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• Tribune Editorial: Utah must turn up coronavirus restrictions

  10-10-2020 23:00
  
  Orange is the new normal.Our skies are orange. Our president is orange.Everything is orange except the one thing that really needs to be, and that’s Utah’s coronavirus restriction level.The state set a new record for a one-day increase in COVID-19 cases Thursday, reporting 1,501 new diagnoses. We have recorded more than 500 deaths, our intensive care unit beds are approaching capacity, and our front-line medical staffers are exhausted. The rate of positive results from testing is a f
  
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• Halloween in a pandemic: What Utah parents say about their plans for that spooky holiday

  10-10-2020 22:55
  
  Murray • With an outdoor hay maze, pumpkin patch and plenty of cows, horses and baby goats to admire, the Pumpkin Days celebration at Wheeler Farm was a “not-so-scary” event for Steve Pehrson and his three young children.When asked whether his children would be trick-or-treating on Halloween, though, the Kearns father was spooked about what to do — especially in light of Utah’s uptick in coronavirus numbers.“We are still undecided," he said Saturday. “We
  
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• The spike continues: Utah announces 1,354 new coronavirus cases on Saturday

  10-10-2020 21:21
  
  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 continues to see its daily coronavirus numbers increase with 1,354 new cases reported on Saturday, according to the Utah Department of Health.That brings the total number of Utahns with COVID-19 to 84,644.The state’s death tol
  
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• Trump makes 1st public appearance since his hospital stay

  10-10-2020 20:51
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Saturday made his first public appearance since returning to the White House after being treated for the coronavirus. The White House has refused to declare that he is no longer contagious, and the gathering of hundreds of people on the South Lawn went ahead despite the guidance of public health officials.Trump delivered an address on his support for law enforcement from the Blue Room balcony to a friendly crowd. The president wore a mask as he walked
  
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• Among draft prospects within range of the Utah Jazz’s No. 23 pick, who fits and who doesn’t?

  10-10-2020 20:41
  
  Groupthink can have disastrous consequences in pretty much anything, and NBA talent evaluation is no different. I mean, how else to explain the consensus love for Dragan Bender being the No. 4 pick back in 2016?OK, so there are a lot of potential explanations for him washing out — bad team fit, insufficient development, dearth of chemistry, lack of internal drive — but after failing with the Suns, the Bucks, and the Warriors, and eventually settling for a deal in Israel with Maccabi
  
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• Pendley says he’s still on the job as acting director of BLM

  10-10-2020 19:16
  
  Casper, Wyo. • William Perry Pendley wants Wyoming to know that he’s still on the job as the nation’s acting head of public lands.“I have not been ousted. That is not true,” Pendley, the Bureau of Land Management’s deputy director of policy and programs, said during an interview with the Star-Tribune on Thursday.Pendley’s choice to defend his role managing 245 million acres of the nation’s surface land comes just weeks after a federal court in Monta
  
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• Refugees find help in Utah running club during pandemic

  10-10-2020 17:47
  
  Logan • Local officials and educators have been concerned about the effects of COVID-19-related shutdowns and closures on children’s' education. But according to local advocates, it’s been hardest for those who were already struggling to begin with: local refugees and immigrants.“Under normal circumstances, refugee children are disadvantaged,” said Halima Ali, an organizer and advocate for the Somali refugee community. “Their parents are new in the country, and
  
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• Poland’s Iga Swiatek beats Sofia Kenin for French Open title

  10-10-2020 17:39
  
  Paris • With the poise of a veteran and the shots of a champion, 19-year-old Iga Swiatek picked the perfect place for her first tour-level title: the French Open.Unseeded and ranked merely 54th, Swiatek grabbed the last six games to beat Sofia Kenin 6-4, 6-1 in the final at Roland Garros on Saturday, becoming the first Polish tennis player to win a Grand Slam singles trophy. When she smacked one last forehand winner to the corner to end things, Swiatek placed her right hand over her mouth t
  
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• Latter-day Saint leaders salute Nobel Peace Prize given to longtime U.N. partner

  10-10-2020 17:03
  
  Top leaders in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints applauded the news that their longtime ally in the battle against global hunger — the United Nations' World Food Program — had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.“The World Food Program works in some of the most remote, difficult and conflict-wracked circumstances in the world,” Sharon Eubank, president of Latter-day Saint Charities, said in a statement released Saturday. “To a person of faith like me, t
  
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• Research shows school absences rise with air pollution

  10-10-2020 15:00
  
  New research has documented a direct correlation between absenteeism among Salt Lake City school students and air pollution levels, even at times when air quality is not particularly bad.An interdisciplinary team led by University of Utah atmospheric scientist Daniel Mendoza examined three years worth of absence data from 36 schools, comparing it with ambient levels of fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, and ozone recorded by a network of sensors set up around the city and mounted on TRAX trains.
  
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• Ready for some football at 9 or 10 a.m.? The Pac-12 is, and so are the Utah Utes

  10-10-2020 15:00
  
  Larry Scott seemingly caught everyone off guard at Pac-12 football media day in July 2019 when he announced the league had had preliminary discussions with its ESPN and FOX television partners about having a few games kick off at 9 a.m. Pacific and 10 a.m. Mountain time.The league has long been criticized for late-afternoon and evening start times, but 9/10 a.m. would give it a piece of the noon Eastern time window, which is generally when fans on the East Coast are flipping to the stable of net
  
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• COVID-19 has wealthy buyers fleeing to Park City

  10-10-2020 14:05
  
  Park City • COVID-19 left Utah’s alpine resorts and mountain destinations financially hobbled when they lost the tail end of the ski season.But Park City, Deer Valley and surrounding Summit and Wasatch counties are now seeing money pour into luxury homes, estates and open land with big sticker prices as the effects of the pandemic bring in new wealthy buyers.Since June, a rush to sanctuary has real estate markets booming over pre-pandemic levels for multimillion-dollar homes and prope
  
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• Utah native Derek Hough is back on ‘Dancing,’ and he’s got a big deal with ABC

  10-10-2020 14:00
  
  When he first joined “Dancing with the Stars” back in 2007, Derek Hough was a fraud. Or, at least, he felt like one.“Can I be honest with you? I didn’t know what I was doing,” said the Utah native. "I had no idea. And when somebody first called me a choreographer, I was, like, ‘No, I’m not.’ … I was just a dancer.”A very successful competitive dancer, but in 2007 not much of anybody knew that. When he joined “DWTS” in Seaso
  
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• George Pyle: Lee tries to make the end of democracy sound like a good thing

  10-10-2020 14:00
  
  Count De Monet: “I have come on the most urgent of business. It is said that the people are revolting!”King Louis: “You said it. They stink on ice.”— Mel Brooks, “History of the World, Part I”Perhaps that is what Mike Lee meant the other day when he argued — if a tweet can be dignified by calling it an argument — that “rank democracy” is a bad thing. That it smells bad.Sometimes it does.Unfiltered majority rule can be an awful mes
  
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• Letter: Dealing with racism in journalism

  10-10-2020 13:30
  
  I always enjoy Geroge Pyle’s commentaries, and the recent “Journalism must also look inward to deal with racism” was an interesting look into the Los Angeles Times' tale of its own racism over the past decades. I did think it was odd that the commentary directly above Pyle’s was by four white students from BYU who had interned at The Tribune. I’m sure they will be excellent, although I can’t imagine that there isn’t a bit more diversity available for hir
  
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• Letter: Vote for Ben McAdams

  10-10-2020 13:00
  
  The dishonesty and lack of compassion in the highest levels of government have driven this introvert well out of her comfort zone. The effort to preserve our flawed and fragile democracy demanded my participation: I registered voters; I canvassed. Now, I have actually learned to phone total strangers to talk to them about why I am voting to reelect Rep. Ben McAdams. I know he understands the importance of providing access to health care, not taking it away from people — especially during a
  
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• Letter: Small businesses must go digital to survive

  10-10-2020 07:30
  
  Many Utah small business owners are still struggling to find their balance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, we live in an age of technology and many small businesses have converted their business online. I am grateful for tech companies, like Google and Facebook, that have invested in small businesses by providing free or low-cost services and resources that are helping many businesses survive.The Connected Commerce Council recently released a study detailing the existence and importan
  
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• Heat stave off elimination, top Lakers 111-108 to force Game 6 in Finals

  10-10-2020 06:49
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • The trophy was ready.Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat delayed its appearance. The NBA Finalsare not over, not after Butler and the Heat pulled off a virtuosoperformance in Game 5 on Friday night.Butler had 35 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists, and the Heat watched Danny Green’s wide-open 3-pointer in the final seconds bounce off the rim on the way to beating Los Angeles 111-108 — cutting the Lakers' lead in the title series to 3-2.Game 6 is Sunday night.
  
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• Letter: Parents are exhausted

  10-10-2020 05:30
  
  If you are a parent of school-aged children, you lead an exhausted existence. If you are a parent during COVID-19, quadruple that. I am married to a first responder who has treated COVID patients, have an at-risk parent living with me, am a full-time college student, and have four children who are currently learning from home. We were given the choice for our children to attend in-person instruction or learn from home, and we selected e-learning because of the potential risk my husband poses to
  
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• Trump restarts campaign with White House, Florida events; debate canceled

  10-10-2020 05:27
  
  Washington • Looking to shove his campaign back on track, President Donald Trump and his team laid out an aggressive return to political activities, including a big White House event on Saturday and a rally in Florida on Monday, a week after his hospitalization for a virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans.As questions linger about his health — and Democratic opponent Joe Biden steps up his own campaigning — Trump planned to leave the Washington area for the first time
  
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• Hurricane Delta inflicts new misery on storm-weary Louisiana

  10-10-2020 04:21
  
  Lake Charles, La. •Hurricane Delta crashed onshore Friday in southwestern Louisiana as a Category 2 storm, ripping tarps from already damaged roofs and slinging debris piled by roads along a path of destruction inflicted by Hurricane Laura only six weeks earlier.The center of the hurricane made landfall about 6 p.m. near the town of Creole — a distance of only about 15 miles from where Laura struck in August.Delta hit with top winds of 100 mph (155 kph) but rapidly grew weaker. Within
  
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• Rich Lowry: Trump is letting down his side

  10-10-2020 04:19
  
  If this is the most important election of our lifetimes, is it too much to ask that the president of the United States act like it?The president’s most devoted backers talk about the election in apocalyptic terms -- Michael Anton of Hillsdale College, author of the famous “The Flight 93 Election” essay in 2016, is the unsurpassed master of the genre.The stakes are undoubtedly huge. The policy swing from a President Donald Trump to a President Joe Biden alone would be massive, a
  
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• Navajo Nation members eligible for $1,500 for virus relief

  10-10-2020 03:35
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Enrolled members of the Navajo Nation will be eligible for payments of up to $1,500 as part of the tribe’s response to the coronavirus.President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer on Friday approved the $49 million plan adopted by the tribal council. The funding comes from the tribe’s $714 million share of federal coronavirus relief funding.Adults will be eligible for payments of $1,500 while those younger than 18 on March 1 are eligible for $500. N
  
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• Letter: Praise the postman

  10-10-2020 03:30
  
  Recent “attacks” on our United States Postal Service prompts me to write about a life-altering experience between our postman Jeff and our small Havanese dog Max, who just turned 15 and is deaf and completely blind. I had left Max to visit my husband Jim in the hospital and thought I had secured the property, in and out. I was mistaken. On my return, I found no Max anywhere.Answering to a knock on the front door, there was our postman Jeff. He pointed to a lower step where stood my a
  
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• Salt Lake City videos show 19 questionable cases where police dogs bit suspects

  10-10-2020 02:42
  
  Salt Lake City police have released video 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 videos, ranging from about two minutes to nearly 30, are often of arrests made at night. They do not identify the officers involved. One from 2016 showed a man holding a cellphone at a bus stop who wasn’t resisting when an officer instructs the dog to “hit."“I’m not doing nothing&r
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases are up 1,343 on Friday, and the state hits a new daily record for people in the hospital

  10-10-2020 02:10
  
  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.With 1,343 new coronavirus cases reported on Friday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to rise, and a record number of patients were hospitalized.For the past week, the Utah Department of Health has tallied 1,148 new positive
  
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• David Brooks: Kamala Harris knows how to win elections

  10-10-2020 02:00
  
  Back in February it seemed as if we were about to have one of the most ideologically polarized elections in American history. President Donald Trump was rushing ahead with his populist/ego-trip/authoritarian whatchamacallit. The Democrats were shifting left: Medicare for All, Green New Deal, Bernie Sanders-style reimagining of capitalism.The great political/culture war was at hand!Instead, this has turned into the least ideological election in recent times. The campaign has largely shrunk down f
  
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• Report: Utah meatpacking plant had 441 virus cases, 1 death

  10-10-2020 00:39
  
  Hyrum • A newly released inspection report has revealed that a coronavirus outbreak at a meatpacking plant in northern Utah was more widespread than local health officials previously reported.The Utah Occupational Safety and Health Division report said the JBS Beef Plant in Hyrum had 441 employees test positive for COVID-19 as of June 16 and one employee had died as a result, FOX-13 reported. The Bear River Health Department previously told The Salt Lake Tribune that 385 employees tested po
  
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• Commentary: Yes, Sen. Lee, America is, in fact, a democracy

  10-10-2020 00:18
  
  Late Wednesday night and into the early hours of Thursday morning, Utah Sen. Mike Lee released a series of bizarre tweets, including one claiming that “We’re not a democracy.”We’re not a democracy.— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) October 8, 2020 This invokes, of course, the hackneyed (and, some would say, silly) argument: Is the United States a republic or a democracy?As most reasonable people readily acknowledge, it is both. It is a representative democracy. Democracy is t
  
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