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• Utah Animal Rights Coalition calls on governor to shut down mink farms amid COVID-19 outbreaks

  14-10-2020 23:55
  
  The Utah Animal Rights Coalition sent a letter to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert this week calling on him to “take more decisive action” to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the state’s mink farms.More than 10,000 minks at Utah fur farms have died because of the coronavirus, forcing nine sites in three counties to quarantine. But despite continued reassurances from the state veterinarian that people don’t appear to be at risk from these outbreaks, the coalition argues the flare-ups
  
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• Last chance to participate in census. It ends Thursday.

  14-10-2020 23:12
  
  After the U.S. Supreme Court just allowed the Census Bureau to cut short its once-every-decade vote counting, Utahns now have through Thursday for a final chance to participate.Meanwhile, the Census Bureau reports that 99.9% of Utah households have been enumerated so far.It reports that 70.8% of those Utah households self-reported online, by phone or by sending in a paper questionnaire. Another 29.1% were enumerated by census workers by knocking on doors, or even talking to neighbors of those wh
  
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• Rep. Chris Stewart reintroduces bill to create a controversial sixth Utah national park

  14-10-2020 22:41
  
  Rep. Chris Stewart on Wednesday reintroduced his controversial legislation to create a sixth national park in Utah.The bill aims to form the “Escalante Canyons National Park and Preserve” out of part of the current 243,241-acre Escalante Unit of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. That area outside Boulder in Kane and Garfield counties is marked by sinuous slot canyons and sandstone plateaus.A news release said exact park boundary proposals are still being finalized in c
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Reporter McKay Coppins discusses how Trump, Biden view religion and the role LDS voters may play in the election

  14-10-2020 22:35
  
  McKay Coppins wrote recently in The Atlantic that President Donald Trump publicly praises evangelicals, prosperity preachers and other religious conservatives, including members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, while privately mocking them and belittling their beliefs.Coppins, a Brigham Young University alumnus, joined this week’s podcast to talk about the presidential candidates, the state of this year’s White House race, how the Biden and Trump campaigns are cour
  
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• Virus wreaking havoc on SEC due to positive COVID-19 tests

  14-10-2020 22:34
  
  The Southeastern Conference has had to postpone two games in the last three days because of positive COVID-19 tests.No. 10 Florida’s game against defending national champion LSU was postponed Wednesday to tentatively Dec. 12 after the SEC postponed Missouri-Vanderbilt on Monday. More positive tests could derail other games after the league waited until the end of Septemberto kick off the season due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Gators started testing daily Sunday and paused activities T
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Whitmer plot and cultural entitlement

  14-10-2020 22:22
  
  White people often do not understand white people.Granted, that’s a counterintuitive claim. But it is regularly reinforced whenever one hears decent white Americans attempt to rationalize the misbehavior of their less decent kin.One such effort turned up on social media a few days ago. Walker Bragman, a freelance journalist for, among others, The Huffington Post, sought to explain why “far right and white nationalist groups” turn to violence. He tweeted what he said were images
  
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• Farhad Manjoo: California’s 40 million people are sick of being ignored

  14-10-2020 22:22
  
  I spent about an hour over the weekend filling out my ballot for the 2020 general election. As an immigrant from a country where elections were not free until 1994, I understand the privilege of the franchise. Every two years, when it’s time to vote in national elections, I rip open my voting packet with a sense of sacred, nerdy seriousness. I’ll even study the positions of the candidates for school board. But that feeling never lasts; by the time I finish filling in all the bubbles,
  
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• Utah sees signs of a tourism rebound and Zion sets a new record

  14-10-2020 21:27
  
  No part of Utah’s economy got slammed harder by COVID-19 than its tourism, leisure and hospitality sectors, but experts now say a sharp rebound is coming, thanks in part to the state’s scenic wonders.Key to that optimism, though, is the widespread adoption of wearing face masks, which a top tourism official said Wednesday will be “fundamental” to reviving the industry.“This is to protect lives in Utah, to protect the lives of visitors,” said Vicki Varela, mana
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 1,144 on Wednesday, with record hospitalizations

  14-10-2020 21:20
  
  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 1,144 new coronavirus cases reported on Wednesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses reached a new record high.For the past week, the Utah Department of Health has tallied 1,204 new positive test results a day, on average — t
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: The Persecution Game

  14-10-2020 20:55
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Covidiots The Liars' ClubPandemic’s BoxA Royal PainBuild THIS Wall!White House UpdatesSpikes and OutbreaksWho Watches the Watchers?Thunderdome DebateWorkhorseWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Ballot printing error in Sanpete County creates confusion

  14-10-2020 20:52
  
  Sanpete County Clerk Sandy Neill didn’t know there was a problem with the more than 13,000 mail-in ballots sent to voters in her county this week until they had already arrived in mailboxes.“Tuesday morning is when the first voter called and said, ‘Where do I sign?’” Neill said. “We had them open the flap, and they told us it was blank.”Envelopes for mail-in ballots in Utah have a perforated area where voters typically must sign for their ballot to be co
  
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• Utah football safety R.J. Hubert being healthy solves one secondary question, but there are more to deal with

  14-10-2020 20:30
  
  As Kyle Whittingham and Morgan Scalley go about the business of replacing an entire University of Utah secondary gone to the NFL, the head coach will readily remind everyone that most of the current secondary options are freshmen and sophomores.R.J. Hubert qualifies as a veteran for this Utah secondary despite having only 20 games under his belt. Within those 20, only 10 have seen him play on defense and even then, he’s only started three times. Still, Whittingham said Wednesday morning on
  
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• NBA bubble was a success, but where will the league go from here?

  14-10-2020 20:23
  
  A Los Angeles Lakers fan in a plastic bubble celebrates outside of Staples center Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020, in Los Angeles, Calif, after the Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in Game 6 of basketball’s NBA Finals to win the championship. | AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa
  The conclusion of an NBA season would normally signal the beginning of summer, the start of a well-structured offseason with dates that act as mile markers on the road to next season. But as we all know, this NBA season has been a
  
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• Utah sees signs of a tourism rebounds and Zion sets a new record

  14-10-2020 20:21
  
  No part of Utah’s economy got slammed harder by COVID-19 than its tourism, leisure and hospitality sectors, but experts now say a sharp rebound is coming, thanks in part to the state’s scenic wonders.Key to that optimism, though, is the widespread adoption of wearing face masks, which a top tourism official said Wednesday will be “fundamental” to reviving the industry.“This is to protect lives in Utah, to protect the lives of visitors,” said Vicki Varela, mana
  
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• James Heilpern: We need textualists like Barrett on the Supreme Court

  14-10-2020 20:21
  
  With the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Amy Coney Barrett taking place this week, Democratic senators are sure to attack her textualist approach, just as they did with Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch before her. But in doing so these senators will reveal more about their own judicial philosophy than Judge Barrett’s.The Democratic senators will insinuate that Judge Barrett will interpret the law according to her Catholic worldview or conservative political beliefs be
  
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• Gary Leimback: Forcing conservative beliefs and values on Americans

  14-10-2020 20:21
  
  After listening to one hour of the hearing on the new U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, it was obvious that every answer to a substantial question, whether real or hypothetical, set in gear her continual mantra about following the law and considering precedent. But she always added a number of conditional statements that might modify her following precedent or the law.It consistently resulted in a maze of considerations that might modify her judgment resulting in a conundrum of conf
  
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• BYU receiver Gunner Romney making a name for himself in Cougars’ 4-0 start

  14-10-2020 19:55
  
  Gunner Romney never chose to be a wide receiver. The position naturally chose him.The BYU junior grew up playing football with his brothers in the backyard and the three of them had each of their respective positions fall onto them: Gunner catching passes from older brother Baylor and younger brother Tate playing defensive back.The trio has come a long way since playing backyard football in Mexico. Gunner and Baylor are both currently on the BYU football team and Tate committed to the Cougars ba
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee asks Amy Coney Barrett about religious freedom, persecution

  14-10-2020 19:42
  
  Utah Sen. Mike Lee, a Latter-day Saint, turned his questions to religious freedom and persecution in the Supreme Court nomination hearing Wednesday of Amy Coney Barrett, who is Catholic.“I think you and I share something in common on this, an enthusiasm for religious freedom,” Lee said, adding that Latter-day Saints “have been no strangers to religious persecution even in this country.”He noted, for example, that in 1838, Missouri Gov. Lilburn Boggs issued an “exter
  
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• Watch ‘Trib Talk’ live: What Utahns need to know to make sure their votes get counted

  14-10-2020 19:33
  
  Watch live here.Have you received your ballot yet? If not, it should be arriving soon. On this episode of “Trib Talk,” columnist Robert Gehrke speaks with Justin Lee, Utah’s director of elections, about what you need to know to make sure your vote gets counted.Watch this discussion live at 11:30 a.m. on our Facebook page. Tweet your questions using #TribTalk, or email them to [email protected].“Trib Talk” is produced by Jeni Fitzgibbon and Sara Weber.
  
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• Utah men’s basketball team to open season in South Dakota vs. potential top-10 Creighton

  14-10-2020 18:59
  
  The University of Utah men’s basketball team’s schedule is finally coming into focus.The Sanford Pentagon on Wednesday morning announced the Bad Boy Mowers Crossover Classic will take place at the 3,250-seat arena in Sioux Falls, S.D. from Nov. 25-27. The eight-team field will include the Utes and the rest of the original Battle 4 Atlantis Field, with Dayton replacine Duke.Utah, 16-15 a year ago, will open Nov. 25 against Creighton. Utah’s side of the bracket has Dayton-Wichita
  
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• Racial justice is on the ballot for Utah and 4 other states

  14-10-2020 18:21
  
  The Black Lives Matter movement isn’t named in any of the 120 statewide ballot measures up for a vote on Nov. 3. But this year’s nationwide protests over police brutality and racial injustice are major factors in the campaigns in several states for measures with distinctive racial themes.In California, voters will decide whether to allow affirmative action in public hiring, contracting and college admissions — 24 years after Californians approved an initiative outlawing program
  
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• Where Americans have been traveling during the pandemic

  14-10-2020 18:16
  
  The pandemic has been hard on travel. According to the U.S. Travel Association, it has caused $386 billion in cumulative losses, but the pain hasn’t been evenly distributed. Cities, which are largely reliant on business and group travel, have suffered more compared to rural and outdoor destinations where it is easier to fulfill social-distancing needs. That sense of safety in extra space has tempted many leisure travelers to venture out on vacation.Lodging results attest to the urban-rural
  
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• Pandemic creates bicycling boom in Utah

  14-10-2020 18:03
  
  The pandemic has transformed Utah transportation in an unexpected way: It’s propelled a bicycling boom.The Utah Department of Transportation released data Wednesday that shows bicycling has doubled, and in some cases quadrupled, on several popular bike trails.For example, UDOT reported that bicycling on the Mapleton Lateral Canal Trail is up by 314%; on the Jordan River Trail, ridership has increased 171%; it shot up by 151% on the Murdock Canal Trail; and it is up by 133% on the Provo Tra
  
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• Last chance to participate in census ends Thursday

  14-10-2020 17:02
  
  After the U.S. Supreme Court just allowed the Census Bureau to cut short its once-every-decade vote counting, Utahns now have through Thursday for a final chance to participate.Meanwhile, the Census Bureau reports that 99.9% of Utah households have been enumerated so far.It reports that 70.8% of those Utah households self-reported online, by phone or by sending in a paper questionnaire. Another 29.1% were enumerated by census workers by knocking on doors, or even talking to neighbors of those wh
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: What Utahns need to know to make sure their votes get counted

  14-10-2020 16:40
  
  Have you received your ballot yet? If not, it should be arriving soon. On this episode of “Trib Talk,” columnist Robert Gehrke speaks with Justin Lee, Utah’s director of elections, about what you need to know to make sure your vote gets counted.Watch this discussion live at 11:30 a.m. on our Facebook page. Tweet your questions using #TribTalk, or email them to [email protected].“Trib Talk” is produced by Jeni Fitzgibbon and Sara Weber.
  
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• Religion is essential, even during a pandemic, Latter-day Saint apostle David Bednar tells global forum

  14-10-2020 16:20
  
  In their efforts to thwart the spread of a virus that has killed more than a million people, world leaders should not override religious freedom, Latter-day Saint apostle David A. Bednar told a global gathering of scholars and officials from diverse faith traditions Wednesday.“The ongoing pandemic has demonstrated that some government officials fail to understand how and why religion is fundamental to the lives of billions of people,” Bednar, one of the top leaders in The Church of J
  
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• Watch live: Amy Coney Barrett is back on Capitol Hill for senators’ final questions

  14-10-2020 15:36
  
  Washington • Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett returned to Capitol Hill for a third day of confirmation hearings Wednesday as senators dig deeper into the conservative judge’s outlook on abortion, health care and a potentially disputed presidential election — the Democrats running out of time to stop Republicans pushing her quick confirmation.Barrett has been batting away questions in long and lively exchanges, insisting she would bring no personal agenda to the court but
  
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• Robert Gehrke: The governor’s new coronavirus action took too long, now we have to hope it works

  14-10-2020 15:00
  
  Finally!After nearly five weeks of watching the coronavirus exploding across the state, Gov. Gary Herbert on Tuesday imposed some long-overdue safeguards, including limiting the size of gatherings and imposing mask requirements across nearly the entire state for the next two weeks, then an ongoing mandate in counties where the spread of the virus is most severe.This should have happened long ago, instead it took 32,000 Utahns becoming infected since our September surge began and more than 1,100
  
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• Letter: Utah should incentivize electric vehicle use

  14-10-2020 14:00
  
  I just received my vehicle registration renewal for my electric vehicle. What I encountered disappointed me. Utah’s Department of Transportation is making it more difficult to be an electric vehicle owner, rather than less difficult. This is crazy.I have been reading about the voluntary pay-per-mile program the DOT launched a year or two ago. I was not aware how ridiculous it was until I received my registration renewal notice this week. I was offered the choice of paying a $90 flat fee fo
  
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• Letter: The GOP made a devil’s bargain

  14-10-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Sen. Lee,I read your dire prediction of what a Democratic victory in November would spell for our country. I agree that you should be fearful, not for what the Democrats will do, but for what voters will do to hold your Republican Party accountable. The Grand Old Party has tossed aside many of its cherished principles, including fiscal and personal responsibility, to become a cult guided by a grifter.You and your colleagues made a devil’s bargain. This bargain allowed the party to rem
  
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• Letter: Integrity matters more than ever and Biden has it

  14-10-2020 14:00
  
  Our president represents America to the world. Temperament. Truth. Public persona and behavior. Rationality of thought, words, and action. And an ability to be a unifying force that values all people, all life. These things matter, now more than ever, when electing a president, or any representative official. Think Reagan. Think Kennedy.While you may or not agree with a president’s policies, how they represent America is important. It is not okay for any elected official, especially our pr
  
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• Letter: Appreciation for physician assistants

  14-10-2020 14:00
  
  Health care has an entirely different meaning this year. It is needless to say that this global pandemic has changed the lives of many, in countless ways. Those working on the frontlines risking their health and of their loved ones are the true MVPs. Every year from Oct. 6 to 12, National Physician Assistant week is celebrated to recognize the PA profession and its contributions to healthcare.The University of Utah Physician Assistant Program class 51 would like to express our utmost gratitude t
  
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• Rays beat Astros 5-2, move within 1 victory of World Series

  14-10-2020 06:59
  
  San Diego • Joey Wendle hit a go-ahead, two-run single two batters after another critical error by Jose Altuve, and the Tampa Bay Rays rallied for a 5-2 win against the Houston Astros on Tuesday night that moved them within one victory of the second World Series appearance in franchise history.Tampa Bay took a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven AL Championship Series at Petco Park. Towering righty Tyler Glasnow, who grew up just north of Los Angeles, will try to deliver the Rays their first penn
  
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• Latter-day Saint missionary from Utah serving in Switzerland dies in hiking accident

  14-10-2020 06:18
  
  A 20-year-old Latter-day Saint missionary from Utah serving in Switzerland died Tuesday after a hiking accident.Annabelle Nielsen, of Highland, was hiking with five other missionaries when she slipped and fell down a steep incline, said Daniel Woodruff, a spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Nielsen was assigned to the Alpine German-Speaking Mission and had been serving since July 2019.“We express our sincere condolences to her family and loved ones,” Woodruf
  
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• Latter-day Saint missionary serving in Switzerland dies in a hiking accident

  14-10-2020 05:55
  
  A 20-year-old Latter-day Saint missionary serving in Switzerland died Tuesday in a hiking accident.Annabelle Nielsen, of Highland, was hiking with five other missionaries when she slipped and fell down a steep incline, said Daniel Woodruff, a spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Nielsen was assigned to the Alpine German-Speaking Mission and had been serving since July 2019.“We express our sincere condolences to her family and loved ones,” Woodruff said. &ldqu
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: Oh, now you believe in norms

  14-10-2020 05:38
  
  Neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris has made a clear statement in favor of expanding the Supreme Court beyond its current size. But that hasn’t stopped conservatives and Republicans from denouncing — perhaps with a hint of fear — their as-yet unarticulated plan to do so.Amazingly, this particular argument against expanding the Supreme Court hinges on preserving the norms of American democracy. Having torched those norms in pursuit of a conservative judiciary, Republicans want t
  
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• Family members protest after 278 prisoners test positive for coronavirus at Utah prison

  14-10-2020 05:37
  
  Draper • Keenan Thompson has earned an Associates Degree in theology and become an ordained minister, while an inmate at the Utah State Prison.“He’s done what he needed to do to be rehabilitated," his wife, Beth Thompson, said.But Keenan also has an autoimmune disease and contracting the coronavirus — which has spread to hundreds of inmates at the Draper facility in recent weeks — could be a death sentence.“No matter the mistakes they have made on this Earth, o
  
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• Freeman, Albies homer again as Braves hold off Dodgers, take 2-0 NLCS lead

  14-10-2020 04:41
  
  Arlington, Texas • Freddie Freeman and Ozzie Albies homered again, rookie Ian Anderson extended his postseason scoreless streak in an abbreviated start and the Atlanta Braves just held on for an 8-7 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night and a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series.Freeman put the Braves ahead to stay with a two-run homer in the fourth off rookie Tony Gonsolin, who filled in after three-time NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw was
  
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• Supreme Court halts census in latest twist of 2020 count

  14-10-2020 04:04
  
  The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration can end census field operations early, in a blow to efforts to make sure minorities are properly counted in the crucial once-a-decade tally.The decision was not a total loss for plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the administration’s decision to end the count early. They managed to get nearly two extra weeks of counting people as the case made its way through the courts.However, the ruling increased the chances of the Trump
  
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• Two more Utah schools — Cottonwood High and Roy High — are moving online

  14-10-2020 03:42
  
  Two more Utah high schools will temporarily move online after COVID-19 outbreaks among students and staff.Cottonwood High and Roy High both reported having more than 15 positive cases Tuesday. In response, Granite School District and Weber School District, respectively, announced they would each follow recommendations from the Utah Department of Health to shut down for two weeks and shuffle students to remote learning.That begins with classes Wednesday at the high schools and goes through Oct. 2
  
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• Barrett bats away tough Democratic confirmation probing

  14-10-2020 03:34
  
  Washington • Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett batted away Democrats' skeptical questions Tuesday on abortion, health care and a possible disputed-election fight over transferring presidential power, insisting in a long and lively confirmation hearing she would bring no personal agenda to the court but decide cases “as they come.”The 48-year-old appellate court judge declared her conservative views with often colloquial language, but refused many specifics. She declin
  
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• Paul Krugman: Mitch McConnell’s mission of misery

  14-10-2020 03:29
  
  I keep seeing news reports saying that the Trump administration is “pivoting” on economic stimulus. But Donald Trump has been reversing positions so frequently that it looks less like a series of pivots than like a tailspin.Over the course of just a week he went from demanding big stimulus, to calling off negotiations, to demanding big stimulus again, to calling for a small-scale deal using already allocated funds.It would be funny if the human consequences weren’t so terrible.
  
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• What the state’s new COVID-19 strategy means for Utahns

  14-10-2020 02:31
  
  Utah’s leaders on Tuesday rolled out a new strategy for curbing the spread of COVID-19 across the state, announcing that county-level restrictions going forward will be tied to local data on how the virus is being transmitted.The system is replacing the color-coded guidelines that state officials have previously used as they’ve imposed economic restrictions across Utah. Under this new framework, most of the state will fall under a mask mandate as a “jump start” for at lea
  
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• Erin Mendenhall: Mayor Wilson is keeping Salt Lake County safe

  14-10-2020 01:28
  
  Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson’s decisive actions throughout the COVID-19 pandemic have saved countless lives and countless jobs. She is whom we need leading Salt Lake County as we recover and rebuild, and that’s why Wilson will have my vote when I return my ballot this week.When state leaders stood back and declined to take bold action to slow the spread of the virus this spring, Wilson stepped up. Listening to the advice of epidemiologists, monitoring the data, and heeding the
  
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• Utah’s criminal justice reform failed to reduce the number of people who reoffend

  14-10-2020 01:09
  
  When Utah lawmakers passed sweeping criminal justice reform in 2014, they had two main goals: Bring down the number of people sent to prison and help to ensure they don’t reoffend.Legislative auditors found Utah officials have done just one of those things. The number of people in prison — particularly low-level drug offenders — has gone down.But recidivism rates among those low-level drug offenders have increased since the Justice Reinvestment Initiative began, according to an
  
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• Utah Republicans ranked by who is ‘most loyal’ to Trump

  14-10-2020 01:06
  
  Rep. Chris Stewart takes a lot of flak from Democrats for being a loyal defender of President Donald Trump. But Stewart is not the most loyal to the president among Utah’s Republicans in Congress according to a new analysis. In fact, he doesn’t crack the top two.The “Trump Loyalty Index” created by Axios measures both voting loyalty to the president as well as how they reacted to seven of Trump’s more controversial political moments, including the infamous “Ac
  
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• Live coverage: Amy Coney Barrett bats away tough Democratic confirmation probing

  14-10-2020 01:01
  
  Washington • Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett batted away Democrats' skeptical questions Tuesday on abortion, health care and a possible disputed-election fight over transferring presidential power, insisting in a long and lively confirmation hearing she would bring no personal agenda to the court but decide cases “as they come.”The 48-year-old appellate court judge declared her conservative views with often colloquial language, but refused many specifics. She declin
  
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• Utah mobile home park operator to refund deposits, fees

  14-10-2020 01:00
  
  Denver • A Utah-based mobile home park operator reached a settlement agreement with the state of Colorado last week to repay Denver-area residents about $150,000 in wrongly withheld security deposits, arbitrary fees and improperly charged attorneys fees.Seven Colorado parks operated by Kingsley Management Corporation were identified in the settlement, which was prompted by resident complaints dating back to October 2016, The Colorado Sun reported.The parks include Lamplighter Village, Kimbe
  
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• Criminal justice reform in Utah has failed to reduce the number of people who reoffend

  14-10-2020 00:22
  
  When Utah lawmakers passed sweeping criminal justice reform in 2014, they had two main goals: Bring down the number of people sent to prison and when they leave help to ensure they don’t reoffend.Legislative auditors found Utah officials have done just one of those things. The number of people in prison — particularly low-level drug offenders — has gone down.But recidivism rates among those low-level drug offenders have increased since the Justice Reinvestment Initiative began,
  
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• Cottonwood High is moving online. Here’s a list of Utah schools that have had COVID-19 outbreaks.

  14-10-2020 00:20
  
  Another high school in Salt Lake County will temporarily move online after a COVID-19 outbreak among students and staff.Cottonwood High School in Murray reported having more than 15 positive cases Tuesday. In response, Granite School District announced it would follow recommendations from the Utah Department of Health to shut down for two weeks and shuffle students to remote learning.That begins with classes Wednesday and goes through Oct. 28.“At the end of the day, Granite District is com
  
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