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(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz forward Royce O'Neale (23) looks to the coaching staff during a timeout as the Utah Jazz host the Houston Rockets at Vivint Arena, Jan. 18, 2022.

Rockets rally past Jazz 116-111

By The Associated Press | January 20, 2022, 4:56 a.m.

Southern California quarterback Jaxson Dart throws a pass during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Washington State, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, in Pullman, Wash. (AP Photo/Young Kwak)

Former USC quarterback Jaxson Dart visits BYU

By Kevin Reynolds | January 20, 2022, 2:49 a.m.

(Utah Pride Center) Stacey Jackson-Roberts became the new CEO of the Utah Pride Center on Sept. 1, 2021. She quit less than five months later.

The Utah Pride Center’s new CEO resigns five months into the job

By Leia Larsen | January 20, 2022, 12:59 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) More that a hundred people gather at the candlelight vigil of Hunter High football players Paul Tahi , 15, Tivani Lopati, 14, and Ephraim Asiata, 15, on Friday, Jan 14, 2022, in West Valley City, near Hunter High School along 1400 South at Mountain View Corridor. Paul Tahi and Tivani Lopati were killed in a shooting, while Ephraim Asiata was critically wounded.

Prosecutors want 14-year-old suspect in West Valley City shooting tried as an adult

By The Salt Lake Tribune | January 20, 2022, 12:12 a.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) School nurse Karen Thelin tests a student for COVID-19 at American Preparatory Academy in Draper on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021.

Utah House quickly passes bill suspending Test to Stay in public schools

By Bryan Schott | January 20, 2022, 12:07 a.m.

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Molly E. Reynolds: What Mitt Romney doesn’t understand about the end of the filibuster

By Molly E. Reynolds | For The New York Times | January 19, 2022, 11:38 p.m.

News From the Circus | Pat Bagley

Bagley Cartoon: News From the Circus

By Pat Bagley | January 19, 2022, 10:59 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) COVID-19 testing and vaccinations are provided in the east with of the Utah Capitol complex for the start of the 2022 legislative session on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022.

Utah reports 12,564 new COVID-19 cases. Is the state reaching its omicron peak?

By Scott D. Pierce | January 19, 2022, 10:11 p.m.

(Rachel Rydalch | The Salt Lake Tribune) The start of the 2022 legislative session kicks off at the Utah Capitol in Salt Lake City onTuesday, Jan. 18, 2022.

Move to overturn Salt Lake County mask mandate faces uncertainty in Utah House

By Bryan Schott | January 20, 2022, 2:00 a.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Manoli Katsanevas and Katrina Cutrubus at Manoli's in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022.

How upscale restaurants in Salt Lake City are handling the switch to takeout

By Theadora Soter | January 19, 2022, 4:01 p.m.

(Karsten Moran | The New York Times) A person enters a subway station in New York on May 17, 2021. New York is a great place to live — if you can afford the cost of housing. That last point, however, is a problem, and it lies behind the city’s lagging economic recovery, Paul Krugman writes.

Paul Krugman: The high cost of housing slows the recovery of blue cities

By Paul Krugman | The New York Times | January 19, 2022, 4:00 p.m.

(Paul Sancya | AP) Holly Rowe, an ESPN sideline reporter, is shown in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Maryland in East Lansing, Mich., Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. On the latest "How 'Bout This Jazz" podcast episode, the guys talk to Holly about being back in Utah and covering the Jazz, her busy schedule, covering the epic Utah-Ohio State Rose Bowl game, and more.

‘How ‘Bout This Jazz’ podcast: Utah Jazz TV analyst Holly Rowe talks being back home, working the Utah-Ohio St. Rose Bowl game, and more

By Xoel Cardenas | January 19, 2022, 9:36 p.m.

(Robert A. Davis/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File) This May 4, 2005, photo shows Emmett Till's photo on his grave marker in Alsip, Ill. Utah Latter-day Saint Devery Anderson wrote a groundbreaking biography of Till, whose killing in 1955 helped spur the civil rights movement.

‘Mormon Land’: LDS writer discusses his landmark book on Emmett Till and his faith’s racial history

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | David Noyce | January 19, 2022, 2:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) People gather as the Salt Lake County Council holds a brief meeting on the mask mandate, in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022.

Letter: A poll should be taken to show anti-maskers don’t represent the majority view

By Ben Riding | The Public Forum | January 19, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Pat Bagley and Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune) The logo of The Daily Buzz podcast from The Salt Lake Tribune.

The Daily Buzz: Scan this QR code to listen to the Tribune’s new podcast

By Jeff Parrott | January 19, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Highway Patrol posts the colors for the start of the 2022 legislative session in the Senate chamber at the Utah Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022.

Utah Legislature says it’s the year of tax cuts and COVID-19 resistance, again

By Bethany Rodgers | Bryan Schott | January 19, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) Students arrive at Jordan High School in Sandy on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022.

New bill would officially suspend Utah’s Test to Stay program in schools during COVID-19 spike

By Bethany Rodgers | January 19, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ben Abbott, Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Ecology at BYU, checks the status of a water monitoring station on a Utah Lake tributary in Payson Canyon on Thursday April 25, 2019. A leading critic of a proposal to dredge Utah Lake, the project's proponents have filed a $3 million lawsuit against him.

Utah Lake dredging proponents sue BYU professor who criticized project

By Brian Maffly | January 19, 2022, 4:12 p.m.

(AP Photo) In this file photo taken April 12, 1963 Rev. Ralph Abernathy, left, and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., right are taken by a policeman as they led a line of demonstrators into the business section of Birmingham, Ala. Arrested for leading a march against racial segregation in 1963, King Jr. spent days in solitary confinement writing his “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” which was smuggled out and stirred the world by explaining why Black people couldn't keep waiting for fair treatment.

Alexandra Rain: Teach about more than Martin Luther King’s dream

| January 19, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Robert Gehrke.

Utah’s omicron response is a failure with plenty of blame to go around, Robert Gehrke writes

By Robert Gehrke | January 19, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Rachel Rydalch | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cathy Tshilombo-Lokemba — who, as Mama Africa, is known for her pili-pili hot sauce — at Harmons Emigration Market in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022.

Mama Africa has big plans for her popular pili-pili hot sauce

By Stefene Russell | January 19, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Utes head coach Kyle Whittingham looks at the clock as time winds down as the Ohio State Buckeyes defeated the Utah Utes in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022.

Utah Utes mailbag: What should Kyle Whittingham be prioritizing in the transfer portal?

By Josh Newman | January 19, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sydney Soloski performs her floor routine at the Best of Utah NCAA Gymnastics Meet at the Maverik Center in West Valley City on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022.

Utah gymnast Sydney Soloski’s focus on the floor has turned her into a more vocal captain for the No. 2 Red Rocks

By Lya Wodraska | Special to The Tribune | January 19, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Houston Heimuli is the son of BYU running back Lakei Heimulu who played for BYU in the early 80's. Heimuli is walking on at BYU from Stanford University under the COVID-19 extra year of eligibility. "It's surreal," Houston Heimuli said of being given the chance to play for Brigham Young University.

VHS tapes and the ‘Turbo Tongan’: Houston Heimuli transferred back home to BYU to fulfill a legacy once abandoned

By Kevin Reynolds | January 19, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Susan Walsh | AP) Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., arrive before President Joe Biden signs the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021.

Letter: Young Utah conservatives ready for climate action

By Grayson Massey | The Public Forum | January 19, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(John Bazemore | AP photo) In this Oct. 19, 2020, photo, a voter drops their ballot off during early voting in Athens, Ga. After record turnout led to stunning GOP losses in the once reliably red state, Republican lawmakers are forging ahead with an aggressive slate of voting legislation that critics argue is tailored toward curtailing the power of Black voters.

Leonard Pitts: Sometimes you can’t help but grow weary

By Leonard Pitts | The Miami Herald | January 19, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gideon Crane, left, is tested for COVID-19 at a center run by Granite School District and the Salt Lake County Department of Health near Thomas Jefferson Junior High in Kearns, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022.

Utah reports more than 39,000 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend

By Scott D. Pierce | January 19, 2022, 12:58 a.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) People gather as the Salt Lake County Council holds a brief meeting on the mask mandate, in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022.

Gordon Monson: We can argue over sports. But when it comes to COVID, Utah’s leaders must be better

By Gordon Monson | January 19, 2022, 3:21 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Elder Gerrit W. Gong, one of the Twelve Apostles for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shakes hands with Senate President Stuart Adams, R-Layton, after giving the opening prayer for the start of the legislative session at the Utah Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022.

Senate President Stuart Adams tested positive for COVID twice Tuesday before publicly announcing he was negative

By Robert Gehrke | January 19, 2022, 12:40 a.m.

(Photo courtesy of Salt Lake City School District) Pictured is Joél-Léhi Organista. The former Salt Lake City school board member has pleaded guilty to downloading and producing child porn.

Ex-Salt Lake City school board member pleads guilty to producing child porn

By Courtney Tanner | January 18, 2022, 10:55 p.m.