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• Religious identity and Supreme Court justices — a brief history

  20-10-2020 23:59
  
  Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation process has put focus not only on the would-be Supreme Court justice’s faith but the religious makeup of the court itself.If she is appointed, Barrett would be the second successive Catholic elevated to the U.S.'s highest court and the third Trump appointee to find favor with the religious right.As a scholar who has studied the intersection of faith and law, I know that religion has always played a strong role i
  
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• Kamala Harris joins Donovan Mitchell, other NBA stars for roundtable discussion

  20-10-2020 23:59
  
  Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell reacts after Mike Conley made a 3-point basket against the Denver Nuggets during the third quarter in Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP
  On Oct. 8, Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell and Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias Harris posted shots to their Instagram stories from Arizona — the same day the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris presidential campaign landed i
  
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• Donovan Mitchell joins NBA stars for roundtable discussion with Kamala Harris

  20-10-2020 23:59
  
  Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell reacts after Mike Conley made a 3-point basket against the Denver Nuggets during the third quarter in Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP
  SALT LAKE CITY — On Oct. 8, Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell and Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias Harris posted shots to their Instagram stories from Arizona — the same day the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris preside
  
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• Masked pope, faith leaders pray for peace and pandemic’s end

  20-10-2020 23:54
  
  Rome • A masked Pope Francis welcomed religious leaders to a socially-distanced interfaith peace prayer Tuesday, appealing for a unified international effort to work for peace and an end to the coronavirus pandemic.Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Sikh and Hindu leaders stood for a minute of silence to pray for all the victims of COVID-19 and a universally available vaccine, as the sun set on the piazza overlooking the Roman Forum.“The pandemic is reminding us that we are blood br
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Dog Bite

  20-10-2020 22:53
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:What Women WantKiller AsteroidSupreme SphinxThe Persecution GameCovidiotsThe Liars' ClubPandemic’s BoxA Royal PainBuild THIS Wall!White House UpdatesWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell among the NBA players to question vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris

  20-10-2020 22:34
  
  Utah Jazz All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell became one of the NBA’s prominent young voices on social issues during the league’s COVID-19-related hiatus and subsequent restart.His status in that arena took another step forward as he was selected to be one of three NBA players (along with the Blazers’ CJ McCollum and the Sixers’ Tobias Harris) to score a sit-down interview with Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.In the video, which was released Tuesday, the
  
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• Bret Stephens: The encroachment of the unsayable

  20-10-2020 22:23
  
  In January, in what now seems like a bygone age, writer George Packer delivered a memorable speech, “The Enemies of Writing,” for the honor of winning the Hitchens Prize. “Why is a career like that of Christopher Hitchens not only unlikely but almost unimaginable?” Packer asked. “Put another way: Why is the current atmosphere inhospitable to it? What are the enemies of writing today?”For a sense of what Packer meant, consider that in 2007 Hitchens wrote &mdash
  
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• Carly Ferrin: Adapting our schools to COVID realities

  20-10-2020 22:22
  
  As parents, students and school districts continue this school year to adjust to the ever-morphing presence of COVID-19 in Utah, we may consider this a rare opportunity to extend unique educational solutions to our children, and to examine the collective value of quality education for the whole state.Some of the ideas we could talk about:• When COVID-19 makes its presence known in a school population, rather than waiting for a full outbreak to occur, switch to online immediately, but send s
  
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• Indiana Pacers tab Raptors assistant Nate Bjorkgren as coach

  20-10-2020 21:49
  
  Indianapolis • The Indiana Pacers hired Nate Bjorkgren as their new coach Tuesday.Bjorkgren’s hiring ends a two-month search that began when the Pacers fired Nate McMillan on Aug. 26, just weeks after giving McMillan a contract extension. Terms of the deal were not immediately available.Bjorkgren joins the Pacers after spending the last two seasons on Nick Nurse’s staff in Toronto, where he helped the Raptors capture their first NBA championship in 2018-19. Bjorkgren was an assi
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 1,081 on Tuesday

  20-10-2020 21:34
  
  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 1,081 new coronavirus cases reported on Tuesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to rise to record-high levels.For the past week, the state has averaged 1,251 new positive test results a day, the highest average since t
  
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• Uintah High’s football season ends after outbreak of COVID-19 among players

  20-10-2020 21:01
  
  A second high school football program’s season has ended due to an outbreak of COVID-19 among its players.The Uintah Utes on Tuesday learned they will not compete in the upcoming 4A state championship tournament after the team “met the criteria for a COVID-19 outbreak,” Geoff Liesik, Uintah School District spokesperson, said in a statement. Three cases were confirmed within a 14-day period, which prompts an automatic quarantine.Liesik said Uintah players and coaches have been q
  
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• Paul Krugman: Why Biden will need to spend big

  20-10-2020 20:21
  
  What should Joe Biden’s economic policy be if he wins (and Democrats take the Senate, so that he can actually pass legislation)? I’m pretty sure I know what his economists think he should do, but I’m not equally sure that everyone on his political team fully gets it, and I’m worried that the news media will experience sticker shock — that is, they may not be ready for the price tag on what he should and probably will propose.So here’s what everyone should unde
  
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• Erik B. Olson: Geothermal could help make Utah’s climate compact a reality

  20-10-2020 20:21
  
  An “unprecedented” clean energy revolution is growing in Utah. On Oct. 7, bipartisan leaders from business, religion, citizen groups, and federal and state government signed on to the Utah Climate and Clean Air Compact.With their signatures, they called on state government to adopt the “mileposts” outlined in a nonpartisan plan to establish Utah as a conservative climate and environment leader and “achieve a resilient, clean, and affordable energy future.”But
  
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• Watch ‘Trib Talk’ live: Countdown to Election Day

  20-10-2020 20:01
  
  The 2020 election season is heating up, and there are only a few weeks left until Nov. 3. From the presidential race, to whether Republicans can maintain control of the U.S. Senate, to Utah’s tight 4th Congressional District race, there’s a whole lot to talk about. And some of you have already turned in your mail-in ballots.On the next episode of “Trib Talk,” join political correspondent Bryan Schott for a discussion about this exciting election season with The Tribune&rs
  
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• Utah senator says people should ‘stay home’ if they don’t want police dogs to bite them

  20-10-2020 20:00
  
  State lawmakers are looking at codifying best practices for police dog teams after a Salt Lake City audit uncovered a pattern of abuse in the way its law enforcement agency has been using canines to catch suspects.A legislative committee voted unanimously Tuesday to explore a bill on the issue, although one state senator made clear he has little patience for complaints about police dogs.“I don’t have a lot of sympathy,” Sen. Don Ipson told his colleagues on the law enforcement
  
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• Rudy Gobert for the No. 1 pick? Bill Simmons, Zach Lowe discuss Utah Jazz trade ideas

  20-10-2020 19:51
  
  Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert, right, defends against Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic during the third quarter of Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via APUtah Jazz front office leaders Dennis Lindsey and Justin Zanik said after the team’s season concluded that they have great interest this offseason in signing franchise cornerstones Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell to contract extensions.
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• Gordon Monson: Could Utah have two starters at quarterback?

  20-10-2020 19:43
  
  Utah is still searching for its starting quarterback, or so it has beensaid. There have been three names in the pot, but Kyle Whittingham saidone will soon be tossed away — maybe it already has been — leaving justthe pair of finalists, although he also is unwilling to name names.Bets are on Jake Bentley, a graduate transfer from South Carolina, and maybe Cameron Rising, a sophomore transfer from Texas.Bentley is experienced, having started 33 games in the SEC. Rising is agreenhorn wh
  
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• Utah lawmakers continue to debate governor’s emergency powers as coronavirus wears on

  20-10-2020 19:15
  
  As they continue to face pressure from constituents who want them to end the COVID-19 state of emergency, Utah’s lawmakers met again Tuesday to discuss ways to rein in the executive branch’s powers but indicated there’s still a lack of consensus on how to move forward.Sen. Jake Anderegg, R-Lehi, said he and other lawmakers are working to find compromise on the issue among the House and Senate as well as the governor’s office and state and local health departments. But wit
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 14 new COVID-19 cases and 1 more death

  20-10-2020 18:51
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials are confirming 14 new cases of COVID-19 and one additional death.The figures released Monday night bring the total number of cases to 10,969 with the known death toll now at 574.Tribal health officials said 116,676 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 7,396 have recovered.A shelter-in-place order, mask mandate, daily curfews and weekend
  
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• AP finds most arrested in protests aren’t leftist radicals

  20-10-2020 18:45
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump portrays the hundreds of people arrested nationwide in protests against racial injustice as violent urban left-wing radicals. But an Associated Press review of thousands of pages of court documents tell a different story.Very few of those charged appear to be affiliated with highly organized extremist groups, and many are young suburban adults from the very neighborhoods Trump vows to protect from the violence in his reelection push to win support from th
  
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• Justice Department files landmark antitrust case against Google

  20-10-2020 18:34
  
  Washington • The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Google for antitrust violations, alleging that it abused its dominance in online search and advertising to stifle competition and harm consumers.The lawsuit marks the government’s most significant act to protect competition since its groundbreaking case against Microsoft more than 20 years ago. It could be an opening salvo ahead of other major government antitrust actions, given ongoing investigations of major tech companies includin
  
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• Utah’s rivals for governor release ads urging people to respect the outcome of the presidential race

  20-10-2020 16:19
  
  In the topsy-turvy political environment of 2020, this is a notable development. Spencer Cox and Chris Peterson, the Republican and Democratic nominees for Utah governor, are promising to respect the outcome of the presidential race.Cox and Peterson released a triad of public service announcements Tuesday urging Utah to be “an example for the rest of the nation” and not let partisanship overwhelm our politics.It says a lot about the polarized nature of our politics when rivals callin
  
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• Students, parents on Navajo Nation criticize San Juan School District for pulling back on virtual classes

  20-10-2020 16:04
  
  Bluff • For Nadia Armajo, a 15-year-old from the Navajo Nation community of Tselakai Dezza in southern San Juan County, the first semester of 10th grade hasn’t been easy.Armajo enrolled in the school district’s virtual learning option in August along with 171 fellow students at Blanding’s San Juan High School because she didn’t feel safe returning to in-person classes in the county with the highest coronavirus mortality rate in Utah. The past several months have cons
  
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• Police release name of suspect killed by officers during Tooele hostage situation

  20-10-2020 16:04
  
  Officers responding to a protective order violation in Tooele on Saturday evening shot and killed a man after he initiated a hostage situation and pulled a gun, police said Sunday.The suspect was later identified as Tutuila “Ben” Pine Koonwaiyou, 27, of Tooele.Lt. Jeremy Hansen of the Tooele Police Department said patrol officers were dispatched to a Cafe Rio restaurant near 1200 North and Main Street in Tooele about 9 p.m. Saturday for a protective order violation. After they locate
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Countdown to Election Day

  20-10-2020 15:16
  
  The 2020 election season is heating up, and there are only a few weeks left until Nov. 3. From the presidential race, to whether Republicans can maintain control of the U.S. Senate, to Utah’s tight 4th Congressional District race, there’s a whole lot to talk about. And some of you have already turned in your mail-in ballots.On the next episode of “Trib Talk,” join political correspondent Bryan Schott for a discussion about this exciting election season with The Tribune&rs
  
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• Committee supports effort to make it easier to drop derogatory Native American names from Utah places

  20-10-2020 14:34
  
  A legislative committee gave its stamp of approval Monday to a draft bill that seeks to streamline the federal process for changing geographic names in Utah that contain language derogatory to American Indians.The legislation would allow the state’s Division of Indian Affairs to work with the Utah Committee on Geographic Names to create an application template facilitating the process for Native American tribes or other community members to petition the United States Board on Geographic Na
  
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• Robert Kirby: Vote — for all the good it will do

  20-10-2020 14:00
  
  I voted last week. My ballot came in the mail. My grandson put it on my desk, where I tried to ignore it. After 48 hours, revulsion got the better of me, and I did my civic duty.The deed is done, and I feel none the better for it. No, I’m not telling you for whom I voted. Shouldn’t be that hard to figure out on your own.My voting in presidential elections has been spotty, and acrimonious. I wasn’t old enough to vote in 1968, when Richard Nixon beat Hubert Humphrey. I was alread
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Utah constitutional amendments — Five decent ideas and two really bad ones

  20-10-2020 13:50
  
  Utah is still enough of a democracy that the voters have to approve any proposed changes to the Utah Constitution. The Legislature is not empowered to do so on its own. And, in the case of two of the constitutional amendments that are on this year’s general election ballot, that’s a good thing indeed.There are seven proposed changes to Utah’s basic charter of government at the end of the ballots that most of us have received in the mail. Five of them are basically housekeeping
  
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• Letter: Evaluating Cox’s performance

  20-10-2020 13:30
  
  Lieutenant governors: We don’t hear much about them. What do they do, anyway? The one thing we know Utah’s lieutenant governor had on his honey-do list was to lead the coronavirus response. Now that the early shutdown is long over, the governor’s office seems to be just waiting for its term to end, while cases keep piling up, hospitals are filling up, and more than 500 constituents have gone belly up.Spencer Cox has had one job that’s visible to the public: to lead us thr
  
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• Letter: No to Amendment E

  20-10-2020 13:00
  
  Amendment E, one of the seven constitutional amendments on your ballot, has not received much publicity, but it’s important. It creates a state constitutional right to hunt and fish for Utah residents, and establishes hunting and fishing as the preferred way to manage wildlife. There are two problems with this amendment. The first is that the amendment does not address any of the other outdoor activities Utahns enjoy, such as hiking, camping or enjoying the scenery, for example. Singling o
  
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• Trump attacks polls, press and Dr. Anthony Fauci

  20-10-2020 06:13
  
  Tucson, Ariz. • An angry President Donald Trump came out swinging Monday against Dr. Anthony Fauci, the press and polls that show him trailing Democrat Joe Biden in key battleground states in a disjointed closing message two weeks out from Election Day.On the third day of a western campaign swing, Trump was facing intense pressure to turn around his campaign, hoping for the type of last-minute surge that gave him a come-from-behind victory four years ago. But his inconsistent message, anoth
  
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• Rep. Chris Stewart defends Trump’s record and his own as Democrat Kael Weston calls for voting both out

  20-10-2020 05:16
  
  Rep. Chris Stewart’s Democratic rival tried to equate a vote for the incumbent with a vote for President Donald Trump, as the congressional candidates sparred Monday in the only scheduled debate of the 2nd District race.During the lively one-hour event hosted by the Utah Debate Commission, Democrat Kael Weston recalled that the Republican congressman once likened Trump to former Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini — then transformed into a stalwart supporter of the president.&l
  
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• Charles M. Blow: Democrats dare to believe

  20-10-2020 05:00
  
  Democrats across the country are beginning to believe.They are daring to believe that the national nightmare could be coming to an end, that Donald Trump will not only not be reelected, but that Democrats could also flip the Senate.But, this is a hope, a possibility, that they are refusing to give voice to.They are still stung by the shock of 2016. They believed the polls that said Hillary Clinton would win. Their faith in all polling remains shaken.They tell themselves, “Take nothing for
  
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• Letter: Shed light on abuse at teen treatment centers

  20-10-2020 04:00
  
  As Kat Von D and Paris Hilton open up about the abuse that they suffered at Provo Canyon School, I feel it is important that our community speaks up as well. I am active in the recovery community in Salt Lake City, and I have heard multiple people tell gruesome stories of the time they spent in Provo Canyon School. These individuals were children with some minor behavioral issues. They left Provo Canyon School worse than when they went in, eventually turning to substance use and attempted suicid
  
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• Legislative committee gives early approval to bill streamlining name changes to places with derogatory Native American monikers

  20-10-2020 03:55
  
  A legislative committee gave its stamp of approval Monday to a draft bill that seeks to streamline the federal process for changing geographic names in Utah that contain language derogatory to American Indians.The legislation would allow the state’s Division of Indian Affairs to work with the Utah Committee on Geographic Names to create an application template facilitating the process for Native American tribes or other community members to petition the United States Board on Geographic Na
  
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• Utah State QB Jason Shelley, a Utes transfer, already connecting with his new teammates

  20-10-2020 03:49
  
  Meeting new teammates during a pandemic poses a few challenges. Team get-togethers are out of the question, and Zoom meetings don’t exactly lend themselves to chitchat.So Utah State University quarterback Jason Shelley took a micro approach. Upon his arrival in Logan in July, the University of Utah transfer started singling out Aggies players to connect with one by one.“It just started like, you know, every day I’m trying to meet somebody new. Every day I’m trying to say
  
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• As virus flares globally, new strategies target hot spots

  20-10-2020 03:49
  
  New York • After entire nations were shut down during the first surge of the coronavirus earlier this year, some countries and U.S. states are trying more targeted measures as cases rise again around the world, especially in Europe and the Americas.New York’s new round of virus shutdowns zeroes in on individual neighborhoods, closing schools and businesses in hot spots measuring just a couple of square miles.Spanish officials limited travel to and from some parts of Madrid before rest
  
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• Trump attacks polls, press and Dr. Fauci

  20-10-2020 03:18
  
  Tucson, Ariz. • An angry President Donald Trump came out swinging Monday against Dr. Anthony Fauci, the press and polls that show him trailing Democrat Joe Biden in key battleground states in a disjointed closing message two weeks out from Election Day.On the third day of a western campaign swing, Trump was facing intense pressure to turn around his campaign, hoping for the type of last-minute surge that gave him a come-from-behind victory four years ago. But his inconsistent message, anoth
  
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• Ernie Atencio: The complexity of color in the environmental movement

  20-10-2020 03:03
  
  This summer was a time of reckoning about race in every sector of American life, and many of us are scrambling to respond in appropriate ways — including the environmental movement I’m a part of.We would like to forget, but the environmental movement has racist roots. One of the founders of the National Park Service was Madison Grant, whose eugenicist views inspired Hitler, and the conservation heroes, John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, both routinely disparaged Native Americans.Tryin
  
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• Rep. Chris Stewart, Kael Weston and Libertarian Robert Latham to meet in only debate of the 2nd District race

  20-10-2020 02:57
  
  Rep. Chris Stewart and the two political hopefuls who are trying to unseat him are facing each other Monday night for the first and only debate of the 2nd Congressional District race.Democrat Kael Weston and Libertarian J. Robert Latham are campaigning to depose Stewart, a Republican who has served in Congress since 2013. The Utah Debate Commission is hosting the event, scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.Recent polling in the race shows that Stewart has a healthy lead over his rivals, with about 48% of
  
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• Watch live: Rep. Chris Stewart, Kael Weston and Libertarian Robert Latham to meet in only debate of the 2nd District race

  20-10-2020 02:01
  
  Rep. Chris Stewart and the two political hopefuls who are trying to unseat him are facing each other Monday night for the first and only debate of the 2nd Congressional District race.Democrat Kael Weston and Libertarian J. Robert Latham are campaigning to depose Stewart, a Republican who has served in Congress since 2013. The Utah Debate Commission is hosting the event, scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.Recent polling in the race shows that Stewart has a healthy lead over his rivals, with about 48% of
  
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• Letter: Utah public colleges send their thanks

  20-10-2020 02:00
  
  To our Utah community,Our colleges and universities have a close-knit connection with all those who share this great state. So often, the challenges we face are localized to our campus communities. But this pandemic has reinforced our awareness that our impact as students, faculty and staff reaches far beyond our campuses, into our homes, neighborhoods and broader society.We share your concern about the spread of COVID-19 both on and off campus. We remain in close contact with state, local and f
  
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• Rep. Chris Stewart, Kael Weston and Libertarian Robert Lathem to meet in only debate of the 2nd District race

  20-10-2020 01:35
  
  Rep. Chris Stewart and the two political hopefuls who are trying to unseat him are facing each other Monday night for the first and only debate of the 2nd Congressional District race.Democrat Kael Weston and Libertarian J. Robert Latham are campaigning to depose Stewart, a Republican who has served in Congress since 2013. The Utah Debate Commission is hosting the event, scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.Recent polling in the race shows that Stewart has a healthy lead over his rivals, with about 48% of
  
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• Fraternity members accused of vandalizing Hogle Zoo’s Halloween exhibit

  20-10-2020 01:24
  
  A fraternity’s Saturday night visit to Utah’s Hogle Zoo turned to vandalism and an alleged threat with a knife, zoo officials said.According to a description posted Monday morning on the zoo’s Facebook page, members of the University of Utah’s Sigma Chi fraternity bought 150 tickets to the zoo’s BooLights event — a socially distanced Halloween-themed display of colored lights. The buyers took every available spot for that particular time slot.In the parking lo
  
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• Utah’s ballot count is underway and there are signs that turnout this election will be big

  20-10-2020 01:21
  
  It’s still early but signs are this could turn out to be a record election for voting in Utah.State Elections Director Justin Lee said although he doesn’t have a direct comparison of the current ballot count compared to the same point in previous elections, what he is seeing is promising.“Everything the county clerks are telling us," Lee said, “is that they’re receiving more ballots than they’ve ever seen before this early.”Utah has sent out 1,654,815 ba
  
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• Fremont football won’t compete in state tournament after multiple players contract COVID-19

  20-10-2020 00:58
  
  A high school football program won’t get to compete in the state championship tournament due to a COVID-19 outbreak within the team.Multiple players on the Fremont High School football team were confirmed Monday to have tested positive for the coronavirus, per the Weber School District. A two-week quarantine started for the team last Wednesday, which was the last known date of exposure.The quarantine means the Silverwolves will have to forfeit the playoff game Friday against Copper Hills H
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: What Women Want

  20-10-2020 00:25
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Killer AsteroidSupreme SphinxThe Persecution GameCovidiotsThe Liars' ClubPandemic’s BoxA Royal PainBuild THIS Wall!White House UpdatesSpikes and OutbreaksWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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