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• Burgess Owens explains why he’ll challenge Trump’s loss on the House floor

  31-12-2020 23:56
  
  Utah Rep.-elect Burgess Owens, a former Super Bowl champion, used a football analogy Thursday to explain why he plans to join a challenge of Electoral College votes next week on the House floor in a bid to keep President Donald Trump in office that his highly unlikely to succeed.“In 10 years in the NFL, I played in a lot of losing games,” he said. “If you leave everything on the field and you’ve done everything you can and there’s nothing left, then it’s a win
  
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• Mississippi State tops Tulsa in Armed Forces Bowl, brawl erupts

  31-12-2020 23:20
  
  Fort Worth, Texas • True freshman Will Rogers scored his first rushing touchdown of the season and had a 13-yard TD pass to lead Mississippi State past No. 22 Tulsa 28-26 on Thursday in the Armed Forces Bowl, which ended in a massive brawl.Minutes after the game ended following an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Mississippi State on a late onside kick as Tulsa tried to make a comeback, the teams became involved in a large melee on the field. Tulsa coach Greg Montgomery said sophomore saf
  
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• So, Utahns, here’s when you might see that $600 check and extra $300 for unemployment

  31-12-2020 23:18
  
  Congress was still divided Thursday on whether new one-time pandemic payments of $600 to most adults should be boosted to $2,000 instead, but other newly approved relief money — including unemployment aid — is on its way.The latest $900 billion relief package adds $300 a week in federal cash on top of traditional state jobless benefits — half the $600 stipend that was added between April and July under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.The latest relief also
  
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• Incoming Gov. Spencer Cox picks political insider to head up Utah’s alcohol agency

  31-12-2020 22:58
  
  Tiffany Clason — the district director for just-defeated Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, and also a former aide to outgoing Republican Gov. Gary Herbert — was nominated Friday to lead the state’s alcohol agency.Gov.-elect Spencer Cox has selected Clason to be the new executive director of the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Her appointment will require confirmation by the Utah Senate.“Tiffany’s exceptional track record of success in the food and beverage in
  
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• Eye on the Y: With the year coming to an end, was the college football season worth it?

  31-12-2020 22:53
  
  I recently read a New York Times story about the college football season. It posed a good question: Was the season worth it?It’s a very lengthy story, but you can read it here.Here’s the thing: I don’t think we’ll know the full repercussions of letting teams play for years to come.The story followed Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren and how he struggled with the decision of what to do — let his teams play or cancel the season. The most troubling concern about COVID-
  
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• David Brooks: 2020 taught us how to fix this

  31-12-2020 22:10
  
  This is the year that broke the truth. This is the year when millions of Americans — and not just your political opponents — seemed impervious to evidence, willing to believe the most outlandish things if it suited their biases, and eager to develop fervid animosities based on crude stereotypes.Worse, this was the year that called into question the very processes by which our society supposedly makes progress.So many of our hopes are based on the idea that the key to change is educat
  
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• Gordon Monson: The dark clouds of 2020 are finally parting. Let’s chart the path together to a brighter 2021.

  31-12-2020 21:31
  
  It’s a new day, a new time, a new year, a new hope, a new Tribune.2020 took so much out of us, too much away from us, but it gave us a few things, too.Foremost among the calendar’s thievery was the loss of human life, the thousands of Utahns who died this past year from the pandemic, a tragic number added to the country’s hundreds of thousands, all of them, every single one, have and has been and will go on being mourned and missed, straight through this next year and every yea
  
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• Wide receiver Dax Milne becomes the second BYU Cougar to declare for the NFL Draft

  31-12-2020 20:54
  
  The BYU Cougars will be without another one of its star players next year.A day after offensive tackle Brady Christensen announced he’d forego his senior season to declare for the NFL draft, junior wide receiver Dax Milne followed suit.“My heart is full,” Milne said in a statement on social media. “The last 3 years have been a dream come true. The experience I have had playing foorball for BYU has given me more than I can put into words. It has been such a special place t
  
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• Ogden Rep. LaWanna ‘Lou’ Shurtliff dies

  31-12-2020 20:23
  
  Longtime Rep. LaWanna “Lou” Shurtliff, D-Ogden, died Wednesday at 85.Shurtliff, a retired teacher, has been hospitalized in Ogden since Dec. 7 for pneumonia and was on a ventilator. She tested negative for COVID-19.Her granddaughter, Michelle Catts, said in a statement Thursday morning that after a three-week battle with infection, “it was ultimately determined that Lou recovering and coming off of ventilatory support was not possible. In accordance with her wishes, the decisio
  
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• Small snowstorm leaves behind more than 100 accidents

  31-12-2020 19:15
  
  What was just a light dusting of snow in many areas — slushy in others — made for a busy morning for the Utah Highway Patrol on Thursday.By 9:30 a.m., troopers in Utah and Salt Lake Counties had responded to a total of 254 calls, including 105 crashes and 47 stranded motorists. “Please slow down and get to your destination safely,” the UHP tweeted.Crash numbers 12/31/20 9:30am
  Troopers in Utah and Salt Lake Counties have responded to 254 calls for service including 105 cr
  
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• One dead, one wounded in shooting at Salt Lake convenience store

  31-12-2020 18:16
  
  One man is dead, another is wounded and police are searching for at least one suspect after a shooting late Wednesday in Salt Lake City.According to police, there was “an altercation of some kind” at the entrance to a convenience store at 203 E. Hampton Ave. just before midnight. One man shot two others and the shooter fled in what witnesses said was a dark-colored, possibly gray, Nissan Altima. There may have been more than one person in the car.One of the victims died at the scene.
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Remembering an LDS prophet’s surprising death and the decade’s best General Conference talks

  31-12-2020 16:47
  
  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.Decade’s best conference talksEvery six months, Latter-day Saint authorities address millions of members around the world.These General Conference sermons — streamed, beamed, published, pondered and perused
  
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• Becky Hammon first woman to coach NBA team; Lakers beat Spurs

  31-12-2020 15:43
  
  San Antonio • Becky Hammon would have preferred a victory over history after becoming the first woman to coach an NBA team.The assistant coach took over the San Antonio Spurs in the second quarter after coach Gregg Popovich was ejected in a 121-107 loss to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night. “I try not to think of the huge picture and huge aspect of it because it can be overwhelming,” Hammon said. “I really have had no time to reflect. I have not ha
  
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• Utah lawmaker wants to require new smartphones or tablets to filter out porn

  31-12-2020 14:11
  
  When you buy a new cellphone or tablet in Utah, you have to go through several steps to enable parental controls that filter out objectionable content such as pornography.A bill proposed for debate in the upcoming legislative session would flip that around, requiring new devices to have those filters turned on by default, and users would have to turn them off if they wanted.Rep. Susan Pulsipher, R-South Jordan, is the sponsor of the measure which would mandate new devices have those filters on b
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Trump wiped Weldon Angelos’ record clean, but a bigger problem needs to be addressed

  31-12-2020 14:00
  
  Every president in my memory has done it, the on-the-way-out-the-door pardons and commutations of prisoners and convicts.Frequently, they become political and naturally the list of pardons so far issued by President Donald Trump is more extreme than that of his predecessors. It includes a rogues gallery of his loyalists and hangers-on.He gave dubious pardons to his former campaign manager Paul Manafort and hatchetman Roger Stone, both convicted as part of the Mueller investigation; his son-in-la
  
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• Letter: With safety checks gone, cars have become more dangerous

  31-12-2020 14:00
  
  As I drive around Utah, I have noticed more and more cars with brake lights, tail lights and headlights not working. I have noticed a dramatic increase since the Legislature and Gov. Gary Herbert got rid of the required safety checks.Normally, these defective lights would be found and repaired annually on the car during registration. Now, the drivers are oblivious to the problem and it is up to the police to enforce the safety checks. This is just a visual indication of the problem.Problems with
  
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• Letter: UUP knocked out centrist McAdams

  31-12-2020 14:00
  
  The United Utah Party got a fellow centrist removed from Congress. Its candidate (Jonia Broderick) took more than enough votes than Rep. Ben McAdams needed to keep his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Broderick took 8,037 votes. McAdams lost by 3,765 votes to the corrupt Burgess Owens, according to election results.utah.gov.Meanwhile, the UUP didn’t win any seats at any level of government. The party only was harmful this most recent election cycle and only hurt the cause of cent
  
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• Letter: ‘Power makes right’ mentality isn’t good for anyone

  31-12-2020 14:00
  
  In a recent letter to the editor titled “Using political power,” the writer tried to justify the abuse of power by saying that others have and will do the same. He makes two points: Did anyone expect that President Donald Trump would not pardon all his cronies that have broken the law? And what is the point of having political power if you do not use it?I will admit that I expected Trump to pardon his cronies. Trump has shown over and over a complete disregard for the rule of law and
  
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• Letter: Not everyone deserves federal payments

  31-12-2020 14:00
  
  I 100% disagree with Thomas Michie’s letter, “$600 isn’t enough.” It is outrageous to give $2,000 per person to people who make $75,000 per year ($150,000 if married filing jointly) if they are still working.Unemployment is no more than 10 to 15%, so at least 85% of the people getting the money are still working. Even giving $600 to those still working is outrageous. At the very least, the limit on income to receive a stimulus payment should be between $30,000 and $40,000
  
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• Letter: Hard to fathom Latter-day Saints’ affinity for Trump

  31-12-2020 14:00
  
  The Articles of Faith of the LDS Church ends with this statement: “If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.”Donald Trump is the very antithesis of this beautiful Article of Faith and yet Mormons are among his most loyal supporters. Are the Articles of Faith dead? Where is leadership?The Mormon love of the Trump cult is dumbfounding.Joe Watts, MurraySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Don’t forget the pain of the Trump years

  31-12-2020 14:00
  
  Barbra Streisand once sang to us in her famous song, “The Way We Were,” that “What is too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget.” Nevertheless, we citizens of the United States of America should not forget the carnage President Donald J. Trump brought our country.We should create a scrapbook of memories regarding the corruption, lies, unhinged policies, chaos, lost lives and debt he has left us with as he makes his shameful exit from the White House.Think of the
  
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• BYU women crush Santa Clara, 76-50

  31-12-2020 06:39
  
  Shaylee Gonzales scored a team-high 20 points and Sara Hamson had 12 points, eight rebounds and five blocks to lead the BYU women’s basketball team to a 76-50 victory over Santa Clara on Wednesday afternoon at the Marriott Center in Provo.Gonzales, who connected on 8 of 12 shots from the field, also pulled down eight rebounds for the Cougars (6-1, 2-0 West Coast Conference), who jumped out to a 9-0 lead in the game’s first two minutes and never looked back.“I think part of it w
  
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• Episode 8: One ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ marriage seems on the mend. But others may have problems.

  31-12-2020 05:00
  
  One marriage seems to be back on track and there are rising tensions in another in the latest episode of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.”Meredith’s marriageSeth Marks returns to Utah for the first time in about a month, and Meredith tells him that he has to apologize to their petulant 21-year-old son, Brooks, for missing the Sundance-adjacent fashion show.It’s not a great start, because it’s arguably an unreasonable request. Seth wasn’t there because M
  
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• Frank Fish: Time to count our blessings and make our resolutions for the New Year

  31-12-2020 04:37
  
  Blessings are on the thin side because of COVID-19 and our governments failings.On the bright side, we remain the richest major country per capita, but that’s offset by having huge differences between rich and poor and by prices for housing, health care and many everyday purchases being roughly double most major countries.Resolution No. 1 should be to restructure our health care system. Despite being twice as expensive as most other countries, we rank 40th in life expectancy. On COVID-19 d
  
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• Utah’s vaccine rollout has been ‘slow,’ says the state official leading it

  31-12-2020 04:16
  
  In the first two weeks that Utahns have been receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, not everything has gone according to plan, said the state official in charge of distribution.“The initial rollout of the vaccine has been slow, OK?” Rich Lakin, immunization program manager for the Utah Department of Health, said at a news briefing Wednesday. “Really, slower than what we had anticipated, and slower than what we wanted. But we are picking up some steam.”From Dec. 15, when the firs
  
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• These striking photos tell the story of 2020 in Utah

  31-12-2020 03:47
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune's Photos of the YearThe Tribune’s photojournalists — Trent Nelson, Leah Hogsten, Francisco Kjolseth and Rick Egan — captured it all. They put their health at risk to create stunning images that showed our humanity and events that thanks to them we’ll never forget.Click here to see their photos of the year.
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: We Are Still Here

  31-12-2020 02:00
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Hell of a YearCriminal ClassMaking a ListHo Ho HerpetologyHalf a LoafPlaying ThroughThe ThinkerWorking PresidentTime of Good CheerLoyalty OafWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Aaron E. Carroll: Don’t worry too much about allergic reactions to vaccine

  31-12-2020 02:00
  
  At this point, most of us have heard about allergic reactions to COVID-19 vaccines: the doctor in Boston who had to administer his EpiPen, the hospital worker in Alaska who had trouble breathing. But it’s not at all surprising that allergic reactions happen. What matters most is the severity and the rate at which they occur. And for the COVID vaccines, there’s no doubt that the value of vaccination outweighs the risk.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated guida
  
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• As Utah reports 21 more coronavirus deaths, the high rate of positive tests is a warning not to gather, doctor says

  31-12-2020 01:34
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.With 2,614 new coronavirus cases reported Wednesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses held steady, but with 21 new deaths, the virus continued to exact a high toll.And with 25% of tests coming back positive — a near-record high &
  
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• Despite the pandemic, Utahns traveled more over Christmas than most Americans

  31-12-2020 01:31
  
  Amid COVID-19 threats, Utahns still hit the road for Christmas trips more than most Americans.Utahns did cut their road trips between Dec. 18 and Dec. 27 by 20.1% compared to last year. But most Americans reduced them even more, by an average nationally of 27.8%.That’s according to data released Wednesday by the travel data company Arrivalist and its Daily Travel Index. The company uses representative GPS data from phones to measure trips of 50 miles or more initiated on those days. It did
  
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• BYU’s WCC opener at Pepperdine postpone due to positive COVID-19 test in Waves’ program

  31-12-2020 01:27
  
  The BYU men’s basketball team will have to wait a few more days to open West Coast Conference play. Due to a positive COVID-19 test within the Pepperdine program, the Thursday matchup against the Cougars has been postponed.The Cougars will instead kick off conference play at San Diego on Saturday.BYU was one of few teams across the nation that was able to play a total of 11 nonconference games, and survived the tough opening schedule with only two losses (against USC and Boise State).The b
  
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• Utah’s vaccine rollout has been ‘slow’ but it’s speeding up now, says the state official leading it

  31-12-2020 01:17
  
  In the first two weeks that Utahns have been receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, not everything has gone according to plan, acknowledges the state official in charge of its distribution.“The initial rollout of the vaccine has been slow, OK?” Rich Lakin, immunization program manager for the Utah Department of Health, said at a news briefing Wednesday. “Really, slower than what we had anticipated, and slower than what we wanted. But we are picking up some steam.”From Dec. 15, w
  
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• Utah State men’s basketball’s recent play could make it a factor in the Mountain West basketball race again

  31-12-2020 00:53
  
  The Utah State men’s basketball team experienced some adversity in its first few games of the 2020-21 season. The Aggies lost three of their first four, and their first two losses were by an average of 20 points.But in the last three weeks or so, the Aggies are starting to look like a formidable team. They’re defending better. They’re sharing the ball better. They’re communicating better. They’re scoring more efficiently.It’s all led to a four-game winning str
  
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• Summit County residents evacuated after propane semi-truck crashes

  31-12-2020 00:21
  
  Residents were evacuated Wednesday afternoon after a semi-truck carrying propane crashed off the Echo Interchange between 1-80 and I-84 in Summit County.The truck rolled over just after 1 p.m., according to Summit County. The driver said he was carrying 10,000 gallons of propane and reported a leak.Utah Highway Patrolmen are currently at the crash site. Roads between Coalville and Henefer are closed and residents within one mile of the crash site have been told to evacuate. There is no estimate
  
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• Utah gymnastics will take on No. 2 Oklahoma; Utes still waiting on release of Pac-12 schedule

  31-12-2020 00:18
  
  The big showdown between Utah’s fourth-ranked gymnastics team and No.2 Oklahoma will have a national audience as it was announced the Jan.17 meet will be televised by ESPN2.The meet will begin at 3 p.m., MT in Norman, Okla.The meet marks the first time the two teams meet in the regularseason since 1992, but they do have some history with the Utes leadingthe all-time series 28-10.Oklahoma has dominated the national scene in recent years, winningthree of the last four NCAA titles and finishi
  
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• Despite the pandemic, Utahns travel more over Christmas than most Americans

  31-12-2020 00:09
  
  Amid COVID-19 threats, Utahns still hit the road for Christmas trips more than most Americans.Utahns did cut their road trips between Dec. 18 and Dec. 27 by 20.1% compared to last year. But most Americans reduced them even more, by an average nationally of 27.8%.That’s according to data released Wednesday by the travel data company Arrivalist and its Daily Travel Index. The company uses representative GPS data from phones to measure trips of 50 miles or more initiated on those days. It did
  
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• Matthew D. LaPlante: The constraints of print were one of the best parts of newspapers. That doesn’t have to change now.

  31-12-2020 00:02
  
  I had intended my break from social media to last a few weeks. To be honest, I didn’t think I’d make it more than a few days.That would have been fine. I knew even a short hiatus would buy me some time during the busy start of the school year. But when the semester wrapped up, I still hadn’t gone back to my old ways.Instead, I’ve reinvested some of the time I’d been spending on social media into my local newspaper. I’m better for it. And that’s why, as T
  
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