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• Open space advocates come up with $3 million to save parcel at Little Cottonwood Canyon mouth

  23-11-2020 23:45
  
  A 26-acre patch of the Wasatch foothills has passed into public ownership, preventing the spot at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon from becoming an 11-lot subdivision while preserving a critical link in the Bonneville Shoreline Trail.The property’s owners, Rola V Ltd and LC Canyon Partners LLC, had already invested substantially in advancing development plans, but strong financial commitments from affected communities to preserve the property brought the owners to the negotiating tabl
  
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• Utah drops restrictions on social gatherings as it reports cases up 2,244 Monday

  23-11-2020 23:37
  
  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 coronavirus infection rates continue to rise in Utah, Gov. Gary Herbert loosened the state’s health order Monday, dropping all restrictions on social gatherings days before Thanksgiving.The order, which takes effect at 12:01 a.m
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee continues to defend Trump’s questioning of election results

  23-11-2020 23:23
  
  In posts on a conservative alternative to Twitter and Facebook, Sen. Mike Lee is continuing to defend President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the election and challenge results — and has yet to recognize Joe Biden as president-elect.“You want unity now, progressives?” he asked in a post on Parler. “If you do, then — regardless of what you think of President Trump or the legal theories being pursued by his lawyers — at least acknowledge that he has ev
  
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• Agent: Six teams interested in Nicolas Batum

  23-11-2020 22:57
  
  With the Charlotte Hornets set to sign Gordon Hayward to a four-year, $120 million contract, the team will need to make some sort of maneuver to find the cap space for the 30-year-old.
  And although a sign-and-trade with the Boston Celtics is still possible, another reported route the Hornets might take is to stretch and waive the final year of Nicolas Batum’s deal, which would make the French swingman an unrestricted free agent.
  On a minimum deal, Batum – thanks to his mult
  
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• Six contenders interested in Nicolas Batum?

  23-11-2020 22:56
  
  Nicolas Batum’s agent: “Six teams have contacted us and showed interest in Nico: Nets, Warriors, Jazz, Clippers, Bucks and Raptors. Nico is in the best shape of his life. He’s been working hard with coaches for two months. He lost ten kilos (roughly 22 pounds).”
  
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• Navajo school district fights to overcome amid COVID-19

  23-11-2020 22:26
  
  Piñon, Arizona • One student runs 85 feet up a hill every morning, just to get a cell signal so he can call in his attendance. Another moved to Phoenix alone, after his only parent died of COVID-19, to work while going to school online.Then there’s the high school senior who spends six hours most days doing homework in a car next to a school bus turned Wi-Fi hotspot – the only way some youth on the Navajo Nation can get assignments to their teachers.These kids s
  
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• Joe Biden signals shift from Trump with senior administration picks

  23-11-2020 22:21
  
  Washington • President-elect Joe Biden on Monday tapped Obama administration veterans for top national security positions, signaling a stark shift from the Trump administration’s “America First” policies that disparaged international alliances, career diplomats and other veteran government officials.The six picks, including former Secretary of State John Kerry, mark a return to a more traditional approach to America’s relations with the rest of the world and reflect
  
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• Utah Jazz officially sign Jordan Clarkson

  23-11-2020 21:56
  
  Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) rises for a slam dunk during a Houston Rockets-Jazz game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. | Steve Griffin, Deseret NewsJordan Clarkson is officially part of the Utah Jazz’s future.
  While Clarkson and the Jazz agreed to a four-year, $52 million contract last week, players were not allowed to sign new deals until Sunday, and all was finalized for the Missouri product Monday.
  “Jordan was an integral part of our team&rsquo
  
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• Utah State football getting ready to play on Thanksgiving

  23-11-2020 21:14
  
  Bouncing back from a canceled game, Utah State football team is full steam ahead to play on Thanksgiving.Aggies interim head coach Frank Maile said Monday via videoconference that there will be football at the Maverik Center on Thursday against the New Mexico Lobos.“As of today, we’re playing ball,” Maile said.Last week, the Mountain West Conference canceled Utah State’s game against Wyoming “due to an upward trend of COVID-19 cases” in the Aggies’ progr
  
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• Now the U.S. has lots of ventilators — but too few specialists to operate them

  23-11-2020 20:45
  
  As record numbers of coronavirus cases overwhelm hospitals across the United States, there is something strikingly different from the surge that inundated cities in the spring: No one is clamoring for ventilators.The sophisticated breathing machines, used to sustain the most critically ill patients, are far more plentiful than they were eight months ago, when New York, New Jersey and other hard-hit states were desperate to obtain more of the devices, and hospitals were reviewing triage protocols
  
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• Statewide mask mandates help shoppers feel safe and spend more, Utah study shows

  23-11-2020 20:20
  
  Mandatory mask-wearing is proven to lower the incidence of COVID-19 infections, save lives and also boost commercial activity, a new Utah study says.Researchers with the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business examined state and county mask orders across the country and found that coronavirus cases fell after mask requirements were put in place.The study, by researchers at the school’s Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis, also found that
  
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• Teams interested in Emmanuel Mudiay and Yogi Ferrell

  23-11-2020 20:10
  
  Chris Haynes: Two serviceable point guards who are starting to pick up traction in the free agent market: Emmanuel Mudiay and Yogi Ferrell.
  
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• Utah Jazz unveil new ‘Dark Mode’ uniforms

  23-11-2020 19:58
  
  After two years of their Red Rock-themed gradient City Edition uniforms, the Utah Jazz unveiled a new version Monday — something similar but with a twist.The team’s new “Dark Mode” City Edition jerseys for the 2020-21 season are a predominantly black take-off on what they have been wearing the past two seasons — “a continued celebration of the natural wonders across the team’s home state,” as the Jazz phrased it in a news release.The top portion of
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 2,244 Monday, as state drops restrictions on social gatherings

  23-11-2020 19:56
  
  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.A new public health order going into effect at midnight will maintain a statewide mask order, but will change restrictions on social gatherings into recommendations, state officials said Monday.Masks continue to be required statewide in
  
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• Vermont’s ski season on the brink of collapsing under visitor quarantine order

  23-11-2020 19:24
  
  In some ways, it looked as if the pandemic could be good for Vermont’s ski season. With international destinations out of reach and domestic air travel feeling risky, the state had the biggest ski market in the nation — New York and the Northeast corridor — at its doorstep.“For the very first time Vermont and New England have access to the full Northeast market share,” said Brian Maggiotto, general manager of the Inn at Manchester in southern Vermont. “And wit
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 2,244 Monday

  23-11-2020 19:21
  
  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.With 2,244 new coronavirus cases reported Monday, a lower number than recent days, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses still continued to rise.For the past week, the state has averaged 3,349 new positive test results a day, a record high,
  
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• ‘It’s creating a new normal’: A Navajo school district and its students fight to overcome amid COVID-19

  23-11-2020 19:04
  
  Piñon, Arizona • One student runs 85 feet up a hill every morning, just to get a cellphone signal so he can call in his attendance. Another moved to Phoenix by himself, after his only parent died of COVID-19, to work construction while going to school online.Then there’s the high school senior who spends six hours most days doing homework in a car next to a school bus turned Wi-Fi hotspot – the only way some kids on the Navajo Nation can get assignments to their teachers.
  
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• Navajo Nation reports peak high of 383 new COVID-19 cases

  23-11-2020 19:00
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Nation is reporting 383 more confirmed cases of COVID-19, an all-time high for the vast reservation.Tribal health officials on Sunday announced the latest daily figure of new cases as well as five more coronavirus-related deaths. The total number of known cases now stands at 15,039, including 42 delayed reported cases.The death toll for the Navajo Nation is now up to 631.Tribal health officials said 147,793 people have been tested for COVID-19 since the pande
  
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• Utah Jazz unveil new black City Edition jerseys

  23-11-2020 18:26
  
  Courtesy Utah Jazz The Utah Jazz will have a new “City Edition” jersey for the upcoming season, replacing the wildly popular ones that represented the colors of the southern part of the Beehive State.
  That jersey will still be well-represented in the new one, however.
  The Jazz on Monday morning unveiled after a long wait their black “Dark Mode” threads. Most of the top is black, although the chest has the same gradient as the previous City jersey. Like the old one, &ldquo
  
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• BYU’s Tom Holmoe assures the Cougars are open to adding more games

  23-11-2020 18:03
  
  Following a debacle of sorts that left people questioning BYU’s “any team, any time, any place” mentality about adding opponents to the schedule, BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe released a statement Monday that the Cougars are still “open to exploring options.”A statement from Tom Holmoe. pic.twitter.com/NgDp1WrJoK— BYU FOOTBALL (@BYUfootball) November 23, 2020On Sunday, news broke that Washington reached out to BYU about scheduling a game on Nov. 28. The Hus
  
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• Utah women’s hoops set to open Wednesday with core back, and exciting recruits

  23-11-2020 18:02
  
  The University of Utah women’s basketball team was awfully young last season, and the results bore that out.The Utes were winless against the top teams in the Pac-12, one of the best women’s college basketball conferences in the country. Teams like Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford and UCLA presented challenges, but Utah made hay against Washington, Washington State and Colorado, while breaking through late in the season against nationally-ranked Arizona State.In hindsight, having a you
  
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• Salt Lake City International Airport’s Bill Wyatt named Airport Director of the Year

  23-11-2020 17:55
  
  He oversaw a three-point landing of the first phase of a new $4.1 billion airport that was essentially built on top of the old Salt Lake City International Airport without disrupting operations — and finished amid a pandemic that devastated the airline industry, plus a 5.7 magnitude earthquake to boot.With that, Bill Wyatt, executive director of the airport, was named Airport Director of the Year for large airports by Airport Experience News, a trade magazine that covers the air industry.&
  
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• 3rd major COVID-19 vaccine shown to be effective and cheaper

  23-11-2020 15:37
  
  London • Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said Monday that late-stage trials showed its coronavirus vaccine was up to 90% effective, giving public health officials hope they may soon have access to a vaccine that is cheaper and easier to distribute than some of its rivals.The results are based on interim analysis of trials in the U.K. and Brazil of a vaccine developed by Oxford University and manufactured by AstraZeneca. No hospitalizations or severe cases of COVID-19 were reported in tho
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Choose a gift that changes lives

  23-11-2020 15:15
  
  This will be a painful holiday season in many households, with fewer people hugging and handing out gifts. But if you’re feeling that the holidays have been “canceled” and you’re struggling to find hope and meaning this season, have I got some uplifting ideas for you!Every year at this time, I offer a holiday guide suggesting “gifts with meaning” rather than one more scarf or tie that will sit in the bottom of a drawer. This year I recommend three inspiring or
  
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• Maureen Dowd: The Lady and the Trump

  23-11-2020 15:15
  
  Washington — I’ve been riveted all week by the spectacle of the most famous blond phenom on the planet, a child isolated and miserable living inside a national landmark, lashing out and spiraling into self-destructive acts.But eventually I had to turn off the new season of “The Crown,” focusing on Princess Diana, and drag my attention back to Donald Trump, who is trashing this place before checking out like he’s Axl Rose at a Four Seasons.Diana and Donald shared a f
  
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• Frank Bruni: Who will we be without Trump?

  23-11-2020 15:15
  
  A friend was all worked up about the possibility of Trump 2024.“I can’t go through this again!” she cried. But what I heard was that she couldn’t stop going through this. Her contempt for Donald Trump is too finely honed at this point, too essential a part of her psyche. Who would she be — conversationally, politically — without it?Another friend sent me an email in which he’d worked out the economics of a web-only Trump news channel of the kind that Tru
  
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• Con Psarras: We need a different kind of opinion polling

  23-11-2020 15:15
  
  The question of why polling projections were so off in critical voting districts for the second straight presidential election now begs a bigger question: Why should news media continue to invest in showcasing the kind of “horse race” polling that can’t be counted on to pick out the fastest horse in a given race?There has long been concern about how the media’s obsession with head-to-head candidate polling has skewed political coverage toward something more suitable to sp
  
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• Utah Congressman-elect Burgess Owens hits the talk show circuit to discuss race, diversity in the GOP

  23-11-2020 14:00
  
  Rep.-elect Burgess Owens, who ran a Trump-style campaign for Utah’s 4th Congressional District that focused often on his identity as a Black conservative, will enter office next year as part of the most diverse Republican freshman class in history.All the House Democrats who lost their races this year were unseated “by either a Republican woman, a minority, or a veteran,” Erin Perrine, the communications director for President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, said duri
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Please stop spreading these COVID-related myths

  23-11-2020 14:00
  
  As we head into the darkest period of the pandemic, there are a few old saws that critics and doubters of public health policies keep trotting out — theories that, frankly, aren’t backed up by the data.So I wanted to take some space here to correct the misinformation, provide accurate data and hopefully provide a better perspective on where we go from here.Myth 1: Suicides are skyrocketing because of COVID restrictionsThis is a common refrain from opponents of additional coronavirus-
  
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• Letter: How is Hatch feeling now?

  23-11-2020 13:00
  
  OK, so now the federal courthouse in Salt Lake City is going to be named after former Sen. Orrin Hatch. I’m pretty sure there are many who feel the same way my wife and I do about that. We still remember Sen. Hatch’s statement about Sen. Frank Moss and his three terms in office: “What do you call a man who has served three terms in office? You call him home.” Then Sen. Hatch goes on and serves six terms (42 years).When he cross-examined Anita Hill at the hearing for Justi
  
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• In first NFL start, former BYU QB Taysom Hill leads Saints to win

  23-11-2020 07:02
  
  New Orleans • Driving accurate throws downfield, exhibiting poise in the pocket and scrambling judiciously, Taysom Hill capitalized on his first true opportunity to make his case as a candidate to one day succeed record-setting star Drew Brees as the Saints quarterback.Hill rushed for two touchdowns and completed 78.3% of his passes for 233 yards in his first NFL start at quarterback, and New Orleans beat the Atlanta Falcons 24-9 on Sunday to extend its winning streak to seven games.“
  
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• Former BYU linebacker Sione Takitaki scores on 50-yard pick-six for Browns

  23-11-2020 06:52
  
  Cleveland • Kareem Hunt lifted off just inside the 5-yard line, soared over the head of Philadelphia’s Jalen Mills like an Olympic long jumper and landed in the end zone.Without star Myles Garrett, the Browns needed someone to step up.Hunt went above and beyond — and he wasn’t the only one.Hunt hurdled Mills on a sensational touchdown run, Olivier Vernon made up for Garrett’s absence due to COVID-19 by getting three sacks and a safety, and Cleveland stayed firmly in
  
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• Report: Donovan Mitchell, Jazz Agree to Extension

  23-11-2020 05:41 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  Utah Jazz All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell has agreed to a five-year, $195M designated rookie max extension, his agents Ty Sullivan and Austin Brown of @caa_sports tell ESPN. Story soon. Utah Jazz All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell has agreed to a five-year, $195M designated rookie max extension, his agents Ty Sullivan and Austin Brown of @caa_sports tell […]
  
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• Biden expected to nominate former deputy secretary as head of state department

  23-11-2020 05:25
  
  Washington • President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Antony Blinken as secretary of state, according to multiple people familiar with the Biden team’s planning.Blinken, 58, served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration and has close ties with Biden. If nominated and confirmed, he would be a leading force in the incoming administration’s bid to reframe the U.S. relationship with the rest of the world after four
  
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• A BYU-Washington football game feels like a no-brainer, but it’s not nearly that simple

  23-11-2020 04:11
  
  The University of Washington and BYU football programs may flirt a little this week, but it remains to be seen if they actually go out on a date this weekend.The Cougars blew out North Alabama to move to 9-0 overall on Saturday, then held steady Sunday at No. 8 in the Associated Press Top 25 with the initial College Football Playoff rankings set to be released on Tuesday.If the Cougars beat San Diego State on Dec. 12 in Provo to get to 10-0, and play no one else, there is an argument to be made
  
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• States that imposed few restrictions now have the worst outbreaks

  23-11-2020 04:09
  
  Coronavirus cases are rising in almost every U.S. state. But the surge is worst now in places where leaders neglected to keep up forceful virus containment efforts or failed to implement basic measures like mask mandates in the first place, according to a New York Times analysis of data from the University of Oxford.Outbreaks are comparatively smaller in states where efforts to contain the virus were stronger over the summer and fall — potential good news for leaders taking action now. Sta
  
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• Jury duty? No thanks say many, forcing trials to be delayed.

  23-11-2020 01:57
  
  Hartford, Conn. • Jury duty notices have set Nicholas Philbrook’s home on edge with worries about him contracting the coronavirus and passing it on to his father-in-law, a cancer survivor with diabetes in his mid-70s who is at higher risk of developing serious complications from COVID-19.Philbrook and his wife, Heather Schmidt, of Camarillo, California, have been trying to convince court officials that he should be excused from jury duty because her father lives with them. But court o
  
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• Letter: Don’t let legislators off the hook

  23-11-2020 01:11
  
  Let’s not spare our state’s legislative branch from criticism during this pandemic. Unlike Gov. Gary Herbert who, to his credit, is at least attempting (albeit poorly) to manage the crisis, the members of our statehouse have sat on the sidelines and only offered criticism.What is at the top of their agenda is intimidating those wishing to exercise their First Amendment rights. On the surface, Jon Hawkin’s proposed bill lessening the legal repercussions for motorists who injure
  
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• NBA trade central: Ed Davis, Tony Bradley dealt again

  23-11-2020 01:02
  
  Oklahoma City Thunder guard Chris Paul (3) brings the ball upcourt against the Houston Rockets during the second half of Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Kim Klement, Pool Photo via Associated Press For the first time since the 2019-2020 deadline in February, NBA trades can be made official.
  Here’s a rundown of the deals involving more than just draft picks that have been reported.Minnesota Timberwolves receive: Ed D
  
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