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• Letter: We are all patriots

  05-09-2020 23:30
  
  I’ve been wondering lately to whom our American flag belongs. I am wondering who is a “patriot.” As citizens of this wonderful country, I believe that the flag and the word “patriot” belong to all of us, no matter how we identify politically. Sadly, I have noticed that there are people who use the flag to justify bigotry and anger toward people who are different in appearance and values.My grandparents came to the United States emigrating from governments who wanted
  
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• RSL forward Giuseppe Rossi glad to be playing meaningful minutes again

  05-09-2020 23:07
  
  Two years and two months. That’s how long it had been since Real Salt Lake forward Giuseppe Rossi played 45 consecutive soccer minutes.Prior to his arrival at RSL, Rossi hadn’t played competitive soccer for nearly two years. He tried out with teams like Manchester United, LAFC and Villarreal, though none of those stuck.So when this season came around and Rossi, in limited minutes, started showing glimpses of his potential contributions, there was optimism all around. But the playing
  
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• Goofy ‘Julie and the Phantoms’ is the biggest thing since ‘High School Musical’

  05-09-2020 23:00
  
  For a lot of teens and preteens, “Julie and the Phantoms” is going to be the biggest thing to hit TV since “High School Musical” premiered almost 15 years ago.It’s about teenagers who sing and dance. Who have a burning desire to perform. Who deal with life and love and family.Oh, and three of the four main characters are dead. Really.Julie (Madison Reyes) is a talented teen who hasn’t been able to bring herself to perform in the year since her songwriting moth
  
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• Documentary recalls when a generation demanded ‘I Want My MTV’

  05-09-2020 23:00
  
  If you weren’t around to watch MTV in the 1980s and ’90s, you have no idea how big it was.“It was Spotify, YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok — all of these entities grouped into one,” said Salt Lake City filmmaker Tyler Measom, a Utah native. “Everyone in our generation has their MTV story. Everyone had this relationship with MTV. … It was, to our generation, everything.”Directors/writers/producers Measom and Patrick Waldroup, a former Utahn, tell the sto
  
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• Salt Lake City police shoot boy apparently having ‘psychological episode’

  05-09-2020 22:56
  
  A Salt Lake City police officer shot a boy Friday night while responding to a call reporting he was having a “psychological episode.”The injured youth was taken to a local hospital in “serious condition,” according to Sgt. Keith Horrocks.Police were dispatched shortly after 10 p.m. to 500 South and Navajo Street for a call about a youth who was having a “mental episode ... and had made threats to some folks with a weapon,” Horrocks said.The boy left the scene
  
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• Utah LB Francis Bernard a surprise cut by Dallas Cowboys as NFL’s final cutdown day arrives

  05-09-2020 22:29
  
  As soon as the NFL officially cancelled all preseason games on July 27, it became harder for fringe guys like Francis Bernard to make an NFL roster.A former All-Pac-12 linebacker at the University of Utah, had interceptions in consecutive practices at one point in camp, earning wide praise from the coaching staff. He made some waves on special teams and with oft-injured veteran linebacker Sean Lee set to begin the season on injured reserve, appeared to be in good position to make the 53-man rost
  
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• Latter-day Saints break ground for sixth Utah County temple

  05-09-2020 22:28
  
  About 30 people gathered Saturday in Orem to break ground on what will become Utah County’s sixth Latter-day Saint temple.The three-story, 70,000-square-foot edifice will rise at about 1470 S. Geneva Road, west of Interstate 15 and south of University Parkway. The 16-acre site will include a 20,000-square-foot meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.“We are grateful for the legacy of faith that exists among the Saints in this part of the Lord’s vineyard,
  
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• Utah adds 433 new coronavirus cases, 2 deaths

  05-09-2020 21:12
  
  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.Utah added 433 new coronavirus cases Saturday, according the Utah Department of Utah.The death toll from the coronavirus rose to 420 with two fatalities reported since Friday:A San Juan County man, age 45 to 64, who died in a hospital.A
  
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• Could Utah and the rest of the Pac-12 play the upcoming basketball season in a bubble?

  05-09-2020 21:00
  
  The NBA, NHL and MLS have all shown this summer that sticking their respective athletes in a bubble environment can work.All three leagues have restarted their regular seasons in bubbles. Medical and testing protocols have been strict, not to mention uniform, which has led to positive COVID-19 tests being non-existent. This has all come at great cost to the leagues, but what they’ve done has clearly been effective.Paid professional athletes moving into a bubble is one thing, but asking unp
  
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• George Pyle: Liberty and license in a time of pandemic

  05-09-2020 20:02
  
  “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it which obliges every one; and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it that, being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”John Locke, “The Second Treatise of Civil Government,” 1690Somehow, in this country and in this state, we have come to a pass where reasonable and educated people have an understanding of some important thing
  
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• Utah LB Francis Bernard a surprise cut by Dallas Cowboys as NFL’s final cutdown day begins

  05-09-2020 19:30
  
  As soon as the NFL officially cancelled all preseason games on July 27, it became harder for fringe guys like Francis Bernard to make an NFL roster. A former All-Pac-12 linebacker at the University of Utah, had interceptions in consecutive practices at one point in camp, earning wide praise from the coaching staff. He made some waves on special teams and with oft-injured veteran linebacker Sean Lee set to begin the season on injured reserve, appeared to be in good position to make the 53-man ros
  
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• BYU was looking at an uphill climb in 2020, then the pandemic hit. The Cougars now appear poised for a big season.

  05-09-2020 19:24
  
  Provo • It’s not over until it’s over. Or in this case, the season isn’t set until it’s set.And at this point, BYU’s 2020 season may not be completely set.While the Cougars are a day away from starting the season, it will have to be fluid — as everything has been through the pandemic. When BYU announced the addition of two more home games less than two weeks ago, bringing the season total to eight games, the school said additional games would be announced
  
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• Utah QB Tyler Huntley waived by Ravens, LB Francis Bernard let go by Cowboys as NFL’s final cutdown day begins

  05-09-2020 18:48
  
  Tyler Huntley is back on the open market.The former University of Utah star quarterback was waived Saturday morning by the Baltimore Ravens, according to Jeff Zreiebc of The Athletic.Huntley, who agreed to an undrafted free agent contract with the Ravens in the minutes after the NFL Draft ended in late April, was vying for the third-string spot with Trace McSorley. Reigning NFL MVP Lamar Jackson and Robert Griffin III are entrenched on the depth chart.Huntley can now be claimed off waivers. If h
  
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• Utah QB Tyler Huntley waived by Ravens as NFL cuts begin

  05-09-2020 18:04
  
  Tyler Huntley is back on the open market.The former University of Utah star quarterback was waived Saturday morning by the Baltimore Ravens, according to Jeff Zreiebc of The Athletic.Huntley, who agreed to an undrafted free agent contract with the Ravens in the minutes after the NFL Draft ended in late April, was vying for the third-string spot with Tyler McSorley. Reigning NFL MVP Lamar Jackson and Robert Griffin III are entrenched on the depth chart.Huntley can now be claimed off waivers. If h
  
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• Salt Lake City police shoot juvenile after responding to ’psychological episode’ call

  05-09-2020 18:01
  
  A Salt Lake City police officer shot a juvenile Friday night while responding to a call for a “psychological episode.”The male juvenile was taken to a local hospital in “serious condition,” according to Sgt. Keith Horrocks.Police were dispatched shortly after 10 p.m. to 500 South and Navajo Street for a call about a juvenile who was having a “mental episode ... and had made threats to some folks with a weapon,” Horrocks said.As police pursued the juvenile, who
  
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• Gordon Monson: BYU’s Kalani and Navy’s Ken are two men from the same place with different football philosophies

  05-09-2020 17:54
  
  When BYU plays Navy in its football opener on Monday night — that’s right, college football actually played — there will be all kinds of connections between those who guide each program.Navy’s Ken Niumatalolo, the winningest football coach ever at the Naval Academy, now entering his 13th season, and Kalani Sitake, starting his fifth at BYU, are respectively the first Samoan FBS head coach and the first Tongan head coach, each of whom spent at least part of their childhood
  
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• Black leaders want to erase slavery from Utah constitution

  05-09-2020 17:25
  
  On the anniversary of the historic March on Washington that helped push the nation forward in terms of racial equality, Black community leaders in Utah launched a campaign to remove references to “slavery” from the state’s founding document.“This language in our constitution, it was written 32 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. It should never have been placed in our constitution,” Rep. Sandra Hollins, D-Salt Lake City, told FOX 13. “It no longer
  
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• Voting in person Nov. 3? Expect drive-thrus, sports arenas

  05-09-2020 17:21
  
  Voting will look a little different this November. States are turning to stadiums, drive-thrus and possibly even movie theaters as safe options for in-person polling places amid the coronavirus pandemic and fears about mail-in ballots failing to arrive in time to count.The primary season brought voters to an outdoor wedding-style tent in Vermont and the state fairgrounds in Kentucky. The general election on Nov. 3 is expected to include voting at NBA arenas around the country, part of an ag
  
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• Legal and Financial information

  05-09-2020 17:14
  
  Legal and Financial informationThe Tribune’s application to the Internal Revenue ServiceForm 1023 by The Salt Lake Tribune on ScribdThe Tribune’s IRS approval letterIRS Approval by The Salt Lake Tribune on ScribdGift Acceptance PoliciesThe Salt Lake Tribune’s core value is journalistic excellence. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit news organization, The Tribune holds independence and accountability to the public as its guiding principles.The following guidelines describe the values, sta
  
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• U.S. wildlife agency seeks to carve out areas from protections

  05-09-2020 15:00
  
  Billings, Mont. • A Trump administration proposal released Friday would allow the government to deny habitat protections for endangered animals and plants in areas that would see greater economic benefits from being developed — a change critics said could open lands to more energy development and other activities.U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials described the proposal as giving more deference to local governments when they want to build things like schools and hospitals.But th
  
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• Hideout Town Council meets to restart expansion plans before it’s too late

  05-09-2020 15:00
  
  The Hideout Town Council held its first public meeting Friday evening in an attempt to renew an effort to absorb a large swath of land across county lines near Park City.Summit County has filed lawsuits against the town and its developers to block the effort. Earlier this week, a 4th District judge ordered Hideout to restart its annexation process after the county said the Town Council failed to abide by open meetings law.Before that ruling, the council had repealed an intent to annex resolution
  
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• Living with someone who has COVID-19? Your odds of catching it are only 12%, Utah study finds.

  05-09-2020 14:15
  
  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.After his oldest daughter tested positive for the coronavirus, Cameron Robinson figured it probably wouldn’t take long before the disease had pinballed around his Utah County home, hitting him and his wife and his four other kids,
  
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• Their dad died after a COVID-19 outbreak at work. Utah has made it difficult for them to sue.

  05-09-2020 14:03
  
  If Julio Hernandez didn’t contract the coronavirus at his job, then his children don’t know where he got it.Hernandez stopped seeing his family when the pandemic began, said his son, Cesar Hernandez. The father still had to grocery shop, but other than that and a few other necessary errands, he left home only to go to his job at the Sportsman’s Warehouse distribution and e-commerce center in an industrial park in western Salt Lake City, the son said.“I’m like 95% su
  
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• Here’s a look at Utah’s political megadonors

  05-09-2020 14:00
  
  Some wealthy Utahns show how much they love, or despise, politicians by how deeply they dive into their personal bank accounts.For example, Harry Hill, a director of Oak Lawn Marketing of Salt Lake City, gave Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden a hefty $100,000 this election cycle.Brian Fitterer supports President Donald Trump five times as much. The owner of Investment Property Group, who lists a Park City address on his donations, has given Trump $511,200 so far.James R. Swartz apparentl
  
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• Letter: Thanks for supporting free speech

  05-09-2020 13:30
  
  I wanted to say thank you for supporting free speech. It’s one of our constitutional amendments, even coming before the Second Amendment that so many cheer and applaud and fight for so loudly. Pat Bagley’s “The Deep Hate” cartoon is, unfortunately, accurate, as have been other political cartoons drawing the line between such groups and law enforcement recently.I would invite readers to look up events of the Freedom Riders, a group of citizens protesting segregation. They
  
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• Letter: Shame on The Tribune

  05-09-2020 13:00
  
  Not that I read the newspaper or depend on The Tribune for my daily dose of information and news, but I just happened to see a cartoon that Pat Bagley submitted and you published that was highly inappropriate because of what is going on in the world and in our community today. It depicted a law enforcement officer in the doctor’s office, both looking at an X-ray that showed the white image of a KKK hood in the pelvic region. Mr. Bagley must be an angry, lonely man to have time to create su
  
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• Letter: Bagley’s cartoon is despicable

  05-09-2020 13:00
  
  Bagley’s cartoon depicting cops as KKK members is a racist, disgusting portrayal of our law enforcement. Based on what is happening in our country with riots and murders off the charts, you really want to encourage more violence and hatred against the cops?Your paper is despicable.Brett Kitchen, SandySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: I stand with Bagley

  05-09-2020 07:30
  
  I fully support Pat Bagley and his First Amendment rights. He is one of the reasons I read The Tribune.Cynthia Sillitoe, OgdenSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Rudy Gobert: We want more

  05-09-2020 07:29
  
  “We want more. The goal wasn’t to lose in the first round, obviously, but I’m proud of the way we handled everything that happened within our team,” Gobert said. “I don’t think a lot of teams would be able to go through that.”
  
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• Letter: Trump’s ‘terror’ remark sparks 9/11 imagery

  05-09-2020 06:30
  
  Donald Trump’s “domestic terror” remark in Kenosha, Wis., reminds me that another anniversary of the 9-11 tragedy approaches. This year, however, the imagery has changed for me.In past years, I’ve imagined Osama bin Laden presiding over jet planes crashing into American landmarks. Nearly 3,000 Americans perished in that assault on our country.This year, I see Donald Trump presiding over virus deaths surpassing 200,000 Americans. That’s a loss of lives equivalent to
  
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• Letter: Sabotaging the USPS bodes ill for democracy

  05-09-2020 05:30
  
  Donald Trump’s right-wing acolytes seem to regard him as the manifestation of the Second Coming. Liberals are probably equally convinced that he is the antiChrist. Bridging that gap right now seems highly improbable.However, both groups have always respected the “through, rain, sleet or dark of night” United States Post Office. So now that Donald Trump, fearing a tsunami of Democratic mail-in ballots before November 3, is sabotaging even that government institution, can’t
  
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• Paul Krugman: Trump and the attack of the invisible anarchists

  05-09-2020 05:00
  
  On Thursday morning I walked across much of Manhattan and back again. (Why are all the doctors’ offices on the East Side?) It was a beautiful day, and the city looked cheerful: Shops were open, people were drinking coffee in the sidewalk seating areas that have proliferated during the pandemic, Central Park was full of joggers and cyclists.But I must have been imagining all that, because Donald Trump assures me that New York is beset by “anarchy, violence and destruction.”With
  
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• Letter: Those who work to silence free speech

  05-09-2020 04:30
  
  Recently the Utah Fraternal Order of Police attacked a public school teacher for having the audacity to wear a Black Lives Matter shirt to school. Apparently the police union is upset that a school teacher would support social justice.Not to be outdone, the Utah Sheriffs’ Association staged a protest at The Salt Lake Tribune’s printing press over a cartoon that called out the presence of racism within the law enforcement community. Sadly, our sheriffs did not question the possibility
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: The conspiracist in chief will save us all

  05-09-2020 04:00
  
  Conspiratorial thinking is an elemental part of American political life, one that stretches back to before the founding of the United States.“The conviction on part of the Revolutionary leaders that they were faced with a deliberate conspiracy to destroy the balance of the constitution and eliminate their freedom had deep and widespread roots — roots elaborately embedded in Anglo-American political culture,” the historian Bernard Bailyn wrote in his 1968 book, “The Ideolo
  
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• Two Utes will meet in the final match of the 122nd State Amateur

  05-09-2020 03:31
  
  Mitchell Schow plays in the 122nd Utah State Amateur at Jeremy Ranch on Friday, Sept. 4, 2020.
  Fairways Media/Randy DodsonJeremy Ranch • At the end of the longest semifinal round in State Amateur history, University of Utah golfer Blake Tomlinson stood beside Jeremy Ranch Golf & Country Club’s No. 3 green, waiting to congratulate his college teammate and upcoming opponent.Mitchell Schow asked Tomlinson, “How’d your match go?”Tomlinson replied, “Awfully sim
  
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• Biden slams Trump over alleged comments mocking US war dead

  05-09-2020 02:33
  
  Washington • Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden declared President Donald Trump “unfit” for the presidency on Friday, delivering an impassioned reaction to a report that Trump — who never served in uniform — allegedly mocked American war dead.The president and his allies have dismissed the report in The Atlantic as false.The allegations, sourced anonymously, describe multiple offensive comments by the president toward fallen and captured U.S. service members,
  
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• Michael Fife: City’s Fleet Block should become a park

  05-09-2020 02:01
  
  When the Utah Legislature decided in the 1940s to move the state prison from Sugar House to Draper, they could have decided to subdivide and sell the prison site for residential or commercial development and make some money for the state.Instead, they voted in 1947 to create what we know today as Sugar House Park. Sugar House would be a much different place today without the recreational opportunities Sugar House Park provides due to the Legislature’s foresight.Salt Lake City is facing a s
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Loser

  05-09-2020 00:51
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Putting Pelosi Out ThereUtah FanBring on the ClownThe Deep HateGOP Rising StarTipping PointAn Emerging PatternLive from PyongyangExplaining QAnonBoat ParadeWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Johnnie Bryant thanks Utah as he departs for New York Knicks

  05-09-2020 00:22
  
  Utah Jazz coach Johnnie Bryant shouts instruction during the summer league game in Salt Lake City on Thursday, July 7, 2016. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — The New York Knicks on Friday morning made official the hiring of Utah Jazz assistant coach Johnnie Bryant as associate head coach, which was originally reported by The Athletic’s Shams Charania on Aug. 18 (Bryant stayed with the Jazz until their season concluded).
  Bryant’s move to the Big Apple marks the
  
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• ESPN’s Rece Davis weighs in on BYU-Navy, maybe the weirdest college football opener ever

  05-09-2020 00:03
  
  Rece Davis’ Labor Day weekend itinerary is further proof that this coronavirus-fueled college football season is going to be unprecedented, not to mention a little weird.Along with Kirk Herbstreit (color) and Allison Williams (sideline), Davis will call the BYU-Navy game on Labor Day night at Navy-Marine Corps. Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Md. First, though, Davis will take his normal Saturday-morning place as host of College GameDay, but there’s a catch.Davis will host, not from a
  
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• Utah company VidAngel dodges liquidation, settles with movie studios whose copyrights it violated

  05-09-2020 00:00
  
  Provo-based VidAngel will be spared the full wrath of Hollywood’s studios, after reaching a settlement to end a four-year legal case over the company violating the studios’ copyrights by streaming filtered versions of their movies into customers’ homes.VidAngel was facing liquidation when the company was ordered last year by a California jury to pay $62.4 million to the studios. Instead, under the terms of an agreement approved Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Utah, VidAngel
  
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• David Brooks: What will you do if Trump doesn’t leave?

  05-09-2020 00:00
  
  On the evening of Nov. 3, Americans settle nervously in front of their screens to await elections results. In the early hours Donald Trump seems to be having an excellent night. Counting the votes cast at polling places, Trump is winning Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.Those states don’t even begin processing mail-in ballots until Election Day, yet Trump quickly declares victory. So do many other Republican candidates. The media complains that it’s premature, but Trumpworld is e
  
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