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Trump asserts baseless claim that millions voted illegally in election he won. Trump aide blasts Romney as possible Cabinet choice. Biskupski pushes Trump to fight climate change.

Happy Monday. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday peddled a fringe conspiracy theory to justify his loss of the popular vote, claiming without evidence that millions of people voted illegally Nov. 8. Trump's tweets marked an unprecedented rebuke of the U.S. electoral system by a president-elect and were met with immediate condemnation from voting experts and others. [<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-illegal-voting-clinton-231860">Politico</a>]

<strong>Topping the news:</strong> Trump aide Kellyanne Conway says she — and other Trump transitioners and appointees — disapprove of Trump's consideration of Mitt Romney for secretary of state, and so do droves of Trump supporters. [<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/27/politics/conway-trump-romney-betrayed/index.html"; target="_blank">CNN</a>] [<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/conway-unloads-on-romney-231855"; target="_blank">Politico</a>] [<a href="http://time.com/4582811/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump-mitt-romney/"; target="_blank">Time</a>]

-> Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski put her name on a letter penned by 32 American mayors asking for Trump's partnership in fighting climate change. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4626215-155/biskupski-joins-us-mayors-asking-trump"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> A booming construction market in Utah pushes Salt Lake City International Airport to up its terminal renovation project costs by $350 million. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4626912-155/airport-expansion-costs-soar-another-350"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] [<a href="http://fox13now.com/2016/11/23/price-tag-goes-up-for-new-slc-international-airport-itll-now-cost-nearly-3-billion/"; target="_blank">Fox13</a>] [<a href="http://kutv.com/news/local/salt-lake-airport-renovation-costs-climb"; target="_blank">KUTV</a>]

-> Utah trust lands officials release a preliminary plan to build a glam desert resort near Glen Canyon to lure in Lake Powell tourists. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4588880-155/utah-looks-to-build-upscale-redrock"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

<strong>Tweets of the weekend: </strong>From @<a href="https://twitter.com/McJesse"; target="_blank">McJesse</a>: "Are racist people like 'ugh, my open minded uncle is going to be at Thanksgiving this year.'"

From @<a href="https://twitter.com/DLin71"; target="_blank">DLin71</a>: "Someday, I hope Trump denounces neo-Nazis with the same unprompted fury that he has for Gold Star families, Miss Universe, and crying babies."

From @<a href="https://twitter.com/nybooks"; target="_blank">nybooks</a>: "Jeff Sessions enforcing civil rights, Betsy DeVos setting education policy — how long until Chris Christie is overseeing the nation's bridges?"

From @<a href="https://twitter.com/jameshamblin"; target="_blank">jameshamblin</a>: "It would be so like Jill Stein if she ends up exposing a serious flaw in our democratic system and also starting the second civil war."

From @<a href="https://twitter.com/RexHuppke"; target="_blank">RexHuppke</a>: "Trump's torn between Romney or Giuliani for Secretary of State. That's like being torn between a statesman and a man who might have rabies."

<strong>Happy Birthday: </strong>to animal advocate Temma Martin and former State Rep. Janice Fisher. A belated happy birthday to former State Rep. Tim Cosgrove, former Weber County Commissioner Kerry Gibson, former Equality Utah executive director Michael Mitchell and Southern Utah Director for Rep. Chris Stewart, Gary Webster.

<strong>Opinion section: </strong>Tribune editorial writer George Pyle uses a hard right Utah lawmaker's three-vote victory over his Democratic challenger to illustrate a gerrymandered electoral process in Utah and Hillary Clinton's defeat despite a 2 million plus popular vote advantage to highlight a lopsided election system across America. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4628381-155/george-pyle-every-vote-counts-except"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> Paul Rolly points out the downside to GOP State Rep. LaVar Christensen's narrow victory according to coworkers at the legislature — longwinded speeches and bullish religiosity. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4626290-155/paul-rolly-lavar-christensens-return-to?page=1"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] Then, he offers up the full text of the exercise in freedom of speech that the diverse cast of "Hamilton" delivered to Vice President-elect Mike Pence last weekend, and that a Utah legislator and Hamilton-lover found rude enough to boycott the play over. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4616236-155/rolly-hamilton-cast-missed-point-of"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] Utah lawmakers get bizarre Independent American Party mail that calls for public execution of treasonous Communists and dubbing Islam a non-religion. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4622022-155/rolly-execute-communists-outlaw-islam-utah"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> Emily Coonrod, associate director of the Program in Personalized Health at the University of Utah, encourages the public to look into and the government to fund research for the precise and tailored medical care of the future. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4625163-155/op-ed-precision-medicine-deserves-further-research"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> Chase Thomas, policy and advocacy counsel for Alliance for a Better Utah, scolds the U.S. Senate for not only sitting on the confirmation of a Supreme Court judge but also keeping 11 percent of America's federal courts understaffed by ignoring confirmations, including Utah's perfectly qualified Ronald G. Russell. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4612519-155/op-ed-senate-should-confirm-russell-so"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> Noel de Nevers, professor emeritus of chemical engineering at the University of Utah, points out that court documents show the Dakota Access Pipeline company actually bent over backwards to accommodate Sioux concerns and build a non-invasive pipeline that would transport oil more safely than above-ground trains. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4612507-155/op-ed-benefits-of-dakota-pipeline-have"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> Patty Willis, minister of the South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, tells her story of going to Standing Rock to deliver a message of her congregation's support. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4620547-155/op-ed-at-standing-rock-every-action"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> Christine Cooke, a Sutherland Institute education policy analyst, says that a positively polling 7/8 percent income tax increase to fund education would actually boost what Utahns pay by 20 percent and argues that Utah's students don't require that drastic of a solution. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4625787-155/op-ed-facts-show-utah-schools-dont"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> Stan Penfold, executive director of the Utah AIDS Foundation and a Salt Lake City councilman, expresses confidence that vulnerable minorities in despair after Donald Trump's election will, just like during the 1980s AIDS epidemic, see an outpouring of love and a demand for more from elected officials. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4622401-155/op-ed-for-those-feeling-vulnerable-know"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> Jason L. Taylor, an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Utah's department of Educational Leadership and Policy, calls on the Utah Legislature to reinvest in colleges to give low income students an avenue up, and to teach democratic values lost in the 2016 campaign. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4596053-155/op-ed-make-college-affordable-to-make"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> Mark McLellan, vice president for research at Utah State University, lays out the school's record-breaking research funding trend of the last few years and says that incoming President Noelle Cockett will keep that ball rolling. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4622012-155/op-ed-new-usu-president-will-head"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> Jon Bari, president of the Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia, calls Philly-born Henry Grow Jr. an unsung Mormon hero whose engineering marvel, the Salt Lake Tabernacle, receives widespread praise that glosses over Grow as a person. [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865667985/My-view-Henry-Grow-Jrs-legacy-is-worth-celebrating.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]

-> Sutherland Institute's Christine Cooke argues that post-election season is the perfect time to redesign a state educational system that incorporates all local voices and tailors a flexible system for a unique range of students. [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865668009/After-the-election-A-new-education-vision.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]

-> Derek Monson, policy director at Sutherland Institute, says a renewed community focus on economic solutions based on education, family, hard work and a free market can spring from a tough election season. [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865668047/My-view-A-new-economic-dialogue-can-emerge-from-our-fiery-election-season.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]

-> Deseret News reporter Lois Collins warns that Donald Trump's loud campaign promise to repeal Obamacare likely also means changes for the inextricably connected Medicaid for the nation's elderly. [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865668052/Will-undoing-Obamacare-mean-major-changes-to-countrys-Medicare-program-for-the-elderly.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]

-> George Chapman, former candidate for Salt Lake City mayor, says all the disasters incapsulated in the city's homelessness crisis reflect poorly on a great city and asks for pressure on the City Council to act fast and donations from the public to the organizations that can help. [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865668050/My-view-A-sad-commentary-on-our-city-and-society.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]

-> Sen. Larry Pressler argues that the president has the power to appoint people to his administration, but only with the advice and consent of the Senate — which he hopes Trump takes seriously. [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865668049/Donald-Trump7s-appointees-the-advice-and-consent-clause.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]

-> William C. Duncan, director of the Center for Family and Society at the Sutherland Institute, says social focus on equal and tolerant religious freedom will protect both the differing views and the mainstream religious interests. [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865667949/My-view-A-new-dialogue-of-fairness-and-hope-on-religious-freedom.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]

-> Frank Pignanelli and LaVarr Webb wish readers a happy holiday with their idea of what Utah politicos have to be grateful for post election. [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865668051/Utah-politicos7-heartfelt-expressions-of-gratitude.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]

<strong>Weekend in review: </strong>Lee Davidson goes over the more than a dozen bill files opened in the Utah Legislature that aim to tackle problems the 2016 election saw including long voting lines, plurality primary winners and the Electoral College. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4621145-155/after-unusual-election-lawmakers-draft-pile?fullpage=1"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> The Utah Senate switches up leadership as Sen. Lyle Hillyard says farewell to his dozen years as budget committee chairman. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4627260-155/hillyard-replaced-after-12-years-as"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865667981/Utah-Senate-announces-new-committee-leadership.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>] [<a href="http://kutv.com/news/local/stevenson-in-hillyard-out-as-senate-budget-chairman"; target="_blank">APviaKUTV</a>]

-> Planners on both the giving and receiving end of the state prison's relocation admit the transfer gives them an historic opportunity to paint on a blank canvas and maybe earn some money, too. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4626862-155/utah-faces-two-pronged-challenge-developing-the?page=1"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] [<a href="http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/north/lehi/envision-utah-seeking-public-input-on-development-at-point-of/article_5394d42f-edb7-5c03-bdd9-941c075ac8d7.html"; target="_blank">Herald</a>]

-> Utah's 2015 abortion rate creeps up a little after years of historic lows. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4633284-155/utah-abortion-rate-up-slightly-still"; target="_blank">APviaTrib</a>]

-> A smattering of Utah politicians, faith leaders and businesspeople held a rally on the Capitol steps in the name of inclusion and equality after a nasty presidential race. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4621990-155/local-leaders-hold-post-election-unity-demonstration"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865667875/You-belong-here-Utah-leaders-rally-for-unity-amid-postelection-rift.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]

-> An outgoing South Jordan lawmaker says if charter schools like Herriman's Athlos Academy of Utah sidestep state laws by renting their space from the private corporations that own them, some re-writing needs to be done. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4605838-155/utah-lawmaker-accuses-charter-school-of?page=1"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> Researchers start to use Instagram geotags to study Utah's most popular natural destinations. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4536046-155/worth-their-weight-in-likes-instagram?fullpage=1"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> The family that owns Bear Lake's historic South Eden Ranch cuts a deal with Utah Open Lands to keep the property undeveloped forever. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4554906-155/historic-bear-lake-ranch-to-be"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> The canyon roads Big Mountain Highway and Monte Cristo Highway will close for the winter's heavy snowfall Monday. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4626096-155/two-alpine-roads-to-close-for"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> Check in on what Crossroads Urban Center and Utah Food Bank volunteers' day of handing out Thanksgiving turkeys looked like. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4626476-155/gallery-volunteers-give-away-thousands-of"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865667873/Photos-Harmons-helps-feed-7500-families-on-Thanksgiving.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]

-> Salt Lake City Mission brings food, clothes, haircuts, hygiene kits and fun to 4,000 on Thanksgiving. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4630846-155/thousands-line-up-for-salt-lake"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> And Mormon missionaries living at the training center in Provo carry on their traditional Thanksgiving partnership with Feeding Children Everywhere to put together nutritious food kits for local kids. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4631221-155/mormon-missionaries-at-provos-mtc-beat"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865667991/MTC-missionaries-spend-Thanksgiving-packing-meals-for-the-hungry.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>] [<a href="http://kutv.com/news/local/mtc-missionaries-prepare-meals-for-hungry-utah-children"; target="_blank">KUTV</a>] [<a href="http://www.heraldextra.com/gallery/photos-missionaries-spend-thanksgiving-at-mtc-prepping-meals-for-families/collection_89dbbf79-aa5e-503e-b524-7fbd81d1e530.html"; target="_blank">Herald</a>]

-> Utah's American Civil Liberties Union turns to another source for the body cam footage of police shooting Abdullahi "Abdi" Mohamed — the Utah Records Committee — after a failed appeal to a Salt Lake County board. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4630779-155/aclu-appeals-again-asks-utah-board"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] [<a href="http://kutv.com/news/local/aclu-utah-again-requests-body-cam-video-of-police-shooting"; target="_blank">APviaKUTV</a>]

-> Washington and Iron County school districts turn their attention to helping homeless teens who have far more to worry about than showing up to school. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4634279-155/southern-utah-seeks-solutions-for-homeless?page=1"; target="_blank">SpectrumviaTrib</a>]

-> Voters passed a ballot measure to turn southern Utah's Cedar Highlands into the state's newest municipality. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4638224-155/cedar-highlands-approved-as-utahs-newest"; target="_blank">APviaTrib</a>]

-> Davis School District caters to area Navajo families with an enrichment class that teaches school kids the language and immerses them in the culture. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4638609-155/davis-county-enrichment-class-teaches-navajo"; target="_blank">APviaTrib</a>]

-> Teachers are some of the lowest-paid college graduates in Utah, according to the state auditor's office, and many have to work extra jobs just to scrape by. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/home/4589834-155/you-have-to-really-swallow-your"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> Encircle turns an old Provo house into an LGBT resource center. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/home/4633120-155/near-provos-mormon-temple-another-kind"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

-> The Navajo Nation's 100-year-old medicine man, who had served the tribe for 85 years, died of a heart attack on Thanksgiving. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4638318-155/navajo-nation-medicine-man-brought-the"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]

<strong>Nationally: </strong>Green Party candidate Jill Stein rapidly raised enough money for recounts in several states and filed for one in Wisconsin on Friday — and the Clinton campaign says it will join in the process. [<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/26/politics/clinton-campaign-recount/index.html"; target="_blank">CNN</a>] [<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/us/politics/clinton-camp-will-join-push-for-wisconsin-ballot-recount.html?ref=politics&_r=0"; target="_blank">NYTimes</a>]

-> Previously stalled Trump Tower projects in Georgia and Buenos Aires are back on track after Trump's election. [<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-presidency-overseas-business-deals-and-relations-with-foreign-governments-could-all-become-intertwined/2016/11/25/d2bc83f8-b0e2-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html"; target="_blank">WaPost</a>]

<strong>Where are they?</strong>

<ul>

<li>Gov. Gary <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/GovHerbert"; target="_blank">Herbert</a></strong> attends a National Association of Realtors conference in San Francisco.</li>

<li>Lt. Gov. Spencer <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerJCox"; target="_blank">Cox</a></strong> meets with the Governor's Rural Partnership Board and the State Board of Canvassers at the Capitol.</li>

<li>State Auditor John <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/FrugalDougall"; target="_blank">Dougall</a> </strong>joins in at the State Board of Canvassers meeting to certify the election results, catches up with Box Elder County Commissioner Stan Summers and tours Overstock.com's new corporate headquarters for Cyber Monday.</li>

<li>State Treasurer David <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/DamschenDavid"; target="_blank">Damschen</a></strong> swings by a State Board of Canvassers meeting and talks over lunch with State Auditor John Dougall and Box Elder County Commissioner Stan Summers.</li>

<li>President Barack <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama"; target="_blank">Obama</a> </strong>sticks around the White House for a day of meetings.</li>

</ul>

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