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• Bob Garff, auto exec and former Utah House speaker, dies of the coronavirus

  29-03-2020 23:57
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.State Republican Rep. Melissa Ballard posted on her Facebook page that her father, Robert H. Garff, died from the coronavirus Sunday.Garff, who was 78, was a prominent Utah businessman and chairman of the Ken Garff Automotive Group
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Some bright spots for the Utah Jazz

  29-03-2020 22:40 via sportspyder.com
  
  There are some happy things going on with the Utah Jazz while the coronavirus pandemic continues
  
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• Salt Lake County issues new stay-at-home order, closing some businesses; Utah’s coronavirus cases now at 719

  29-03-2020 22:39
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Salt Lake County has issued its version of a stay-at-home order and it forcibly closes more businesses, such as barbers, salons and tattoo parlors. The move came the same day Utah’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 reached 719 &md
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - The Utah Jazz should retire Deron Williams’ No. 8 jersey

  29-03-2020 22:04 via sportspyder.com
  
  Take a good, hard look at the list of players who’ve played for the Utah Jazz, and few names will be as polarizing as that of Deron Williams. Still, give...
  
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• The Utah Jazz should retire Deron Williams’ No. 8 jersey

  29-03-2020 21:47
  
  Take a good, hard look at the list of players who’ve played for the Utah Jazz, and few names will be as polarizing as that of Deron Williams. Still, given Williams’ impressive on-court play, his No.8 jersey should be retired in the coming years. Should the Utah Jazz randomly decide to hold some sort of […]
  The Utah Jazz should retire Deron Williams’ No. 8 jersey - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Paul Krugman: COVID-19 virus brings out all the usual zombies

  29-03-2020 21:18
  
  Let me summarize the Trump administration/right-wing media view on the coronavirus: It’s a hoax, or anyway no big deal. Besides, trying to do anything about it would destroy the economy. And it’s China’s fault, which is why we should call it the “Chinese virus.”Oh, and epidemiologists who have been modeling the virus’s future spread have come under sustained attack, accused of being part of a “deep state” plot against Donald Trump, or maybe free ma
  
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• Up to 200K U.S. deaths foreseen as more cities are struck by the coronavirus

  29-03-2020 21:09
  
  New York • The coronavirus outbreak could kill 100,000 to 200,000 Americans, the U.S. government’s top infectious-disease expert warned on Sunday as smoldering hotspots in nursing homes and a growing list of stricken cities heightened the sense of dread across the country.Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, made the dire prediction of fatalities on CNN, adding that millions in the U.S. could become infected.By midafternoon, the U.S
  
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• Coronavirus cases in Utah now at 719, no new deaths

  29-03-2020 20:29
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Utah now has 719 confirmed cases of COVID-19 — up 117 from the previous day. The state’s death count remains at two.It is the second day in a row where the case count grew by more than 100.Salt Lake County jumped to 324
  
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• Jim Robbins: Yellowstone becomes a natural classroom, run by wolves

  29-03-2020 20:00
  
  Twenty-five years ago this month, 14 wolves from Canada were released into an ocean of elk on the rugged sweep of sagebrush steppe and pine forest of Yellowstone National Park to see what would happen.The new wolves immediately set to out doing what they do best, hunting prey. What has unfolded since is a remarkable, continuing ecological and social drama that has changed the way biologists think about predators and the animals they stalk. It has also transformed parts of the nation’s olde
  
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• Citing coronavirus, judge orders efforts to release migrant children

  29-03-2020 19:26
  
  Los Angeles • Concerned that thousands of migrant children in federal detention facilities could be in danger of contracting the coronavirus, a federal judge in Los Angeles late Saturday ordered the government to “make continuous efforts” to release them from custody.The order from Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court came after plaintiffs in a long-running case over the detention of migrant children cited reports that four children being held at a federally licensed shelt
  
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• Ross Douthat: With coronavirus, reasonable panic and reasonable hopes

  29-03-2020 18:17
  
  For far too long, America’s response to the coronavirus lacked what you might call rational panic. From the experts to the markets to the president and his cable-television court, an irrational calm prevailed when a general freak-out might have prepared us for the crisis.Today, at last, we have panic in surplus — however unevenly distributed and still-insufficient in some places. But now we need something else to leaven it: Along with rational panic, we need sources of rational hope.
  
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• Tunes cheer Jackson Hole seniors isolated by coronavirus

  29-03-2020 17:44
  
  JACKSON, Wyo. • Locals out for an early afternoon stroll gravitated towards the amplified sound of Peter Keenan’s voice and nylon-string guitar as it bounced off the glass and wood of Legacy Lodge at Jackson Hole and echoed into the valley.A crowd of impromptu onlookers gathered, with their bikes and strollers, on a recent morning to watch the young father and Lower Valley Energy engineer play through classic folk, jam, country and rock tunes for residents of the independent- and assi
  
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• What Utah streets look like when everyone stays home

  29-03-2020 17:05
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Shops shuttered. Street traffic reduced to just a trickle. Workers sent home.Life in much of Utah has slowed considerably as people respond to the pleas of public health officials to self isolate.Photographers with The Salt Lake Tr
  
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• Robert Kirby: Homesickness no longer a missionary problem

  29-03-2020 16:16
  
  From experience, I can tell you that being called to serve a Latter-day Saint mission 50 years ago was a lot like getting drafted — physicals, interviews, paperwork, orders to report for training and a mandatory dress code.Arriving at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, was a lot less stressful on me than the then-Language Training Mission in Provo, Utah. Vietnam was still a factor in 1971, but worrying about getting killed was a mere vague concern, whereas wishing I was dead on my mission wasn&
  
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• Maureen Dowd: Andrew Cuomo is out to kick coronavirus’ ass

  29-03-2020 16:16
  
  Washington • It’s no wonder that watching Andrew Cuomo’s daily briefings can make some people crave Chianti and meatballs.Besides coolly explaining the facts in this terrifying and stultifying plague season, the governor of New York evokes the feeling of a big Italian family dinner table.And that is the intended effect.“Call it psychological,” Gov. Cuomo, phoning from Albany, tells me. “Call it feelings. Call it emotions. But this is as much a social crisis as
  
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• Here’s what it’s like to be in Utah prisons during the coronavirus pandemic

  29-03-2020 16:05
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.As David sits in a prison cell in Gunnison, he worries about what would happen if COVID-19 spreads within these thick concrete walls.Like so many others, he’s scared of the coronavirus — and doesn’t believe enough
  
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• What if Utahns had a few seconds’ warning before an earthquake? Technology may make it possible — and save lives.

  29-03-2020 16:04
  
  No one can predict earthquakes, but what if cities in seismically unstable regions could receive advance notice of a major temblor’s shock waves? Could a few seconds’ warning save lives or reduce damage?We soon may find out.The technology exists and is being deployed along the West Coast, where 50 million people inhabit a region that could get a magnitude 8 or 9 quake. With far few people and a smaller seismic risk, Utah is next in line to get ShakeAlert, an early warning system deve
  
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• Child care providers struggle to stay open as Utah health officials try to slow spread of coronavirus

  29-03-2020 16:04
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here.On a typical day, Monica Miles sees roughly 50 kids at The Buddy Bin, a child care center in North Salt Lake. But lately, as Utahns grapple with the spread of coronavirus, that number has dwindled down to about a dozen.“It’s been challenging, very challenging,” said Miles, director at The Buddy
  
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• Are Utah hospitals ready for coronavirus? Here’s why we don’t know.

  29-03-2020 16:03
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.In Seattle, hospital workers tied bandanas around their faces to protect themselves from the coronavirus because they didn’t have enough masks.In Italy, doctors were ordered to take ventilators away from patients who were fig
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: I’ve been writing about TV for 30 years, and I’m not done yet

  29-03-2020 14:00
  
  When I was 29 (almost 30), I got my dream job — television critic! A job I’d been inadvertently training for all my life by watching way too much TV.Now I’m 59 (almost old enough for special grocery store shopping hours), and I’m still writing about TV. It’s still my dream job. And on Tuesday, it will be 30 years since I began.Three decades is a little bit more than half my life. It’s also an eon in TV time. In 1990, almost everybody was watching the three maj
  
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• Plan B has ‘The Audacity’ to produce a play despite the coronavirus crisis. It’s online.

  29-03-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Plan B Theatre’s new production about three strong, Utah pioneer women will go on … not exactly as scheduled, because of the coronavirus. But it will go on, online.And only because “The Audacity” is a one-a
  
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• Letter: Trump must be impeached

  29-03-2020 14:00
  
  Events of today make it clear to me that the Republicans in Congress must draw up articles of impeachment to have President Trump removed from office as soon as possible.Millions of lives are at stake. The world economy is at stake. Our democracy is at stake.An insane narcissist stands in the way of our future and must be removed. We know that the Democrats can't do this alone. The election in November will be too late.Sen. Mitch McConnell must act now for the good of this country.Douglas Thomps
  
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• Letter: Trump is what happened to us

  29-03-2020 14:00
  
  In response to James Carroll’s March 22 letter to The Public Forum, “What happened to us?”We elected a second-rate reality-show hack and failed businessman to lead our country. That's what happened. In times of crisis, like now being the foremost crisis of our lifetimes, we needcompetent and reassuring leadership. Instead, we have the opposite — a man-baby narcissist only caring for himself who puts our nation in grave danger and utterly fails to protect American citizens
  
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• Letter: The reporters remain invisible

  29-03-2020 14:00
  
  I find it extremely ironic that, with the sports section on a forced diet, photos of the sportswriters are printed daily. Meanwhile, the folks writing stories that actually affect your readers’ daily lives remain invisible.You publish proudly every day that you’ve won the Pulitzer Prize, yet the folks who earned that prize are faceless.I get it that it is a “tradition” to print sportswriters’ photos, but I won’t insult your intelligence to point out many examp
  
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• Letter: Press pause on mortgages

  29-03-2020 14:00
  
  I am a small business owner, a mother, a wife, a daughter of elderly parents and a very concerned citizen.We had to recently close our café (along with thousands across the country) as was ordered by the Health Department, and because it was the right thing to do to help flatten the coronavirus curve. We are now doing our best to weather this storm.I would feel some relief if there was a focus on how to press pause on my mortgage until we're on the other side of this dangerous pandemic. M
  
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• Letter: Have we learned the lessons of Italy?

  29-03-2020 14:00
  
  Last week I was impressed with the way the state of Utah showed leadership and collaboration to get ahead of the spread of COVID-19. Now I am less clear.I wonder if Gov. Gary Herbert is watching the analysis of the missteps in Italy, including being late to the game to "shelter in place," and the resulting soar in the death rate?State epidemiologist Angela Dunn points to China for us to understand timelines and outcomes, but we are not acting as aggressively as did China.In what ways is Utah act
  
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• Letter: Don’t need the money? Pass it along.

  29-03-2020 14:00
  
  I just read a letter to The Public Forum from Roger Edwards, who writes that, as a comfortable retiree, he does not need a check from the government and he doubts that many others in the country will need such a check as well.As a comfortable retiree myself, I am planning to distribute any monies that I receive from the government to those around me who are struggling financially and to the small businesses that I patronize.Maybe this is something that those of us more fortunate citizens could d
  
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• Brodi Ashton: This is what happened when I got tested for COVID-19

  29-03-2020 14:00
  
  It started with a cough, and then my lungs felt heavy (I have asthma, so that may have exacerbated it) and then my body ached. The doctor told me I didn’t qualify for a test, but she gave me a breathing treatment and told me to self-isolate.Two days later, I had a fever of 102.3. It stayed with me all day and night.My worried mom called to say she’d done some research. She’s a bit of a Luddite, so I assumed she went to the library and looked in the card catalogue under “l
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: What book should I read while quarantined?

  29-03-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • You are a writer and a lover of literature. Can you give us a suggested reading list of books to read while in isolation?— Avid ReaderDear Avid Reader • Thanks for this excellent and timely question. I passed it along to the booksellers at The King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, and here are their recommendations:Betsy Burton • “Deacon King Kong” by James McBride. Sportcoat, an aging sot from the Brooklyn Projects, shoots a baseball
  
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• Knicks owner James Dolan has tested positive for the coronavirus

  29-03-2020 07:00
  
  James Dolan, the executive chairman of Madison Square Garden Company and owner of the New York Knicks, has tested positive for the coronavirus.The Knicks announced Dolan’s diagnosis Saturday night. It is not clear when he was tested or when he received the diagnosis.Dolan is the first U.S. major pro sports owner known to have tested positive for the virus. He also owns the NHL’s New York Rangers, along with other venues like Radio City Music Hall, The Hulu Theatre and The Chicago The
  
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• [Deseret News] - Utah Jazz fans share their favorite moments of the season in special edition of Jazz Mailbag

  29-03-2020 06:25 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — This week in addition to sending me questions I asked for everyone to send me their favorite moments from this season and you delivered. So, instead of answering questions, I...
  
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• Trumps says no quarantine, but travel advisory for New York, Connecticut and New Jersey

  29-03-2020 05:14
  
  Norfolk, Va. • President Donald Trump backed away from calling for a quarantine for coronavirus hotspots in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, instead directing Saturday night that a “strong Travel Advisory” be issued to stem the spread of the outbreak.Vice President Mike Pence tweeted that the CDC was urging residents of the three states “to refrain from non-essential travel for the next 14 days.”The notion of a quarantine had been advocated by governors, includi
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, March 28: Rep. Ben McAdams released from the hospital; Davis County offers new age data

  29-03-2020 04:04
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, March 28. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---8 p.m.: Davis County releases new data, shows differences by ageA new
  
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