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• Local football players earn MaxPreps All-America honors

  30-01-2021 23:00
  
  Four football players from Utah were named to the MaxPreps All-America team for their performances in the 2020 season.Jaxson Dart, Noah Kjar and Jackson Light from the 6A champion Corner Canyon High received honors, as did Kingsley Suamataia of the 5A champion Orem High.Dart and Kjar were named first team All-America, while Light and Suamataia were named to the second team.Dart, who signed to play football at USC, also won the high school sports website’s National Football Player of the Ye
  
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• David Brooks: Children need to be back in school tomorrow

  30-01-2021 23:00
  
  There’s a wave of anti-intellectualism sweeping America. There are people across the country who deny evidence, invent their own facts and live in their own fantasyland. We saw it in the Republicans who denied the reality of President Joe Biden’s election victory, and we see it now in the teachers unions that are shutting down schools and marring children’s lives.What are the facts when it comes to COVID-19 and schooling?The first fact is that remote learning is a disaster, esp
  
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• Utah Runnin’ Utes rally from 19 down to win at Colorado, 77-74

  30-01-2021 22:35
  
  Down 19 inside 9:00 to play, the University of Utah came charging all the way back to defeat the University of Colorado, 77-74. Here are three quick takeaways.1. When Alfonso Plummer gets it going…….: He is one of the elite scorers in the Pac-12. After first-half foul trouble, the senior sharpshooter went nuts over the final 9:00, finishing with a game-high 23 points on 8-for-13 shooting from the floor and 4-for-6 from 3-point range. To be clear, the Utes were dead in the water, do
  
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• Utah hits a record high for daily vaccinations, as another 1,468 cases of COVID-19 are reported

  30-01-2021 21:00
  
  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 administered its highest number of vaccines ever for a single day, with nearly 19,000 new dose reported to have been injected since Friday.That comes with another modest day of new cases of COVID-19 and eight more deaths in the stat
  
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• Utah lawmakers want to remove requirement for students to get a doctor’s note when they’re sick — or just need a mental health day

  30-01-2021 20:43
  
  Utah students would no longer need to get a doctor’s note to have an absence excused at school when they’re out sick under a new bill passed in committee this week.Instead, the measure — HB116 — would only require a parent to call in to their kid’s school to validate the missed day was for an illness. And that could include mental health, with a second bill running alongside it.Rep. Adam Robertson, R-Provo, said his proposal is largely meant to help families avoid u
  
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• Eric Walden: Though considered a beacon of diversity, the NBA actually has much work to do

  30-01-2021 20:00
  
  With Wednesday’s announcement that the Houston Texans had hired Baltimore Ravens passing game coordinator David Culley as their new head coach, the NFL’s top coaching vacancies are now filled.The controversy surrounding how those seven jobs were filled is still going strong, though.Of those openings, Culley was the only Black man to be hired. Kansas City offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy, one of the hottest coaching prospects for several years now, was passed up again. Tampa Bay co
  
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• RSL officials lobbying for Herriman soccer academy to be included in team sale, calling it a franchise linchpin

  30-01-2021 19:00
  
  Jeff Dewsnup sat at a table inside the Zions Bank Training Center, adjacent to the sprawling turf fields used by Real Salt Lake, the Real Monarchs, local youth soccer clubs and even the Utah Girls Tackle Football League.It was there where Dewsnup made a bold declaration.“If I could sign a homegrown [player] right now, I would,” Dewsnup told The Salt Lake Tribune.Dewsnup, a goalkeeper, was referring to the type of contract RSL gives to players who go through the organization’s d
  
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• Utah Sen. Mitt Romney calls out Republican congresswoman for spreading the ‘big lie’ about a stolen election

  30-01-2021 18:39
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney criticized a Republican congresswoman on Saturday for spreading “nonsense” about the presidential election being stolen from Donald Trump.In a tweet, the Utah senator responded to a report that Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she’d recently spoken to Trump and continues to support him.Romney wrote: “Lies of a feather flock together: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s nonsense and the ‘big lie’ of a stolen election.”Lies of a feather
  
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• Frank Bruni: Marco Rubio deserves Ivanka Trump

  30-01-2021 18:33
  
  It’s a measure of the Republican Party’s current depravity that I think of the period when Marco Rubio was besmirching Donald Trump’s genitalia as the good old days.It was early 2016, Trump hadn’t yet locked down the Republican presidential nomination and Rubio, smarting from Trump’s nickname for him (”Little Marco’) and cracks about his overactive sweat glands, began pointing voters toward Trump’s private parts.“He’s, like, 6-2, which
  
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• Tribune Editorial: State must help Utah schools make up time lost to pandemic

  30-01-2021 17:00
  
  Life happens. Even in the third grade.For any of a number of reasons, good and bad, by choice or due to unfortunate circumstances, students miss a day, or a week, or more, of school. Then it is time to catch up, quickly, before students fall even further behind. It is more work for the student, the parents and the teachers, but it happens every day, in every school.But it has never been like this before.The COVID-19 pandemic has left large numbers of students weeks or months behind. Rather than
  
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• Gordon Monson: The Utah Jazz currently are the world’s best basketball team. Here’s why they might get better.

  30-01-2021 17:00
  
  Fill in the missing word in the following sentence:Quin Snyder always wanted the Jazz to play ____ basketball.Let’s see … good? … no, too bland … team? … no, too obvious … unselfish? … no, not comprehensive enough … smart? … no, Einstein never won a title … ferocious? … no, this isn’t an MMA fight … beautiful? … no, too much variation left in the eye of the beholder.Strange enough, the word is &hellip
  
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• NBA Standout Player Watch — Jan. 30

  30-01-2021 16:30 via basketballinsiders.com
  Basketball Insiders moves to the Western Conference for our "Standout Watch" series. Quinn Davis examines three players who have been making their mark nearly a quarter of the way through the season.
  The post NBA Standout Player Watch — Jan. 30 first appeared on Basketball Insiders | NBA Rumors And Basketball News.
  
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• Letter: To be a Democrat in Utah gives a person no voice

  30-01-2021 14:05
  
  Dear GOP (Attn. Jordan Teuscher):Thanks for spending your valuable legislative time on HB197. I wanted you to know why I changed my party last year.To be registered as a Democrat in Utah gives a person no voice with the exception of sending almost useless comments to the opinion page of The Tribune. Our Republican legislators do exactly what they want to do.I am guessing you didn’t get the person you wanted in the last election. Along with gerrymandering, this bill is just another way to m
  
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• Racism isn’t a hypothetical topic for Utah’s Black pastors. They’ve tasted it.

  30-01-2021 14:00
  
  Black Christian pastors in Utah may minister to small congregations, with older members slowly dying out, or large ones, attracting younger believers.But most of them face a similar question from curious outsiders: Are there really Black churches in the Beehive State?The answer is yes. In fact, there are more than a dozen historically Black congregations, and the roles these preachers play is crucial to the state’s religious life.Thus, for February’s Black History Month — amid
  
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• Letter: Kirby’s column on titles is illogical and shallow

  30-01-2021 14:00
  
  Robert Kirby’s column on “actual doctors” was illogical and shallow.  He went to an orthopedic surgeon and went on to criticize the use of the title “doctor” by those outside of medicine.  His argument fails for at least three reasons.First, I would not go to a family physician for complicated hand surgery.  Not all doctors of medicine have equal training! Yet, they share the title of “Dr.” -- dentists, chiropractors, psychiatrists and so
  
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• Letter: How quickly the GOP senators seem to forget

  30-01-2021 14:00
  
  My wife and I believe that the 45 Republican senators who don’t think that former president Trump should be impeached are like the old saying, “Hit me again because it feels so good when you stop.”  Have they already forgotten that they were within 60 seconds of being run over by the mob that stormed the Capitol and probably could have been seriously injured or even killed?  Trump’s sister and niece had it right when they said he has been a disgrace to his famil
  
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• Letter: Buying medical marijuana from out of state shouldn’t be illegal

  30-01-2021 14:00
  
  I read in The Tribune Weekly edition that those of us who have medical marijuana cards were as of Jan. 1 breaking the law if we traveled out of state to purchase THC- and CBD-based medicine we need to cope with the pain we are in.I have peripheral neuropathy. The pain is at times hard to bear. I would go sometimes with three hours of sleep or less for days at a time. Now, I could get myself addicted to opioid-based pain meds and sleep aids, but instead I chose the alternative meds offered with T
  
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• Letter: Air pollution is a serious health risk and Utah is letting it get worse

  30-01-2021 14:00
  
  Scientific evidence shows Utah’s air pollution is deadly.  The WHO reported this is the most important environmental cause of cancer. In 2020 Atmosphere Journal’s article “Historic and Modern Air Pollution Studies Conducted in Utah” reported, even with Utah’s low incidence of  tobacco users, poor air quality contributed to increased risk of lung cancer, poor pregnancy outcomes and other adverse health effects.  Dr. Varghese of the Huntsman Center repo
  
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• Here’s what the Utah Legislature has been up to in recent days

  30-01-2021 14:00
  
  In case you missed it, here’s a quick roundup of the highlights of what’s been happening in the Utah legislative session in the past few days.BudgetThe legislative session is only two weeks into its 45-day run and already lawmakers have wrapped up a $21 billion base budget that includes the lion’s share of the funds and spending priorities for the coming year. Those bills won final legislative approval Friday and were sent to Gov. Spencer Cox.There are a lot more funding decisi
  
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• Can the White Mesa uranium mill shake southern Utah’s radioactive past?

  30-01-2021 14:00
  
  San Juan County • When Mark Chalmers began working in the uranium industry in the 1970s, robust regulations on radioactive material were just starting to emerge in the United States.The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was established in 1975 after its predecessor, the Atomic Energy Commission, failed to protect workers and the environment from harmful radiation.“Nobody cared back then,” Chalmers said of the lack of regulations in the mid-20th century. “It just didn’t m
  
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• Joe Ingles breaks John Stockton's three-point record

  30-01-2021 12:58
  
  There were times early in Joe Ingles’ NBA career when his coaches and teammates had to encourage him to shoot when he was open. The end result? The No. 1 3-point shooter in Utah Jazz history. On Friday night, Ingles made his 846th 3-point bucket, passing Hall of Fame point guard John Stockton (845) for the most 3-point makes in franchise history. Ingles hit his first triple of the night midway through the first quarter. A moment later, Ingles used a screen to get open for his historic buck
  
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• ‘Struggling’ Bojan Bogdanovic gets aggressive as Utah Jazz knock off Mavericks again for 11th straight win

  30-01-2021 08:22
  
  Unless you’re tanking for lottery position, there’s not really a bad time to reel off an 11-game winning streak.Still, as far as Bojan Bogdanovic is concerned, the Utah Jazz’s ongoing steamroller run through the NBA is about as well-timed as it gets.“I mean, exactly. I would be really mad if I’m playing the way I’m playing right now and we are losing. But we are winning, the team is playing great, so no one cares about about their own statistics or their own p
  
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• The Triple Team: Jazz defense is at its very best once again as Jazz blow out Mavericks

  30-01-2021 08:06
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 120-101 win over the Dallas Mavericks from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Jazz defense sets a tone earlyComing into the game, it would have been reasonable to expect the Mavs to start the game hot, looking for revenge. After all, the Jazz embarrassed Dallas earlier on Wednesday, and they had the chance to make a statement that they were a team to be reckoned with. The New Orleans Pelicans did that last week in their early play, even in a
  
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• Up-and-down Utah Jazz knock off Mavericks again for 11th straight win

  30-01-2021 06:44
  
  No Donovan Mitchell, no problem, apparently.OK, so that’s extremely hyperbolic. No problem with the Dallas Mavericks, anyway.For the second straight game, the Utah Jazz were without their All-Star point guard, and for the second straight game, they decimated their visitors from Texas, this time rolling the Mavs 120-101 on Friday night at Vivint Arena.The victory was Utah’s 11th in a row, and boosted the teams NBA-best record to 15-4 on the season.Hey are some early observations from
  
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• Extra doses lead to long lines at Utah County vaccination clinic

  30-01-2021 06:37
  
  When Jessica Berrett brought her 76-year-old mother to Utah County’s Spanish Fork vaccination clinic for a scheduled appointment on Friday afternoon, Berrett expected to be in and out in a reasonable amount of time.Instead, she spent two hours waiting in line. This was the result of some extra doses that allowed hundreds more Utahns to get unexpectedly vaccinated, but added some significant delays.For the first 30 minutes, Berrett waited outside in the rain while her mother sat in the car.
  
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• Long lines reported at Utah County vaccination clinic

  30-01-2021 05:45
  
  When Jessica Berrett brought her 76-year-old mother to Utah County’s Spanish Fork vaccination clinic for a scheduled appointment on Friday afternoon, Berrett expected to be in and out in a reasonable amount of time.Instead, she spent two hours waiting in line.For the first thirty minutes, she waited outside in the rain while her mother sat in the car. After that, the pair waited inside surrounded by dozens of other people. The indoor line looped back and forth like a line in Disneyland, ac
  
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• Utah man arrested after Capitol riot is accused of violating conditions of release

  30-01-2021 02:47
  
  Utah activist John Sullivan, who was arrested for allegedly participating in the Jan. 6 rioting at the U.S. Capitol, was released from jail earlier this month on the condition that he follow rules including staying off social media. Now, he has been accused by a pretrial service officer of violating those conditions of release.Sullivan was charged in federal court in the District of Columbia with with civil disorder, being in a restricted area and disorderly conduct. Sullivan told The Salt Lake
  
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• Is the University of Utah’s new chief safety officer looking to leave?

  30-01-2021 02:35
  
  The new chief safety officer brought in to overhaul and redirect the University of Utah’s campus police department might soon be leaving.And his potential departure comes as the police chief he oversees — and who was also hired to help with reform — is currently on paid administrative leave.The two highest ranked leaders over security at the school came to the U. in the wake of student-athlete Lauren McCluskey’s murder in October 2018, which raised serious concerns about
  
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• Jana Riess: LDS leaders may be seeing the erosion of their traditional power

  30-01-2021 01:23
  
  In the past week, I’ve watched with interest as some Latter-day Saints, especially conservative ones, have resisted the church’s advice to embrace COVID-19 vaccinations. These are rumblings, not open rebellions, but they come on the heels of other recent pushback from conservatives.Like when top leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints publicly congratulated Joe Biden for winning the presidential election: It should have been a pro forma news release, but the anger
  
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• Photos: Olympic cauldron returns to University of Utah

  30-01-2021 01:22
  
  The Olympic cauldron was returned to the University of Utah on Friday after a refurbishment to lengthen its lifespan.The cauldron was transported to an offsite location in February 2020, where all 738 glass panes were removed and the complete structure was sandblasted and refinished.The refurbished structure was placed on a newly constructed, 17-foot-tall pedestal, just north of the stadium ticket office, with plans to add high-quality glass.
  
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• Corner Canyon’s Jaxson Dart named MaxPreps National Football Player of the Year

  30-01-2021 01:20
  
  Quarterback Jaxson Dart, who led Corner Canyon to a state title and signed a letter of intent to play football at USC, collected a national award Friday.Dart was named the 2020 MaxPreps National High School Football Player of the Year. The hypercompetitive senior helped the Chargers to a 6A championship — the school’s third in a row — last November and also broke some state records along the way.Dart finished his senior season with 67 touchdown passes, nine more than the previo
  
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• Olympic cauldron returns to University of Utah

  30-01-2021 00:52
  
  The Olympic cauldron was returned to the University of Utah on Friday after a refurbishment to lengthen its lifespan.The cauldron was transported to an offsite location in February 2020, where all 738 glass panes were removed and the complete structure was sandblasted and refinished.The refurbished structure was placed on a newly constructed, 17-foot-tall pedestal, just north of the stadium ticket office, with plans to add high-quality glass.
  
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