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• Gordon Monson: Something real good is brewing among the Utes

  12-12-2020 23:52
  
  Utah football finished off its regularly-scheduled season, the one without much meaning, at least not numerically, on Saturday at Colorado. There is one more Pac-12 game for the Utes, yet to be determined against which opponent and where, but … what of it?The numbers up on the board at snowy and unpeopled Folsom Field did indeed spell out a winner and a loser, the Utes wearing the former label by the count of 38-21. But those numbers meant less than they would in any other year.Fittingly
  
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• Letter: Sen. Mike Lee answers to us

  12-12-2020 23:30
  
  I believe that Sen. Mike Lee has no clue who he works for and has an agenda that rattles around in his empty head. First, he’s employed by me, a Utah voter and taxpayer. He can refer to me as Mr. Boss, or just Boss. Second, as his employer, I don’t give him permission to pursue a personal agenda, like worrying about Facebook and Twitter’s politics.His job, as I have clearly conveyed to him, is to first support the national efforts to convey the CDC’s and Coronavirus Task
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Testing can rescue our schools

  12-12-2020 23:02
  
  Before “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” was “The Goon Show,” an absurdist radio program on the BBC that featured, among others, a young Peter Sellers. In 1957, the program included a sketch in which the first man to take off in an airplane came to a bad end because only after he was airborne did he realize that nobody had yet invented the airport.It is equally absurd, but not nearly as funny, to realize that many schools in the United States, notably the Salt Lake Cit
  
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• Letter: Toss out Reyes

  12-12-2020 21:30
  
  If Sean Reyes is so keen to throw out the 2020 presidential election results, maybe his election results should be tossed out, too. Now that he has shown, yet again, his true colors, it would give voters a chance to elect Greg Skordas as attorney general. You know, someone who would actually represent the people of Utah and not waste our money with frivolous lawsuits.Lisa Brothman, Cottonwood HeightsSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Utah football hammers No. 21 Colorado 38-21 in snowy Boulder, as defense takes over in second half

  12-12-2020 21:29
  
  The University of Utah plays defense.That has never been in doubt. Regardless of the personnel, regardless of having to replace nine starters, the Utes’ defense will persevere, as was the case on Saturday afternoon at the University of Colorado.Nursing a six-point lead just inside 5:00 to play, Colorado quarterback Sam Noyer’s fourth-and-five pass at the Utah 35-yard line was batted down by defensive tackle Viane Moala.On the first play of the ensuing drive, Ty Jordan’s 66-yard
  
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• Utah reports another 3,692 COVID-19 positives and 13 deaths; ICU capacity is now at 96%

  12-12-2020 21:08
  
  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.Another dire day for Utah on the COVID-19 front, but with a small caveat.The Utah Department of Health on Saturday reported an increase of 3,692 positive cases from Friday, which includes approximately 1,100 cases that were omitted becau
  
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• Letter: Utah women deserve better than Mike Lee

  12-12-2020 19:30
  
  Sen. Mike Lee:Where do you get off denying the country of finally honoring American women with a museum that celebrates women’s history and accomplishments in a country that misogynists like you have sought to prevent gaining true gender equality for most of our history? In the year we celebrate 100 years of women finally achieving the right to vote, like you and I always could, your insistence to stand in the way to perpetuate discrimination shocks me for your ignorant cruelty.Clearly, yo
  
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• U.S. says COVID-19 vaccine to start arriving in states Monday

  12-12-2020 19:00
  
  Washington • The nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine will begin arriving in states Monday morning, U.S. officials said Saturday, after the government gave the final go-ahead to the shots needed to end an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans.Trucks will roll out Sunday morning as shipping companies UPS and FedEx begin delivering Pfizer’s vaccine to nearly 150 distribution centers across the states, said Army Gen. Gustave Perna of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administr
  
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• Here’s a look at Salt Lake City crime statistics in your neighborhood

  12-12-2020 18:35
  
  Violent crime has increased in Salt Lake City by 21.6% this year, while property crimes are up 24.9% — but each of the capital city’s seven districts have been affected differently.Salt Lake City’s District 5, which encompasses the Ballpark, Central Ninth, East Liberty Park and Liberty Wells neighborhoods, has been among the hardest hit by violent crime, with a 59.6% spike in those offenses from Jan. 1 through Sunday compared to 2019, according to crime statistics posted on the
  
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• Landlords evict hundreds of Utah renters each month despite a ban during the pandemic

  12-12-2020 17:03
  
  The following story was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and was written and researched by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune.Dan Knighton was holding onto everything he could but was losing his grip. His marriage ended, and the pandemic cost him his job as a facilities manager for a chain of movie theaters.His landlord was willing to work with him through the summer. As fall approached and new management took over
  
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• FairMormon’s new satirical videos take on church critics, but does the humor miss the mark?

  12-12-2020 16:29
  
  Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting important local journalism.The message of the just-released, supposedly hip videos produced for FairMormon is best spelled out by, well, Satan.“I’ve done a lot of bad. I inspired Genghis Khan. I’m behind the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations, terrorism, corruption, systemic inequality, the entire state of Alabama — I’m behind it all,” the red-cap
  
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• BYU football focusing recruitment on two more athletes, but pretty much have Class of 2021 locked down

  12-12-2020 16:00
  
  Provo • Even though the coronavirus pandemic shut down in-person recruiting for months, that hasn’t slowed down BYU. And when the early signing period kicks off in a week, the Cougars are expected to welcome more than a dozen signees.However, BYU is still trying to lock down a couple more of Utah’s top talent — and hope to get them on paper.Jaxon Dart, a 6-foot-3, 210-pound quarterback from Corner Canyon, is ranked as the No. 2 prospect out of Utah according to 247Sports.
  
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• Utah closing in on best football recruiting class since joining the Pac-12

  12-12-2020 15:00
  
  Kyle Whittingham and the rest of the University of Utah football coaching staff have not come face-to-face with a high school recruit in months, a byproduct of the ongoing NCAA recruiting dead period in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.That is important to note because, despite the vast majority of Utah’s football recruiting not being done in-person this cycle, the staff still managed to put together what is projected as its highest-rated recruiting class ever.When the early signing perio
  
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• Group argues for Joe Biden to appoint more Latter-day Saints to his administration

  12-12-2020 15:00
  
  A group supporting President-elect Joe Biden that is made up members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is arguing Biden should appoint Latter-day Saints to prominent positions in his administration.Latter-Day Saints for Biden/Harris argues that the only way for the president-elect to meet his promise to “be a president for all Americans” is to appoint people to his administration who reflect the makeup of the whole country.The group’s national director, Rob Tab
  
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• Feds’ Utah horse sterilizations draw two lawsuits alleging inhumane treatment

  12-12-2020 15:00
  
  Two separate lawsuits were filed Thursday over a wild horse roundup in Utah, alleging the Bureau of Land Management’s plan to surgically sterilize some of the mares is inhumane, unnecessary and a violation of federal law.Charged with managing the West’s free-roaming wild horses and burros, the BLM this week completed its planned gather of hundreds of horses off the range in the Confusion Herd Management Area near the Nevada state line in Millard County. The gather is part of the BLM&
  
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• This outdoor art project adds vibrancy to overlooked parts of Salt Lake City

  12-12-2020 14:00
  
  Four new public art exhibits recently have been installed around Salt Lake City, bringing some color to areas often ignored: an empty downtown lot, a vacant Fairpark motel, a blank Sugar House wall and a Liberty Park dumpster.The Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City has commissioned 33 local artists to create 43 square art pieces, displayed in three prominent places in Salt Lake City through its new initiative “Art for Hope.”• At 255 S. State St., a banner featuring pictures o
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: COVID meds are scarce, but not for Trump cronies

  12-12-2020 14:00
  
  According to a document from the Department of Health and Human Services, a total of 108 doses of Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody cocktail have been allocated to Washington, which had 265 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday alone. Somehow Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s lawyer, got one of those doses. In an interview with a New York radio station on Tuesday, Giuliani did us all the favor of explaining why he qualified for privileged treatment.“I had very mild symptoms,” he t
  
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• Dennis Lythgoe: New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern shows what a leader can be

  12-12-2020 14:00
  
  Jacinda Ardern, a white New Zealand woman, was recently reelected to a second term as prime minister of the small but gorgeous island nation.Ardern, born in Hamilton, N.Z., hit the ground running after winning the election. At 40 and still the youngest world leader, she calls herself a feminist. She is married to Clarke Gayford, a television executive. In 2018, she gave birth to a daughter, Neve Te Aroha. The only other world leader to give birth in office is Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto in 1
  
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• Letter: Crazypants litigation

  12-12-2020 13:30
  
  When is Utah’s attorney general going to get down to the business of the people of Utah and stop meddling in other states’ business? Mr. Sean Reyes has now joined the frivolous lawsuit of Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, which is asking the United States Supreme Court to throw out millions of votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and appoint electors who support President Donald Trump in order to overturn the 2020 election results. By the way, Ken Paxton is un
  
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• Letter: A presidential self-pardon

  12-12-2020 13:00
  
  Utah’s self-proclaimed “constitutional scholar” has yet to tell us what that document says regarding a sitting president granting himself a pardon. How about it, Mike?Red Oelerich, HolladaySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Let’s review the facts

  12-12-2020 07:30
  
  It’s time to review some real-world facts:The sun is a star.The Earth orbits the sun.Donald Trump lost the election.Karen Evans, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Rapid City Rush surge past Utah Grizzlies in ECHL opener

  12-12-2020 07:12
  
  The host Rapid City Rush scored three goals in the third period to beat the Utah Grizzlies 6-4 in their ECHL season opener on Friday night at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center.Cedric Pare, Joe Wegwerth, Miles Gendron and Charlie Gerard scored goals for the Grizzlies.Utah led 3-1 early in the second period before Rapid City scored two goals to tie the game. Gerard added Utah’s final goal to give the Grizz a 4-3 lead heading into the final stanza.The Rush then scored the three third-period goals t
  
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• Utah women’s basketball team defeats Montana State 73-63 in home opener

  12-12-2020 05:34
  
  The University of Utah women’s basketball team defeated Montana State on Friday evening in the Utes’ home opener at the Huntsman Center, pulling away in the fourth quarter for a 73-63 victory.Kemery Martin came off the bench to lead the Utes (2-1) with 12 points, Andrea Torres and Brynna Maxwell each scored 10, and Lola Pendande added 10.The game featured 11 lead changes, and the score was tied 51-51 heading into the fourth quarter. The Utes went on a 15-1 run and outscored the Bobca
  
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• Letter: It’s not censorship if it’s on private property

  12-12-2020 05:30
  
  I read, with some disjointed chuckling, that one Mr. Tony Davis wants Fox News inflicted upon everyone. Let’s take a little closer look at that.I will assume the offending hotel of which you speak is privately owned and you are asking the owners to defer their proprietary rights to suit your whims. Am I right?I have a newsflash for you, Mr. Davis. The Constitution, and amendments to it, do not necessarily apply on private property. Anyone who belongs to a labor union will learn that fact f
  
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• Charlie Warzel: Inside the battle between Biden and Facebook

  12-12-2020 05:00
  
  In the days after the election, several senior Biden campaign workers talked with me about their public confrontation with Facebook, the world’s biggest social media platform. They described the company as plagued by conflicting desires: to avoid claims of political bias; to avoid being blamed for the election results, as it was in 2016; and to publicize its election integrity efforts.Facebook thought it was trying to be a neutral referee. But the Biden and Trump campaigns were playing ent
  
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• Letter: Choose to be a hero

  12-12-2020 04:30
  
  We are living in such unprecedented times. We have endured lockdowns, time away from our friends and loved ones, mask mandates, trip cancellations, wedding cancellations, and changes to our daily lives that we never would have predicted only a short time ago.We have watched COVID-19 travel through the world like a wildfire on a windy day, sparking fires from the largest cities in the world to the smallest rural communities.I know for many of us, the holiday season is usually a blur of activities
  
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• Man dies in Murray shooting

  12-12-2020 04:04
  
  A man died after being shot Friday evening in Murray.The shooting happened in a parking lot near Fireclay Avenueand Main Street, according to the Murray Police Department. Witnesses told police they saw someone outside get into an argument with a person in a car. The person outside shot into the car. The shooting victim began to drive away and got into an accident, according to police. He was taken to a hospital but he died. Police said there may have been a second person outside of the car in t
  
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• Rich Lowry: The glory of Trump’s judges

  12-12-2020 04:00
  
  One of President Donald Trump’s foremost achievements has been to erect a formidable obstacle to his own post-election legal challenges.The federal judiciary, now seeded throughout with Trump-nominated judges, has given the back of its hand to pro-Trump election litigation, with Trump judges issuing notably harsh opinions.It’s always been strange that Trump, who will never be mistaken for a rigorous constitutionalist and who personalizes everything, has elevated a couple of hundred j
  
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• Letter: Reyes embarrasses Utah

  12-12-2020 03:30
  
  As a lifelong resident of Utah, I can say that I’ve never been more embarrassed, disappointed and downright disgusted in the action of an elected official. It was bad enough that our attorney general took it upon himself to help with Donald Trump’s baseless lawsuits and challenges in Nevada. Now we have an attorney general acting in the most partisan fashion imaginable to join a lawsuit against another state’s election results, which was levied by a separate state?We have an at
  
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• Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes ‘disappointed’ in Supreme Court rejection of election lawsuit

  12-12-2020 02:59
  
  On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court unceremoniously dumped the Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the election in four states that went for Joe Biden, scuttling the Trump team’s last-gasp legal hope and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes’ desired role in the effort.“While I am disappointed that the Supreme Court declined to hear the Texas v. Pennsylvania case, I respect its decision,” Reyes said in a prepared statement Friday evening.The Texas lawsuit sought to prevent Georgia
  
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• New York man charged with sending threatening emails to Utah legislators over Provo Canyon School

  12-12-2020 02:53
  
  A New York man was charged Friday with crimes alleging he sent emails to two Utah legislators threatening violence unless they investigated Provo Canyon School, a facility for “troubled teens” he attended two decades ago.Aaron Ross told The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday that he had no intention of hurting anyone, but resorted to sending the emails after his attempts to report sexual abuse went nowhere.“I’m not actually planning to go Utah and start fighting people,” h
  
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• Utah State cancels final football game after players say USU president maligned interim coach

  12-12-2020 02:19
  
  Utah State University on Friday canceled the football team’s final game of the season after USU players voiced concerns about comments they say the school president made about the interim football coach.A report by Stadium’s Brett McMurphy said that members of the players’ leadership council participated in a videoconference on Tuesday with president Noelle Cockett and USU athletic director John Hartwell to voice their support for interim coach Frank Maile and endorse his hirin
  
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• Rick Knuth: Reasons to be grateful to the president

  12-12-2020 02:00
  
  I am taking the advice of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Russell Nelson and making a tangible expression of gratitude this holiday season. I am grateful to Donald J. Trump — as his time in office runs down far too slowly — for these things he has done for us, his countrymen:• Thank you, Mr. President, for showing your fellow Americans who we really are: That among other things we are the kind of people who could be persuaded to elect a moderately successfu
  
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• Lawrence J. Leigh: A tale of two Utah senators

  12-12-2020 02:00
  
  There are uncanny parallels in the lives of Utah’s two U.S. senators, Mitt Romney and Mike Lee.Both had famous fathers. Mitt is George Romney’s son. George, the Republican governor of Michigan in the 1960s, stumbled in 1968 as a presidential candidate by criticizing the Vietnam War too soon and advocating forcefully for civil rights.Mike is Rex Lee’s son. Rex purportedly resigned as solicitor general of the United States under President Ronald Reagan as criticism grew that he w
  
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• Two killed, four critically injured in Millcreek

  12-12-2020 01:56
  
  Two people died and four were critically injured after a speeding car ran a red light in Millcreek.Unified Police spokesperson Sgt. Melody Cutler said a Honda was traveling above the speed limit on Highland Drive before the crash. She said an officer saw the car and tried to stop it but it sped up instead of pulling over, so the officer gave up on making a traffic stop.The car ran a red light at 4500 South and Highland, causing it to crash into a Range Rover which rolled over into another vehicl
  
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• Indian Health Service plans for COVID vaccine distribution

  12-12-2020 01:41
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • The federal agency that provides health care to Native Americans said Friday it will receive more than enough vaccines to protect all the people working in hospitals and clinics, including doctors, nurses and support staff.The Indian Health Service, treated much like a state for distribution purposes, submitted a plan to vaccinate more than 2 million Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The agency expects to receive 22,425 doses of the Pfizer vaccine next week and 46,000
  
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• Here’s how Utah’s struggling live-event businesses can get $3 million in grants

  12-12-2020 01:41
  
  Utah is offering $3 million in grants to help live event businesses, everything ranging from ballets to concert halls to arenas.Applications to the COVID-19 Live Events Grant program, which is managed by the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, open Tuesday morning and close Thursday at noon. To be eligible, businesses must be “substantially involved” in promoting arts, sports or similar events and have lost money due to the pandemic.Businesses that have seen a 50% declin
  
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• Utah’s ICUs near capacity with 2,183 new coronavirus cases Friday

  12-12-2020 01:15
  
  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.Utah’s rate of new coronavirus cases continued to fall, with 2,183 new diagnoses reported Friday — the smallest increase of any Friday since mid-November.The Utah Department of Health on Friday reported a seven-day average of
  
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• Supreme Court rejects Republican attack on Biden victory

  12-12-2020 00:48
  
  Houston • The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation’s highest court.The court’s order was its second this week rebuffing Republican requests that it get involved in the 2020 election outcome. The justices turned away an appeal from Pennsylvania Republicans on Tuesday.The Electoral College meets
  
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• BYU-Boise State women’s basketball game canceled due to COVID-19 outbreak

  12-12-2020 00:31
  
  Provo • Due to a positive Boise State COVID-19 test and following contact tracing protocols, Saturday’s women’s basketball game between BYU and Boise State at the Marriott Center has been postponed.Both sides are working to see if the game can be rescheduled.The test result came back and the game was postponed before Boise State departed for Provo.
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Manspreader Mansplains

  12-12-2020 00:01
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:MAGA Makes Their PointThe Straight PoopA Christmas StoryThe Trump Presidential LibraryBear NecessitiesTreading CoronavirusQanon Be Like ...Mad HatterThe Party of Public PietyStranger ThingsWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Salt Lake City Council approves temporary homeless overflow shelter in west-side hotel

  12-12-2020 00:00
  
  When Salt Lake City opened an emergency overflow shelter earlier this year as a stopgap effort to get people experiencing homelessness out of the bitter cold, Mayor Erin Mendenhall expressed a need for action to prevent similar issues in the next winter season.“I don’t ever want to have this happen again in Salt Lake City,” she said in announcing the temporary shelter in the city’s Sugar House neighborhood. “We’ve got to have housing, permanent supportive hous
  
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• New Utah Jazz guard Shaq Harrison eager to ‘fill that void’ as team’s perimeter defense ace

  12-12-2020 00:00
  
  No one foresaw the Utah Jazz making a roster addition right before their first preseason game of the 2020-21 season, but here we are. So then, Shaquille Harrison, come on down for a lightning-round of “Meet the new guy!”First off, is it Shaquille or just Shaq?“I really don’t care. The majority of people call me Shaq; my mom calls me Shaquille.”Know anything about Utah before coming here?“A lot of Mormons — that’s all I heard.”First impression
  
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• David Burns: Mike Lee still doesn’t like democracy

  12-12-2020 00:00
  
  Just before the election, I wrote a commentary for The Salt Lake Tribune titled, “Why is Mike Lee afraid of democracy?” In that piece, I responded to Lee’s now-infamous “we’re not a democracy” pair of tweets. I was, it turned out, merely one in a choir of responders, because, as the news website Vox intoned with a high degree of understatement, “It’s not often that you see a U.S. senator declare that ‘we’re not a democracy,’ let a
  
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• Brian Higgins: The perfect Christmas movie for 2020

  12-12-2020 00:00
  
  If you’re like me, you might be having a hard time getting into the holiday spirit this year. With daily climbs in COVID-19 deaths and frequent warnings from health officials about a grim winter ahead, it feels difficult to garner much cheer as the holidays approach.Even with the warm embrace of small homecomings with family and friends waiting around the corner, it’s hard to let go of the bleakness that surrounds us and reach for the “joy” switch that we often flick on e
  
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