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• Utah’s Tony Finau is just outside the top 10 in the Masters after a first-round 69

  12-11-2020 23:56
  
  Extending a theme of the most recent Masters in April 2019, when he accompanied Tiger Woods in the final round of a victory, Finau is playing the first two rounds at Augusta National Golf Club with Paul Casey, who’s the leader with a 65.Patrick Reed (68), the group’s other member, also topped Finau’s 69 that came via five birdies, four bogeys and an eagle. Finau, who holed a bunker shot on the par-5 No. 15, retweeted a highlight of that shot with “beach” and “
  
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• Utah’s Fremont Island is sold to conservation buyer

  12-11-2020 23:50
  
  A Utah-based conservation buyer has acquired Fremont Island, the Great Salt Lake’s third largest and only privately-owned island, in a quiet transaction, possibly setting the stage for the sensitive island’s permanent protection.The 2,943-acre island had been purchased two years ago by the monster truck enthusiasts behind the Diesel Brothers as a potential motorized sports venue. Their vision evolved into a proposal for an “amazing master-planned community that would provide th
  
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• Vatican calling: Pope congratulates Joe Biden on election

  12-11-2020 23:12
  
  It’s not exactly divine intervention, but even the pope considers the U.S. presidential race over.President-elect Joe Biden, a lifelong Roman Catholic, spoke to Pope Francis on Thursday, despite President Donald Trump refusing to concede. Trump claims — without evidence — that the election was stolen from him through massive but unspecified acts of fraud.Biden’s transition team said in a statement that the president-elect thanked Francis for “extending blessings and
  
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• 23 Utah schools will shift online after COVID-19 outbreaks — with 14 in one hard-hit district

  12-11-2020 23:00
  
  Jordan District will shift 14 of its schools to virtual learning — some for a second or third time — as COVID-19 cases continue to spike among students and staff and the entire state. The action taken by the district’s board of education Wednesday night is the most sweeping to come anywhere in Utah since most classrooms here reopened this fall despite the pandemic. And Jordan has been particularly hard hit by the virus with nearly 1,200 total cases, the highest of the districts
  
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• Salt Lake Temple Square will be lit up for the holiday season, but its gates will be closed

  12-11-2020 22:38
  
  Another holiday tradition is giving way to COVID-19.While hundreds of thousands of lights again will glisten on Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City, visitors will not be able to stroll the grounds, often with bundled-up little ones. Instead they will have to bask in the glow from surrounding roads and sidewalks, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Thursday.The lights are ready and will be switched on every evening after Thanksgiving, but “the plaza will be fenced
  
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• Sandy Republican lawmaker pulls off what appears to be an amazing election comeback

  12-11-2020 22:34
  
  On Election Night, state Rep. Steve Eliason was a dead man walking, politically. The Sandy Republican was nearly 1,000 votes behind Democratic challenger Wendy Davis in a district Utah Democrats had targeted for a flip this year.In the ensuing nine days, Eliason completely erased a 964 vote deficit and Thursday took the lead over Davis by 35 votes. There are still a few days remaining until the final vote count on Tuesday, but if Eliason’s lead holds, he will have completed an amazing come
  
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• 21 more Utah schools will shift to online learning after COVID-19 outbreaks — with 14 of those in one hard-hit district.

  12-11-2020 22:34
  
  Jordan District will shift 14 of its schools to virtual learning — some for a second or third time — as COVID-19 cases continue to spike among students and staff and the entire state. The action taken by the district’s board of education Wednesday night is the most sweeping to come anywhere in Utah since most classrooms here reopened this fall despite the pandemic. And Jordan has been particularly hard hit by the virus with nearly 1,200 total cases, the highest of the districts
  
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• Red All Over: Just roll with the Utah football situation, there’s no other choice

  12-11-2020 22:20
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.I am self aware enough to know that I should take my own advice when I say that everyone should just roll with what’s happening with the Utah football team right now.Frankly, what choice do you have?We all got to the doorstep of the season opener last week. Me, you, the players, the coaches, athletic department officials, TV guys, other beat writers, everyone. We all hung tough for eight months, through cancelation
  
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• Tony Finau moves into the top 10 of the Masters with a first-round 69

  12-11-2020 22:13
  
  Tony Finau completed an adventurous first round of the Masters with birdies on his last two holes Thursday, earning a tie for eighth place as he finished with a 3-under-par 69 at Augusta National Golf Club.Some players have just teed off in the mid-afternoon in Georgia, following a rain delay of nearly 3 hours. The first round will be completed Friday morning.Former BYU golfer Mike Weir of Sandy is 2 under through 15 holes, looking to make the 36-hole cut for the first time since 2014.Finau, a W
  
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• Temple Square will be lit up for the holiday season — but its gates will be closed

  12-11-2020 21:59
  
  There will be lights at Temple Square this holiday season, but because of the coronavirus pandemic, people will have to view them from surrounding roads and sidewalks, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Thursday.The church also said that the traditional holiday lights kickoff event, normally held in the Tabernacle at Temple Square, will be virtual and will broadcast Dec. 1 at 6 p.m. MST at ChurchofJesusChrist.org.“The virtual celebration of the Savior’s birth w
  
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• Owens holds on to his lead over McAdams in Utah’s 4th Congressional District

  12-11-2020 21:58
  
  Republican Burgess Owens held on to a lead Thursday over incumbent Rep. Ben McAdams in Utah’s hotly contested 4th Congressional District. His lead narrowed only slightly to 1,616.That compared to a 1,697 gap on Wednesday. Owens now has 47.47% of the votes counted and McAdams has 47.03%.This was the sixth day in a row that the Republican was in the lead after McAdams had the edge on election night.Still, votes remain to be counted in the district that straddles Salt Lake and Utah counties a
  
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• Utah State’s football coaching search features a deep pool of local candidates

  12-11-2020 21:54
  
  The coaching search for another head man for Utah State’s football program has begun.After the sudden and curious departure of Gary Andersen, the Aggies have turned to co-defense coordinator Frank Maile to lead the charge for the time being. But athletic director John Hartwell said a national search for Andersen’s replacement will start immediately.Hartwell said Monday that in the 48 hours since the news broke about Andersen, his phone had “blown up” with people intereste
  
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• Utah Runnin’ Utes are heeding Larry Krystkowiak’s COVID-19 advice; Timmy Allen named All-Pac-12

  12-11-2020 21:07
  
  If the University of Utah men’s basketball were to have a player, coach or other essential personnel member test positive for COVID-19, the NCAA would recommend, but not mandate, a 14-day shutdown of the program.If such a thing were to occur at this point, the beginning of the Utes' season on Nov. 25 vs. first-year Division I program Dixie State would almost certainly be affected, if not postponed, so Larry Krystkowiak’s long-held advice on the matter isn’t changing any time so
  
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• Report: No, Mike Conley will not enter free agency

  12-11-2020 21:06
  
  Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) dribbles during an NBA game against the Toronto Raptors at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. The Jazz lost 101-92. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsThroughout last season as Mike Conley struggled to find consistency in his first year with the Utah Jazz, there was some talk among fans that the veteran point guard might opt to go elsewhere for the 2020-2021 campaign.
  Conley, after all, has a somewhat unique early termination option in his contr
  
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• Sam Merrill is gone, but Utah State and rest of Mountain West believe Aggies are still contenders

  12-11-2020 20:50
  
  Utah State is going to need one special player to step into the role vacated by senior guard Sam Merrill. Actually, it’s going to need a lot of them.Not even a season has passed since Merrill’s final game in an Aggies uniform and yet, in part because of that game, he has already become an empyreal member of the program’s lore. His standing as the school’s No 2 all-time in scoring and assists was enough to earn him reverence. What elevated him to that iconic status, though
  
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• Jennifer Senior: Biden is old. That’s a good thing.

  12-11-2020 20:49
  
  When Joe Biden is sworn in on Inauguration Day, he will be 78, the oldest president to take the oath of office since the birth of our Republic. No shortage of observers on both the left and the right have written about this historic curiosity, as often with frustration (the left) and contempt (the right) as they have with awe.I can’t be bothered with the despicable Sleepy-Joe canard that the right is peddling, except to say that if this is what dementia looks like, I don’t know what
  
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• Nathan Rafferty: Together, we can save the Greatest Snow on Earth

  12-11-2020 20:48
  
  As we get ready for another ski season in Utah, many have been daydreaming about skiing and riding the Greatest Snow on Earth and enjoying the mountains with friends and family once again. But as many of you are aware, as the years go by, our plentiful winters will become less and less of a certainty.Climate change is a reality, and for those of us in the Utah ski industry, addressing climate change with concrete, effective actions has become an imperative. Many of Ski Utah’s member ski ar
  
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• Claims for jobless aid remain high in U.S., Utah as pandemic escalates

  12-11-2020 20:15
  
  The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week to 709,000, a still-high level but the lowest figure since March and a further sign that the job market might be slowly healing.Utah’s new jobless claims ticked up to 4,060 for the week ending Nov. 7, after trending downward for several weeks.The number of Utahns seeking ongoing unemployment benefits dropped for the 27th consecutive week, falling to 29,365 — the first time it has dipped below 30,000 since the pand
  
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• Mike Conley declines early termination option, will return to Utah Jazz

  12-11-2020 20:12
  
  Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley on Thursday declined to exercise the early termination option in his contract, choosing to bypass unrestricted free agency and remain with the Utah Jazz, according to a report from Yahoo’s Chris Haynes.A request for comment from the Jazz was not immediately returned.The move was long expected, considering Conley is owed $34.5 million this coming season, and given the expected tepid nature of the 2020 free agent market.It also puts to rest any speculation t
  
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• Utah’s coronavirus cases up nearly 4,000 on Thursday

  12-11-2020 20:04
  
  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 a record-shattering 3,919 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, with record-high hospitalizations and the virus' deadliest single week since the pandemic began.Between 4.5% and 5% of those cases will end up in the hospital, Go
  
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• Burgess Owens claims Democrats are trying to ‘steal the election’ in fundraising emails

  12-11-2020 19:35
  
  Republican Burgess Owens' campaign is parroting claims from President Donald Trump that Democrats are attempting to “steal the election” away from Republicans — but those claims are only showing up in fundraising emails.An email sent Wednesday made the explicit claim that Democrats were planning to “steal” the election in Utah’s 4th Congressional District, where Owens holds a 1,760-vote lead over Democrat Ben McAdams.“Don’t let Burgess be robbed of
  
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• Salt Lake County launches campaign to share real life stories about COVID-19

  12-11-2020 19:01
  
  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.From long-haulers to medical workers to people who lost loved ones due to the pandemic, Salt Lake County is sharing stories about people impacted by COVID-19 in an effort to curb the latest surge of infections.Over the coming weeks, coun
  
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• Delta Air Lines foresees ‘a challenging winter ahead' even with expected COVID-19 vaccine

  12-11-2020 18:55
  
  Delta Air Lines — which operates about 70% of the flights at Salt Lake City International Airport — is cheering news that the first COVID-19 vaccine is nearing approval. But it is warning workers that widespread distribution is still far away, so the company still faces ‘a challenging winter ahead.’“Still, it’s a welcome glimmer of light in the darkness,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian wrote in a memo to employees on Thursday about news that Pfizer reported better
  
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• What places are hardest hit by the coronavirus? It depends on the measure.

  12-11-2020 18:50
  
  The coronavirus is tearing across the United States at an alarming pace. Hospitals are filled to perilous levels. More than 120,000 new cases are being identified every day. And ever higher and more miserable records — of states' cases, of positive testing rates, of hospitalizations — are being set, day after day.A pandemic that was once raging in New York and later across the Sun Belt is now spread so widely across the country that any number of cities and states might now be consid
  
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• Mike Conley opts in, will not hit free agency in 2020

  12-11-2020 18:40
  
  Chris Haynes: Yahoo Sources: Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley Jr. will bypass free-agency next week by not exercising “early termination option” on his $34.5 million salary for the 2020-21 season.
  
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• Utah football hasn’t played, UCLA has, so which team has the advantage Saturday night?

  12-11-2020 18:35
  
  The University of Utah football team has not played a game yet, its Nov. 7 season opener vs. Arizona having been called off due to a COVID-19 outbreak and ensuing contact-tracing protocols. UCLA played its opener, a 48-42 loss at Colorado in which the Bruins tallied 478 yards of total offense, but yielded 525 and allowed the Buffaloes to run 92 plays. That game tape, just like any game tape, is available and ready for future opponents to decipher and scout.Despite the COVID-19 troubles, Utah has
  
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• Latter-day Saint leaders make ‘temporary’ changes to meetings because of Utah’s mask mandate

  12-11-2020 18:35
  
  In response to Gov. Gary Herbert’s recent statewide mask mandate, Utah’s Latter-day Saint top officials are asking lay local leaders to make temporary changes in their congregational worship services as well “to be vigilant in maintaining well-known safety measures.”In a letter to Seventies in the Beehive state on Thursday, Area President Craig C. Christensen and his counselors instructed local leaders to use technology rather than in-person gatherings for “second h
  
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• Utah’s Timmy Allen named preseason All-Pac-12, Runnin’ Utes picked to finish 8th at Pac-12 media day

  12-11-2020 18:16
  
  Timmy Allen will start this season the way he ended last season, as an All-Pac-12 honoree.The University of Utah junior wing was named to the 10-member preseason All-Pac-12 first team on Thursday morning ahead of the league conducting its virtual men’s basketball media day.As a sophomore, Allen averaged 17.3 points and 7.0 rebounds per game on his way to earning All-Pac-12 second-team honors.The All-Pac-12 first team also included two of the top freshmen in the nation in Stanford forward Z
  
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• UTA unveils 5-year service plan — envisioning a ‘core route network’ with service every 15 minutes

  12-11-2020 18:10
  
  After some reworking forced by the pandemic, the Utah Transit Authority is giving a first peek at its vision for what bus and rail service should look like over the next five years.The agency unveiled to the UTA Board some highlights of its first five-year service plan, which the Utah Legislature required the agency to develop and update regularly when it restructured UTA in 2018 after a series of scandals.The new plan includes developing a “core route network,” where service is so f
  
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• Utah picked to finish 8th at Pac-12 basketball media day

  12-11-2020 17:50
  
  The University of Utah men’s basketball was picked to finish eighth in the Pac-12 preseason poll, voted on by 23 media members and released Thursday morning ahead of the league’s virtual media day.The Utes, 16-15 a year ago, received 131 points in the voting, 18 behind No. 7 Colorado and 26 ahead of No. 9 Washington.UCLA was installed as the league favorite for the first time since 2011-12, garnering 251 points and nine first-place votes. Arizona State was second with 246 points and
  
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• Spencer Cox rejects Trump’s claim of voter fraud, says there’s ‘no evidence’

  12-11-2020 16:21
  
  Utah Gov.-elect Spencer Cox threw cold water on President Donald Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was somehow illegitimate.“There’s no evidence of mass voter fraud,” said Cox during an appearance on CNN Wednesday evening.Trump has spent a good deal of time since Election Day raging about a “rigged election” on Twitter, and refusing to acknowledge his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. There has been no evidence of widespread election fraud, and the Trump c
  
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• Utah man pleads guilty to trying to help the Islamic State carry out a terrorist attack

  12-11-2020 16:15
  
  A Utah man arrested in August 2019 has pleaded guilty to trying to help the Islamic State terrorist organization carry out bomb attacks.Murat Suljovic, 23, of Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.According to court documents, Suljovic admitted that in January 2019, while he was living in Utah, he corresponded with two people he believed were members of the Islamic State, also kn
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Giving Machines give way to COVID; update on new hymnbooks; an Oz-like message to Trump

  12-11-2020 16:12
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Giving Machines are out, but giving is still in
  (Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
  Giving Machines open at University Place Mall in Orem on Nov. 25, 2019. The machines will not be used t
  
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• Gail Collins: Pick the worst of Trump’s worst

  12-11-2020 15:08
  
  We’ve been through a lot these last few days, people. Decades from now, some of you are going to have to answer your grandchildren when they ask you about the Time of the Two Presidents.Donald Trump’s resistance to the idea that he lost the election isn’t a surprise. This is a man, former star of a phony-reality TV show, who almost never admits he’s lost/failed/come in second at anything. Who knows what new adventures we’ll have before Inauguration Day? I’m ho
  
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• Charles M. Blow: Trump’s election tantrum

  12-11-2020 15:08
  
  When my oldest son was 3 years old, we got him into a preschool class at an elite private school across the street from Prospect Park in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn.It was more than we could afford — we couldn’t even afford to live in Park Slope, but instead lived in the neighboring Prospect Heights neighborhood — but, nervous and stressed by the unreasonable pressure new parents often feel with a first child to give them the absolute best at all costs, we found the
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: When Trump vandalizes our country

  12-11-2020 15:07
  
  As it became clear that she would lose the 2016 election and news organizations called the race for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton spoke to her supporters.“We must accept this result,” she declared. “Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.”She did not boast that she had won 2.9 million more votes than Trump. She did not file lawsuits to try to reverse thin margins. And she did not offer evidence-free allegations of voter f
  
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• Utah officials explore free contact tracing tool, after spending millions on Healthy Together

  12-11-2020 14:00
  
  State leaders have spent months and millions of dollars in unsuccessful pursuit of a digital tool to support the work of contact tracing, a labor-intensive but key piece of the campaign against COVID-19.Now, officials are considering an option that could help them reach the same goal for free.This week, Utah health leaders announced their intention to explore Google and Apple technology that would notify users if they’ve been exposed to coronavirus. The software, called Exposure Notificati
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah’s slow coronavirus reaction should be a cautionary example to other states

  12-11-2020 14:00
  
  Utah leaders love to tout the state as a model for the nation, but as coronavirus cases climb, we’re more of a cautionary tale.It took two months of skyrocketing spread of COVID-19, more than 83,000 new cases, nearly 250 deaths, before Gov. Gary Herbert announced — in dramatic fashion via a Amber Alert-type text blast Sunday night — that he would impose new safeguards.Doctors and nurses toiling in intensive care units stretched to the breaking point and facing a looming crush o
  
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• Michelle Quist: Both parties have a Republican women problem

  12-11-2020 14:00
  
  Republicans, arguably, elected Joe Biden president. Republican women, to be exact. Never Trumpers. And Black women. And Democrats. But he was always going to get their votes. The tipping point was probably Republican women.Don’t get me wrong, most Republican women voted for Trump. But the defectors seemed to have swung the election.And after the pu*@#-grabbing, serial adulterer, accused rapist, misogynist, racist, ableist we’ve had to endure for four years, that ending is rich enough
  
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• Letter: You are what your vote says you are

  12-11-2020 14:00
  
  The Nov. 6 Gordon Monson column, “Election shows too many Utahns ignore race issues,” — which should have been in the Opinion section — was the first article I recall in The Salt Lake Tribune which basically screamed: “What are you people thinking?”I will carry some water for Mr. Monson and state the obvious, Trump is a full-on racist. Full stop. Trump thrives on racial resentment and anti-immigrant fear mongering, interspersed with his desperate pleas for Ame
  
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• Letter: Utah’s plan is to pretend to care

  12-11-2020 14:00
  
  The Utah government should explain its real plan for its COVID response. I realize that we originally had “Utah Leads Together” and now the high, medium and low transmission plan, but those aren’t actually plans. They are veneers. They are the appearance of doing something, while in reality not doing anything.Based not on their words, but on their actions, Utah’s plan is the following:1. Pretend to care about COVID-19.2. Allow the hospital system to fill up and become ove
  
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• Letter: Save Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness

  12-11-2020 14:00
  
  Escaping to the wilderness to relax and slow down has been a key part of my life. I still have many places to explore in this great state, however, the proposed helium drilling in the Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness Area frightens me that the wilderness we have left will be degraded to the point of no return.Labyrinth Canyon was supposed to be protected under the Dingell Act. However, the company Twin Bridges lobbied just before it was signed into law to get last-minute approval to drill in this eco
  
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• Letter: Republicans are not the party of the downtrodden

  12-11-2020 14:00
  
  What planet does Spencer Cox live on? In his victory speech, which sounded like a bad Mormon sacrament meeting, he said the Republican Party was the party of the downtrodden and disenfranchised.How is it that he doesn’t see that his is the party of those who do the trampling and disenfranchising? That his is the party that takes children away from their parents at the border, that supports racism, that is trying to reduce insurance coverage and that is openly rigging elections?Is he trying
  
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• Letter: LDS voters show their true colors

  12-11-2020 14:00
  
  To my LDS neighbors,When you walk into church with your head held high, we know better. When you knock on our doors to explain your morals and beliefs, we know better, when you claim to live by the word of God, we know better.You cannot vote for a man who is obviously against every value Mormons live by and still claim moral superiority. I’ve lost all respect and will never look at you without hearing him say, “Grab 'em by the p----”; without seeing children in cages; without k
  
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• 20 more Utah schools will shift to online learning after COVID-19 outbreaks — with 14 of those in one hard-hit district.

  12-11-2020 06:58
  
  Jordan District will shift 14 of its schools to virtual learning — some for a second or third time — as COVID-19 cases continue to spike among students and staff and the entire state. The action taken by the district’s board of education Wednesday night is the most sweeping to come anywhere in Utah since most classrooms here reopened this fall despite the pandemic. And Jordan has been particularly hard hit by the virus with nearly 1,200 total cases, the highest of the districts
  
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• 18 more Utah schools will shift to online learning after COVID-19 outbreaks — 14 of those are in one hard-hit district.

  12-11-2020 06:20
  
  Jordan District will shift 14 of its schools to virtual learning — some for a second or third time this fall — as COVID-19 cases continue to spike among students and staff and the entire state. The action taken by the district’s board of education Wednesday night is the most sweeping to come anywhere in Utah since most classrooms here reopened this fall despite the pandemic. And Jordan has been particularly hard hit by the virus with nearly 1,200 total cases, the highest of the
  
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• The Weekly Housewives Watch: Welcome to Salt Lake City!

  12-11-2020 05:56
  
  Welcome to The Salt Lake Tribune’s podcast about The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City! On this episode of “The Weekly Housewives Watch,” TV critic Scott D. Pierce and trash television connoisseur Sara Weber talk about first impressions of the women; how the BYU Honor Code became a main character on the show, “odor-gate;” a shocking cameo and more.Subscribe: Soundcloud | RSSThe Weekly Housewives Watch · Welcome to Salt Lake City! | Episode 1Have a question fo
  
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• Episode 1 recap: Meet the ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ and dive into the drama

  12-11-2020 05:55
  
  “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” are rich. They’re beautiful. They’re striving for perfection. And, they keep telling us in their first episode, they’re an “elite social group.'”Is perfect the word you’d use for people who call themselves “elite”?Bravo’s latest incarnation of the “Housewives” franchise kicked off Wednesday night, and began as a bit of an ad for the state of Utah, extolling our “magnificent
  
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• Elizabeth Bruenig: The Catholic sex abuse crisis is far from over

  12-11-2020 04:00
  
  After the Catholic sex abuse crisis exploded into headlines in 2002, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops promulgated standards that would guide the American church’s efforts to protect children. In May 2002, the editorial board of USA Today met with an American bishop who would play an important role in shaping the new regulations.“We haven’t been focused on the Lord; I’m trying to do that,” he told them. “As I see the bishops losing credibility i
  
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• Police arrest man who allegedly threatened to kill former Missouri senator while high on LSD

  12-11-2020 03:38
  
  Officer Niel Ekberg said in a probable cause statement that he saw a vehicle driving over 100 mph on Interstate 80 in Summit County at 12:46 a.m. Wednesday. When Ekberg put on his lights to pull the car over, the car allegedly sped up until it was driving over 130 mph on slick roads. Officers spiked the car’s tires to make it stop and arrested the man.The driver smelled of alcohol and had an empty 12-pack of beer in the car, as well as another 12-pack that was partially consumed, according
  
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