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• Georgia deciding U.S. Senate control in election’s final day

  05-01-2021 23:45
  
  Atlanta • Georgians cast their ballots Tuesday in two critical races that will determine control of the U.S. Senate and, in turn, the fate of President-elect Joe Biden’s legislative agenda. Two months after Election Day 2020, the voting will also impact Donald Trump’s final days in the White House.Even with the high stakes, state election officials reported light turnout early in the day, including across the deeply conservative region where Trump held a rally Monday night to en
  
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• Salt Lake landlord reportedly recorded his tenants — and others — while they were naked

  05-01-2021 23:37
  
  A Salt Lake City landlord — who is also a registered sex offender — has been arrested after he reportedly used hidden cameras to record his tenants undressing, having sex and using the bathroom.According to police, they found “voyeurism videos” recorded over the past several years. And, while most of the victims were young, male tenants, others included “females, visitors and even LDS missionaries.”On Monday, Larry Phillips, 69, surrendered to police, who are
  
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• BYU and No. 1 Gonzaga move up February matchup to Thursday

  05-01-2021 23:01
  
  BYU basketball has gone without playing for two weeks, but it seems the Cougars have finally been able to secure a game. And the matchup will be televised on ESPN.BYU (9-2) will now play top-ranked Gonzaga (10-0) at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday in Spokane, Wash. — a reschedule of the previously scheduled Feb. 6 game. The news was first reported by Jeff Goodman from Stadium.The Cougars were originally scheduled to host Pacific that day, but the game against the Tigers was postponed on Monday. It w
  
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• Utah man pleads guilty in Yellowstone dig seeking treasure

  05-01-2021 22:54
  
  Cheyenne, Wyo. • A Utah man has pleaded guilty after authorities said he was caught digging in a Yellowstone National Park cemetery in search of hidden treasure.Rodrick Dow Craythorn, 52, of Syracuse, Utah, entered the plea Monday in U.S. District Court in Casper to illegally excavating or trafficking in archaeological resources and to damaging federal property.He could face up to 12 years in prison and $270,000 in fines when sentenced March 17.Craythorn was searching for a treasure chest c
  
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• Utah men’s basketball game vs. Oregon State postponed after Beavers pause due to COVID-19

  05-01-2021 22:30
  
  With Oregon State announcing on Tuesday morning that it was pausing men’s basketball activities due to COVID-19 testing and contact-tracing protocols, the University of Utah will be absorbing the brunt of that news.A 9 p.m., ESPNU-televised game on Wednesday between the Utes and Beavers has been postponed in the wake of the latter’s pause. As with all Pac-12 postponements due to COVID-19 factors, the league will work with both programs in an attempt to find a mutually agreeable date
  
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• Utah ski resorts: Out-of-state visitors came for the holidays. We stayed home.

  05-01-2021 22:19
  
  One thing had to happen, it was believed, to keep this pandemic-disrupted holiday ski season from being a complete drain on Utah’s resorts. It had to snow.Well, it didn’t.“We are in one of the driest statewide starts to a season that we’ve ever had,” said Evan Thayer, a Utah forecaster for OpenSnow, noting reliable data stretches back about 40 years. “We’re right at the bottom of that.”At most, Utah’s mountains received about 60% of their typ
  
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• Utah’s rate of positive COVID-19 tests continues to climb; is now more than a third of all results

  05-01-2021 21:38
  
  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.The percentage of positive COVID-19 tests in Utah inched up on Tuesday, slightly exceeding a third of the total tests administered in the past day. State health officials have said that a positivity rate of 5% or less indicates the virus
  
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• Gordon Monson: New coordinator Aaron Roderick now will run the BYU offense like … well, a BYU offense

  05-01-2021 21:21
  
  Aaron Roderick is the right choice as offensive coordinator at BYU.He’s played an essential role for the Cougars as quarterbacks coach and running the pass game over the past few years, culminating in what everyone saw this past season with Zach Wilson doing what he did. Wilson, no doubt, is a great talent, but it was Roderick who made him greater than he would have been otherwise.Former BYU quarterback John Beck, who now mentors QBs as a part of his job, got a lot of the credit for Wilson
  
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• Ross Douthat: What the Republicans could gain by losing Georgia

  05-01-2021 21:17
  
  At this time of year, normally a sleepy, unremarkable period, I often write a column summing up the things that I got wrong in the previous year’s worth of punditry. Given that everything is rather more harrowing than usual this year, the habit feels a little self-indulgent — except that one important and mostly falsified hypothesis that I once held, not just for 2020 but across the entire Trump era, is about to be put to one last test.The hypothesis was that by nominating Donald Tru
  
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• Utah students could take a day off for mental health under proposed legislation

  05-01-2021 20:56
  
  One Utah lawmaker thinks students in Utah should be able to take a “mental health” day from time to time without it being counted as an unexcused absence.Rep. Mike Winder, R-West Valley City, is proposing HB81, which adds “mental or behavioral” health to the list of excused absences for students, treating the issue the same as a sick day. Right now, students can miss school for mental illness, but taking care of their mental health is not on the list of permissible absenc
  
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• Utah men’s basketball loses Pac-12 game Wednesday after Oregon State goes on COVID-19 pause

  05-01-2021 20:24
  
  With Oregon State announcing on Tuesday morning that it was pausing men’s basketball activities due to COVID-19 testing and contact-tracing protocols, the University of Utah will be absorbing the brunt of that news.A 9 p.m., ESPNU-televised game on Wednesday between the Utes and Beavers has been postponed in the wake of the latter’s pause. As with all Pac-12 postponements due to COVID-19 factors, the league will work with both programs in an attempt to find a mutually-agreeable date
  
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• Feds to help Salt Lake City fight spike in violent crime

  05-01-2021 20:20
  
  The Salt Lake City Police Department have asked federal law enforcement to help stop an uptick in violent and property crimes.Police Chief Mike Brown said at a Tuesday news conference the department is enlisting the U.S. attorney’s office, the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as the state’s Department of Public Safety, to arrest suspects in “high-risk, top-tier” crimes, and, he said, keep those people in jail longer so they don’t re-offend.SLCPD data shows that violen
  
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• Ty Jordan Memorial Scholarship created in honor of late Utah running back

  05-01-2021 19:59
  
  The University of Utah athletic department on Tuesday morning announced the Ty Jordan Memorial Scholarship.Named in honor of the late Utes running back, who died on Christmas night from an apparent accident, a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the The Ty Jordan Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to a “student-athlete in the football program who exemplifies the inspiring qualities that Jordan displayed through his work ethic, positivity and perseverance through adversity.”Per the athlet
  
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• Low snow totals put a dent in Utah ski resorts’ holiday season. Out of state visitors came, but locals stayed home.

  05-01-2021 19:55
  
  One thing had to happen, it was believed, to keep this pandemic-disrupted holiday ski season from being a complete drain on Utah’s resorts. It had to snow.Well, it didn’t.“We are in one of the driest statewide starts to a season that we’ve ever had,” said Evan Thayer, a Utah forecaster for OpenSnow, noting reliable data stretches back about 40 years. “We’re right at the bottom of that.”At most, Utah’s mountains received about 60% of their typ
  
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• Utah ski resorts making best of it after low snow totals put a dent in holiday season

  05-01-2021 19:36
  
  One thing had to happen, it was believed, to keep this pandemic-disrupted holiday ski season from being a complete drain on Utah’s resorts. It had to snow.Well, it didn’t.“We are in one of the driest statewide starts to a season that we’ve ever had,” said Evan Thayer, a Utah forecaster for OpenSnow, noting reliable data stretches back about 40 years. “We’re right at the bottom of that.”At most, Utah’s mountains received about 60% of their typ
  
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• Report: BYU to play No. 1 Gonzaga on Thursday

  05-01-2021 19:17
  
  BYU basketball has gone without playing for two weeks, but it seems the Cougars have finally been able to secure a game.BYU (9-2) will now play to-ranked Gonzaga (10-0) on Thursday, according to Jeff Goodman from Stadium.The Cougars were originally scheduled to host Pacific that day, but the game against the Tigers was postponed on Monday. It was the third consecutive postponement for BYU, which has yet to open West Coast Conference play.Gonzaga has had better luck with league games, having star
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: To defend democracy, investigate Trump

  05-01-2021 18:00
  
  According to Title 52, Section 20511 of the United States Code, anyone who “knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of a state of a fair and impartially conducted election process” for federal office can be punished by up to five years in prison.Donald Trump certainly seems to have violated this law. He is on tape alternately cajoling and threatening Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to “find 11,780 votes
  
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• Utah Rep. John Curtis criticizes GOP challenge to electoral votes

  05-01-2021 17:53
  
  Amid a brewing fight in Congress where scores of Republicans plan a long-shot challenge Wednesday to electoral votes to try to keep President Donald Trump in office, Utah Rep. John Curtis is making it crystal clear that he wants nothing to do with that effort.“I plan to respect each state’s decision, certify the election, and continue to work with my colleagues on solutions for Utah,” Curtis tweeted on Tuesday morning.I plan to respect each state’s decision, certify the e
  
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• 11 things New York Times critics are looking forward to in 2021

  05-01-2021 15:01
  
  As a new year begins, our critics highlight the TV, movies, music, art and streaming dance and theater they anticipate before summer.Swearing with Nicolas CageSure, the new Netflix series “History of Swear Words,” which premieres Tuesday, features a cast of comics like Sarah Silverman, Joel Kim Booster and Nikki Glaser working as talking heads, breaking down the meaning, impact and poetry of six major bad words, which mostly cannot be published here. An exception is “Damn,&rdqu
  
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• Letter: Don’t politicize the criminal justice system

  05-01-2021 14:07
  
  On a recent morning I received two emails asking that I sign a petition demanding that Donald Trump be arrested or be investigated and prosecuted. I refuse to sign either. Such demands are reprehensible.They are just as reprehensible as Trump’s calls to lock up Hillary Clinton or that former Attorney General William Barr indict President-elect Joe Biden weeks before the election.As a longtime federal prosecutor, I believe the weaponization of the criminal justice system for political purpo
  
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• Letter: The primary threats to our free country

  05-01-2021 14:06
  
  What are the primary external threats to our free country?1. China2. Russia3. Iran4. North KoreaPerhaps in that order.What are the primary internal threats to our free country?1. The loss of the intact family2. Systemic racism3. The wealth gap4. The pandemic5. Information silos6. President Trump and his baseNot necessarily in that order.Kerry Soelberg, West JordanSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Wildlife and agriculture can coexist

  05-01-2021 14:05
  
  Pepper Trail’s Dec. 26 commentary on Klamath Basin wildlife refuges ably describes the botulism outbreak on Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge that tragically killed tens of thousands of waterfowl in 2020.Mr. Trail misses the cause of the problem, which is the reallocation of water to endangered fish species. For generations, both agriculture in the Klamath Project and the national wildlife refuges have had adequate water supplies in the great majority of years. In more recent years, howev
  
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• Letter: Gary Herbert made two big mistakes

  05-01-2021 14:04
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune’s Robert Gehrke is an admirable journalist, usually on what I consider the “right” side of the issues.While his Dec. 28 piece on Gov. Gary Herbert’s accomplishments focused on his enlightenment over time, and his economic successes, it contained two errors.Economies can collapse in a heartbeat. More long-term and irreversible are the things Herbert did badly: mishandling the pandemic and endorsing the inland port.Thousands of Utahns are permanently s
  
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• Letter: Trump reminds me of ‘the strutting partridge’

  05-01-2021 14:03
  
  After every court — including the Supreme Court, twice — rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow the election results, I was reminded of line in a poem written by Hafez, the beloved Persian poet: “Did you see the cackling, strutting partridge that was ignorant of the talon of the falcon of destiny?”Behrouz Motiee, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Vaccinate at-risk populations next

  05-01-2021 14:02
  
  I was delighted to see some common sense prevail when the state announced that restaurant industry workers were not going to be among the first groups to be vaccinated. My partner and I are 67 and 68 years old and at high risk of a seriously bad outcome if we contract COVID-19. We used to go out to eat often before COVID-19 but have not been to a restaurant since March. We won’t be going back to a restaurant until after we are vaccinated.It doesn’t matter if restaurant workers are ea
  
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• Utah lawmakers will try again to wipe out the need for a permit to carry a concealed gun

  05-01-2021 14:00
  
  Utah lawmakers will consider whether to significantly expand gun rights and further clamp down on the ability of local governments to put restrictions on firearms when the 2021 session gets underway later this month.Rep. Walt Brooks, R-St. George, is reviving the “constitutional carry” bill, which would give any law-abiding Utahn the ability to carry concealed weapons in public without a permit. Similar bills have met their demise over the past decade by veto or threatened vetoes fro
  
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• BYU’s Aaron Roderick is promoted to offensive coordinator

  05-01-2021 05:51
  
  BYU head football coach Kalani Sitake announced Monday evening that Aaron Roderick has been promoted to offensive coordinator.Roderick, BYU’s passing game coordinator for the past three seasons, replaces Jeff Grimes, who departed for Baylor.“I know firsthand the exceptional coach Aaron is from working on the same staff for 15 years during our careers,” Sitake said. “He is an experienced play-caller and coordinator and a great mentor and teacher. I’m thrilled to have
  
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• Trump says he’ll ‘fight like hell’ to hold on to presidency

  05-01-2021 05:21
  
  Dalton, Ga. • With mounting desperation, Donald Trump declared Monday night he would “fight like hell” to hold on to the presidency and appealed to Republican lawmakers to reverse his election loss to Joe Biden when they convene this week to confirm the Electoral College vote. Electoral voters won by President-elect Biden are “not gonna take this White House!” he shouted as supporters cheered at an outdoor rally in Georgia. Trump’s announced purpose for the tri
  
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• Fast rollout of virus vaccine trials reveals distrust among Native Americans

  05-01-2021 03:40
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • The news came during a hopeful time on the largest Native American reservation.Daily coronavirus cases were in the single digits, down from a springtime peak of 238 that made the Navajo Nation a U.S. hot spot. The tribe, wanting to ensure a COVID-19 vaccine would be effective for its people, said it would welcome Pfizer clinical trials on its reservation spanning Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.Right away, tribal members accused their government of allowing them to be guinea
  
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• Salt Lake City Council invites public comment on Fisher Mansion, Glendale water park

  05-01-2021 01:56
  
  The Salt Lake City Council is inviting public comment on a proposed 2020-21 budget amendment that would provide funding to renovate the historic Fisher Mansion Carriage House into a recreation hub and create a redevelopment plan for the former Glendale water park.The City Council will listen to public comment during a meeting Tuesday, Jan. 5, at 7 p.m.The original approved budget to renovate the Fisher Mansion Carriage House — located on 200 South near the Jordan River — was $1,378,7
  
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• New Congress is overwhelmingly Christian, heavily Protestant and has 9 Latter-day Saints (all Republicans)

  05-01-2021 00:58
  
  The 117th session of Congress got off to a testy start Sunday, including an opening prayer from an ordained member whose pairing of “a-woman” with the traditional “amen” raised both hackles and questions about the meaning of the word.But what is rarely at question is the religious composition of Congress, as the House and Senate remained overwhelmingly Christian (88%), and heavily Protestant (55%), the Pew Research Center has found.There are nine members of The Church of
  
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• Health officials offering free rapid COVID-19 testing across the state

  05-01-2021 00:48
  
  Free COVID-19 testing will be available this week in 15 counties across Utah.According to the Utah Department of Health, the free rapid antigen testing is being offered at locations chosen because they have a high rates of positive tests, have had lower numbers of tests conducted, untreated wastewater sampling shows the virus is spreading, and other surveillance data.UDOH is encouraging anyone with even mild COVID-19 symptoms to get tested, but the tests are available to everyone — even th
  
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• George Pyle: If Joe Biden’s election is fishy, so is Chris Stewart’s.

  05-01-2021 00:48
  
  After serious thought and consideration, I will not recognize Chris Stewart as my representative in the U.S. House of Representatives. I believe there are critical matters of deliberate gerrymandering that need to be answered concerning our Utah elections.Hey. If Stewart can keep a straight tweet while announcing that he will not vote to accept the results of the Electoral College vote Wednesday because of doubts about the fairness of the presidential election, then I can decide, through logic t
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Coup Coup for Conspiracies

  05-01-2021 00:43
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on January 5, 2021. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:America’s EnemiesWe Are Still HereHell of a YearCriminal ClassMaking a ListHo Ho HerpetologyHalf a LoafPlaying ThroughThe ThinkerWorking PresidentWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Construction worker electrocuted on the job in South Jordan

  05-01-2021 00:20
  
  A construction worker with a company contracted by Rocky Mountain Power was electrocuted while working on a site in South Jordan on Monday morning.Shaun Robertson, 50, was killed at a lot at 3754 W. 11400 South while working on an underground conduit, FOX 13 reported.Rocky Mountain Power spokesperson David Eskelsen said Monday the site was not supposed to have live electricity, and officials are investigating how Robertson was electrocuted.Read more at FOX 13.Editor’s note: FOX 13 and The
  
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• How RSL defender Justen Glad has grown and how he wants to leave his mark on Utah

  05-01-2021 00:19
  
  When Justen Glad joined Real Salt Lake in 2014, he was a different person. He was only 17. Immature. More shy. Less muscular. Less developed as a soccer player. It was so long ago, reminiscing on that time in his career has become a bit difficult.“You look back and kind of think, ‘Where did the time even go?’” Glad said Monday during a videoconference with media. “I don’t know how those years went by so quick.”Glad, now nearing 24, has played seven seaso
  
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