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• Letter: End of daily print Tribune will leave a void

  31-10-2020 23:07
  
  Dear Salt Lake Tribune daily print edition,Your eventual absence from my life will be a void.Your physical pages have been integral to my upbringing in Salt Lake City — informing and educating me through many of my childhood, adolescent and adult years.You’ve told me some of my life’s biggest news stories.I know the news I’ve come to depend on you for will continue online. But you’ve always been so much more than the sum of your information.You’ve been a ritua
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Gail Miller is a champion

  31-10-2020 22:26
  
  The Utah Jazz and associated properties are being sold for a reported $1.66 billion. That sounds like a lot of money, even for an NBA team being sold to a Silicon Slopes whiz kid.But compared to the value team owner Gail Miller has added to the Salt Lake City community, 'tis but a pittance.Larry H. Miller started in the parts department, bought a Toyota dealership in Murray, and built the business into a fleet of what is now 65 dealerships in seven states, as well as the Jazz, the Salt Lake Bees
  
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• Utah reports 1,724 new cases, 3 more deaths Saturday

  31-10-2020 20:27
  
  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 reported 1,724 cases and three deaths Saturday, according to the health department.The state’s death toll is now at 604. The three new deaths include a Washington County man, between 65 and 84 years old, who was hospitalized w
  
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• Letter: The absurdities never cease

  31-10-2020 20:03
  
  I thought I’d seen as absurd as absurd can be with this election. I just spent the better part of three months in my home state of Utah, returning just this week. The defenses of voting for Trump that I heard among many friends and family members were along the lines of, “Well, we don’t really like him,” “He tweets too much,” or even “He’s an idiot...” but there was always a “but”: But he’s better than Biden, but we support
  
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• Utah Eats newsletter: Ogden River Brewing opens

  31-10-2020 19:54
  
  Keep on top of what’s happening at Utah restaurants, bars and more with the Utah Eats newsletter, sent every Wednesday and Friday. Sign up here. Ogden River Brewing opened this week at 358 Park Blvd. — about a block from where Utah’s historic Becker Brewing and Malting Co. was founded in 1890.It’s the state’s 35th brewery and includes a beer production facility and a 250-seat gastropub for dining. It also has two patios — including a rooftop bar with views of
  
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• Trump up 7 over Biden in new Utah poll

  31-10-2020 19:01
  
  President Donald Trump’s lead over Joe Biden in Utah has narrowed slightly since the beginning of October, though he’s still on track to claim the state’s six electoral votes.Trump has a 7-point lead over Biden, 51% to 44%, according to a new survey from Y2 Analytics released Saturday. A poll from the same firm in early October found Trump ahead 50% to 40%. The surge in Biden’s support comes during a prolonged and worsening spike in coronavirus cases both in Utah and nati
  
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• Ogden River Brewing opens

  31-10-2020 19:00
  
  Ogden River Brewing opened this week at 358 Park Blvd. — about a block from where Utah’s historic Becker Brewing and Malting Co. was founded in 1890.It’s the state’s 35th brewery and includes a beer production facility and a 250-seat gastropub for dining. It also has two patios — including a rooftop bar with views of the Ogden River and Wasatch Mountains. It’s open for lunch, dinner and weekend brunch.Head brewer Pat Winslow was the original founder, launching
  
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• Margaret Pabst Battin: Those denied care still deserve consideration

  31-10-2020 19:00
  
  Doctors, nurses and policy-makers may face horrifying decisions if there are not enough ventilators, dialysis machines, high-volume oxygen supports or other components of coronavirus care to go around: whom to give them to and whom to let die.This isn’t about cases where death is likely to occur anyway or where recovery is likely with or without treatment. It’s about cases where a decision to prioritize one person over another when both need treatment to survive means that the person
  
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• RSL is running out of time to make the playoffs, and the new MLS rules could make it harder

  31-10-2020 18:52
  
  The road to the playoffs got a little bit more difficult for Real Salt Lake.After their Wednesday loss to the San Jose Earthquakes, Real still sat in ninth place in the Western Conference with the help of other results throughout the week. They were just two points below eighth-place Vancouver, and thus only one win away from being the playoff picture with two games left in the 2020 season.But Major League Soccer changed the measure by which teams make the playoffs this year. Because the coronav
  
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• Exorcism: Increasingly frequent, including after US protests

  31-10-2020 18:30
  
  In popular culture, exorcism often serves as a plot device in chilling films about demonic possession. This month, two Roman Catholic archbishops showed a different face of exorcism – performing the rite at well-attended outdoor ceremonies to drive out any evil spirits lingering after acrimonious protests.The events' distinctive character gave a hint of how exorcism — with roots in ancient times — has evolved in some ways as it becomes more commonplace in many parts of the worl
  
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• How Black Latter-day Saints reacted to Dallin Oaks’ mention of Black lives matter

  31-10-2020 18:00
  
  When the words “Black lives matter” appeared on a TV screen just below the face of Dallin H. Oaks, who is next in line to lead The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Black members let out a collective gasp of surprise, wonder and joy.Oaks, the 88-year-old first counselor in the faith’s governing First Presidency, was speaking virtually this week about racism to students at church-owned Brigham Young University and had just declared that “Black lives matter is an
  
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• Family describes woman killed in Midvale domestic homicide as ‘beautiful, loving and amazing soul’

  31-10-2020 17:31
  
  The family of a woman killed Wednesday in Midvale in what police called a domestic homicide described Utahna Halona Erickson as “the most beautiful, loving and amazing soul" who “will be greatly missed.”“She made everything beautiful and always went out of her way to bring family and friends together,” Shirlee Silversmith, Halona Erickson’s mother, said in a statement Friday on the Utah Homicide Survivors Facebook page.Halona Erickson, who was a “daughte
  
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• Utah scientists get dirty to save threatened cactus

  31-10-2020 16:52
  
  St. George • Blake Wellard holds a middle-aged cactus in his hand, its long tendrilous roots dangling a foot and a half below the clod of desert dirt in which they are, purposefully, still enmeshed. The freelance botanist, as Wellard calls himself, knows that having these delicate and desiccated roots intact will be the key to this threatened Siler pincushion cactus’s survival in its new home, just a few miles down the road at the White Dome Nature Preserve south of St. George.Fewer t
  
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• Sean Connery, the ‘original’ James Bond, dies at 90

  31-10-2020 16:47
  
  London • Sean Connery, the charismatic Scottish actor who rose to international superstardom as the suave secret agent James Bond and then abandoned the role to carve out an Oscar-winning career in other rugged roles, has died. He was 90.Connery’s wife and two sons said he “died peacefully in his sleep surrounded by family” in the Bahamas, where he lived. Son Jason Connery said his father had been “unwell for some time.”Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barb
  
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• Utah’s Ballet West, stopped by COVID-19 in March, returns with a socially distanced ‘Nine Sinatra Songs’

  31-10-2020 16:00
  
  Nicolo Fonte wants to remind people who have adapted their lives to the COVID-19 pandemic that there’s more to life than working from home and venturing out only to run errands.“Going to the theater and seeing ballet — remember that?” Fonte said recently, from his home in Portland, Ore. “We have gotten used to living like this. … Being able to go to the supermarket is not what art is about. We are still more than that.”Fonte, who is a resident choreogra
  
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• Gordon Monson: Utah football is on the brink of gaining status few teams do

  31-10-2020 14:00
  
  Circumstances in and around Utah football at the start of the Pac-12 season in 2020 prompt what should be considered high praise: The Utes will be good, again.We’re guessing on that, but before a single ball has been kicked or passed or caught or recovered, before a play has been made or unmade, that’s all anybody has. And while Kyle Whittingham is saying he needs more refinement out of a nearly all-new defense — “We’re still a long ways away,” he said —
  
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• Utah man sues public defenders, alleging they conspired to put him in jail

  31-10-2020 13:00
  
  A Utah man is suing his public defenders after he says they schemed to get an arrest warrant to put him in jail.The lawsuit stems from a hearing in March 2018, where Luis Sanchez was scheduled to be in court for charges alleging he drove drunk more than three years prior.Sanchez was supposed to be there at 9 a.m., but he alleges in a lawsuit filed recently in 3rd District Court that his court-appointed attorneys, Daniel Torrence and Heather Chesnut, called his case early — at about 8:45 a.
  
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• State commission agrees to reduce solar energy credits

  31-10-2020 13:00
  
  The Utah Public Service Commission agreed Friday to let Rocky Mountain Power reduce the amount of energy credits that people receive in exchange for solar power — a move that environmental advocates say will cripple the solar industry.Unless homes with solar have batteries, the energy generated by solar panels goes back into the grid rather than being used at the home where it is produced. People with solar panels previously received an export credit of 9.2 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) fo
  
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• How teachers are coping with spotty internet to teach kids at Bluff Elementary School during COVID

  31-10-2020 13:00
  
  Bluff • When the new, $10 million Bluff Elementary School in San Juan County opened its doors to the public for the first time in August, there was no rush of students through its hallways, no squeaks of sneakers on the cafeteria floors, nothing but wind to push its swing sets.Construction began on the new school building early last year, long before COVID-19 was first identified, and its completion in August coincided with a district decision to start the 2020-2021 year with entirely remot
  
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• Brodi Ashton: My dog should be president

  31-10-2020 13:00
  
  The furry thing showed up on our doorstep when I was just 12 years old. He was starving, beaten and desperate. His ribs were jutting out of his chest, and he seemed to choose our porch as his final resting place. His back leg had a wound and buckshot pieces embedded in it.I did what any 12-year-old in the ’80s would do. Without a care in the world for things like rabies, or teeth, or stranger danger, I approached him cautiously and placed a bowl of milk in front of him. He lapped it up, an
  
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• Letter: Who deserves health care?

  31-10-2020 12:30
  
  Dear health care providers, I wear a mask 100% of the time when outside of my house. I only go into stores as needed; I certainly am not at the mall. I social distance, always. I have a tote in my car with gloves, masks and wipes, as well as bottle sanitizer and spray sanitizer.I do understand what crisis standard of care means; also referred to triage and contingency care. Reduced to the most basic level, if I am ill and a younger person is equally ill, I will be kicked to the curb. I suggest w
  
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• Letter: Athletic events have far-reaching consequences

  31-10-2020 12:00
  
  Recent headlines from some of Utah’s newspapers:• “Record virus traces found in region’s wastewater” (Logan Herald Journal)• “ICU nurse: ‘We’re exhausted’” (The Salt Lake Tribune)• “Saturday brings Utah’s second highest daily increase in COVID-19 cases” (Deseret News)Utah State University President Noelle Cockett said she was hoping up to 5,000 people would be able to attend USU’s first home game next Sa
  
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• Two people dead after Ogden homeless shelter hit by COVID-19 outbreak

  31-10-2020 05:37
  
  The Lantern House, a homeless shelter at 269 W 33rd St. in Ogden, is experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak.John Patterson, Lantern House board chairman, confirmed in a statement that 48 people at the shelter have tested positive for the virus. A total of 220 tests have been administered.A senior male resident and a single mother with a child died this week, according to the statement. Patterson said both individuals had tested positive for the virus but the causes of death are still under investigati
  
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• Letter: Utah’s pandemic response is dictated by cowardice

  31-10-2020 05:30
  
  I am incredibly frustrated with Utah’s response to the pandemic, which seems to be dictated by cowardice and ignorance.Gov. Gary Herbert refuses to mandate masks statewide, and Lt. Gov. (and supposed task force leader) Spencer Cox has all but disappeared. Both men would rather make no decision than one that could negatively affect Cox’s gubernatorial chances, even as their constituents are suffering from a once-in-a-generation virus.More concerning than the cowardly political games i
  
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• David Brooks: Five great things Biden has already done

  31-10-2020 04:03
  
  Many of our best presidents have been underestimated. Harry S. Truman was seen as the tool of a corrupt political machine. Dwight D. Eisenhower was supposedly a bumbling middlebrow. Ulysses S. Grant was thought a taciturn simpleton. Even FDR was once considered a lightweight feather duster.I’ve been reading Joe Biden’s speeches, and I’m beginning to think even his supporters are underestimating him.He’s walking across treacherous cultural ground, confronting conflicts tha
  
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• Letter: Where is Mitt Romney’s spine?

  31-10-2020 03:30
  
  No doubt many people think that Sen. Mitt Romney is a principled person for speaking out against Donald Trump when his gutless colleagues wouldn’t. But if Romney had any real spine, he would have done what my 88-year-old aunt did last year — she left the Republican Party. After a lifetime supporting conservative causes, she realized that that road leads to people like Donald Trump, Sen. Mitch McConnell and the whole rotten cadre that populates the party. Yes, she threw out both the b
  
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• Daughter charged after 84-year-old woman killed in Taylorsville

  31-10-2020 03:16
  
  Police have charged the daughter of an 84-year-old woman who was found dead last Friday in the pair’s Taylorsville home.Lori Lee Donlay has been charged with first degree murder in Salt Lake’s 3rd District court in the death of Carol Donlay.The deceased woman’s granddaughter called police around 8:30 a.m. to report Carol Donlay was dead. Investigators found Donlay in her bed and said the “scene seemed a little suspicious to them,” UPD spokesperson Sgt. Melody Cutler
  
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• David Burns: Why is Mike Lee afraid of democracy?

  31-10-2020 03:00
  
  Senator Mike Lee is afraid. Very afraid.He and other Republicans are concerned that the November elections could result in unified government — Democrats in control of both chambers of Congress and the presidency. The return of majority rule.That fear may have been top-of-mind during the recent vice presidential debate at Kingsbury Hall. Lee became part of the story when he sent several provocative tweets. His trolling scored write-ups in The Salt Lake Tribune and The New York Times.Perhap
  
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• After inauspicious debut, Utah State is aiming to rebound vs. San Diego State

  31-10-2020 02:05
  
  Considering all they have in common, it makes sense that Utah State coach Gary Andersen and San Diego State coach Brady Hoke have similar programs.“We have a lot of the same beliefs, quite frankly,” Andersen said, “which makes it very easy for us to be able to have a relationship.”Hoke and Andersen have taken nearly parallel paths to get to Saturday’s Mountain West Conference game at Maverik Stadium, which will be the Aggies' home opener. Both are in their second st
  
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• Daniela J. Lamas: Doctors are dreading the winter

  31-10-2020 02:00
  
  Boston • It has been months now, but the brown paper bags are still here — piled on the shelves in the hospital conference room where the residents cautiously lower their masks to eat lunch, stored in corners throughout the unit, each bearing the name of its owner written across it in Sharpie.Some are empty, others still hold used personal protective equipment, now forgotten. In the room where doctors rest when we’re on call, the paper bags blanket an entire bunk. My own name mu
  
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• Letter: Goodbye to my morning routine

  31-10-2020 01:30
  
  In the early 1950s, I had a paper route delivering the afternoon newspaper, the Telegram. As I got older, I bought papers on Regent Street for 5 cents and walked around the city selling them for 10 cents. Then, when I had a home of my own, I subscribed to the Telegram/Tribune.Now to hear that The Trib is going weekly and being mailed in the afternoon to my home is very sad. My routine for the last 60 years has been to sit at the kitchen table in the morning, drinking coffee and reading the paper
  
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• As Utah breaks another daily COVID-19 record, officials send an alert to cellphones statewide

  31-10-2020 01:26
  
  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.As Utah set another daily record with 2,292 new COVID-19 cases and state officials sent a cellphone alert to residents about the rapid spread, an infectious disease expert bluntly warned: “We are failing to control the epidemic.&rd
  
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• Scott Howell: Biden is the right person at the right time

  31-10-2020 01:03
  
  Joe Biden is exactly the right person at the right time to be a candidate for president of the United States. He is the one who can best lead this incredible nation forward along the path set by remarkable leaders of the past, such as Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and others.First, Biden can and will unite and heal the country. He will be a president for all Americans and work as hard on behalf of those who don’t vote for him as those who do.Sec
  
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• George Pyle: We didn’t end the daily print Tribune. You did. And it’s OK.

  31-10-2020 01:00
  
  So I was standing by the vending machines, talking myself out of another Dr Pepper, when the guy who brings the pop and the candy and the cupcakes arrived to restock the office supply of vital junk.On a whim, I asked him if he could possibly start carrying those fancy Starbucks Frappuccinos -- those coffee and milk and maybe chocolate drinks that come in small glass bottles and are meant to be served cold. They cost too much, I said, but it would be nice for a treat now and then. He said he&rsqu
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Look for the Helpers

  31-10-2020 00:39
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Captain Lunacy Zombie LogicElection RunVery Good BrainTrain WreckThe Case FOR TrumpPride PopeDog BiteWhat Women WantKiller AsteroidWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Despite complaint, Utah elections director says ‘Frugal’ nickname is kosher for ballot

  31-10-2020 00:32
  
  The incumbent state auditor running for reelection is listed on Utahns’ ballots as John “Frugal” Dougall, and one of his opponents is crying foul.“By allowing him to insert a descriptive nickname, the ballot becomes a government funded campaign advertisement, which is something it is not and should never be," United Utah Party candidate Brian Fabbi said in a statement released Friday.Apparently recognizing that it’s too late to do anything about the 1.6 million ball
  
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• Tooele fire homicide victim identified

  31-10-2020 00:09
  
  The Tooele County Sheriff’s Office today identifiedthe man who was found by wildfire crews last Saturday after a fire in Soldier Canyon as Vincent Howard Beazel, 60.Firefighters were called to Tooele County because of a fire that began at 12:35 p.m. and caused the canyon to be evacuated. They found Beazel’s bodyl at the edge of the flames. Deputies who came to investigate the dead body had to wait until the fire was contained to process the scene, according to a news release.The Sher
  
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• J.C. Smith: The print Tribune has had a good run

  31-10-2020 00:00
  
  I know I’m not alone in feeling like I’m losing a friend. Oh sure, there will still be websites I will be able to access and I can get a weekly summary of the news mailed to me, but The Salt Lake Tribune that I’ve read daily in print for about 70 years will be no more, and that’s kind of earth shaking.Two and a half years ago I had to give up the tactile, printed Trib because I moved to St. George, and the only option I had to satisfy my addiction was to get the digital v
  
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• Commentary: Utah’s state criminal justice reforms are helping. Utah’s local federal prosecutors and defenders should join the conversation.

  31-10-2020 00:00
  
  A commentary in the Oct. 16 Salt Lake Tribune by John Huber, the United States Attorney for the District of Utah (“Chronic offenders are slipping through the state system”), using anecdotes to decry Utah’s tremendous efforts to improve criminal justice in this state, does not reflect an accurate picture of Utah’s efforts to protect public safety and ensure the rights of Utahns.While there is certainly continued work to be done, Huber’s inaccurate attack on the state
  
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