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• Attorney General Sean Reyes asks to join lawsuit challenging Trump’s loss

  10-12-2020 23:57
  
  Attorney General Sean Reyes and five other attorneys general are attempting to climb aboard a legal challenge aimed at overturning President Donald Trump’s election loss.Utah’s top lawyer had already voiced support for the legal action but stepped up his commitment to the lawsuit Thursday with the request to become a party to it. Attorneys general from Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina partnered with Reyes in the motion to intervene.The motion alleges &ldq
  
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• Panel endorses widespread use of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

  10-12-2020 23:52
  
  Washington • A U.S. government advisory panel has endorsed Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, in a major step toward an epic vaccination campaign that could finally conquer the outbreak.The Food and Drug Administration is expected to follow the recommendation issued Thursday by its expert advisers. The advisory group, in 17-4 vote with one abstention, concluded that the shot appears safe and effective against the coronavirus in people 16 and older.A final FDA decision is expected within da
  
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• University of Utah, other health systems struggle to provide the same coronavirus treatment Trump received

  10-12-2020 23:39
  
  Washington • Ben Carson, Chris Christie and Donald J. Trump are not the sturdiest candidates to conquer the coronavirus: older, in some cases overweight, male and not particularly fit. Yet all seem to have gotten through COVID-19, and all have gotten an antibody treatment in such short supply that some hospitals and states are doling it out by lottery.Now Rudy Giuliani, the latest member of Trump’s inner circle to contract COVID-19, has acknowledged that he received at least two of th
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: MAGA Makes Their Point

  10-12-2020 23:35
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:The Straight PoopA Christmas StoryThe Trump Presidential LibraryBear NecessitiesTreading CoronavirusQanon Be Like ...Mad HatterThe Party of Public PietyStranger ThingsNo Visible Means of SupportWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Indigenous activists speak out against plans to import radioactive material to southeast Utah

  10-12-2020 23:07
  
  When locations were chosen more than half a century ago for the dozens of uranium mills that dot the Four Corners landscape, one common factor was almost always considered: proximity to productive uranium mines.The region’s best uranium deposits typically only contain a small percentage of the valuable radioactive mineral, and being able to process the material at a nearby mill was critical to saving on transportation costs.For the last conventional uranium mill still operating in the Unit
  
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• The University of Utah struggles to provide the same coronavirus drug that Trump, others recieved

  10-12-2020 23:00
  
  Washington • Ben Carson, Chris Christie and Donald J. Trump are not the sturdiest candidates to conquer the coronavirus: older, in some cases overweight, male and not particularly fit. Yet all seem to have gotten through COVID-19, and all have gotten an antibody treatment in such short supply that some hospitals and states are doling it out by lottery.Now Rudy Giuliani, the latest member of Trump’s inner circle to contract COVID-19, has acknowledged that he received at least two of th
  
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• Utah State football hires Arkansas State’s Blake Anderson as next coach

  10-12-2020 22:48
  
  It looks like Utah State may have found its next coach for the Aggies football team.Arkansas State coach Blake Anderson has been hired to coach the Aggies, according to ASU, which confirmed the move on Thursday afternoon. Anderson has coached the Red Wolves since 2014.“We appreciate Coach Anderson’s contributions to our program,” Arkansas State athletic director Terry Mohajir said in a statement.  “He is the only head coach in our FBS history to win twoconference cha
  
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• BYU QB Zach Wilson says he has made no decision about declaring for the NFL Draft

  10-12-2020 22:32
  
  With different NFL mock drafts projecting Zach Wilson to be picked up in the first round, is the BYU quarterback leaving Provo soon? Could Saturday’s season finale against San Diego State be the last time Wilson takes the field at LaVell Edwards Stadium?Maybe.But Wilson won’t be making that decision until the season is over.“I think when the time comes, after the season is over, I’ll have a pretty good idea of what to do,” he said. “The plan for me now is to f
  
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• Rudy Gobert committed to playing in the Olympics

  10-12-2020 22:10
  
  Ben Anderson: Rudy Gobert on the Olympics. “My goal is to play, but obviously if we go to the Finals and go to game seven I might miss the opening ceremonies.”
  
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• ‘Utah Politics’ podcast: Utah’s next Lt. Gov. says there’s ‘no evidence’ of widespread voter fraud

  10-12-2020 22:03
  
  Utah Lt. Gov.-elect Deidre Henderson, who will be in charge of Utah’s elections when she takes office in January, is troubled by the accusations of election fraud coming from President Donald Trump and other Republicans.“I don’t think there was widespread voter fraud, there’s no evidence of that,” said Henderson on The Tribune’s “Utah Politics” podcast. “If there’s evidence of that, let’s absolutely prosecute them, but there&rsquo
  
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• Rudy Gobert commited to play in the Olympics

  10-12-2020 22:03
  
  Ben Anderson: Rudy Gobert on the Olympics. “My goal is to play, but obviously if we go to the Finals and go to game seven I might miss the opening ceremonies.”
  
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• Reports: Utah State football hires Arkansas State’s Blake Anderson as next coach

  10-12-2020 21:58
  
  It looks like Utah State may have found its next coach for the Aggies football team.Arkansas State coach Blake Anderson has been hired to coach the Aggies, per multiple reports. Anderson has coached the Red Wolves since 2014.An announcement could come Friday, per a report on website footballscoop.com. The website first reported that Anderson was “a strong candidate” for the Aggies job, but other reports later surfaced that the deal was done.Since starting at Arkansas State, Anderson
  
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• Utah will receive its first vaccine doses soon, as the rate of new coronavirus cases seems to stabilize

  10-12-2020 21:34
  
  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.Teachers will be the first Utahns to receive COVID-19 vaccines after health care workers, Gov. Gary Herbert announced Thursday — but the first vaccine shipments will be smaller than previously thought.“Educators ... are going
  
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• Peter Beinart: Biden wants America to lead the world. It shouldn’t.

  10-12-2020 21:23
  
  There’s a lot we still don’t know about how President-elect Joe Biden and his foreign policy team will approach the world. But this much is clear: They believe in American “leadership.”In a 2015 speech, Antony Blinken, Biden’s choice to be secretary of state, employed some version of the word 21 times. This spring, Biden wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs titled “Why America Must Lead Again.” Last week, when he introduced his national security nominees, h
  
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• Utah State basketball game against Weber State canceled due to COVID-19 cases within Aggies

  10-12-2020 21:17
  
  Utah State basketball has had its first COVID-19 cancellation of the season.The game between the Aggies and Weber State Wildcats scheduled for Saturday has been canceled, the universities announced Thursday. The cancellation is due to “positive COVID-19 test results at Utah State.”Utah State said in a news release that the team is pausing “full team activities,” and that Tuesday’s game against Dixie State may also be impacted.USU and Weber State are exploring resche
  
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• RSL greats Nick Rimando, Kyle Beckerman named to MLS list of 25 greatest players

  10-12-2020 20:57
  
  Major League Soccer this week named Nick Rimando and Kyle Beckerman among the top 25 greatest players in league history.The list was chosen by a panel fo 200 MLS experts who whittled down an initial list of 137 players. The league nominated the initial 137.The experts took under consideration players who won multiple individual league honors, won trophies, made significant impacts off the field and were among all-time leaders in major statistical categories.Rimando reacted to the news with a twe
  
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• Utah’s new unemployment claims jump 35% as winter nears and COVID-19 worsens

  10-12-2020 20:48
  
  After months of steady declines, Utah’s new unemployment claims jumped 35% last week as winter weather and rising coronavirus cases sidelined thousands of workers.Some 4,758 residents sought jobless aid the week ending Dec. 5, including 1,364 Utahns who are applying for two federal aid programs about to expire in two weeks without further action from Congress.Nine months into the pandemic, Utah is seeing weekly claims at four times their levels in an average year — and matching or ex
  
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• Here are the sobering stats as Utah surpasses 1,000 COVID-19 deaths

  10-12-2020 20:38
  
  In October, after the pandemic had raged for seven months, Utah hit a milestone: 500 deaths.Now, two months later, deaths have doubled.Officially, after Thursday’s report from the Utah Department of Health, we’ve surpassed 1,000 coronavirus deaths in Utah, reaching 1,016. Yes, the quickening pace is to be expected when we’ve seen exponential growth in infections, but just because it’s not mathematically shocking doesn’t mean the deaths aren’t legitimately sobe
  
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• Nick Rimando, Kyle Beckerman named to MLS list of 25 greatest players

  10-12-2020 20:34
  
  Major League Soccer this week named Nick Rimando and Kyle Beckerman among the top 25 greatest players in league history.The list was chosen by a panel fo 200 MLS experts who whittled down an initial list of 137 players. The league nominated the initial 137.The experts took under consideration players who won multiple individual league honors, won trophies, made significant impacts off the field and were among all-time leaders in major statistical categories.Rimando reacted to the news with a twe
  
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• Watch live: Utah will receive its first vaccine doses soon, as the rate of new coronavirus cases seems to stabilize

  10-12-2020 20:24
  
  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 Utah’s rate of new coronavirus diagnoses held steady Thursday, with 3,401 new cases reported, Gov. Gary Herbert said the state is close to receiving its first doses of vaccine.And the state has decided that educators will recei
  
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• Where to dine in a tent, igloo or greenhouse in Utah; a new distillery opens; and Super Chix adds more stores

  10-12-2020 20:03
  
  Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting important local journalism.Last month, The Salt Lake Tribune shared the story of pandemic-safe dining globes at Cafe Galleria in Midway.Since then, we’ve discovered more restaurants with creative outdoor dining structures.Log Haven has installed a large tentlike structure, called the Winter Conservatory, over its existing outdoor patio. Fresh air is brought in through floor he
  
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• Watch ‘Trib Talk’ live: Why these Utah bar owners are furious at the governor’s alcohol restriction

  10-12-2020 20:01
  
  Watch live here.On the next episode of “Trib Talk,” reporter Kathy Stephenson will talk to Twist Bar Bistro & Social owner Kirk Bengtzen and Dave Morris, the owner of Piper Down Pub and HandleBar, about their opposition to Gov. Gary Herbert’s rule banning the sale of alcohol after 10 p.m.Watch live here or on our Facebook page at noon on Thursday, Dec. 10. Tweet your questions using #TribTalk, or email them to [email protected].“Trib Talk” is produced by Jeni
  
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• Utah companies recognized for leadership, training and creativity

  10-12-2020 20:00
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune’s Top Workplaces report annually selects three top executives — one each from a large, midsize and small company — for leadership awards.It also recognizes companies for their work in specific areas such as employee training, encouraging new ideas and promoting a work-life balance.The annual survey, conducted by Energage, a Philadelphia-based research and consulting firm, resulted in these leadership and special awards for 2020:
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• Attorney General Sean Reyes flies to D.C. for ‘holiday luncheon’ with Trump

  10-12-2020 19:53
  
  Attorney General Sean Reyes landed in D.C. Thursday morning for a lunch with President Donald Trump and other Republican attorneys general who are backing a legal attempt to overturn the president’s election loss.Reyes’ spokesman described the get-together as a “holiday luncheon” and said the invite went out well before Utah’s attorney general joined his Republican peers Wednesday in endorsing a lawsuit to invalidate election results in four states won by President-
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Why these Utah bar owners are furious at the governor’s alcohol restriction

  10-12-2020 19:51
  
  Watch live here.On the next episode of “Trib Talk,” reporter Kathy Stephenson will talk to Twist Bar Bistro & Social owner Kirk Bengtzen and Dave Morris, the owner of Piper Down Pub and HandleBar, about their opposition to Gov. Gary Herbert’s rule banning the sale of alcohol after 10 p.m.Watch live here or on our Facebook page at noon on Thursday, Dec. 10. Tweet your questions using #TribTalk, or email them to [email protected].“Trib Talk” is produced by Jeni
  
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• Watch live: Update on coronavirus in Utah, with 3,401 new cases reported Thursday

  10-12-2020 19:44
  
  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 3,401 new coronavirus cases reported Thursday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses held steady.But with more than 20 deaths reported for the third day in a row, Thursday marked the virus’s deadliest week in Utah since the pande
  
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• Utah State football reportedly closing in on coaching hire

  10-12-2020 19:12
  
  Utah State may be closing in on a coaching hire for its football team.Arkansas State coach Blake Anderson is reportedly considered a “strong candidate” for the Aggies job, per website footballscoop.com. Anderson has coached the Red Wolves since 2014.An announcement could come Friday, per the report.The website also reported that USC defensive coordinator Todd Orlando and Weber State coach Jay Hill were considered for the USU position. Orlando spent two seasons with Utah State as the
  
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• Here’s how to watch violinist rock star Lindsey Stirling’s Christmas TV special

  10-12-2020 19:10
  
  For a millennial, violinist rock star Lindsey Stirling knows her classic Christmas TV.Stirling is a fan of “some of these old-time Christmas specials, that I just feel capture a certain amount of magic — that leans into the medium of filming it rather than trying to pretend everything is live.”Stirling, a 34-year-old electronic-music violinist and former Utah resident, aims to capture a little of that magic in “Lindsey Stirling: Home for the Holidays,” a pay-per-vie
  
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• Weekly Run newsletter: Donovan Mitchell says Utah Jazz have to get out of the first round

  10-12-2020 19:02
  
  The Weekly Run is a newsletter about the Utah Jazz. Not a subscriber? Sign up here.After back-to-back questions about the Utah Jazz’s locker room leadership and his role in it during Wednesday’s media session, Donovan Mitchell went off.Not with malice or anger or short-temperedness toward the questioners, but with intensity and focus and single-mindedness of purpose.Regardless of whether you think the Jazz did enough this offseason to take the next step in the path toward championshi
  
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• Why appreciation in the workplace matters

  10-12-2020 19:00
  
  When it comes to feeling appreciated at work, what matters most to employees? If you answered “pay,” think again. Research shows pay is low on the list.Energage surveyed more than 22 million employees across 66,000 organizations over the past 14 years. We’ve learned that what matters to employees — what truly motivates them — is feeling appreciated. Across all U.S. sectors and populations, appreciation ranks as one of the most important workplace culture drivers.Our
  
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• Commentary: MLB plays hardball with minor leagues — and deals a blow to heartland

  10-12-2020 18:53
  
  Minor league baseball hasn’t been able to take the field in more than a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.When it finally returns, it will look a whole lot leaner.That’s not an encouraging development for a sport that desperately needs to develop new fans at the grassroots level.In a classic game of hardball, Major League Baseball essentially forced its will on the game’s crucial developmental levels, eliminating highly sought affiliations with 43 franchises — abou
  
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• Red All Over: Does the Utah-BYU hoops rivalry still matter?

  10-12-2020 18:39
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.Utah-BYU is one of the country’s criminally-underrated college basketball rivalries.As a native East Coaster and college basketball enthusiast, that is what I knew Utah-BYU to be when I began working for The Salt Lake Tribune a year ago.I knew this was a football-centric market when I came out here, but I was very excited to dive into the Utah-BYU basketball rivalry. So, on my second day of work, I made my way to t
  
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• 3 days after a stroke, Rep. Rob Bishop gives a speech on U.S. House floor

  10-12-2020 18:03
  
  Three days after suffering a mild stroke — and one day after leaving the hospital — Utah Rep. Rob Bishop, 69, was back on the U.S. House floor giving a speech on Thursday morning.“He had to take a walker to get to the floor,” said his chief of staff, Adam Stewart. The folded walker was visible next to the podium on television as Bishop spoke — but he showed no other signs of the stroke as he spoke in his usual cadence and style.What was so important?Bishop “wa
  
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• 8 Utah companies — 80 or older — make the Top Workplaces list

  10-12-2020 18:00
  
  What do a mushrooming city, a candy company and a children’s hospital have in common?They are among eight Utah-based companies — in business 80 years or more — to make The Salt Lake Tribune’s 2020 tally of Top Workplaces.The annual survey conducted by Energage, a Philadelphia-based research and consulting firm, often highlights the “young guns” — the leaders in software, technology and other cutting-edge fields that are products of the 21st century. But
  
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• Commentary: MLB plays hardball with the minor leagues — and deals a blow to the heartland

  10-12-2020 17:44
  
  Minor league baseball hasn’t been able to take the field in more than a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.When it finally returns, it will look a whole lot leaner.That’s not an encouraging development for a sport that desperately needs to develop new fans at the grassroots level.In a classic game of hardball, Major League Baseball essentially forced its will on the game’s crucial developmental levels, eliminating highly sought affiliations with 43 franchises — abou
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: One apostle’s ‘miraculous’ recovery; another’s mask message; and a First Presidency’s Noel

  10-12-2020 16:28
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Holland’s ‘miracle’
  (Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
  Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles speaks at the First Presidency Christmas Devotional
  
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• The big question for all those Salt Lake City office towers: Will workers return after COVID-19?

  10-12-2020 15:15
  
  Few worlds blew apart with the pandemic like our lives at the office.COVID-19 upended countless everyday workflows, habits and human interactions built around a culture shared daily and face to face at the workplace. Downtown Salt Lake City streets, its office towers, lunchtime eateries and mass transit lines remain ghosted of most of their usual inhabitants, though foot traffic has returned with business reopenings.The latest numbers show that three of every four downtown employees are still re
  
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• Utah business leaders give advice on how to support employees during COVID-19′s ‘shecession’

  10-12-2020 15:12
  
  Some experts and news outlets are calling it a “shecession” as women in the U.S. experience disproportionate effects of the economic downturn during the coronavirus pandemic.From mid-March through April, when schools closed and child care providers struggled to stay open, women in Utah filed the majority of new unemployment claims, according to data from the Utah Department of Workforce Services.In September, 865,000 women left the workforce, compared to 216,000 men nationally, repor
  
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• Feds fast-track plan to lease Uinta Basin lands for tar sands mining before Trump leaves office

  10-12-2020 15:04
  
  With the sun setting on the industry-friendly Trump administration and its “energy dominance” agenda for public lands, the Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday proposed leasing 2,100 acres in Utah’s Uinta Basin to tar sands developers.Environmentalists immediately sounded the alarm about the potential damage to the landscape, proximity to a popular mountain biking area and contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.Utah holds millions of barrels of potential hydrocarbons on th
  
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• Letter: Ignorance shouldn’t be an excuse to throw out tradition

  10-12-2020 14:01
  
  In response to Rep. Joel Briscoe’s Dec. 3 opinion piece, reasonable alternatives to discarding Bountiful High School’s Braves mascot ought to be considered. He admits that he “knew next to nothing about the various ‘Indian’ signs and symbols that were being used to symbolize [the] school’s status as the ‘Braves.’”Ignorance shouldn’t be an excuse to throw out tradition. Native American braves are certainly something the school could emul
  
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• Violent crime and property crime surge in Salt Lake City, up more than 20% in 2020

  10-12-2020 14:00
  
  After years of trending downward, reports of violent crime and property crime have spiked in Salt Lake City this year — a microcosm of a nationwide trend of rising criminality that could have its roots in the coronavirus pandemic.Violent crime increased 21.6% from Jan. 1 through Sunday, and property crimes are up 24.9%, according to crime statistics the Salt Lake City Police Department reports on its website. Criminal homicide, aggravated assault and motor vehicle theft in the capital city
  
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• Michelle Quist: Gratitude and some uncomfortable self-reflection

  10-12-2020 14:00
  
  This is the season for love and service and giving, and it’s a joy that we’re finally here — the end of 2020. Most agree that the year can’t end soon enough.Self-reflection at the end of each year is healthy. But I recently found myself mired in uncomfortable self-reflection as I considered my response to recent social media campaigns encouraging gratitude and positivity and growth. (How dare they!)The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently promoted a campai
  
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• Letter: Trump’s supporters will be targets of his wrath in the end

  10-12-2020 14:00
  
  Regarding George Pyle’s Dec. 6 column, “Utah Republicans should see that winning an election is not cheating”: I have a vision of what the future holds for us once our nation returns to civility.Once we all get past the bitterness of Trump supporters who want to believe the election was stolen, Trump will ultimately move on to a new life that could present him with a new set of challenges.At that point I trust his more passionate supporters will somehow find a way to get on wit
  
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• Letter: Trump voters will believe anything

  10-12-2020 14:00
  
  It is clear that we are victims of media tedium as a result of Donald Trump’s insistent, foolhardy and desperate attempts to prove that the 2020 elective was a fraud, a fact that has been disproved over and over again.All of his suits to call the election into question have been dismissed by the courts. Yet he persists and will likely continue, as he is convinced that he won the presidency.The most disturbing consequence of his behavior is that the 73,969,249 people who voted for Trump wil
  
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• Letter: The enablers call them RINOs but what they are deserves a nobler term

  10-12-2020 14:00
  
  There are very few elected Republicans who acknowledge Joe Biden as president-elect, or who call out President Donald Trump when he blatantly disregards the law, do not support his wild ideas nor praise his every move and tweet to assuage his ego. Trump and his weak enablers, including Sen. Mike Lee, Rep. Chris Stewart and Rep.-elect Burgess Owen, refer to such men and women as RINOs: “Republicans In Name Only.”A much more appropriate and fitting acronym for these in-the-minority, de
  
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• Letter: Thanks for bringing the newspaper to my porch all these years

  10-12-2020 14:00
  
  It’s 0620 hours here in Cache County, and I just personally thanked my Salt Lake Tribune carrier for her 12 years of wonderful service.Always on the porch, and always early for an old-time dinosaur like me who enjoys a paper as part of the morning ritual that precedes trudging off to work.But while most of us, like me, will transition to the online version in one form or another, I’d like to suggest to all remaining paper subscribers that we not forget those who have delivered our pa
  
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• Letter: Reality in the time of COVID-19

  10-12-2020 14:00
  
  What is this talk of rationing care? Call it what it really is — triage.Maybe more will understand if we disambiguate.COVID is real. Ask my ICU nurse wife.Jeff Solomon, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Education necessary to save democracy

  10-12-2020 14:00
  
  I just read the David Brooks New York Times commentary (thanks to The Salt Lake Tribune) called “The rotting of the Republican mind.” His ideas on the paranoia of conspiracy theorists were enlightening.Brooks thinks that the lack of a higher education and economic fears which describe a large percentage of Trump voters contributed to a paranoia that has turned almost half our population to the “dark side” of the media.As a retired teacher, I believe that education is obvi
  
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• Feds fast-track plan to Uinta Basin lands for tar sands mining before President Donald Trump leaves office

  10-12-2020 14:00
  
  With the sun setting on the industry-friendly Trump administration and its “energy dominance” agenda for public lands, the Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday proposed leasing 2,100 acres in Utah’s Uinta Basin to tar sands developers.Environmentalists immediately sounded the alarm about the potential damage to the landscape, proximity to a popular mountain biking area and contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.Utah holds millions of barrels of potential hydrocarbons on th
  
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• Bill McKibben: New York sends a blunt message to Big Oil

  10-12-2020 14:00
  
  New York State’s comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, announced on Wednesday that the state would begin divesting its $226 billion employee pension fund from gas and oil companies if they can’t come up with a legitimate business plan within four years that is aligned with the goals of the Paris climate accord. Those investments have historically added up to roughly $12 billion.The entire portfolio will be decarbonized over the next two decades. “Achieving net-zero carbon emissions by
  
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