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• George Pyle: Poverty is the virus that threatens us all

  15-12-2020 22:55
  
  If we are going to get anything out of this horrible year, other than a new president, it should be an understanding of how interconnected all life is.It starts with the realization of how viruses spread, from cell to cell and from continent to continent, no matter how much we may wish that they didn’t. How the health of a few matters to the many. How an illness suffered by people you will never meet spreads across our economy, our political systems and affects decisions individual and col
  
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• Jana Riess: The weary world rejoices during this COVID Christmas

  15-12-2020 22:00
  
  Advent has always been a season of waiting, of finding light in the darkness. Every evening, my family lights our Advent wreath candles at dinner, beginning the first week with just one lone flame in the darkness and then, oh so slowly, adding another each week until Christmas. I love this tangible reminder of how tiny pockets of joy can brighten our lives even as these small flickers of light illuminate some of the darkest nights of the year.This season, we’re also waiting for something e
  
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• Utah gymnastics’ Red Rocks Preview is happening Wednesday, but not the way you remember it

  15-12-2020 21:50
  
  Normally Utah’s gymnastics team uses its Red Rocks preview in part tointroduce its new gymnasts to the idea of performing in front of largecrowds.On Wednesday, the Utes will use their preseason event to do theopposite — get its veterans a taste of what it will be like to perform infront of a near empty Hunstman Center.Unlike in normal times, the public isn’t invited to Wednesday’s afternoon run-through.The Pac-12 hasn’t announced its attendance restrictions for the
  
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• Donovan Mitchell says Utah Jazz teammate Miye Oni is ‘making my life hell’ — and it’s a compliment

  15-12-2020 21:21
  
  Miye Oni stood out enough in last year’s Summer League that the Utah Jazz opted to give him the only full NBA contract among the team’s trio of second-round picks, even though he was the last one selected among them.This year, in spite of the lack of a Summer League, Oni seemed poised to perhaps break into the end of the team’s rotation, praised as he was by front office members, coach Quin Snyder, and myriad teammates in training camp for the growth he has displayed in his gam
  
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• Dustin Bleizeffer: There is one state that still craves coal

  15-12-2020 21:14
  
  As the rest of the West rushes to meet increasingly ambitious goals to reduce carbon emissions, one state is moving in exactly the opposite direction. It’s Wyoming, which even wants to take on the coal-fired generation that states such as Oregon and Washington are abandoning.Wyoming residents and businesses enjoy among the lowest rates for electricity because most of the state’s power comes from burning coal, but those cost dynamics are changing quickly, making coal a liability.Recen
  
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• Paul Krugman: When did Republicans start hating facts?

  15-12-2020 21:13
  
  Republicans spent most of 2020 rejecting science in the face of a runaway pandemic; now they’re rejecting democracy in the face of a clear election loss.What do these rejections have in common? In each case, one of America’s two major parties simply refused to accept facts it didn’t like.I’m not sure it’s right to say Republicans “believe” that, say, wearing face masks is useless or that there was widespread voter fraud. Framing the issue as one of belie
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 1,915 Tuesday

  15-12-2020 21:04
  
  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 1,915 new coronavirus cases reported Tuesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to fall.The Utah Department of Health reported a seven-day average of 2,540 new positive test results per day — the lowest rate so far
  
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• Here are the 72 feature films in the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which will mostly screen online

  15-12-2020 21:01
  
  With everything that will be different about the 2021 Sundance Film Festival — a shorter event, with fewer films, most of it happening online — the quality of movies on the slate has stayed constant, said the festival’s new director, Tabitha Jackson.“The quality of work we’ve seen, the variety of it, the ingenuity of it, gives me, personally, great hope for the future of independent filmmaking,” Jackson told The Salt Lake Tribune this week.The Sundance Institu
  
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• ‘An overwhelming day’ as health care workers receive Utah’s first doses of COVID-19 vaccine

  15-12-2020 20:36
  
  Front-line health care workers received Utah’s first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday.Christy Mulder, a medical intensive care unit nurse, became the first Utahn to receive a shot of the vaccine, Tuesday morning at University of Utah Hospital. A photo of the moment was sent out on Twitter on the University of Utah Health account.“It’s an overwhelming day today,” Mulder told reporters in a video news conference after she got the shot. “Lots of emotions. Exciteme
  
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• Rep. Chris Stewart says Democrat with ties to Chinese spy should leave intelligence committee

  15-12-2020 20:35
  
  Utah Rep. Chris Stewart, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, is calling for a Democratic congressman accused of cozying up to a woman who turned out to be a Chinese spy to either leave that committee or start answering questions about their relationship.“I think he should be removed while we investigate,” Stewart told national Fox News on Tuesday, speaking about Rep. Eric Swalwell, 40, who ran for president briefly last year.“He’s either got to recuse himself fr
  
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• Health care workers receive Utah’s first doses of COVID-19 vaccine

  15-12-2020 20:09
  
  Front-line health care workers received Utah’s first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday.Christy Mulder, a medical intensive care unit nurse, became the first Utahn to receive a shot of the vaccine, Tuesday morning at University of Utah Hospital. A photo of the moment was sent out on Twitter on the University of Utah Health account.Christy, a MICU nurse at U of U Health, is the first person in Utah to receive the COVID-19 vaccination. pic.twitter.com/brU0XtRmKs— University of Utah
  
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• Zion National Park sees uptick in graffiti, asks people to report damage

  15-12-2020 19:51
  
  As Zion National Park sees a recent uptick in graffiti, park leaders made a plea on social media Tuesday for visitors to not leave their “mark” and to report any information about those who’ve damaged park resources and facilities.“No one comes to the park expecting to see graffiti but nearly every day, staff find words and shapes carved, drawn, painted (with mud, dirt, pigment, paint), or scratched on rocks and more recently even carved within moss,” a post Tuesday
  
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• Utah football’s Devin Brumfield, Jordan Wilmore transfers speaks to roster chaos that’s coming

  15-12-2020 19:05
  
  Within two hours of each other late Monday morning and into the early afternoon, a pair of University of Utah running backs, junior Devin Brumfield and sophomore Jordan Wilmore, announced they had entered the NCAA Transfer Portal.The emergence of freshman running back Ty Jordan this fall made their respective decisions mostly unsurprising, but what did come across as a little unusual was the timing of the whole thing. The Utes still have at least one game to play as they get ready to host Washin
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 183 new COVID-19 cases, 2 more deaths

  15-12-2020 18:37
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials have reported 183 new COVID-19 cases and two more deaths.As of Saturday night, the tribe has now reported 19,608 cases and 720 known deaths since the pandemic began.Navajo Department of Health officials said more than 182,000 people on the vast reservation that includes parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah have been tested for COVID-19 and over 10,000 have recovered.Tribal officials have said nearly all intensive care unit beds on the res
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee acknowledges Joe Biden is president-elect

  15-12-2020 18:36
  
  Conservative Utah Sen. Mike Lee — who like President Donald Trump had not recognized Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election — relented, sort of, after the Electoral College formally voted Monday.“Absent new information that could give rise to a judicial or legislative determination altering the impact of today’s Electoral College votes, Joe Biden will become president of the United States on Jan. 20,” Lee acknowledged in a written statement.Still, Lee
  
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• Conservationists sue feds over lack of wolverine protections

  15-12-2020 18:31
  
  Spokane, Wash. • Conservation groups filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to withhold Endangered Species Act protection from wolverines in the lower 48 states, where no more than 300 of the animals are thought to remain.The groups said wolverines face localized extinction as a result of climate change, habitat fragmentation and low genetic diversity.The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Missoula, Montana, and contended that climate chang
  
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• Athletes to retrace Sierra escape of Donner Party survivors

  15-12-2020 18:21
  
  Reno, Nev. • A pair of backcountry endurance athletes who became obsessed with the Donner Party spent the last seven years researching and exploring the Sierra on foot to try to pinpoint the final 90-mile route survivors of the infamous tale of cannibalism finally cut through mountain snow drifts to safety in the winter of 1846-47.Now, four veteran ultrarunners from Northern California are setting out on snowshoes to retrace the footsteps of the pioneers who braved the worst blizzard in a c
  
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• Police identify man shot to death in Murray on Friday

  15-12-2020 18:14
  
  Murray police have identified a man shot to death on Friday, and they’re still asking for the public’s help to identify the shooter.Jak Yiek Mun, 34, of Murray was shot in a parking lot near the intersection of Fireclay Avenue and Main Street at about 5:30 p.m., police said. According to witnesses, Mun was in a car when he began arguing with one or possibly two people standing outside the car, and one person fired several shots into the vehicle.Mun began to drive away but was involve
  
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• The Salt Lake Tribune announces new project to support diverse journalism

  15-12-2020 18:09
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune is teaming up with the nonprofit Amplify Utah to support student journalists at Salt Lake Community College who will report on Utah’s diverse communities and engage younger readers.The yearlong project, which is funded through the Google GNI Innovation Challenge, was announced Tuesday. Students will begin reporting during the spring semester in 2021.“We have students from every corner of society at a community college, and there’s just really deep rich sto
  
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• Utah man dies after his gun goes off while he fought with his daughter

  15-12-2020 17:24
  
  A Springville man is dead after his gun went off while he was fighting with his daughter on Monday.Police said they were called to an apartment complex at 602 W. 550 South at 5:15 p.m. after a gunshot was heard. An 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl — who were outside — told officers they had been arguing with the 18-year-old’s father, and he began waving a gun around during the dispute.The daughter told police that when her father turned on her friend, she got between th
  
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• Tim Wu: Facebook cannot buy its way out of competition

  15-12-2020 17:13
  
  The Federal Trade Commission and more than 40 states filed an antitrust suit against Facebook on Wednesday, prompting the company and its defenders to argue that Silicon Valley’s very way of doing business is under attack.On the contrary. What the federal government and states are doing is reasserting a fundamental rule for all American business: You cannot simply buy your way out of competition. Facebook, led by its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has taken that strategy to a smirking a
  
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• Electoral College makes it official: Biden won, Trump lost

  15-12-2020 16:49
  
  Washington • The Electoral College decisively confirmed Joe Biden as the nation’s next president, ratifying his November victory in an authoritative state-by-state repudiation of President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede he had lost.The presidential electors on Monday gave Biden a solid majority of 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, the same margin that Trump bragged was a landslide when he won the White House four years ago.Heightened security was in place in some stat
  
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• Man trying to hold his breath under water drowns in Park City hotel’s pool

  15-12-2020 16:02
  
  A North Carolina man drowned in the pool at a Park City hotel Monday night.The 22-year-old man was swimming with three friends in the Westgate Park City Resort and Spa’s outdoor pool. According to police, the man and his friends “had been consuming alcohol throughout the day.” The friends told police the Chapel Hill man — whose name has not been released — said he was “going to practice underwater breathing training” in the pool and attempt “to hol
  
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• Tim Wu: Facebook cannot but its way out of competition

  15-12-2020 15:14
  
  The Federal Trade Commission and more than 40 states filed an antitrust suit against Facebook on Wednesday, prompting the company and its defenders to argue that Silicon Valley’s very way of doing business is under attack.On the contrary. What the federal government and states are doing is reasserting a fundamental rule for all American business: You cannot simply buy your way out of competition. Facebook, led by its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has taken that strategy to a smirking a
  
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• Bret Stephens: Donald Trump and the damage done

  15-12-2020 15:14
  
  A few days before Barack Obama left office, he invited a small group of conservative writers, all Never Trumpers, for a conversation in the White House’s Roosevelt Room. The mood was dark.The president was worried about the future of the Republican Party. We worried about the future itself. Someone mentioned the possibility of global thermonuclear war as a plausible outcome of a Trump presidency.Nearly four years on, it’s worth comparing what was predicted about the Trump administrat
  
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• The Triple Team: Utah Jazz turn attention to defensive end in preseason Game 2 win against Suns

  15-12-2020 15:02
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 111-92 win over the Phoenix Suns from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Staying close in the first half through guile and defensive focusDespite the 20-point margin, this preseason game was much more difficult than the first game on Saturday. The Jazz really struggled to score for much of this contest: they went scoreless through the first four minutes, ended up with only 19 points in the first quarter, and struggled in the early parts of t
  
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• Three San Juan County residents featured in Time’s Person of the Year issue

  15-12-2020 14:00
  
  Bluff • The portion of the Navajo Nation that overlaps with Utah may have only about 5,000 residents, but three of them were featured in Time’s Person of the Year coverage this month.Pete Sands, a musician, actor and public relations specialist for Utah Navajo Health System (UNHS), and Tara Benally and Dalene Redhorse, organizers for the Rural Utah Project and the Rural Arizona Project, were visited by a photographer for the magazine a few weeks ago. But none of them knew exactly how
  
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• Stacey Koller: It’s time for Mike Lee to calm down and for Utah women to speak up

  15-12-2020 14:00
  
  I didn’t speak up when Sen. Mike Lee tested positive for COVID-19 after a White House visit in September where he appeared, maskless.Though there was ample data by that time proving the benefits of mask-wearing in public, he ignored the experts. Instead, he approached mask-wearing with a brazen attitude and many Utahans followed suit, leading to alarming rates of transmission. We are losing dozens of Utahans to the disease every day.In October, Lee compared President Donald Trump to Captai
  
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• Robert Kirby: No chimney? Well, there are other ways to let Santa enter our homes and hearts

  15-12-2020 14:00
  
  Tradition is all well and good. It can even be argued as essential for the establishment of social mores and public well-being.There’s a catch. Far too often, tradition cannot withstand serious scientific scrutiny. That’s when it requires us to come up with alternatives.I bumped up against the conflict between science and tradition when my family moved to Idaho in the early ’60s.The first thing I noticed about our nice new house was the complete absence of a chimney. Even at su
  
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• Letter: Ignorance doesn’t excuse racism

  15-12-2020 13:30
  
  In response to Dale Nelson’s letter, “Ignorance shouldn’t be an excuse to throw out tradition,” ignorance is used constantly to explain away practices that have long outlived their usefulness. I applaud Bountiful High School Principal Aaron Hogge for starting the process to select a more culturally appropriate mascot.Change is not always welcome, but in this instance, it is overdue. Yes, it would be easier to not change things, but it is time. I would remind Mr. Nelson th
  
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• Letter: Romney should renounce the Republican Party

  15-12-2020 13:00
  
  To Sen. Mitt Romney:I appreciate the occasional comments you have made regarding the need for a smooth transition. I just read that Ted Cruz is threatening to prevent any hearings on President-elect Biden’s cabinet picks until Jan. 20 and possibly indefinitely. This is reprehensible. I believe your word was “insanity.”The Republican Party, with its insane drive to overturn a democratically elected government, is a serious threat to our 250-year experiment with democracy. Senato
  
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• Uintah County shooting leaves child dead, woman wounded

  15-12-2020 06:55
  
  A 3-year-old child is dead and a 40-year-old woman was seriously wounded after a shooting Monday at remote Fantasy Canyon, south of Vernal in Uintah County.The Uintah County Sheriff’s Office said it received a call at 2:25 p.m. reporting the shooting.Deputies located the woman just west of State Road 45 on the Glen Bench Road, where they also found the dead boy.Deputies said the woman, who is the boy’s mother, received medical treatment at the scene before being taken to a hospital.T
  
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• The Triple Team: Jazz turn attention to defensive end in preseason Game 2 win against Suns

  15-12-2020 06:50
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 111-92 win over the Phoenix Suns from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Staying close in the first half through guile and defensive focusDespite the 20-point margin, this preseason game was much more difficult than the first game on Saturday. The Jazz really struggled to score for much of this contest: they went scoreless through the first four minutes, ended up with only 19 points in the first quarter, and struggled in the early parts of t
  
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• Letter: Let’s better screen our government leaders

  15-12-2020 06:30
  
  When I became a teacher, I had to pass a test and a series of interviews in order to educate Utah’s children. After passing these benchmarks, I was expected to educate the children of Utah in a competent and responsible way. The doctors and nurses who have treated me had to pass several tests and practices before they could meet with me as a patient. Any attorney I seek must have passed a state bar test to indicate a level of competency.The last four years have brought an amazing and shock
  
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• Big third quarter carries Jazz to 111-92 win over Suns

  15-12-2020 05:40
  
  Asked prior to Monday night’s game how he intended to handle dividing up minutes between veterans looking to get on track and youngsters looking to show out, with the contest the middle of just three scheduled preseason matchups, Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder replied that this affair wouldn’t be nearly the clean split that Saturday’s opener was.“This is really about our veteran guys,” Snyder said. “We’d like to see guys have a chance to play together. &hel
  
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• Mitt Romney says he knows losing hurts, but blasts Trump for claiming fraud

  15-12-2020 05:20
  
  Utah Sen. Mitt Romney bashed President Donald Trump again on national TV on Monday evening for continuing to falsely claim the election was stolen from him — and drew on his own experience of losing a presidential election to drive home the point.“The biggest concern that I have is that people here genuinely believe that somehow this election was stolen, and there’s not evidence of that. The president was saying it was stolen even before Election Day happened. He said if he los
  
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• Letter: What are ‘Utah values’?

  15-12-2020 04:30
  
  I am a Utah native, born in Ogden during the early years of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration, and have lived under 12 presidents in 18 administrations. My career included several positions in the federal government in the Defense and Treasury departments. I’m proud to say I held a top-secret security clearance for the bulk of 35 years.I witnessed the interface between states and federal agencies and private industry as well as some foreign countries. I saw the extent
  
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• Erin Rider: A Republican woman’s response to Mike Lee’s vote on the Women’s History Museum

  15-12-2020 02:30
  
  Dear Sen. Mike Lee,As a Republican woman, I would like to take a second to tell you about the impact of your vote to shoot down the proposal for a Smithsonian Women’s History Museum.You may not realize this, but women haven’t always had it easy in this country. It has taken a long time for women to legally receive the same rights as men, and we are still fighting for those rights in many ways even today.Nevertheless, women have been a crucial component to the building of this country
  
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• Law enforcement identify Farmington man killed by officers after he crashed his car into a police vehicle

  15-12-2020 02:14
  
  Investigators have identified a man who was shot and killed by officers on Sunday after he rammed a police vehicle and approached officers with a weapon.Police fatally shot Robert Joseph Evans, 29, of Farmington, according to a joint statement by the Utah Highway Patrol and the Farmington Police.Earlier, the agencies issued a statement saying that, just after 2 a.m. on Sunday, the Farmington Police Department and Utah Highway Patrol were close to wrapping up a stolen-vehicle investigation near t
  
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• Colorado routs Utah in women’s basketball

  15-12-2020 02:05
  
  The University of Utah women’s basketball team struggled on the road Monday against the Colorado Buffaloes, falling 80-50.The Utes shot 35 percent (15 for 51) from the floor, and 25 percent (5 for 20) from 3-point range in falling to 2-2 overall and 1-2 in Pac-12 play.Kemery Martin scored nine points to lead the Utes, going 4 for 8 from the floor.Colorado went on a 10-0 run in the second quarter to break the game open, taking a 30-12 lead with 7:23 remaining in the period.“Colorado b
  
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• A wild mink in Utah is the first wild animal anywhere to test positive for COVID-19, researchers say

  15-12-2020 01:46
  
  A wild mink in Utah is the first free-ranging native animal anywhere to test positive for COVID-19.It was found and tested near an infected fur farm, and that has some national groups raising alarms.It provides “yet another pressing reason why the United States needs to end all mink fur farming without further delay,” Kitty Block, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, wrote in a blog on Monday.That comes after reports in October that thousands of minks at fur
  
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• Mitt Romney pushing Congress to pass coronavirus relief package with extended unemployment benefits

  15-12-2020 01:06
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney is part of a bipartisan group in Congress working to pass a pair of coronavirus relief bills that would offer more than $900 billion in aid, but not direct payments to taxpayers.The two-part proposal, released in detail on Monday, is moving fast as Congress is racing toward the end of the year.One bill provides $748 billion in relief, including $300 per week in extended unemployment benefits, $300 billion for small businesses, and $16 billion for coronavirus testing and vaccine
  
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• Letter: Lee’s extremism doesn’t represent Utah

  15-12-2020 00:30
  
  Sen. Mike Lee’s extreme positions do not represent the views of most Utahns. The most recent evidence of how far outside the mainstream our senior senator lies is his single-handed blocking of a Senate measure to build Smithsonian museums honoring women and Latinos, which had otherwise unanimous support in the Senate.Sen. Lee argued that their establishment would inflame divisions, but I think Utahns understand the value of history education as a path to greater understanding. This is simp
  
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• Lawsuit seeks to force Salt Lake City School District to return to in-person classes

  15-12-2020 00:14
  
  Eight families sued Monday seeking to force Salt Lake City School District to return to in-person classes, saying children there are unfairly and unconstitutionally harmed in the only district in the state that has offered only online classes so far this school year.“By refusing to open the doors of the public schools in Salt Lake City for the entire duration of the 2020-21 school year to date,” their lawsuit says, “the Salt Lake City School District has enacted an historic dep
  
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• Trump says Barr is resigning, and will leave before Christmas

  15-12-2020 00:11
  
  Washington • Attorney General William Barr, one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies, is resigning amid lingering tension with the president over the president’s baseless claims of election fraud and the investigation into President-elect Joe Biden’s son.Barr went Monday to the White House, where Trump said the attorney general submitted his letter of resignation. “As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his famil
  
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