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• If Barrett joins, Supreme Court would have six Catholics

  26-09-2020 23:40
  
  Roman Catholics account for a bit more than 20% of the U.S. population, yet they are on track to hold six of the Supreme Court’s nine seats now that President Donald Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett to fill its vacancy.It’s a striking development given that the high court, for most of its history, was almost entirely populated by white male Protestants. Catholic academics and political analysts offer several explanations for the turnaround – related to Catholics'
  
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• Utah Royals, OL Reign honor Breonna Taylor, tie 2-2

  26-09-2020 23:36
  
  Sandy • Utah Royals FC had the day off when news broke that the police officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor would not be criminally prosecuted. But when the team’s players saw each other the next day, it was clear the ruling greatly irked some of them.“Definitely that was a sad thing to hear,” defender Elizabeth Ball said Thursday during a videoconference. “I know a couple of people were pretty beat up.”So before the Royals and OL Reign played to a 2-2 d
  
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• Letter: We must revolutionize public education

  26-09-2020 23:30
  
  For months, I have watched Utah school districts struggle to come up with a way to teach our kids safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve read dozens of posts from stressed out parents on social media and article after article lamenting the load on teachers and administrators. I watched a livestream of a school board meeting, where members sat shoulder-to-shoulder in an enclosed setting without virus mitigation measures.Utah ranks lowest in America in per-capita student funding. We all u
  
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• Trump picks conservative Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court

  26-09-2020 23:11
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effort.Republican senators are already lining up for a swift confirmation of Barrett ahead of the Nov. 3 election, as they aim to lock in conservative gains in the federal judiciary before a potential transition of power. Trump, meanwhil
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Police reform will take time and effort

  26-09-2020 23:00
  
  “Tell my mom I love her.”— Linden CameronThe people told the mayor. The mayor told the police chief. The police chief told all the police officers.From now on, they said, the use of force by officers of the Salt Lake City Police Department in apprehending suspects is not something to be needlessly encouraged. It is the last resort. De-escalation is the order of the day, every day, from now on.But that was the next day. The night before, on Sept. 4, barely two hours before the n
  
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• March through downtown SLC encourages Mitt Romney, Mike Lee to tap brakes on Supreme Court replacement

  26-09-2020 22:53
  
  Protesters opposed to replacing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg before the presidential election marched through downtown Salt Lake City on Saturday.The march — from the federal courthouse near 400 S. West Temple to the federal building at the corner of 100 South and State Street — happened hours before President Donald Trump announced his latest nomination to the Supreme Court. Protesters took aim at Utah’s two senators — Republicans Mike Lee and Mitt Romn
  
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• March through downtown Salt Lake City encourages Mitt Romney, Mike Lee to tap brakes on Supreme Court replacement

  26-09-2020 21:28
  
  Protesters opposed to replacing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg before the presidential election marched through downtown Salt Lake City on Saturday.The march — from the federal courthouse near 400 S. West Temple to the federal building at the corner of 100 South and State Street — happened hours before President Donald Trump announced his latest nomination to the Supreme Court. Protesters took aim at Utah’s two senators — Republicans Mike Lee and Mitt Romn
  
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• Trump to nominate conservative Amy Coney Barrett for court

  26-09-2020 21:23
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Saturday is set to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effort.Republican senators are already lining up for a swift confirmation of Barrett ahead of the Nov. 3 election, as they aim to lock in conservative gains in the federal judiciary before a potential transition of power. Trump,
  
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• State reports 1,017 new COVID-19 cases, and hospital numbers continue to climb, but no new deaths

  26-09-2020 20:39
  
  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 new coronavirus infections was well above Gov. Gary Herbert’s target again on Saturday with 1,017 cases.The Utah Department of Health also announced no new deaths.There are 187 people currently hospitalized with COVID
  
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• A struggling mom bakes a cake — and it launches her into a career and internet fame

  26-09-2020 20:08
  
  When she was a young wife and new mother, Courtney Rich felt the joy of starting a family and building a career as a media consultant — but also struggled, as she had for years, with anxiety and depression.Then she baked a cake.Rich, then 26, decided to make a cake from scratch for her son Westin’s first birthday — partly to impress her in-laws. She found a recipe in Bon Appetit magazine for a peanut butter cake with chocolate frosting, bought new pans and ingredients and, she
  
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• March through downtown Salt Lake City encourages Mitt Romney, Mike Lee to tap brakes on Ginsburg replacement

  26-09-2020 19:53
  
  Protesters opposed to replacing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg before the presidential election marched through downtown Salt Lake City on Saturday.The march — from the federal courthouse near 400 S. West Temple to the federal building at the corner of 100 South and State Street — happened hours before President Donald Trump announced his latest nomination to the Supreme Court. Protesters took aim at Utah’s two senators — Republicans Mike Lee and Mitt Romn
  
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• RSL looking for first result on the road when it plays at Minnesota United

  26-09-2020 19:48
  
  Real Salt Lake and Minnesota United have played even, scoreless soccer for 135 out of the 180 minutes they’ve contested against each other this season. The only difference was the second half of RSL’s most recent game against Minnesota, during which Real fell apart and allowed four goals.That last game was out of the ordinary in other ways as well. Salt Lake rolled out a 4-4-2 diamond formation and almost completely overhauled the starting lineup to save some legs. Not to mention the
  
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• Utah football’s perception, not to mention benefit of the doubt, continue to grow as Pac-12 green lights football

  26-09-2020 19:14
  
  Once the College Football Playoff began determining the national champion in 2014, the Associated Press Top 25 was largely deemed irrelevant.At best, the AP Poll is window dressing and something to argue about until the initial CFP rankings are released in early-November. However, the AP Poll does serve one key function, specifically in the preseason.The preseason poll is an indication of how good the 61 voters believe teams are, sight unseen. Given no games have been played ahead of the preseas
  
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• Utah State football in hurry-up mode with Oct. 24 start looming

  26-09-2020 17:10
  
  Utah State’s football team has no time to waste.With the first game less than a month away and no formal practice since March, the Aggies took to the field at their first opportunity Friday afternoon. Coach Gary Andersen hadn’t even had a chance to talk to his players about the Mountain West Conference’s decision Thursday night to reboot the 2020 season before he met them on the field of Maverik Stadium to put in some work.When asked who told his players they’ll have a se
  
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• There’s a ‘Mormon’ in the new season of ‘Fargo,’ and a Utahn is one of the writers/producers

  26-09-2020 17:00
  
  The new season of the anthology TV series “Fargo” — which is based on the 1996 film set in North Dakota — takes place in 1950 Kansas City, Mo. And it features one very prominent character from Salt Lake City.Dick “Deafy” Wickware (Timothy Olyphant) is a straight-laced, decidedly odd U.S. Marshal who’s in town to capture two murderous women who escaped from prison. And he soon finds himself in the middle of a growing dispute between a Black crime family a
  
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• ‘It’s a challenge' — How the coronavirus is limiting temple worship for Utah Hindus

  26-09-2020 17:00
  
  Like all of Utah’s religious groups, Hindus have been forced by COVID-19 to cut back their various festivals and forms of worship.It has been especially hard for a faith whose deities are housed in a temple that is now mostly closed on weekdays and whose rituals are part of daily life for believers.Under normal circumstances, Hindu devotees flock to the Sri Ganesha Temple in South Jordan as a priest typically chants daily before the shrines, sprinkling each with water, and placing fruit, r
  
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• A little reservoir behind the University of Utah is helping save an endangered fish

  26-09-2020 15:00
  
  Built in 1930 to capture water for a military installation at the mouth of a Wasatch Front canyon, Red Butte Reservoir has been harnessed for a new purpose, the rescue of Utah’s disappearing native fish.The tiny lake above the University of Utah campus is now teeming with June suckers, which had teetered on the brink of extinction 30 years ago. The suckers are now so plentiful that the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources relocates several hundred each September to where they belong —
  
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• Groups call for long-term efforts to stabilize Utah’s unsheltered families during pandemic

  26-09-2020 14:00
  
  It’s been a “challenging year” for homeless children in Utah, notes a series of reports released this week by the Crossroads Urban Center and the Coalition of Religious Communities.Fear of contracting the virus has made some families unwilling to seek shelter, leading them to stay in potentially unsafe conditions for longer than they otherwise would. The pandemic has also disrupted two school years, which has particularly impacted homeless students who don’t have consiste
  
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• Letter: Don’t be a hypocrite, Mike Lee

  26-09-2020 13:30
  
  When Antonin Scalia unexpectedly passed away in February 2016, Sen. Mitch McConnell was struck with an idea: Create a new rule and precedent that a president cannot fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court during an election year. Our resident constitutional law expert, Sen. Mike Lee, saw fit to follow this rule and co-signed it by denying then Merrick Garland so much as a hearing in the Senate. The vacancy left by Justice Scalia was then filled the following year, after President Donald Trump was in
  
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• Letter: Salt Lake City is a tinderbox

  26-09-2020 13:00
  
  Mayor Mendenhall,The tinderbox that is our city right now is one match away from burning down our neighborhoods. Spend some money, get some crews from the private sector or within the city and clean up the tree debris. Do your job and manage our city after our extreme weather event. I haven’t seen one crew in any neighborhood cleaning up the streets, which feels like mismanagement.Kelly Stevens, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: We need a national suicide hotline

  26-09-2020 07:30
  
  Utah needs the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act more than most states. In 2017, the suicide rate in Utah was 22.7 per 100,000, compared to the national average of 14.0 per 100,000 that same year (according to Utah’s Complete Health Indicator Report). Those types of numbers are not acceptable in a state whose slogan is “Life Elevated.” Utah has a serious mental health problem that is not being addressed properly by our local leaders. Rep. Chris Stewart’s bill to cr
  
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• Celtics control second half, beat Heat 121-108 to stay afloat

  26-09-2020 06:57
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • Their season saved for at least two more days, Boston coach Brad Stevens offered the most succinct assessment of his Celtics.“We’re prideful,” Stevens said.Celtic Pride. It was on display Friday night — when Jayson Tatum and his teammates announced very loudly that they’re not ready to see the world that exists outside the NBA’s restart bubble quite yet.Tatum had 31 points and 10 rebounds, Jaylen Brown added 28 points and the Celt
  
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• Sources: Dell Demps to Join Jazz Coaching Staff

  26-09-2020 06:00 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  Former New Orleans Pelicans general manager Dell Demps has agreed to join the Utah Jazz as an assistant coach, reuniting with Quin Snyder, sources tell ESPN. Former New Orleans Pelicans general manager Dell Demps has agreed to join the Utah Jazz as an assistant coach, reuniting with Quin Snyder, sources tell ESPN. — Adrian Wojnarowski […]
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: What do we do when everything is coming apart?

  26-09-2020 06:00
  
  If you’ll bear with me for a moment, I want to talk a little about the Missouri controversy of 1819 to 1821.On its surface, it was a struggle over the sectional balance of slave and free states. Would Congress admit Missouri without restrictions on slavery, or would it outlaw the institution in the territory as a condition of statehood?But there was a deeper dispute at work, over the nature of the American union itself. “In one conception,” historian George William Van Cleve wr
  
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• Letter: Lee weakens the foundation of our society

  26-09-2020 05:30
  
  Dear Sen. Lee,I recently read an article in The Salt Lake Tribune about your critique of KSL.com for their usage of “left-winged” articles from The Associated Press.As a journalism professor, former journalist and a member of your faith, I am very disappointed in your response and outrage toward KSL.com. Journalists do their best to be objective by balancing their own personal biases and those of the organization. Their job is difficult as they maneuver through their task of informin
  
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• Ross Douthat: A Supreme Court fight might be just what America needs

  26-09-2020 05:00
  
  In the brief window between the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the announcements from Republicans like Mitt Romney and Cory Gardner that they would consider a replacement before the November election, several writers floated a grand bargain, in which Republican and Democratic senators would agree to deescalate, trading a GOP promise not to confirm a Ginsburg replacement before the election for a Democratic promise not to pack the court if Joe Biden wins.The goal of these proposals was a kind o
  
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• Charles M. Blow: Breonna Taylor and perpetual Black trauma

  26-09-2020 04:00
  
  I filed this column late. Very late. I couldn’t find the words — an unsettling experience for a writer. The words I did conjure failed, not because the message was difficult to convey, but rather because the conveyance is maddeningly depressive in repetition.The killing of Breonna Taylor reveals yet again how easy it is for the state to take a Black life and how hard it is to hold the state accountable for its transgression. That is in part because the system is designed to make it n
  
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• Letter: We were robbed in 2016

  26-09-2020 03:30
  
  It’s easy to get riled up about Sen. Mitch McConnell announcing he would hold a vote on a Trump nominee for the Supreme Court before Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s body was even cold. But the problem is not Republicans stealing something from Democrats in 2020, it is that this proves unilaterally that they stole something in 2016.There should be no damning of Sen. Mitt Romney backing the choice to vote. He is a Republican senator who in an election year has the right to vote on a candidate fr
  
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• Judge removes Trump public lands boss for serving unlawfully

  26-09-2020 03:22
  
  Billings, Mont. • A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s leading steward of public lands has been serving unlawfully, blocking him from continuing in the position in the latest pushback against the administration’s practice of filling key positions without U.S. Senate approval.U.S. Interior Department Bureau of Land Management acting director William Perry Pendley served unlawfully for 424 days without being confirmed to the post by the Senate as required und
  
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• 5 Utah State Prison inmates test positive for COVID-19

  26-09-2020 03:22
  
  Officials believe a small outbreak of coronavirus at the Utah State Prison in Draper was introduced by a medic who treated several inmates.So far, five inmates have tested positive for COVID-19, the prison announced Friday. That is up from the two reported Thursday, when officials locked down the prison.All of those inmates lived in the prison’s Wasatch Facility, within the Baker Block. All 164 people living in that cell block have been tested. Officials anticipate results within 72 hours.
  
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• Lawsuit accuses Salt Lake City police officers of using excessive force in fatal shooting of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal

  26-09-2020 02:19
  
  The family of a 22-year-old shot and killed by Salt Lake City police officers in May have filed a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging that officers fatally shot him even though he didn’t “present an immediate danger or threat to the officers.”“It is with heavy hearts today that we announce the Palacios Carbajal family’s decision to move forward with a lawsuit against the Salt Lake City Police Department and the officers who took Bernardo’s life when they shot him
  
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• Gwendolyn Soper: Ginsburg’s poetic plea for a new president

  26-09-2020 02:00
  
  It was pure poetry. Ruth Bader Ginsburg reportedly dictated a now-famous statement to her granddaughter days before her death. She said, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”Will her words be enough to persuade more citizens to trust her and vote for Joe Biden, especially in a conservative state like Utah? Chard deNiord once wrote that poetry has the power to save people and countries. Will her poetic plea be powerful enough to save
  
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• Utah Royals are buying in to interim coach Amy LePeilbet

  26-09-2020 01:52
  
  Amy LePeilbet didn’t plan to become Utah Royals FC’s head coach. But circumstances dictated that she step into the role on an interim basis.So far, she’s received the ultimate buy-in from the players, many of whom waxed poetic about LePeilbet’s soccer knowledge and accomplishments during her playing career.“It’s an honor to be coached by Amy,” midfielder Vero Boquete said after Utah’s loss to the Portland Thorns last week to open the National Women
  
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• Judge removes Trump’s public lands boss after governor sued

  26-09-2020 01:18
  
  Billings, Mont. • A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration’s leading steward of public lands has been serving unlawfully and has blocked him from continuing in the position.U.S. District Judge Brian Morris said U.S. Bureau of Land Management acting director William Perry Pendley served unlawfully for 424 days without being confirmed to the post by the U.S. Senate.Montana’s Democratic governor had sued to remove Pendley, saying the the former oil industry attorn
  
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• Trump expected to announce conservative Barrett for court

  26-09-2020 01:11
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump is expected to announce Saturday that he is nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court as he aims to put a historic conservative stamp on the high court just weeks before the election.Trump said Friday he had made up his mind and it was “very exciting,” without giving away the name, aiming to maintain some suspense around his personal announcement. But the White House indicated to congressional Republicans and outside allies that
  
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• Utah Jazz make two additions to coaching staff, adding former Pelicans GM Dell Demps, ex-player Keyon Dooling

  26-09-2020 00:57
  
  After recently losing longtime assistant coach Johnnie Bryant to a promotion with the New York Knicks, it was only a matter of time before the Utah Jazz hired a replacement.Actually, they’ve apparently hired two.Jazz head coach Quin Snyder is filling the vacancy by adding Dell Demps and Keyon Dooling to his staff, The Salt Lake Tribune has confirmed. Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN was first to report the moves.Both are familiar faces to Snyder, if perhaps unconventional choices for his bench,
  
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• Mountain West commits to 8-game football schedule, but commissioner says some hurdles remain

  26-09-2020 00:12
  
  As soon as it became clear earlier this week that the Mountain West was aggressively pursuing an eight-game schedule starting Oct. 24, that timetable lent itself to all sorts of questions.How does the league expect to be ready in a month, not to mention two weeks earlier than the Pac-12? What will testing look like? What about the three California schools under strict state and local health guidelines? What about travel restrictions in regards to the University of Hawaii and the University of Ne
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Looking for Trouble

  26-09-2020 00:09
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Utah SkillsVote!Notorious RBGHis Story HistorySpiking the RonaRevenge of the DemsFire StarterLowering the BarrOver the RainbowA Mighty WindWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Holly Richardson: Why conservatives mourn the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  26-09-2020 00:00
  
  Last Friday evening, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died from pancreatic cancer. This Friday, she became the first woman ever to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol. Sadly, her death was quickly — almost immediately — politicized.I was dismayed to see the vitriol aimed toward Ginsburg coming from the right. While many of us mourn her loss, there are too many saying things like, “What has she ever done for me?” Well, I’d like to tell you what she has don
  
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