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• Tribune Editorial: Homelessness. It’s about the money.

  14-11-2020 23:00
  
  “When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”— H.L. MenckenUtah’s political leaders enjoy solving the problem of homelessness so much that they have done it several times.The newest honest-to-goodness, we-really-mean-it-this-time solution to homelessness was presented the other day by the widely respected policy wonks at the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.The report’s target audience includes both the Ut
  
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• Letter: Don’t be on the side of the bully

  14-11-2020 22:30
  
  As an elementary principal across a long career, I faced the fallout from many a fifth grader who had taken on the role of school-yard bully. Not only did I need to spend some time with the bully him or herself, I learned that I needed to spend just as much time with the other leaders of the playground regarding their behavior in enabling and supporting the bully.Today there is a school-yard bully at the head of this country. There are also over two dozen men and women, U. S. senators, who are e
  
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• Navajo Nation orders new three-week stay-at-home lockdown

  14-11-2020 22:08
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Nation on Monday will reinstate a stay-at-home lockdown for the entire reservation while closing tribal offices and requiring new closures and safety measures for businesses due to rising COVID-19 cases.The lockdown goes into effect Monday for a three-week period, tribal officials announced Friday night.A previously ordered 56-hour weekend curfew began Friday night.Much of the Navajo Nation was closed between March and August as the coronavirus swept through
  
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• Thousands rally behind Trump, believing he won the race he lost

  14-11-2020 22:05
  
  Washington • Fervent supporters of President Donald Trump rallied in Washington on Saturday behind his spurious claim of a stolen election and swarmed his motorcade when he detoured for a drive-by on his way out of town.“I just want to keep up his spirits and let him know we support him,” one loyalist, Anthony Whittaker of Winchester, Virginia, said from outside the Supreme Court, where a few thousand assembled after a march along Pennsylvania Avenue from Freedom Plaza, near the
  
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• The NBA’s pre-draft process has been messy. How will that impact the Utah Jazz on Wednesday?

  14-11-2020 22:01
  
  For years, the Utah Jazz’s pre-draft process has entailed bringing in six (sometimes 12) prospects a day multiple days a week during the offseason, running them through team-devised drills, and having them play 3-on-3 games in order to gauge how they perform in some replicated game situations.Obviously, that hasn’t happened in 2020.Teams’ contact with prospects ahead of Wednesday night’s NBA Draft has been limited to Zoom interviews and a maximum of 10 in-person workouts
  
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• Who is in Utah’s hospitals with coronavirus — and what’s likely to happen to them

  14-11-2020 21:30
  
  The average Utahn hospitalized with COVID-19 is 54 years old.Here’s maybe another surprise: Only about half (51.6%) of hospitalized Utahns have one or more confirmed preexisting conditions.In other words, it’s not all “high-risk” people. Our hospitals are teeming with previously healthy, average people, who were going about their lives one day and ended up in the hospital the next.I bring this up for obvious reasons: Our hospitals and intensive care units are in the news.
  
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• Letter: It’s time for congressional term limits

  14-11-2020 06:30
  
  In the past few months, many of my friends and family, regardless of their political views, have advocated for term limits in Congress. The reason we have a term limit for the presidency is that being in power too long often leads to misuse of that power. Why then haven’t we passed legislation limiting terms for Congress? Because the very people who have to pass that law are the ones we want term limits for.Are they likely to want to limit their own term? Probably not, unless “we the
  
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• Utah Jazz keeping options open with how to use the 23rd pick in 2020 draft

  14-11-2020 06:00
  
  Utah Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey talks with the media at Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City, Thursday, April 14, 2016. | Dustin Jensen, Deseret News Trade, move or keep their first-round pick? These are among the questions Jazz brass face heading into Wednesday’s NBA draft.
  The Utah Jazz’s front office group is acutely aware of the team’s shortcomings.
  The Jazz used to be a team characterized by their defensive prowess, but they’ve lost some of that i
  
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• Man sues Salt Lake City, alleging police illegally detained him in hot car following summer protest

  14-11-2020 04:42
  
  Salt Lake City is being sued by a man who says police made him sit in a hot car for 15 minutes this summer in part because he is friends with people who were arrested during summer police brutality protests.According to a complaint filed in federal court, Matthew Monahan’s friend was charged with vandalizing the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office building during a July 9 protest. Police seized the friend’s van as evidence.Protesters rallied on July 9 in response to Dis
  
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• Letter: Iron County sheriff suppresses science

  14-11-2020 04:30
  
  The Nov. 11 Tribune summary of the Iron County sheriff’s refusal to enforce Gov. Gary Herbert’s most recent mandates for COVID-19 virus containment should be the subject of the sheriff’s immediate dismissal. The “herd immunity” gambit favored by the sheriff, Ken Carpenter, amounts to collective suicide, given the utter lack of care, as well as disregard for science in general, favored by the medieval populace of too much of the American West.Science is a method, not
  
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• Richard Badenhausen: Student loan debt is an engine of opportunity

  14-11-2020 04:00
  
  Michael Brown, director of communications for LendEDU, a New Jersey-based online marketplace for student loans, recently congratulated Utahns in The Salt Lake Tribune for having the lowest average student loan debt per borrower and the lowest percentage of college graduates with debt in the country.Brown contrasted the “enviable” position of our state with the larger “ever-growing student loan debt crisis.” He then called on Utah to “implement a permanent virtual le
  
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• BYU temporarily closes part of library because students didn’t wear masks

  14-11-2020 02:55
  
  Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library shut down a common space with study tables Thursday because students weren’t in compliance with the university’s mask policies.“Thank you to all the students wearing masks,” the library’s Twitter account announced. “Most of you are really helping. I’ve found a few places where people think they don’t need a mask. From now on I’ll be closing areas for the day where people aren’t foll
  
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• Utah will create a temporary license so nursing students can work during pandemic

  14-11-2020 02:46
  
  To combat nursing shortages as coronavirus cases overwhelm hospitals, Utah’s Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing is creating a temporary nursing apprentice license so nursing students can work in clinics, FOX 13 reports.The students will be close to graduating and won’t be helping coronavirus patients directly, according to FOX 13. Instead they will work in other clinics to free up senior nurses.The idea was facilitated by Gov. Gary Herbert’s office and the Utah
  
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• Letter: Hold Biden accountable for his campaign promises

  14-11-2020 02:30
  
  I am writing about my opinion on the restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase monuments. A Biden win allows us to once again have hope for the protection of these monuments and other Utah wilderness. I want to stress the importance of not becoming complacent now that Biden has been elected. We need to hold him accountable for his promises during his campaign, including restoring the original boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. As a Utah resident, the protection of our wi
  
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• Burgess Owens appears on his way to a win over Rep. Ben McAdams in Utah’s 4th Congressional District race

  14-11-2020 02:04
  
  Republican Burgess Owens, a former NFL player and frequent Fox News commentator who ran a Trump-style campaign for Utah’s 4th Congressional District, appears to be headed to Congress.His 2,095-vote lead over incumbent Rep. Ben McAdams, Utah’s only Democrat in the federal delegation, looked to be insurmountable on Friday, based on indications that only a few thousand outstanding ballots remained to be counted in the contest.The official canvass is Tuesday.McAdams, a first-term incumbe
  
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• Ghorbani falls behind Republican Stringham in bid for reelection to Salt Lake County Council

  14-11-2020 01:51
  
  Republicans had more good news in the latest vote count Friday afternoon in Salt Lake County.The county clerk reported about 10,000 more ballots since its last update on Wednesday. At-large Salt Lake County Council incumbent Shireen Ghorbani, a Democrat, is now more than 1,000 votes behind her Republican opponent Laurie Stringham after leading in all other tallies since election night.A loss by Ghorbani would see the GOP further solidify their majority on the council, growing it to 6-3, after Re
  
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• Oregon, New Mexico order lockdowns as other states resist

  14-11-2020 01:47
  
  Providence, R.I. • The governors of Oregon and New Mexico ordered near-lockdowns Friday in the most aggressive response yet to the latest wave of coronavirus infections shattering records across the U.S., even as many of their counterparts in other states show little appetite for reimposing the hard-line restrictions of last spring.“We are in a life-or-death situation, and if we don’t act right now, we cannot preserve the lives, we can’t keep saving lives, and we will abso
  
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• Utah city passes ordinance limiting drinking establishments

  14-11-2020 01:31
  
  St. George • An ordinance limiting the number of drinking establishments in downtown St. George was passed after the city received complaints, stopping other potential business owners from applying for permits, officials said.The St. George City Council approved Thursday an ordinance that would cap the number of stand-alone bars allowed in the downtown arts district at four rather than six. The city previously regulated one bar permit in a zone for every 15,000 people, the Spectrum rep
  
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• Lawrence J. Leigh: Barr’s quest for the election fraud unicorn

  14-11-2020 00:53
  
  Departing from long-standing department policy and practice, Attorney General William Barr’s latest pronunciamento has “authorized” Justice Department prosecutors “to pursue substantial allegations of voting … irregularities” — before states certify their elections.Stripped of the mumbo-jumbo, the memorandum allows zealous U.S. attorneys to go overt. They may, for example, immediately issue subpoenas, obtain search warrants, interview witnesses, sign of
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Biden Boulders

  14-11-2020 00:39
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Too Little Too LateParty AnimalsPower GrabberFer Heck’s SakeSnipe HuntBig NewsPants on FireWaiting in the WingsVote!Look for the HelpersWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Utah-UCLA football game at the Rose Bowl canceled, due to COVID-19; Utes report 17 positive cases

  14-11-2020 00:37
  
  The University of Utah athletic department has done everything in its power to get a football and basketball played in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.As this week unfolded, Utes athletic director Mark Harlan and his staff did even more on the football end of things.Instead of just daily-antigen testing and weekly PCR testing, football players began undergoing daily-PCR testing this week in the wake of the Nov. 7 season opener vs. Arizona getting canceled.In the end, it still wasn’t en
  
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• Jazz exec Dennis Lindsey says team is looking for somebody 'unique’ at No. 23 in NBA Draft

  14-11-2020 00:23
  
  Utah Jazz execs Dennis Lindsey and Justin Zanik were their typically cagey, elusive selves Friday morning, speaking for nearly 22 minutes to local media via Zoom about the coming unlike-any-other NBA Draft without ever giving much actual insight into what they might do with the 23rd overall pick this coming Wednesday night.Is there a specific position they’re targeting?“With this draft in particular, there are a variety of prospects at all three positions — guards, wings, and b
  
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• Utah’s Tony Finau is just inside the Masters cut line as he resumes Round 2

  14-11-2020 00:17
  
  Putting problems cost Tony Finau a lot of ground Friday, so he chose to sleep on a 12-foot birdie attempt on the par-3 No. 12 at Augusta National Golf Club.Finau is in the half of the field that has yet to complete the second round of the Masters, stemming from Thursday’s rain delay. Play will resume Saturday at 5:30 a.m. MST, then the 36-hole cut will be made and the third round will begin.Finau, a West High School graduate, and Sandy resident Mike Weir have some work to do Saturday morni
  
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• Connie Coyne, former Tribune editor and reader advocate, dies at 76

  14-11-2020 00:02
  
  Connie Coyne, a rough-and-ready journalist who dispensed her wisdom and gruff wit to Salt Lake Tribune readers and colleagues for nearly two decades, has died.Coyne’s death was announced Friday on Facebook by her friend and former Tribune colleague Sheena McFarland. Coyne was 76. No cause of death was announced, but Coyne had suffered from back problems and heart ailments over the past few years, including a stroke in 2012.David Noyce, interim editor of The Tribune, called Coyne “a d
  
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