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• Sliders hit the ice for 1st day of training in Lake Placid

  02-11-2020 23:27
  
  On-ice training for the three American national sliding programs started Monday, though how the rest of the season will ultimately play out amid the coronavirus pandemic remains unclear.USA Luge hit the ice first on a snowy morning at Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid, New York. USA Bobsled and Skeleton was scheduled to have its first runs later in the day, though its sessions were canceled because of the snowfall. All three of those national teams are planning — for now — to miss
  
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• Violinist Pinchas Zukerman added to Utah Symphony line-up, for shows Nov. 19-21

  02-11-2020 23:22
  
  One of the world’s most acclaimed violinists, Pinchas Zukerman, is adding Salt Lake City to his performance schedule in November, to play with and conduct the Utah Symphony.Zukerman will perform four concerts, Nov. 19-21, with the Utah Symphony at Abravanel Hall, the symphony announced Monday.He will perform and conduct Johann Sebastian Bach’s Violin Concerto in A minor. The program, part of the symphony’s Masterworks Series, will also feature Edward Elgar’s “Serena
  
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• No. 9 BYU preparing for ‘dog fight’ at No. 21 Boise State in shortened week

  02-11-2020 23:15
  
  Coaches and players may not say it, but No. 9 BYU started getting ready Monday for what is the biggest game of the season when the Cougars play at No. 21 Boise State on Friday.The upcoming matchup — the first of two ranked teams in the series — has serious implications for BYU. For just the fourth time in program history, the Cougars have gotten off to a 7-0 start.Five of those wins came behind dominating performances, leading BYU to not only break into national rankings, but also ge
  
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• Letter: Losing our daily newspapers is a travesty

  02-11-2020 23:00
  
  Losing both daily newspapers in a city the size of Salt Lake City at the same time is a travesty, and a blow to the protection of our democracy. After all of the past turmoil at The Trib with out-of-state owners more intent on bleeding the paper dry than strengthening and improving the paper’s investigative reporting, I was very encouraged when the Huntsmans purchased the paper. And more recently with the change to a nonprofit public charity, I was confident that I would be having my coffe
  
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• Utah man charged after he reportedly set a pregnant woman on fire

  02-11-2020 22:25
  
  A Utah who allegedly set his pregnant girlfriend on fire has been charged with aggravated attempted murder.Andrew Todd Curtis, 45, of Moab, was charged in 3rd District Court with the first-degree felony. He is being held without bail in the Salt Lake County jail, and faces a potential prison term of five years to life if convicted.On the morning of Oct. 22, Murray police received a report that someone had been set on fire at the Studio 6 motel at 975 E. 6600 South. When they arrived, they found
  
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• David Asman: What’s right about what we’re doing with online schooling – A music teacher’s perspective

  02-11-2020 22:00
  
  In Michelle Quist’s column on Thursday, “Online schooling is a fire inside a train wreck,” she opines that there’s a lot of bad news in our world today, and that on top of that list, it’s the worst for our kids. That last part is where our opinions diverge.I am a music teacher in the Salt Lake City School District, the only district in Utah treating students and their families, teachers, administrators and staff alike with the appropriate amount of respect for life
  
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• Commentary: Mormonism made me a Mama Dragon

  02-11-2020 21:36
  
  I grew up as one of those Latter-day Saint kids who wanted a dozen children (my mom had 11). I still find myself singing the old Primary song, “when I grow up, I want to be a mother, and have a family.”Back then, even more than today, little girls were taught that they weren’t going to have careers and get jobs. They were going to be mothers. That was their God-given right: to stay home and raise their children. And after that, to remain mothers in other ways by helping with ot
  
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• Another 1,196 cases of COVID-19 in Utah on Monday

  02-11-2020 21:13
  
  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.Utah saw another 1,196 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, and the rate of new diagnoses dropped a bit for the first time in more than two weeks.For the past week, the state has averaged 1,647 new positive test results a day, the Utah Depar
  
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• Three Points: RSL’s entire season in one sequence, Glad at right back, and a brief look ahead

  02-11-2020 20:17
  
  Here are three observations from Real Salt Lake’s lost to the L.A. Galaxy from beat writer Alex Vejar.1. One sequence sums up RSL’s entire seasonIf there ever was a perfect play to encapsulate RSL’s entire season and how frustrating and difficult it has been, the 50th minute was it.Albert Rusnák sees Corey Baird make a sprinting run behind the L.A. Galaxy’s back line and sends a perfect ball over the defense. Baird lets it land in front of him as he survey’s
  
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• Massive Halloween party shut down in Utah County

  02-11-2020 19:36
  
  Police in Utah County found thousands of people at a Halloween dance party this weekend near Utah Lake, in violation of state orders requiring social distancing and masking in counties where infection rates are high.Deputies closed the party because the organizers — who investigators say are linked to a Provo-based events company called The Tribe Utah — didn’t have a permit for the event, Sgt. Spencer Cannon told FOX 13.Posts by The Tribe Utah claimed 10,000 people attended the
  
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• Utes football prep pauses for the election. And the first in-season two-deep released.

  02-11-2020 18:59
  
  When the NCAA mandated that every Division I program gives its student-athletes Election Day off, the move was well-intentioned.About 170,000 Division I athletes are now free to vote on a day dedicated to civic engagement without worrying about practice getting in the way.It does, however, get in the way of standard preparations for college football programs around the country. To take that a step further, the University of Utah is preparing to finally open its season Saturday afternoon against
  
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• Coronavirus exposure will slow vote counting in Summit County

  02-11-2020 18:36
  
  The Summit County elections office said Monday that its staff will be quarantining through the end of the week due to a coronavirus exposure.While County Clerk Kent Jones joked that the timing, the day before Election Day, is “just kind of the 2020 situation, I believe,” he said it isn’t expected to affect voters or the timely processing of ballots.“As far as the election, the plan is exactly the same,” he said in an interview. “The only thing that’s dif
  
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• The 2020 presidential campaign draws to a close as Trump threatens legal action

  02-11-2020 18:29
  
  Philadephia • President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden have one last chance to make their case to voters in critical battleground states on Monday, the final full day of a campaign that has laid bare their dramatically different visions for tackling the nation’s pressing problems and for the office of the presidency itself.The candidates are seeking to lead a nation at a crossroads, gripped by a historic pandemic that is raging anew in nearly every corner of the coun
  
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• Navajo Nation tallies 73 new cases of COVID-19, no deaths

  02-11-2020 17:44
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials are reporting 73 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 but no deaths.The latest figures bring the total number of cases to 11,828 and the known death toll to 581.Tribal health officials said 125,851 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 7,546 have recovered.A shelter-in-place order, mask mandate, daily curfews and weekend lockdowns remain in e
  
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• Vatican breaks silence, explains Pope Francis’ civil union comments

  02-11-2020 17:41
  
  Rome • The Vatican says Pope Francis' comments on gay civil unions were taken out of context in a documentary that spliced together parts of an old interview, but still confirmed Francis' belief that gay couples should enjoy legal protections.The Vatican secretariat of state issued guidance to ambassadors to explain the uproar that Francis' comments created following the Oct. 21 premiere of the film “Francesco,” at the Rome Film Festival. The Vatican nuncio to Mexico, Archbishop
  
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• Maureen Dowd: How did we go from Abraham Lincoln to a ‘Sharknado’ reject?

  02-11-2020 15:12
  
  Washington — When I was growing up, my brother Michael took me to see old movies at the American Film Institute.“An American in Paris.” “Shane.” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” “Casablanca.”The films shaped my image of America. We were Gene Kelly, the exuberant hoofer who could dance and romance better than the French. We were Shane, the laconic gunfighter who never used his gun unless he had to. We were Jimmy Stewart, the idealistic senator
  
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• Ross Douthat: The opportunities we’ve lost under Trump

  02-11-2020 15:11
  
  In the original Greek the term “apocalypse” refers to an unveiling, the gray rain clouds of the everyday world torn away and something long hidden finally revealed. The political apocalypse of 2016, when Donald Trump improbably vanquished the establishment of both parties, fits this ancient definition perfectly: It was a moment when all kinds of uncomfortable truths about American life were suddenly exposed, when the hidden realities of our country and our coalitions were suddenly dr
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Election oddsmakers (me) predict what will happen

  02-11-2020 14:00
  
  Every political pundit and data nerd worth his or her salt is making their final election night predictions and placing their bets.Here’s the safest wager: I’m not going to miss out on that action.The money, right now, leans toward Joe Biden and there are those who argue that the money is a better predictor than the polls. So in that vein, rather than doing boring old predictions, I’m laying odds on a series of prop bets (those are side bets on specific things happening, for th
  
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• Residents oppose expansion of an oil storage business in their Provo neighborhood

  02-11-2020 14:00
  
  Provo • Ted Buehler bought his two-story, 130-year-old brick farm home in Provo’s historic Maeser neighborhood back in 2005. He realized the block was a little rough around the edges.Just across Buehler’s backyard fence is Christensen Oil, a bulk petroleum distributing company. But residents in the area said the facility wasn’t allowed to expand, Buehler recalled, and assured him that the fire marshal regularly inspected the site.“I didn’t really like them bein
  
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• Monday is the deadline for by-mail ballots to be postmarked, but officials urge using a drop box instead

  02-11-2020 14:00
  
  While Election Day technically is Tuesday, Monday is the final day for by-mail ballots to be postmarked in Utah.Most election officials urge voters at this point to skip using the mail — and to deposit ballots directly into county drop boxes.“I think they’re safer if they deposit in them in a ballot drop box,” said Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen. Her county has 21 of them. Sites of drop boxes statewide are listed online at vote.utah.gov.Davis County Clerk-Auditor
  
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• 2020 has another surprise in store for some Utahns: a tax hike

  02-11-2020 14:00
  
  After a rollicking year in Utah with the pandemic, recession, earthquakes, a hurricane-force windstorm, wildfires, protests and a raucous election, another left hook is about to hit many Utahns: property tax hikes.Around the state, 58 local governments decided to raise taxes this year, according to a Salt Lake Tribune analysis of Utah State Tax Commission data.One raises taxes eight times higher than last year for its residents. Another one doubles them. Some increases will be only a few pennies
  
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• Letter: We can’t trust the Supreme Court anymore

  02-11-2020 13:30
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney is naive to think that the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court will help restore the public’s faith in government.Democrats' anger has been simmering for over four years, since Republicans unfairly robbed former President Barack Obama of a Supreme Court appointment; that anger is now boiling over.The confirmation of Justice Barrett a mere 38 days after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and eight days before the conclusion of a presidential election
  
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• Letter: How to prioritize health care

  02-11-2020 13:00
  
  So it’s come to this: Utah hospitals are proposing health care prioritization rules to the governor, and one of the rules would be “the young get priority over the old, since older patients are more likely to die.”I propose a more logical rule: People who’ve done all they can to protect their health and the health of their community get priority.Those who refuse to wear masks in public places, in spite of clear data about the value of masks in minimizing the spread of COV
  
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• RSL eliminated from playoff contention, loses 2-1 to L.A. Galaxy

  02-11-2020 06:39
  
  Real Salt Lake knew what was at stake. The players knew. The coaches new.They knew, and they let it happen.RSL’s playoff aspirations ended Sunday with a 2-1 loss to the host L.A. Galaxy and Colorado’s 3-1 win over Seattle, the other result in the Western Conference that made the points-per-game math insurmountable for RSL.One game remains in the regular season for a Salt Lake team that will miss the playoffs for the first time in three years. Real was eliminated in the West semifinal
  
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• Biden works to mobilize Black voters in campaign’s final days

  02-11-2020 06:05
  
  Philadelphia • Joe Biden was spending the final days of the presidential campaign appealing to Black supporters to vote in-person during a pandemic that has disproportionally affected their communities, betting that a strong turnout will boost his chances in states that could decide the election.Biden was in Philadelphia on Sunday, the largest city in what is emerging as the most hotly contested battleground in the closing 48 hours of the campaign. He participated in a “souls to the p
  
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• Letter: I will try to get more tech savvy

  02-11-2020 04:00
  
  Reading the paper, and I mean paper, while eating breakfast is something I look forward to every day. I am sorry to read that at year’s end it will be a weekly paper delivered by mail.I love The Trib! I want to know what is going on locally from reporters who live here. I love your editorials.Please keep going in whatever form will work. I will try to get more tech savvy.Mary Walton, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Amendment E threatens wild horses

  02-11-2020 02:00
  
  Amendment E, if passed by the voters, would change things for controlling the wild horse population in our state. It changes nothing for any other wildlife population.The wild horse and burro population we are privileged to have in our state is currently controlled by horse roundups, adoptions and sterilizations. This amendment calls for the managing and controlling of wildlife by hunting as the preferred method. That is the exact wording of the amendment. Hunting is the “preferred way of
  
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• BYU in review: Cougars, QB Zach Wilson struggled at points, but still dominated Western Kentucky

  02-11-2020 00:20
  
  Provo • It wasn’t perfect, but a dominating first half led the way for BYU to crush Western Kentucky 41-10 on Saturday at LaVell Edwards Stadium.And it was also a strong enough performance to crack the top 10 of the Associated Press Top 25 poll. In the latest rankings, released Sunday, the Cougars found themselves in the No. 9 spot. In the Amway Coaches Poll, BYU also got a bump up to No. 9.For the first time since 2001, and for just the fourth time in program history, BYU is 7-0 to s
  
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