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• South Jordan to hold virtual Light the Night festivities for a safer holiday season

  27-11-2020 23:46
  
  The coronavirus might be preventing traditional holiday gatherings and parties, but South Jordan won’t let it stop the season’s fun.The city’s annual Light the Night event will be held virtually this year, with activities beginning Monday. That night, South Jordan residents can drive by Heritage Park at 10800 S. Redwood Road from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. to see Santa and pick up a goody bag with a cookie, a candy cane and an activity booklet. Proof of residency will be required to get
  
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• Utah Jazz will play Suns twice, Clippers once in preseason schedule

  27-11-2020 23:19
  
  Friday afternoon saw the NBA release its preseason schedule for the 2020-21 season, and the Utah Jazz are on the docket for three games, including two at Vivint Smart Home Arena.The Jazz will host the new-look Phoenix Suns on both Saturday, Dec. 12 and Monday, Dec. 14. Both games are scheduled for 7 p.m. They will wrap their three-game slate on Thursday, Dec. 17 with a trip to Los Angeles to face the Clippers at Staples Center. That game will tip at 8 p.m. MT.The NBA’s full preseason sched
  
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• Utah Jazz’s 3-game preseason schedule announced

  27-11-2020 23:14
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) and Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) celebrate after a Conley 3-point shot as the Utah Jazz and the Sacramento Kings play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020. Jazz won 123-101. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News The games won’t count until Dec. 22, but the Utah Jazz will be back in action on Dec. 12.
  The NBA on Friday released the 2020 preseason schedule, and the Jazz will open up their 3-game s
  
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• Sharlee Mullins Glenn: Romney brings some welcome honor back to the Senate

  27-11-2020 22:23
  
  In Robert Bolt’s superb play, “A Man for All Seasons,” the lead character, Sir Thomas More, tells his daughter Meg that “when a man takes an oath ... he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water (he cups his hands), and if he opens his fingers, then, he needn’t hope to find himself again.”Earlier, in an exchange with Cardinal Wolsey, More argued that “when statesmen forsake their own private conscience ... they lead their country by a sho
  
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• Commentary: Student government or national, we should all get a vote

  27-11-2020 22:21
  
  As the presidency of the University of Utah’s student body, we are proud to be elected by a democratic process. Each of our 30,000-plus peers had the chance to vote for one of four presidential tickets. We have the opportunity to represent the student body because we received the most votes.While we certainly don’t have the same responsibility as the president of the United States, we do have one thing in common. We are elected officials with the duty to represent every one of our co
  
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• Donovan Mitchell earned a max extension, yes, but first-round loss to Nuggets still eating away at him

  27-11-2020 21:42
  
  Utah’s Donovan Mitchell, center, goes up to shoot as Denver Nuggets’ Jerami Grant, left, and Paul Millsap, right, defend during NBA first-round playoff game in Lake Buena Vista, Fla, on Aug. 30, 2020. Mitchell agreed Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020, to a five-year, $163 million extension to remain with the Jazz. | AP Photo/Ashley Landis After taking a 3-1 lead in their playoff series with Denver, the Jazz let it slip away. Mitchell has used the setback as a motivating force during the offseaso
  
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• Cavs trade for Rayjon Tucker

  27-11-2020 21:30
  
  Adrian Wojnarowski: Jazz are sending G Rayjon Tucker and a future second-round pick to the Cavaliers for cash, sources tell ESPN.
  
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• Venues are closed, so Utah arts groups are streaming their holiday cheer

  27-11-2020 21:13
  
  COVID-19 has been a Grinch to Utah’s arts and cultural groups, stealing Christmas entertainment traditions by forcing venues to close — but many of those groups are finding ways to keep the season merry and bright by streaming their work online.Here’s a rundown of some of the groups that will serve up their work online, some for free, others for the price of a ticket:Utah Symphony • With Abravanel Hall closed until the new year, Utah Symphony is offering eight concerts on
  
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• Utah Jazz trading Rayjon Tucker, draft pick to Cleveland Cavaliers for cash

  27-11-2020 21:13
  
  Utah Jazz guard Rayjon Tucker (6) dunks the basketball against the Charlotte Hornets during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game Friday, Jan. 10, 2020, in Salt Lake City. The Jazz won 109-92, (AP Photo/Chris Nicoll) | AP The Utah Jazz aren’t quite done reshaping their roster with just a few days left before training camp.
  ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported on Friday afternoon that the Jazz have traded guard Rayjon Tucker and a future second-round draft pick to the Cleve
  
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• Utah Jazz trade Rayjon Tucker, draft pick to Cleveland Cavaliers for cash

  27-11-2020 21:13
  
  Utah Jazz guard Rayjon Tucker (6) dunks the basketball against the Charlotte Hornets during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game Friday, Jan. 10, 2020, in Salt Lake City. The Jazz won 109-92, (AP Photo/Chris Nicoll) | AP The Utah Jazz aren’t quite done reshaping their roster with just a few days left before training camp.
  ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported on Friday afternoon that the Jazz have traded guard Rayjon Tucker and a future second-round draft pick to the Cleve
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up more than 6,000 Friday, with delayed reporting

  27-11-2020 21:12
  
  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 6,142 new coronavirus cases reported Friday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses has fallen in the past two days, after the state delayed reports during the Thanksgiving holiday.The Utah Department of Health on Friday reported a seve
  
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• Utah’s gymnasts are preparing for the ‘21 season. The only catch is, they still don’t know when it will start.

  27-11-2020 21:11
  
  In normal times, Utah’s gymnastics team would be holed up in their practice facility, gearing up for their Red Rocks preview, themid-December event in which thousands pack the Huntsman Center to seethe team run through its routines just weeks before the season begins.The Utes are indeed in their practice gym working routines, but there is no public Red Rocks preview planned and any isolation that goes on is more about being safe than simply focused. While there are plans for aseason, 
  
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• The Duchess of Sussex: The path to healing begins with three simple words

  27-11-2020 20:27
  
  It was a July morning that began as ordinarily as any other day: Make breakfast. Feed the dogs. Take vitamins. Find that missing sock. Pick up the rogue crayon that rolled under the table. Throw my hair in a ponytail before getting my son from his crib.After changing his diaper, I felt a sharp cramp. I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right.I knew, as I clutched my firstborn chi
  
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• Commentary: Utah health care standards protect the elderly

  27-11-2020 20:19
  
  When the COVID-19 pandemic history is written, the impact of health care teams on the front lines in preventing the spread of COVID, treating those struggling with its devastating symptoms and comforting families grieving the loss of loved ones will deserve special mention.This story would not be complete, however, without acknowledging the efforts of other groups that work behind the scenes to support health care professionals, patients and families. The Utah Hospital Association Crisis Standar
  
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• Robert W. Adler: Lee makes a law professor’s job harder

  27-11-2020 20:18
  
  This semester I taught civil procedure, the rules of civil litigation in the United States, to first-year law students. Those rules include standards governing when a lawsuit is appropriate and when it is not.Utah Sen. Mike Lee is making my job more difficult. He continues to argue on social media that President Donald Trump’s campaign has “every right” to challenge election results in court, as if that right is absolute. (”Lee continues to defend Trump’s questionin
  
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• Jake Bentley has the reins of Utah football’s offense, even if it comes a little later than anticipated

  27-11-2020 20:01
  
  Jake Bentley’s time at the University of South Carolina essentially came to an end on Aug. 31, 2019.Late in the Gamecocks’ season-opener vs. North Carolina, Bentley suffered a lisfranc injury in his left foot. It required surgery, he was done for the season. Bentley later transferred to the University of Utah, arriving in time for the spring semester in January.Early in spring practice, before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the final three-quarters of it, and during a FaceTime call
  
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• Test Story

  27-11-2020 19:55
  
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• Utah Rep. Chris Stewart says Dems are cheating in pivotal Senate runoff races in Georgia

  27-11-2020 19:48
  
  Rep. Chris Stewart claims without offering any evidence that Democrats are cheating in two runoff elections in Georgia that will determine control of the U.S. Senate — and he is willing to put money where his mouth is to battle it.He’s trying to rally rank-and-file Utah Republicans to donate to those races by offering to match any donations that small contributors make up to $10,000.“These two Senate races in Georgia are critical to our future,” he said in videos posted o
  
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• Cattle ranchers in Coalville honored for improving land, water and wildlife habitat

  27-11-2020 19:46
  
  For Colby and McKenzie Pace, raising beef cattle includes keeping a sharp eye on preventing overgrazing and noxious weeds and seek out ways improve their land for nesting and migrating shorebirds.This forward-thinking approach to livestock and wildlife management earned the Coalville couple — and their Half Circle Cross Ranch — the 2020 Utah Leopold Conservation Award.Named for renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold, the award recognizes farmers, ranchers and foresters who inspire oth
  
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• Job interviews without interviewers, products of the pandemic

  27-11-2020 19:33
  
  So much of our work lives has moved online during the pandemic: group meetings, chats with the boss — even interviewing for a new job. The pandemic has also led companies to conduct “interviews” without an interviewer. Job applicants are being asked to video record answers to set questions about their experience, skills and personal qualities, rather than speaking with a recruiter by phone or video chat.So-called case questions that pose a business problem and would typically l
  
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• Utah Jazz All-Star Donovan Mitchell feeling ‘blessed’ by extension, but focused on a championship

  27-11-2020 19:06
  
  Donovan Mitchell made the astute and honest decision in a Friday morning interview with media not to invoke that trite and well-worn cliche about how his newly-signed contract extension — which can pay him somewhere between $163 million and $195 million over a five-year span — was not about the money.Instead, the fourth-year guard earnestly noted that his deal with the Utah Jazz “is life-changing for myself and my family,” and marveled at how “blessed and honored&rd
  
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• UTA tweaks schedules on Sunday, launches new fare structure on Tuesday

  27-11-2020 18:05
  
  Sunday is one of the three times a year that the Utah Transit Authority modifies its schedules — and it is making just a few tweaks now amid the pandemic. But that will be followed on Tuesday with the launch of a new fare structure, with some rates going up and others down.UTA says that with the upcoming schedule changes, its bus and train service will continue to operate at 91% of pre-COVID-19 levels — which It has said it plans to continue through next year.On Sunday, ski bus servi
  
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• Utah ski areas expect surge in popularity due to COVID-19 this winter

  27-11-2020 18:00
  
  The proliferation of leaf peepers convinced Scott Curry.Curry, the marketing director at Eagle Point Resort, already had an inkling the small ski resort about a half-hour’s drive east from Beaver was going to attract more visitors than usual this winter. Then, in early October, people began arriving in droves to see the Tushar Mountains show off their colorful coat of leaves. Typically a quiet shoulder season for the resort, this year it became an event for which guests seeking lodging nee
  
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• Navajo homes getting electricity with CARES Act funding

  27-11-2020 17:43
  
  San Juan County • Chastity De Guzman and her four children have lived in a home on the Navajo Nation without power since 2015. She said they had been on a waiting list for over two years when a crew finally showed up in September to connect their home to electricity.“It was emotional,” De Guzman told KUER radio. “Electricity was, like, essential for us, and especially with the pandemic going on, it’s made things a lot easier.”Her home in Aneth is one of 27 in U
  
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• Utah State routs New Mexico 41-27 for its first football win of the season

  27-11-2020 16:36
  
  The Utah State Aggies, with an interim head coach and a replacement quarterback after the starter was dismissed from the squad, shook off their season-long troubles on Thanksgiving Day with a 41-27 victory over the visiting New Mexico Lobos.It was the first victory of the season for the Aggies and the first regular-season win for coach Frank Maile, who replaced Gary Andersen in the first week of November. Maile was also an interim coach when Utah State won the 2018 New Mexico Bowl against North
  
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• Utah’s mystery desert sculpture: art or graffito?

  27-11-2020 15:23
  
  The Obelisk, Utah • Several years ago — likely sometime in 2016 — one or more artists carrying over 100 pounds of stainless steel hiked into a remote alcove in San Juan County, expertly cut a hole into the sandstone with a rock saw and erected a three-sided obelisk beneath a narrow pour-off.The sculpture was carefully placed away from roads and out of sight from any distant vantage point in an obscure canyon, which in December 2016 would become part of Bears Ears National Monume
  
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• Matt Jarman: How to constitutionally keep ‘Big Tech’ in check

  27-11-2020 15:12
  
  The word “right” is only in the Constitution a single time, specifically that Congress should, “secure for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive Right to their respective writings and discoveries.”This powerful word, mentioned 10 times in the Declaration of Independence, is reserved to a single, capitalized use in the Constitution — securing exclusive right, so authors and inventors can capitalize on new writings and discoveries.Since our founders sig
  
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• Charlie Warzel: What Facebook fed the baby boomers

  27-11-2020 15:11
  
  In mid-October I asked two people I’d never met to give me their Facebook account passwords for three weeks leading up to and after Election Day. I wanted to immerse myself in the feeds of a type of person who has become a trope of sorts in our national discussion about politics and disinformation: baby boomers with an attachment to polarizing social media.I went looking for older Americans — not full-blown conspiracy theorists, trolls or partisan activists — whose news consump
  
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• Leonard Pitts: I am not disappointed in Donald Trump

  27-11-2020 15:10
  
  I am not disappointed in Donald Trump.For there to be disappointment at childish behavior presumes an expectation of adult behavior. No such expectation exists where Trump is concerned. So his weeks of sulking and floating bizarre conspiracy theories since he lost the election, while embarrassing in the extreme, doesn’t really let me down so much as confirm what I already knew. One might as well be disappointed in an infant for soiling his diaper as to be disappointed in Trump for soiling
  
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• Gary Leimback: Republicans should return to their best traditions

  27-11-2020 15:10
  
  There is a need for Democrats to appreciate why Donald Trump is so popular with Republicans.Trump represents the admirable quality of being a strong leader who speaks his mind and performs actions that are sometimes outrageous but supports his right-wing political beliefs. Government legislation always moves slowly and often the results are middle-of-the-road compromises that can disappoint people who like quick and decisive actions.Trump appeals to the maverick aspect of Americans. This is simi
  
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• Christopher Smart: Republicans, a messiah and winning at any cost

  27-11-2020 15:10
  
  I could never understand Republicans or what it is they espouse.Ronald Reagan won by a landslide in 1980 and was popular through two terms because he came across as a warmhearted, all-American Gipper who stood for freedom, hated communism and promised a bright future.That part I get, but when I listened closely to his campaign speeches and debates, it became clear he was using racial dog whistles: “Welfare queens in Cadillacs.” He famously said, “Government is the problem, not
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: Happy Thanksgiving to all those who told the truth in this election

  27-11-2020 15:09
  
  With so many families gathering, in person or virtually, for this most unusual Thanksgiving after this most unusual election, if you’re looking for a special way to say grace this year, I recommend the West Point Cadet Prayer. It calls upon each of these future military leaders to always choose “the harder right instead of the easier wrong” and to know “no fear when truth and right are in jeopardy.”Because we should be truly thankful this Thanksgiving that — a
  
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• Robert Kirby: Where has all that stuffing gone?

  27-11-2020 15:00
  
  It’s the day after Thanksgiving. Time to clean up. For some, this is a bigger job than the average person is willing to tackle. The house won’t be put back together until just before Christmas.We’re not overly concerned with the usual cranberry sauce on the drapes, pie filling on the ceiling, or a dog that won’t stop trying to pass a turkey bone. This is about the messes you don’t discover until much later.I grew up hating turkey stuffing. Mom used anything that str
  
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• A quiet downtown Salt Lake City worries owners of restaurants and businesses

  27-11-2020 14:05
  
  Debi Raskey’s little gift store on Main Street is just the sort of downtown business that benefits from casual holiday shoppers.They wander into Edinburgh Castle Scottish Imports at 124 S. Main to peruse selections of tartan ties, kilts and other Celtic goods. And, one by one, those seasonal purchases add up, Raskey said, to what are peak sales for the year.But with the coronavirus now raging, “it’s just very quiet and that concerns me,” Raskey said this week as she looke
  
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• Utah’s cannabis cultivators look to move forward after state audit gave program a ‘black eye’

  27-11-2020 14:00
  
  Last week’s audit questioning the fairness of Utah’s cannabis cultivation licensing process concluded that regulators should take another look at the companies given the state’s blessing to farm the federally illegal plant.But despite concerns raised by the investigation, several cultivators told The Salt Lake Tribune that they’re proud of the industry they’ve helped build in Utah and their efforts to keep the promises they made in applying for one of the eight grow
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Gasp! There are gay characters in a Hallmark Christmas movie!

  27-11-2020 14:00
  
  A few years ago, I was at the Tournament of Roses House in Pasadena, attending a fancy-schmantzy Hallmark Channel party. And I was bored. So I started idly watching the monitors set up around the venue, which had clips from dozens and dozens of Hallmark Channel movies on a loop.I wasn’t paying much attention, until it suddenly occurred to me — almost every single person in every single clip was white.I mean, it’s not like it was a total surprise. I had watched Hallmark Channel
  
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• Interest on a typical Utah payday loan rises to 554% APR

  27-11-2020 14:00
  
  Utah’s high-interest payday loan companies say the pandemic is wounding their already ailing industry — where nearly one of every three stores closed over a four-year slump amid tightening regulations. Critics say government coronavirus aid may have reduced the need for such loans.As surviving loan stores try to endure, they raised their already astronomic rates — from an average 523% annual percent rate a year ago to 554%, according to a new state report. (That is also 20% hig
  
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• A former Utah governor wrote the blueprint for presidential transitions. Here’s how it should work.

  27-11-2020 14:00
  
  When President-elect Joe Biden takes the oath of office in January, it’s not just the White House that changes hands. The incoming administration will be responsible for hundreds of thousands of federal employees.Former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt led preparations for then-Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s transition team in 2012. Although Romney did not win the election, the game plan Leavitt and his team put together has evolved into the Center for Presidential Transition, a
  
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• Sizing up every team in the NBA after a wild few days of the draft and free agency

  27-11-2020 06:00
  
  FILE: In this Feb. 11, 2020, file photo, New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday (11) shoots a basket as Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum (3) defends in the second half of an NBA basketball game in New Orleans. Jrue Holiday was traded from New Orleans to Milwaukee, which is aiming to give two-time reigning NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo the improved roster that he seeks with the decision on his supermax contract extension looming.| Rusty Costanza, Associated Press The Utah Jazz spent the
  
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• Utah State football team beats New Mexico 41-27 for its first win of the season

  27-11-2020 05:26
  
  Logan • The Utah State Aggies, with an interim head coach and a replacement QB after the starter was dismissed from the squad, shook off their season-long troubles on Thanksgiving Day with a 41-27 victory over the visiting New Mexico Lobos.At Maverik Stadium, Utah State (1-4) took to the field after intermission trailing by a touchdown. When the third quarter was over, the Aggies led by 21 points.The four-TD explosion, which shifted momentum of the game, started with a 36-yard pass from And
  
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• BYU shakes off slow start to beat New Orleans 86-61

  27-11-2020 05:17
  
  After the season opener the previous night, many questioned: Can BYU shoot that well?Well, yes, but not always.On Thursday at the Marriott Center, the Cougars struggled early to sink shots, but were able to recover and put up a solid second half to beat New Orleans 86-61.BYU coach Mark Pope knew this game wouldn’t come as easy as Wednesday’s, calling the matchup against the Privateers a “street fight.”In the season opener against Westminster on Wednesday, the Cougars led
  
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• Thanksgiving helps Salt Lake City restaurant serve community, bring in business during pandemic

  27-11-2020 04:58
  
  A few weeks ago, Joey Ferran, the chef at Cucina, floated the idea of offering takeout meals for Thanksgiving — something the Salt Lake City deli and wine bar had never offered before.“We had an enormous response,” Ferran said.In the last three days, Ferran prepared more than 200 orders of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans and cranberry sauce for customers to pick up Thursday from the deli in The Avenues. Cucina received so much interest that the restaurant
  
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• Trump says he’ll leave if Electoral College seats Biden

  27-11-2020 04:27
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory — even as he insisted such a decision would be a “mistake” — as he spent his Thanksgiving renewing baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states caused his election defeat.“Certainly I will. But you know that,” Trump said Thursday when asked whethe
  
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• Letter: Make the truth great again

  27-11-2020 02:30
  
  It seems odd to me that someone who is in a court of law takes an oath to tell the truth, “so help me God,” with the penalty of perjury, a felony, up to five years in prison, with fines and probation, while telling the truth is not a requirement to get elected to the highest office in the land, or any political position.Why can an elected official who lied to get elected (Mexican wall, “great health care plan,” debt “erased in eight years”) or who lies about f
  
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• Woman arrested, accused of stealing tip jar and kicking employee in the groin

  27-11-2020 00:30
  
  Salt Lake City police arrested a woman accused of trying to steal a tip jar and kicking an employee in the groin.Police, writing in a probable cause statement, said the woman, 22, took a tip jar with money in it from a Salt Lake City business Wednesday afternoon. The operator of the business confronted her, and the woman kicked that person in the genitals, police said.Police found the woman a short distance from the business, where witnesses had followed her. According to the probable cause stat
  
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• Letter: Owens has much to learn

  27-11-2020 00:30
  
  The Nov. 22 issue of The Tribune has three articles about Utah Republicans with very different views. In one, Burgess Owens talks about meeting with other Republicans to confer about how to beat the “Marxist influences of the Democrats.” He also says Trump should exhaust every avenue to his (baseless) claims of voter fraud. Owens says: “This is what conservatives do. We don’t go out and burn buildings and tear down monuments,” he said. “When the game is over,
  
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