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• UVU soccer player arrested for shooting 3 BYU students with a BB gun

  13-10-2020 23:55
  
  A Utah Valley University soccer player has been arrested for shooting three BYU students with a BB gun.James A. “Jamie” Dunning, 18, was booked into the Utah County jail for investigation of three counts of aggravated assault on Tuesday, two days after he reportedly fired the gun from a moving car on the Brigham Young University campus.According to a probable cause statement, Dunning was a passenger in a car driving past the Helaman Halls dorms shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday. Several s
  
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• RSL still hunting for a forward that will score goals; David Ochoa’s status; and a schedule change

  13-10-2020 22:59
  
  After RSL’s loss to the bottom-dwelling Vancouver Whitecaps this weekend, head coach Freddy Juarez was asked about his team’s lack of goal scoring, after just one goal scored over the last four matches. “You need someone to step up, right?," a reporter asked. "Where do you see that coming from?”And Juarez didn’t have an answer.“Since I’ve been here — for four years, with Jeff [Cassar], with Mike [Petke], and now being over it — we haven&rsquo
  
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• ‘Utah Politics’ podcast: Ronald Reagan, Orrin Hatch and America’s turn to the right

  13-10-2020 22:24
  
  When Sen. Orrin Hatch was first elected in 1976, his name was such an oddity that New Yorkers threw “Orrin Hatch” themed cocktail parties following the election, according to Rick Perlstein, author of the new book “Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980.”“Hatch was introduced to the nation through a comedy article in The New York Times Magazine,” says Perlstein. “Everyone was throwing Jimmy Carter themed parties. This couple looked in the newsp
  
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• Utah State football to play four Thursday-night contests

  13-10-2020 22:08
  
  Half of Utah State’s football games this season will be played on a Thursday night on national television, including one on Thanksgiving Day.The Mountain West Conference unveiled its TV schedule Tuesday and it showed four of the Aggies' eight games have been bumped from their initial dates. The switch begins with a contest at Nevada on Thursday, Nov. 5 (FS1). That is followed by a string of three straight Thursday-night games, starting with one at Wyoming on Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. (CBSSN). The
  
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• M. Royce Van Tassell: Amendment G will help fund Utah schools

  13-10-2020 22:05
  
  A strong and successful education system is one of the most important components in Utah’s deservedly long list of economic and lifestyle accolades. It offers families the options to find a place where young people can learn the skills and knowledge necessary to identify and pursue their dreams.Utah schools – charter and district alike – use property and income tax revenue to provide the choices and quality our families expect. Given our unique demographics (lots of kids) and g
  
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• Joy Rocklin: Romney should not vote to confirm new justice now

  13-10-2020 22:04
  
  Dear Sen. Romney,There are several reasons I implore you to wait to confirm a lifetime Supreme Court nominee until after Inauguration Day:1. Your integrity. As your constituent, I viewed it as a crowning moment for me when you bucked your party’s rush to reject Donald Trump’s impeachment. You looked at the facts and had the guts to vote your conscience. At that moment, as a former lifelong Republican turned Democrat when the party left me in the dust, I was so proud to live in the re
  
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• Utah governor announces new coronavirus strategy as cases rise by 987

  13-10-2020 22:01
  
  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.State officials are scrapping the color-coded system they’ve been using for months to guide their regional responses to COVID-19, changing strategy as they grapple with a record-breaking surge in cases. With 987 new coronaviru
  
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• Jana Riess: 10 years after apostle Packer’s anti-LGBTQ talk, have Latter-day Saints turned the corner on gay rights?

  13-10-2020 21:59
  
  Ten years ago this month, apostle Boyd K. Packer of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ignited a firestorm of controversy with his General Conference talk “Cleansing the Inner Vessel,” which was widely criticized for its homophobic and misleading statements about homosexuality.“Some suppose that they were preset and cannot overcome what they feel are inborn tendencies toward the impure and the unnatural,” Packer said. “Not so! Why would our Heavenly Fat
  
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• BYU men’s basketball will start practice Wednesday, with second session on BYUtv

  13-10-2020 21:49
  
  Provo • Although it’s a bit later than usual, the BYU men’s basketball is finally getting started with its season — and fans will be able to watch.The Cougars will start official practice for the upcoming 2020-21 season on Wednesday, and the second practice session at 6 p.m. will be broadcast live on the BYUtv App and BYUtv.org.It’ll be the first chance to see the strong group of newcomers amongst the returners following a record-breaking year that would have led the
  
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• 'Pastor’ Donny Osmond performs wedding in amazing technicolor dreamcoat

  13-10-2020 21:30
  
  When Donny Osmond performs a wedding ceremony, not just any robe will do.The singer, who played the title role in the musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” on stage and screen in the 1990s, posted Monday on Facebook photos of himself presiding over the wedding of his friends Todd and Rachel Salmon.Just before pronouncing the couple husband and wife, Osmond said he announced, “Pastors would normally wear a robe. This pastor will now wear a coat.”Osmond the
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 987 on Tuesday

  13-10-2020 21:09
  
  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 987 new coronavirus cases reported on Tuesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses rose to near-record-high levels.The Utah Department of Health on Tuesday reported a seven-day average of 1,182 new positive test results per day &mda
  
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• BYU men’s basketball will officially start practice Wednesday, with second session available to watch on BYUtv

  13-10-2020 20:55
  
  Although it’s a bit later than usual, the BYU men’s basketball is finally getting started with its season — and fans will be able to watch.The Cougars will start official practice for the upcoming 2020-21 season on Wednesday, and the second practice session at 6 p.m. will be broadcast live on the BYUtv App and BYUtv.org.It’ll be the first chance to see the strong group of newcomers amongst the returners following a record-breaking year that would have led the Cougars to t
  
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• UVU soccer played arrested for shooting 3 BYU students with a BB gun

  13-10-2020 20:54
  
  A Utah Valley University soccer player has been arrested for shooting three BYU students with a BB gun.James A. “Jamie” Dunning, 18, was booked into the Utah County jail for investigation of three counts of aggravated assault on Tuesday, two days after he reportedly fired the gun from a moving car on the Brigham Young University campus.According to a probable cause statement, Dunning was a passenger in a car driving past the Helaman Halls dorms shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday. Several s
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee asks Amy Coney Barrett few questions; gives long speeches instead

  13-10-2020 20:21
  
  Sen. Mike Lee was given 31 minutes Tuesday to ask questions of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in her confirmation hearing. But he launched into long monologues for 83% of his allotted time.In the end, Barrett spoke for only 5 minutes and 15 seconds of Lee’s half hour, a timed transcript shows.The senator gave his views on abortion, the Affordable Care Act and court packing, among other topics, with only a few brief questions to Barrett that seemed to be designed to show she either
  
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• Runnin Utes set to open practice Wednesday as optimism for 2020-21 persists

  13-10-2020 20:09
  
  By recent standards, the University of Utah men’s basketball program enjoyed a tame offseason.Yes, Both Gach transferred and Caleb Lohner asked for and received a release from a National Letter of Intent, but there was no mass exodus to the NCAA Transfer Portal. The core of last season’s team returns, sans Gach, and there is legitimate optimism the Utes can take a step forward and potentially reach the program’s first NCAA Tournament since 2016.That, of course, assumes we get a
  
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• Trent Staggs: We need universal and repeat testing to stop COVID-19

  13-10-2020 20:04
  
  We need a better plan to decrease coronavirus case counts. Each day we see new headlines that COVID-19 cases are up. This is now after seven months of the coronavirus pandemic, and it seems that we still do not have a viable plan to contain its spread.Increased mask wearing is critical, yet it is not a silver bullet. In Salt Lake County, we have already achieved 90% to 96% compliance with mask wearing. Despite this, case counts and hospital bed use are rising. With spiking case counts in Salt La
  
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• Watch ‘Trib Talk’ live: Coronavirus trends in Utah

  13-10-2020 20:03
  
  Coronavirus cases just keep on rising across Utah. On the next episode of “Trib Talk,” reporter Erin Alberty speaks with epidemiologist Annie George about current trends and what they mean as the state tries to grapple with this pandemic.Watch the discussion live at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 13 on our Facebook page. Tweet your questions using #TribTalk, or email them to [email protected].
  
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• Bret Stephens: Imagining the Trump presidency that wasn’t

  13-10-2020 20:03
  
  Where would we be now if we had a truly politically incorrect president? Donald Trump is supposed to be politically incorrect, but, for the most part, he isn’t. He’s mainly just a jerk.Jerkishness is often mistaken for political incorrectness, in the way that blind luck is easily mistaken for great skill. They’re fundamentally different. Political incorrectness is an expression of intellectual independence. Jerkishness is a personality defect. The former requires a sense of inn
  
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• Gordon Hayward to Dak Prescott after injury: ‘You’re not alone!’

  13-10-2020 19:56
  
  Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) acknowledges cheers from fans as he is carted off the field after suffering a leg injury during an NFL football game against the New York Giants in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Ron Jenkins) | APSALT LAKE CITY — Former Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward knows what it’s like to sustain a severe ankle injury like the one Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott did Sunday, as Hayward missed all but a few minutes of the 2017
  
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• Why we raised money to get reports on Utah’s ‘troubled teen’ treatment centers

  13-10-2020 19:43
  
  UPDATE: We have met our goal with the help of more than 100 supporters. Thank you all. We are in the process of requesting these records now. If you would like to continue tracking our progress, we’ll be sending regular emails. Also, any future contributions will support The Tribune’s efforts to access public records.Online Form - Residential treatment centers updatesPowered by Formstack
  I’ve spent a year looking into the “troubled teen” treatment centers scattered
  
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• Watch live: Amy Coney Barrett won’t commit to recusing from election disputes

  13-10-2020 18:50
  
  Washington • Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is vowing to bring no “agenda” to the court, batting back senators' questions Tuesday on abortion, gun rights and the November election, insisting she would take a conservative approach to the law but decide cases as they come.“Judges can’t just wake up one day and say I have an agenda, I like guns, I hate guns, I like abortion, I hate abortion and walk in like a royal queen and impose their will on the world,&rdqu
  
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• BYU-Idaho says students may be trying to get COVID-19 so they can sell their plasma

  13-10-2020 18:26
  
  Administrators at Brigham Young University’s campus in Idaho believe some students are purposefully exposing themselves to COVID-19 with the hope that they’ll later be able to sell their plasma.In a statement Monday, the school said it has received several accounts of that happening and is currently investigating. If it confirms that a student has done so, the university added, that individual will be suspended.“The contraction and spread of COVID-19 is not a light matter,&rdqu
  
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• An Italian teenager could become the first millennial Catholic saint

  13-10-2020 18:25
  
  In many ways, Carlo Acutis was a typical teenager. He loved his PlayStation and making videos of his dogs. He favored Nikes and jeans, and he had a cellphone and an email address.But in one significant respect, Carlo — who was just 15 when he died of leukemia in 2006 — stands out from his peers: He is on his way to becoming the first millennial to be recognized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.Carlo, who lived in Milan, was beatified, or declared “blessed” by the p
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 30 new coronavirus cases and 6 deaths

  13-10-2020 18:15
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials on Monday reported 30 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and six more deaths.The latest numbers bring the total number of cases to 10,728 including two additional cases that was previously unreported due to delayed reporting. The known death toll now is at 571.Tribal health officials said 112,648 people on the vast reservation that covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah have been tested for COVID-19 since the pandemic started and 7,343
  
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• Utah football hasn’t played, practiced in full pads since the Alamo Bowl. That will change Wednesday

  13-10-2020 18:07
  
  When the University of Utah football team walked off the field at the Alamodome following the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 31, if you were told that was the last time the Utes would be in full pads, would you have believed it?The question was rhetorical and the answer is no, because no one could have predicted a global pandemic, let alone what COVID-19 would do to the sports that are regularly contested in the United States. So, yes, New Year’s Eve against Texas was the last time Utah wore full pads
  
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• Mitt Romney scolds Trump, calls current politics a ‘hate-filled morass'

  13-10-2020 17:29
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney says he can’t stay quiet anymore politics in the upcoming election that he says has become “a vile vituperative, hate-filled morass.”After calling out what he sees as bad acts by President Donald Trump, also mentioning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi among others, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee is asking for everyone to “tone it down.”Romney issued his statement via Twitter on Tuesday morning.“I have stayed quiet with the approach of the electio
  
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• Donovan Mitchell plays obnoxious big brother, invades sister’s virtual college class

  13-10-2020 17:12
  
  Donovan Mitchell laughs while shooting hoops on Jazz media day at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell is an NBA All-Star with a huge shoe contract who has dropped 50 points in multiple playoff games, achievements that only the tiniest percentage of people will ever reach.
  But on Monday, he played a role that is perhaps more relatable — that of obnoxious big broth
  
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• Watch live: Amy Coney Barrett faces senators on health care, legal precedent

  13-10-2020 15:34
  
  Washington • Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is facing senators' questions Tuesday for the first time over her approach to health care, legal precedent and even the presidential election during confirmation hearings on track to lock in a conservative court majority for years to come.Barrett, family in tow, is on Capitol Hill for a second day of hearings at the Senate Judiciary Committee. The mood is likely to shift to a more confrontational tone as Barrett, an appellate court judge
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Coronavirus trends in Utah

  13-10-2020 15:11
  
  Coronavirus cases just keep on rising across Utah. On the next episode of “Trib Talk,” reporter Erin Alberty speaks with epidemiologist Annie George about current trends and what they mean as the state tries to grapple with this pandemic.Watch the discussion live at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 13 on our Facebook page. Tweet your questions using #TribTalk, or email them to [email protected].
  
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• Jonathan Thompson: The West’s population grows and churns

  13-10-2020 15:11
  
  Ever since 1790, when the U.S. Census started keeping track of such things, the migratory flow of non-Indigenous people within the United States has moved from East to West, into lands they erroneously saw as a blank slate, and not so erroneously as a land rife with natural resources to exploit.Americans are still mobile and still moving West, but over time, the trajectory of the human flow has shifted to something more complex, with shifting patterns that sometimes double back unexpectedly. It&
  
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• In ‘Belly of the Beast,’ Utah filmmaker examines modern ‘eugenics’ in women’s prisons

  13-10-2020 15:10
  
  Some documentaries take longer to come together than others — a lesson Erika Cohn, the Salt Lake City-born filmmaker, learned as it was happening.Back in 2010, Cohn began work on “In Football We Trust,” the Emmy-winning documentary she co-directed about young men in Utah’s Polynesian community who used football as a way to change their lives. The movie premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and was seen nationwide in theaters and on PBS.Also in 2010, she first met
  
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• Stephanie Gelman and Peter Moskowitz: Time for Herbert to follow doctors’ advice

  13-10-2020 14:00
  
  “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.”While often attributed to Albert Einstein, this statement perfectly depicts Gov. Gary Herbert’s ineffective efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic in Utah.One would suspect that Herbert remembers using empty threats with his children and how they usually failed. Similarly, his attempts to motivate Utahns to wear masks and social distance without follow-through on proposed consequences present
  
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• Robert Kirby: If you vote your conscience, make sure you have one

  13-10-2020 14:00
  
  Less than a month away from electing a president, it seems a good time to announce that I will not be launching a last-minute write-in campaign.The last one ended badly. I received $11.27 in campaign contributions, and a billionth of 1 percent of the popular vote. Of the votes I did receive, half a dozen came from family members. The rest from deranged street inhabitants.I won’t make that mistake again.But there’s still a problem. We have less than 30 days to make up our alleged mind
  
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• Ross Douthat: There will be no Trump coup

  13-10-2020 13:00
  
  Three weeks from now, we will reach an end to speculation about what Donald Trump will do if he faces political defeat, whether he will leave power like a normal president or attempt some wild resistance. Reality will intrude, substantially if not definitively, into the argument over whether the president is a corrupt incompetent who postures as a strongman on Twitter or a threat to the Republic to whom words like “authoritarian” and even “autocrat” can be reasonably appl
  
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• Letter: Safety precautions at Granite School District

  13-10-2020 07:30
  
  Granite School District is one of the school districts holding in class sessions Monday through Thursday and doing distance learning on Fridays. Students were able to choose whether to be in class, distance learning or both. Parents, students and teachers were assured there would be security cautions in place and lots of sanitizing.I spent the last six weeks in the Granite School District substitute teaching at various schools. I went to high schools, junior highs and elementary schools. I am a
  
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• Margot’s homer, catch highlight Rays’ 4-2 win over Astros

  13-10-2020 06:45
  
  San Diego • Back in the ballpark where he started his big league career, Manuel Margot of the Tampa Bay Rays had a breakout game in the AL Championship Series with a three-run home run and a spectacular catch while tumbling over a wall in right field.Asked which was bigger in the 4-2 victory against the Houston Astros, Margot said through a translator: “Definitely the home run. The home run didn’t hurt.”The home run was huge, for sure, because it helped the Rays get halfwa
  
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• Riley HR ignites big Braves 9th in 5-1 NLCS win over Dodgers

  13-10-2020 06:33
  
  Arlington, Texas • Austin Riley led off the ninth inning with a tiebreaking homer that sparked a four-run outburst, and the Atlanta Braves opened their first National League Championship Series since 2001 with a 5-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night.Riley greeted reliever Blake Treinen with a 448-foot drive to left-center, drawing a loud reaction and some tomahawk chops from the first fans allowed to attend a major league game this season.“I didn’t feel my legs wh
  
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• Ben McAdams and Burgess Owens each strive to define his opponent as an extremist in the only 4th Congressional District debate

  13-10-2020 06:08
  
  Rep. Ben McAdams, Utah’s only Democrat in Congress, attempted again and again during the 4th Congressional District’s first and only debate on Monday to position himself as a centrist Democrat who works across the aisle to get things done for the Beehive State. His opponent struck a different tone.During the hourlong debate, organized by the Utah Debate Commission, Republican candidate Burgess Owens said the other side uses “misery as a political tool" and said he stood by his
  
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• Letter: People who wear masks aren’t ‘afraid’

  13-10-2020 06:00
  
  I think something needs to be corrected. People who wear masks are not “afraid” of COVID. I have had work in Utah, Davis and Weber counties wearing my mask all over the state, even in places where people stare at me like I’m a tourist attraction.In some places, no one wears a mask. Are these people running around without masks trying to prove that they are not “afraid”? I am not understanding that nonsense.I thought the whole point was to act responsible and limit t
  
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• Body found in Payson Canyon believed to be of missing hiker

  13-10-2020 05:57
  
  A body recovered from Payson Canyon is believed to be that of a Payson man who has been missing since Sept. 30.Detectives from the Utah County Sheriff’s Office recovered the body near the Grotto in Payson Canyon on Sunday night, the sheriff’s office reported on social media. The office’s search and rescue team brought the body down from the mountain using a technical rigging system.Sheriff’s deputies say they believe the body is that of Craig Edwin Nielsen, 48, of Payson.
  
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• Analysis: Burgess Owens flip-flops on support for Obamacare repeal

  13-10-2020 05:26
  
  Rep. Ben McAdams and Republican challenger Burgess Owens tangled over the Affordable Care Act during their debate Monday, with McAdams accusing the GOP nominee of flip-flopping on whether or not to repeal the healthcare law. Turns out, that is right. Owens has done an about-face on the issue.In late September, Owens quietly changed a section on his website reversing his stance that the Affordable Care Act should be repealed.The original page, you can see an archived copy here, says “Obamac
  
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• Hideout Town Council listens to dozens of angry comments about cross-county expansion effort

  13-10-2020 04:50
  
  In its last-ditch effort to expand into Summit County, the Hideout Town Council spent hours Monday evening fielding public comments. Many came from Hideout residents. Virtually none of the feedback was supportive.The town is trying to absorb hundreds of acres in an area across the county line called Richardson Flat, despite Summit County and Park City’s loud opposition. The annexation was only made possible without Summit County’s consent when the town’s developer used a lobbyi
  
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• Utah hiker survives cougar encounter, yelling ‘stupid kitty cat!’ in viral video

  13-10-2020 04:45
  
  Kyle Burgess of Orem had a terrifying encounter over the weekend, when a female cougar stalked him along a mountain trail for what seemed like an eternity — but was really just “six very long minutes.”The 26-year-old not only was unharmed but caught the entire episode on his cellphone. The video has since gone viral with thousands of views on social media and YouTube.On Saturday around 5 p.m. Burgess said he was coming down Provo’s Slate Canyon, a place he has hiked numer
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee, back from quarantine, defends Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett

  13-10-2020 04:30
  
  During the first day of hearings promising to highlight the nation’s political polarization heading into the election, Republicans praised the qualifications of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett as Democrats raised fears about her possible deciding vote in ending health care coverage for millions of Americans.Utah Sen. Mike Lee showed up with a doctor’s note declaring himself symptom-free after a 10-day COVID-19 quarantine and vowed to do everything in his power to keep the hea
  
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• Utah celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day with speeches, song and dance

  13-10-2020 04:13
  
  Some 200 people gathered in Salt Lake City on Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day.This countercelebration to Columbus Day featured Native American songs, blessings and dancing as well as food such as blue corn mush and Navajo tea.Speeches focused on Native American issues, especially the high rate of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG).According to a 2012 report from the United States Department of Justice, Native American women are murdered at a rate more than 10 times the nat
  
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• Letter: Burgess Owens isn’t fit for Congress

  13-10-2020 04:00
  
  Burgess Owens has made it clear that he is not the person to represent the 4th Congressional District in Washington. His statements at the recent forum confirm that.Let’s look at some examples. Owens stated that bipartisanship is not needed. What would he propose in its place? What we have now. That has led to Congress not functioning at all. Rep. Ben McAdams said that we need to elect people who are committed to fixing what is broken.Owens also said that there are people who don’t l
  
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• Trump defends coronavirus record in first post-COVID rally

  13-10-2020 03:26
  
  Sanford, Fla. • Defiant as ever about the coronavirus, President Donald Trump on Monday turned his first campaign rally since contracting COVID-19 into a full-throated defense of his handling of the pandemic that has killed 215,000 Americans, joking that he was healthy enough to plunge into the crowd and give voters “a big fat kiss.”There was no social distancing and mask-wearing was spotty among the thousands who came to see Trump’s return to Florida. He held forth for an
  
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• Watch live: Ben McAdams and Burgess Owens to face off in only 4th Congressional District debate on Monday

  13-10-2020 02:12
  
  Rep. Ben McAdams, Utah’s only Democrat in Congress, will face off Monday night against Republican candidate Burgess Owens in the 4th Congressional District’s first and only debate.This year’s election between the pair is expected to be among the most competitive in the nation. McAdams, who has positioned himself as a centrist Democrat who works across the aisle to get things done for Utah, won his seat in 2018 by a margin of fewer than 700 votes against Republican two-term incu
  
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• Joseph Q. Jarvis: Give the states a chance to reform health care

  13-10-2020 02:00
  
  Overlooked during the public mourning of the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was President Donald Trump’s announcement of his “America First Healthcare Plan,” which is an executive order essentially affirming that “Americans with preexisting conditions can obtain the insurance of their choice.”The executive order also endorses the current legal action to strike down the Affordable Care Act, but does so without specifying how exactly those with preexisting con
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 988 Monday; at least one hospital limits elective surgeries as beds fill up

  13-10-2020 01:53
  
  University of Utah Hospital has begun to cancel some elective surgeries as patients with COVID-19 fill more and more beds — and the intensive care unit has been about 95% occupied, a hospital spokeswoman said.The reduction in elective surgeries “isn’t across the board,” like it was when Utah hospitals braced for the first coronavirus outbreaks in the spring, said U. Health spokeswoman Kathy Wilets. But since last week, doctors have been trying to put off procedures that c
  
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