Washington • President Donald Trump signed a bill reopening the government late Monday, ending a 69-hour display of partisan dysfunction after Democrats reluctantly voted to temporarily pay for resumed operations. They relented in return for Republican assurances that the Senate will soon take up the plight of young immigrant “dreamers” and other contentious issues.

The vote set the stage for hundreds of thousands of federal workers to return on Tuesday, cutting short what could have become a messy and costly impasse. The House approved the measure shortly thereafter, and President Donald Trump later signed it behind closed doors at the White House.

But by relenting, the Democrats prompted a backlash from immigration activists and liberal base supporters who wanted them to fight longer and harder for legislation to protect from deportation the 700,000 or so younger immigrants who were brought to the country as children and now are here illegally.

Democrats climbed onboard after two days of negotiations that ended with new assurances from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that the Senate would consider immigration proposals in the coming weeks. But there were deep divides in the Democratic caucus over strategy, as red-state lawmakers fighting for their survival broke with progressives looking to satisfy liberals’ and immigrants’ demands.

Under the agreement, Democrats provided enough votes to pass the stopgap spending measure keeping the government open until Feb. 8. In return, McConnell agreed to resume negotiations over the future of the dreamers, border security, military spending and other budget debates. If those talks don’t yield a deal in the next three weeks, the Republican promised to allow the Senate to debate an immigration proposal — even if it’s one crafted by a bipartisan group and does not have the backing of the leadership and the White House, lawmakers said. McConnell had previously said he would bring a deal to a vote only if President Donald Trump supported it.

Sixty votes were needed to end the Democrats’ filibuster, and the party’s senators provided 33 of the 81 the measure got. Eighteen senators, including members of both parties, were opposed. Hours later the Senate passed the final bill by the same 81-18 vote, sending it to the House, which quickly voted its approval and sent the measure on to President Donald Trump.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders predicted that operations would return to normal by Tuesday morning.

The plan is far from what many activists and Democrats hoped when they decided to use the budget deadline as leverage. It doesn’t tie the immigration vote to another piece of legislation, a tactic often used to build momentum. It also doesn’t address support for an immigration plan in the House, where opposition to extending the protections for the dreamers is far stronger.

The short-term spending measure means both sides may wind up in a shutdown stalemate again in three weeks.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer lent his backing to the agreement during a speech on the chamber’s floor. “Now there is a real pathway to get a bill on the floor and through the Senate,” he said of legislation to halt any deportation efforts aimed at the younger immigrants.

The White House downplayed McConnell’s commitment, and said Democrats caved under pressure. “They blinked,” principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah told CNN. In a statement, Trump said he’s open to immigration deal only if it is “good for our country.”

Immigration activists and other groups harshly criticized the deal reached by the Democratic leadership.

Cristina Jimenez, executive director of United We Dream, said the members of the group are “outraged.” She added that senators who voted Monday in favor of the deal “are not resisting Trump, they are enablers.”

Other groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union expressed disappointment and shared similar criticism.

A block of liberal Democrats — some of them 2020 presidential hopefuls — stuck to their opposition. Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Dianne Feinstein of California, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Cory Booker of New Jersey voted no, as did Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Feinstein said she wasn’t persuaded by McConnell’s assurances and did not know how a proposal to protect the more than 700,000 younger immigrants would fare in the House.

Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana voted no on the procedural motion to re-open the government — the only no vote among 10 incumbent Democrats facing re-election this year in states won by Trump in 2016. Tester said in a statement that the 17-day budget did not include any funding for community health centers that are important to his rural state, nor did the deal include additional resources for border security.

The short-term funding measure includes a six-year reauthorization of the children’s health insurance program, which provides coverage for millions of young people in families with modest incomes. It also includes $31 billion in tax cuts, including a delay in implementing a tax on medical devices.

The votes came as most government offices cut back drastically or even closed on Monday, as the major effects of the shutdown were first being felt with the beginning of the workweek.

Republicans have appeared increasingly confident that Democrats would bear the brunt of criticism for the shutdown. The White House and GOP leaders said they would not negotiate with Democrats on immigration until the government was reopened, and White House officials boasted that Trump didn’t reach out to any Democratic lawmakers during the shutdown.

In fact, Trump, who regularly disrupted negotiations in recent weeks, had been a relatively subdued player in the weekend debate. On Monday, he accused Democrats of prioritizing services and security for noncitizens over U.S. citizens. “Not good,” his first tweet said. In a second tweet, he said, “Democrats have shut down our government in the interests of their far left base. They don’t want to do it but are powerless!”

Trump’s first tweet appeared to undercut comments by his legislative affairs director, Marc Short, who told CNN that the immigrants in question are law-abiding and “productive to our society.” Short said the administration wants to “find a pathway for them” to stay in the U.S.

Although the Democrats initially dug in on a demand for an immigration deal, they had shifted to blaming the shutdown on the incompetence of Republicans and Trump. The Democrats seemed sensitive to being seen by voters as willing to tie up government operations to protect immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

In an impassioned closed-door meeting, Schumer told his members that McConnell’s pledge was the best deal they were going to get.

On the Senate floor, No. 2 Senate GOP leader John Cornyn of Texas said that for shutting down the government, the Democrats “got nothing.” He added that even though McConnell promised to take up the immigration bill by February, “he was going to do that anyway.”

While lawmakers feuded, signs of the shutdown were evident at national parks and in some federal agencies. Social Security and most other safety-net programs were unaffected by the lapse in federal spending authority. Critical government functions continued, with uniformed service members, health inspectors and law enforcement officers set to work without pay.

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Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick, Kevin Freking, Luis Alonso Lugo, Catherine Lucey, Matthew Daly and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.

Salt Lake could host a future Winter Olympics for less than it cost to put on the 2002 games here, according to the first budget estimate completed by the Salt Lake Olympic Exploratory Committee.

While the Salt Lake Olympic Committee’s final bill in 2002 totaled $1.389 billion, officials estimate the cost to do it again would be about $1.29 billion.

Those early numbers, unveiled Monday during the group’s monthly meeting, have officials here optimistic that the committee will vote next month to take the next step toward becoming an official bid candidate for either the 2026 or 2030 Olympics.

“I think once they digest this and understand it, the momentum will be very positive,” said co-chairman Fraser Bullock, a former SLOC leader. “… Every indication we have right now is positive.”

Since the exploratory committee’s formation in October, officials have lauded Utah’s Olympic tradition, the quality of its competition venues, and its advantages over its top U.S. competitors, Denver and Reno/Tahoe. But until Monday, committee members had provided few hard numbers pertaining to the actual cost of a future bid.

“They’re better than I thought they were going to be,” Bullock said of the initial budget estimates.

Fifteen years ago, Salt Lake had more than $1.38 billion in expenses. But because the venues used in 2002 have been maintained (a state audit recommended about $40 million in upgrades over the next decade) and other savings on labor and operations, officials believe another Olympic games here would cost less. The exploratory committee’s estimate of $1.29 billion for a future Games adjusts for 2018 inflation and includes $60 million in contingency funds.

The budget numbers exclude federal security and transportation costs.

In 2002, the Salt Lake Olympic Committee brought in more than $1.5 billion in revenue. Budget analysts believe a future Olympics would bring in over $1 billion through broadcast, ticketing, merchandise and other “high-confidence revenues.” That would leave a $292-million gap that would have to be made up with Utah sponsorships and donations.

“We think it’s an achievable number, given our history,” Bullock said.

The committee is expected to finish its final report by the end of this month, with a vote to move ahead in the process expected next month. At that point, an official candidature committee would be formed with support from Salt Lake City and Utah leaders. The U.S. Olympic Committee then has until the end of March to submit a bid city for the International Olympic Committee’s next round of selections.

“When you look at the cost savings and the amount of revenue we’d have to raise and how we stack up against other potential bid cities, I think everybody here in the room loves the trend lines,” said committee co-chair Jeff Robbins said, the president and CEO of the Utah Sports Commission.

Officials in Colorado and Nevada have both expressed interest in potentially hosting the Winter Olympics, though both Denver and Reno/Tahoe would have to overcome financial obstacles to win a bid.

“I think they’re way behind,” Bullock said. “They’re way behind us because we have so much more knowledge. I think they haven’t done a detailed understanding of the economics yet. I think they’re in that aspirational phase.”

The USOC has said it is open to submitting a bid for either the 2026 or 2030 Olympics. But because a ’26 bid would put them in competition for sponsorship dollars with both the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Utah leaders have their hopes set on 2030.

New York • Neil Diamond is retiring from touring after he says he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

Days shy of his 77th birthday, the rock legend is canceling his tour dates in Australia and New Zealand for March. He was on his 50th anniversary tour.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer offered his “sincerest apologies” to those who planned to go to his shows and says he plans to still write, record and work on other projects “for a long time to come.”

Diamond’s numerous hits include “Sweet Caroline,” ″America,” ″Love on the Rocks” and “Hello Again.”

Diamond turns 77 on Wednesday and will get the lifetime achievement award at Sunday’s Grammy awards.

New York • Polo Ralph Lauren unveiled Team USA’s Olympic parade uniforms Monday and social media haters can leave the ugly sweater jokes back in Sochi.

Roundly mocked in 2014 for a chaotic, patchwork cardigan sweater, the brand went classic red, white and blue this time around for the opening ceremony and white for the closing parade of athletes in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Both have a cozy bit of technology built in to keep athletes extra warm.

Athletes will be treated to stretchy skinny jeans and a far less busily designed sweater for opening, with a stretch knit pant — think structured sweat pant — for closing. The jeans have moto-inspired seaming. Accessories include a navy wool ski hat and USA-themed navy bandanna. On the athletes’ feet will be brown suede mountaineering boots with red laces for the outdoor opening.

And then there are the gloves. They’re more Ralph than Ralph himself, a Western style in suede with fringe in rawhide brown and decorated in hand-beaded Olympic rings and an American flag. They’re lined in white and fit over the wrists. Warm, yes. Yee haw! Lasso not included.

David Lauren, the youngest son of the brand’s namesake and the company’s chief innovation officer, was proud of the technology for the tri-colored parkas in mostly navy blue and the bombers for the end of the Winter Games.

In a process developed exclusively for the brand, the heating system is made of electronic printed conductive inks in silver and black in the shape of an America flag and bonded to the interior backs of the jackets, he said. Athletes can control basic settings using their cellphones for up to five hours of heat on high and up to 11 hours on low, fully charged.

A limited number were released for sale to fans and were selling quickly, Lauren said. All garments are American made.

The brand has been the official outfitter of the U.S. Olympic Committee and Team USA since 2008. The uniforms will also be worn by the Paralympic Games teams.

“Every season we learn from the athletes,” Lauren said. “We work very closely with them, where we find out what makes them comfortable as they’re walking out on this amazing stage in front of the entire world.”

The story Lauren is trying to tell this time around is a celebration of the past, he said, “so we have gloves inspired by the frontier movement, we have jeans that celebrate another era of American entrepreneurship and jackets that heat up, which show that America is continuing to evolve.”

The jacket technology displays the temperature inside the garment to help the athletes decide on settings.

The company was looking to display a boldness in the looks this year. It was about comfort, however, as opposed to playing into the tumultuous politics of the last year.

And what does Lauren say to critics who have poked fun in the past?

“We’re very proud to work with Team USA,” he said. “This year we’re excited to say that most of the outfits have already sold out.”

Enthusiasts can buy pieces online and in a handful of Ralph Lauren stores around the country, including a customizable ski hat, Lauren said. A portion of proceeds will be donated to athletes’ training.

The uniforms were modeled in a Polo Ralph Lauren store in downtown Manhattan by sister-brother, Lauren-sponsored ice dancing team Maia and Alex Shibutani.

“The jacket is going to be perfect for the cold weather,” Alex said. “We love the jacket especially.”

Maia was impressed by the stretch in the jeans.

“I’m going to be wearing these all the time, definitely.”

And those gloves?

“There’s some nice detailing,” Alex offered. “There’s ‘Polo’ right there on the side.”

One of the breakout stars of the 2014 Olympics won’t be in South Korea to defend his throne.

Park City’s Joss Christensen, who won gold in the men’s ski slopestyle event at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, was left off the U.S. Olympic squad bound for Pyeongchang Olympics, which begin in two weeks. The 26-year-old suffered a torn ACL in May during a ski run in Mammoth Mountain, Calif.

While the innovative high-flying skier eventually returned to the snow this winter, Christensen wasn’t able to land on any podiums in an Olympic qualifying event. Without Christensen, the U.S. freeskiers will have Gus Kenworthy and Nick Goepper, who finished with silver and bronze, respectively, at the 2014 Olympics alongside Christensen.

McRae Williams, who grew up skiing alongside Christensen on the hills in Park City, made his first Olympic team as a discretionary choice. Williams is currently the reigning slopestyle world champion. He barely missed out on the 2014 Olympic team, which served as motivation during the last cycle.

“Not making the Olympic team back in 2014 was absolutely devastating,” Williams said in a release Monday. “Thinking of having to wait four years to try again and wondering if I’d even still be at the top of my game was hard. To get that redemption now is beyond a dream come true.”

Devin Logan, one of several Westminster College students named to the U.S. Olympic team Monday, won the silver medal in women’s slopestyle at the 2014 Olympics.

Logan also qualified for ski halfpipe, where she’ll compete alongside teammate and 2014 gold medalist Maddie Bowman, also a Westminster student. David Wise headlines the men’s ski halfpipe team. The Reno, Nev., native won gold in Sochi.

The U.S. Olympic aerials and moguls team were also announced Monday evening.

The top medal threats include two-time Olympian Ashley Caldwell and Mac Bohonnon, who returns to his second straight Olympics. Park City’s Madison Olsen, 22, qualified for her first-ever Olympics in women’s aerials.

Jaelin Kauf, the No. 1-ranked women’s mogul skiers, enters as an Olympic medal favorite after a dominant World Cup season. Kauf, who relocated to Park City three years ago, won two World Cup golds. She leads a strong women’s moguls team, including Morgan Schild and Keaton McCargo.

2018 U.S. freeski & freestyle Olympic teams<br>Slopestyle • Caroline Claire, Devin Logan, Darian Stevens, Maggie Voisin, Nick Goepper, Alex Hall, Gus Kenworthy, McRae Williams<br>Halfpipe • Maddie Bowman, Annalisa Drew, Devin Logan, Brita Sigourney, Aaron Blunck, Alex Ferreira, David Wise, Torin Yater-Wallace<br>Aerials • Ashley Caldwell, Kiley McKinnon, Madison Olsen, Mac Bohonnon, Jonathon Lillis, Eric Loughran<br>Moguls • Tess Johnson, Jaelin Kauf, Keaton McCargo, Morgan Schild, Casey Andringa, Emerson Smith, Troy Murphy, Brad Wilson

Provo • BYU fans who have longed to see the Cougars play North Carolina State in football for the first time will finally get their wish.

But they’ll have to be patient.

BYU and NC State have agreed to a home-and-home football series for the 2024 and 2030 seasons. The Cougars will travel to Raleigh, N.C., to take on the Wolfpack on Nov. 9, 2024 and NC State will travel to Provo to play the Cougars at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Aug. 29, 2030.

“I really like this home-and-home series with NC State,” said BYU director of athletics Tom Holmoe. “The game in Raleigh provides a unique late-season travel opportunity for our football program, and it’s great to bring another ACC opponent to Provo.”

North Carolina State has won 11 ACC championships and has been to 31 bowl games. The Wolfpack defeated Arizona State 52-31 in the Sun Bowl last season.

BYU will also play Hawaii and Georgia Southern in 2024. In 2030, BYU is already scheduled to play another ACC foe, Virginia Tech.

Cougars land three-star East High linebacker

Viliami Tausinga, a linebacker from Salt Lake City’s East High School, committed to BYU coaches on Sunday and will sign a letter of intent with the Cougars next month.

The 6-foot-1, 210-pound Tausinga is a three-star prospect according to the 247sports.com website and also had offers from UNLV, Utah State, Wyoming and others.

Tausinga will likely serve an LDS Church mission before enrolling.

Several accept preferred walk-on spots

BYU coaches have been offering preferred walk-on spots to several prospects in the past few weeks, and some are starting to accept those invitations.

East High’s Jaylon Vickers, a 5-10, 180-pound defensive back, said Saturday that he will play for BYU. Skyridge defensive back Alex Palmer, Lehi receiver Kade Palmer and Mountain Crest running back Beau Robinson have also accepted preferred walk-on offers.

Washington • President Donald Trump on Monday approved tariffs on imported solar-energy components and large washing machines in a bid to help U.S. manufacturers.

The president’s decision followed recommendations for tariffs by the U.S. International Trade Commission.

“The president’s action makes clear again that the Trump administration will always defend American workers, farmers, ranchers, and businesses in this regard,” U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a statement announcing the decision.

Most imported solar modules will face an immediate tariff of 30 percent, with the rate declining before phasing out after four years.

For large residential washing machines, tariffs will start at up to 50 percent and phase out after three years.

The U.S. solar industry was split over the trade barriers.

The tariffs were sought last year by Suniva Inc., which filed for bankruptcy protection in April, and the U.S. subsidiary of Germany’s SolarWorld.

They said that a nearly 500 percent increase in imported solar panels over five years led to a ruinous price collapse. Nearly 30 U.S. solar-manufacturing facilities had closed in the past five years, they said, as China plotted to flood the global market with cheap products to weaken U.S. manufacturing.

Suniva spokesman Mark Paustenbach called tariffs “a step forward for this high-tech solar-manufacturing industry we pioneered right here in America.”

However, solar installers and manufacturers of other equipment used to run solar-power systems opposed tariffs, which they said will raise their prices and hurt demand for the renewable energy.

The Solar Energy Industries Association, which represents installation companies, said billions of dollars of solar investment will be delayed or canceled, leading to the loss of 23,000 jobs this year.

Mark Bortman, founder of Exact Solar in Philadelphia, said the prospect of tariffs — since the trade commission recommended them in October — had already caused him to delay hiring and expansion plans.

“Solar is really just starting to take off because it is truly a win-win-win situation” for consumers, workers and the environment, he said. “Tariffs would really be shooting ourselves in the foot.”

The case for tariffs on washing machines was pushed by Benton Harbor, Michigan-based Whirlpool Corp. The company’s chairman, Jeff Fettig, said tariffs on imported machines would create new manufacturing jobs in Ohio, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee.

“This is a victory for American workers and consumers alike,” Fettig said. “By enforcing our existing trade laws, President Trump has ensured American workers will compete on a level playing field with their foreign counterparts.”

But Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said Republicans need to understand that tariffs are a tax on consumers.

“Moms and dads shopping on a budget for a new washing machine will pay for this — not big companies,” Sasse said in a statement.

Suniva, SolarWorld and Whirlpool were helped by a 1974 trade law that lets companies seek trade protection if they can show damage from a rise in imports.

Up to certain levels, imports of solar cells will be exempt from the tariff, while the first 1.2 million imported large washing machines will get a lower tariff, peaking at 20 percent.

Congress has no authority to change or veto Trump’s decision. Countries affected by the decision can appeal to the World Trade Organization.

Manila, Philippines • The Philippines’ most active volcano spewed fountains of lava and massive ash plumes overnight and Tuesday morning after authorities warned a violent eruption may be imminent.

Lava fountains reached up to 700 meters (2,300 feet) above Mount Mayon’s crater and ash plumes rose up to 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) during the night and before daybreak, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. An explosive eruption Monday was the most powerful since the volcano started acting up more than a week ago.

Disaster officials in Albay province, where Mayon lies, say more than 30,000 people are staying in evacuation centers.

Officials raised Mayon’s alert level to four on a scale of five, meaning a violent eruption is possible within hours or days. The danger zone expanded to 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the crater, affecting thousands more residents.

The eruptions have shrouded nearby villages in darkness and sent lava, rocks and debris cascading down Mayon’s slopes toward the no-entry danger zone. There have no reports of deaths and injuries. Airplanes have been ordered to stay away from the crater and ash-laden winds and several flights have been canceled.

Volcanic ash fell in about a dozen towns in coconut-growing Albay province and nearby Camarines Sur province, with visibility being heavily obscured in a few towns because of the thick gray ash fall, Jukes Nunez, an Albay provincial disaster response officer, said by telephone.

“It was like night time at noon, there was zero visibility in some areas because the ash fall was so thick,” Nunez said.

More than 30,000 ash masks and about 5,000 sacks of rice, along with medicine, water and other supplies, were being sent to evacuation centers, Office of Civil Defense regional director Claudio Yucot said.

Mayon lies about 340 kilometers (210 miles) southeast of Manila. With its near-perfect cone, it is popular with climbers and tourists but has erupted about 50 times in the last 500 years, sometimes violently.

In 2013, an ash eruption killed five climbers who had ventured near the summit despite warnings. Its most destructive eruption, in 1814, killed more than 1,200 people and buried the town of Cagsawa in volcanic mud. The belfry of Cagsawa’s stone church still juts from the ground in an eerie reminder of Mayon’s fury.

The Philippines lies in the “Ring of Fire,” a line of seismic faults surrounding the Pacific Ocean where earthquakes and volcanic activity are common.

In 1991, Mount Pinatubo in the northern Philippines exploded in one of the biggest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century, killing about 800 people.

If you ask the public, 20,000 open acres in Salt Lake and Utah counties to be developed over the next 30 years should have:

• better roads and better public transportation;<br>• more compact, varied development and less suburban sprawl;<br>• recreation and open space beyond what is now planned;<br>• water-wise landscaping to save water and up to 30 percent electric cars to save the air;<br>• interconnected and vibrant urban areas with a range of entertainment options — not a regional sports complex or arena.

To anchor it all, they want a 700-acre “urban-style” retail and office center with nearby residences, along with a world-class university or research center presence on the site of the current state prison in Draper that will focus and supercharge economic growth.

And they want all of it even with a potential public investment of roughly $12 billion.

The commission created to draw up plans for the Point of the Mountain area between Sandy and Saratoga Springs, and Herriman to Lehi, agrees with the public.

The commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to endorse a development outline that includes all of those components and forward that blueprint to the governor, Legislature and local communities for further action, including funding the next stage of work on the proposal: identifying funding possibilities and planning for possible implementation.

A state lawmaker who is co-chairman of the commission said he was working on a bill to fund that next stage and a second bill that would create an independent authority to oversee how the former prison site is developed.

“It is my first priority,” said Rep. Lowry Snow, R-Santa Clara. “I think it’s going to work its way through and will be passed during the session.”

The plan endorsed Tuesday is a hybrid of five options announced in November.

Since then, the commission has gathered public input via workshops, an online survey and other public presentations. The public’s preferred plan is more or less a combination of the two most expensive scenarios — but also the two that are expected to attract the most jobs and generate the most tax and other revenue.

“We’ve made a very tangible recommendation of this as the strategy moving forward that will be best, not just what the public’s told us they want — we had to optimize what the public told us for the best economic outcome for the state,” Chris Conabee, the commission’s other co-chairman, said after the vote.

Among specific transportation proposals are a new north-south main road from Bangerter Highway in Draper to 2100 North in Lehi that will relieve traffic bottlenecks through the area on I-15, as well as new east-west roadways and bridges. Plans also call for extending and expanding TRAX and FrontRunner rail service and bus service to the area. As envisioned under that proposal, nearly seven out of 10 households in the area could be within half a mile of transit and FrontRunner daily ridership could quadruple.

At the heart of the plan is the mixed-use proposal for the state-owned prison property. A plan devised by design and planning firm HOK envisions a pedestrian-friendly development divided into districts for residences, offices, retail, a research facility, and light industry.

“The prison site is the crown jewel of what happens in that region,” said Robert Grow, CEO of Envision Utah, which developed the plans for the commission. He said the independent authority to oversee how the property is developed would coordinate among the eight cities, two counties and various transportation agencies that overlap the larger 20,000-acre project area.

San Vigilio di Marebbe, Italy • Diaper bags and baby backpacks are in just as much demand as skis, boots and poles on the U.S. Alpine team this season.

So is a good night's sleep.

Four members of the men's squad — two skiers and two coaches — welcomed newborns into their families in the offseason. Add in Andrew Weibrecht's daughter, Adalina, who was born two years ago, and it often makes the team hotel resemble a day care center.

"The team life is shifting gears," said Steven Nyman, the captain of the downhill squad.

Nyman's girlfriend, Charlotte Moats, gave birth to the couple's first daughter, Nell, in June. Also that month, Ted Ligety's wife, Mia, had a son named Jax.

Giacomo, the third child of head coach Sasha Rearick, and Trudi Anne, the daughter of tech coach Forest Carey, were also born recently.

All four babies were born within about a month.

"It was funny last winter, all of the ladies were on tour and none of them were partying," Rearick said. "Nobody kind of knew and then near the end of the season everybody knew."

Now, it's like team parenting.

"That makes it easier actually in a sense that everyone is going through the same thing and you can share the stories and talk about how each other's babies are sleeping and all that stuff," Ligety said.

The biggest challenge for skiers bringing their families along to World Cup races in Europe is keeping them fresh amid all of the crying and midnight feedings.

"It's tough," Rearick said. "You do your work, you do your job and you come home when you want to support your wife, you want to take care of your child, but it's also the time where you have to really rest.

"In order to compete with the best you have to be super fresh in the mind and physically fit, and sleepness nights or even just a few hours in the afternoon where you would just lay low, it's easy to get distracted," the coach added.

At races, separate rooms are recommended for athletes and their families. Family members also will not be able to stay with the team during the Pyeongchang Olympics.

But the advantages of taking family members on the road far outweigh the disadvantages — especially for a team that competes so far from home for most of the season.

Nyman's daughter played a significant role during his recovery from left knee surgery entering this season.

"It's been awesome. Just watching her grow, watching her learn, being there with me. Helping me kind of throttle back down after I train," Nyman said. "I probably would have overtrained and pushed too much and wouldn't have been as far ahead now with my knee. So she's been a good regulator for me."

Not that there haven't been complications.

Like when Nyman's girlfriend and 6-month-old daughter had a connection canceled in Amsterdam following a trans-Atlantic flight and had to take a train to Munich instead.

"The travel was an extra 10 hours, which was too much," Nyman said. "But the kid actually stayed awake, which helped adapt with the time change."

At races, mothers observe the competition from the finish area with their babies in backpacks clothed in thick snowsuits — with plenty of equipment in tow.

"Just having a bag full of any-scenarios tools," Nyman said. "Got to be prepared and think ahead."

Hospitality tents can quickly turn into changing stations.

"Three wins deserves a screaming baby in the VIP tent," Nyman said in Val Gardena.

The Americans are not the only downhillers with babies or children.

Erik Guay of Canada, who won gold in super-G and silver in downhill at last season's world championships, has four daughters.

Peter Fill of Italy, the World Cup downhill champion the last two seasons, has boys named Leon and Noah.

"Since my boys were born I've skied faster," Fill said. "I'm not sure why but it has helped me a lot."

The Holladay Planning Commission plans to spend two more hours Tuesday going though a proposal for developing the old Cottonwood Mall site — capping the 16 hours it’s spent over the past two months — and then vote on a recommendation to the City Council.

That will start the process anew, with more public hearings and questions for the developers — including addressing topics beyond the scope of the Planning Commission, such as possible tax incentives.

The commission’s discussion will resume at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Holladay City Hall, 4580 S. 2300 East.

Tax rebates were part of a plan approved 10 years ago for a commercial-oriented development on the 57-acre site, with 90-foot buildings permitted through 70 percent of the property, except for a small residential area on the south end abutting an existing neighborhood.

That plan went nowhere as the world of malls changed after the Great Recession.

Now, Ivory Homes is looking to devote two-thirds of the site to residential development — a mixture of single-family homes, two- to three-story townhomes, four-story brownstones and apartments.

Woodbury Corp. would develop a mixed-use area on the corner of Highland Drive and Murray-Holladay Road. That complex would revolve around an envisioned 136-foot office tower, an architectural attraction intended to entice a top-flight company to town.

Developer Mack Woodbury said a smaller structure would not give the project the uniqueness it needs to succeed.

“If you try to bring in a marquee tenant, you don’t build a standard-form office building,” he said. “You need a building with prominence to attract that first tenant and have an anchor.”

But at the last meeting, as before, Holladay residents turned out en masse to oppose the proposed 136-foot height limit.

“This will be the hellhole of Holladay,” one man shouted as he stormed out of the meeting, angry he couldn’t speak about the evolving plan because the public-hearing portion of the Planning Commission’s proceedings was over.

“After 10 years of studying this property by [current owner] Howard Hughes Corp. and Woodbury, I’d put those two and their knowledge of what will work here over any heckling,” responded Ivory Homes President Chris Gamvroulas. “We have studied this to death.”

Nevertheless, comments by several Planning Commission members suggested the residents’ position has their support.

Commissioner Alyssa Lloyd wanted to see more retail outlets stretching south into the residential area, as in the original development plan.

“This is designated as a mixed-use, but I see it being housing and I don’t see a lot of mix in the use,” she said. “I’m trying to get to ‘yes’ [on a vote], but ‘yes’ doesn’t mean I’ll say ‘yes’ to what’s in front of me. As the community needs to give, you need to give. There could be less single-family residential.”

Added her colleague Marianne Hicks: “I don’t necessarily agree [with a staff report] that this proposal supports the Holladay general plan. … Where do we get our tax base if we lose this? Is it financially responsible?”

One commissioner not opposed to the requested 136-foot height, Jan Bradshaw, will be out of town for Tuesday’s vote.

The City Council is not compelled to go along with the commission’s recommendation and is free to accept, reject or modify arguments by both the public and the developers.

If the council approves a plan, individual components must go through the planning process to be finalized.

Why the next government shutdown could be more severe. Legislature opens with a “call to arms” against opiate manufacturers. Trib analysis: 92% of money donated to state lawmakers came from special interests.

Happy Tuesday. The federal government is open again after Congress passed a budget bill, but it’s really only temporary. We’ll be back facing another shutdown in 17 days since the stopgap bill only covers funding through Feb. 8, and with tensions already high, there’s another chance there could be another, more sustained closure. [Politico]

Topping the news: The 2018 Utah Legislature began Monday, giving lawmakers 45 days to work through more than 1,200 bills. House Speaker Greg Hughes opened the session with a “call to arms” against opiate manufacturers that have contributed to Utah’s opioid epidemic. [Trib] [DNews] [ABC4] [Fox13] [KSL]

-> A Salt Lake Tribune analysis showed that 92 percent of all money raised for members of the state Legislature in 2017 came from special-interest groups, which raises questions about who actually has influence over Utah lawmakers. [Trib]

-> Robert Gehrke gives his list of the top 25 power players in Utah politics. [Trib]

Tweets of the day: From @BenWinslow: “Person to me in a conversation: ‘The #utleg must be like summer camp for political nerds.’ Me: ‘Yeah … like summer camp.’“

-> From @MEPFuller: “Sen. Angus King quotes Mick Jagger. ‘You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.’ No, he did not sing it.”

-> From @kasie: “Has anyone asked @Oprah if this shutdown was a good idea?”

In other news: Utah Chief Justice Matthew Durrant in a Monday speech commended Utah lawmakers and courts for working together for judicial reform. [Trib] [DNews]

-> State Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, R-Clearfield, is sponsoring a bill that would stop Utah doctors from performing abortions that are sought because of a Down syndrome diagnosis. [Trib] [DNews] [ABC4] [KUTV] [Fox13] [KSL]

-> Gov. Gary Herbert and others are working to grow Utah’s tourism industry. Herbert is recommending lawmakers appropriate $22.5 million to the Tourism Marketing Performance Fund. [DNews]

-> The Point of the Mountain Development Commission was set to vote on a proposal Monday night that would create a game plan for managing population growth in Utah. [DNews]

-> Herriman High School students created a second student newspaper Monday after school administrators deleted a student article about the termination of a teacher for alleged misconduct. [Trib] [KUTV] [KSL]

-> A proposed bill that would have ignited a debate to replace Allosaurus with Utahraptor as the Utah state fossil has been called off. Revised legislation would now give Utahraptor the title of official state dinosaur. [Trib] [Fox13]

-> Pat Bagley compares the Utah Legislature to a dog park. [Trib]

Nationally: The House and the Senate passed a temporary spending bill Monday that would reopen the government and keep it running through Feb. 8. President Donald Trump signed the bill, ending the three-day government shutdown. [NYTimes]

-> The bill passed by Congress on Monday to end the government shutdown also provided for $31 billion in tax cuts. [NYTimes]

-> Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is facing backlash from his fellow Democrats because of his actions during the shutdown. [Politico]

-> Monday marked the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave women the right to get an abortion. [WaPost]

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Wouldn’t it be great if North Korea won a gold medal in the Winter Olympics? Maybe it would ratchet back some of the acrimony and saber-rattling roiling that part of the world.

Look, I’m no Pollyanna in rose-colored glasses. I know it’s naïve to think something as trivial as sports could actually begin to reshape world politics. No, wait. Does anybody remember ping-pong?

Scott Bell, West Jordan

Washington • If Mitt Romney wants a U.S. Senate seat, a new poll shows he’d be a shoo-in, grabbing 64 percent of the vote in Utah compared with 19 percent for Democrat Jenny Wilson.

A poll by The Salt Lake Tribune and the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics found that should Romney run, the Republican and former Massachusetts governor who now lives in Utah would handily win the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Orrin Hatch. Friends say he’s seriously considering a bid.

Some 85 percent of Republicans back Romney for the seat, as do 55 percent of voters who say they’re unaffiliated. Even 18 percent of Democrats say they’d support Romney.

“If Mitt Romney decides to enter this race, he’s going to be the next senator from Utah,” said Jason Perry, executive director of the Hinckley Institute. “Gold is the right label to give to the Romney name in Utah.”

Wilson, a Salt Lake County Council member, nabs 68 percent of Democrats but just 23 percent of unaffiliated voters and 2 percent of Republicans, the poll shows. Some 12 percent of voters overall are unsure if they’d pick Romney or Wilson.

Neither Wilson nor her campaign returned calls seeking comment. A Romney aide didn’t respond.

Longtime Utah pollster Dan Jones, who conducted the Tribune-Hinckley Institute survey, said Utahns are eager for Romney to decide whether he’s in, and if he is, he’ll be a solid candidate.

“He will be a tough campaigner, but a lot can happen at the convention, and he also has to get signatures,” Jones said. “He rides very, very high.”

Under current Utah law, candidates for public office in the state can go through their party’s convention process and win enough delegate support to get on the ballot or collect signatures, or both. A U.S. Senate candidate needs 28,000 signatures to qualify for the primary.

Jones said Wilson, too, will “work hard as a campaigner,” and she also may get a boost from family name recognition. Her father, Ted Wilson, is a former Salt Lake City mayor who also ran for the Senate and for governor.

The statewide poll, conducted Jan. 15-18 among 803 registered voters, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

The government again has broken faith with the Native American people. The creation of the Bears Ears National Monument was a promise by the government to protect Native American sacred sites and archaeology treasures. The government broke this promise when it split the national monument into two small areas.

Donald Trump, Ryan Zinke, Orrin Hatch, Gary Herbert and many other government officials can add their names to the list of government officials in American history who have broken their treaties and promises to the native people. Any time the Indians have been in the way of the white man making money, the Indians have lost.

Seymour Winter, Bountiful

There seems to be some confusion among our people about what our government is for. Surprising, given the clear statement in the preamble to the Constitution.

Some like to point out James Madison’s qualms about the general welfare clause. The salient point about him and all the other founders is that they signed the Constitution we have despite their qualms, thereby making it the law of the land. Government actions regarding the general welfare include regulations to protect public health and bureaus to write and enforce them. The social safety net includes Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

These are among the obvious but controversial provisions favoring the public welfare.

Some object that they don’t want to pay for other people’s insurance. This betrays a stunning failure to understand the very nature of insurance: People pool their funds to protect each other from various misfortunes. In other words, all insurance makes its subscribers pay for each other’s coverage. What should be a self-evident truth about insurance is that the larger the pool the better and less expensive, per person, the coverage. This, and the fact that we are all at risk, is the primary reason that health insurance should be a function of the government. After all, there is no larger pool than the population of the country and no private company can gather us all together like the government can.

Some like to argue that competition between private companies lowers costs and improves performance. That must be the reason that health care costs in the U.S. are among the highest in the world. In any case, there is no reason that health care wouldn’t improve under government supervision if regulations encourage it.

Robert Brossard, Salt Lake City

Shurtleff, Swallow, Johnson, Koerber, Lyman, Oregon Wetlands Preserve occupiers, the Bundys and a seemingly unending list of corrupt politicians, financial scammers and criminal right-wing whack jobs just walk away whistling with a sneer on their face.

Come on, Utah, and other U.S. attorneys. You might be able to indict a ham sandwich, but it seems you sure as heck can’t convict one. Get it together. You are not politicians. Do the people’s work. Do your job.

Steve Russell, Moab

I agree with Deanna Browning (“Trump’s Tweets,” Jan. 8) that our president sends his points of view out to the nation via his tweets. I do not agree with her calling those points of view “truth.”

Trump definitely lets us know of his biases against women, minorities, immigrants, the press, the poor and people who will be losing their health care. He lets us know of his hostility toward anyone who has a different lifestyle or who dares disagree with him. And he terrifies us by letting us know of his naive indifference to the genuine dangers of nuclear war that his childish rants escalate.

“Most of us” (Browning’s phrase), more than 70 percent by most polls — do in fact think him unprofessional and most of us would not even remotely call his tweets “truth.”

Sharon Rishe, Millcreek

Nick Rimando has re-signed with Real Salt Lake.

The team made it official Tuesday, announcing Rimando’s new multiyear contract before the team’s first full preseason training session Tuesday morning. RSL did not disclose the terms of the deal.

“I couldn’t be happier continuing my career with Real,” Rimando said in a team release. “This is home, and I couldn’t fathom leaving this club that means so much to me. I was here in the glory days and want to help bring this club back where it belongs. I’m excited to get the season started. We have the coaches, players and potential to do big things.”

Rimando, 38, began talks with RSL before the end of the 2017 season and entered free agency in the offseason. The team’s general manager, Craig Waibel, told The Salt Lake Tribune last month that he was “extremely confident” negotiations with Rimando would reach a “positive outcome,” but it took until this week for those expectations to come to fruition.

Over the course of his 17-year MLS career, Rimando has already set the all-time goalkeeping records for saves (1,527), shutouts (137), wins (196), starts (452) and minutes (40,801).

Real Salt Lake originally acquired Rimando, along with Freddy Adu, in a trade with D.C. United in December 2006. Two months later, RSL traded Rimando to the New York Red Bulls, and then quickly brought him back when Scott Garlik retired ahead of the 2007 season.

That fateful offseason movement gave Real Salt Lake a franchise player who is entering his 12th season with RSL. With Rimando between the goalposts, RSL won the 2009 MLS Cup and reached the finals in the 2010-11 CONCACAF Champions League, 2013 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup and 2013 MLS Cup .

Both of those MLS Cups, as well as the 2009 Eastern Conference Final, were decided in penalty kicks, and RSL had the king of PKs in goal. Rimando, who has allowed just 51 goals in 81 penalty kick attempts all-time, made three saves in the conference final shootout and two in the Cup to claim the 2009 title. He was named MLS Cup MVP.

Four years later, the MLS Cup between RSL and Sporting Kansas City came down to a 10-round penalty kick shootout, the longest in MLS postseason history at the time. After RSL fell behind 2-0 in PKs, Rimando made a heroic save on Matt Besler’s attempt. But it wouldn’t be enough. SKC won the shootout 7-6.

“He’s the best goalkeeper in the history of the league,” RSL coach Mike Petke said in the release. “Playing with him in D.C. and winning a championship and seeing those special qualities — he has single-handedly embraced and [taken] that position and become the best goalkeeper in our league’s history. I am extremely ecstatic to have him back. When you take his veteran leadership and his experience, for me it’s vital.”

The six-time MLS All-Star has also earned 22 caps and kept five clean sheets for the United States national team. He continues to be a consistent call-up for the U.S. for important matches. Rimando served as the third-string goalkeeper in World Cup qualifiers this past fall.

The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards broke more than a few long-standing conventions.

One of the biggest surprises in Tuesday’s nominations announcement was the embrace of genre films — most notably the fantasy romance “The Shape of Water,” the story of a love between a mute woman and an aquatic creature, which led all nominations with 13.

Another genre movie, the racially charged horror thriller “Get Out,” cracked into four of the major categories, including Best Picture, directing and original screenplay nods for Jordan Peele, and a lead-actor nomination for Daniel Kaluuya. Peele becomes the first African American to be nominated for producing, directing and writing a movie.

Among the leading recipients of nominations: the World War II spectacle “Dunkirk,” with eight; the small-town drama “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” with seven; and the Winston Churchill biography “Darkest Hour” and the 1950s psychological drama “Phantom Thread,” with six each.

Vying for Best Picture along with “Darkest Hour,” Dunkirk,” “Get Out,” “Phantom Thread,” “The Shape of Water” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” are the summer romance “Call Me by Your Name,” the mother-daughter comedy-drama “Lady Bird” and the ’70s newspaper drama “The Post.”

“The Post” yielded Meryl Streep her record 21st nomination for her portrayal of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham. Streep’s fellow nominees in the actress in a leading role category are Sally Hawkins as the mute woman in “The Shape of Water,” Frances McDormand as an angry and grief-stricken woman in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Margot Robbie as figure skater Tonya Harding in “I, Tonya” and Saoirse Ronan as a defiant high-school student in “Lady Bird.”

Competing for best actor in a leading role are Timothée Chalamet as a teen finding first love in “Call Me by Your Name,” Daniel Day-Lewis as a driven fashion designer in “Phantom Thread,” Daniel Kaluuya as a man sucked into a horrific situation in “Get Out,” Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill in “Darkest Hour” and Denzel Washington as a flamboyant attorney in “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”

The race for directing yields two rarities: “Lady Bird’s” Greta Gerwig becomes only the fifth woman nominated in the category, while Peele, for “Get Out,” is the fifth man of African descent to be so honored.

Another major first: Rachel Morrison became the first woman ever nominated for cinematography, for her work in “Mudbound.” That movie, which was seen on Netflix far more than it was in theaters, received four nominations, notably a supporting-actress nod for Mary J. Blige.

There were some notable omissions from the Academy Award nominations. Golden Globe winner James Franco was not nominated for his performance in “The Disaster Artist.” A concerted campaign to get Andy Serkis (who helped announce the nominations) a nod for his performance-capture work in “War for the Planet of the Apes” went for naught. And one of 2017’s best superhero movies, “Wonder Woman,” received zero nominations.

The 90th Academy Awards will be handed out Sunday, March 4, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, in a ceremony to be broadcast on ABC (KTVX, Ch. 4, in Salt Lake City). Jimmy Kimmel will return as host.

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Here are the nominees for the 90th Academy Awards:

Best picture • “Call Me by Your Name,” “Darkest Hour,” “Dunkirk,” “Get Out,“ “Lady Bird,” “Phantom Thread,” “The Post,” “The Shape of Water,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

Directing • Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk”; Jordan Peele, “Get Out”; Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”; Paul Thomas Anderson, “Phantom Thread”; Guillermo Del Toro, “The Shape of Water.”

Actress in a leading role • Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water”; Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”; Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”; Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”; Meryl Streep, “The Post.”

Actor in a leading role • Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name”; Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread”; Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”; Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”; Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”

Actress in a supporting role • Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”; Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”; Lesley Manville, “Phantom Thread”; Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”; Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water.”

Actor in a supporting role • Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”; Woody Harrelson, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”; Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”; Christopher Plummer, “All The Money in the World”; Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

Writing (original screenplay) • Kumail Nanjiani & Emily V. Gordon, “The Big Sick”; Jordan Peele, “Get Out”; Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”; Guillermo Del Toro & Vanessa Taylor, “The Shape of Water”; Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

Writing (adapted screenplay) • James Ivory, “Call Me by Your Name”; Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, “The Disaster Artist”; Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green, “Logan”; Aaron Sorkin, “Molly’s Game”; Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, “Mudbound.”

Animated feature film • “The Boss Baby,” “The Breadwinner,” “Coco,” “Ferdinand,” “Loving Vincent.”

Music (original song) • “Mighty River” (from “Mudbound”), “Mystery of Love” (from “Call Me by Your Name”), “Remember Me” (from “Coco”), “Stand Up for Something” (from “Marshall”), “This Is Me” (from “The Greatest Showman”).

Documentary (feature) • “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” “Faces Places,” “Icarus,” “Last Men In Aleppo,” “Strong Island.”

Documentary (short subject) * “Edith + Eddie,” “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405,” “Heroin(e),” “Knife Skills,” “Traffic Stop.”

Foreign language film • “A Fantastic Woman” (Chile), “The Insult” (Lebanon), “Loveless” (Russia), “On Body and Soul” (Hungary), “The Square” (Sweden).

Makeup and hairstyling • “Darkest Hour,” “Victoria and Abdul,” “Wonder.”

Film editing * “Baby Driver,” “Dunkirk,“ “I, Tonya,” “The Shape of Water,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

Visual effects • “Blade Runner 2049,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” “Kong: Skull Island,” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” “War for the Planet of the Apes.”

Music (original score) • “Dunkirk,” “Phantom Thread,” “The Shape of Water,” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

Short film (live action) • “DeKalb Elementary,” “The Eleven O’Clock,” “My Nephew Emmett,” “The Silent Child,” “Watu Wote/All Of Us.”

Short film (animated) • “Dear Basketball,” “Garden Party,” “Lou,” “Negative Space,” “Revolting Rhymes.”

Sound mixing • “Baby Driver,” “Blade Runner 2049,” “Dunkirk,” “The Shape of Water,” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.”

Sound editing • “Baby Driver,” “Blade Runner 2049,” “Dunkirk,” “The Shape of Water,” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.”

Costume design • “Beauty and the Beast,” “Darkest Hour,” “Phantom Thread,” “The Shape of Water,” “Victoria and Abdul.”

Cinematography • “Blade Runner 2049,” “Darkest Hour,” “Dunkirk,” “Mudbound,” “The Shape of Water.”

Production design • “Beauty and the Beast,” “Blade Runner 2049,” “Darkest Hour,” “Dunkirk,” “The Shape of Water.”