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• Utah Championship will remain at Oakridge

  23-12-2020 22:36
  
  The Korn Ferry Tour’s Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank will stay at Oakridge Country Club in Farmington for a fifth year, the host Utah Sports Commission announced Wednesday.Theevent’s venue was listed as “TBD” in November when the tour’s 2021 calendar waspublished, as the previous three-year contract with Oakridge expired.The $600,000 tournament is booked for Aug. 5-8, with Golf Channel providing live coverage of all four rounds in the second-to-last slot
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Court rules on the ‘Christian’ question; BYU prof paints women giving healing blessings

  23-12-2020 22:12
  
  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.Are Latter-day Saints Christian?That’s a question the church and its members frequently face.But it’s one judges need not — and, indeed, should not — attempt to answer, Arizona’s Court of A
  
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• ‘Utah Politics’ podcast: Rob Bishop says Congress should have acted sooner on pandemic relief

  23-12-2020 22:01
  
  President Donald Trump threw Congress off-kilter on Tuesday evening when he unexpectedly called for lawmakers to increase the pandemic relief payment for Americans from $600 to $2,000. Rep. Rob Bishop says Congress is in this situation because they waited too long to act.“A pandemic relief bill should have been passed in June or July. There was a lot of low-hanging fruit everyone agreed to. Democrats and Republicans in Congress would not have played political games with those things,&rdquo
  
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• Canada pulls documentary from Sundance 2021 over director’s claims to indigenous roots

  23-12-2020 21:28
  
  The National Film Board of Canada has pulled a documentary from the slate of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, after questions surfaced about the filmmaker’s claim to indigenous roots.The documentary “Inconvenient Indian” “will be withdrawn from all upcoming festivals, including the 2021 Sundance Film Festival,” the National Film Board of Canada said in a statement issued Tuesday.The film was scheduled to have its premiere online on Jan. 31, 2021. Sundance is going t
  
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• Utah reports 24 more deaths from COVID-19

  23-12-2020 21:18
  
  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 saw another 2,612 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, with 24 more Utahns dying from the disease.For the past week, the state has averaged 2,419 new positive test results a day, the Utah Department of Health reported. That’s a
  
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• Mitt Romney says Trump is threatening relief deal with demand for $2K checks

  23-12-2020 20:55
  
  Utah Sen. Mitt Romney cried foul Wednesday that President Donald Trump is trying to change the bipartisan deal on how big individual and family checks should be, saying that jeopardizes the entire pandemic relief and funding bill that Congress just passed.“The president’s team was very much involved in the negotiation of the legislation,” Romney, who himself was a key negotiator, told the Salt Lake Chamber in an online event.Romney said he and a bipartisan group of rank-and-fil
  
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• BYU in review: Cougars end pandemic-ridden season with dominating performance in all phases

  23-12-2020 20:46
  
  All season long, the BYU Cougars had something to prove — that they deserved to be nationally ranked, that their softened schedule was in no part their fault and that they were the real deal.They proved all that and more on Tuesday by routing UCF 49-23 at the Boca Raton Bowl. For the first time since 2009, the Cougars amassed 11 wins in a season.“I’m grateful that we got to play our 12th game, and really thankful that we have this game of football to play,” BYU coach Kala
  
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• Aaron E. Carroll: A timid CDC waffles on quarantines

  23-12-2020 20:33
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is charged with safeguarding American lives. But in the 10th month of the coronavirus pandemic, as infections surge to new highs, the agency’s advice about what citizens should do remains confusing — right at a time when we need clarity most.While local governments set their own quarantine rules, officials take their cues from the CDC For months, the agency has advised that people who have been exposed to someone with the virus should qu
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: Will Trump force principled conservatives to start their own party? I hope so.

  23-12-2020 20:32
  
  As the Trump presidency heads into the sunset, kicking and screaming, one of the most important questions that will shape American politics at the local, state and national levels is this: Can Donald Trump maintain his iron grip over the Republican Party when he is out of office?This is what we know for sure: He damn well intends to try and is amassing a pile of cash to do so. And here is what I predict: If Trump keeps delegitimizing Joe Biden’s presidency and demanding loyalty for his ext
  
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• Red All Over: Utah’s quarterback situation might be much better in 2021, but just take a breath first

  23-12-2020 19:28
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.The No. 1 roster priority for the University of Utah football team this offseason was quarterback.It took Kyle Whittingham all of nine hours after the season ended Saturday to deal with it.The Utes got a commitment from true freshman Texas transfer Ja’Quinden Jackson, then followed that Sunday afternoon with another commitment from Charlie Brewer, a four-year starter at Baylor with 9,700 passing yards and over 10,0
  
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• Salt Lake City police putting more officers on patrol to fight the increase in violent and property crimes

  23-12-2020 19:27
  
  The Salt Lake City Police Department is adding nearly 40 new officers to patrol shifts to try to curb the increase in violent and property crimes seen this year.Violent crime had increased more than 21% from Jan. 1, and property crimes are up nearly 25%, according to crime statistics the Salt Lake City Police Department reports on its website. Officials attributed the uptick, in large-part, to the pandemic.The department on Wednesday announced the first part of its plan to address the spike in t
  
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• Utah deputy athletic director Kyle Brennan leaving to take AD position at Illinois State

  23-12-2020 18:48
  
  The University of Utah athletic department is in the market for a new deputy athletic director.Kyle Brennan, the Utes’ Deputy AD since 2014 and with the athletic department since 2008, has accepted the athletic director position at Illinois State. Brennan, essentially the No. 2 person in the department behind athletic director Mark Harlan, will begin as Illinois State AD on Jan. 15.“While we are happy for the next chapter in our lives, it is with sadness that we say goodbye to such g
  
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• Bah, humbug! Utah is getting an inversion for Christmas.

  23-12-2020 18:25
  
  Barring some sort of holiday miracle, there won’t be a white Christmas in Utah this year. And, in the weather equivalent of getting coal in your stocking, a building inversion will bring sort of ho-ho-horrible air on Friday.According to the National Weather Service, the lake-effect showers that left a bit of snow in the Salt Lake valley late Tuesday and early Wednesday will “diminish quickly,” leaving behind a “clearing and drying trend.”A high pressure aloft will c
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Is confronting church critics through satire effective or offensive?

  23-12-2020 17:52
  
  The group FairMormon is dedicated to defending The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from critics and rebutting falsehoods about the faith’s history and theology.The nonprofit organization has held conferences and produced scholarly volumes, but it doesn’t view these efforts as effective in reaching millennials and Gen Zers.FairMormon is particularly concerned about the influence of a 2013 volume called the “CES Letter,” which provides a long list of what it see
  
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• Creation of new national uranium reserve could mean jobs in Utah, but is the environmental cost too high?

  23-12-2020 17:32
  
  Tucked into the massive $2.3 trillion spending bill that passed both houses of Congress late Monday is a $75 million provision that could provide a big boost to the domestic uranium industry, including in Utah.The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which funds $900 billion in coronavirus relief and appropriates $1.4 trillion in government spending, also would create a U.S. uranium reserve that was recommended earlier this year by the Trump-appointed Nuclear Fuel Working Group.But the outgo
  
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• 50 Predictions For The 2020-21 NBA Season

  23-12-2020 15:46 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  Matt John revives Basketball Insiders' classic 50 Predictions piece ahead of the 2020-21 season.
  
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• Robert Gehrke: The pandemic makes Utah’s homeless situation more complicated than ever

  23-12-2020 15:00
  
  They’re down by the library or at Pioneer Park, clustering under overpasses and in lots, the makeshift homeless camps that seem to be as widespread and jammed pack as they’ve ever been.Property owners, through the Pioneer Park Coalition, are demanding the government do something to clear them out. Attempts to dismantle the pop-up campsites this month drew protests from activists at the Salt Lake County Health Department, which closed down early to avoid conflicts.As with everything d
  
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• Omnibus spending bill sets aside $75 million to support domestic uranium mining

  23-12-2020 14:00
  
  Tucked into the massive $2.3 trillion spending bill that passed both houses of Congress late Monday is a $75 million provision that could provide a big boost to the domestic uranium industry, including in Utah.The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which funds $900 billion in coronavirus relief and appropriates $1.4 trillion in government spending, also would create a U.S. uranium reserve that was recommended earlier this year by the Trump-appointed Nuclear Fuel Working Group.But the outgo
  
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• Letter: Trust school boards over the Legislature

  23-12-2020 14:00
  
  To Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson,I have often heard you pontificate on how much you value and appreciate teachers. Your recent decision to deny bonuses to Salt Lake City teachers contradicts your feel-good statements and letters of appreciation. Your attempt to withhold bonuses from already laughably under-salaried professionals is the wrong way to go. It punishes teachers for decisions outside of their control.School boards are locally elected and held accountable to the people they serve. The
  
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• Letter: No way the inland port is green or sustainable

  23-12-2020 14:00
  
  The inland port was created surreptitiously in the waning hours of the Utah legislative session nearly three years ago. By seizing control of one-fourth of Salt Lake City, certain members of the Legislature wanted to punish the city for its tendency to vote for Democratic candidates. Two other obvious motives were to provide a tax-subsidized boondoggle, with a misleading name, for real estate developers, and to deprive the city of expected revenues and keep them for the state.In opinion polls, a
  
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• Letter: Mask up for moms everywhere

  23-12-2020 14:00
  
  It has been 192 days and 1,000 more Utah deaths since my mother, Mary Margaret Miller, was killed by COVID-19. She was listed by the Utah Department of Health as Utah COVID death 135.At the time, our family did not want her life and subsequent death to be a statistic, a number, a placeholder on a list.We took out a full-page ad in The Salt Lake Tribune to tell her story. We listed the 135 ways she lived her life. The 135 ways she impacted those around her. The 135 ways she was loved. And the 135
  
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• Letter: Give lawmakers’ per-diem to the food bank

  23-12-2020 14:00
  
  Robert Gehrke recently reported that only 20% to 40% of Utah legislators have shown up in person to interim meetings this year due to COVID concerns. Understandable. However, those who attend remotely (even from home) “still get the $45 daily allowance intended to pay for meals when they’re on official business at the Capitol,” according to Gehrke.Since state regulations indicate the per-diem rates are for “a 24-hour period of travel,” it seems this is not intended.
  
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• Jacob Newman: LDS Church has not yet repented for its treatment of LGBT people

  23-12-2020 14:00
  
  At the beginning of 2011, about three months before I finished my Latter-day Saint mission, I found myself in a small internet cafe in rural Thailand reading an email from the mental health senior missionary couple stationed in Hong Kong.I had revealed to my mission president how depressed I was and he responded with compassion and immediately sought the assistance of this senior couple. We had talked over the phone from time to time in those last few months, and they offered what limited suppor
  
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• 11th COVID-19 positive inmate dies in Utah prison

  23-12-2020 06:16
  
  An 86-year old inmate who had tested positive for COVID-19 died Sunday in the Utah Department of Corrections’ infirmary in Draper, according to the Department.The latest death brings the total number of COVID-19 positive incarcerated individuals who have died to eleven.There were 964 active COVID-19 among state inmates as of the Department’s Monday announcement. The Department said the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison and the Utah State Prison in Draper are on a modifie
  
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• Gordon Monson: Zach Wilson conjures a night to remember for BYU, and almost certainly a goodbye

  23-12-2020 04:59
  
  It was a familiar-but-uncommon tale, a proper one, what BYU faced in the Boca Raton Bowl on Tuesday night at FAU Stadium, a few Zach Wilson bombs from South Florida’s beaches.For just the sixth time this season, the Cougars ran into — as it turned out, ran over — a challenge from a semi-legitimate foe, this time the UCF Knights. And that challenge presented for them an opportunity, the chance to confirm their standing — in this case, to punctuate it in a postseason game &
  
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• Nourish to Flourish program provides hot meals to people in Salt Lake City

  23-12-2020 04:51
  
  (Leah Hogsten|The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall handed out food to needy families at the Neighborhood House as part of the Nourish to Flourish program that distributes meals prepared by local restaurants to individuals and families in need, Dec. 22, 2020.Children leaving programs at the Neighborhood House in Salt Lake City had something besides seeing their parents to look forward to on Tuesday evening.Volunteers at a table in the nonprofit’s lobby had 200 to-go
  
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• BYU blows out UCF 49-23 in Boca Raton Bowl

  23-12-2020 04:37
  
  BYU entered the Boca Raton Bowl never having won in the state of Florida — but that all changed on Tuesday, when the Cougars routed UCF 49-23 in the postseason matchup.The win improved BYU to 11-1 on the season, for the first 11-win season since 2009.In what was expected to be a high-scoring affair, only the Cougars kept up their offensive end of the bargain. BYU put up 655 total yards, while holding UCF to 411. The Knights had previously been averaging 585.6 yards per
  
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• Pandemic relief package would give Utahns another $300 in weekly unemployment benefits through March, but Trump now hints he won’t sign it

  23-12-2020 02:58
  
  Utah officials said Tuesday that pandemic-related jobless benefits paid out since April to eligible Utahns would keep flowing uninterrupted through early spring, as part of the $900 billion coronavirus relief package Congress passed on Monday.That is, if President Donald Trump signs the measure, which he suggested late Tuesday he won’t do without big changes and increases in relief for Americans, decrying many of massive bill’s budget items as “wasteful spending and much more.&
  
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• Pandemic relief bill promises Christmas gifts for Utahns, but Trump throws it into doubt

  23-12-2020 02:55
  
  Just in time for Christmas, Congress delivered a pandemic relief package — including everything from $600 stimulus payments for most adults and children to $300 a week in extra unemployment payments and a long-sought Navajo water rights deal to help provide running water and adequate supplies on the tribe’s reservation.“The legislation extends federal unemployment benefits, provides emergency relief for small businesses and supports health care providers and vaccine distributio
  
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• Ballpark residents demand action after one man dead, two wounded in Salt Lake City shooting

  23-12-2020 02:18
  
  One man is dead and another man and a woman were wounded in a late-night shooting in Salt Lake City.Police were called to the Main Street Motel at 1518 S. Main St. early Tuesday — just after midnight — and found a man who had been shot twice in the arm. Officers located a second man who had been shot to death inside a nearby car on Kensington Avenue.The first man was taken to a hospital in critical condition.At about the same time, a woman arrived at St. Mark’s Hospital with a
  
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• Rep. John Curtis, Congess blasted by US Conference of Mayors for leaving cities, states out of relief package

  23-12-2020 01:45
  
  A leader of the U.S. Conference of Mayors had a blistering response to Utah Rep. John Curtis criticism of state and local governments for lobbying, though unsuccessfully, to be included in the pandemic relief package.“He’s clearly out of touch and clueless,” Nan Whaley, the group’s vice president, said Tuesday of the former Provo mayor. “It’s embarrassing that he was ever a local government official, frankly, because he’s forgotten what the basis of loca
  
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• President Donald Trump pardons Utah Rep. Phil Lyman and Weldon Angelos

  23-12-2020 01:38
  
  State Rep. Phil Lyman on Tuesday had his federal conviction on charges of leading an illegal ATV protest on federal lands wiped out in a pardon by outgoing President Donald Trump.Trump also granted a full pardon to Weldon Angelos, a Utah music producer who was sentenced to 55 years in prison on a marijuana and gun possession conviction because of mandatory minimum sentence rules.These Utahns were two of 20 people Trump pardoned Tuesday, including former Republican state lawmakers and an aide con
  
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• Pandemic-relief benefits for unemployed Utahns — plus a $300 weekly stipend — to run through March now under the new federal stimulus package

  23-12-2020 01:30
  
  Pandemic-related jobless benefits paid out since April to eligible Utahns should now keep flowing uninterrupted through early spring, as part of the $900 billion coronavirus relief package Congress passed on Monday.There will now be an extra $300 per week in stimulus money on top, but not until early January. That’s separate from the $600 one-time stimulus checks that will be paid out to most U.S. adults and children under the economic-relief bill.State officials said Tuesday those $300 st
  
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• As Utah Jazz head to opener, Joe Ingles’ COVID-19 scare is a harbinger of an unusual season to come

  23-12-2020 01:14
  
  The Utah Jazz were thiiiiiiiis close to being short-handed for their season-opening game Wednesday night in Portland.Because of COVID-19. Because of the guy on the team who has been the most vocal by far about the need to be diligent about taking proper precautions.It was something of a shock on Sunday afternoon when a request to the Jazz PR team for a post-practice interview with Joe Ingles returned a reply that he was unavailable on account of the league’s health and safety protocols.On
  
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• Utah football QB Jake Bentley, three others enter NCAA Transfer Portal

  23-12-2020 01:12
  
  Once the University of Utah got commitments from a pair of Power Five quarterback transfers over the weekend, it seemed clear that Jake Bentley wasn’t going to be part of the future plans.That notion came to fruition late Tuesday afternoon as The Salt Lake Tribune can confirm that the South Carolina graduate transfer has entered his name into the NCAA Transfer Portal. 247sports was first to report Bentley’s portal entrance.Bentley started the final four games of the season for the Ut
  
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• Judge taps brakes on drilling in Utah wilderness on eve of federal OK

  23-12-2020 01:01
  
  Labyrinth Canyon is among Utah’s most quiet and remote red rock locales, where the Green River has incised deep into the San Rafael Desert, leaving a broad loop in the river channel called Bowknot Bend.Congress saw fit to designate wilderness here last year, but two energy companies with backing from the U.S. Interior Department are pursuing plans that critics say make a mockery of the whole idea of wilderness preservation.On Wednesday, construction crews were expected to rumble into newly
  
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• As the Utah Jazz head to opener, Joe Ingles’ COVID-19 scare is a harbinger of an unusual season to come

  23-12-2020 00:51
  
  The Utah Jazz were thiiiiiiiis close to being short-handed for their season-opening game Wednesday night in Portland.Because of COVID-19. Because of the guy on the team who has been the most vocal by far about the need to be diligent about taking proper precautions.It was something of a shock on Sunday afternoon when a request to the Jazz PR team for a post-practice interview with Joe Ingles returned a reply that he was unavailable on account of the league’s health and safety protocols.On
  
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• Utah men’s basketball positive COVID-19 test came back as false positive

  23-12-2020 00:29
  
  COVID-19 antigen testing has proven to be less than 100% accurate. Just ask the University of Utah men’s basketball program.Multiple sources told The Salt Lake Tribune Tuesday that a positive test within the men’s basketball program, announced by the athletic department Sunday and the crux of why Tuesday night’s game at Arizona State was postponed, has come back as a false positive.An athletic department spokesperson told The Tribune they have not been notified of a false posit
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: The pandemic’s inhuman demands

  23-12-2020 00:00
  
  Journalist Anne Helen Petersen recently asked, on Twitter, for articles about the “long-term psychological effects” of the pandemic. She soon noticed that many of the replies were about the damage it was doing to children.Seeing this crystallized something I’d been dimly aware of. The strange politics of the coronavirus have created a taboo, at least in certain progressive circles, in talking too much about the emotional suffering wrought by nine months of purgatorial isolation
  
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