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• ‘Utah Politics’ podcast: Evan McMullin on foreign election interference and QAnon

  23-10-2020 23:34 via sltrib.com
  
  On the Friday edition of the “Utah Politics” podcast, we’re joined by Evan McMullin.McMullin was a presidential candidate in 2016. He captured nearly 22% of the vote in Utah just four years ago. He is now the executive director of Stand Up Republic, a nonprofit dedicated to government reforms. He’s also a frequent guest on cable news programs discussing national security issues.McMullin joins host Bryan Schott to discuss the impact foreign interference might have on the 2
  
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• Jana Riess: Retired BYU professor denounces Donald Trump in viral video

  23-10-2020 23:33 via sltrib.com
  
  At 80 years old, Frank Fox says he’s not savvy about social media, but that hasn’t stopped the retired Brigham Young University history professor from using YouTube and Facebook to explain to his fellow Latter-day Saints why he’s voting against Donald Trump.“Listen up, Cougars,” Fox says at the beginning of his video, which has been shared on Facebook more than 6,000 times and viewed more than 450,000 times. “2020 is why you took American Heritage.” Amer
  
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• David Brooks: How Democrats won the war of ideas

  23-10-2020 23:31 via sltrib.com
  
  Over the last 100 years, Americans have engaged in a long debate about the role of markets and the welfare state. Republicans favored a limited government, fearing that a large nanny state would sap American dynamism and erode personal freedom. Democrats favored a larger state, arguing that giving people a basic economic security would enable them to take more risks and lead dignified lives.That debate ebbed and flowed over the years, but 2020 has turned out to be a pivotal year in the struggle,
  
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• Waterford cancels its boys and girls basketball seasons due to COVID-19 concerns

  23-10-2020 23:11 via sltrib.com
  
  The coronavirus has claimed the season of a high school winter sport before the season even started.Waterford School has canceled basketball for boys and girls due to the sport being held indoors, and environment where COVID-19 is known to spread more easily. The rising coronavirus case count in Utah was also a factor in the decision."Waterford School’s top priority is to safely remain open for on-campus learning, Waterford Head of School Andrew Menke said in a statement to The Salt Lake T
  
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• Holly Richardson: Why is asking for help so hard?

  23-10-2020 22:53 via sltrib.com
  
  “I do it myself!”If you’ve ever seen toddlers or preschoolers learning a new skill, like putting on a shirt or using a zipper or putting toothpaste on their toothbrush, you’ve undoubtedly seen them assert their desire to “do it themselves,” maybe even with a stomp of their little foot.So perhaps it’s understandable that as we become adults, we continue that streak of independence and internalize that desire to “do it” ourselves. Then, we laye
  
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• Future murkey for Utah Royals midfielder Vero Boquete

  23-10-2020 22:45 via sltrib.com
  
  The future of one of Utah Royals FC’s most dynamic players is now uncertain.Midfielder Vero Boquete, who joined the team in the 2019 season, is one of the Royals players out of contract. But she may not be back in Utah next season after an Instagram post raised questions about her roster status.“Thanks for every moment, every conversation, every practice, every game and so many lifetime memories,” Boquete wrote in the post earlier this week. “I gonna miss all of you, and
  
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• Donald Trump once got dunked on by the Utah Jazz Bear in Salt Lake City. Here’s the video

  23-10-2020 21:58
  
  FILE: The Bear throws basketballs to the crowd as the Utah Jazz scrimmages in Salt Lake City, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. | Ravell Call, Deseret NewsWith Election Day about 11⁄2 weeks away, Utah Jazz producer Jeremy Brunner shared an old video on Twitter Friday of the Utah Jazz Bear mascot literally slam dunking over Donald Trump.
  The dunk occurred during a Jazz NBA Finals home game, although it’s not clear if it was in 1997 or 1998. During a stop in play, Jazz longtime public address a
  
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• Richard Davis: Are Utahns really all that conservative?

  23-10-2020 21:53 via sltrib.com
  
  In his most recent news conference, Gov. Gary Herbert called Utah a “conservative state.” He used the term to explain why he does not favor stricter measures to combat COVID-19. Reporters did not seem to challenge his assertion.But is Utah really a conservative state? Are Utahns really conservatives? Granted, at one time Utah was considered one of the “reddest” states in the nation. Yet recent evidence suggests that may no longer be true.For example, a Gallup survey of Ut
  
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• Nearly $19 million has poured into Utah’s 4th District race between Ben McAdams and Burgess Owens

  23-10-2020 21:45 via sltrib.com
  
  Republican Burgess Owens raised more money than Rep. Ben McAdams, but McAdams has more left to spend for the stretch run, according to the final campaign finance disclosures ahead of the November election.Owens also outspent McAdams, D-Utah, by more than 2-1 in the first two weeks of October, in Utah’s 4th District contest, which handicappers say is a toss up going into Election Day.Owens reported raising $456,309 to McAdams' $314,058 from Oct. 1-14. But, McAdams has $410,850 remaining whi
  
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• Legendary RSL midfielder Kyle Beckerman now has a lesser role, but he’s still making a difference

  23-10-2020 21:42 via sltrib.com
  
  Kyle Beckerman is by far the longest tenured player in Major League Soccer. He’s playing his 21st season in a league that’s been around for 25. He’s seen it all, from the days of wacky penalty kicks to expansion to even more expansion. He’s played for only three teams, but been to the postseason 16 times.And through it all, Beckerman has been a starting lineup staple. Out of 534 total games, he has started in 498 of them. One would have to go back to the early 2000s to fi
  
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• Ayoola Ajayi will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing MacKenzie Lueck

  23-10-2020 21:30 via sltrib.com
  
  The man who admitted to killing the University of Utah student whose burned and bound body was found in a northern Utah canyon last year will spend the rest of his life in prison.Ayoola Ajayi, 32, pleaded guilty earlier this month to killing MacKenzie Lueck.The sentence, handed down by 3rd District Judge Vernice Trease on Friday, was agreed upon as part of a plea deal, where Ajayi pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and desecration of a human body.Lueck’s family on Friday tearfully remembe
  
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• Utah sets a new single-day record for COVID-19 cases, with 1,960

  23-10-2020 21:24 via sltrib.com
  
  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 saw another 1,960 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday — a new single-day record that also raised the seven-day average for new diagnoses to a new record for the fifth day in a row.“This is a record day for Utah — but n
  
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• Reports: NBA aiming to start next season in December

  23-10-2020 21:04
  
  The court floor and league logo are shown after Game 3 of the NBA basketball Western Conference final between the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Mark J. Terrill, Associated Press Over the past few weeks, the prevailing thought was that Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January would be the earliest the NBA could start next season.
  Now there is momentum for the season to start considerably earlier than that.
  ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarows
  
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• No. 12 BYU has never played Texas State, but Cougars know all about the Bobcats

  23-10-2020 20:59 via sltrib.com
  
  Provo • Texas State is only in its 10th year of FBS football and has never played BYU. But it turns out that the No. 12 Cougars know a little bit about about the Bobcats. And that could come in handy when the two teams meet Saturday at LaVell Edwards Stadium.BYU’s second-year offensive line coach, Eric Mateos, was Texas State’s offensive line coach from 2017-18, just before coming to Provo, and he is still familiar with a lot of the veteran Bobcat players. Mateos continues to ro
  
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• Say, can you see a new flag over Salt Lake City Hall?

  23-10-2020 20:42 via sltrib.com
  
  After over 650 submissions, the new Salt Lake City flag was hoisted over Salt Lake City Hall on Friday.“It’s up!” Mayor Erin Mendenhall declared in a tweet.The flag’s shapes, colors and arrangement came down to two finalists, 18-year-old Arianna Meinking, and 17-year-old Ella Kennedy-Yoon, whose original designs were rated by the public earlier this fall. Both their design elements were combined into a single flag by the Salt Lake City Flag Design Committee. The committee
  
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• Artists add 30 women to Salt Lake City mural, after criticism of who was originally included

  23-10-2020 20:41 via sltrib.com
  
  Artists added more faces to a mural in downtown Salt Lake City after criticism about how many Republican women were originally included in the piece.The "Utah Women 2020″ mural, featuring more than 250 women from Utah’s past and present, was unveiled in August on the east side of the Dinwoody Building at 37 W. 100 South.Scott Anderson, president and CEO of Zions Bank, asked Jann Haworth, a Salt Lake City artist known for co-designing the iconic album cover for The Beatles “Sgt.
  
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• Perla Cassayre Thulin: Vote like your democracy depends on it

  23-10-2020 20:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Traveling in Greece in 2016, I assured the man driving me that Americans would never elect Donald Trump as president. He turned to me and said, “In Europe, we have had this type of person as our leader before….”A braggart and violent bully with an unloving father, sent to and expelled from boarding school, a misogynist womanizer, he fled military service. While his armed paramilitary supporters violently intimidated citizens around the country who didn’t agree with him,
  
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• Ayoola Ajayi to be sentenced for killing University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck

  23-10-2020 19:16 via sltrib.com
  
  The man who admitted to killing the University of Utah student whose burned and bound body was found in a northern Utah canyon last year is expected to be sentenced Friday.Ayoola Ajayi, 32, pleaded guilty earlier this month to killing MacKenzie Lueck.It’s expected that he will be sent to prison without the possibility of parole, under the terms of a plea deal where Ajayi admitted to charges of aggravated murder and desecration of a human body.Defense attorney Neal Hamilton said at a hearin
  
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• Man charged with beating a woman to death with a rock in South Salt Lake

  23-10-2020 18:54 via sltrib.com
  
  A man has been charged with murder in the brutal killing of a woman who was beaten to death with a rock in South Salt Lake.Jovanie Alejandro Silva, 22, who is homeless, is facing a charge of aggravated murder, a first-degree felony, in 3rd District Court.On Sept. 28, the “nearly nude” body of 23-year-old Kaitlyn Barron was found next to a building near the corner of 300 West and Ironwood Drive, about 2600 South. According to South Salt Lake police, her head was “covered in bloo
  
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• Utah State’s biggest football test, at Boise State, is also its first one

  23-10-2020 18:48 via sltrib.com
  
  Even Jason Shelley, who has spent all of three months in Logan with the Utah State football team, has reverence for what hangs in the balance Saturday during the Aggies' season opener at Boise State.“We feel like it’s pretty much the whole Mountain West on the line,” the University of Utah transfer told The Salt Lake Tribune. “We feel like we have to go through them if we want to make it to the Mountain West Championship, and I’m pretty sure they might feel the same
  
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• UTA will launch new fare system on Dec. 1 — raising some, lowering others

  23-10-2020 18:45 via sltrib.com
  
  The Utah Transit Authority will launch a new fare structure on Dec. 1 — raising some prices and lowering others — after working all year to simplify a complicated patchwork of at least 74 levels of discounts, promotions and negotiated deals.The UTA Board adopted the changes this week that will keep its current base fare of $2.50 per ride, but it make several changes to discounts, passes and charges for premium and express services in what it calls a simplification of its fare structu
  
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• Romney again pressures Trump to sanction Russia over poisoning of opposition leader

  23-10-2020 18:38 via sltrib.com
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney is again joining a bipartisan group of senators to pressure the Trump administration to punish Russia for poisoning Alexei Navalny, an opposition leader to Russian President Vladimir Putin.“The U.S. cannot remain quiet as Russia attempts to silence opponents around the world,” Romney wrote along with five other senators this week to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.That comes a week after the United Kingdom and the European Union s
  
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• Schoolchildren seem unlikely to fuel coronavirus surges, scientists say

  23-10-2020 18:36 via sltrib.com
  
  Months into the school year, school reopenings across the United States remain a patchwork of plans: in-person, remote and hybrid; masked and not; socially distanced and not. But amid this jumble, one clear pattern is emerging.So far, schools do not seem to be stoking community transmission of the coronavirus, according to data emerging from random testing in the United States and Britain. Elementary schools especially seem to seed remarkably few infections.The evidence is far from conclusive, a
  
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• Utah State biggest football test, at Boise State, is also its first one

  23-10-2020 18:29 via sltrib.com
  
  Even Jason Shelley, who has spent all of three months in Logan with the Utah State football team, has reverence for what hangs in the balance Saturday during the Aggies' season opener at Boise State.“We feel like it’s pretty much the whole Mountain West on the line,” the University of Utah transfer told The Salt Lake Tribune. “We feel like we have to go through them if we want to make it to the Mountain West Championship, and I’m pretty sure they might feel the same
  
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• Commentary: National security leaders stand with Biden

  23-10-2020 17:00 via sltrib.com
  
  We are three of nearly 800 retired generals, admirals, ambassadors and other national security senior leaders who recently signed an Open Letter to America. We urge veterans and voters to support Joe Biden. We are troubled and concerned about what’s happening to the nation we love and have defended. The president has failed in his leadership, and it is time for a change.In all our years of military service, we have never heard any leader utter what came out of Donald Trump’s mouth &m
  
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• Utah governor said crowded hospitals ‘should cause us all alarm,’ as state breaks record for new cases

  23-10-2020 16:04 via sltrib.com
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert warned that as the state experiences record-high coronavirus hospitalizations and case counts continue to climb, the health care system is at or near capacity.“It should cause us all alarm,” Herbert said, warning that “our hospitals are starting to fill up."The Utah Department of Health reported 1,543 new coronavirus cases on Thursday and 301 patients concurrently admitted to hospitals. On average, 296 patients have been receiving treatment in Utah hospitals e
  
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• How many Utah mail-in ballots are being rejected, and why? Here’s the data.

  23-10-2020 15:54 via sltrib.com
  
  How often do mail-in ballots in Utah have something wrong with them? And when they do, what happens?Thanks to data from the Utah Lieutenant Governor’s Office, which runs the election in Utah, we know how many ballots have been sent to voters, and how many of those have been successfully processed so far. We also know about the flip side of the coin: when those ballots are rejected.In Utah’s database of about 1.1 million public registered voters, we have 7,653 examples of ballot failu
  
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• San Juan County copper mine on track to reopen after abrupt shutdown in March

  23-10-2020 15:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Utah’s second largest copper mine is set to reopen this fall after narrowly avoiding a systems breakdown that could have spilled sulfuric acid into the environment in March.The Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining (DOGM) revoked Lisbon Valley Mining Company’s permits and issued a full reclamation order in April when state regulators had to use bond money to assist with an emergency situation at the mine.Inspectors have been visiting the facility every week or two since the order &mda
  
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• Robert Kirby: Kanye is on your ballot. So, what would it be like putting God — or Yeezus — in the White House?

  23-10-2020 15:00 via sltrib.com
  
  When I voted last week, I noticed Kanye West’s name on the mail-in ballot.Despite all the negative campaigning in the ongoing presidential race, almost nothing has been said about the Grammy-winning rap superstar’s bid for the White House.The Utah ballot lists West as “unaffiliated,” but he’s on record as saying he’s running under the “Birthday Party” banner because if he wins, it will be just like everyone having a birthday party.Even though he&rs
  
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• Murray City votes to withdraw from nuclear power project

  23-10-2020 15:00 via sltrib.com
  
  The Murray City Council voted unanimously this week to back out of a first-of-its-kind nuclear power project that has the support of a number of Utah municipalities. It’s the fourth Utah city to exit the small modular nuclear reactor pursuit over the last few months amid pressure from opponents who have raised concerns about environmental and financial risks of the proposed 12-module plant, which would be located at Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls and produce a total 720 megawatts
  
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• Utah Legislature will use rapid COVID-19 testing for lawmakers

  23-10-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Utah lawmakers are already preparing to hold the 2021 session, which begins in January, in person, adding COVID-19 precautions.House and Senate leaders say they plan to implement daily, rapid testing for lawmakers and staffers physically in the chambers. The Utah Health Department will administer the tests. That’s in addition to adding plexiglass dividers between lawmakers' desks.“The chambers are like a fishbowl, so even with those dividers, there’s some concern,” Senate
  
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• These sweet potato pies — with a secret ingredient — are catching on in Utah

  23-10-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Sweet potato pie has always been a part of James Edwards’ life.When Edwards was growing up, he spent time baking with his grandmother, Magretta, in Maryland. They’d make her sweet potato pie together and sell the leftovers at church.“We were baking too much,” Edwards recalled. “We couldn’t eat them all.”The Utah transplant returned to his roots in 2017 when he launched James’ Gourmet Pies — which are sold in full and mini sizes at farmers mar
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: ‘Bad Hair’ travels from Sundance to Hulu

  23-10-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  “Bad Hair,” which made a bit of a splash at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, starts screaming … er, streaming on Hulu on Friday. And there are a lot of good things about this decidedly weird horror film.Director Justin Simien (“Dear White People”) weaves a funny, insightful, gross and disgusting tale of a murderous hair weave. Set in 1989 at an MTV-like cable network aimed at Black viewers, the story centers on Anna (Elle Lorraine), an unassertive, on-
  
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• Sarah Longoria: Art is being priced out of Salt Lake City

  23-10-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  As the director of a nonprofit ballet company, I tend to dream a lot. Sometimes I peruse commercial real estate listings, and imagine that our little company could have a permanent home.In the summer of last year, I noticed that a beautiful historic church, the 5th Ward meetinghouse, which was most recently a Buddhist temple, was for sale. On the ground level of the temple was a movement space, equipped with a dance floor and mirrors. Not only was it a beautiful old building, but it also was alr
  
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• David Amott: Historic preservation still matters, despite current chaos

  23-10-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  A recent Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency meeting highlighted the perilous condition of the 1892 brick Salt Lake City Mattress Factory located in Salt Lake’s Depot District at 535 W. 300 South.The discussion was illuminating, not just in terms of what the future of this one building might be but also because it raised larger questions about the relevance of historic preservation in the current moment.Why should historic preservation merit space on anyone’s radar in the here and no
  
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• Letter: Weston should be elected to Congress

  23-10-2020 13:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Kael Weston has been successful in the two most recent stages of his life, as a diplomat and a writer. The time he has spent in those roles has prepared him well for what he hopes is his next stage: Congress.Weston, a Democrat who is running for Congress in Utah’s 2nd District, spent seven consecutive years (2003-10) in hot spots in Iraq and Afghanistan for the State Department. His counterinsurgency efforts entailed making and preserving delicate relationships with Iraqi and Afghan citize
  
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• Letter: Support solar power

  23-10-2020 13:00 via sltrib.com
  
  A few years ago, like many others, my neighbors had solar panels installed. Their roof had the correct angle for optimal sun exposure along with no trees or houses blocking the sun from reaching the roof. As time has passed I have become increasingly interested in solar panels and the benefits and shortcomings of solar power.The proposal that Rocky Mountain Power has given of reducing the compensation by more than 80% seems counterintuitive to their vision of “an energy future that’s
  
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• 'Strong’ cold front coming to all of Utah through the weekend, but fires are still a threat

  23-10-2020 05:06 via sltrib.com
  
  Big changes are coming to Utah’s weather this weekend.The Salt Lake City bureau of the National Weather Service said Thursday that “a strong cold front” will come to the entirety of Utah from late Saturday into Monday, with temperatures coming in at 20 degrees lower than average.The weather service said widespread hard freezes are expected outside of lower elevations of southern Utah. Snow is possible above 6,000 feet of elevation, and there are chances of precipitation south o
  
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• Trump, Biden go after each other on coronavirus, taxes in final 2020 presidential debate

  23-10-2020 04:47 via sltrib.com
  
  Nashville, Tenn. • President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden offered sharply different visions of how to handle the surging pandemic and fought over how much Trump pays in taxes during their final debate of a tumultuous campaign.With Trump trailing and needing to change the campaign’s trajectory, the debate could prove pivotal though more than 46 million votes already have been cast and there are fewer undecided voters than at this point in previous election years. Th
  
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• Farhad Manjoo: How to break the hold of conspiracy theories

  23-10-2020 04:17 via sltrib.com
  
  Lately, I have been putting an embarrassing amount of thought into notions like jinxes and knocking on wood. The polls for Joe Biden look good, but in 2020, any hint of optimism feels dangerously naïve, and my brain has been working overtime in search of potential doom.I have become consumed with an alarming possibility: that neither the polls nor the actual outcome of the election really matter, because to a great many Americans, digital communication has already rendered empirical, observ
  
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• Watch Live: Trump, Biden go after each other on coronavirus, taxes

  23-10-2020 04:06 via sltrib.com
  
  Nashville, Tenn. • President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden offered sharply different visions of how to handle the surging pandemic and fought over how much Trump pays in taxes during their final debate of a tumultuous campaign.Final debates often play an outsized role in electoral outcomes but Thursday night’s showdown was different from those past, with more than 46 million votes already cast and fewer undecided voters remaining than at this point in previous elec
  
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• Watch Live: Trump, Biden go after each other on coronavirus

  23-10-2020 03:49 via sltrib.com
  
  Nashville, Tenn. • In their final debate, President Donald Trump and Democratic Joe Biden offered sharply different visions of how to handle the surging pandemic, with the incumbent declaring that the virus will go away and his challenger warning that the nation was heading toward “a dark winter.”The night in Nashville opened with a clash over the president’s handling of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 225,000 Americans and cost millions of jobs. Polling sugges
  
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• Letter: No ballot nicknames

  23-10-2020 03:30 via sltrib.com
  
  The incumbent Utah state auditor, John Dougall, has chosen to style himself “Frugal” on the ballot. This same moniker is used by Dougall as a campaign tool.The lieutenant governor has discretion as to how names appear on the ballot. He should exercise his judgment and ban such politically charged “nicknames.”Denise Chancellor, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Tim Wu: With the Google lawsuit, the long antitrust winter is over

  23-10-2020 03:15 via sltrib.com
  
  The true significance of the federal antitrust lawsuit filed against Google on Tuesday cannot be captured by any narrow debate about legal doctrine or what the case will mean for the company. This is a big case, filed during an important time, and it merits a commensurately broad understanding. The complaint marks the return of the U.S. government to a role that many of us long feared it had abandoned: disciplining the country’s largest and most powerful monopolies.President Theodore Roose
  
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• BYU men’s basketball focusing on competitiveness through practice

  23-10-2020 03:09 via sltrib.com
  
  Over the first week of practice, coach Mark Pope would notice players would arrive to practice early and take the time to get in extra shooting drills, the sound of multiple basketballs being dribbled and shot making its way into his office.Now, in their second week of two-a-day practices, the pre-practice dribbling has quieted down, but not because guys aren’t getting to the gym early. Instead, the athletes are squeezing in a much needed break before continuing with the second grueling wo
  
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• Watch Live: Trump, Biden face off in campaign’s final debate

  23-10-2020 03:08 via sltrib.com
  
  Nashville, Tenn. • President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden squared off Thursday night in their final debate, which stood as the trailing incumbent’s best chance to change the race’s trajectory with just 12 days until the election.The Nashville debate offered them a final national stage to outline starkly different visions for a country in the grips of a surging pandemic that has killed more than 225,000 Americans and cost millions of jobs. Despite historic tum
  
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• Watch Live: High stakes for Trump, Biden heading into final debate

  23-10-2020 02:52 via sltrib.com
  
  Nashville, Tenn. • President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden hurtled toward Thursday night’s final debate, which could be the trailing incumbent’s best chance to change the race’s trajectory with just 12 days left until the election.The Nashville debate offered their final national stage to outline starkly different visions for a country in the grips of a surging pandemic that has killed more than 225,000 Americans and cost millions of jobs. Despite histor
  
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• Man charged with treasure hunting in Yellowstone cemetery

  23-10-2020 02:22 via sltrib.com
  
  Casper, Wyo. • A Utah man faces felony charges resulting from alleged attempts to locate a famed treasure on the grounds of a cemetery in Yellowstone National Park.Rodrick Dow Craythorn, 52, of Syracuse, Utah, was accused of digging in Fort Yellowstone Army Cemetery in northeast Wyoming while searching for the Forrest Fenn treasure.Craythorn pleaded not guilty to charges of excavating or trafficking in archaeological resources and injury or depredation to U.S. property between October 1, 20
  
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• Kendall Stiles: There are ways to enforce COVID accountability

  23-10-2020 02:15 via sltrib.com
  
  During this COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen organizations and groups of all types and sizes behave in ways that have endangered lives. Most so-called superspreader events are the result of conscious decisions by people to ignore local and federal laws and guidelines and to disregard the risk that their actions will cause harm.Under tort law, it should be possible to hold them accountable and secure compensation. This is the normal way reckless behavior is restrained. For the most part, however,
  
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• High stakes for Trump, Biden heading into final debate

  23-10-2020 01:52 via sltrib.com
  
  Nashville, Tenn. • President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden hurtled toward Thursday night’s final debate, which may be the trailing incumbent’s best chance to change the race’s trajectory with just 12 days left until the election.The two men headed for Nashville before the debate, which offers their final national stage to outline starkly different visions for a country in the grips of a surging pandemic that has killed more than 225,000 Americans and cos
  
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