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• Bagley Cartoon: Final Act

  18-01-2021 23:51
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on January 19, 2021. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Unpacking the Last Four YearsDumb Man WalkingMr. CollegialityAn Elephant Never RegretsReal Bad NewsDon GoneMad HattersBeer Gut PutschMr. Cox Goes to Governin’Coup Coup for ConspiraciesWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Rally organized as a call for action against outgoing Trump administration

  18-01-2021 23:43
  
  Two Utah groups are holding a rally on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in downtown Salt Lake City that they are billing as “a day of action against the outgoing Trump administration.”The rally is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. Monday at the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building, where people will hear from speakers from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Utah Against Police Brutality, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the Salt Lake Equal Rights Movement, as well as other commu
  
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• Joe Ingles’ absence has been Miye Oni’s opportunity to make an impact in the Utah Jazz’s rotation

  18-01-2021 23:23
  
  In the aftermath of the Utah Jazz’s win over the Milwaukee Bucks back on Jan. 8, Donovan Mitchell was asked what it was like to play a game without Joe Ingles for the first time in his professional career.“It was weird,” Mitchell conceded. “There are a lot of things I didn’t realize that Joe does, you know, until he’s not there.”He’s been getting a chance to learn, though, with Ingles having now missed four of the Jazz’s past five games due t
  
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• Utah hits a grim milestone: 1,500 deaths from COVID-19

  18-01-2021 21:17
  
  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.Just short of one year since the first reported case of COVID-19 in the United States, Utah has reached 1,500 coronavirus-related deaths. And the number of patients in intensive care remained at 214, near the all-time high in the s
  
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• How an ex-U.S. attorney for Utah’s push for Trump pardons fits his about-face on criminal justice

  18-01-2021 19:34
  
  Brett Tolman, the former U.S. attorney for Utah who’s making headlines for making big bucks lobbying the White House for pardons for his clients, has made news before — as an advocate for women who are victims of violent crimes and a crusader reforming the legal system.More recently, however, Tolman has been advising the Trump administration on pardons and commutations. And, according to The New York Times, he “has been collecting tens of thousands of dollars, and possibly more
  
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• Ezra Klein: Joe Biden’s COVID-19 plan is maddeningly obvious

  18-01-2021 18:34
  
  I wish I could tell you that the incoming Biden administration had a genius plan for combating COVID-19, thick with ideas no one else had thought of and strategies no one else had tried. But it doesn’t.What it does have is the obvious plan for combating COVID-19, full of ideas many others have thought of and strategies it is appalling we haven’t yet tried. That it is possible for Joe Biden and his team to release a plan this straightforward is the most damning indictment of the Trump
  
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• Next up for Salt Lake City skating star Nathan Chen: a spot in Joe Biden’s inaugural parade

  18-01-2021 18:08
  
  Fresh from winning his fifth straight U.S. figure skating title, Salt Lake City native Nathan Chen will leap back into the national spotlight this week for another crowning event: the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.The inaugural committee has announced that Chen will join fellow U.S. Olympians — sprinter Allyson Felix and swimmer Katie Ledecky — as participants in Wednesday’s virtual “Parade Across America.”Scheduled to start at 1:15 p.m. MST after Biden&
  
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• High-wind warning issued for northern Utah from Monday evening through Tuesday morning

  18-01-2021 16:33
  
  The National Weather Service has issued a high-wind warning for the northern Wasatch Front from Monday evening through Tuesday morning.Winds of 25 to 35 mph are expected from 8 p.m. Monday until 11 a.m. Tuesday, with gusts up to 65 mph possible in Davis and Weber counties and 39 mph in Salt Lake City. The strongest winds are expected in Centerville and Farmington, near the mouth of Weber Canyon, in “areas normally impacted by downslope winds.”The weather service warns there could be
  
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• With Parler ban, Utah police and others may have lost a window into planned protests

  18-01-2021 15:51
  
  First came the state troopers, scores of them scattered across Utah’s Capitol Hill. Next came the National Guard members, hundreds with rifles and riot shields. Police from other local agencies were on scene, too, many in heavy body armor and anti-riot gear.All for about 15 protesters.Scenes like this played out in state capitals across the nation Sunday as heavily armed police and military members arrived at Capitols only to find very few protesters — and none of the kind of violenc
  
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• How to participate in the Utah legislative session

  18-01-2021 15:12
  
  Utah’s legislative session — typically characterized by a state Capitol packed with reporters, lobbyists, school groups and other members of the public — will look different this year as the coronavirus pandemic wears on.Formal public events, rallies and crowded committee hearings will be a thing of the past. In their place, legislative leaders have planned a “blended” session that will rely heavily on virtual engagement but that will — eventually — allo
  
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• Peter Beinart: Why are there so few courageous senators?

  18-01-2021 15:00
  
  Now that Donald Trump has been defanged, leading Republicans are rushing to denounce him. It’s a little late. The circumstances were different then, but a year ago, only one Republican senator, Mitt Romney, backed impeachment. In a party that has been largely servile, Romney’s courage stands out.Why, in the face of immense pressure, did Romney defend the rule of law? And what would it take to produce more senators like him? These questions are crucial if America’s constitutiona
  
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• Utah Jazz find a way to fight through low-energy slog and beat Denver for a fifth straight win

  18-01-2021 07:03
  
  In the first meeting between the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets since this past summer’s epic first-round playoff series, you might have expected hyper-competitiveness, back-and-forth scoring pyrotechnics, fiendish aggressiveness.What you got instead, on Sunday night at Ball Arena, was a miscue-riddled, grimy slog.But at least the Jazz emerged from the muck with a 109-105 victory — their fifth win in a row.Quin Snyder said he “didn’t think we had our legs tonight,” on
  
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• The Triple Team: Jazz’s role players lead the way in 5th straight victory as Nuggets miss 2nd half shots

  18-01-2021 06:21
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 106-102 win over the Denver Nuggets from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Role players make the difference in Jazz’s win vs. NuggetsHere’s tonight player scoring in graphical form:See how the Nuggets have two twin towers of scoring, Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic, while the Jazz’s scoring is much more balanced? In the end, the Jazz’s role players were the ones who got them over the top of the Nuggets tonight.Usually,
  
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• Early observations from the Utah Jazz’s 109-105 victory in Denver Sunday

  18-01-2021 05:02
  
  Both Quin Snyder and Mike Malone said prior to Sunday’s Utah Jazz-Denver Nuggets game — the first between the teams since their epic first-round playoff series — that they weren’t looking to treat the matchup as “Game 8” between the teams.The rosters were different, those playoffs were in the past, and this was merely the first key meeting of this season between Northwest Division rivals.So, no, the Jazz didn’t gain any measure of revenge with their 109-
  
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• Law enforcement, spectators far outnumbered armed protesters at Utah Capitol

  18-01-2021 01:59
  The Utah Capitol remained secure Sunday.Although federal law enforcement had warned of armed demonstrations at Capitols across the country in the wake of the Jan. 6 pro-Trump attack on the U.S. Capitol, only about 15 protesters showed up on the lawn of Utah’s Statehouse. Even that number is generous.For most of Sunday’s demonstration, spectators outnumbered the extremist, anti-government Boogaloo Bois who organized the rally. The only pro-Trump presence was a handful of men quietly w
  
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• Utah gymnasts miss opportunity for an upset in Oklahoma

  18-01-2021 01:30
  
  Utah’s third-ranked gymnastics team had a chance to upend the No. 2Oklahoma Sooners Sunday when Oklahoma had a few uncharacteristic mistakes on the vault, allowing the Utes to lead 49.275-49.15 after thefirst rotation. However, Utah had its own issues on the vault, allowing the Sooners to come from behind and preserve their dominance at home with the 197.025-196.55 win.Oklahoma is 110-4 at home under coach K.J. Kindler since 2006.The Utes still had a chance to win in the last rotation sinc
  
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• Former U.S. attorney for Utah among Trump allies getting paid by people who want a pardon

  18-01-2021 00:49
  
  Washington • As President Donald Trump prepares to leave office in days, a lucrative market for pardons is coming to a head, with some of his allies collecting fees from wealthy felons or their associates to push the White House for clemency, according to documents and interviews with more than three dozen lobbyists and lawyers.The brisk market for pardons reflects the access peddling that has defined Trump’s presidency as well as his unorthodox approach to exercising unchecked presid
  
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• Salt Lake City native Nathan Chen wins fifth straight U.S. figure skating title

  18-01-2021 00:23
  
  Las Vegas • Even with an error at the beginning of his free skate, Nathan Chen was unbeatable Sunday, winning his fifth straight U.S. Figure Skating Championship.Not since Dick Button won each title from 1946-52 has any American man had such a streak of success. Throw in two world championships and being unbeaten since not medaling at the 2018 Olympics, and Chen already has a resume for the ages.At age 21.“It’s incredible to try to follow in his footsteps,” Chen said of Bu
  
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