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• Bagley Cartoon: Blood Libel

  01-02-2021 23:30
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on February 2, 202. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Baby Bites BackEvery Move You MakeLunatics Running the AsylumLoco ControlAxing for a FriendKKKrakenTrump University AlumsDay OneCapitol OffenseFinal ActWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Bucs’ Tom Brady on playing past age 45: ‘I would definitely consider that’

  01-02-2021 23:06
  
  Tom Brady keeps raising the bar about how long he could keep playing quarterback in the NFL.As the 43-year-old Brady prepares for his record 10th Super Bowl and first since joining Tampa Bay this past offseason, he said he’s already considering surpassing his previous goal and playing beyond age 45.“Yes definitely. I would definitely consider that,” Brady said Monday in his first news conference at Super Bowl week. “It’s a physical sport. Just the perspective I have
  
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• Six lessons learned — both good and bad — from the Utah Jazz’s streak-breaking defeat in Denver

  01-02-2021 22:54
  
  Sometimes, after a previously hot team loses, a player from that team can be heard telling the assembled media that the loss is actually a good thing, that it was a necessary dose of humility to ultimately make them better.It’s a trite cliché, and one that no Utah Jazz player uttered following Sunday’s humbling-indeed 128-117 loss to the Denver Nuggets which marked the termination of their much-celebrated 11-game win streak. You’d be right in suspecting the Jazz would be
  
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• Utah has its independent commission to help redraw voting boundaries for the coming decade

  01-02-2021 22:41
  
  Gov. Spencer Cox named Brigham Young University professor Rex Facer as chair of Utah’s independent redistricting commission Monday, while legislative leaders named former Rep. Rob Bishop along with two former state lawmakers to the panel.Facer is an associate professor of public management in the Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics, where he teaches in the Master of Public Administration program, a position he’s held since 2009.“Rex Facer will bring the public policy
  
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• Doc Rivers, Quin Snyder named Coaches of the Month

  01-02-2021 22:40
  
  Kyle Neubeck: Doc Rivers was named Eastern Conference Coach of the Month for the December/January start to the season.
  
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• Ann Marie Wallace and Derek Miller: Women-owned businesses are critical for Utah’s economic recovery

  01-02-2021 22:00
  
  At a recent listening session for women, hosted by Utah’s Women in the Economy Commission, several participants shared examples of being denied government funding because their home-based business was viewed inaccurately as a “hobby business.” Such a determination discounts the vital role women play in the economy as leaders, producers, and small business entrepreneurs.Erroneous labeling that leads to dismissing requests for capital presents another challenge we must overcome t
  
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• Paul Krugman: The Republican economic plan is an insult

  01-02-2021 21:53
  
  So 10 Republican senators are proposing an economic package that is supposed to be an alternative to President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan. The proposal would reportedly be only a fraction of the size of Biden’s plan and would in important ways cut the heart out of economic relief.Republicans, however, want Biden to give in to their wishes in the name of bipartisanship. Should he?No, no, 1.9 trillion times no.It’s not just that what we know about the GOP proposal indicates
  
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• BYU still controls its NCAA Tournament destiny, but has little room for error moving forward

  01-02-2021 21:52
  
  BYU may have been able to avoid two consecutive losses last week, but were still exposed in another way.The Cougars fell to Pepperdine on the road and were taken to double overtime against Pacific at home. Now, the margin of error for BYU to make it to the NCAA Tournament has diminished.“These guys have worked really hard and they’ve put themselves in a terrific spot,” BYU coach Mark Pope said. “We’re in a really, really good spot right now in terms of trying to acc
  
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• Sundance documentaries show the worlds American high schoolers live in

  01-02-2021 21:15
  
  In the last year, between the COVID-19 pandemic and social-justice protests, one of the epicenters for change has been high school.Documentary filmmakers have taken notice. Three of the movies vying in the U.S. Documentary competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival follow the ups and downs of a graduating class of an American high school.The three schools profiled could not be more different: A multiethnic student body in Oakland, Calif., in “Homeroom,” a law-enforcement training
  
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• Fewer than 600 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Utah on Monday

  01-02-2021 21:12
  
  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 Utah Department of Health reported fewer than 600 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, although fewer than 4,000 people were tested on Sunday and the positivity rate remained above 16%And three more Utahns died of the coronavirus.Vaccina
  
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• Utah Rep. John Curtis joins bipartisan group seeking to build bridges in evenly divided Congress

  01-02-2021 21:05
  
  In a political landscape churning with bitter partisan mud fights, Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, just joined a group that seeks to tone down rhetoric and find bipartisan paths forward. It could become a powerful player to determine what passes in a nearly evenly divided Congress.The so-called Problem Solvers Caucus limits membership to 50 House members evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. Former Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, served on it before he was defeated last year by Republican Rep. B
  
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• Utah officials had questions about how to react to state’s first case of COVID-19 U.K. variant, emails show

  01-02-2021 20:45
  
  Health officials at first weren’t certain how to investigate the first known case in Utah of the more-infectious “U.K.” coronavirus variant, according to emails among federal, state and county agencies.But that initial uncertainty may reflect the deficits of a nationwide disease surveillance system that relies too heavily on state and private labs to detect changes in infectious diseases, one Utah doctor said last week.“Our state of knowledge about variants arising in the
  
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• Census delays will mean a long wait for Utah’s redistricting to get underway

  01-02-2021 20:43
  
  Gov. Spencer Cox named Brigham Young University professor Rex Facer as chair of Utah’s independent redistricting commission Monday, with the remaining six members to be named by majority and minority leaders in the Utah Legislature.Facer is an associate professor of public management in the Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics, where he teaches in the Master of Public Administration program, a position he’s held since 2009. “Rex Facer will bring the public policy exper
  
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• Red Sox second baseman, 2008 AL MVP Dustin Pedroia retires

  01-02-2021 20:42
  
  Boston • Dustin Pedroia, the undersized and over-achieving second baseman who spurred the Boston Red Sox to a pair of World Series victories with his grit and a third, after a knee injury effectively ended his career, with his mouth, has retired.“I never took one play off, from Little League on,” Pedroia said on a videoconference with reporters on Monday. “I hope I did enough and set the right example in the city of Boston.”Pedroia, 37, was the AL Rookie of the Year
  
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• Critics see law firm’s debt collection maneuver as an abuse of the court system

  01-02-2021 18:41
  
  The story is part of a continuing series on Utah evictions and the state’s leading landlord law firm. The following story was supported by a grant from The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and was written and researched by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune.In 2020 the Law Offices of Kirk Cullimore filed 45% of all eviction lawsuits in Utah but firm partner and state Sen. Kirk Cullimore Jr. said that he personally stepped back from that w
  
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• Trent Staggs: Cities must take the lead on improving housing supply and costs

  01-02-2021 18:00
  
  Utah faces a looming housing crisis. We see more new families formed each year than homes built to house them, creating the current housing gap of 50,000 more family units than home units in the state of Utah.The Kem C. Gardner Institute indicates that the average home price in Utah will be $730,000 in just 24 years if we maintain our current trajectory. Simply put, we need to build more houses to increase supply while also reducing onerous regulations to stop prices from spiraling out of contro
  
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• Mitt Romney, GOP senators offer details on their new scaled-back pandemic relief plan

  01-02-2021 16:53
  
  A group of 10 Republican senators — including Utah’s Mitt Romney — released details of their scaled-down proposal early Monday ahead of their face-to-face meeting with President Joe Biden later in the day.It includes smaller stimulus payments — $1,000 per taxpayer instead of $1,400, and it would be limited to people with lower incomes. It would also eliminate some elements of Biden’s plan that Republicans dislike, such as increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 p
  
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• Neca Allgood: Survivors of gun violence know we don’t need HB60

  01-02-2021 16:00
  
  Twenty-eight. That is how many hours there are between each gun suicide death in Utah. It is the number of hours between when yet another Utah family joins the hundreds of millions of survivors in our country whose loved ones have been taken by gun suicide. A club nobody wants to join.Gun violence is personal to me. In 2003, my brother, Jordan, was shot and killed during a robbery of his coin store in St. George. In 2018, I lost a dear friend to gun suicide.Research shows that during the last de
  
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• Letter: Thanks, Mitt Romney, for being the voice of reason

  01-02-2021 15:59
  
  Country before party – hmm, we’ll see.The Senate is unlikely to get the required seventeen Republican votes to convict Donald Trump.Sadly, many of our elected officials are beholden to their constituents rather than their oath of office. Yes, we elected them but we also expect them to do the right thing – it’s that simple.So, thank you to Mitt Romney for your integrity and consistent voice of common sense and reason throughout these crazy times. You have done the right th
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 135 new COVID-19 cases, 3 more deaths

  01-02-2021 15:04
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials have reported 135 new COVID-19 cases and three more deaths.The latest numbers released Saturday night raised the totals to 28,717 cases and 1,014 known deaths since the pandemic began.The tribe has tribe extended its stay-at-home order with a revised nightly curfew to limit the spread of COVID-19.The Navajo Department of Health has identified 53 communities with uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus, down from 75 communities in recent wee
  
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• Ross Douthat: The pandemic’s gift to radicalism

  01-02-2021 15:00
  
  This past week, the San Francisco School Board of Education voted 6-1 to proceed with a plan to rename 44 of the city’s currently shuttered schools, wiping away notables like Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Paul Revere, Robert Louis Stevenson and even Dianne Feinstein, California’s senior senator, for various forms of cooperation with white supremacy and patriarchy.After the vote, I spent some time reading the Google spreadsheet helpfully compiled by the renaming effort, which li
  
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• Charles M. Blow: Black power, now or never

  01-02-2021 15:00
  
  It is easy to believe that Black power and influence is growing in America, and that the logical conclusion is that a set of policies favoring the Black community in America — a so-called Black agenda — is growing more likely as the years pass and the percentage of nonwhite Americans rises.This election alone, the vice president is a first in several ways — not only the first Black person in that role, but also the first woman and the first person of South Asian descent.Black p
  
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• Utah’s 10-year battle over disputed roads crisscrossing public lands likely just got a lot longer

  01-02-2021 14:00
  
  Utah leaders initiated a series of lawsuits in 2012 aimed at taking ownership of thousands of routes crossing federal land under an obscure Frontier-era law known as RS2477.Yet a decade later, after hundreds of depositions, countless legal filings and endless hours of courtroom time, only a handful of these disputed road cases have been resolved. Years if not decades of additional action are necessary before this legal saga reaches the finish line.Some Utah lawmakers are running out of patience,
  
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• Letter: Thanks, Mitt Romney, for being the voice or reason

  01-02-2021 14:00
  
  Country before party – hmm, we’ll see.  The Senate is unlikely to get the required seventeen Republican votes to convict Donald Trump.  Sadly, many of our elected officials are beholden to their constituents rather than their oath of office. Yes, we elected them but we also expect them to do the right thing – it’s that simple.So, thank you to Mitt Romney for your integrity and consistent voice of common sense and reason throughout these crazy times. You have don
  
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• Letter: No diversity on local TV

  01-02-2021 14:00
  
  This past year we have had constant reminders of the need to be inclusive of those from all backgrounds. President Biden is forming his Cabinet to reflect the diversity of the country. Our governor,  mayors and our universities have all launched diversity initiatives. In 2020 – the weirdest year ever – we’ve had to stay glued to the local news stations to stay current on the latest updates: pandemic, elections, earthquakes, windstorms, drought, heat waves, on-again off-aga
  
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• Letter: Instead of an $80 million tax cut, increase education funding

  01-02-2021 14:00
  
  I don’t understand.  I have actively followed public education funding in Utah for many years, but especially since the mid 1990s.  Utah has almost always been at or near the bottom of the nation in per-pupil funding, but that is understandable as we have always had about the highest number of children per household in the nation. But until the mid 1990s we were almost always ranked in the top ten states in the percent of personal income being used to fund public education.Yes, i
  
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• Letter: History shows the dangers of cults and bad information

  01-02-2021 14:00
  
  One of the difficulties in fighting a cult is that they keep moving the goal posts. Trump lost and Biden won. But it’s hard to convince people of this fact because, as Romney says, the cult is lying about it and people believe them.First, the cult said the truth would be revealed when the election returns were counted. The returns showed that Biden won. Then the cult said that Biden was in on The Plan and would suddenly step aside for the true president, Donald Trump, at the inauguration.
  
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• Letter: A quid pro quo solution regarding voting in GOP primaries

  01-02-2021 14:00
  
  Dear Utah GOP,Tell ya what: You stop gerrymandering Utah voting districts and I won’t vote in your primary elections.Sandra Marsh, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• How Census delays will impact Utah’s redistricting and the new independent commission

  01-02-2021 14:00
  
  Monday is the deadline for announcing the seven members of Utah’s voter-approved independent redistricting commission. But, they may not have any work to do until the fall.The Census Bureau said last week it would be late in delivering the data that states will use to redraw political boundaries, which will delay Utah’s mapmaking process by several months. The bureau missed its Dec. 31 deadline for delivering apportionment information due to disruptions caused by the pandemic. The nu
  
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• Myanmar military says it is taking control of the country

  01-02-2021 05:17
  
  Naypyitaw, Myanmar • Myanmar military television said Monday that the military was taking control of the country for one year, while reports said many of the country’s senior politicians including Aung San Suu Kyi had been detained.An presenter on military-owned Myawaddy TV made the announcement and cited a section of the military-drafted constitution that allows the military to take control in times of national emergency. He said the reason for takeover was in part due to the govern
  
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• Utah women’s basketball team’s rally falls short against Oregon State

  01-02-2021 04:01
  
  Trailing by as many as 19 in the third quarter, the University of Utah women’s basketball team rallied back to within two in the fourth quarter on the heels of a 27-point game from sophomore Brynna Maxwell, but Oregon State was still able to escape with an 84-74 win in a Pac-12 game Sunday at the Huntsman Center.Kemery Martin scored 16 points for Utah (4-10, 3-10 Pac-12) and Dru Gylten added 11.Aleah Goodman led Oregon State (6-5, 4-5) with 21 points.Women’s volleyballThe Utah women&
  
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• The Triple Team: How much could the Jazz have prevented Nuggets 3s, Jokic’s 47?

  01-02-2021 01:28
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 128-117 loss to the Denver Nuggets from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. 3-point shooting variance kills the Jazz in this oneOne of the most interesting findings of the last decade or so of basketball statistical analysis is how little control teams have over their opponent’s 3-point percentages.Basically, if you look at the teams that are among the top 10 in terms of opposing 3-point percentage one year, and then look at that same l
  
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• Rudy Gobert after Nikola Jokic's huge game: I've got to do a better job

  01-02-2021 01:01
  
  Eric Walden: Rudy Gobert, on Nikola Jokic’s game: “He got it going early. I should have done a much better job. He scored way too easily, especially in the first half. … I take full responsibility for that. The team relies on me, and I’ve got to do a better job.”
  
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• Utah Jazz get scorched by Nuggets’ shooting, see 11-game winning streak come to an end

  01-02-2021 00:30
  
  The 11-game winning streak is no more.After being decimated by Denver beyond the arc Sunday, the Utah Jazz’s comeback attempt fell short, as they dropped a 128-117 decision at Ball Arena.Here are some early observations from the game:Absurd Denver shooting, poor Jazz defense equal disastrous first halfLet this sink in: The Nuggets 15 of 17 attempts from 3-point range in the first half. Fifteen. Of. Seventeen.That’s 88.2%.Obviously, you’d suspect that’s an unsustainable ra
  
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