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• Utah women’s hoops intends to open Sunday at No. 10 Oregon following COVID-19 pause

  30-11-2020 23:49
  
  In the wake of a COVID-19 pause early last week, the University of Utah women’s basketball team is back in the gym and intends to open its season this weekend.The Ute women paused all basketball-related activity Nov. 23 due to a positive test, plus the ensuing contact-tracing protocols. An athletic department spokesperson told The Salt Lake Tribune that the team began practicing Monday, with the intention of opening its season vs. 17th-ranked Oregon State on Friday in Corvallis. The Utes w
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: The Party of Public Piety

  30-11-2020 23:20
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Stranger ThingsNo Visible Means of SupportYou Can’t Go Home AgainGiuliani’s Gift HorsePolitical JunkieFight the PowerBrain DiseaseUseless ThingsBiden BouldersToo Little Too LateWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Here’s our list of at least 88 Utah schools that have had a COVID-19 outbreak or closed as a precaution

  30-11-2020 23:08
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune will continue to update this list. So far this fall, at least 76 schools in Utah have had a coronavirus outbreak — and 12 others have shifted online early to avoid one.Those 88 have all come in a span of roughly three months after most districts in the state reopened in August at the encouragement of the governor. What’s followed has been a lesson in what can happen when students return to the classroom before COVID-19 is under control.[RELA
  
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• On eve of training camp, Utah Jazz are pleased with their moves but not yet ready to ‘dust off the trophy mantle’

  30-11-2020 23:01
  
  The Utah Jazz are pleased with how the NBA draft went. And free agency. And how they signed Donovan Mitchell to an extension. They’re pleased with how their negotiations with Rudy Gobert are going. And with Bojan Bogdanovic’s progress thus far from wrist surgery.Yeah, they’re pretty pleased with how their entire offseason has transpired to this point.Then again, with training camp beginning Tuesday — inasmuch as having up to four players in the building at once doing 1-on
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 1,897 Monday, with a drop in testing

  30-11-2020 21:14
  
  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 1,897 new coronavirus cases reported Monday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses declined slightly alongside a sharp drop in testing.The Utah Department of Health on Monday reported a seven-day average of 2,312 new positive test resu
  
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• BYU faces USC to start another big week for the basketball team

  30-11-2020 21:06
  
  BYU men’s basketball wants another shot at national prominence, after breaking into the AP top 15 last year and finishing the season at No. 18 when the postseason was cut short due to the pandemic.Despite winning three games in four days, BYU still couldn’t crack the Top 25 in the latest rankings, released Monday.BYU’s best chance to crack the Top 25 will come this week as the Cougars play in the Roman Legends Classic. BYU will face USC on Tuesday at the Mohegan Sun Arena.Wheel
  
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• Ogden Raptors remain, while the Orem Owlz move to Colorado

  30-11-2020 20:05
  
  The boys of summer, or at least some of them, will be back in Utah in 2021.The state’s short-season minor league baseball teams found some stability when the Pioneer League became a partner with Major League Baseball. Both organizations announced the agreement Monday.While the arrangement guarantees a future for the Pioneer League, which appeared to be on the chopping block when MLB announced a restructuring last year, that stability will be elsewhere for one of the state’s two Pione
  
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• Utah women’s hoops intends to play Friday after COVID-19 pause

  30-11-2020 19:57
  
  In the wake of a COVID-19 pause early last week, the University of Utah women’s basketball team is back in the gym and intends to open its season later this week.The Ute women paused all basketball-related activity Nov. 23 due to a positive test, plus the ensuing contact-tracing protocols. An athletic department spokesperson told The Salt Lake Tribune that the team began practicing Monday, with the intention of opening its season vs. 17th-ranked Oregon State on Friday in Corvallis. The Ute
  
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• Running back Jaylen Warren latest to leave Utah State

  30-11-2020 19:26
  
  Just when things were looking up for the Utah State football team, it suffers yet another blow.Aggies senior running back Jaylen Warren has entered the NCAA transfer porter. The team confirmed the move in the game notes for the upcoming matchup against Air Force. The Herald Journal reported on Friday that Warren was leaving the program.Warren is one of Utah State’s best players and their leading running back. This season, he ran for 252 yards and three touchdowns on 39 carries.Warren is th
  
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• The fate of Bridal Veil Falls at a crossroads: preserved as public space or sold off to a developer

  30-11-2020 18:55
  
  Whether Provo Canyon’s Bridal Veil Falls is preserved as a natural space or developed into a drug treatment center with tram access may come down to a last-minute effort by a departing Utah County commissioner.Nathan Ivie, who lost his reelection bid to Tom Sakievich in the Republican primary, requested a public hearing about placing the falls in a conservation easement at the commission’s most recent meeting. Details haven’t been made public, but such easements typically limit
  
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• Despite health warnings, Utahns ranked No. 1 in continental U.S. for Thanksgiving road trips

  30-11-2020 18:42
  
  Utahns were worst among residents of the continental United States for heeding health officials’ pleas to stay home during the Thanksgiving holiday to help slow the spread of COVID-19, new data suggest.The number of road trips of at least 50 miles taken by Utahns did drop by 13.9% the day before Thanksgiving and on the holiday itself compared to a year earlier — but that was the lowest decrease in any of the continental states, according to the travel data company Arrivalist and its
  
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• Pope Francis, with new cardinals, warns Catholic Church against mediocrity

  30-11-2020 18:20
  
  Vatican City • Pope Francis, joined by the church’s newest cardinals in Mass on Sunday, warned against mediocrity as well as seeking out “godfathers” to promote one’s own career.Eleven of the 13 new cardinals sat near the central altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, where Francis on Saturday had bestowed upon them the red hats symbolizing they are now so-called princes of the church.Two of the new cardinals couldn’t make it to Rome because of pandemic travel co
  
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• Despite health warnings, Utahns ranked No. 1 among continental states for taking Thanksgiving road trips

  30-11-2020 18:20
  
  Utahns were worst among the continental states nation for heeding health officials’ pleas to stay home during the Thanksgiving holiday to help slow the spread of COVID-19, new data suggest.The number of road trips of at least 50 miles taken by Utahns did drop by 13.9% the day before Thanksgiving and on the holiday itself compared to a year earlier — but that was the lowest decrease in any of the continental states, according to the travel data company Arrivalist and its Daily Travel
  
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• Slamdance announces slate for 2021 virtual film festival, skipping Park City because of COVID-19

  30-11-2020 18:09
  
  The Slamdance Film Festival will screen about as many movies as usual in 2021 — but not at the festival’s regular venue in Park City.Slamdance on Monday announced its lineup of 25 feature films and 107 short films, all of which will screen online from Feb. 12 to 25. The festival announced in October that its 27th edition would skip in-person screenings at Park City’s Treasure Mountain Inn for 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.All the films, as well as Q&As and panels,
  
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• Navajo Nation health director named to Biden COVID-19 board

  30-11-2020 18:03
  
  Phoenix • The executive director of the Navajo Nation Department of Health has been named a member of President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board.Dr. Jill Jim was among the board members announced Saturday as part of Biden’s transition team preparing to implement the president-elect’s coronavirus containment plans, KPHO-TV reported.Jim’s work has focused on preventing chronic diseases and addressing healthcare and health disparities involving Native Americans
  
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• As hiking surges during the pandemic, so do injuries

  30-11-2020 17:54
  
  Outdoor activities have become a popular pastime during the coronavirus pandemic as adventure seekers and couch surfers alike take to hiking trails for a bit of a reprieve.But while hiking might be a safe, socially distanced activity, the challenges of weather, nature and physical strain have led to a rash of injuries and some deaths on the trails.In September, three hikers died in six days in the White Mountains in New Hampshire. A hiker in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington who encounte
  
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• Navajo Nation finds 177 more COVID-19 cases, 5 new deaths

  30-11-2020 17:38
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Nation is reporting more than 170 new COVID-19 cases and five additional deaths.Navajo health officials announced Sunday a new tally of 177 newly confirmed virus cases, bringing the total to 16,427, including 27 delayed unreported cases. The death toll from COVID-19 on the vast reservation that includes parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah now stands at 653.So far, 8,676 have recovered from COVID-19, and 157,860 COVID-19 tests have been administered.Resident
  
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• Why a Utah cave may hold clues to climate change and a warning about our water future

  30-11-2020 17:12
  
  The ancient people of western Utah’s Danger Cave lived well. They ate freshwater fish, ducks and other small game, according to detritus they left behind. They had a lush lakeside view, with cattails, bulrushes and water-loving willows adorning the marshlands.But, over time, the good life became history. As heat and drought set in, the freshwater dried up and forced the ancients to survive by plucking tiny seeds from desert shrubs called pickleweed. Archaeologists know this from a thick la
  
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• Zeynep Tufekci: We need election results everyone can believe in. Here’s how.

  30-11-2020 15:11
  
  Since 2008, partisan distrust of presidential election results has been substantial. In 2016, only 43 percent of Democrats believed that the election was free and fair; now, only 30 percent of Republicans do. Each party’s supporters are more likely to believe that the vote was free and fair if they won, and those on the losing side are becoming more suspicious of the results. With a defeated president trying for weeks to overturn an election he has falsely called fraudulent, our partisan b
  
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• Letter: Online comments add value to new coverage

  30-11-2020 15:10
  
  Recently there have been several letters to the editor in this newspaper bemoaning the impending end of the print edition. I understand the sense of loss, as I, too, was once a longtime print subscriber/addict.But the online version offers certain advantages. For one thing, it saves all the trees that would otherwise be needed for print editions. It provides easy access/retrieval using the power of the internet and readers can easily adjust print size for greater readability.What matters most to
  
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• Charlie Warzel: We’re fighting COVID on our own. But we’re not powerless.

  30-11-2020 15:10
  
  Last week, a dispatch from Nova Scotia left me reeling. The journalist Stephanie Nolen described her life in the province, not terribly far from the American mainland, as “a parallel dimension” where gym classes and dinner parties still happen and community spread of the coronavirus is low. In an effort to explain how the area beat back the virus, she wrote:Our freedom feels precious and fragile. It has not come cheap. But it’s a steadying thing, the knowledge that we will make
  
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• Letter: Make clear what’s unacceptable

  30-11-2020 15:09
  
  In the euphoria of his apparent election victory, Joe Biden and his supporters have been ballyhooing the prospects of unity, “healing the political divisions in the nation.” To the contrary, now is an excellent time to make it clear that the values and rhetoric of the soon-to-be-ex-president and many of his supporters are simply unacceptable in a civil society.Granted, there is value in diverse opinions (“The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted
  
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• Robert Gehrke: If Utah has pandemic relief money to spend, here’s where it should go

  30-11-2020 14:00
  
  A little over a year ago, Ali Sabbah opened the third location of his popular Mazza restaurant, the largest of the three, in Sandy.It took a few months to build up business there, and Sabbah said he had just turned a corner when COVID hit in March and he had to close all of his restaurants.In September, he tried to reopen the Sandy location, but he had to close again when one of his cooks tested positive.“I got to thinking, I can’t be doing this every time someone has symptoms,&rdquo
  
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• Kane County looking to dam the Virgin River in latest major project

  30-11-2020 14:00
  
  After spending tens of millions on water development projects, Kane County water officials are looking to spend millions more, mostly from federal sources, in their latest plan to dam the Virgin River upstream of Zion National Park for the benefit of alfalfa growers.The proposed Cove Reservoir would impound 6,000 acre-feet of water behind a 90-foot-high dam just west of Orderville. The Kane County Water Conservancy District says the project also would provide much needed hydropower and recreatio
  
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• Green River payments related to Utah inland port come under fire from critics

  30-11-2020 14:00
  
  At a special meeting of the Green River City Council in late October, Mayor Travis Bacon told his colleagues that he had “made a boo-boo.”Bacon used the city checkbook to pay $17,000 to a company owned by his friend Scott Banasky — a Springville-based insurance salesman, entrepreneur, philanthropist and owner of a local hunting lodge — despite not having preapproved the deal with the City Council nor, Bacon said, having received invoices from Banasky.“It looks very
  
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• Letter: Teach suicide prevention in schools

  30-11-2020 13:00
  
  In Utah, suicide is the leading cause of death for youth (10-17) and rates remain on the rise. This information is concerning for a variety of reasons, mainly surrounding one main idea: Suicide is preventable. Suicide prevention can be a daunting task, but why not start in the place where youth spend most of their time? Considering mental health problems onset in childhood and often bleed into adulthood, an effective prevention tactic would involve intervention as soon as possible. The Harvard P
  
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• Fauci: U.S. may see ‘surge upon surge’ of virus in coming weeks

  30-11-2020 06:21
  
  The nation’s top infectious disease expert said Sunday that the U.S. may see “surge upon a surge” of the coronavirus in the weeks after Thanksgiving, and he does not expect current recommendations around social distancing to be relaxed before Christmas.Meanwhile, in a major reversal, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio said the nation’s largest school system will reopen to in-person learning and increase the number of days a week many children attend class. The announcement
  
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• Completed Wisconsin recount confirms Biden’s win over Trump

  30-11-2020 06:06
  
  Madison, Wis. • Wisconsin finished a recount of its presidential results on Sunday, confirming Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump in the key battleground state. Trump vowed to challenge the outcome in court even before the recount concluded.Dane County was the second and last county to finish its recount, reporting a 45-vote gain for Trump. Milwaukee County, the state’s other big and overwhelmingly liberal county targeted in a recount that Trump paid $3 mil
  
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• Visitors to Utah’s mysterious obelisk left behind human waste, scarred the land

  30-11-2020 03:31
  
  As mysteriously as it came, the world-famous Utah obelisk illegally installed in a San Juan County redrock slot canyon disappeared Friday night, the Bureau of Land Management confirmed. Photos show that whoever removed the sculpture left only a triangular hole and a piece of metal — but the many visitors who flocked to the remote site over the week of Thanksgiving also left evidence of their journeys behind.On Sunday, the BLM said in a news release that people “parked on vegetation a
  
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• Glenn Robinson III agrees to deal with Sacramento Kings

  30-11-2020 03:20
  
  The Sacramento Kings and free-agent forward Glenn Robinson III have agreed to a deal, a league source told HoopsHype. It’s a one-year, $2.03 million, HoopsHype has learned.
  The former 2017 NBA Slam Dunk Contest winner felt he could be a contributor on a talented young Kings team hoping to make the playoffs for the first time since 2006. Sacramento recently lost Bogdan Bogdanovic to the Atlanta Hawks in free agency, and Robinson III will have an opportunity to fill those minutes for the Kin
  
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• Letter: Trump lost but Trumpism is alive

  30-11-2020 02:30
  
  Donald Trump has lost. The bonkers legal challenges are coming to an end and catastrophe has been averted.Trump lost, but Trumpism is alive and well in many parts of the country. Sadly, about 74 million Americans voted for an indecent, tyrannical buffoon. Not once, but twice.Now the discussion has inevitably turned to how Democrats can talk to Trump voters. To what end? Why is it assumed that the left should try to understand the right when Republicans feel no need to reciprocate? Three in four
  
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• Doctor says Biden fractured foot while playing with his dog

  30-11-2020 02:25
  
  Wilmington, Del. • President-elect Joe Biden fractured his foot while playing with one of his dogs, but doctors found “no obvious fracture” while examining him Sunday, according to his doctor.Biden suffered the injury on Saturday and visited an orthopedist at Delaware Orthopaedic Specialists in Newark, Delaware, for an examination Sunday afternoon, his office said. A subsequent CT scan “confirmed hairline (small) fractures of President-elect Biden’s lateral and inter
  
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• Most Utah ski areas expect to be open by the weekend

  30-11-2020 02:16
  
  Utah’s ski resorts will be enveloped by a flurry of activity this week. By next Monday, all but five are expected to be open for the season.Snowbird will set off a second spree of openings Monday. The resort will require parking reservations for the first time this year as its method of limiting crowds and maintaining social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.Sundance will start its lifts turning Friday and Deer Valley will join in on Saturday. Solitude plans to open Dec. 7 after d
  
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• As training camp begins, NBA teams know that this season won’t be perfect

  30-11-2020 02:00
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45), left, and Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale (23) leap from the bench to help up Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) after was fouled during the Houston Rockets at Utah Jazz NBA basketball game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. | Steve Griffin, Deseret News The NBA is fully expecting for the coronavirus to touch the league once again. A certain number of players, coaches, staff, or even their family members will inevitab
  
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• Hornets work out sign-and-trade deal with Celtics for Gordon Hayward

  30-11-2020 01:06
  
  Charlotte, N.C. • The Charlotte Hornets have acquired forward Gordon Hayward and unprotected 2023 and 2024 second-round draft picks from the Boston Celtics in exchange for a heavily protected 2022 second-round draft pick as part of a sign-and-trade transaction.The Celtics will only get Charlotte’s draft pick if the Hornets finish in the top five in the league next season, so it’s unlikely they will get anything in the deal other than unloading Hayward’s contract.Hayward pr
  
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