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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, March 31: Utah records fifth death, cases now at 887; University of Utah to study how mucus spreads the virus.

  31-03-2020 23:30
  
  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 Tuesday, March 31. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----3:30 p.m.: Utah restaurants can repackage and resell foods for 30 days
  
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• Andy Larsen: Estimating coronavirus deaths in Utah and elsewhere? Here’s what experts say and why they may be off.

  31-03-2020 23:22
  
  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.When trying to wrap your head around the coronavirus and how it spreads, it’s helpful to reimagine it as a secret so explosive that you can’t keep it to yourself.Let’s say you know something scandalous, so you tel
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, March 31: Utah records fifth coronavirus death, cases now up to 887; state highways are half empty.

  31-03-2020 22:42
  
  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 Tuesday, March 31. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----2:42 p.m. Utah Arts Festival if off for 2020One of Utah’s larges
  
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• [The Score] - NBA title odds: Which teams would benefit, suffer from a layoff?

  31-03-2020 22:41 via sportspyder.com
  
  Find line reports, best bets, and subscribe to push notifications in the Betting News section.Roughly three weeks ago, the NBA put the season on hold due to COVID-19. All those win totals, title bets, and futures placed before the year will likely...
  
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• With loans and landlord’s help, Ken Sanders’ Salt Lake City bookstore gets a reprieve amid coronavirus crisis

  31-03-2020 22:33
  
  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 City’s small business owners whose finances have been temporarily wrecked by the coronavirus crisis, take heart.The owner and namesake of downtown’s Ken Sanders Rare Books said Tuesday that through a combinati
  
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• Tell The Tribune: Are you recovering from addiction and struggling with self-isolation?

  31-03-2020 22:33
  
  The coronavirus outbreak has sequestered most people to their homes, but for some, being stuck inside can still put them at risk, including those who are recovering from addiction and relying on in-person group meetings to help them stay sober. The Salt Lake Tribune wants to know if you’re facing those problems and how you’re coping. Your responses won’t be published without your permission, and we can protect your identity if necessary. A reporter from The Salt Lake Tribune mi
  
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• COVID-19 throws recruiting process, for Utah and everybody else, into disarray

  31-03-2020 22:20
  
  The college sports world had already come to a complete and absolute stoppage when the NCAA decided to take a radical, but necessary step to keep everyone safe as COVID-19 pandemic fears were still rising.On March 13, the college sports governing body instituted a recruiting dead period for in-person recruiting through April 15. That meant no face-to-face recruiting on or off campus, although phone calls, texting and video conferencing remain permissible.The NCAA’s Division I Council has n
  
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• Calls mount to close Grand Canyon after resident gets virus

  31-03-2020 22:16
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Calls mounted Tuesday for the federal government to close Grand Canyon National Park after the popular tourist destination saw its first case of the coronavirus in a hospitality worker.The man who tested positive for COVID-19 lived at a dorm in Grand Canyon Village within the park and worked at one of the lodges run by a park concessionaire, said Glen White, a spokesman for park concessionaire Delaware North. The man has been in isolation for several days.Members of Congr
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, March 31: Utah records fifth coronavirus death, cases now up to 887; Housing advocates urge help when rent comes due.

  31-03-2020 22:03
  
  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.It’s Tuesday, March 31. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----2:00 p.m.: Housing advocates urge landlords to give tenants a breakAs
  
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• Theodore G. Liou: It takes time to develop a new medicine

  31-03-2020 22:00
  
  Rapidly fatal pneumonia due to COVID-19 confronts us with an expanding pandemic for which we have no vaccination and no direct treatment. Thousands are dead, and many more would be lost without heroic ongoing efforts to support patients through respiratory failure and allow time for recovery.The rapidly mounting tragedies strike not only the infirm and elderly but an increasing number of healthy younger individuals, and they plead for immediately available specifically effective therapies. In re
  
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• ‘Parents kind of weird’? ‘No toilet paper here?’ Those aren’t the lyrics of popular LDS hymns, but some sing them that way.

  31-03-2020 22:00
  
  What youngsters, after singing “I Am a Child of God” in Primary class, haven’t wondered why Jesus gave them “parents kind of weird”?Or, after hearing the hymn “Love One Another,” wondered what the heck is a “shallmenno?”These, of course, are not the real words sung to tunes in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But they are some of the most common — and funniest — misheard lyrics of the faith.Several months ago we as
  
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• Congress weighs another round of stimulus in face of coronavirus outbreak

  31-03-2020 21:53
  
  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.Washington • Pump billions into rebuilding roads and bridges, fixing sewer systems and adding mass transit.Repeal limits on deducting state and local taxes on your federal income tax forms.Or, wait, and do nothing — for
  
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• Central Utah just reported its first coronavirus case, but the area has succeeded so far in keeping coronavirus in check

  31-03-2020 21:42
  
  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.Jon Sabala’s motel and three restaurants in Torrey normally would be open by this time of year, lodging and feeding tourists coming to Capitol Reef National Park.The businesses are closed not necessarily because of what&rsquo
  
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• Utah State’s Sam Merrill, BYU’s Yoeli Childs earn Senior CLASS All-America honors

  31-03-2020 21:27
  
  Sam Merrill’s heroics secured a win in the Mountain West Conference Tournament for the Utah State men’s basketball team. On Tuesday, he received an accolade not only for his athletic performance, but also his academics.Merrill was named a Senior CLASS First-Team All-American. CLASS is an acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School. The award recognizes student athletes who use their platforms making a positive impact in their respective communities.Merrill l
  
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• [CBS Sports] - The 2019-20 Utah Jazz are a mystery that may never be solved - CBSSports.com

  31-03-2020 21:11 via sportspyder.com
  
  The playoffs are now in jeopardy, and they were supposed to be particularly revealing for Utah
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, March 31: Utah records fifth coronavirus death, cases now up to 887

  31-03-2020 20:59
  
  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 Tuesday, March 31. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----12:38 p.m.: Five Utahns have now died from the coronavirus amid 887 co
  
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• [Deseret News] - How will NBA players deal with the physical toll of returning to the court?

  31-03-2020 20:43 via sportspyder.com
  
  Before teams can even begin to consider getting back on the court, the physical ramifications of an abrupt and prolonged stop to the season will have to be addressed.
  
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• Staying connected with his players and staff is Utah State football coach Gary Andersen’s top priority during COVID-19

  31-03-2020 20:25
  
  Spring football for the Utah State Aggies had just gotten going. Spirits were high. There was an important competition going on for the starting quarterback spot.But just two days into practices, on March 11, the entire sports landscape started to change. Leagues far and wide announced suspensions and cancelations due to the wide spread of COVID-19.Gary Andersen was busy coaching his players, but was also aware of all that was going on outside the confines of Maverik Stadium in Logan. As practic
  
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• Gerald Elias: Building a community through writing

  31-03-2020 20:19
  
  You try to keep busy. You try to stay positive. But after a period of extended confinement, on any level, it’s easy to become bored and dispirited. No restaurants, no shopping, no sporting events. No work! What to do?I consider myself lucky. My cupboard is well-stocked and I’m comfortable with a lot of alone time. Writing. Practicing the violin. Watching the news on PBS, mysteries on Netflix. Cooking. I’ve been doing all those things for years. I try to avoid too much thumb twi
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Jordan Clarkson dishes on new ink, wine on Drive & Dish

  31-03-2020 20:14 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson provided a few updates, showed of his new tattoo and talked wine on Georges Niang's Drive & Dish. It's been 20 days...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Jordan Clarkson dishes on new ink, wine on Drive & Dish

  31-03-2020 19:50
  
  Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson provided a few updates, showed of his new tattoo and talked wine on Georges Niang’s Drive & Dish. It’s been 20 days without any NBA or Utah Jazz basketball. 20 days. It’s felt like an eternity, right? During these tough times, fans have been desperate to see their players back […]
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, March 31: Former National Guard head will lead Utah’s response to virus; liquor store sales are soaring

  31-03-2020 19:50
  
  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 Tuesday, March 31. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----11:48 a.m.: Liquor store sales shoot up by 32% in two weeks, but resta
  
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• BYU senior forward Yoeli Childs earns Senior CLASS honors, named to the All-America second-team

  31-03-2020 19:44
  
  While Yoeli Childs missed nearly half of the BYU Cougars men’s basketball games this season — he served a nine-game suspension at the start of the season and then was sidelined four games with an injury — the senior was still a major contributor when he was able to be on the court. And is continuing to be recognized for it.Childs has been named to the All-America Second Team by CLASS — which stands for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School. The Senior
  
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• [Larry Brown Sports] - Donovan Mitchell impressed by Gilbert Arenas, Bradley Beal backcourt

  31-03-2020 19:42 via sportspyder.com
  
  One of the ways sports fans are trying to pass the time during the coronavirus outbreak is with hypothetical debates, and Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell got in on the fun this week. NBA Central tweeted a graphic that featured four past-present...
  
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• Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signs bills meant to curb youth vaping

  31-03-2020 19:40
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert has put his signature on a pair of bills to tax and regulate e-cigarettes, measures that were designed to prevent youth vaping but didn’t go as far as some health advocates would’ve liked.One of the bills will impose a new 56% tax on electronic cigarettes at the wholesale level, generating an estimated $24 million in annual revenue for education and enforcement efforts on vaping. The second will take most flavored e-cigarettes out of convenience stores and restrict
  
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• Biden faces a cash gap with Trump. He has to close it virtually.

  31-03-2020 19:35
  
  Joe Biden is working the phones with top donors while cloistered in his Delaware home. His digital team is searching for the right tone to ask small contributors for cash during the sharpest economic downturn in their lifetimes. And his finance operation is plotting how to keep the checks coming when catered parties for big contributors are on hold — indefinitely.Top Biden fundraisers and donors, as well as campaign, super PAC and Democratic Party officials, described urgent efforts to rei
  
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• [NBA] - Georges Niang's Drive & Dish: Jordan Clarkson shows off a new tattoo, talks fine wine, and shares thoughts on Utah

  31-03-2020 19:08 via sportspyder.com
  
  When the guys in the Utah Jazz locker room need a laugh, Georges Niang always quick with a joke.“Sometimes during this hectic season, this hectic life, some people take themselves too seriously,” the
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Royce O’Neale’s three-point dip post-extension

  31-03-2020 19:03 via sportspyder.com
  
  Making three-pointers is one of the two most important things Utah Jazz forward Royce O'Neale has to do for the team. After signing a contract extension in...
  
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• Gordon Monson: All the cathedrals are empty, but we can power on

  31-03-2020 18:54
  
  In this virus era, everybody’s looking for ways to stay safe and stay sane.To take COVID-19 seriously, but also maybe to laugh a little.They’re — we’re — searching for ways to stand six feet apart, yet hang together.The problem with that is, as folks physically isolate, they — you — tend to isolate mentally and psychologically, too, especially in an environment where there is a complete lack of control, or at least a sense of that. And it’s real. R
  
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• [Deseret News] - Donovan Mitchell reportedly will play in NBA 2K tournament to air on ESPN

  31-03-2020 18:54 via sportspyder.com
  
  Ever since the NBA was shut down on March 11 after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a bunch of players, including Gobert’s Jazz teammate Donovan Mitchell...
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - All about Jordan Clarkson - Georges Niang's Drive & Dish

  31-03-2020 18:45 via sportspyder.com
  
  On the debut episode of Georges Niang's Drive & Dish, Utah Jazz teammate Jordan Clarkson talks about how he's doing in quarantine, his fresh ink, his unique ...
  
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• During coronavirus outbreak, school buses are delivering food and homework to Utah students in rural communities

  31-03-2020 18:17
  
  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.Southern San Juan County • Every morning, Renae Cly’s two kids stand in the red dirt driveway in front of their house and wait for the school bus to arrive — but when it gets there, they don’t hop on.Instead, the driver opens the doors and hands out a paper homework packet for each of them
  
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• Utah Jazz: Royce O’Neale’s three-point dip post-extension

  31-03-2020 18:10
  
  Making three-pointers is one of the two most important things Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale has to do for the team. After signing a contract extension in late January, his accuracy from three has dipped. Royce O’Neale shot over 40-percent from three-point land in every month leading to January. Even in the games of January […]
  Utah Jazz: Royce O’Neale’s three-point dip post-extension - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and Mo
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, March 31: Utah’s economy in relatively good shape; Harmons to take temp of all employees

  31-03-2020 18:06
  
  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 Tuesday, March 31. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----10 a.m.: Harmons taking temperatures of its employees before each shif
  
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• Coronavirus turns Utah truckers into heroes

  31-03-2020 17:25
  
  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.John Evans, a long-haul truck driver based in Salt Lake City, loves how children in South Carolina held signs saying, “We love you truckers.” He tells how his partner tried to buy a sandwich in Kentucky but was told som
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, March 31: Utah’s economy in relatively good shape; Lehi Mills closes temporarily

  31-03-2020 16:56
  
  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 Tuesday, March 31. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----8:55 a.m.: Lehi Mills closes storefront temporarilyLehi Mills has temp
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, March 31: Utah in relatively good shape economically, study says

  31-03-2020 16:26
  
  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 Tuesday, March 31. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----8:10 a.m.: Study says Utah is well positioned as COVID-19 strikes the
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Creating the Best Non-All-Star Team in Utah Jazz History

  31-03-2020 16:10 via sportspyder.com
  
  How many games would this All Snub Team win?
  
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• Coronavirus turns truckers into heroes

  31-03-2020 15:41
  
  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.John Evans, a long-haul truck driver based in Salt Lake City, loves how children in South Carolina held signs saying, “We love you truckers.” He tells how his partner tried to buy a sandwich in Kentucky but was told som
  
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• Draper City indefinitely postpones public hearing on Geneva Rock expansion

  31-03-2020 15:40
  
  Draper City has indefinitely postponed a public hearing on Geneva Rock’s application to expand mining operations at the Point of the Mountain.The city announced its decision to postpone the hearing after it declared a state of emergency in early March due to the spread of COVID-19 in Salt Lake County. City officials in Utah are grappling with the best way to hold public meetings as social distancing measures limit gatherings to no more than 10 people.“Given the heightened public inte
  
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• Letter: Getting creative at home

  31-03-2020 15:13
  
  Due to the ongoing shortages at my local grocery store, I’ve been forced to get creative at home.I’m putting hot chocolate on my breakfast cereal. My coffee creamer is Baileys. (The alternative was Peeps-flavored creamer, all that was left at the supermarket!) Vodka is my new hand sanitizer. I’m shredding old files just in case my last roll of toilet paper runs out. And if the big one hits, I will be brushing my teeth with gin!Linda Hilton, HolladaySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: A Trump-era tongue-twister

  31-03-2020 15:13
  
  When I was young, we kids would play with the following tongue-twister: “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”Now, decades later, we’re led by a president who in a time of national crisis invents tall tales such as “the coronavirus is very much under control in the USA,” and “we have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on coronavirus.” Dozens of similar doozies have been document
  
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• The ‘First Vision’ most Latter-day Saints know little about

  31-03-2020 15:00
  
  A teenage boy in upstate New York went to a secluded wood one spring day in 1820 to ask God about his sins and his prospects for salvation. Now, 200 years later, that boy and that experience have been scrutinized, analyzed, criticized, idealized, demonized and romanticized.Joseph Smith’s “First Vision,” as it is known to the 16.3 million members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is the basis of books and essays, podcasts and popular speeches, art installations
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz 2K20: Simulating with John Stockton on current roster

  31-03-2020 14:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  With the NBA put on pause, I did an experiment on NBA 2K to see how the 2019-20 Utah Jazz would perform with John Stockton running the point. The Utah Jazz...
  
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• Utah Jazz 2K20: Simulating with John Stockton on current roster

  31-03-2020 14:00
  
  With the NBA put on pause, I did an experiment on NBA 2K to see how the 2019-20 Utah Jazz would perform with John Stockton running the point. The Utah Jazz were no doubt a good team this season, but how much better could they have been with a time machine on their side? I […]
  Utah Jazz 2K20: Simulating with John Stockton on current roster - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Robert Kirby: When social distancing turns to sorrow

  31-03-2020 14:00
  
  There are a lot of people I don’t miss because of social quarantine. In fact, I can get along just fine without most people. This includes people with whom I only have an electronic relationship.I once had a healthy morning and evening relationship with well-known news heads. Not anymore. I’ve grown weary of listening to the “we’re all going to die” tone of the news. It’s depressing, which leads to annoyance, followed closely (in my case) by fantasies of crime
  
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• Letter: Volunteers vs. marauders

  31-03-2020 14:00
  
  Hit hard by coronavirus, the British government recently appealed to citizens for help, hoping for as many as 250,000 volunteers over the next few days. Instead, more than 400,000 responded within 24 hours.It’s disheartening to compare that response with the response of too many American citizens in times of perceived threat, from the election a Democratic president, through mass murder incidents, to this viral invasion: Buy guns and ammo!Presumably the intent isn't to shoot the virus dead
  
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• Letter: Remember how we stood together in the flood of 1983

  31-03-2020 14:00
  
  It was early summer of 1983. Our mountain streams were running well above flood stage. We were close to spilling dams, Sugarhouse Park was filling with water, and City Creek rose from a flow of 60 cubic feet a second to over 300 almost overnight. This happened over a long weekend.We needed as many people as we could muster on State Street and in other places. How do you get them? Well, the common place on a Sunday is in church. I sat at my desk in City Hall calling spiritual leaders with one ask
  
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• Letter: Pages full of hatred

  31-03-2020 14:00
  
  I am amazed at the continuous, nearly unanimous spewing of vitriolic hatred that fills the editorial pages of The Salt Lake Tribune, and particularly the letters to the editor.It’s one thing to recognize and express disagreement with various people and on various issues — political, religious and otherwise — and quite another to continually, preponderantly and publicly exhibit pure hatred. Whatever happened to toleration, moderation, disagreeing without being disagreeable, love
  
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• Letter: Nothing political about our needs

  31-03-2020 14:00
  
  President Trump, Vice President Pence and members of Congress:What are you doing today to get hospitals the ventilators they desperately need? What are you doing today to get health care professionals the personal protective equipment they desperately need?There is nothing political about this need. There are not different sides to this need. This need requires no debate — unlike other issues currently gripping learned people — such as solution impacts versus problem impacts or indiv
  
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