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• NBA, players again delay key 2020-21 season plans, but here are the details they’re discussing

  30-10-2020 23:54
  
  Friday was supposed to mark the end of the delays between the NBA and the players' association, to at long last provide some clarity on the status of the 2020-21 Collective Bargaining Agreement.Instead, what Friday actually brought was … another mutual delay, the fourth one agreed to this year.And so, the waiting continues.Which isn’t to say that we’re in a complete information vacuum. Some of the basketball world’s foremost insiders have been dropping little hints and t
  
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• Ben McAdams, Burgess Owens, outside groups unleash a barrage of ads

  30-10-2020 23:35
  
  Every time you turn on the TV, it seems it’s wall-to-wall ads about the race in Utah’s 4th District. You’re not hallucinating. Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams and Republican Burgess Owens, along with outside groups, have run a gargantuan number of ads over the last week.These ads can be an indication of how the candidates think the race is going in one of the most watched House districts in the country.According to figures provided by Advertising Analytics, McAdams, Owens, and outs
  
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• Utah men’s hoops out of Crossover Classic, nonconference schedule in flux

  30-10-2020 23:19
  
  The University of Utah men’s basketball team, nearing the completion of its non-conference schedule, is now changing its plans.The Utes have removed themselves from the South Dakota-based Crossover Classic, multiple sources confirmed to The Salt Lake Tribune Friday afternoon. Citing Utah’s concerns over South Dakota’s rising case rate, CBS Sports was first to report the Utes exiting the event. According to covidactnow.org, South Dakota’s 112.8 daily new cases per 100,000
  
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• Utah prison locked down as inmates test positive, including in ‘medically vulnerable’ area

  30-10-2020 23:13
  
  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.The Utah State Prison is on “code-red lockdown” after officials say the Draper facility may be experiencing a second coronavirus outbreak.Prison officials said Friday that an inmate in the Oquirrh 5 unit has tested positive f
  
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• Jim Bradley and Patrick Fleming: Put ‘investment’ into Justice Reinvestment Initiative

  30-10-2020 22:19
  
  A commentary published last week in The Salt Lake Tribune advocated for Utah’s return to the ill-advised “war on drugs” approach to low-level crime which wasted a fortune in incarceration costs and ruined countless lives. The commentary by U.S. Attorney John W. Huber attacked Utah’s innovative Justice Reinvestment Initiative and made dubious claims supported neither by data nor research.JRI was passed by the Utah Legislature in 2014 with a phased implementation beginning
  
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• Holly Richardson: The peaceful transition of power begins in our homes

  30-10-2020 22:19
  
  On Tuesday, this year’s election cycle will be blessedly over. Some results we will know right away and some may be weeks away. Whether your candidate wins or loses, whether your candidate commits to a peaceful transition of power, one thing is clear: that peaceful transition begins at home.What are we modeling for our children? For our friends and neighbors? Are we protesting outside the home of a doctor doing her job? Do we feel justified in joining an armed and self-styled militia? Are
  
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• NASA’s asteroid mission packs away its cargo. Next stop: Earth.

  30-10-2020 21:16
  
  A NASA spacecraft 200 million miles away from Earth has packed up a sample of an asteroid it collected last week.That chased away concerns that it had traveled for years across the solar system but lost much of the scientific payload it had gone to collect. The mission’s managers are now beginning preparations to head back to Earth.“I am confident, and this team is confident, that we still have hundreds of grams of sample that we plan to bring back to the Earth,” Dante Lauretta
  
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• Style points will again be critical for BYU when No. 11 Cougars play Western Kentucky

  30-10-2020 20:16
  
  Provo • Once again, No. 11 BYU will enter this week’s game as the heavy favorite — this time against Western Kentucky at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Saturday night. So once again, the Cougars will need to impress as they go about their business.Even as the Cougars try not to look ahead and only focus on the game at hand, another dominating performance will only help BYU as it continues to push for NY6 bowl spot, and even stay in the chase for the College Football Playoff.BYU has w
  
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• A daily record: 2,292 new cases of COVID-19 in Utah on Friday

  30-10-2020 20:15
  
  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 set a new daily record for COVID-19 cases Friday, with another 2,292 Utahns infected by the coronavirus, the Utah Department of Health reported.The state also passed another grim milestone, with three new deaths from COVID-19 report
  
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• ‘Utah Politics’ podcast: 2020 Election preview

  30-10-2020 20:02
  
  Election Day 2020 is nearly here. We’re joined by Glen Mills, senior political correspondent for ABC4 and host of “Inside Utah Politics” to discuss how the voting in Utah might go, and what races to keep an eye on.Utah’s 4th Congressional District contest between Rep. Ben McAdams and Burgess Owens.What impact will President Donald Trump have in Utah?The Utah legislative races to pay attention to.What Utah’s large early vote turnout means.Are there really “shy&
  
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• The Tribune’s 2020 Pac-12 football preview: Oregon, USC look like teams to beat, but don’t count out Utah

  30-10-2020 19:25
  
  MVPKedon Slovis, USCIf this were a normal, non-pandemic environment, Slovis, a true sophomore quarterback, would have entered this season with some Heisman Trophy hype.As it stands, the Scottsdale, Ariz. native is going to have to settle for being the Pac-12′s most-hyped signal caller. Slovis took over as USC’s starter midway through the 2019 opener, and proceeded to throw for 3,502 yards, 30 touchdowns and nine interceptions, while completing 71.9% of his passes.The Trojans went jus
  
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• Utes could contend for a Pac-12 South title, but a bunch of things will need to go right

  30-10-2020 18:42
  
  There have been a small handful of times since the University of Utah football team began fall camp earlier this month that Kyle Whittingham has talked about ... time.More specifically, the 16th-year head coach has referenced the lack of it that he has right now.Twenty-nine days from the start of camp to the Nov. 7 season opener vs. Arizona (2 p.m., ESPNU) isn’t a lot of time to figure out who the starting quarterback is, nor is it a lot of time to figure out who replaces Zack Moss in the
  
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• Utah Royals announce roster decisions for 2021 season

  30-10-2020 18:25
  
  Utah Royals FC’s roster stands at 23 after the club announced Friday which players it was bringing back and hopes to bring back for 2021.The Royals picked up contract options for 10 players, including Tziarra King, Kate Del Fava and Elizabeth Ball, all of whom are young pieces who showed out in the coronavirus pandemic version of 2020. Mallory Weber, Lo’eau LaBonta, Taylor Lytle, Katie Bowen, Taylor Leach, Gunny Jónsdóttir and Nicole Barnhart will also return next seaso
  
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• The Road Home named as new operator for homeless resource center in Salt Lake City

  30-10-2020 17:59
  
  Shelter the Homeless, the nonprofit that owns the Salt Lake City area’s three new homeless resource centers, announced Friday that The Road Home will take over operations of its 200 bed men’s and women’s shelter next month.The move comes after Catholic Community Services, the previous operator, said earlier this year that it would not renew its contract to run the Gail Miller Resource Center in Salt Lake City over concerns about the financial cost of operating it.Michelle Flynn
  
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• Commentary: Shame on Lee for exploiting our shared faith for political gain

  30-10-2020 17:13
  
  Wednesday, Utah Sen. Mike Lee stood next to Donald Trump at a rally at the Phoenix Goodyear Airport in Arizona, and like an agitated carnival barker, bellowed out his appeals to the various attendees:“To my Catholic friends ... think about Amy Coney Barrett and think about The Little Sisters of Nepal. To my Protestant and Evangelical friends, we have to remember that it is by the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that we have had four years of prosperity and peace. And to my Mormon
  
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• Police investigating Holly Courtier, the Zion hiker who was missing for 12 days

  30-10-2020 16:24
  
  The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the California woman who disappeared in Zion National Park for 12 days — and has raised the possibility of fraud.Holly Courtier, 38, disappeared Oct. 6 after she was dropped off by a private shuttle bus at the Grotto park area and did not return. She was found by park rangers Oct. 18 after they were alerted by a park visitor. According to family members, Courtier hit her head and was disoriented, surviving on very little food an
  
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• Megan Rawlins Woods: Shame on Lee for exploiting our shared faith for political gain

  30-10-2020 14:15
  
  Wednesday, Utah Sen. Mike Lee stood next to Donald Trump at a rally at the Phoenix Goodyear Airport in Arizona, and like an agitated carnival barker, bellowed out his appeals to the various attendees:“To my Catholic friends ... think about Amy Coney Barrett and think about The Little Sisters of Nepal. To my Protestant and Evangelical friends, we have to remember that it is by the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that we have had four years of prosperity and peace. And to my Mormon
  
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• Is the coronavirus killing Utah’s coffee culture?

  30-10-2020 14:15
  
  Erica O’Brien wanted a business that was inspiring, one that created community and human connection around food and one that served good coffee, tea and pastries.In October 2010, that idea ultimately became The Rose Establishment.On what would have been the Salt Lake City shop’s 10th anniversary, though, the doors at 235 S. 400 West were closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.The shop had originally shuttered in March — along with every other food business. It reopened
  
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• Marina Gomberg: This moment calls for grit, but sorry, we feel fresh out

  30-10-2020 14:14
  
  I’ve never been a fan of running unless it was toward or away from something else, so after the competitive summer soccer tournaments ended and before my junior year of high school, I just took it easy. I think I tanned near a pool a lot.I regretted my lack of training, though, when school tryouts started, particularly on the seventh lap around the track during the timed distance run on day two. My lungs were hot and my legs scoffed at my brain’s orders for graceful speed.Yet, I don&
  
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• Robert Kirby: It’s still all the news you can take

  30-10-2020 14:00
  
  Times have changed. To figure out what was going on in the world more than a hundred years ago took real effort. And a real newspaper. By this I mean one made out of paper.A guy needed to get out of bed, shave, get dressed, eat breakfast, drink coffee, put on his coat, kiss the wife and head down to the local streetcar stop. After all that, he was still just as clueless as he was before he woke up.Things changed upon arrival at the streetcar stop. These were the haunts of newsies, kids hawking t
  
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• The 15 most ‘flippable’ Utah legislative seats in this year’s election

  30-10-2020 13:00
  
  Even if there’s a “blue wave” nationally next week, there’s almost no chance that Democrats will break the Republican hammerlock on control of the Utah State Legislature. Democrats would need a net pickup of 10 seats in the House and four in the Senate to break the GOP supermajorities, which is not likely. But there are several seats, mostly in the House, that both parties are targeting on Election Day.For this breakdown, I spoke to several Republican and Democratic campa
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: ‘The Simpsons’ go after Trump — again

  30-10-2020 13:00
  
  I think we can safely say that the writers and producers of “The Simpsons” aren’t Trump voters. And not just because, in the opening moments of Sunday’s episode (7 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13), there’s a Trump-Putin lawn sign in front of one Springfield home.That’s quickly followed by a poll worker telling a voter, “I’m gonna need to see three forms of ID. Twelve if you’re a Democrat” — as “election supervisor” Roger Stone cackle
  
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• Salt Lake County Democratic candidates far ahead in campaign fundraising

  30-10-2020 13:00
  
  While much of the public attention this election is fixed on high profile races for the White House, Congress and the governor’s mansion, local candidates for Salt Lake County office are campaigning hard and raising and spending cash — and lots of it.Campaigns for Salt Lake County mayor and County Council have brought in $1 million and $305,000 respectively, at last count.In every one of these county races, Democrats are dramatically outraising Republicans. While two of the races inv
  
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• Salt Lake City wants to replace run-down water park with something new

  30-10-2020 13:00
  
  The pools leak, the slides need resurfacing, the snack bar caught fire and the entire park has been stripped of its wiring.Salt Lake City’s old Raging Waters has bottomed out since its glory days, when it was touted as one of the first wave pools in the world and its waterslides enticed long lines of families on hot summer afternoons. Also formerly known as the Wild Wave and Seven Peaks, the 17-acre, 40-year-old Glendale water park is likely beyond repair.City staff want the public to weig
  
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• Is the virus killing Utah’s coffee culture?

  30-10-2020 13:00
  
  Erica O’Brien wanted a business that was inspiring, one that created community and human connection around food and one that served good coffee, tea and pastries.In October 2010, that idea ultimately became The Rose Establishment.On what would have been the Salt Lake City shop’s 10th anniversary, though, the doors at 235 S. 400 West were closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.The shop had originally shuttered in March — along with every other food business. It reopened
  
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• First woman of color to lead Real Women Run wants statehouse to better represent Utah

  30-10-2020 13:00
  
  Yándary Chatwin can count on one hand how many women of color currently serve in the Utah Legislature, and "that’s something that definitely needs to change,” she said.Chatwin, who was born in El Salvador, grew up in Riverdale and didn’t see many people who looked like her in elected office. But she knows, she said, how important that can be.As the first woman of color to serve as chair of Real Women Run, YWCA Utah’s training program designed to help women run for
  
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• ‘Drinkers’ remain the majority on Utah liquor commission; and DABC to extend store hours

  30-10-2020 13:00
  
  Juliette Tennert , the chief economist at the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, is the newest member of the state liquor commission.Gov. Gary Herbert selected Tennert for the seven-member board that oversees liquor sales and licensing for the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. A state Senate committee confirmed her Wednesday, and approval by the full Senate is a foregone conclusion.Tennert’s experience as as a policy analyst is expected to help steer t
  
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• Letter: Sad to see you go

  30-10-2020 12:00
  
  Your “vanishing culture” of providing a daily printed newspaper will end my decades long affiliation with The Salt Lake Tribune.The best part of waking up was The Tribune with my Folgers. Sad to see you go.Rand Marcus, MillcreekSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Geothermal energy comes with risks

  30-10-2020 12:00
  
  Erik Olson of the Breakthrough Institute posted a glowing editorial about how “clean” geothermal energy could help Utah’s climate. Well, maybe. Like all energy sources, geothermal energy has problems that require careful consideration.The Puna Geothermal Venture project on the Big Island of Hawai’i is a case in point. PGV has produced power by drilling deep “source” wells, with “reinfection” wells for spent geothermal brine. It is a “closed l
  
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• Letter: We bridge players thank The Tribune

  30-10-2020 06:31
  
  On behalf of all your many bridge-playing readers who, for many years, enjoyed the bridge column published in the daily paper, we want to give you a great big thank you.Although the many bridge readers are a miniscule number compared to the number of your subscribers and loyal fans, we thank you for your sensitivity when you took to heart our petition and plea to reinstate the column now written by Phillip Alder (an excellent columnist and teacher).We are among the thousands who have subscribed
  
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• An Election Day role for National Guard? Maybe, but limited.

  30-10-2020 05:48
  
  Washington • Federal laws and long-standing custom generally leave the U.S. military out of the election process. But President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated warnings about widespread voting irregularities have raised questions about a possible military role.If any element of the military were to get involved, it would likely be the National Guard under state control. These citizen soldiers could help state or local law enforcement with any major election-related violence. But the Gu
  
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• Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence tests positive for COVID-19

  30-10-2020 05:37
  
  Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence has tested positive for COVID-19, putting into doubt whether the face of college football will be available to play the top-ranked Tigers' biggest game of the season.Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said in a statement released by the school Thursday night that Lawrence is in isolation with mild symptoms.Swinney said Lawrence would miss Clemson’s game Saturday against Boston College. The Tigers are scheduled to play No. 4 Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, on
  
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• Gail Collins: Take this Trump quiz before it’s too late

  30-10-2020 05:00
  
  Happy Almost Election Day! I know it’s been a tough road, people, but you’ve been doing a great job. And since your vote is basically all about how you regard the last four years of Trumpdom, here’s a quick quiz. Let’s see how much you remember about the guy you may be allowed to start forgetting very soon.1. While campaigning, Donald Trump announced that he could be "more presidential than any president ever, except for the possible exception of …A) “That on
  
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• Farhad Manjoo: There is only one existential threat. Let’s talk about it.

  30-10-2020 05:00
  
  If you’re a supporter of that radical extremist group Keep America Habitable for Human Beings, you might have been encouraged by the 2020 presidential race.In 2016, climate change — the scientific fact of the Earth’s encroaching uninhabitability — was mostly ignored, including in the debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. This year, the changing climate and what to do about it got airtime in both presidential debates and the vice-presidential debate. Climate ch
  
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• Letter: Trump sets a destructive example

  30-10-2020 04:30
  
  The second presidential debate was marked by yet another torrent of lies from Donald Trump. This is not new, and we are all largely numbed to it.One of his lies reveals much about who he is, however. Trump claimed that less than 1% of asylum seekers showed up for their hearings when we let them into the country. In actuality, over 92% of the asylum seekers appeared for their hearings in fiscal years 2013-17. Trump’s lie is almost exactly the opposite of the facts.It is sad that we have a p
  
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• Ann Florence: Trump personifies what goodness is not

  30-10-2020 04:05
  
  Perhaps it took four years staring into the face of evil to force us to define what goodness is.Donald Trump personifies what goodness is not. Goodness is not calling countries cesspools, not hurling epithets at those who disagree, not sleeping with a porn star while your wife recovers from childbirth, not telling thousands of lies, not claiming to be our savior because everyone else, regardless of education or experience, is an idiot.Should we even use the words good and evil in discussing poli
  
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• New Utah Jazz owners will ‘blow it up to epic proportions,’ says their good friend BYU coach Mark Pope

  30-10-2020 03:32
  
  In this April 10, 2019 file photo, BYU introduces Mark Pope as its new men’s basketball head coach at a press conference at the BYU Broadcast Building in Provo. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News BYU basketball coach Mark Pope and new Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith are neighbors in Utah County and have been close friends the past decade or so. Like a lot of Utah Jazz fans, BYU basketball coach Mark Pope was a bit surprised when Gail Miller announced Wednesday that she was selling the NBA franc
  
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• Governor calls for action but state strategy is unchanged as Utah sees 1,837 new COVID-19 cases, 10 more deaths

  30-10-2020 03:20
  
  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 Utah reporting 1,837 new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations reaching a new record high Thursday, Gov. Gary Herbert declared that “the time for talk is over — it’s time for action.”But that action isn&rsqu
  
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• Kent Dean: Utah, the Republican Party, and Trump: A call for decency and reason

  30-10-2020 03:04
  
  Utah is certainly a Republican state. The last time Utah voted to elect a Democrat for president was 1964. Yet, President Trump has relatively modest support from Utahns considering Utah is a Republican stronghold.Although Trump won the state of Utah in the 2016 election, the margin of victory pales in comparison to the margin of Republican victories of past presidential elections. A recent survey finds Trump and Biden in a statistical tie for the 2020 presidential election.Trump’s persona
  
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• Letter: Salt Lake City Library must be reimagined

  30-10-2020 02:30
  
  Our teenage library downtown is suffering a premature death spiral. Technological advances have stifled traffic in libraries in ways unimaginable, but there is more to the story in Salt Lake. The decay of the City Library is not due to split spines and bad bindings; the award-winning structure is stunning. It is a sad commentary that most friends of mine have never once been inside this incredible building. Simply put, the library has been lost in the consciousness of Salt Lake.Judging the book
  
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• Governor calls for action but state strategy is unchanged as Utah sees 1,837 new COVID-19 cases, ten more deaths

  30-10-2020 02:24
  
  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 Utah reporting 1,837 new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations reaching a new record high Thursday, Gov. Gary Herbert declared that “the time for talk is over — it’s time for action.”But that action isn&rsqu
  
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• Kristine Hansen: Latter-day Saints should vote against racism

  30-10-2020 02:04
  
  Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints don’t tell members how to vote, but it seems to me, they are certainly telling them how not to vote.In the October 2020 General Conference, President Russell M. Nelson taught, “Your standing before God is not determined by the color of your skin,” adding, “I grieve that our Black brothers and sisters the world over are enduring the pains of racism and prejudice. Today I call upon our members everywhere to lead out
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Captain Lunacy

  30-10-2020 01:53
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Zombie LogicElection RunVery Good BrainTrain WreckThe Case FOR TrumpPride PopeDog BiteWhat Women WantKiller AsteroidSupreme SphinxWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• BYU’s Mark Pope hopeful of finding safest way forward, and WCC thinks that could be in a bubble

  30-10-2020 01:49
  
  Playing sports during the pandemic has proved to be difficult. Just on Tuesday, as the Los Angeles Dodgers were winning the World Series, it was shown how easily the virus can penetrate teams.Due to an inconclusive test and delays, it wasn’t known that third baseman Justin Turner tested positive until he had already played an almost complete game — and that was after he and the team had spent the last three weeks in a bubble-type environment.Clearly, bubbles can be popped. But bubble
  
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• Char Valentiner: Trump counts on the Big Lie to get reelected

  30-10-2020 01:03
  
  As he described coming upon a Nazi street rally in 1930′s Germany, my college sociology professor captured every ear in the classroom.Reed Bradford, an LDS missionary at the time, recognized Adolf Hitler at the center of the scene. Having read his book, “Mein Kampf,” he knew he was hearing in real time the “big lie,” the notorious Nazi propaganda technique of creating confusion by stating a falsehood as if it were obviously true, then repeating it again and again ov
  
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• NBA pushing for season start before Christmas Day without fans, players pushing back

  30-10-2020 00:00
  
  NBA commissioner Adam Silver announces that the 2023 NBA All-Star game will be held at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Wednesday was quite the day in the NBA, and it’s not just because Gail Miller announced the sale of the Utah Jazz to Ryan Smith.
  Over the last 48 hours there has been a steady trickle of news about discussions between the NBA league office, the board of governors and the Nationa
  
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• Addison Graham: This election is another ‘Mormon moment’

  30-10-2020 00:00
  
  Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential bid was often referred to as “the Mormon moment.” That meant different things for different people. But Romney is not merely a reflection of Mormon culture. His approach is also an outgrowth of Mormon history.In looking back, we see that Romney’s lifelong struggle to stand firmly on one side of an issue is not unique to him in the story of our faith. Hopefully, our past can guide us forward.Joseph Smith, not Mitt Romney, was the first Mormo
  
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