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• Mike Conley in NBA’s COVID-19 protocol as Utah Jazz take part in first group practice

  04-12-2020 23:59
  
  After opening training camp with three days of individual workouts, Friday morning saw the Utah Jazz take part in their first group practice ahead of the 2020-21 season.It was noteworthy for the inclusion of Derrick Favors, who acknowledged that after a year away, being back was both “weird” and “regular again.” It was also noteworthy for having Bojan Bogdanovic — making his way back from wrist surgery in May — participating in “everything,” accord
  
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• Sen. Mitt Romney and allies block Trump proposal to pull many troops from Germany

  04-12-2020 23:54
  
  Utah Sen. Mitt Romney not only criticized President Donald Trump long and loudly for planning to remove thousands of troops from Germany, he has apparently successfully helped to block it.A House-Senate conference working out differences on the annual defense bill included a provision pushed by Romney and allies to block any significant troop removal.“Congress made the right decision,” he said in a statement.“At a time when we should be focused on linking arms with our allies t
  
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• Millcreek will host temporary overflow homeless shelter this winter

  04-12-2020 23:45
  
  The Salt Lake Valley Coalition to End Homelessness announced Friday that it has placed a new temporary homeless shelter in Millcreek for the cold winter months.The 60- to 75-bed shelter will be located in the former Osmond Senior Living Memory Care facility on 3300 South in Millcreek. It will be operated by Switchpoint, which runs the Switchpoint Community Resource Center in St. George. It is scheduled to open Thursday and will close in mid-April.“We are heading into a Utah winter in the m
  
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• Rich Lowry: The conspiracy that could hand Democrats the Senate

  04-12-2020 23:31
  
  There is no evidence that Lin Wood and Sidney Powell are secretly working for the Democratic National Committee, but no one has definitively disproved it, either.That’s the kind of conspiratorial reasoning that the Wood-Powell duo, with their deep commitment to wild and unfalsifiable charges, might apply to themselves.The two Trump-allied lawyers have made themselves into wrecking balls against the Republican Party of Georgia, whose top elected officials, they allege, are involved in the m
  
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• Developer shares details about his tram plans for Bridal Veil Falls

  04-12-2020 23:21
  
  A developer who wants to build a luxury drug rehab lodge at the top of Provo Canyon’s Bridal Veil Falls issued a statement Friday saying he intends to rebuild the attraction into “the beautiful and inspiring landmark it once was.”Richard Losee, owner of the fancy Cirque Lodge treatment centers, made waves this week after news emerged that he’d been working with Utah County Commissioner Bill Lee behind the scenes to privatize part of the waterfall. Along with his lodge at
  
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• Utah biathlon standout Bill Spencer, an Olympic athlete and coach, dies at 84

  04-12-2020 23:19
  
  Bill Spencer, who went from Bermuda to the United States Biathlon Association’s Hall of Fame, died Thursday from natural causes at age 84.Spencer, a graduate of Salt Lake City’s South High and a former University of Utah student, dedicated most of his life to the sport that combines cross country skiing and rifle shooting.Born in Alabama, Spencer spent most of his childhood in Bermuda before moving to Utah when he was 12. As an athlete, he won three straight United States national ti
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell makes $12 million donation for scholarships, new gym at his old school

  04-12-2020 23:05
  
  A week ago, Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell called his new contract extension — which could pay him as much as $196 million over five years — “life-changing.”And, indeed, the fourth-year All-Star is already putting some of it to use changing others’ lives.It was announced on Friday that Mitchell — along with his mother Nicole and his sister Jordan — pledged $12 million to Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut, which Donovan and Jordan Mitchell att
  
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• Mitt Romney ‘can’t wait’ to get the vaccine and expects Congress to approve new COVID aid soon

  04-12-2020 23:00
  
  While 42% of Americans say they will not take a COVID-19 vaccine,Sen. Mitt Romney declared Friday that he isn’t one of them — and says aiding vaccine distribution is among reasons that he and a group of senators are pushing hard for a financial relief package.“I can’t wait to take the vaccine,” Romney said in an interview. “I’m anxious to be able to go places without a mask and to be in an airplane without worrying about getting COVID, being able to be w
  
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• John J. Ryan: Solution to medical misinformation is patient empowerment

  04-12-2020 23:00
  
  The role of providers in health care has always been to educate patients about diagnosis, prognosis and interventions. As a cardiologist, I am often asked how to prevent heart disease, what diet is best, how much exercise should people do, among other “heart healthy” questions.More broadly, our colleagues in primary care are asked if doing crossword puzzles decreases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, if vaccines cause autism, and what natural supplements can cure or help stave o
  
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• Burgess Owens-Ben McAdams race one of the priciest in Utah history

  04-12-2020 22:58
  
  Utah’s 4th Congressional District race shaped up to be one of the most expensive in the state’s history, with new campaign finance disclosures showing the candidates combined had raised and then spent nearly $10 million.Freshman Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams, who lost the race last month by a margin of 3,765 votes to Republican Burgess Owens, spent $5.3 million over the course of the campaign in an effort to keep his seat. Owens, a former NFL player and first-time political candidate w
  
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• Salt Lake City officers cleared after fatally shooting man who held another at knifepoint

  04-12-2020 22:36
  
  The Salt Lake City police officers who shot and killed a 34-year-old man while he held a knife to another man’s neck won’t face charges, prosecutors announced Friday.Two Salt Lake City officers, identified as Seyedsherwin Mansourbeigi and Dorothy Rose Wilde, shot Andrew Jacob Preece on July 25 when they found him and the other man outside a Smith’s Food and Drug at 455 S. 500 East.District Attorney Sim Gill said that while the two officers declined to be interviewed for the inv
  
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• Utah Jazz release first half of season schedule, with some unusual features

  04-12-2020 21:44
  
  It’s a different kind of NBA schedule than we’ve ever seen.On Friday, the NBA and Utah Jazz released the first half of its season’s schedule, the portion that runs from Dec. 23 from March 7. And there are some unusual aspects.First, the Jazz have a seven-game road trip in early January, when they’ll play San Antonio, Brooklyn, New York, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, and Washington from Jan. 3 to Jan. 15. That’s the longest Jazz road trip since 2002, when the Jazz v
  
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• Salt Lake City officer who shoved an elderly man won’t face criminal charges — at the victim’s request

  04-12-2020 21:31
  
  A police officer found to have used “improper force” when he pushed down an elderly man during a chaotic protest in Salt Lake City this summer won’t face charges in criminal court, although District Attorney Sim Gill said he wanted to file them.Salt Lake County prosecutors reviewed the May 30 confrontation between Officer Val Brown and the man, and announced in a news release that while Brown’s “conduct was unnecessary, inappropriate, and wholly without justificatio
  
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• Utah State basketball seeking win over 3-point-happy BYU as coach Craig Smith recovers from COVID-19

  04-12-2020 21:25
  
  Craig Smith hasn’t missed a basketball game in 10 years as a head coach. But when his Utah State Aggies face the BYU Cougars on Saturday in the home opener at the Spectrum, he’ll be on the sidelines as he recovers from COVID-19.Smith said Friday via videoconference that he feels “dynamite” and says he is asymptomatic. The positive test surprised him, he said, because he’s been almost militant about avoiding the coronavirus — basically self-quarantining for alm
  
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• Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell is ‘surprise’ guest for Festival of Trees’ live musical event

  04-12-2020 21:24
  
  Update: Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell will be the “surprise” guest star for the Festival of Trees’ first-ever live musical webcast, happening Friday at 7 p.m.Festival of Trees made the announcement Friday afternoon, on KSL Newsradio.Mitchell joins the event’s emcees, singer Alex Boyé and child performers Cami Carver and Payson Inkley, for the webcast, which can be accessed for free on the Festival of Trees website, makegoodgrow.org. Carver, 15, and Inkley, 10
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 3,005 Friday, with 8 more deaths reported

  04-12-2020 21:11
  
  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 3,005 new coronavirus cases reported Friday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to rise — and with more than one in four tests now coming back positive, it appears many infected people have not been diagnosed.For the
  
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• Utah coal company declares bankruptcy, lays off 76 employees at Montana mine

  04-12-2020 21:08
  
  Casper, Wyo. • The owner of a Montana coal mine filed for bankruptcy and laid off nearly half of its workforce at the facility near the Wyoming border.Lighthouse Resources Inc. filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, The Casper Star-Tribune reports.The company based in South Jordan, Utah, owns the Decker coal mine, which is located in Big Horn County just north of the Montana and Wyoming state line.Decker Coal Company, a Li
  
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• Marina Gomberg: If you’ve ever felt or dealt COVID shame, read this

  04-12-2020 21:04
  
  Without a doubt, shame is one hell of a drug — one we’ve used since at least biblical times in our perpetual attempts to make people change their behavior. It’s totally legal. It’s easy to distribute. And it only costs a fraction of our soul.Light it up!And are we ever. Has anyone else noticed how enthusiastically we’re injecting shame into our response to COVID-19?We’re like Santa with his list; we know who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. *rai
  
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• High risk. High reward? BYU takes on Coastal Carolina in battle of football unbeatens.

  04-12-2020 20:53
  
  Provo • The moment No. 8 BYU got wind of a possible opening to play No. 14 Coastal Carolina, the entire staff started prepping for the game even though No. 25 Liberty was still trying to keep its date with the Chanticleers.BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe was initially happy for the opportunity the original matchup represented for fellow-independent Liberty, and was just as surprised by anyone else when BYU was able to take the Flames’ place following a COVID-19 surge on the roster.&l
  
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• LDS Church begins work on a historic temple, its first in India

  04-12-2020 20:38
  
  Latter-day Saints make up barely 0.001% of India’s population, but those members have reason to rejoice this week.Construction officially began on the first temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the South Asian nation with a ceremonial, socially distanced groundbreaking Wednesday in Bengaluru.Once the Bengaluru Temple is finished, India’s members no longer will have to make long journeys to Latter-day Saint temples in the Philippines, Hong Kong or Taiwan.&ldquo
  
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• Jim Wightman and Mark Reynolds: Climate change is a winning issue

  04-12-2020 20:00
  
  In the homestretch of the 2020 campaign, presidential candidate Joe Biden leaned hard into the issue of climate change, running climate-focused ads in swing states. He bet this issue would now be a winner, and it paid off. The votes have been tallied, and candidate Biden is now President-elect Biden.Yet his party doesn’t have unified control of our federal government. Biden will govern alongside a Democratic House, a conservative Supreme Court and a Senate with either a slim Republican or
  
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• Congress moves to block renewed nuclear testing upwind from Utah

  04-12-2020 19:14
  
  A move in Congress to allow renewed explosive nuclear weapons testing upwind from Utah in Nevada has fizzled.That has Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, celebrating a win on an issue that was controversial in his race against the Republican who just defeated him, Rep-elect Burgess Owens.“Our success in this fight means that our citizens won’t have to face the prospect of more dangerous and unnecessary explosive weapons testing in our backyard,” McAdams said Friday.The federal government
  
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• Beware of pests in that fresh Christmas tree

  04-12-2020 19:12
  
  Considering a fresh Christmas tree for the holidays?Watch out for gypsy moth, pine shoot beetle and other invasive species, the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF) warns.The majority of trees on Utah lots are brought in from out of state, the agency said in a news release, and whenever trees, firewood or greenery are transported, there’s a risk for the transportation of pests.To avoid the problem, purchase trees from reputable sources who work with UDAF inspectors and who comply
  
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• Utah coal company declares bankruptcy, lays off 76 employees at Wyoming mine

  04-12-2020 18:32
  
  Casper, Wyo. • The owner of a Montana coal mine filed for bankruptcy and laid off nearly half of its workforce at the facility near the Wyoming border.Lighthouse Resources Inc. filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, The Casper Star-Tribune reports.The company based in South Jordan, Utah, owns the Decker coal mine, which is located in Big Horn County just north of the Montana and Wyoming state line.Decker Coal Company, a Li
  
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• Montana officials plan to cull up to 700 Yellowstone bison

  04-12-2020 18:24
  
  Bozeman, Mont. • Wildlife officials have announced plans to cull between 500 and 700 Yellowstone bison from the population, and no longer enroll the animals to a brucellosis quarantine program.Yellowstone National Park biologist Chris Geremia said if the target is met, an additional 200 male bison could be culled later in the winter, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported. The animals will either be shot or rounded up and shipped for slaughter.Federal, state and tribal agencies finalized the
  
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• Utah football’s top priority vs. Oregon State: Stop Jermar Jefferson, the Pac-12’s leading rusher

  04-12-2020 18:12
  
  There are some exceptions, but the University of Utah’s top priority on defense from week to week is usually the same.Stop the run.The defensive front needs to win the line of scrimmage, and stop the opponent from running the ball at will. The Utes may be 0-2 going into Saturday night’s visit from Oregon State (2-2), but those two opponents have not run the ball well. USC managed just 93 rushing yards on Nov. 21, Washington managed just 88 rushing yards last Saturday, and the Utes ha
  
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• Brian Moench: Air pollution more deadly than COVID pandemic

  04-12-2020 17:00
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic rampaging through the state and the nation has already taken nearly 900 and 270,000 human lives, respectively. Many more have been left chronically debilitated. Of course this is tragic, but it provides valuable context for another evolving public health tragedy in Utah receiving far less attention — air pollution and the inland port.A peer-reviewed assessment from 23 regional experts (many from our best academic institutions) on the human health and economic conseque
  
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• Police offer reward for info about woman found dead at the Great Salt Lake

  04-12-2020 16:15
  
  Unified police are offering a reward to the person who gives them information that leads to the suspect in the shooting death of a woman found near the Great Saltair in August.A jogger found 42-year-old Akosita Kaufusi’s body near the music venue on Aug. 14, police said.Later that month, police said they had “zero leads” in the case and asked those who knew something to come forward.On Thursday, they announced a $1,500 reward for information that leads to charges in the homicid
  
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• Vaccine Q&A: How testing went, what are the side effects and more

  04-12-2020 15:56
  
  The vaccine will arrive in Utah soon.Yes, it hasn’t quite received the go ahead yet — that comes from the Food and Drug Administration. But we’re at the point where packages are getting ready to be shipped and states are making final plans on how best to give people the vaccinations.With that in mind, let’s dive deep into these game-changing vaccines. Before we begin, I want to give a shoutout to Derek Lowe at Science Magazine and the entire staff at STAT News for staying
  
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• Paul Krugman: U.S. should learn to stop worrying and love debt

  04-12-2020 15:11
  
  Amid all the wild swings in U.S. politics over the past decade, one thing has remained constant: the GOP position on government debt. The party considers high levels of debt an existential threat — if a Democrat is sitting in the White House. If a Republican president presides over big deficits, well, as Donald Trump’s budget director reportedly told supporters last year, “nobody cares.”So it’s a completely safe prediction that once Joe Biden is sworn in, we will on
  
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• David Brooks: This is the winter Mitch McConnell made

  04-12-2020 15:10
  
  If we can’t get a COVID-19 relief package through Congress in the next week or two, we’re sunk. It means we have a legislative branch so ideologically divided it can’t address even our most glaring problems. It means we have representatives so lacking in the willingness and ability to compromise that minimally competent government will be impossible, even under a President Joe Biden.The problems a basic relief measure would address couldn’t be more obvious. Under current
  
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• Robert Kirby: The politics of forming my own police department

  04-12-2020 15:00
  
  Brigham Young University is fighting the state’s attempt to decertify its police department, labeling the move “politically motivated.”Since we’re talking about the state of Utah, which is politically governed, it should come as no surprise that the matter may be motivated by politics.As I understand it — which doesn’t mean I actually do — the state no longer wants the privately owned university to have state police powers.At least some of this state pol
  
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• Eye on the Y: AD Tom Holmoe is the true victor of the BYU football season

  04-12-2020 15:00
  
  Tom Holmoe is a boss.And I can already think of his next Halloween costume: a king. He better be sitting on a throne, casually holding a crown on one of his fingers.That’s how people are seeing him following Thursday morning’s news: BYU football will play Coastal Carolina in a battle of the unbeatens on Saturday. It’s everything the Cougars and fans have wanted.A couple of weeks ago, people got a little salty at BYU for seemingly turning up its nose at Washington and passing on
  
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• Lola Mexican bistro moving to Salt Lake City; and an 80th anniversary beer for Snowbasin

  04-12-2020 14:08
  
  Lola — a new Mexican bistro in Salt Lake City’s 9th and 9th neighborhood — is expected to open in mid-December.The restaurant takes over the former Bird House spot, at 856 E. 900 South, and is the latest project for chef/owner Samuel Oteo, who has been operating Lola Taco in Orem since 2019. Oteo previously owned and operated Tortilla Bar and Oteo, also in Utah County.Lola in Orem survived the March shutdown, but with limits on seating to prevent the spread of the coronavirus,
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: It’s long past time for Lou Dobbs to just go away

  04-12-2020 14:05
  
  Lou Dobbs’ recent rant on his Fox Business News show has prompted some to argue that it’s time for him to slink off into obscurity … er, retirement.That’s 100% wrong. It’s way past time for him to be relieved of his TV post.Utahns may recall that in addition to being near the front of the birther parade — promoting completely discredited, racist conspiracy theories — Dobbs also has a streak of anti-Mormonism. Which he made clear more than once.In 2006,
  
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• Rocker Todd Rundgren plans a 25-city virtual tour, including a ‘stop’ in Salt Lake City

  04-12-2020 14:03
  
  What’s the next best thing to playing a concert in Salt Lake City? For rock musician Todd Rundgren, pretending to perform in Salt Lake City.The 72-year-old musician announced plans for a virtual tour Thursday, with 25 online performances from the same venue in Chicago — but each one tailored to a different city, with ticket sales for each show limited to people with zip codes in that city. Fans in Salt Lake City will get to see their show on the internet on March 13.Each show on the
  
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• Vaccine question and answer: How were they tested, what are the side effects and more

  04-12-2020 14:00
  
  The vaccine will arrive in Utah soon.Yes, it hasn’t quite received the go ahead yet — that comes from the Food and Drug Administration. But we’re at the point where packages are getting ready to be shipped and states are making final plans on how best to give people the vaccinations.With that in mind, let’s dive deep into these game-changing vaccines. Before we begin, I want to give a shoutout to Derek Lowe at Science Magazine and the entire staff at STAT News for staying
  
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• Tom Udall and Charles Grassley: End the taxpayer giveaway to Big Oil and Gas

  04-12-2020 14:00
  
  One hundred years ago, Congress passed the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, setting up a system in which companies lease public lands to wrest valuable oil and gas from the ground. In the century since, the royalties and rent that those corporations pay to the American people for access have remained essentially unchanged even as the scale of development and profits has grown hugely.As senators from different parties, we have our share of policy differences. But we both believe in sticking up for th
  
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• This famed bar transforms into a restaurant — and the garlic burgers are back

  04-12-2020 14:00
  
  Holladay • One of Salt Lake County’s most popular dive bars is no longer a dive — or a bar.The Cotton Bottom Inn — which opened Thursday after undergoing a monthslong remodel — has a shiny new kitchen, fresh paint and updated bathrooms and floors.The electrical, plumbing and heating systems now meet 21st-century standards, and the dead branches and undergrowth that kept the one-level building hidden have been torn out and replaced with appealing gravel and ivy landsc
  
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• Robert Gehrke: This woman deserves to be a Utah judge, and Senate Republicans are blocking her

  04-12-2020 14:00
  
  This may or may not shock, but lawyers can be hyper-competitive, to the point that they’ll almost always talk trash on other lawyers.So it’s rare when you find one who is so universally well-regarded for her intellect, honesty and dedication to the law as Margaret Plane.Over the past several years, Plane had been in the running for various judicial appointments, including being a finalist to fill a Utah Supreme Court vacancy, but never got the nod until last month, when Gov. Gary Her
  
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• Marina Gomberg: If you’ve ever felt or delt COVID shame, read this

  04-12-2020 14:00
  
  Without a doubt, shame is one hell of a drug — one we’ve used since at least biblical times in our perpetual attempts to make people change their behavior. It’s totally legal. It’s easy to distribute. And it only costs a fraction of our soul.Light it up!And are we ever. Has anyone else noticed how enthusiastically we’re injecting shame into our response to COVID-19?We’re like Santa with his list; we know who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. *rai
  
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• Charlie Warzel: Trump fades, but the culture war doomloop is eternal

  04-12-2020 14:00
  
  Donald Trump’s win in 2016 never brought his followers the cultural power they’d hoped it would. Quite the opposite, it prompted many cultural institutions — from professional sports to Hollywood — to oppose Trump and his political project with more fervor.That reaction helped fuel a sort of Möbius strip of grievance: We came to power because we were the overlooked, hated silent majority. But, when we came to power, our opposition hated us and treated us unfairly. Th
  
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• Letter: No evidence of election fraud

  04-12-2020 13:00
  
  Sen. Mike Lee keeps saying that Donald Trump is well within his legal rights to make sure the election had no massive fraud. He says we should support Trump within his legal rights.If Trump had merely said, “I want to check and make sure the election was fair and square,” that would have been one thing. But, no, long before the election, he accused the Democrats of massive election fraud. As he did in 2016. Both he and his press secretary have said, “Democrats welcome large-sca
  
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• Letter: Pyle tells the truth

  04-12-2020 08:33
  
  Once again, George Pyle has succinctly stated truth — a rare concept in some segments of today’s U.S. society, especially in its political scene.In his opinion of Nov. 29, “Court says it’s OK to spread death — as long as you are a religion,” Pyle confronts the elephant in Utah’s living room: Equality for only some people equals privilege.Pyle reasonably states how Sen. Mike Lee uses his special job as a U.S. senator to twist his own personal ideology int
  
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• Utah State falls apart in last home game of football season, a 35-7 loss to Air Force

  04-12-2020 06:55
  
  Logan • Just one week after an all-around strong performance by the Utah State football team, the Aggies dropped their final home game of the season with a 35-7 loss to the Air Force Falcons on Thursday at Maverik Stadium.The Aggies came out strong in their opening drive, which lasted 8 minutes and 4 seconds. They converted on all five of their third downs on the drive and ended it with sophomore quarterback Andrew Peasley completing a 4-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Jordan Na
  
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• Letter: Traditions should make everyone proud

  04-12-2020 06:30
  
  As Utahns, we each have many traditions, like going to see the Temple lights or having our annual St. George trips. But some traditions are not always happy, such as the use of Native mascots.When I am referring to Native mascots, I am not referring to the University of Utah’s use of the Utes mascot because they have communicated and work with the Ute Tribe to ensure everything is culturally respected.What I mean by the use of Native mascots as a “tradition” that is harmful, I
  
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• States plan for vaccines as daily U.S. virus deaths top 3,100

  04-12-2020 06:20
  
  States drafted plans Thursday for who will go to the front of the line when the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine become available later this month, as U.S. deaths from the outbreak eclipsed 3,100 in a single day, obliterating the record set last spring.With initial supplies of the vaccine certain to be limited, governors and other state officials are weighing both health and economic concerns in deciding the order in which the shots will be dispensed.States face a Friday deadline to submit reques
  
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• Men tear down California monolith while chanting ‘Christ is king’

  04-12-2020 04:49
  
  Los Angeles • Days after the discovery and swift disappearance of two shining metal monoliths half a world apart, another towering structure has popped up and then quickly vanished, this time from the pinnacle of a trail in California.After photos were posted on social media, the tall, silver metallic structure drew hikers to the top of the Pine Mountain trail in an Atascadero park, halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, KEYT-TV reported Wednesday. The 3-sided, 10-foot-tall, 200-pou
  
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• Utah makes statement with 76-62 rout of Washington in basketball season opener

  04-12-2020 04:33
  
  The University of Utah men’s basketball team has been through a lot, and Larry Krystkowiak knows it.Multiple positive antigen tests on Nov. 13 kick-started what quickly turned into a program-wide COVID-19 outbreak. Nine players living between two off-campus houses got it, Krystkowiak himself had it, and the Utes’ originally scheduled Nov. 25 opener vs. Dixie State was canceled.Late last week, Utah emerged from the outbreak, began to get back to business, and is now plowing forward wi
  
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• Letter: Time to restore the democratic process

  04-12-2020 04:30
  
  With the launch of new administrations at every level of government, the media is laden with discussion of which issues should be addressed first: health care funding, clean energy, international relations, homelessness, income equity, tax structure.We need to recognize that not a single one of these issues will move an inch closer to a lasting resolution until we fix our political system. I see two critical needs:1. Restore the democratic process.We know now that we cannot assume our leaders ar
  
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