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• Letter: Washington is out of touch with Americans in cities

  26-12-2020 23:04
  
  “Washington has lost touch with rural America” is a popular refrain that borders on cliché. It may be true, but the $600 dollar relief checks en route to millions of Americans highlights Washington’s ignorance or, worse, indifference toward Americans living in cities.$600 would have covered two months’ rent for my half of the two-bedroom apartment in Cedar City, where I lived in 2015. Since then, I moved to the greater Salt Lake area, where the same amount could po
  
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• Mary Sanchez: HHS pick offers promising path forward

  26-12-2020 22:00
  
  Because bible-pounding has become a favored tactic of politicians, it was only a matter of time before one of the cabinet choices of the incoming Biden administration would set off screeds of fire and brimstone.California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has become the target.Becerra has been nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services, a crucial role not only because of the pandemic, but because president-elect Joe Biden will be focused on preserving and hopefully improving Obamac
  
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• Eric Walden: The James Harden situation has quickly devolved from mere selfishness to pure recklessness

  26-12-2020 21:19
  
  Trade demands have been a part of the NBA since … well, pretty much always.Viewed through the simple-if-simplistic lens, James Harden isn’t doing anything different now than what Wilt Chamberlain did in Philadelphia, what Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did in Milwaukee, what Hakeem Olajuwon did in Houston, what Dwight Howard did in Orlando, what Kobe Bryant did in Los Angeles, what Carmelo Anthony did in Denver (and New York), what Anthony Davis did in New Orleans, et cetera, et cetera.Then ag
  
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• Letter: We need more services for the homeless

  26-12-2020 21:00
  
  I keep reading with great sadness about the tearing apart of the homeless encampments in our city. They have nowhere else to go and many of them choose to live outside rather than staying in shelters where they could conceivably catch the virus.Several years ago, I believe it was former Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder who suggested providing a space in the city limits for the homeless to camp. I’m sure the city owns vacant properties and could easily fence the area to provide a measure
  
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• Utah reports eight more coronavirus deaths and 3,489 new cases

  26-12-2020 20:42
  
  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 reported 3,489 new coronavirus cases Saturday and eight more deaths since Thursday.Most of those cases — 2,498 — would have been reported Friday, when new numbers were not released because of Christmas. The remaini
  
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• Utah reports eight more coronavirus deaths and 3,849 new cases

  26-12-2020 20:11
  
  Editor’s note • The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.Utah reported 3,849 new coronavirus cases Saturday and eight more deaths since Thursday.For the past week, the state has averaged 2,153 new positive test results a day, the Department of Health reported. The average positive test r
  
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• Gordon Monson: The death of Utah running back Ty Jordan is a cruel punch to the gut

  26-12-2020 20:09
  
  Life is so often cruel.Death almost always is.Too, too cruel.Especially when it comes to the young.Utahrunning back Ty Jordan, just 19 years old, with so much ahead of him, with a hundred miles of green turf ahead of him, with the world ahead of him, dies from what has been reported to be an accidental gunshot wound on Christmas night, his existence and his promise so suddenly, soshockingly taken from him, from his family and friends, from histeammates, from all of us.And Utah football weeps.Not
  
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• Teammates, Ute alums and others react to the death of Utah freshman running back Ty Jordan

  26-12-2020 20:03
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune will update this developing story.Reaction to the death of University of Utah freshman running back sensation Ty Jordan was swift Saturday morning, from inside the Utes football family and well-beyond.“My thoughts are with Ty’s family & friends. Just devastated by this news. Such a bright light, gone.” — Jamal Anderson (@jamthedirtybird)“Absolutely heartbroken. So much talent and so fun to watch. Rest In Peace, Ty Jordan. Prayers up for the
  
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• Pepper Trail: When the water dries up, it can be deadly

  26-12-2020 20:00
  
  In Oregon, the Klamath Basin wildlife refuges have fallen into their winter silence now. The huge, clamorous flocks of geese that fill the sky during migration have moved south.This summer, a different silence gripped the Basin. A dead silence. The 90,000 acres of marshes and open water that make up the Lower Klamath and Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuges are a small remnant of vast wetlands that once filled this region on the Oregon-California border.With over 75% of those wetlands now convert
  
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• Letter: Moutsos has no place among Utahns of the Year

  26-12-2020 19:00
  
  The Tribune really included Eric Moutsos as a person that should be Utah’s Person of the Year? He’s anti-science, anti-mask and thinks COVID is a hoax. He encourages his followers to disregard advice from medical professionals. He, along with like-minded conspiracy advocates, is at least partially responsible for our country’s dismal record in containing COVID.I’ve never been so disgusted with The Tribune (and I’m a long-term print and digital subscriber). Do you ha
  
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• Utah freshman running back sensation Ty Jordan killed in accidental shooting in Dallas suburb

  26-12-2020 18:56
  
  [The Salt Lake Tribune will continue updating this developing story.]The University of Utah has confirmed that freshman running back Ty Jordan has died, although details remain scarce.A media spokesman for the Denton (Texas) Police Department told The Salt Lake Tribune on Saturday morning that the original call went out Christmas night at 9:38 p.m. CST. Officers responded to the 1100 block of Avenue B in Denton. Upon arrival, they found a single gunshot victim, who was transported to a hospital.
  
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• Utah freshman running back sensation Ty Jordan killed Friday night in Dallas suburb

  26-12-2020 18:20
  
  The University of Utah is confirming that freshman running back Ty Jordan has died, although details remain scarce.A media spokesman for the Denton (Texas) Police Department told The Salt Lake Tribune Saturday morning that the original call went out Friday night at 9:38 p.m. CT. Officers responded to the 1100 block of Avenue B in Denton. Upon arrival, they found a single gunshot victim, who was transported to a local hospital.After a preliminary investigation, it is believed the gun was accident
  
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• Carter Moore: Start by protecting the ugly places

  26-12-2020 18:00
  
  The massive lake had just appeared on the horizon. After trekking for days through the arid mountains of Utah, any amount of water was surely a pleasant surprise to the Latter-day Saint pioneers in 1847. Brigham Young famously stopped the party, made camp on the foot of the Wasatch Mountains in view of the lake and declared, “This is the place.”I guess he hadn’t smelled it yet.The smell hits you first. It’s rank — decaying and unbearable. Walking across the dry, pee
  
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• Gordon Monson: The Utah State Aggies take a stand against what they call religious and cultural bias

  26-12-2020 17:08
  
  Thereare things that mystify and things that, sadly, shouldn’t be all thatsurprising. Ignorance and stupidity and bias remain deep-seeded in oursociety, even among those so-called enlightened who should know better.Too often, they do not.That much is fact, and anyone who denies it should, in the most severecases, pull the bedsheet off their head, and, in less twisted ones, stopand examine the far reaches of their mind to rearrange the way theythink.Even people who consider themselves educa
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Salvaging a bit of 2020

  26-12-2020 16:58
  
  As the 1970s neared their end, “Doonesbury” character Zonker Harris toasted farewell to what he called “a kidney stone of a decade.”He hadn’t seen anything yet.The end of this arbitrary division of infinity, 2020, cannot come soon enough.A global pandemic. People who denied the global pandemic and refused to take steps to slow its spread. Dysfunctional government at so many levels. Social media disinformation. Overt racism, armed gangs in the streets and police brut
  
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• Utah women ‘significantly underrepresented’ in legal careers, where they face bias and harassment

  26-12-2020 15:00
  
  The percentage of women reporting workplace harassment across the legal field in Utah has sharply risen compared to a decade ago, according to a new study, with roughly one in four women saying they had been harassed in 2020.And while more women are graduating from law school and working in law firms in Utah than in 2010, they remain “significantly underrepresented” in the legal profession compared to the rest of the nation. They “continue to face significant issues of bias,&rd
  
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• This gift means the Great Salt Lake’s bird sanctuary is now larger and better protected

  26-12-2020 15:00
  
  Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting important local journalism.Centuries ago, Utah’s Jordan River passed unmolested among a network of islands and channels where it met the Great Salt Lake and supported a vast nesting area for countless migratory shorebirds on Farmington Bay.But seismic shifts in the ground 2,600 years ago pushed the river to the east, leaving the delta dry, habitat more suitable for the livesto
  
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• ‘Stay Alive and Survive’: Ski Resorts Brace for a Pandemic Season

  26-12-2020 15:00
  
  Olympic Valley, Calif. • A trickle of skiers recently zigzagged down the slopes at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort. Couples and families wandered through the resort’s village, which was decorated with golden Christmas lights and frosted with snow.It looked like the beginning of a merry season. But a closer inspection revealed it was anything but.Restaurant patios were nearly empty as masked workers swept through with lime green disinfectant sprayers strapped to their backs, part of the $1
  
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• Letter: Kanab’s COVID-spreading party

  26-12-2020 15:00
  
  Here in quirky Kanab, we have a strange way to bring on the new year. Our Office of Tourism is promoting a gala COVID-spreading event. On Dec. 31, we are all invited to put on “Hollywood glam,” then crowd into a room with 199 other people to eat, dance and risk getting the virus. What better way to cap off a momentous year of suffering and death?Apparently our local government just doesn’t think we have had enough of the pandemic in our little town. Actually, this is simply an
  
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• Utah criticized for selling oil and gas leases in the original Bears Ears monument

  26-12-2020 14:00
  
  Bluff • Weeks before the November election, a Utah agency leased 33 units of land to mineral and hydrocarbon companies.The offerings are a routine practice for the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA), which uses the money raised to help fund public schools. But environmentalists criticized the October sale’s inclusion of four oil-gas leases in San Juan County that overlap with the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument, as they were designated by Presi
  
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• This popular Utah cafe is closing to make way for a new Latter-day Saint temple

  26-12-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting important local journalism.Virg’s has been one of Tooele County’s best-known eating and gathering spots for more than 20 years.The cafe — located at the intersection of Erda Way and Highway 36 in Erda — is a place where the servers are on a first-name basis with the regulars and know what they will order as soon as they set foot in the door.Derrick Castagno,
  
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• Gregory A. Prince: Have we let a crisis go to waste?

  26-12-2020 14:00
  
  I have watched the COVID-19 pandemic as a biomedical researcher with a half-century career in respiratory virus diseases, and as a religionist with dual credentials: a lifelong Latter-day Saint and a member of the Board of Governors of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.By the time we achieve “herd immunity” to COVID-19, regular worship services will have been suspended or drastically curtailed for over a year. While many will long to return to the religious life they had
  
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• Letter: The party of ‘law and order’

  26-12-2020 13:30
  
  Why does the party of “law and order” have so many members indicted? Why do they need so many pardons?Bill Revene, West Valley CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Trump makes the most of his political power

  26-12-2020 13:00
  
  It seems like everyone is losing their collective minds about Donald Trump issuing pardons to people who have been loyal to him throughout his presidency.A couple of points to consider: Did anyone really expect that he would not do that? What is the point of having political power if you do not use it?The other side also made controversial pardons. President-elect Joe Biden will do the same thing when he leaves office. Bank on it.When the Republicans pushed through Amy Coney-Barret for Supreme C
  
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• Letter: Owens is no Utahn of the Year

  26-12-2020 07:30
  
  To include Burgess Owens among candidates for the Salt Lake Tribune’s Utahn of the Year is laughable and cheapens the honor of the other candidates for the award. What has he done for Utah and Utahns up to this point? Won an election in a heavily gerrymandered congressional district? Appeared on a few talk shows? Shamefully (and singularly) claimed that Utah’s voting was fraudulent?David Woodward, BluffdaleSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Six University of Utah football players receive All-Pac-12 honors from AP

  26-12-2020 06:36
  
  Six University of Utah football players received All-Pac-12 honors Friday from the Associated Press on Friday, led by two first-team selections — linebacker Devin Lloyd and place-kicker Jadon Redding.Freshman running back Ty Jordan is the newcomer of the year and a second-team selection. Three other Utes were also second-team picks: center Nick Ford, all-purpose player Britain Covey, and defensive end Mike Tafua.Colorado’s Jarek Broussard and Oregon State’s Jermar Jefferson wer
  
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• Police arrest two suspects after fatal Christmas morning shooting in Riverdale

  26-12-2020 05:42
  
  A shooting killed a Riverdale man and left his girlfriend seriously injured early Christmas morning.Police say they have arrested an adult woman and a teenage boy for the shooting on charges of murder, attempted murder, burglary and robbery.Police went to a mobile home park at 5100 S. 1050 West in Riverdale after receiving a report of shots fired at 3:20 a.m. Friday. The officers found two critically injured victims, a man and woman, who, Police Chief Scott Brenkman said, were in a romantic rela
  
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• BYU grad escapes Nashville explosion

  26-12-2020 05:39
  
  A BYU graduate and her family escaped unharmed minutes before their condo building was rocked by an explosion in downtown Nashville, FOX 13 reports.Noelle Rasmussen said she and her husband were still in bed at 5:50 a.m. when police came to their door to tell them to evacuate immediately, according to FOX 13. The couple got out with their children before the explosion went off. Their building was across the street from the explosion.Rasmussen graduated from BYU in the mid-2000s, according to FOX
  
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• Letter: Don’t change Dixie State’s name

  26-12-2020 05:30
  
  The pressure is upon us once again to remove the name of Dixie from some of our longtime mainstays, this time from Dixie State University. Are we considering all the people who have attended and graduated from DSU?This would be like forsaking all of the history of St. George and the entire area we know as Utah’s Dixie. It is foolish just to bend to the whim of a few that say they are offended by a word, even through threats.It is offensive to me that some of our people would be led to cate
  
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• Letter: It’s time to make Trump irrelevant

  26-12-2020 03:30
  
  Donald Trump has divided our country, our communities and even our families. This man’s purpose in life is power and wealth. Nothing else matters. He lost this election and his claims of fraud and wrongdoing are simply a delay tactic to allow the continued milking of his base for contributions.We now have the Donald Trump version of the “Grand Old Party” with a base over 70 million strong. The Republican Senate and Congress will continue to do his bidding as long as they know t
  
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• Arlene Dávila: A national museum for Latinos is long overdue

  26-12-2020 02:30
  
  On Monday, Congress authorized the creation of a Latino museum as part of a $2.3-trillion year-end spending bill. This is long overdue. For decades, activists have been fighting to establish a Latino museum on the Washington Mall. Its creation is essential to documenting the community’s contribution and to the education and future of all Americans.And yet, some have questioned whether Latinx people, the United States’ largest “minority,” really need a new museum of their
  
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• Letter: Tired of the gross inequality

  26-12-2020 01:30
  
  For the past few weeks, there have been press releases about Jazz players signing new contracts for hundreds of millions of dollars. Yes, hundreds of millions of dollars over very short periods of time. It has always bothered me that the inequity of value of a basketball player compared to, let’s say, a teacher, is astronomical.I’ve heard the flimsy rationale that pro sports players boost the economy. I guess it’s true if you consider team owners “the economy.” Ever
  
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• George Chapman: Government should not look for excuses to spend money

  26-12-2020 00:30
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune had an article recently on increasing FrontRunner service with hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding to match potential federal funds. The goal is to provide a train every 15 minutes. But before even suggesting borrowing and committing to spending hundreds of millions of local taxpayer dollars, there should be a vigorous cost-benefit study.During discussion on the future of FrontRunner in the Interim Transportation Committee, it was pointed out that weekday rider
  
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• As Utah Jazz ready for home opener, Donovan Mitchell is balancing scoring with playmaking

  26-12-2020 00:07
  
  After opening the 2020-21 regular season on Wednesday night in Portland, the Utah Jazz will make their home debut on Saturday at Vivint Arena against the Minnesota Timberwolves.Beyond the obvious benefits of playing in the building they’re most familiar with, not having to travel on Christmas, and getting to sleep in their own beds at home rather than in some hotel, there will be one other potential advantage stemming from the home game:There will be some fans in the stands.The Jazz are on
  
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