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• Tribune Editorial: Time to vote

  17-10-2020 23:00
  
  Now is the time for Utah to show the nation how it’s done.Democracy, that is. (Sorry, Sen. Lee.)There is absolutely no reason why Utah voters should not be about to lead the nation in voter participation, a key sign of a healthy democracy.Unlike some other states, where those in power (Republicans) are pulling various tricks to suppress the number of other people (Democrats) who can vote this year, Utahns of both parties and at all levels are all-in on getting everyone to vote by mail.It i
  
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• Brodi Ashton: The connection between my bangs and politics. Really.

  17-10-2020 23:00
  
  It’s voting season.The other day I was talking to someone from my past. Not my way, way, way past, but my recent past. We reminisced about the past we shared together, and then we laughed about the pasts each of us had on our own.It came up because my mom had sent me a copy of an old article from my junior high newspaper, the Churchill Chimes. The front page had a column on the school’s latest election (no mail-in ballots) and featured a picture of five cheerleaders, one of whom was
  
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• Letter: Get real, Sen. Lee

  17-10-2020 22:30
  
  Sen. Lee, I’m sending an open letter this time because whenever I write to you directly, your staff responds instantly with a boilerplate ramble that makes it absolutely clear that you have no interest in my input.Your dishonesty and greed disgust me. How can any Republican claim that the courts are not a partisan branch of government? If they’re not, why did Sen. Mitch McConnell sit on 90 Obama judicial nominations for over three years? Why is the Senate leadership reversing its own
  
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• Gordon Monson: As Pac-12 Bad Boys, nobody laughs at Utah football, not anymore

  17-10-2020 21:52
  
  It was one of the better things ever to happen for sports in Utah, ranking right up there at least within shouting distance of the arrival and thriving and community appeal of the Utah Jazz and the successful execution of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.The memory of it, framed in red-and-white balloons, is etched into anyone’s brain who happened to be on hand.The Utah Utes' invitation to join what was to become the Pac-12.It happened in a large suite atop the West stands at Ric
  
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• Coronavirus hospitalizations break another record in Utah as case spike wears on

  17-10-2020 21:41
  
  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’s sustained spike in coronavirus cases continued on Saturday, as health officials reported that hospitalizations from the virus had again rise to record heights, with 298 patients receiving active care.The previous high was re
  
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• Analysis: Here’s why the Utah Jazz giving more years to Mike Conley could make sense

  17-10-2020 21:30
  
  It’s not exactly a secret that Mike Conley’s first season with the Utah Jazz was not a smooth one, and that his struggles to acclimate — in combination with his large salary — left many fans questioning the team’s decision to acquire him the first place.That same contingent of critics has been holding onto the slight hope that the veteran point guard will incomprehensibly exercise his early termination option in his contract and thereby forego the $34.5 million sala
  
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• Newly-formed biker group aims to raise awareness of domestic violence after two friends died of abuse

  17-10-2020 21:03
  
  A group of nearly 30 bikers wearing leather jackets and purple bandannas rode into Liberty Park on Saturday morning, revving their engines and parking their gleaming motorcycles in a patch of sunlight on the southeast side of the park.Heads turned as they pulled in, but the group wasn’t there to show off their rides.Instead, the newly-formed Bikers Against Domestic Violence group drove from Farmington to Salt Lake City on Saturday to stake purple flags into the ground representing survivor
  
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• BYU in review: Thrilling win over Houston showed the No. 14 Cougars also have some mettle

  17-10-2020 21:00
  
  Before the game even started at Houston, BYU had already taken some hits. Star defensive linemen Khyiris Tonga didn’t travel with the team due to a non-COVID-related illness and defensive lineman Lorenzo Fauatea suffered a season-ending injury earlier in the week.During the game, linebacker Kavika Fonua, center James Empey and wide receiver Gunner Romney all got injured and left early. But even with added adversity, the Cougars were able to adjust to come back from an early deficit to beat
  
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• Police say Idaho woman bit Weber County Sheriff deputy during arrest

  17-10-2020 20:37
  
  Ogden • A Twin Falls, Idaho, woman is behind bars after a traffic stop turned violent.Amanda Yarbrough, 40, was charged Wednesday in 2nd District Court with third-degree felony assault by a prisoner and misdemeanor assault on a police officer.The incident occurred Tuesday after a Weber County Sheriff’s Office deputy saw a car run a stop sign and pulled it over, the Standard-Examiner of Ogden, Utah, reported.A probable cause statement said Yarbrough was making furtive movements in
  
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• George Pyle: Would you rather be comatose Lee or raging Romney?

  17-10-2020 20:32
  
  A gloomy question for a gloomy time.Imagine that you are suffering from a serious, likely fatal, disease.Would you rather be in a coma, natural or induced, and be blissfully unaware of your dire situation, spared any emotional or physical pain, until you either recovered or peacefully slipped away?Or would you rather remain awake, fully conscious, given every chance to look fate in the eye, say goodbye, tell your family and your doctors what you think should be done, even if it’s hopeless,
  
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• ABC’s ‘The Conners’ is tackling the pandemic head-on

  17-10-2020 20:00
  
  With television production ramping up again during the COVID-19 pandemic, some of TV’s popular series will return to distract viewers from the harsh reality of 2020 life.“The Conners” won’t be one of them. Oh, the show is returning on Wednesday (8 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4) with its third-season premiere. But the sitcom won’t be avoiding the pandemic — it will be jumping right into the middle of it.Patriarch Dan Conner (John Goodman) and his family — including Jac
  
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• Analysis: Here’s why the Utah Jazz extending Mike Conley could make sense

  17-10-2020 19:29
  
  It’s not exactly a secret that Mike Conley’s first season with the Utah Jazz was not a smooth one, and that his struggles to acclimate — in combination with his large salary — left many fans questioning the team’s decision to acquire him the first place.That same contingent of critics has been holding onto the slight hope that the veteran point guard will incomprehensibly exercise his early termination option in his contract and thereby forego the $34.5 million sala
  
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• For the Navajo Nation, ‘everything takes time,’ including voting

  17-10-2020 19:10
  
  Dennehotso, Ariz. • Turn off the two-lane highway that runs across the Navajo Nation, just a few miles south of the Utah border, and the pavement yields instantly to the desert.Drive slowly down an unmarked road, rocking side to side over the sandstone, and you will find the land where Darlene Yazzie’s family has lived for more than a century. It is quiet here, the late-summer sun beating down on a wooden pergola, a cat asleep against a tire in the shade of Yazzie’s car. When sh
  
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• Utah’s football program is entering its 10th year in the Pac-12. The Utes have proved a good fit.

  17-10-2020 18:00
  
  Things began moving quickly for the Pac-10 in June 2010.After being on the job all of 14 months after resigning as chairman and CEO of the Women’s Tennis Association, league commissioner Larry Scott was authorized to issue invitations to Colorado, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech in the hopes of forming a 16-team “superconference.”It took Colorado less than a week to accept. The biggest domino of the bunch, Texas, famously declined, so the other fou
  
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• U.S. resorts adapt to new normal of skiing amid pandemic

  17-10-2020 17:41
  
  Denver • Helmet, goggles, skis? Check. Hand sanitizer, face covering, reservation? Check.Roughly seven months after the coronavirus cut the ski season short at the height of spring break, resorts across the United States and Canada are slowly picking up the pieces and figuring out how to safely reopen this winter. While many of the details are still being worked out, resort leaders are asking guests to curb their expectations and to embrace a new normal while skiing and snowboarding amid a
  
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• NBA Bar Races: Who has the best stats in playoffs history?

  17-10-2020 17:02
  
  Who has combined for the most points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks in NBA playoffs history?
  Well, we’re just going to tell you the gap between No. 1 and No. 2 is bigger than the one between No. 2 and No. 12.
  
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• Dirty dialing in the contest for Utah governor and other election races

  17-10-2020 15:00
  
  The following story was written by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune.For someone being cold-called by a stranger for a “scientific survey,” the man was glad to talk about the upcoming election.He thoughtfully weighed his responses about his pick for governor in the four-way Utah Republican primary on June 30. After about half a dozen typical questions, the survey reader swallowed and grimaced, then plunged ahead with a different kind
  
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• Utah’s coronavirus scoreboard tells the story of an insufficient health response, but a recovering economy

  17-10-2020 14:00
  
  "Finally,” Andy exclaimed. "A way to make the pandemic just like sports!”OK, I never said that. But I’ll admit I got a little nostalgic when state leaders revealed the Unified Response Scoreboard last month, the official way they will track the battle against the pandemic. A scoreboard? That’s what I used to do in the good ol' days before March 11, as a beat writer covering the Utah Jazz (which I still do).But, well, real life is more complicated than sports. And as much
  
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• Flourish Bakery — a culinary training and rehab program — finds a new home in Midvale

  17-10-2020 14:00
  
  Midvale • The kitchen boasts 3,200 square feet of cooking space. There’s a giant oven, commercial mixers, walk-in refrigerators and a long butcher block table for making pumpkin bread, bacon chipotle caramel corn and rosemary lemon sables.But that’s not the best thing about Flourish Bakery’s new home in Midvale, said Executive Director Aimee Altizer. “It will allows us to hire new interns and continue to grow.”That’s something the nonprofit bakery —
  
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• Letter: Who does Lee’s ‘liberty’ apply to?

  17-10-2020 13:45
  
  I wonder if Sen. Mike Lee’s definition of “liberty” in his statement that “Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prosperity are. We want the human condition to flourish” includes the liberty of gay people to marry the person they love and flourish in a family of affection where they enjoy all the civil rights afforded to all other married people?Jerry Borrowman, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Salt Lake City’s flag redesign could have been better

  17-10-2020 13:31
  
  Recently, Salt Lake City Council gave the city flag a major upgrade. The new design consists of a simple, blue-and-white bicolor, with a sego lily in the canton. After following the flag redesign contest for the past several months, to which I even contributed my own submission, I could not be more pleased with the end result.Or perhaps I could be. The design Salt Lake adopted is not one of the 10 finalists in the contest, but a composite of two of them. Both original designs make creative, bold
  
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• Letter: Skordas for attorney general

  17-10-2020 13:00
  
  As you make your plans to vote in this election, please keep in mind the contest between Greg Skordas and Sean Reyes for Utah attorney general. Reyes is supporting President Donald Trump in bringing a lawsuit before the Supreme Court to abolish the Affordable Care Act on Nov, 10. Millions of Americans are helped by the ACA, and there is nothing to replace it. Please vote for Greg Skordas for Utah attorney general.James King, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• No. 14 BYU overcomes deficit with big fourth quarter, tops Houston 43-26

  17-10-2020 09:17
  
  In some serious trouble after two horrendous quarters, the BYU Cougars faced more adversity Friday than they had all season but continued scratching and clawing.And the cat fight paid off — No. 14 BYU scored 22 unanswered points in the fourth quarter, beating Houston 43-26 at TDECU Stadium.BYU improves to 5-0 on the season for the first time since 2008, and for only the sixth time in program history.It was also the first win of the season against what most would argue is a quality opponent
  
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• Gordon Monson: At last, BYU gets legitimacy in victory

  17-10-2020 07:58
  
  It was that famous football expert, coach Elvis Presley, who said: “Truthis like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin'away.”Well. Five games into BYU’s football season, the sun creased through gathered-and-then-suddenly-departed clouds to shine on the Cougars, its truth arriving with all the tension and trouble and then glory of an early lead, a botched lead, a deep deficit, and then a stirring comeback on Friday in Texas.That’s how and where B
  
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• Dodgers avoid elimination with 7-3 win over Braves in NLCS Game 5

  17-10-2020 07:40
  
  Arlington, Texas • Dodgers catcher Will Smith hit a go-ahead, three-run homer off the Atlanta reliever with the same name, Corey Seager homered twice and Los Angeles avoided elimination with a 7-3 win over the Braves in Game 5 of the NL Championship Series on Friday night.Smith connected in the sixth against — of all people — Will Smith, the fourth of six Braves pitchers in their bullpen night that started with a couple of postseason firsts by A.J. Minter.“For him to come
  
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• No. 14 BYU rallies past Houston for 43-26 victory

  17-10-2020 07:34
  
  With their backs against the wall, the BYU Cougars found themselves facing the most adversity of the season. No. 14 BYU found itself in some serious trouble after two horrendous quarters, but continued scratching and clawing.And the cat fight paid off — BYU scored 22 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to mount a second-half comeback, beating Houston 43-26 Friday at TDECU Stadium.At first, it seemed BYU’s biggest problems were from Houston’s offense, which seemed to toss as
  
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• Letter: Don’t go maskless

  17-10-2020 06:28
  
  How is your freedom to go maskless and spray coronavirus into the air that me and other high-risk people have to breathe any different from someone else’s right to blow secondhand smoke into the restaurant where you’re sitting with your 2-month-old baby? Or someone else’s right to drive drunk?Isn’t that about their personal freedom? No, it’s about protecting people they put at risk — just as wearing a mask is meant to do. Masks don’t protect the wearer m
  
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• Astros top Rays 7-4, force ALCS Game 7

  17-10-2020 06:02
  
  San Diego • The blowback from a sign-stealing scandal three years ago and a losing record during the pandemic-shortened regular season don’t mean a thing to Dusty Baker and the Houston Astros.Like them or loathe them, the Astros are on the cusp of a third World Series in four seasons and joining the 2004 Boston Red Sox as the only teams to rally from a 3-0 deficit to win a seven-game series.George Springer and Jose Altuve delivered big hits, Framber Valdez pitched six brilliant inning
  
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• Pregnant woman killed in West Valley City car crash. Her newborn is in the hospital.

  17-10-2020 05:42
  
  A 29-year-old woman is dead and her newborn child was in critical condition after a car crash in West Valley City on Thursday night.According to West Valley police, Shelby Boyce, who was about eight months pregnant, was a passenger in a Mitsubishi Lancer traveling west on 3500 South. As the car proceeded through the intersection with Bangerter Highway at about 7 p.m., a Subaru Forester heading south crashed into it.Police believe the driver of the Subaru ran a red light. The accident remains und
  
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• Letter: Return to the Party of Reagan

  17-10-2020 04:27
  
  As a teenager, I visited the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library with my family. I remember this clearly because we were in California to enjoy the beach, yet my dad insisted we carve out a few hours to pay our respects to his favorite modern president.Today, unlike my father, I no longer identify as a Republican. However, the political principles my parents instilled in me like the importance of the nuclear family, self-reliance, limited government, free trade, personal freedom and a God-fearing
  
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• David Brooks: How to actually make America great

  17-10-2020 04:11
  
  This pivotal moment isn’t the result of four years of Donald Trump. It’s the culmination of 50 years of social decay.“The Upswing,” a remarkable new book by Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett, puts this situation in stark relief. A careful work of social science, the book looks at American life from about 1870 to today across a range of sectors that are usually analyzed in separate academic silos.The first important finding is that between the 1870s and the late
  
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• Paul Krugman: How the GOP can still wreck America

  17-10-2020 03:10
  
  After 2016, nobody will or should take anything for granted, but at this point Joe Biden is strongly favored to beat Donald Trump, quite possibly by a landslide. However, Trump’s party may still be in a position to inflict enormous damage on America and the world over the next few years.For one thing, while Democrats are also favored to take control of the Senate, the odds aren’t nearly as high as they are in the presidential race. Why? Because the Senate, which gives the average vot
  
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• Letter: Boosting education funding will boost the economy

  17-10-2020 02:30
  
  The proverbial well of government aid has run dry, leaving families in financial drought, scanning the skies for signs of an outpouring of new jobs and federal stipends. When the coronavirus disrupted America and its economy, numerous workers were laid off or furloughed, creating more competition for what few jobs remained.At first, the government granted its residents like you and me access to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act in order to support ourselves. Now, that suppor
  
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• Ed Firmage, pacifist Utah law prof who persuaded LDS Church to oppose MX missiles, dies at 85

  17-10-2020 02:25
  
  At the height of the Cold War in the late 1970s, when the United States and Russia were amassing their nuclear arsenals, Congress and the military were pressuring top officials in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to endorse deploying MX missiles in Utah’s West Desert.Though a large national and regional coalition of peacemakers was protesting the move, one man was able to get the Utah-based faith to oppose it — Ed Firmage.Firmage, who died in Salt Lake City on Oct. 3 a
  
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• Holly Richardson: The lessons of the Salem witch trials

  17-10-2020 02:09
  
  On this weekend before Halloween, I am in Salem, Mass., visiting the town where an entire community got caught up in fear, anger, accusation, disinformation and paranoia. The hysteria resulted in the arrest of hundreds and the executions of 20 people and two dogs accused of witchcraft. One of those hanged as a witch was my ninth-great-grandmother, Susannah North Martin.The Salem witch trials had much more to do with politics than they did with potions and spells. The 200-something people who wer
  
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• A young Jazz fan finds some big shoes to fill

  17-10-2020 01:39
  
  Brysen Robinson, 10, holds up one of Utah Jazz forward Jarrell Brantley’s shoes after he and his father Josh Robinson cleaned out Brantley’s locker at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. Seventeen lucky Jazz fans were selected to raid the players’ lockers and keep whatever was inside. Fans found shoes, warmup gear, game-worn items and other treasures during the event. | Steve Griffin, Deseret NewsBrysen Robinson, 10, holds up one of Utah Jazz fo
  
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• University of Utah Hospital overcapacity as the ‘unsustainable’ coronavirus outbreak continues

  17-10-2020 01:23
  
  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 shattered its previous record for coronavirus hospitalizations Friday and one of the state’s largest hospitals said it was forced to set up extra beds because the intensive care unit was full.University of Utah Hospital was br
  
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• 1st District candidate Blake Moore tests positive for COVID-19

  17-10-2020 00:51
  
  Ogden • The Republican House candidate for northern Utah’s 1st congressional district tested positive on Oct. 7 for the coronavirus.Blake Moore and Darren Parry, a Democrat, will face off in the Nov. 3 election in the Republican-leaning district. The seat opened when the incumbent U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, a Republican, announced he would not seek reelection after nine terms.Moore, a principal at a Salt Lake City management consulting firm, is making his first bid for public office, the S
  
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• U.S. awards $1.4 billion to help build small nuclear reactors in Idaho

  17-10-2020 00:47
  
  Boise, Idaho • The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday awarded a Utah energy cooperative about $1.4 billion to help build a dozen small nuclear reactors in eastern Idaho.The money spread over 10 years will pay for one-time costs Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems has in developing and building the commercial reactors.Officials said the money will lower the cost of energy produced by the reactors, making it competitive in the marketplace and reducing the financial risk for the energy co
  
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• BYU women’s basketball team opens practice, has lofty goals for upcoming season

  17-10-2020 00:32
  
  Provo • Paisley Harding isn’t sure she’ll get a perm again — her hair is already curly and the dry Utah air made it frizzy — but she does know what she wants out of the upcoming BYU women’s basketball season: to win the conference, win the West Coast Conference Tournament, get a fifth or sixth seed to the NCAA Tournament and Make it to at least the Elite Eight.No biggie.The senior guard, who married BYU men’s basketball player Connor Harding over the offs
  
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• Utah’s ‘unsustainable’ coronavirus outbreak continues as state sets new hospitalization record

  17-10-2020 00:26
  
  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 1,496 new coronavirus cases reported Friday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to rise to unprecedented levels. And the number of patients hospitalized shattered previous records. Gov. Gary Herbert responded to the alarmi
  
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• Jenny Wilson: Staggs' COVID strategy is too dangerous for Salt Lake County

  17-10-2020 00:09
  
  The scope and complexity of the challenge presented to our community and the Salt Lake County Health Department when COVID-19 arrived here was unimaginable. Nonetheless, my team continues to deliver results and we are committed, prepared, and skilled in addressing the challenges presented by this worldwide pandemic.That’s why the opinion piece published this week by my opponent, Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs, the Republican nominee for county mayor, demands a response.It is dangerous, misgui
  
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• Utah has 7 amendments on the ballot. Here’s a rundown.

  17-10-2020 00:03
  
  This election Utahns will vote on seven different constitutional amendments, a large enough list to potentially confuse voters, experts say.The amendments range from education funding to slavery and vary in how straightforward they are.Adam Dynes, a Brigham Young University political science professor, said voters generally are not well informed on ballot issues and rely on shortcuts in deciding which ones to vote for and against.But Dynes hasn’t seen many of those shortcuts this election,
  
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• Republicans cry foul over misleading campaign mailers from Democrats

  17-10-2020 00:02
  
  Is guilt by association enough to flip some legislative seats held by vulnerable Republican incumbents in November? Utah Democrats seem to think so, and they’re playing hardball.The Utah Democratic Party sent out mailers hammering several vulnerable Republican legislative incumbents over the failed tax reform effort, even though many of them voted against the bill.The mailers play a cute rhetorical trick. Instead of attacking the lawmakers for supporting the tax reform effort, they say the
  
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