said: “We started something, now we have to finish it.”Donovan Mitchell said: “We’re just scratching the surface.”They said other things, too, but those short word illustrations are significant for the Jazz’s outlook, their promise and, mos
  
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• EPA set up new ‘Western lands-focused’ office to overseen mine reclamation

  03-09-2020 19:13
  
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the creation of a “Western lands-focused” office that will oversee abandoned hardrock mines that have left a stubborn legacy of contamination that continues to plague the West.The new Office of Mountains, Deserts and Plains, headquartered in Colorado, will “address crosscutting issues unique to the region, and more effectively leverage existing EPA staff, expertise, and resources in hardrock mining cleanup,” according
  
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• Unemployment claims in Utah drop to lowest level in six months

  03-09-2020 19:11
  
  New weekly unemployment claims in Utah continue to fall, hitting six month lows, as the state’s economic recovery from the pandemic appeared to solidify. New data shows that Utah’s metro areas are faring far better ....A total of 4,591 Utahns filed new jobless claims during the week ending Aug. 29 and ongoing claims fell more sharply than they have since the COVID-19 crisis began, with 7,991 dropping their requests for benefits, a sign they returned to employment.The number of self-e
  
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• Jobless claims fall to 881,000 but layoffs remain elevated

  03-09-2020 18:37
  
  Washington • The number of laid-off Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a still-elevated 881,000 last week, evidence that the viral pandemic keeps forcing many businesses to slash jobs.The latest figures, released Thursday by the Labor Department, suggest that nearly six months after the eruption of the coronavirus, the economy is still struggling to sustain a recovery and rebuild a job market that was devastated by the recession. In the previous week, more than 1 million h
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Streaming ‘Mulan’ on Disney+ is the best of bad options

  03-09-2020 18:34
  
  When it was announced that the live-action remake of “Mulan” would stream on Disney+ for $29.99, there were howls of protest from two distinctly different groups — consumers and movie theater operators.Consumers complained because of the cost. Imagine — being asked to pay extra on top of the $6.99 a month (or $69.99 a year) that a Disney+ subscription costs!Theater operators objected because they’re getting bypassed. But Disney, through no fault of its own, doesn&rs
  
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• Police ID victim killed in South Salt Lake stabbing. One man is in custody.

  03-09-2020 18:34
  
  South Salt Lake police have released the name of a man stabbed to death in an apartment near 200 East and Cordelia Avenue on Wednesday morning.Police arrived at the apartment shortly after 6 a.m. on Wednesday and found Riley Nagle, 27, dead inside. He had been stabbed in the chest with a knife.According to police, when they approached the 69-year-old man who lived in the apartment, he “made a spontaneous statement that he was the one that stabbed the guy.” When the suspect was later
  
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• Utah women targeted in ‘romance scam’

  03-09-2020 18:33
  
  St. Louis • Three St. Louis residents are accused of scamming middle-aged and older women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars as part of what the U.S. Attorney’s office in St. Louis called a “romance scam.”Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced the indictments of 41-year-old Ovuoke Frank Ofikoro, 27-year-old Bonmene Sibe and 27-year-old Trenice Hassel. The U.S. Attorney’s office said Ofikoro and Sibe targeted dozens of women across the U.S., and Hassel aided
  
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• Bountiful High paints over American Indian drawings — but mascot’s fate won’t be decided until December

  03-09-2020 18:28
  
  Bountiful High School has painted over the drawings of Native American men, teepees and tomahawks that used to cover its sidewalks — a move that comes as a new committee considers whether to altogether retire the controversial mascot, the Braves.LeMichelle Lane said she first noticed the depictions start to disappear midway through August. She had been walking around the school her 16-year-old daughter, Lemiley, attends and was used to seeing them on the grounds.Then, she saw, some had bee
  
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• Utah police union accuses teachers of ‘political indoctrination’ by supporting Black Lives Matter movement in class

  03-09-2020 18:22
  
  Utah’s largest police union alleges that some teachers in the state have been pushing an anti-law enforcement agenda by making “disparaging comments” about officers in front of students and wearing Black Lives Matter shirts in the classroom.In a letter addressed to the state superintendent this week, the Utah Fraternal Order of Police demands that Utah Board of Education immediately denounce such actions. Educators, the union said, should be neutral on all political issues.&ldq
  
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• Ann Romney will join Michelle Obama on TV to get out the vote

  03-09-2020 18:03
  
  Ann Romney will team up with Michelle Obama on prime-time television to encourage people to vote this fall.The former first lady and Romney — whose husband, Sen. Mitt Romney, lost the 2012 race to former President Barack Obama — are both scheduled to appear on “VOMO: Vote Or Miss Out,” an hourlong “non-partisan comedy event” that, according to ABC, will “encourage electoral participation in the 2020 election” when it airs on Sept. 14.
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• This week in Mormon Land: Moroni goes missing, BYU campuses make rankings, missionary work rebounds

  03-09-2020 16:40
  
  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.Missing MoroniYes, the Angel Moroni statue atop the iconic Salt Lake Temple has been taken down to undergo repairs. And, yes, temples are increasingly going up without the golden figure.But now the famed Book of Mormon
  
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• Burgess Owens said Mitt Romney should become a Democrat for voting to impeach Trump

  03-09-2020 16:31
  
  Burgess Owens, now the Republican nominee in Utah’s 4th Congressional District, said in March, shortly after the impeachment trial vote that Sen. Mitt Romney should leave the GOP and join the Democratic Party.Owens appeared on a right-wing Christian podcast to discuss his candidacy when he was asked about Romney’s vote to remove President Donald Trump from office on obstruction of justice charges.“So I think you would probably agree with me that maybe Mitt Romney should be kick
  
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• Marie Osmond quits ‘The Talk’ for family reasons

  03-09-2020 16:22
  
  A year after Marie Osmond joined the panel on CBS’ “The Talk,” she’s leaving the show — to spend more time with family.The Utah native, 60, explained her decision in an Instagram post: “My husband and I just dropped our last two kids off at college, we looked at each other, laughed and remembered we hadn’t been this alone together since 1982!! So, at this stage of my life, I’m looking forward to spending more time with him and visiting all the kids
  
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• Three Points: RSL gets a home crowd, team shows support for Utah Royals, Rossi plays more and makes impact

  03-09-2020 16:00
  
  Here are three observations from Real Salt Lake’s 2-2 draw to the Seattle Sounders.1. The RioT is buzzing againA little over 4,000 fans showed up to the game Wednesday to watch RSL earn a second consecutive draw by way of coming from behind. When they watched Real do it against Portland last weekend, it was from home.Every person from RSL who spoke after the Seattle game conveyed how amazing it felt to be in front of fans again. For weeks, they had no fans in the MLS is Back Tournament in
  
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• Steroids confirmed to help severely ill coronavirus patients

  03-09-2020 15:49
  
  New studies confirm that multiple types of steroids improve survival for severely ill COVID-19 patients, cementing the cheap drugs as a standard of care.An analysis of pooled results from seven studies, led by the World Health Organization and published Wednesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that steroids reduced the risk of death in the first month by about one-third compared to placebo treatment or usual care alone in these seriously ill patients who needed extra o
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Our country needs empathy and leadership, but Trump simply isn’t capable of that

  03-09-2020 15:00
  
  We’re in the midst of a difficult time in the United States, when racial divisions are stark and raw, and protests for justice have turned violent in several cities.It’s a time when, historically, we have looked to our leaders to at least attempt to speak to our shared values, unite the country and pray for peace.Unfortunately, our current president is incapable of any of that.He has done just the opposite, exploiting racial tensions, empowering quasi-militias and vigilantes, and inf
  
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• Review: Live-action ‘Mulan’ is an epic adaptation with a warrior’s heart

  03-09-2020 15:00
  
  Director Niki Caro’s “Mulan” isn’t just the best adaptation Disney has done from its animated catalog, but one of the most resonant family dramas in a long time — deftly balancing martial-arts excitement, an epic visual sweep and a moving, personal tale of a young woman channeling her warrior spirit.Disney, in its strip mining of its animated classics, usually goes one of two ways: Either sticking faithfully close to the originals — like “Beauty and the
  
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• Sherrita Magalde: Make every month Black Business Month in Utah

  03-09-2020 14:00
  
  Once again, the country is reeling after another abhorrent death. Breonna Taylor. Darrien Hunt. Amaud Arbery, George Floyd. Countless others. Now, Jacob Blake.In response to these horrific and unjust deaths, we saw the Black Lives Matter movement gain traction and support this summer. As people all across the country continue to protest in the streets, tens of thousands of Utahns are expressing their own style of protesting – not only in the streets – but also with support for Black-
  
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• Letter: With ads come responsibilities

  03-09-2020 14:00
  
  I remember a line from the show “South Pacific”: “I know what you are against, what are you for?”I wonder what it would look like if the creators of political ads stopped negative ads? Is there anything positive in our politics?Another positive thought: A USA Today interview with Dolly Parton quotes her as saying: “God gave us free will. America gave us free speech, but you’ve got to be responsible for anything you say and do.” Something to think about.R
  
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• Letter: Who’s a warrior against human trafficking?

  03-09-2020 14:00
  
  I never thought I would hear a longtime friend of Jeffrey Epstein who has bragged about abusing women and insults every woman he mentions — except Ghislaine Maxwell and his daughter Ivanka — called a “warrior against human trafficking” (“Utah A.G. praises ‘warrior’ against human trafficking,” Aug. 28). But then, it did occur at the Republican National Convention, where black was white (and white was white).Paul Simmons, MurraySubmit a letter to the
  
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• Letter: Racism should have no place in law enforcement

  03-09-2020 14:00
  
  My father once said something to me that I have pondered frequently. He said sadly of a man we both knew, “In so many ways he’s a good man, except he’s a racist.” I expect many people know someone with a similarly flawed character. I think it has meaning right now as our country faces the opportunity to grow and leave behind another real vestige of racism in our country.Most law enforcement officers are good people trying to do a hard job and I always thank them for their
  
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• Letter: Nothing matters to Trump except his reelection

  03-09-2020 14:00
  
  I keep waiting for new op-eds from James Dabakis and Kem Gardner encouraging all those Democrats and unaffiliated voters who registered as Republicans (so they could vote in the Republican primary) to now switch to the Democratic Party and vote for Chris Peterson for governor in November. After all, we now have the Republican nominee Cox who is refusing to schedule a debate with Peterson, and there are folks pushing for a write-in campaign for Jon Huntsman who memorably campaigned in Cache Valle
  
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• Letter: Hypocrisy requires the explicit declaration that Black lives matter

  03-09-2020 14:00
  
  Why do they say Black lives matter? Don’t all lives matter? Well yes, of course. But in America, sometimes “all” doesn’t really mean all. Take the Constitution, for example. Obviously, “all” men didn’t have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness when those words were written. Or take the week of Aug. 24. 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Jacob Blake, a Black man, was shot seven times in the back by a police officer. During the protest that ensued,
  
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• Letter: GOP should reclaim its roots as the party of Lincoln

  03-09-2020 14:00
  
  It’s time to retire the moniker of The Grand Old Party. It is old, it’s tired, often not so grand and traditionally white. Did you see the Republican National Convention? Have you looked at actual policies enacted? Time, indeed.The Republican Party should formally reclaim the roots of the Republican party as the party of Lincoln — the POL — and the diverse populations that this party has historically supported. The Republicans must keep on track with the values behind his
  
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• Commentary: It has come to this. We should ignore the CDC.

  03-09-2020 14:00
  
  We were startled and dismayed last week to learn that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a perplexing series of statements, had altered its testing guidelines to reduce the testing of asymptomatic people for the coronavirus.These changes by the CDC will undermine efforts to end the pandemic, slow the return to normal economic, educational and social activities, and increase the loss of lives.Like other scientists and public health experts, we have argued that more asymptomatic pe
  
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• A U.S. eviction moratorium may help struggling Utahns for the rest of 2020

  03-09-2020 14:00
  
  Utahns struggling to pay their rent due to the pandemic may have gotten a reprieve Tuesday with an order by the Trump administration to bar evictions for most renters for the rest of the year.The order, issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the action was needed to stop the spread of the virus and to avoid having renters wind up in shelters or other crowded living conditions, compounding the crisis.The moratorium would go further than the eviction ban under the pandemic
  
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• Navajo Nation to run partial weekend lockdown into September

  03-09-2020 05:41
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation officials are extending partial weekend lockdowns and daily curfews through September to help control the spread of the coronavirus on the tribe’s reservation.The lockdowns on the vast reservation in the Four Corners region start at 9 p.m. Saturday and run until 5 a.m. Monday. They were shortened in August from previous versions that began on Fridays.The current daily curfews run from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.On Wednesday, the tribe reported 17 new positive c
  
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• RSL draws with Seattle 2-2 in first game with fans since March

  03-09-2020 05:39
  
  Sandy • When Real Salt Lake built into the attacking third, there were cheers. When the referee made an unpopular call, there were boos. When RSL scored a goal, the “Believe” song played.RSL played a game with fans watching for the first time since March 7, just a few days before the COVID-19 pandemic halted sports all over the world. While fans were required to wear masks and socially distance, and only 4,026 people attended the match in the 20,000-plus-capacity Rio Tinto Stadi
  
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• Sources: Donovan Mitchell, Jazz to Finalize Max Extension at Start of Free Agency

  03-09-2020 05:26 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  [Donovan] Mitchell and the Jazz will finalize a max extension when free agency opens in mid-October, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Source: Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: For Biden to win, listen to Minneapolis

  03-09-2020 04:09
  
  There’s one thing about the people on the Trump team that I almost admire: When they do blurt out the truth, they really tell you the truth — in a way that’s so raw you’re left asking, “Did they really say that out loud?”That was certainly my thought when Kellyanne Conway declared last week, “The more chaos and anarchy and vandalism and violence reigns, the better it is for the very clear choice on who’s best on public safety and law and order.&rdq
  
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• Long putt helps create 3-way tie for medalist in State Amateur

  03-09-2020 04:03
  
  Jeremy Ranch • Mistakenly believing the hole was cut into the bottom portion of the 18th green, Hayden Christensen planned his approach shot to land just below a ridge and have the ball trickle back down the slope.Christensen played it perfectly, except an outdated pin sheet for Wednesday’s setup of Jeremy Ranch Golf & Country Club gave him some wrong information. His ball ended up 75 feet from the hole, located in the back-left corner.“I was a little frustrated,” Hayd
  
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• Tom Seaver, heart and mighty arm of Miracle Mets, dies at 75

  03-09-2020 03:19
  
  New York • Tom Seaver, the galvanizing leader of the Miracle Mets 1969 championship team and a pitcher who personified the rise of expansion teams during an era of radical change for baseball, has died. He was 75.The Hall of Fame said Wednesday night that Seaver died Monday from complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19. Seaver spent his final years in Calistoga, California.Seaver’s family announced in March 2019 he had been diagnosed with dementia and had retired from public l
  
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• Aaryn Birchell: School funding amendment just doesn’t measure up

  03-09-2020 03:02
  
  I needed a tape measure to help me prepared my small classroom to fit 36 high school students for this unprecedented 2020 school year. Amid all the drama of this year’s pandemic, with school closures, economic hardships, schools reopening and everything else 2020 brought, something just isn’t measuring up.Did we forget that the very foundation of Utah’s constitutional school funding is up for a vote this November? The Legislature has placed Constitutional Amendment G on the bal
  
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• Salt Lake County connects restaurants to families in need during the pandemic

  03-09-2020 02:35
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has taken a big toll on the restaurant industry as well as financially strapped families.In Utah, the Nourish to Flourish Initiative is working to link those communities in a mutually beneficial cycle.It goes like this: restaurants cook up healthy meals for those in need. Community nonprofits distribute the meals. The restaurants get paid for the meals, helping them stay in business and keep people employed to make more meals for the hungry.The most challenging link in t
  
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• Dixie Center to keep name; leaders vote early amid criticism

  03-09-2020 02:22
  
  The Dixie Center in southern Utah has announced it will keep its name despite previous considerations after voting to rebrand the convention center in June.The center’s board voted 5-2 on Tuesday to keep the name, but incorporate the county’s Greater Zion marketing at the center, KUER-FM reported.Washington County Commissioner Gil Almquist said the decision was made after the board received feedback from the community.“The part of an elected official is to listen,” A
  
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• Richard Longo: Could there be a military solution to racial injustice?

  03-09-2020 01:04
  
  After 35 years as a soldier, I admit to what I consider a mild conservative bias. I lamented the “disrespect” of players kneeling during the National Anthem and swore to never watch that sport again … unless my favorite team was playing.I condoned the shouting of “all lives matter” and even “blue lives matter.” I am not sure if I thought the police killing of unarmed black men was somehow justified (ashamedly I thought, “Don’t resist and you
  
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