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Ushering in a new decade
Penelope Karsy plays in Japanese lanterns during the Last Hurrah New Year’s Eve celebration at The Gateway in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
Penelope Karsy plays in Japanese lanterns during the Last Hurrah New Year’s Eve celebration at The Gateway in Salt Lake City on Tuesday. The free, family-friendly event, back for its third year, is billed as the largest New Year’s Eve celebration in Utah. It featured live music on outdoor stages, as well as indoor games and food trucks. While 2019 ended on a dry note, the first few days of 2020 are expected to be wet and snowy as a winter storm moves into the area. According to KSL’s Grant Weyman, the storm is expected to dump 4 to 8 inches of snow in the valleys and 5 to 10 inches of snow for the benches on New Year’s Day. More snow showers are expected Thursday, but the weather will warm up a bit by the weekend.
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Bradlee Anae gives Utes one positive to remember about the Alamo Bowl, becomes all-time sacks leader
Utah Utes defensive end Bradlee Anae (6) greets fans after the Utes’ 35-7 win over the Arizona Wildcats at Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
SAN ANTONIO — In his final college game, Bradlee Anae made sure to follow one of the final coaching requests he’ll ever get from Utah defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley.
The directive came earlier in the week at an Alamo Bowl press conference when Scalley was responding to a question about the star-studded 2019 class of seniors, which includes his consensus All-American defensive end.
“Bradlee, since the moment he stepped on campus, has had a high motor and a high care factor, and it’s the reason why — are you leading now?” Scalley said, referring to Anae being one-half of a sack away from becoming the Utes’ all-time leader in the category. “Are you the leading sack? ...”
Anae interrupted his coach.
“I need one more,” he said.
Next came the coach’s order.
“Well, get it,” Scalley said. “Geez, let’s do it.”
Anae didn’t wait too long into the bowl game to do just that. Midway through the first quarter, the senior teamed with fellow defensive lineman Leki Fotu to sack Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger for a 3-yard loss.
A moment later, the Alamodome P.A. announcer let the crowd know that the play made Anae the all-time career sacks leader at Utah with 30. He came into the game with 29.5 sacks, which was how many former Ute defender Hunter Dimick tallied during his career from 2013-16. It also was the fourth-most among active FBS players.
With the half-sack, Anae also increased his school record of sack yards to 212. That ranks third among active FBS players.
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Alex Smith serves as Utah’s honorary captain at Alamo Bowl
Former Texas quarterback Colt McCoy and former Utah quarterback Alex Smith return to their college teams as honorary captains during the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, Texas, on Dec. 31, 2019. | Dirk Facer, Deseret News
Washington Redskins teammate Colt McCoy does the same for Texas
SAN ANTONIO — Former Utah quarterback Alex Smith returned to the Utes. Smith, who was 21-1 as a starter from 2003-04, served as an honorary team captain in Tuesday night’s Alamo Bowl game against Texas.
Smith, the No. 1 pick in the 2005 NFL draft, has been sidelined with a broken fibula and tibia since Nov. 18, 2018. Prior to that, the three-time Pro Bowl selection passed for 34,068 yards and 193 touchdowns. His pro career has included stints with the San Francisco 49ers (2005-12), Kansas City Chiefs (2013-17) and Washington Redskins (present).
A teammate from the latter — former Texas quarterback Colt McCoy — was an honorary captain for the Longhorns in the Alamo Bowl.
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Letter: The impeachment trial should be treated like any other
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An impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate should be conducted in similar manner to other trials in our country. Senators should act as impartial jurors.
Sen. Mike Lee is definitely not acting like an unbiased, impartial juror. In fact, if this were any other trial, and he were part of a pool of potential jurors, he could never be selected to serve on the jury because of his blatant bias. He is acting as if he were a defense attorney for Donald Trump rather than an impartial juror.
As for myself, I am a conservative-leaning independent voter who wants to hear all the facts before deciding if Trump deserves to be removed from office. I wish Sen. Lee and all senators would take the same approach. All relevant witnesses should be called to testify. If Mike Lee cannot conduct himself in this supremely important matter in an appropriate way, perhaps he should be removed from office by us voters when he is up for reelection.
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BYU Cougars DT Khyiris Tonga announces he will return for senior season
Brigham Young Cougars defensive lineman Khyiris Tonga celebrates a first down in the closing minutes against the Boise State Broncos during an NCAA football game in Provo on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
The BYU football program got more good news on the returning player front Tuesday night as big defensive tackle Khyiris Tonga announced via Twitter that he will play his senior year in Provo as opposed to entering the NFL draft.
Tonga’s announcement comes after tight end Matt Bushman announced on Dec. 27 that he also will be returning.
“Trust the coaches. Trust the process. Trust family,” Tonga’s post read. “I have decided to stay at BYU for my senior year. See you in 2020. Go Cougs!”
— Khyiris Tonga (@khyiristonga) January 1, 2020
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A 6-foot-4, 321-pound product of Granger High School, Tonga tallied 45 of his 94 career tackles in 2019, four of which were for a loss with one sack. He originally committed to Utah before deciding during his mission to Kansas for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to go to BYU.
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Mia Love still toying with running for Congress against Ben McAdams
Then-U.S. Rep. Mia Love addresses state lawmakers in the Utah House at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City in 2016. Love said she still hasn’t entirely ruled out running again in 2020 for the 4th Congressional District seat she held for two terms.
But former congresswoman also eyeing Senate seat
SALT LAKE CITY — Former Utah Rep. Mia Love said she still hasn’t entirely ruled out running again in 2020 for the 4th Congressional District seat she held for two terms before losing to Utah’s only Democrat in Congress, Rep. Ben McAdams — but where she’d really like to be is in the U.S. Senate.
“I think the House of Representatives is not as well-suited for somebody who really wants to focus on getting certain policies done. Immigration is a big issue, a big policy, that I’m still really passionate about. If I ever did anything, I might think about the Senate race,” Love, now a CNN commentator, told the Deseret News.
“If there was an opportunity that presented itself and I felt I could be useful to Utah, then I would do it,” she said.
However, Love said she isn’t looking to challenge the reelection of either Sen. Mike Lee, expected to run for a third term in 2022, or Sen. Mitt Romney, up for a second term in 2024, describing them as “both doing a good job as far as I’m concerned,” along with the rest of the state’s Republican delegation members.
That’s not the case when it comes to McAdams, who beat Love by less than 700 votes in 2018. In her concession speech, Love labeled the former Salt Lake County mayor a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” and criticized him for negative campaign tactics.
Last July, Love said she was ready to run again if a Republican didn’t get in the race that she believed could unseat McAdams. One of her preferred candidates, state Senate Majority Whip Dan Hemmert, R-Orem, did announce a bid a month later but dropped out in December, citing concerns about the impact on his dry-cleaning business.
“That was incredibly disappointing,” Love said, especially since Hemmert had raised more than $400,000 for the race and been added to a list of the most competitive candidates in the country by the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Now, Love said she’s back to being unsure there’s a Republican candidate who can defeat McAdams.
She called former NFL player Burgess Owens a good candidate but said he’s making little progress in the polls. Other Republicans include former Utah GOP communications adviser Kathleen Anderson, state Rep. Kim Coleman, R-West Jordan, former KSL Newsradio host Jay Mcfarland and nurse practitioner Chris Biesinger.
“I don’t see anything. Once again, if I find that this is going to be an easy race for Ben, then I can’t allow that to happen,” she said, even if it means running again herself. That’s something she’ll have to decide in January, Love said, expressing no concern about raising the millions of dollars the race is likely to cost.
“It’s a lot to do. But it would be a lot to do for anybody at this point, and it would be a lot for anybody to do who hasn’t been raising money for the past year,” she said. “I would be playing catch-up, yes. But I wouldn’t have any doubt because I still have the connections. I still have the donor lists.”
Love also brought up the possibility of other Republicans getting in the race, declining to name them.
“It’s not an easy district, so it’s hard to get good people to get in it because I think people like to have easier races,” she said. Love lost her first bid in 2012 to represent the district that includes portions of Salt Lake and Utah counties against then-Rep. Jim Matheson, a Democrat.
After Matheson retired two years later, Love won the seat in a tight race and was reelected.
McAdams’ campaign manager, Andrew Roberts, had little to say about the possibility of a rematch with Love.
“The congressman isn’t focused on election year politics,” Roberts said in a statement. “Instead, he’s hard at work finding bipartisan solutions to the rising cost of prescription drugs and protecting Social Security — issues Utahns sent him to D.C. to address.”
Hemmert, owner of the Red Hanger Cleaners chain, said Love “has every right to be frustrated with me. Frankly, I’m frustrated with myself. But my business, my partner, my livelihood and my employees have to be my first priority, and it just wasn’t the right time.”
He has declined to make an endorsement, but said “there are great candidates in the race right now. That said, if other people want to jump in that race, they should, including Mia Love.” Hemmert said he expects whoever wins the Republican primary election to take the seat from McAdams.
Chris Karpowitz, co-director of Brigham Young University’s Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, suggested Love would be a tough challenger in the congressional race.
“Mia Love would be a formidable candidate because she’s better known than other Republicans who have announced,” Karpowitz said. “Her task will be to explain why 4th District voters should give her another chance after they turned her out of office once before.”
He said Love, the first black Republican congresswoman, also would face questions about declaring in her concession speech that she felt “unshackled” and finally able to speak her mind on issues, as well as about her relationship with President Donald Trump, who criticized Love publicly for not accepting his campaign help.
Love said if she runs again, she’d still do it without any assistance from the president.
“I don’t mind if you’re a fan of the president. I do mind when you allow someone at the White House to do all your thinking for you,” she said, telling Republican candidates it’s important to “be an independent thinking, to speak up and realize who you actually represent. There’s such a lack of that. It’s so frustrating.”
But Love told KSL Newsradio guest host Kirk Jowers she “definitely” would have voted against impeaching Trump on charges he abused his power by pressuring a foreign leader to investigate his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, and obstructed Congress’ inquiry into his actions.
McAdams’ vote for impeachment will hurt him with 4th District voters, Love told the Deseret News.
“Although he didn’t vote for Nancy Pelosi (for House speaker), he certainly went and stayed the line. And I think that vote was mainly because he would have lost national Democrat support. That’s what I believe. They have a way of keeping you, you know. There are times when you have to give that up,” she said.
That’s something Love said she knows firsthand.
“It might have been easier for me if I were completely in lockstep with the president. It might have been easier,” she said. “But I have to sleep at night. I have to face my children. ... I can say without a doubt, there isn’t a vote, there wasn’t an issue, that I felt like I sold my district out.”
McAdams is “making it difficult for himself,” Love said. “There are times where Democrats feel like they can’t support him, they can’t count on him, and Republicans feel like they can’t count on him. I mean, I listen to (his) town halls. He tries to sound like a Republican but votes Democrat.”
Love seemed to be leaning away from a congressional run.
“I never rule anything out,” she said. “I’ve got some other things going on and certainly, this would have been a different answer is Dan were still in the race. ... But I’m getting pretty close to the point where I’m going to have to say someone else is going to have to do it.”
Karpowitz said if Love doesn’t get into the 4th District race, she may have a long wait before a Senate seat is open.
“If she holds off to run for the Senate but doesn’t want to challenge Romney or Lee, it could be many years before an opportunity is available,” he said.
Love had positive words for both Romney and Lee.
“Romney, I like the fact that he is an independent voice, he’s not shy, to say what he feels. You have to respect that” she said, a reference to the 2012 presidential nominee’s sometimes critical statements about the president. Love said although she’s disagreed with Lee on some issues, “we’ve always been able to communicate.”
Lee’s quiet efforts to help Trump in his upcoming Senate impeachment trial, Love said, are “what the majority of his constituents want him to do. I don’t think Utah is there. If you look at the polling, certainly the president doesn’t have the highest approval rating, but the president will win in the state of Utah.”
The only way Love said she would run against either of Utah’s senators is if “something drastic happens where I thought they couldn’t represent us anymore.” Otherwise, she said, “if they both decide to run they would both have my support.”
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Utah State Aggies bracing for UNLV Runnin’ Rebels on the road, undefeated San Diego State Aztecs at home
Utah State Aggies head coach Craig Smith calls out during a Mountain West Conference Tournament quarterfinal game against the New Mexico Lobos at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas on Thursday, March 14, 2019. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
LOGAN — Having survived the awkwardness of playing two Mountain West games in early December, it feels like the Utah State Aggies are actually heading into conference action with a bit of a head start over most of the league.
Thanks to victories over San Jose State and Fresno State, Utah State (13-2 overall, 2-0 in the MW) is tied for first place in the conference standings heading into Wednesday night’s game at UNLV (6-8, 1-0).
No. 13 San Diego State (13-0, 2-0) and New Mexico (13-2, 2-0) also have two conference victories already under their belts thanks to the Mountain West’s plan to move up league play in order to help the postseason tournament avoid conflicts with other big events in Las Vegas. And the surprising Aztecs, who are currently No. 1 in the country in the NET Rankings, will put their unblemished record on the line Wednesday at home against Fresno State (4-9, 0-2) before traveling to Cache Valley to take on the Aggies Saturday night in the Spectrum.
“I said at media day, ‘They are loaded,’ and they are,” USU head coach Craig Smith said of the Aztecs. “They’re very, very good, so we’re going to have a very difficult week. … It’s always difficult to go into UNLV and win — it’s always difficult to go anywhere on the road and win — and UNLV has a new coach, so they’re doing some things differently.”
Of course, Smith is also very familiar with the Rebels’ new head coach, T.J. Otzelberger. Smith and Otzelberger overlapped for two seasons in the Summit League while coaching at South Dakota and South Dakota State, respectively.
Smith and the Coyotes went 22-12 and took first place in the regular season in 2016-17, but they were knocked out of the postseason tourney by Otzelberger and the fourth-seeded Jackrabbits, who advanced to the NCAA Tournament. During Smith’s fourth and final year at South Dakota, the Coyotes won 26 games and finished second to the Jackrabbits during the regular season, but then lost to South Dakota State in the championship game of the postseason tournament.
While Smith was guiding Utah State to a 28-7 record last year, Otzelberger led the Jackrabbits to a second straight 28-win season that ended with a loss to Texas in the NIT. The former Iowa State and Washington assistant was hired by UNLV just over a week later to replace Marvin Menzies, who was fired after going 48-48 during his three years as head coach of the Rebels.
Although UNLV isn’t off to a great start during Otzelberger’s inaugural season, the Rebels have lost three games in overtime while playing the likes of Cal, UCLA, Cincinnati and Kansas State. In games common with the Aggies, UNLV was pounded by Brigham Young, 83-50, at Vivint Arena, the same venue where Utah State lost to the Cougars, 68-64, a week later. And both Utah State (77-70) and UNLV (81-80) managed to beat Fresno State in overtime, although the Rebels’ victory came at Fresno.
Led by Amauri Hardy (15,2 ppg, 34 3-pointers), UNLV boasts three double-digit scorers and is averaging 68.2 ppg, good for ninth place in the Mountain West. Conversely, the Aggies are first in the conference in scoring offense (81.8 ppg) and second in scoring defense (56.3 ppg), while the Rebels (68.5 ppg) are fifth in defense.
Smith hopes to have Neemias Queta back on the court Wednesday for the first time since the sophomore center hurt his knee during USU’s 65-62 win over Florida on Dec. 21. Queta sat out last week’s 129-61 blowout of Eastern Oregon, but the expectation at the time was that injury wasn’t as serious as the one that sidelined the 2019 Freshman and Defensive Player of the Year for the first nine games of the season.
Sophomore forward Justin Bean currently leads the Mountain West in rebounding (11.5 rpg) and is second in field goal percentage (.526), while senior guard Sam Merrill is third in scoring (17.7 ppg).
“We finished nonconference play 11-2 — although our record is 13-2 obviously — but I thought we handled our business,” Smith said. “… Now we get into league play, although it’s technically started already. It’s just that now it feels like it’s time for league play.
“It’s a great time of year. It’s an exciting time of year. And we’re going to have to play well to win at UNLV.”
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Saving Grace: Searchers won’t give up hunt for mother of rescued puppies
Three Great Pyrenees puppies are pictured after they were rescued on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019. The puppies were found by snowmobilers east of Pineview Reservoir. Although the puppies were rescued and have been adopted, volunteers continue to search for their mother. | Greg Anderson, Deseret News
HUNTSVILLE, Weber County — Believing she won’t survive the winter, searchers say they won’t give up trying save a Great Pyrenees dog abandoned in Utah’s snowy mountains — even if it means camping out in below-freezing temperatures.
They’ve named her “Grace.”
“We think it’s going to be by the grace of God that we find her. We all need a little grace in our life, and she’s our grace,” explained Kathryn McLeod, one of the searchers.
On Dec. 1, Kat Perry and her boyfriend discovered three puppies and their mother stranded in the Ant Flat area east of Pineview Reservoir. The snowmobilers called for help saving the dogs, prompting county search and rescuers to bring a sled and carry the puppies to safety.
The mother, however, ran away.
Authorities believe she had left her sheepherder owners to give birth, and the sheepherders left the dog behind while avoiding a snowstorm. The owners have not come forward to claim the dogs, Perry said.
She remembered the rescue of the puppies as “bittersweet.”
“It was awesome to find the puppies because I know I saved them. But I was so close to having mom, and I hated to leave her. I cried all the way back down the snowmobile trail,” Perry said Tuesday.
Already weaned, two of the puppies have been adopted, and Perry adopted one herself.
Though the puppies had a happy ending, the story of the abandoned mother prompted several of Perry’s friends and strangers to join the hunt. They had a “significant” sighting of her Tuesday and are optimistic they will eventually capture her, McLeod said.
“It’s important to me because she doesn’t really have another advocate. She needs somebody. She needs to be rescued, and if we stopped our efforts, she really doesn’t have anybody else. We just really want to save her, and it would be really nice to have a Christmas miracle or a New Year miracle,” McLeod said.
Perry believes if she isn’t rescued, Grace won’t survive the winter. When Perry and her boyfriend originally found and fed the dogs, she noticed the mother was extremely thin.
“She’s wearing a collar that apparently was put on her when she was a small puppy, and she’s grown larger and the collar is super, super tight,” Perry recalled, adding that the dog appeared to have trouble swallowing.
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Searchers have spent countless hours traversing the ranch area where Grace has been spotted multiple times in the hope of luring her to them. Initially, she was spotted with two male dogs, but has recently been seen alone. Dogs are prone to wander, and the group never seems to be in the right place at the right time, Perry said. Grace runs away when people approach.
The searchers have driven snowmobiles, an ARGO snow machine, cross-country skis, snowshoes, and even a helicopter trying to find her. They visit the area regularly, sometimes camping, to put meat for Grace in a trap and check game cameras.
It’s difficult to tell if the dog has been eating the food left for her or if other wildlife has pilfered it, Perry said.
McLeod and another searcher hope to share “joint custody” of Grace once she’s found, as they’ve become attached to her during the search. But McLeod said they want whatever will be best for her. The two women “totally put their lives on hold to do this,” visiting the ranch area 17 days in a row, according to Perry. Others search on weekends.
The searchers have also spent thousands of dollars on gas, supplies and time. Most of them live in West Haven, more than an hour drive to Grace.
A Facebook page set up by the searchers has amassed nearly 900 followers, and a GoFundMe account raised $1,500 to help fund the search effort.
When asked when she believes the search might end, Perry says that hasn’t been discussed.
“I really don’t think they’ll quit,” she said. “We’ll get her eventually, it’s just going to take time.”
Great Pyrenees are classified as working dogs, and are often overbred and neglected, leaving many of them in shelters, according to National Pyr Rescue. They are touted as independent thinkers, calm and gentle. Because they’re considered livestock guardian dogs, they aren’t subject to animal cruelty laws, the rescue group says.
“These dogs, you know, they guard sheep, and we know there’s some really good ranchers that take really good care of their dogs. But there’s also kind of a plight of these dogs being left on mountaintops. She’s not the first one, and we want to raise awareness, and maybe she can be the poster child for the plight of the breed when they’re left. They are domestic dogs, so they’re not meant to survive on their own,” McLeod explained.
McLeod believes it’s a miracle that the puppies were found — fluffy, white dogs on a mountain covered in snow — and hopes for a second miracle.
“Grace and miracles go together,” she said.
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Live coverage: No. 11 Utah Utes face Texas Longhorns in Alamo Bowl to conclude 2019
The field is painted for the Valero Alamo Bowl at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019. | Colter Peterson, Deseret News
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The 11th-ranked Utah Utes will look to finish their 2019 season on a high note Tuesday evening when they face the Texas Longhorns in the Alamo Bowl.
The Utes’ College Football Playoff and Rose Bowl hopes were dashed in their 37-15 loss to the Oregon Ducks on Dec. 6, but they would still finish the campaign with a 12-2 record should they win Tuesday.
The Longhorns, on the other hand, would finish with an 8-5 record this season if they come out victorious.
Kickoff is slated for 5:30 p.m. MST and the game can be viewed on ESPN. Follow along with our live coverage below.
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The 10 best shows I saw in 2019
Elton John performs at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
A lot of great music made its way to Utah in 2019. Here are my 10 highlights — performances that stuck with me long past the final bow.
SALT LAKE CITY — Creating a top 10 shows of 2019 list wasn’t an easy task, and I’m going to be honest: I’m leaving off some really good stuff.
Like Hugh Jackman dazzling as the “Greatest Showman” and Sting performing a benefit concert for Zion National Park, which celebrated its centennial in November.
I didn’t get to see Bob Seger when he rolled into Salt Lake City on his farewell tour, or R&B legend Booker T. Jones.
A lot of great music made its way to Utah in 2019. Here are my 10 highlights — performances that stuck with me long past the final bow.
Jan. 19 — Utah Opera’s ‘The Little Prince’
I’m an opera newbie. The first opera I ever attended — very hesitantly, I might add — was Utah Opera’s production of “La Boheme” in October 2017, on assignment for the Deseret News.
I’ve attended every opera the company has produced since then. “The Little Prince,” based on Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s novella, is hands down the best thing I’ve seen in my two years of going to the opera. (It’s also the only opera my husband has watched all the way through without falling asleep).
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Everything about this opera was great: the music from award-winning film composer Rachel Portman (“Chocolat”), the set design, costumes, children’s chorus and, of course, the 11-year-old boy soprano from the Madeleine Choir School taking on the big role.
And then there’s the sweet message of childlike wonder at the heart of it all. It’s a simple story that leaves a lasting impression.
March 29 — Utah Symphony’s ‘New World Symphony’
“New World Symphony” never gets old. Just ask Neil Armstrong: The astronaut brought a tape recording of Dvorak’s popular 19th-century symphony along for the Apollo 11 ride, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in July.
I grew up listening to “New World Symphony” (it was on a tape of classical music my dad made for me). I revisit the piece a lot, and with each listen, a different moment will bring me to tears. During the Utah Symphony’s stirring performance at Abravanel Hall, it was the second movement that blurred my vision.
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And that’s the power of “New World Symphony.” A passage you’ve heard countless times before will suddenly stand out. Each listen brings something new, making each performance of the piece an exciting discovery.
May 29 — Joe McQueen’s 100th B-day bash
I knew the concert honoring Joe McQueen’s 100th birthday was going to be special. I just didn’t think it would be the last birthday McQueen would celebrate, because even at 100 years old, the musician kept a busy performing schedule and never showed signs of slowing down.
McQueen was a jazz legend — a pioneering saxophonist who grew up in Oklahoma and made Utah his home in 1945. In May, he celebrated a century of life by wearing a custom-made Utah Jazz jersey with the number 100 on it, eating cake and playing hits like Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man” on his brand-new gold saxophone.
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McQueen was loved in Utah — the high turnout to his birthday concert at Salt Lake City’s Gallivan Center indicates that. The tenor saxophonist died on Dec. 7 — the very day he and his wife of 75 years, Thelma, arrived in Utah, according to McQueen’s longtime friend Brad Wheeler.
I’m grateful McQueen gave this concert, which took place the day before his 100th birthday. It gave me the chance to not only listen to some great jazz but to also celebrate a truly incredible life.
June 14 — Tab Benoit
The year 2019 will always be remembered as the year I discovered Tab Benoit, a blues guitarist from the swamps of Louisiana who performs like there’s no tomorrow.
Except tomorrow always comes, and Benoit steps on stage to sing and play the blues all over again, breaking a string or two along the way. This guy lives for music.
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I first caught Benoit — and one of his guitar strings — at the Utah Blues Festival. I had gone with my husband and parents to see Canadian blues singer-guitarist Sue Foley, one of my dad’s longtime favorites (she did not disappoint). Benoit was the last act of the night, and he took the stage with a funky shirt and a fire in his soul.
As my mom puts it, Benoit playing his guitar is on a level with Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling — it’s a true work of art. I got to see Benoit again in September, when he played at the Commonwealth Room. It was just as magical the second time around.
Based on his track record, Benoit will be back soon. Believe me: This is a show you won’t want to miss.
June 28 — Jamestown Revival
In the spirit of full disclosure, Jamestown Revival is my favorite band. No one does harmonies like Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance, friends-turned-bandmates who grew up in the small town of Magnolia, Texas.
Jamestown Revival visits Utah a lot — the band spent two weeks recording its first album in the Wasatch Mountains and named it “Utah,” after all. I’ve seen the Americana/folk-rock duo five times now and, somehow, each concert is better than the one before.
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The fifth time was this past summer at a packed Commonwealth Room, where Clay and Chance stood close together at their mics and sang their hearts out. The band is relatively new — the debut record released in 2014 — but the crowd knew and sang along to every word, adding its own harmonies to the mix.
That enthusiasm makes it hard to believe only a handful of people showed up to the first show Jamestown Revival ever did in Utah. But the band has steadily built a strong following here, and I look forward to seeing the musicians for the sixth time, when they visit the Commonwealth Room on March 17.
July 9 — Avett Brothers
Over 20 years, brothers Scott and Seth Avett have risen from performing in dive bars to headlining Madison Square Garden. It’s a remarkable trajectory when you consider the musicians’ humble start on a family farm in Concord, North Carolina.
I’ve been trying to see the Avett Brothers for years, but the band’s shows in Utah sell out fast and I’ve never been able to get tickets. But 2019 was my lucky year because the brothers brought their raw lyrics and harmonies to USANA Amphitheatre, a venue that can seat 20,000 people.
I knew high-energy songs like “Ain’t No Man” and “High-Steppin’” would easily fill the vast amphitheater space, but what was most impressive to me was how on softer songs like “I Wish I Was,” the crowd got so quiet that the brothers’ tight harmonies seemed to hang still in the air.
I went with my sister-in-law — it was also her first time seeing the Avett Brothers — and it’s the first time I’ve gone out of my way to buy an actual seat close to the stage rather than a cheaper spot out on the lawn.
It was worth every penny.
Sept. 4 — Elton John
I’m not sure what was more fun: Watching Elton John or watching my mom watch Elton John. John’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour, which extends through 2021, marks the end of a legendary career spanning several generations.
“I don’t want to go out with a whimper. I want to go out with a bang,” he said during a press conference announcing the tour. “It’ll be the most produced, fantastic show I’ve ever done.”
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He meant every word of that, delivering to his fans in Salt Lake City a nearly three-hour production that started with “Bennie and the Jets” and ended with “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.” At 72, John’s voice — while noticeably lower — was strong, his energy never fading and his piano abilities out of this world as he launched into lengthy solos on hits like “Rocket Man” and “Levon.”
At the end of the concert, John stepped onto a platform that carried him up and out of sight. A large screen onstage continued John’s exit, showing the performer strolling away, down an animated yellow brick road.
It was a reminder that, as well-deserved as John’s retirement may be, the world is losing a masterful live performer.
Sept. 14 — ‘Fly More Than You Fall’
This was the day I was supposed to see Kiss in concert. It would’ve been my first time seeing the band, but on Friday the 13th, Gene Simmons tweeted that Kiss would have to postpone its show at USANA Amphitheatre so he could have a medical procedure done in Los Angeles (the show has since been rescheduled for Sept. 24, 2020).
Sept. 14 was apparently a big day for Utah’s entertainment scene, because I had two great options to fill the Kiss void: I could review Carrie Underwood at Vivint Arena or review a new, Broadway-bound musical at Utah Valley University.
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I chose the musical, and that may very well be one of the best decisions I made this year. “Fly More Than You Fall” is a powerful production about a teenager coping with her mother’s terminal cancer diagnosis, and in an age of reboots, this musical’s originality was refreshing.
“I don’t know a single other story (on Broadway) that’s dealt with a child losing a parent, or for that matter, grief,” the musical’s writer, Eric Holmes, previously told the Deseret News. “It’s a topic most musicals shy away from. … Something that should be talked about more.”
Let’s hope “Fly More Than You Fall” makes it to Broadway, because even though the story hadn’t been told until this year, it’s a story far too many people have lived.
Oct. 7 — Audra McDonald
It’s easy to see why Audra McDonald has earned the most Tony Awards of any actor or actress. The Broadway star is as much a storyteller as she is a soprano, infusing every word of a song with such feeling that watching her perform onstage is like watching a drama unfold on the big screen.
I was leaning forward in my seat, hanging on McDonald’s every note during her concert at UVU’s new Noorda Center for the Performing Arts. Even near the back of the auditorium I could see her expressive faces — the nuances that added to an already mesmerizing performance.
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I still get emotional when I think about that concert. From belting “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” to performing her signature “Summertime” from “Porgy and Bess” to softly singing “I’ll Be Here,” a tribute to those who lost loved ones during 9/11, McDonald gave it her all. She held nothing back, and her heartfelt performance reminded me of the transformative power of music.
Nov. 12 — Ray LaMontagne
It’s a surreal moment when you finally see a musician you’ve listened to for several years in concert for the first time. It’s even more surreal when that musician is Ray LaMontagne.
LaMontagne is an extremely private person, a folk singer who rarely gives interviews, used to write songs in a self-built cabin with no electricity or running water, and has even performed from the side of the stage because he’s not a fan of the spotlight.
But he sings like an angel. Hearing his raspy voice in person at a beautiful venue like the Eccles Theater — as opposed to listening to him on a CD or on YouTube — was magical. He sounded just as good as he does on CD, but watching him get lost in the music that has brought me so much happiness over the years took the performance to the next level.
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Parents sue neighbors after dogs bite off Layton boy’s hand
Austin Brown sits on his mother’s lap at their home in Layton on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2019. | Mark Wetzel, Deseret News
Parents say dog owners and property managers knew dogs were vicious.
SALT LAKE CITY — The parents of a 4-year-old Layton boy who was playing in their backyard when huskies bit off his hand in March are suing their neighbors, saying the dogs were known to be vicious before the attack.
John Brown and Hope Brown filed the suit Monday in Farmington’s 2nd District Court.
John Brown managed to pull his son Austin away from the dogs, but not before the child, then 3 years old, lost his right hand and arm up to his elbow on March 3. The animals pulled his arm and shoulder under the fence, “where both dogs viciously attacked and mutilated the child,” the lawsuit says.
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It alleges negligence on the part of Joey Young, Teri Young and Christine Young. No attorney was listed for the three in court documents as of Tuesday. They also couldn’t be reached at publicly listed phone numbers.
The parent also are suing the neighboring home’s property managers, saying they knew the dogs were dangerous but did nothing to remove them or terminate the Youngs’ lease.
They are suing for medical expenses, emotional stress and punitive damages to be proven at trial.
“He is an ‘I can do it’ boy,” Hope Brown told the Deseret News in December as her son played with Legos. “He has figured out how to do everything with what we call his little arm.”
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She said she was in shock when she learned what had happened and has received death threats and messages blaming her for her son’s injuries. Her husband, a military veteran, has PTSD from the attack and they have since divorced.
A friend of the family started a GoFundMe account to help with their Christmas and medical expenses. As of Tuesday, the site raised more than $8,600.
The dogs, named Polar and Bear, were sent to a sanctuary after their owners surrendered them, part of a deal that spared them misdemeanor citations for possessing a dangerous animal.
Authorities originally said the boy had a sock on his hand and was trying to play with the dogs. Hope Brown said that was not the case and her son actually was partly pulled under the fence.
Siberian huskies are generally friendly, alert and gentle and are not typically possessive, according to the American Kennel Club.
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Utah woman says blasting paint off HAFB jets caused husband’s death
Two planes sit on the pad waiting for pilots to arrive in this file photo. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — A woman whose husband died of cancer after years of blasting paint and rust off military aircraft has sued the U.S. Air Force.
Cynthia McKenney Craft claims in a federal lawsuit that coatings on the airplanes, which included cadmium and chrome 6, caused the cancerous growths on his lungs, kidneys and adrenal glands that took his life.
Richard McKenney, 61, of Layton, died in August 2017 two years after being diagnosed with lung cancer. He worked in the blast shop at Hill Air Force Base removing paint, rust and corrosion from aircraft for more than 15 years.
“Despite following all base and shop protocols, anyone, including Mr. McKenney, doing blast work in the blast shop on aircraft on a daily basis, week after week, year after year, is going to be exposed one way or the other to cadmium, chrome 6 and other substances,” according to the suit filed in U.S. District in Salt Lake City.
Cadmium and chrome 6 are known carcinogens, the suit says.
Prior to working at Hill, McKenney had few of the risk factors associated with cancer, including that he didn’t smoke, drink and had never used illicit drugs and that his family had no history of cancer, the lawsuit says.
That at least two of McKenney’s co-workers also died of cancer is “strong evidence” of a causal connection to his case, according to the lawsuit. The suit also says McKenney’s doctors believe there is a link between his exposure to the hazardous substances and his getting cancer.
According to the lawsuit, Craft used her husband’s life insurance check to replace carpets, floors, beds and linens and for other things like cleaning the duct work in the house that were contaminated with the dust McKenney brought home on his clothes and shoes every day. She also cleaned and sold his car.
The suit seeks to recover the money Craft spent to replace her property as well as damages for financial stress and physical and psychological distress.
Craft filed a wrongful death suit against aircraft manufacturers General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin in state court earlier this month. The two defense contractors build airplanes based and maintained at Hill.
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A New Year’s Eve win would be a huge deal for Utah football team and not just a consolation prize
Utah coach Kyle Whittingham takes the field before game against Oregon at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
Utes need a victory over Texas to make 2019 season meaningful
SAN ANTONIO — It’s been quite a football season for the Utah football team.
The Utes were this close to making it to the College Football Playoffs, if not for a loss to Oregon in the Pac-12 Championship game.
They were this close to making it to the Rose Bowl, if not for an Oregon loss to Arizona State in late November.
Sure, the Pac-12 may not have been awarded a berth in the CFB, but I believe the league would have put a team in the Playoff if not for the aforementioned results.
Did you see Oklahoma’s defense in that semifinal the other night? No way the Sooners were a better team than either Oregon or Utah.
Instead, the Utes are here in the Alamo City, where they’ve been holed up since Christmas night, working out every day preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration. They’re getting ready for the University of Texas, one of college football’s all-time blueblood programs, which just has to bus down to San Antone from up the road in Austin, like going from Logan to Salt Lake for a game.
It may seem like quite a comedown for the Utes to be playing in the Alamo Bowl after coming oh so close to a playoff berth or a Rose Bowl appearance, a couple of opportunities that don’t come around very often.
But Tuesday night’s game is still the biggest bowl the Utes will have played in since joining the Pac-12 eight years ago. And it may be a bigger game than their most recent game in Santa Clara three weeks ago. That’s right, bigger than the game that could have gotten them to the playoff.
Stay with us here.
If the Utes had gotten into the playoff, they would have likely lost to LSU. Most folks would have expected them to lose and after seeing the Tigers on Saturday afternoon, I don’t believe the Utes would have stood much of a chance against Joe Burrow and Co.
While I don’t think the Ute defense would have given up 63 points and believe the Utes would have been closer than 35 points to the Tigers, their season would have ended three days after Christmas and all they could claim was that they made the final four of football.
Now the Utes still have big things to play for, including a top-10 final ranking, a 12-win season and a continuation of the best bowl record in the country.
The Utes and coach Kyle Whittingham take bowl games seriously, a big reason why Utah has by far the best bowl record of any school in the country — an all-time 77.3 winning percentage, while Whittingham leads all coaches with his 11-2 mark and 84.2 winning percentage.
“That’s something we have talked about, the reasons to win the game, not only because of the track record we have, but being a top-10 ranking, winning our 12th game ... sending our seniors out the right way,” Whittingham said at Monday’s official press conference at the Alamodome.
“There’s a myriad of reasons for winning the game, not that you need anything more than being a competitor, but those are the carrots out there, we’ve talked about. That would mean a lot to our program, bottom line, to finish in the top 10. That’s definitely something in the forefront of our guys’ minds.”
If the Utes lose this week, this whole wondrous season will have been for naught. Of course, Ute coaches and players could still talk about their great 11-3 season and all the big wins and large margins of victory and high rankings, etc. etc, etc.
But two losses to finish the season? After where they were at the end of November?
Considering what happened last year in San Diego when the Utes were outscored 28-0 in the second half (third quarter actually) in a loss to Northwestern, the Utes should be out for blood this year.
Texas is certainly better than its 7-5 record indicates, including a close loss to LSU on its ledger, but if the Utes lose to the Longhorns, it’s going to be a long offseason and the 2019 season will end up on the scrap heap of another “good” season for Utah football.
The Utes need to get a win and finish 12-2. That’s where they would have ended up with a win over Oregon and a loss to LSU. Only this way they’ll regain some of their dignity having beaten a name program in a big bowl game and take some serious momentum into next season when they can try it all over again.
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Salt Lake City homelessness leaders break ground on 65-unit housing complex
Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski speaks at the groundbreaking for The Magnolia, a new 65-unit permanent supportive housing complex for people who have experienced homelessness, in Salt Lake City on Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. The facility, owned by Shelter the Homeless and operated by the Road Home, will serve single men and women. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Effort focuses on transition out of shelters
SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City is about to get 65 more units to help house some of the most vulnerable among the homeless.
Leaders broke ground Monday on The Magnolia, a permanent supportive housing facility to serve up to 65 single men and women with on-site services to help them transition out of shelter and into housing.
“This has been a community effort, a Herculean effort on many fronts,” said Preston Cochrane, executive director of Shelter the Homeless, the owner of the facility and Utah’s newest homeless facilities finished just last month.
After more than three years of work and with help from Salt Lake City, a variety of funding sources and loans, the nearly $17 million facility at 165 S. 300 East will help people transitioning out of homelessness as part of a larger, mixed-income, 248-unit housing development called the Violin School Commons that will also redevelop the former Salt Lake City public safety building at 315 E. 200 South.
“We will soon have 65 units available for those most in need,” said Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski. “What is truly special is that these units, these spaces of opportunity, will not be on the margins of our city, but right here in the heart of our city, amongst a mixed income development, demonstrating that Salt Lake City is truly a place for everyone.”
Monday’s groundbreaking marked a “bittersweet moment,” said the outgoing mayor, whose term is ending after she chose not to seek reelection. It was the last time she would participate in a groundbreaking for affordable housing as mayor.
“For the past four years, Salt Lake City housing experts have worked tirelessly to address the affordable housing crisis that we are facing, never losing sight of the idea that every unit we bring online represents a life that will forever be changed,” Biskupski said, crediting her staff with helping build over 2,500 affordable housing units during her administration.
The Magnolia — developed by Cowboy Partners, owned by Shelter the Homeless and operated by the Road Home — will be the Road Home’s newest addition to its housing program, which currently includes 201 units at Palmer Court, 32 units at the Wendell Apartments, and hundreds of other stand-alone supportive housing units and single-family dwellings throughout Salt Lake County.
The Magnolia was made possible through a variety of deals and funding sources, including a $1.5 million Salt Lake City Housing Trust Fund loan, a $12-a-year land lease from Salt Lake City, over $10.5 million in tax credit equity, $2 million from the Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund, and $1.3 million from Zions Bank in short-term financing.
Michelle Flynn, interim executive director of the Road Home, said projects like Palmer Court and The Magnolia sometimes face challenges and “seem like they’re going to die over and over again,” but she credited its success to “tremendous dedicated commitment from an incredible team” who know how permanent supportive housing can impact lives.
“What we know is that we need The Magnolia, and we need an even greater array of types of deeply affordable and supportive housing in order to see the success that we have to have in our newly launched homeless services system,” Flynn said.
The “overarching vision” of the new system and the new homeless resource centers is to ensure homelessness is “rare, brief and nonrecurring,” Flynn said, calling for continued commitment from state, local and federal leaders to invest in “all kinds of supportive housing,” including types that haven’t even been thought of yet.
“The Magnolia will help our community achieve these goals by providing refuge and relief to the men and women who have experienced long and chronic homelessness,” Flynn said. “Individuals who have been through incredible trauma in their lives, who are living with a disabling condition and are seeking housing with support they can access on-site.”
As leaders celebrated Monday’s groundbreaking, they were bundled against the frigid and snowy weather.
“How fitting that the reason for our temporary discomfort is to celebrate the creation of a project that will provide shelter for people who have lived their lives experiencing the constant and oppressive discomfort of being outside of community, discomfort from perhaps living on the streets, in doorways or parks, or living in a car with no heat,” said Claudia O’Grady, vice president of multifamily finance at Utah Housing Corp.
“Today,” she said, “we get to begin a new story for some of our homeless friends.”
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No letter grades will be on Utah school report Thursday, but stay tuned
Lyn Wright’s class at Willow Springs Elementary in Draper on Monday, Sept. 11, 2017.
SALT LAKE CITY — School report cards will soon be released to the public and initially, at least, they will be issued without letter grades for Utah’s public schools.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Sydnee Dickson, in a letter to school districts and charter schools, said the latest school accountability dashboard will go live on Jan. 2, but the report will not include letter grades, largely because of “irregularities” with statewide test administration of the RISE test. RISE is an acronym for Readiness, Improvement, Success and Empowerment.
RISE assessments are given annually to students in grades three through eight in language arts and math using online multistage adaptive testing. In fourth grade, science is tested. In grades five and eight, writing is tested.
Last spring, Utah schools experienced “systemwide, high-visibility interruptions of service” of test administration that left some district and charter schools with an “uneasy feeling” about the test data, Darin Nielsen, assistant state sfuperintendent of student learning, said in an earlier interview. The event also led to the State School Board terminating its contract with test vendor Questar.
Presently, state statute requires letter grades to be part of the state accountability report. Test scores play a prominent role on the reports, but they also includes other indicators and information about individual schools.
This year, the accountability reports will be posted without grades “until a determination about letter grades can be made by the Legislature during the 2020 general session,” Dickson wrote.
The State Board of Education webpage of the report card will also include a disclaimer about this year’s testing irregularities.
However, Dickson’s letter notes that three separate analyses found that results from last spring’s RISE tests are valid. However, advisory groups to the board “acknowledged that delivery system irregularities could have disproportionately impacted an individual school’s results,” Dickson wrote.
Of particular concern was whether schools could be erroneously identified for school turnaround based on test scores.
According to the letter, the State School Board felt it had two choices: to seek flexibility from the Legislature or allow appeals from individual schools that believe they were unduly affected by the irregularities, which can be problematic for small school districts or charter schools that may lack the expertise or personnel needed to file appeals.
“(The board) will need some statutory changes for the flexibility it seeks from the Legislature. We will pursue 2020 general session legislation with an immediate effective date to resolve this issue,” Dickson wrote.
Rep. Marie Poulson, D-Cottonwood Heights, will sponsor legislation during the session that opens in late January to remove the requirement for letter grades from the state accountability system.
This is her third attempt to pass the bill, which last year was approved overwhelmingly in the House but was not considered by the Utah Senate.
Poulson, a former educator, said she hopes to end the practice of assigning letter grades to schools, which largely rests on a school’s performance on statewide assessments.
The state has moved to a more comprehensive accountability dashboard, which Poulson says is “much superior to a single letter grade.”
The dashboard reports test achievement, student growth, progress of English learners and allows schools to report school-level factors that influence its performance such as consistent school attendance.
“I definitely think that this dashboard system is is a better measure because it looks at all areas. With the testing, there’s only a few subjects that they test and school is much bigger than that,” she said.
“I think it’s only (testing) about 20% of the subjects in a public high school or middle school that even has testing, and so to report that a whole school is an A or a D or a C is really unfair to the school when you don’t consider all of the other excellent programs or other things that we need to look at,” Poulson said.
Utah Education Association President Heidi Matthews said its membership supports greater flexibility in the state’s accountability system, sans letter grades.
“A single letter grade just does not capture what’s happening in a school and is mostly used for high-stakes decisions and punishments, blaming and shaming based on one test on one one day. Yes it’s an indicator, but it does not come near to addressing the holistic successes or needs of a school,” Matthews said.
The beauty of the accountability dashboard, she said, is that it highlights initiatives and programs that benefit students at what are deemed “exemplary” schools.
Conversely, it spells out factors that impact achievement, growth and English language proficiency in “critical needs” schools, which Matthews said shifts the responsibility of student success to the public education system.
“What are we doing to help address the needs that are critical in this school?” she said.
The State School Board had a multiyear contract with RISE vendor Questar but voted in June to terminate the agreement after technical issues and several missed deadlines.
Two months later, the board entered a three-year contract with American Institutes of Research, makers of the SAGE test, for $21.6 million.
RISE was selected by the state board as a replacement for Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence or SAGE testing. In recent years, growing numbers of Utah students had opted out of SAGE testing, which was one reason the board sought a new testing vendor.
It remains to see if SB220, sponsored by Sen. Ann Millner, R-Ogden, which was passed by the Legislature in 2017, offers sufficient latitude for the state board to forgo letter grades on the upcoming accountability report.
The legislation says, in part, that in a school year the State School Board determines it is necessary to establish a new testing baseline to determine student growth due to a transition to a new assessment, “the board is not required to assign an overall rating ... to a school to which the new baseline applies.”
Millner declined to comment, referring media inquiries to the State Board of Education.
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Alamo Bowl, Utah vs. Texas: How to watch, stream or listen to the game
Utah Utes defensive tackle Leki Fotu (99) warms up on the Levi’s Stadium field before the Pac-12 Championship game between Utah and Oregon in Santa Clara, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. | Steve Griffin, Deseret News
2019 Alamo Bowl
No. 11 Utah (11-2) vs. Texas (7-5)
- Kickoff: Tuesday 5:30 p.m. MT
- Venue: Alamodome (65,000)
- Surface: Astroturf
- TV/livestream: ESPN
- Radio: ESPN 700 AM
- Series: Texas leads, 1-0
THE STAKES
For Utah: The Utes are seeking their third season with 12 of more wins. They went 12-0 in 2004 and 13-0 in 2008.
For Texas: The Longhorns are looking to cap a disappointing season with a win before what is expected to be a large backing of fans.
THE TRENDS
For Utah: The Utes are strong in the second half, outscoring the opposition 208-78. They’ve limited 11 teams to under 100 yards rushing.
For Texas: The Longhorns are 2-0 in bowl games under head coach Tom Herman. The wins came in the Texas and Sugar bowls.
THE CRYSTAL BALL
Utah: The Utes are looking to bounce back from a lopsided loss to Oregon in the Pac-12 title game. Will it be enough motivation?
Texas: Can the Longhorns keep their fans happy? It’ll be a long off-season if they lose six games. Heck, it’s already going to be bad with five.
PLAYER TO WATCH
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Devin Duvernay, Texas receiver: The senior is second in the nation with 103 receptions. How will he fare against a depleted Utah secondary?
KEY MATCHUP
Utah’s lines against Texas: The Utes were pretty much overpowered by Oregon in the trenches in the Pac-12 championship game.
QUOTABLE
”We have a tradition at Utah, the bowl season is very important to our guys. It almost self-perpetuates from year to year because the next group doesn’t want to be the group that lets the previous group down in bowl play.”
— Utah coach Kyle Whittingham
“It’ll be a great experience for our players. I’ve never coached in one of these, but I have heard and talked to a lot of colleagues that said, this is as good as it gets when it comes to bowl games. So excited to be here.”
— Texas coach Tom Herman
NEXT UP
Both teams are scheduled to open the 2020 season on Sept. 5. Utah is hosting BYU, while Texas takes on South Florida.
UTAH SCHEDULE
All times Mountain
- Aug. 29 — at BYU, Won 30-12
- Sept. 7 — Northern Illinois, Won 35-17
- Sept. 14 — Idaho State, Won 31-0
- Sept. 20 — at USC, Lost 30-23
- Sept. 28 — Washington State, Won 38-13
- Oct. 12 — at Oregon State, Won 52-7
- Oct. 19 — Arizona State, Won 21-3
- Oct. 26 — California, Won 35-0
- Nov. 2 — at Washington, Won 33-28
- Nov. 16 — UCLA, Won 49-3
- Nov. 23 — at Arizona, Won 35-7
- Nov. 30 — Colorado, Won 45-15
- Dec. 6 — Pac-12 Championship vs. Oregon, Lost 37-15
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Marijuana dispensary opens in Nevada-Utah border city
Immigration Series: The famous Wendover, NV welcome sign o the west end of town June 21, 2007. Jeffrey D. Allred/photo | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — The first recreational marijuana dispensary opened Monday in a northeastern Nevada border city known for its casinos, but Utah residents considering making the 90-minute drive to West Wendover will have to be careful about where they use the pot if they go.
Nevada laws prohibit using marijuana in public or hotel rooms, and U.S. laws prohibit people from taking it across state lines to Utah, where only medical marijuana is legal. The new dispensary in West Wendover, Nevada, called Deep Roots Harvest, figures to get plenty of business from Utah residents waiting for Utah’s new medical marijuana program to roll out next year, said Christine Stenquist, the director and founder of advocacy group Together for Responsible Use and Cannabis Education, or TRUCE.
She said she’s already getting requests for carpools to West Wendover, which is about 125 miles west of Salt Lake City, making it the closest marijuana dispensary for people who live in northern Utah. Previously, people traveled nearly twice as far to cities in Colorado or southern Nevada, she said.
She is cautioning people to be careful and not to answer any questions until they have a lawyer if they are stopped on the highways. Utah’s law allows using medical marijuana in certain forms with a doctor’s note of permission, but there’s murkiness until the state issues patient cards and opens dispensaries. That’s scheduled to happen in the spring of 2020.
”We’re in a quasi-legal state right now,” Stenquist said. “They need to be wise. This is federally illegal.”
Utah Highway Patrol troopers are aware the dispensary opened but the agency hasn’t arranged any extra patrols or checkpoints and doesn’t plan to arrest people who have a doctor’s note and marijuana oils, tablets or other forms of the drug legal under state law, said Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Nick Street. But they will remain alert for impaired drivers who are coming back from West Wendover on Interstate 80, he said, and the law does prohibit smokable marijuana.
“It’s definitely on our radar. We’re concerned. It’s an impairing substance that is now recreationally available,” Street said. “We’re worried people will go over there and consume it and try to hoof it home without letting the effects wear off.”
West Wendover officials are excited about adding a new draw to the city other than casinos, but they want their neighbors in Utah to be careful, said Mayor Daniel Corona.
“They really need to think about it before they come over,” Corona said. “You would have to go to someone’s house (to use it), that’s about your only option.”
After weighing the pros and cons, the West Wendover City Council voted to approve a facility in November 2018. That sets up the city of 5,000 residents to get a budgetary boost from the 3% tax on all purchases at the facility, Corona said. He said they don’t have any estimates on how much they’ll get.
Nevada voters approved recreational marijuana in 2016 and the state’s medicinal pot dispensaries reported nearly $640 million in total sales for the fiscal year that ended June 30. The state took in a little more than $99 million in taxes from medical and recreational sales and another $9.9 million in licensing and application fees during that time.
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