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• Utah OKs shorter quarantine for students exposed to COVID-19 at school

  09-10-2020 23:53
  
  Students and teachers who get exposed to the coronavirus at school may now only have to quarantine for seven days, according to new guidelines from the Utah Department of Health.Under the updated policy, individuals can return to the classroom early — rather than waiting the full 14 days — as long as they meet three criteria:• They were tested for the virus a week after exposure and their results came back negative.• They and the positive person who exposed them were both w
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Pandemic’s Box

  09-10-2020 23:52
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:A Royal PainBuild THIS Wall!White House UpdatesSpikes and OutbreaksWho Watches the Watchers?Thunderdome DebateWorkhorseBad FaithLooking for TroubleUtah SkillsWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Paris Hilton leads rally against Provo Canyon School

  09-10-2020 23:20
  
  A sustained campaign to force one of Utah’s largest youth residential treatment centers to close its doors moved from an online petition, a documentary and active Reddit community to an in-person gathering on Friday.Celebrity Paris Hilton is leading a group of former patients at Provo Canyon School as they plan to share their stories and hold a silent march to the campus where they say they were mistreated.Hilton and many of these other survivors say they were abused while at Provo Canyon
  
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• Benjamin E. Park: Mormons and evangelicals share an ironic skepticism of democracy

  09-10-2020 23:17
  
  During Wednesday’s vice president debate, Kamala Harris accused Mike Pence and the Donald Trump administration of curtailing democratic rights through authoritarian means. In response, Mike Lee, Utah’s senior senator, tweeted, “We’re not a democracy.”After several hours of backlash, Lee doubled down: “Democracy isn’t the objective,” he further tweeted; “liberty, peace, and prospefity [sic] are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank de
  
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• RSL not panicking, but feels importance of game against Vancouver Whitecaps

  09-10-2020 22:47
  
  One win.That’s all Real Salt Lake needs to get back in the playoff picture.One win.That’s all RSL has been able to muster in its previous six games.So as the 2020 Major League Soccer season comes to a close with just seven games remaining, Salt Lake is facing a dichotomous situation that shares the same metric. Going into Saturday’s game against the Vancouver Whitecaps, RSL sits in 10th place in the Western Conference but just three points away from sixth.“We know what we
  
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• Salt Lake City releases video of 19 questionable cases where police dogs bit suspects

  09-10-2020 22:35
  
  Salt Lake City police have released video footage of 19 cases flagged during a review of its K-9 arrest program, which Mayor Erin Mendenhall said uncovered a “pattern of abuse of power.”The department reviewed a total of 34 cases after The Salt Lake Tribune first reported on a SLCPD officer who ordered his dog to bite Jeffery Ryans, while he was on his knees with his hands in the air. That officer has been charged with a felony.Salt Lake City police say the 19 videos released Friday
  
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• Older Utah voters are worried about health care and prescription drug costs, survey shows

  09-10-2020 22:23
  
  The rising costs of prescription drugs and health care could be a potent campaign issue for older voters in Utah ahead of the November elections. And according to a new survey, Utahns age 45 and above expressed support for a number of progressive policies to boost pay and reduce the influence of money in politics.The survey from AARP Utah found 75% of Utahns either “strongly” or “somewhat” support raising the state’s minimum wage to $12/hour over a three-year period
  
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• ’Tis the season for ‘unicorn’ whiskey in Utah

  09-10-2020 22:18
  
  In Utah, fall is the time for pumpkins, sweaters and a chance to buy a “unicorn” whiskey.On Wednesday, the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control launched the state’s latest Rare High Demand Product drawing. It includes three hard-to-get whiskeys:• Yamazaki 18-year Single Malt for $350 per bottle (15 available).• E.H. Taylor 18-year Marriage for $70 per bottle (five available).• Old Fitzgerald 13-year at $130 per bottle (10 available).The drawings are only
  
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• Holly Richardson: Systemic racism is baked in to the U.S. from top to bottom

  09-10-2020 22:13
  
  This has been quite a year, hasn’t it? One of the defining issues 2020 has been the many conversations about race and racism that have and are occurring.When Vice President Mike Pence said at the debate earlier this week that systemic racism and implicit bias don’t exist, he was repeating something he’s said previously. And. He. Is. Wrong.Let’s be perfectly clear: Systemic racism is baked in to the history of the United States. It still permeates our country from top to b
  
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• Utah OKs shorter quarantine for students exposed to the virus at school

  09-10-2020 22:10
  
  Students and teachers who get exposed to the coronavirus at school may now only have to quarantine for seven days, according to new guidelines from the Utah Department of Health.Under the updated policy, individuals can return to the classroom early — rather than waiting the full 14 days — as long as they meet three criteria:• They were tested for the virus a week after exposure and their results came back negative.• They and the positive person who exposed them were both w
  
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• BYU center Joe Tufuaku has finally found his place with the Cougars after long journey to get here

  09-10-2020 21:42
  
  Provo • Last week, the BYU Cougars' offensive line saw a minor, but important change-up.Instead of James Empey taking the field as the Cougars' center, a seemingly new face went out in his place. Empey, who had started in every game of his career, riding a 28-game streak, got injured during the Troy game the week prior.Instead, Joe Tukuafu made the snaps — his first career start at center — and played in his first complete game since 2014.Tukuafu wasn’t even the second-str
  
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• Older Utah voters are worried about healthcare and prescription drug costs, survey shows

  09-10-2020 21:37
  
  The rising costs of prescription drugs and healthcare could be a potent campaign issue for older voters in Utah ahead of the November elections. And according to a new survey, Utahns age 45 and above expressed support for a number of progressive policies to boost pay and reduce the influence of money in politics.The survey from AARP Utah found 75% of Utahns either “strongly” or “somewhat” support raising the state’s minimum wage to $12/hour over a three-year period.
  
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• Utah State to open Mountain West basketball play on Dec. 29; Aggies host San Diego State on Jan. 16

  09-10-2020 21:26
  
  The Utah State basketball team’s drive to reclaim the regular-season Mountain West Conference championship will begin Dec. 29 — if COVID-19 doesn’t get in the way.The Aggies, who captured a share of the 2019 regular season championship, are scheduled to tip off the conference season at Air Force Academy, according to the schedule USU released Friday. They will play their first game at the Spectrum on Jan. 2 against Fresno State, which joins San Jose State in being the only leag
  
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• World Food Program, a frequent partner with LDS Church, wins Nobel Peace Prize as hunger surges.

  09-10-2020 21:19
  
  Niamey, Niger • The World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger in regions facing conflict and hardship at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has driven millions more people to the brink of starvation.The Rome-based United Nations agency has long specialized in getting assistance to some of the world’s most dangerous and precarious places, from air-dropping food in South Sudan and Syria to creating an emergency delivery service that kept a
  
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• Reed Galen: Mike Lee doesn’t need your democracy

  09-10-2020 21:17
  
  Mike Lee, Utah’s senior U.S. senator, hasn’t said or done much of note in his nine years in office. The past two weeks have been busy for him, though.First, Lee was one of 34 people to test positive for COVID-19 after attending a White House event for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, in which the attendees sat cheek-by-jowl without wearing masks.Not to be outdone for his personal recklessness the previous week, on Wednesday, Lee tweeted that “rank democracy” is not the intent of
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases are up 1,343 on Friday

  09-10-2020 21:15
  
  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.With 1,343 new coronavirus cases reported on Friday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to rise.For the past week, the Utah Department of Health has tallied 1,148 new positive test results a day, on average — continuing a
  
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• Don Gale: Changing a Trump voter’s mind ... or not

  09-10-2020 21:12
  
  How do you change the mind of a Trump voter? You don’t. Because he is already so misinformed that there is little chance of successfully replacing misinformation with truth. (I refer to the Trump voter as “he,” because female voters are generally better informed than their male counterparts.)Our information sources have changed over the past few decades — and not for the better.There was a time when most American families subscribed to newspapers. Some newspaper editorial
  
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• Report: Utah’s rate of uninsured kids is 6th highest in the nation

  09-10-2020 19:59
  
  In recent years, Utah has experienced a 39% increase in the number of uninsured children and now has among the nation’s highest rates of kids without health coverage, according to a new report.About 82,000 children in the state — roughly 8.3% of the total — lacked health insurance as of last year, according to the analysis by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. That’s the sixth-highest rate in the United States and stems from the nation’s thi
  
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• Whitey Ford, the pitcher who epitomized the mighty Yankees of the ‘50s, 60s, dies at 91

  09-10-2020 19:00
  
  Lake Success, N.Y. • Whitey Ford, the street-smart New Yorker who had the best winning percentage of any pitcher in the 20th century and helped the Yankees become baseball’s perennial champions in the 1950s and ’60s, has died. He was 91.A family member told The Associated Press on Friday that Ford died at his Long Island home Thursday night. The cause was not known.Nicknamed the “Chairman of the Board,” Ford was a wily left-hander who pitched from 1950-67 in the majo
  
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• Utah’s Morgan Scalley moving forward after tumultuous summer. ‘It’s been a blessing to be back with the players.'

  09-10-2020 18:47
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic has guaranteed the college football world will not be normal this fall, but Friday brought with it a sense of normalcy.Utah coach Kyle Whittingham, offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig and defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley addressed the media via Zoom Friday morning, ahead of the Utes' first fall camp practice later in the afternoon.For Scalley, that sense of normalcy not only comes in the middle of the pandemic, but after a tumultuous summer in which his head coach-in-wait
  
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• ECHL, Utah Grizzlies, will open 2020-21 season on Dec. 11

  09-10-2020 18:47
  
  Princeton, N.J. • The ECHL and the the Professional Hockey Players'Association, announced Friday that the 2020-21 season will begin onDecember 11 under a split-season format.Underthe split-season guidelines, 12 teams — including the Utah Grizzlies — will beginthe season on Dec. 11. The remaining ECHL teams will start their season on January 15, competing in a 62-game season, pending local governmental approval.Joining the Grizzlies in the earlier start will be Allen, Florida, Gr
  
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• World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize as hunger surges. LDS Church gave U.N. agency $2M.

  09-10-2020 18:06
  
  Niamey, Niger • The World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger in regions facing conflict and hardship at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has driven millions more people to the brink of starvation.The Rome-based United Nations agency has long specialized in getting assistance to some of the world’s most dangerous and precarious places, from air-dropping food in South Sudan and Syria to creating an emergency delivery service that kept a
  
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• Tooele High, Wasatch High going online for two weeks because of coronavirus cases

  09-10-2020 17:36
  
  Two more Utah high schools are suspending in-person classes because of COVID-19 outbreaks. Both Tooele High and Wasatch High hit the 15-case threshold set by the state for recommended closure. Tooele High School moved to online learning on Friday, according to a post on the school’s website — a decision made by the Tooele County School District board of education “in coordination with the Tooele County Health Department.” The school is scheduled to reopen on Monday, Oct.
  
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• Lauren Simpson: Overturning Roe isn’t the way forward

  09-10-2020 17:18
  
  The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court has once again reignited political debates about the future of Roe v. Wade, with many conservative lawmakers itching to see it overturned.Roe affirms a constitutional right to privacy inherent in the 14th Amendment which protects the right to have an abortion. (A subsequent case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, gave us our current framework that restricts government from placing an undue burden on a person seeking abortion until the poin
  
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• John Michael Pantlik: Thanks, Mayor Pete, for what you’ve done

  09-10-2020 17:18
  
  Dear Mayor Pete Buttigieg,Last Saturday morning, I went for a hike and was surprised to pass by you and your husband, Chasten, at Memory Grove Park in downtown Salt Lake City.While my Great Dane came right up to lean in and slobber on you, I was so amazed to see you two that I could barely string together a few semi-coherent sentences. I at least had the presence to get this socially distanced selfie before wishing you both a good day. Back in my car, I was overcome with emotion as I started to
  
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• Wasatch High going online for two weeks because of coronavirus cases

  09-10-2020 16:44
  
  Wasatch High School will suspend in-person classes and move to online learning on Monday because of the rising number of COVID-19 cases.The decision was made “in collaboration with the Wasatch County Health Department" after 15 cases of coronavirus at the school, the Heber City school posted on Facebook. Classes will be online only beginning Monday, and the school will reopen on Monday, Oct. 24. (That period includes a previously scheduled fall break from Wednesday, Oct. 14-Friday, Oct. 16
  
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• Activists say court ruling should wipe out huge swath of public lands actions under William Perry Pendley

  09-10-2020 15:53
  
  Under William Perry Pendley’s interim leadership over the past year, the Bureau of Land Management has finalized decisions affecting coal mining, oil and gas development, wild horse management, national monument planning and numerous other public land issues important to Utah.Now a federal court ruling out of Montana could upend many of those actions after a judge determined that Pendley’s prolonged tenure at the BLM’s helm violated the Constitution and federal law. The Sept. 2
  
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• Catch up on the week’s top stories with KCPW’s ‘Behind the Headlines’

  09-10-2020 15:49
  
  This past week, Utah hosted the only vice presidential debate of the 2020 election; a new poll found President Trump has a ten point lead over Joe Biden in the Beehive State; Sen. Mike Lee took aim at “rank democracy” on Twitter; and coronavirus columnist Andy Larsen fact-checked a viral social media post.Recap these stories and more on KCPW’s “Behind the Headlines.” This week, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Lee Davidson, Andy Larsen and Taylor Stevens will join editor
  
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• Marina Gomberg writes to Trump: I wanted you to experience our fear

  09-10-2020 15:13
  
  Dear Mr. President,I was sitting under the slow drip of an IV bag last weekend, wondering if you and I had that in common at that very moment — a reminder that our bodies aren’t fit enough to have our veins filled only by our blood.It’s a particularly uncomfortable time to have less-than-perfect health. In all honesty, I’ve been really scared. And during your stay at Walter Reed Medical Center for COVID-19 treatment I wondered if we shared that, too — a fear as visc
  
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• Charlotte Roe: Echoes of Pinochet in 2020 election

  09-10-2020 14:17
  
  Amid nightmares over voter suppression, electoral mayhem and COVID-19, I’m transported back to Chile’s 1988 plebiscite under the rule of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. As election day approached, the mood, like ours, was polarized, fraught with dread uncertainty.Like Donald Trump, Pinochet craved power, fomented chaos and used corrupt means to buttress his rule. The general knew, as does Trump, that losing could mean facing the full force of the law.Yet Pinochet presided over Chile’s f
  
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• Ben Anderson: Vote to protect health care for Americans

  09-10-2020 14:17
  
  This election season has been unlike anything we’ve ever seen, and there are many issues which depend on the outcome of races up and down the ballot. However, as our country continues to suffer from the health and economic consequences of COVID-19, one stands out today more than most: health care.In 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, extending health care to 20 million Americans who did not previously have it. The ACA is far from perfect, but it has certainly helped us make
  
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• Robert Kirby: I may be making this up on the fly, but perhaps that insect on Pence’s head was a sign

  09-10-2020 14:15
  
  If you are looking for reasons as to whom to vote for this coming election, consider the fly that landed on Vice President Mike Pence’s head during the debate in Salt Lake City with Democratic opponent Kamala Harris.If I were President Donald Trump’s running mate — and you should thank God I’m not — I would be worried. People are looking for signs in these trying times.Given that flies were one of the 10 plagues visited upon ancient Egypt for refusing to let God&rsq
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Focus on sex distracts from ‘Deaf U’s’ message

  09-10-2020 14:00
  
  The new Netflix series “Deaf U” proves that, with the exception of more often using sign language, deaf college students aren’t different from hearing college students.Nope. Students at Gallaudet University are just as prone to mean cliques, messy personal relationships, getting drunk, using drugs, gossiping and engaging in casual sex as anyone else.“The point of it all is that deaf people are human, the same as hearing people. We go through the same things in life,&rdquo
  
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• Salt Lake City’s iconic ‘Santa Shack’ is home to a new Keto bakery

  09-10-2020 14:00
  
  Salt Lake City’s iconic “Santa Shack” is home to a new bakery — one that will operate for 11 months while the jolly old elf is busy at the North Pole.There are cookies, cakes, pies and chocolates at the Keto Bakehouse, 2275 S. Highland Drive. But regular butter and sugar are not part of this formula.St. Nick — or at least his generous waistline — might appreciate the new occupants of his Sugar House home.“The childhood treats that we all grew up loving a
  
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• New allegations surface about former Utah priest abusing 8-year-old boy

  09-10-2020 14:00
  
  A former Roman Catholic priest, currently in prison for sexually abusing students in Oklahoma and Michigan, faces new allegations of molesting a child while he was overseeing a Utah parish and adjoining school here in the 1970s.1In a lawsuit filed late Wednesday, a now 60-year-old man said he was repeatedly abused and threatened by church leader James Rapp while he was attending second grade at St. Ann School in Kearns. And, he said, the church knew about and “intentionally concealed&rdquo
  
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• For director of ‘Wolf of Snow Hollow,’ filming a werewolf movie in Utah was like ‘winter summer camp’

  09-10-2020 14:00
  
  For Jim Cummings, making a werewolf movie set in a Utah ski town just felt natural.“The last time we shot a feature, I dragged my team to Austin, Texas, and it was just so hot and sweltering,” Cummings said. “So [the thought] became, ‘Let’s do a fun Christmas movie.’ … Everybody’s made fun of me ever since: ‘Why couldn’t this have taken place on a beach? I’m freezing. I’m getting frostbite.’ But it was a blast. It was
  
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• Activists say court ruling should wipe out huge swath of public lands actions under Pendley

  09-10-2020 14:00
  
  Under William Perry Pendley’s interim leadership over the past year, the Bureau of Land Management has finalized decisions affecting coal mining, oil and gas development, wild horse management, national monument planning and numerous other public land issues important to Utah.Now a federal court ruling out of Montana could upend many of those actions after a judge determined that Pendley’s prolonged tenure at the BLM’s helm violated the Constitution and federal law. The Sept. 2
  
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• Letter: Be true to yourself and vote

  09-10-2020 13:30
  
  Regardless of anyone’s political party, I reference an Oct. 2 letter written by Ron Molen of Salt Lake City and extend my heartfelt congratulations to him on expressing moral issues with the upcoming election.Popularity with my Mormon friends and neighbors could be tested, but I feel I, too, have a right to my opinion and openly express it to all who read mine today.I am not LDS, but respect choices by all. I am 85 years old and was born in Canada and brought up by Christian parents who ra
  
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• Letter: Trump’s corruption is destroying us

  09-10-2020 13:00
  
  Michael Cohen wrote in his book “Disloyal” that President Trump frequently made denigrating remarks about the Latter-day Saints. He is, in the words of Mary Trump, a sociopath and the “world’s most dangerous man.” He is a pathological liar.The Book of Mormon describes a group of robbers who took control of the government, judges and lawyers, which led to the destruction of their society because they were unable to persuade most church members against supporting thei
  
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• Man dies from fall at Lake Powell’s Willow Gulch

  09-10-2020 06:42
  
  A man died Thursday morning after falling from Willow Gulch in the Escalante Arm of Lake Powell.Passengers on a nearby boat witnessed the fall around 9 a.m. and attempted to rescue the man. With the help of personnel from the National Park Service and Kane County Sheriff’s Office, he was retrieved from the water. He was pronounced dead upon recovery by medical professionals aboard the boat that initially responded.The man’s body will be taken to Salt Lake City, where his death will b
  
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• Bills-Titans, Broncos-Patriots rescheduled by NFL

  09-10-2020 06:35
  
  The Bills-Titans game has been moved from Sunday to Tuesday night at 5 p.m. MDT as long as Tennessee has no more positive tests for COVID-19 in the interim.CBS will televise the game.The NFL also is rescheduling Sunday’s Broncos-Patriots game from Sunday to Monday at 3 p.m. MDT as part of an ESPN doubleheader. New England had a smaller outbreak of COVID-19.The Chiefs at Bills game scheduled for Oct. 15 is moving to next weekend if the Buffalo-Tennessee game actually is played on Tuesday. N
  
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• Utah’s female lawmakers of color celebrate policy progress, detail threats and challenges of public office in panel discussion

  09-10-2020 05:33
  
  As the coronavirus has battered Utah’s communities of color, and after a summer of nationwide protests spurred by police violence against people of color, Sen. Luz Escamilla said Thursday that she’s “never seen more unity” among the state’s minority lawmakers.“We made a decision and it probably was like 9 p.m. on a Saturday that we were in a Zoom meeting. We were all in quarantine. And we said, ‘We’re not going to take it,’” Escamilla r
  
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• Letter: Trump does not represent LDS values

  09-10-2020 05:30
  
  The president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Russell Nelson, recently urged members to “lead out in abandoning attitudes and actions of prejudice” and “to promote respect for all of God’s children.” This sentiment should be shared by all Utahns. After these statements, however, it is shocking that current polling shows Donald Trump leading Joe Biden by 10 points in Utah — a state that is nearly 68% Mormon.Trump called immigrants from Mexic
  
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• Anti-vaccine banners on I-215 draw ire of drivers

  09-10-2020 05:24
  
  Anti-coronavirus vaccine banners strewn across overpasses along I-215 and Wasatch Boulevard caused a ruckus Thursday morning.About 40 people called the Utah Department of Transportation about the banners, an agency official said. Most were asking for the banners to be removed.At least three banners were hung on the safety fences, most spanning nearly the width of the interstate. One over the pedestrian overpass near 3900 South — which also crosses Wasatch and leads to Churchill Junior High
  
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• Wayne Wilson: I come to praise Trump, not to defeat him

  09-10-2020 04:14
  
  One of William Shakespeare’s most famous speeches is given by Mark Antony in the play “Julius Caesar.” Several Roman senators, fearing that Caesar is seeking a crown, assassinated him on the floor of the Senate. Antony begs the conspirators to speak a eulogy and promises that he will not disparage the murderers. So with that context, and apologies to the Bard, I offer the following inspired by Act 3, Scene 2 of the play:Friends, U.S. citizens, countrymen, lend me your ears;I co
  
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• Letter: Mail-in ballots aren’t safe for blind people

  09-10-2020 03:30
  
  Mail-in ballots are convenient, fast, secure, a way to avoid unneeded transportation, long lines in bad weather, and in a pandemic, they are safe. The one thing they are not is equally accessible to the blind. To independently fill out a mail-in ballot requires the ability to read and write printed materials, which requires sight. The last time I filled out a mail-in ballot, I had to use a reader/scribe to complete the ballot, all the while listening to their commentary about my choices while ha
  
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• Fugitives who shot at Sanpete sheriff deputies arrested after two-day manhunt near Milburn

  09-10-2020 03:12
  
  Two fugitives from Wyoming who shot at Sanpete sheriff’s deputies and a Fairview City police officer from inside a home near Milburn on Wednesday morning have been captured.Brett Gilman Johnson, 50, and Jamie Carol Cleghorn (aka Wheeler), 42, were taken into custody Thursday late afternoon by the Utah County Sheriff’s Office Metro SWAT team without incident.Johnson and Cleghorn were on the run after allegedly burglarizing multiple storage units around Gillette, Wyo. Eighteen guns wen
  
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• As Utah passes 500 COVID-19 deaths and sets a new case record, doctors plead for change

  09-10-2020 02:33
  
  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 desperately lonely way that most people die from COVID-19 makes the disease and its mounting death toll difficult to grasp, oncologist Mark A. Lewis believes.As Utah passed the grim milestone Thursday of 500 deaths from the pandemic,
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: A Royal Pain

  09-10-2020 01:59
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Build THIS Wall!White House UpdatesSpikes and OutbreaksWho Watches the Watchers?Thunderdome DebateWorkhorseBad FaithLooking for TroubleUtah SkillsVote!Want more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Utah GOP calls out Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson for shunning debates

  09-10-2020 01:30
  
  The Utah Republican Party is calling out Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson for turning down invitations to debate Trent Staggs, Riverton’s mayor and the challenger in this year’s mayoral election.In a tweet posted Thursday morning, the party called on the mayor to appear with Staggs “so the people of our most populous county can make a side by side comparison and cast an informed vote.” It included a graphic that implied Wilson had declined debate requests from ABC4 Uta
  
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