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• Dustin Johnson buries some major memories, wins the Masters

  15-11-2020 23:22
  
  Augusta, Ga. • Nothing ever comes easily for Dustin Johnson in the majors, except for slipping into that Masters green jacket.Johnson overcame a jittery start that conjured memories of past majors he failed to finish off. He turned that into a command performance, making sure this one-of-a-kind Masters with no fans also had no drama.Not even close.Johnson tapped in for par on the 18th for a 4-under 68 to finish at 20-under 268, breaking by two shots the record set by Tiger Woods in 1997 and
  
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• Biden advisers to meet vaccine firms as Trump stalls handoff

  15-11-2020 22:58
  
  Washington • Joe Biden’s scientific advisers will meet with vaccine makers in coming days as the presidential transition remains stalled because of President Donald Trump’s refusal to acknowledge that he lost the election. That delayed handoff is especially problematic during a public health crisis, the government’s top infectious disease expert said.“Of course it would be better if we could start working with them,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National
  
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• Letter: We need stricter gun regulations

  15-11-2020 22:00
  
  What must residents of other advanced nations think when they see a band of armed, self-appointed vigilantes openly carrying assault rifles, wearing crisscrossed ammunition belts, and scaring the hell out of fellow citizens? Has America turned into a banana republic? How could this happen to the world’s oldest democracy, a once-proud model for other nations? Only the pitifully deranged find flashing an AK-47 at a rally acceptable.Most Americans are ashamed of this childish, dangerous, life
  
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• Utah’s Tony Finau rallies to tie for 38th place and Mike Weir ties for 51st in the Masters

  15-11-2020 21:23
  
  Tony Finau’s ending the 2020 Masters on No. 9 was one last reminder that he failed to contend for the green jacket, but he left Augusta National Golf Club with the satisfaction of a strong finish.The West High School graduate rallied with three birdies on his second nine Sunday, posting an even-par 72 in the final round for a 1-under total and a tie for 38th place with Tiger Woods, among others.Sandy resident Mike Weir settled for a closing 76 and a tie for 51st at 2 over, after making the
  
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• Utah Jazz assistant coach Zach Guthrie leaves for position with Dallas Mavericks

  15-11-2020 20:19
  
  Zach Guthrie, who joined Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder’s staff back in 2015, has left the team for a position with the Dallas Mavericks.ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski was the first to report the news Sunday morning.Guthrie has served in several roles under Snyder, beginning as the “basketball strategy and technology manager” before becoming one of Snyder’s most trusted voices on the bench.They had known each other since their days with the Austin Toros of the NBA D Le
  
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• Report: Utah Jazz assistant Zach Guthrie leaving for Dallas Mavericks

  15-11-2020 19:55
  
  Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward (20), Jazz assistant coach Zach Guthrie, forward Joe Ingles (2) and center Boris Diaw (33) chat before Game 7 of the first-round NBA playoffs series between the Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Clippers at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, April 30, 2017. | Spenser Heaps, Spenser Heaps, Deseret News The shuffle on the Utah Jazz’s bench is reportedly continuing.
  ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Sunday morning that assistant coach Zach Guthrie is
  
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• Utahn Kyl Myers publishes book about her family’s decision not to assign a gender to their child, Zoomer

  15-11-2020 19:37
  
  When Kyl Myers emailed the birth announcement for the baby she and her husband, Brent Courtney, brought into the world in March 2016, she included the usual information — weight, length, time of birth — for little Zoomer Coyote Courtney-Myers.She also wrote this: “We have decided that instead of assigning a gender to Zoomer we want to go the gender creative route. We want Zoomer to experience all types of things and be able to explore and play with gender.” The new parent
  
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• Maureen Dowd: Trump is ready for his close-up

  15-11-2020 17:44
  
  Washington • Many see a wannabe despot barricaded in the bunker, stubby fingers clinging to the levers of power as words that mean nothing to him — democracy, electoral integrity, peaceful transition, constitutionality — swirl above.One presidential historian sees something different in Donald Trump’s swan song. Michael Beschloss has been tweeting pictures of Hollywood’s most famous divas, shut-ins and head cases.Norma Desmond watching movies of herself, hour after h
  
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• Letter: Protect the health of teachers and students

  15-11-2020 17:43
  
  Dear Governor-elect Spencer Cox,I voted for you as a Democrat because of the endorsement from my union, the Utah Education Association, that you will help education.I began my 20-year career standing proudly saying the pledge of allegiance on Sept. 12, 2001, and again as we hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics wherein a worldwide connection to humanity similar to now. I have instructed students to hide from an active shooter and how to calmly flee from a fire. I have held students' fears waiting to k
  
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• Utah urged to build more single-family homes

  15-11-2020 17:00
  
  More people are moving to Utah just as many millennials are taking a new look at homebuying instead of renting.To offer enough affordable homes and keep the state’s economy on the mend in the COVID-19 era, cities and developers may need to do something radical. They may need to go back in time.At least, back to when homebuilders focused more on single-family houses with bigger lots, an approach to growth that many planners now view as “sprawl” and that rapidly expanded the Wasa
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: 2020 shows that the Electoral College is stupid and immoral

  15-11-2020 17:00
  
  Last year I wrote that the Electoral College, an archaic and outmoded system that runs contrary to our democratic principles and intuitions, was the “greatest threat to our democracy.”Somehow, this was an understatement.As recently as Wednesday, according to a report by my colleague Maggie Haberman, President Donald Trump was pressing his aides on whether Republican legislatures in key states could overturn the results of the presidential election and pick pro-Trump electors, potenti
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: ABC’s ‘Big Sky’ is shocking. And watch out for ‘The Crown,’ ‘Lego Star Wars’ and a ‘Fresh Prince’ reunion.

  15-11-2020 16:05
  
  For more than 20 years, David E. Kelley wrote and produced some of network television’s best shows — a list that includes “L.A. Law,” “Picket Fences,” “Chicago Hope,” “The Practice,” “Ally McBeal,” “Boston Public” and “Boston Legal.” More recently, he moved to streaming and cable TV, with “Goliath” for Amazon and “Big Little Lies” for HBO.Now, he’s back on broadcast TV wi
  
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• Ex-lawmaker Mike Noel gains stalking injunction against critic, who sees it as a gag order

  15-11-2020 16:05
  
  If anyone is used to confrontational politics, it’s Mike Noel.Utah’s most strident public lands firebrand got into more than his share of people’s faces during his 16-year tenure in the Utah House as a Republican representing much of southern Utah. In addition to standing up for traditional land uses, Noel will be remembered for denouncing land managers, environmentalists, journalists, even federal prosecutors in harsh terms, sometimes accusing them of breaking laws and conspir
  
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• Brodi Ashton: Drawing inspiration (and fear) from the birds (and Alfred Hitchcock)

  15-11-2020 16:05
  
  Growing up, I had a fear of birds. I know they seem all innocent and harmless, but there were two things that developed my anxiety to the feathery balls of fluff. One time, while feeding geese at Liberty Park, a cantankerous goose tried to attack me. I barely escaped.The other was Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” I was raised on Hitchcock, and if he taught us anything, it was that birds will peck your eyes out. And they don’t go south. They go North by Northwest. Oh, and d
  
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• Jen Shah can be ‘terrifying,’ but she’s electric on ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’

  15-11-2020 16:04
  
  If there’s one cast member who really popped in the first episode of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” — from throwing a beyond-extravagant party to feuding right off the bat with another cast member — it’s Jen Shah.“She is electricity,” said Heather Gay, her fellow “Housewife” and longtime friend, in an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune. “She is charismatic. She is funny. She is sharp. She is volatile. She is passionate.
  
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• George Pyle: Who will be the last Republican tied to this president?

  15-11-2020 16:04
  
  “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”— John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, statement to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971.Of course, there were some people who never agreed that the Vietnam War was a mistake. At least, going in.People who never gave up on the idea that that war was a necessary stand against the creep of The international communist conspiracy. Who argued that, if we had just stuck with it longer, devote
  
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• What will Utah’s Republican Party look like after Trump? Two local leaders weigh in.

  15-11-2020 15:00
  
  In the anxiety-inducing din of election discussions online — some following the lead of President Donald Trump in alleging voter fraud, others calling on Americans to accept that Joe Biden is president-elect — one Utah County leader weighed in this week with a message for his fellow Republicans.“Are we ready for the circus to stop and the post-Trump @GOP era to begin?” County Commissioner Tanner Ainge tweeted Tuesday. “Whether you’ve felt that for 4 years or 4
  
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• Robert Kirby: COVID-19 and the blame game

  15-11-2020 15:00
  
  I haven’t set foot in my Latter-day Saint ward since March, when the pandemic caused the church to suspend in-person congregational worship.Not going to church was novel at first, but I missed my friends and neighbors. So I started attending home services with the Clegg family across the street. We did our best to socially distance. None of us got sick. So far.Although restrictions began to ease in the summer, a roaring resurgence in the number of COVID-19 cases has once again caused churc
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Don’t let the doorknob hit’cha where the good Lord split’cha

  15-11-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Price Wallace:There was a time I would have reasoned with you. There was a time I might even have pleaded.Back then, I’d have been shocked and appalled to see a Mississippi state lawmaker advocate secession from the Union as you did in a Twitter exchange with former state representative Robert Foster a few hours after the presidential election was called for Joe Biden.As reported by Ashton Pittman of the Mississippi Free Press, Foster was going on about how Republicans will eventually
  
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• Families grieve father, sister as older Utahns see effects of COVID-19

  15-11-2020 14:00
  
  Ruben R. Gallegos was playing 18 holes of golf right up until days before he was hospitalized, his daughter said. He’d decided to get tested for COVID-19 because he was planning to attend a wedding in Colorado, according to his family, and the results came back positive.The 79-year-old Gallegos died Oct. 6 in the intensive care unit at Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George. More than a month later, his 53-year-old daughter, Angie Schroader, still wakes up in the middle of the night i
  
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• Letter: Reyes oversteps his boundaries

  15-11-2020 06:30
  
  Sean Reyes volunteered himself to go to Nevada to provide oversight — suggesting there might be voter irregularities. I wonder what he would have thought if Kamala Harris, while attorney general of California, just invited herself to Utah, suggesting that Utah couldn’t manage their own statewide election and needed her oversight?Sherrie West, Park CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Jana Riess: Did Mormonism’s anti-LGBTQ policy cause more people to leave the LDS Church?

  15-11-2020 03:39
  
  There was a whole lot going on last week, what with six-figure COVID-19 cases and a contested presidential election in the United States. But amid the tumult, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints quietly passed a milestone, the kind you won’t see trumpeted on the faith’s website or commemorated in a news release: Five years ago, in early November 2015, the church banned children of same-sex couples from being baptized or formally blessed.The decision was an aggressive over
  
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• 5 prospects the Jazz should consider with 23rd pick in the draft

  15-11-2020 03:15
  
  Colorado guard Tyler Bey (1) shoots over California forward Andre Kelly (22) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Boulder, Colo. Colorado won 71-65. | David Zalubowski, Associated Press There is an uncountable number of mock drafts in newspapers and on websites all over the internet. You’ve probably seen your fair share at this point, and if you’re a Utah Jazz fan you’ve probably seen a lot of the same names crop up over the last few
  
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• Utah State drops fourth straight in 35-16 football loss to Fresno State

  15-11-2020 02:44
  
  Logan • Utah State junior quarterback Jason Shelley got sacked a few minutes into the fourth quarter on Saturday. After the play was called dead, Shelley flipped the football in air behind him, walking off in apparent frustration.The moment was indicative of a difficult afternoon overall for the Utah State football team. Before former coach Gary Andersen’s departure last weekend, he said one of the main things the Aggies lacked was big plays on offense.Well, the Aggies got a few of th
  
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• Another day of record high coronavirus cases as Utah’s numbers top 4,000

  15-11-2020 02:22
  
  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 has broken another record for new coronavirus cases, with 5,352 positive cases reported Saturday — a number that is artificially high because of a data glitch the previous day.Even with the approximately 1,300 cases that
  
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• Burgess Owens hailed as victor by conservatives, many of whom refuse to call Joe Biden president-elect

  15-11-2020 01:36
  
  A who’s who of conservative celebrities, politicians and pundits are pouring out congratulations to Utah congressional candidate Burgess Owens, a Republican who appears to have an insurmountable lead over first-term Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams.McAdams has not conceded the race and a few thousand votes are left to be counted, but that didn’t stop conservatives, most prominently President Donald Trump, from rushing to praise Owens as the winner.The president and many of those weighing
  
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• Letter: Get back to work, Reyes

  15-11-2020 00:24
  
  I would like to personally thank Mr. Sean Reyes for taking a leave of absence from his elected position to pursue voter fraud. I, too, find it extremely hard to believe that over 72 million people actually voted for Donald Trump. This fraud must be investigated. What? Reyes is investigating what? Oh, for the love of ... get back to work, Reyes.Laura S. Grzymkowski, Cottonwood HeightsSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Utah’s Mike Weir and Tony Finau post third-round 71s in the Masters

  15-11-2020 00:17
  
  Tony Finau’s hopes of a top-10 placement in a fourth straight major tournament were pretty much gone as of Saturday morning, when he completed a second-round 75 at Augusta National Golf Club. What’s left for Finau is merely finishing as the top Utahn in the Masters.The West High School graduate is tied for 44th place at 1 under par for the tournament, one stroke behind Sandy resident Mike Weir, entering Sunday’s final round. Each player posted a 1-under-par 71 in the third roun
  
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• Woman accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend in Salt Lake City

  15-11-2020 00:12
  
  Salt Lake City police say a woman has admitted to fatally stabbing her boyfriend on Friday evening.Officers responded to domestic violence calls at an apartment in the 200 block of South Temple Street after neighbors heard the couple arguing, according to a probable cause statement. When police arrived they found the woman and man, who was bleeding from his chest, exiting the elevator into the apartment lobby. The man was taken to a hospital but died as a result of his wounds.The woman told poli
  
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